undisclosed hospitalization now revealed to be the result of complications from prostate cancer surgery. and there s more breaking news we re following. boeing s ceo acknowledges the company s, quote, mistake during a safety meeting on the alaska airlines mid-flight fuselage blowout. we have new details on the investigation. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. first up this hour, donald trump s deeply skeptical reception in federal court today as a panel of judges heard his arguments for presidential immunity. our chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid is on the story. reporter: former president trump traveled to washington tuesday to watch arguments in a federal appeals court hearing over whether he should be shielded from criminal prosecution. i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple. reporter: trump was not requ
starts right now. michelle obama s as she is terrified about what 2024 election results will bring. the lead starts now. a crucial week before the caucuses in iowa and trump is not there. he is in court. he is falsely calling january 6 criminals hostages. plus, a cnn correspondent embedded with migrants trying to get across the u.s. border from mexico, a desperate journey but they are not from latin america. these migrants are from china. and it could be the smoking gun in the investigation as to what went wrong in a the alaska airlines flight. a missing door found in an alaska backyard. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. only seven days until the first of voters get their say in the 2024 election. next monday republicans will gather across iowa and they will caucus for their favorite candidates. the latest contenders, once again, they are off the campaign trail because of his legal issues. trump is expected to be in court as his lawyers face off against special couns
investigators say the boeing 737 max 9 had pressurization problems three times before this incident. a cockpit alarm went off one day before the incident. following its own colts, they kept the plane from long overwater flights. investigators say it s not clear if those alarms foreshadowed friday s blowout, but right now, they are the not ruling anything out. pete muntean, cnn, washington. a u.s. federal appeals court will hold a hearing today on whether donald trump has immunity in the federal election subversion case. the former president is expected to attend in person. a lower court rejected his claims he was working to ensure election sbregty when he tried to undermine the 2020 results. trump alsomentses the election subversion case in georgia dismissed. his attorneys are arguing once again he is protected under presidential immunity. cnn spoke with elie honig about
plane. reporter: early reads from alaska s 1282 flight data recorder detailed that cockpit alarm sounded followed by the door plug blow out one minute later. this was a really significant event. it was terrifying. reporter: the ntsb says it has reached out to spirit arrow systems. that is the boeing contractor that builds the max 9 fuselage. those planes remain grounded until airlines can inspect them. airlines are waiting on detailed inspections from the faa. and the faa says it s reviewing inspection guidelines from boeing. alaska airlines said it canceled 100 flights today, at united 170 flights canceled. thank you, pete, for that update. coming up donald trump s claims of presidential immunity face a stiff test from a federal appeals court here in washington. i ll get reaction from a lawmaker who served on the january 6th select committee and helped lead trump s impeachment. congressman jamie raskin is standing by live.
emergency inspections. we may look at the manufacturer and the design of the aircraft, but we go where the evidence takes us. what is missing from the investigation is audio from the cockpit voice recorder which was not recovered in time to stop its automatic overwrite. gone are the recordings of the loud bang heard by passengers. it s high time that we improved the amount of data we got out of these cockpit voice recorders including video. investigators have uncovered one more key piece of evidence. they say this boeing 737 max 9 had experienced pressurization problems three times before this incident. one cockpit alarm, went off just one day before the incident. following its own product calls, alaska airlines kept over water flights to hawaii. so far, investigators say it s not clear if those alarms had friday s in-flight blowout, but at this stage they re not ruling anything out.