erin burnett out front starts right now. the michigan supreme court handing donald trump a win, keeping him on the ballot in that state. that s not stopping challenges in other states. i will speak with someone at the center of it all. biden s border problem. the president s top diplomat wrapping up his meeting with mexico s president. will it change anything at the border? before and after satellite images of a russian warship ukraine says it destroyed. let s go out front. i m erica hill in for erin burnett. donald trump with a win in michigan where the state supreme court rejected a bid to remove him from the primary ballot. trump quick to hail that on social media today. the fight is really just beginning. michigan is the fourth state to reject efforts to keep trump off the primary ballot. similar efforts continue in a number of other states. a ruling in maine is expected any day now. trump is actually now demanding that maine s democratic secretary of state, who w
amanda cardin hong kong. more debt ceiling drama in the u.s.. getting a deal on the table was the first hurdle. now the race is on to sell the plan to skeptical lawmakers before the government runs out of money to pay its bills. kyiv under fire. a rate alarms ringing out at the ukrainian capital for a third day in the row. as russia unleashes another massive wave of drone attacks on the city. plus, a showdown in texas. the state attorney general impeached by his fellow republicans. we will break down the accusations he is facing and where he is going through from here. the debt limit deal between the u.s. president and the republican house speaker is about to be put to the test. both leaders have been racing to support for the bipartisan agreement before the u.s. runs out of money next week. they face harsh criticism from hard-line members of their own parties. and they must get congress to approve the deal before the president can sign it in the coming day the house
the supreme court is now smack in the middle of the 2024 campaign and donald trump could be asking the high court to both stay out of and jump into his legal troubles at the very same time. exactly. and republican-led house committee is launching an investigation into harvard s president over plagiarism allegation, and what the president is saying in the scrutiny of the new embattled president. and cnn is flying over the volcano in iceland. that is what you have to say. the best or the worst assignment ever. the volcano that is still erupting. i m kate bolduan with omar jim jimenez. john and kate are both off today. this is cnn news central. the supreme court of the united states is now in the spotlight and unwittingly front and center in the 2024 presidential election. the high court is facing a number of decisions that could directly impact how this election is going to play out. special counsel jack smith has asked the justices to fast-track a decision on wheth
and, quote, lending work and life in the new year. kind of a bomba vibe there. travelers can expect to spend longer hours at the airports today as they head out for the holidays. a new report shows many of their fellow flyers are not on their best behavior. we are following these developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. welcome to cnn news central, i m brianna keilar, boris sanchez is off with jim acosta. what a treat. very nice. we are watching this donald trump tape, another one, that could have major legal ramifications. it has surfaced and this one is a recording of a call that he made two election workers in michigan. pressuring them to block joe biden s victory two weeks after election day in 2020. there was a meeting to certify michigan s result, you ve seen the footage here of that meeting, two-way and county election officials initially voting against certifying. then they flipped and voted to certify. that is when trump ste
wolf blitzer s on assignment. i m alex marquart, and you re in the situation room. and first up tonight, our exclusive report on a federal criminal investigation into former president donald trump. attorneys for the former president unable now to locate a classified document that he referenced on an audiotape now in possession of prosecutors. kaitlan collins is on the team that broke the story and has the latest. take us through what we know. reporter: what happened is mario martin, this press aide to former president trump who was in the white house and now has followed him to mar-a-lago, went and testified as many people who were in that orbit these days have gone before jack smith s investigators. she was in there in mid-march, we re told it was shortly after she left that grand jury that prosecutors sent a subpoena to the former president saying that they wanted any and all documents related to iran and general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs that trum