warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. bianca is off. but just ahead on cnn newsroom the colorado supreme court found that former president trump should be disqualified from being on the ballot in that state. we ve never had a president inside an insurrection and then tried to run for the presidency again. thousands of migrants in eagle pass, texas waiting to be transported for immigration processing. congress has not been able to come together and do comprehensive immigration reform which would help prevent a lot of the scenes that you see at the u.s./mexico border. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, december 20, 9:00 a.m. in london, 2:00 a.m. in denver, colorado where the state supreme court has delivered a stunning decision disqualifying donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. justices ruled trump is not eligible to be a candidate because of his role in the 2021 insurrection. his c
and right now on andrea mitchell reports, outrage in israel after three of their hostages are killed by israel s own troops even though the hostages had made white flags, had sos messages with leftover food on the walls and the troops have been told to withhold fire. large crowds in israel this weekend protesting outside the military compound demanding that hostage talks resume. the cia director in europe with israeli and qatari officials for secret talks to get those negotiations going while defense secretary austin arrived in israel today as the administration is increasingly frustrated with prime minister netanyahu including failure to stop violence against palestinians in the west bank. attacks by extremist settlers against palestinians in the west bank must stop and those committing the violence must be held accountable. plus, congressional overtime. senate immigration talks to unlock millions in aid to israel and ukraine running out of time to get a bill passe
see you. welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. i hope you stay with us. tonight we begin with developments that i think really offer a kind of a contrast in this period of legal reckoning and accountability we have been talking about together because we were thinking about this for tonight s show. if you look at all of the prosecutors and all the investigators and all of the probes that donald trump has faced, including squaring off against big-time experienced investigators like prosecutor and former fbi director mueller, there were crimes found. there were issues that ensnared donald trump s aides. but even as the now-two-year probe of a public insurrection and attempt the coup has grinded on and on and not reached donald trump or most of his top aides, there are more clear signs and steps that show one prosecutor on a different fact pattern, a different case, has proven able to legally get farthest against donald trump and make precedent. i m talking about the new yor
there s a verdict. the jury in donald trump s civil rape case deliberated for just about three hours. the judge announced he will read the verdict at 3:00 p.m. it is 3:00 p.m. the lawyers are in the room. the judge is in the room. the jury is in the room. so any moment now we will hear from they decided. six men and three women were charged with that deciding. one, did donald trump rape carroll and did he defame her when he said she was lying. if so, how much money does carroll deserve to be fairly and adequately compensated for her injuries? in closing arguments, her attorney told the jury donald trump didn t show up because he knew he did it. trump s attorney said trump didn t testify because there was nothing to testify to. he said the whole story was an unbelievable work of fiction. kaplin said carroll was exactly donald trump s type and she played the video deposition where trump mistook carroll for his ex-wife, marla maples. he said she couldn t give a date to when the
How much their Accident Case is worth. H barnes. T ouour juryry aorneneys hehelpou. Im scott mclean in kiev and this is cnn closed captioning brought to you by meso book. Com. You by meso book. Com. Tonight nor classified documents from bidens time as president found at a second lesion, his legal team discovered this batch during a search conducted after the Over Clad Docks were found back in november. Adding to the chaos and maybe the delight of some in washington, dc tonight. If you look down pennsylvania avenue, from the white house to congress, investigations are brewing. You can argue that some are absolutely warranted. You can argue some are absolutely not. But this is President Biden of new reality as he navigates the next two years with republicans controlling the house. I want to bring in former republican congressman joe walsh, cnn political commentator, and the Atlanta Journal constitution, look, biden does not have the smoothest of paths ahead of him, we can say that with a