good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
at the ivor novellos later today. # a year has passed since i wrote my note. # mark savage, bbc news. # i should have known this right from the start. # congratulations to sting. time for a look at the weather. here s chris fawkes. terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river but terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river but a terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river but a main terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river but a main road - terrible weather in italy? yes, this is not a river but a main road in - is not a river but a main road in bologna. over 200 millimetres of rain over the high ground here which has resulted in this severe flooding. now, we have got another system on the way, jet stream running unusually far south creates this area of low pressure with some huge falls of rain expected across north west italy. this system in the last few moments has been named storm
biden goes from a globalist wrecking ball that he is to a middle class protector. there is a blue collar. in an economy where we are building we built more in the last two years since i have taken office than you can imagine. our economy is going on a solid cliff. the biden economic plan is working. it is working. who said comedy is dead in america? it is alive and well. just watch joe. some are calling it the unofficial launch of his 2024 election bid. it was the same. it was lame acting. he s just an average joe and he really cares. so many felt like you simply been forgotten. the people of the past four decades, too many people have been left behind and treated like they are invisible. maybe that s you watching from home. you wonder whether the path even exists anymore for your children to get ahead without having to move away. i get that. well, he gets it all right. he laid it out accurately in a way because more and more americans feel like government works
officials telling nbc news the goal of the president s address tonight is to affirm the core promises of his 2020 presidential campaign. restoring the soul of the nation. tonight s critical address as the polling shows the president faces growing dissatisfaction at home. the administration is not taking care of our own people. you have to get these old guys out. i will be joined by chris jansing and katy tur. plus, looming large. the diplomatic fallout from shooting down the 200-foot tall chinese spy balloon over the atlanta expected to play heavily into tonight s address. some of the lines of the speech referring to china were being edited in the wake of the military operation. how hard will the president go against china tonight? death toll rising. more than 5,100 people dead after two powerful earthquakes striking we were hearing voices, messages from under the rubble. we couldn t do anything. good morning, everyone. i am andrea mitchell in washington. this
the edge of collapse giving a mass cash infusion by other banks, in a moment, i ll speak to a nobel prize winner who saw the banking crisis coming and called for clearly five months ago, and an out front investigation tonight, cnn finding the u.s. coast guard failed to act after two women came forward to say they were sexually assaulted on u.s. ships. the damming report from pamela brown ahead let s go out front. . good evening i m erin burnett. we re seeing for the first time how ukrainians are storming homes in bakhmut homes russians have been hiding soldiers come in and start firing according to the ukrainian unit which recorded this footage, they fire, because they say quote i they they ever know for sure if there s a wounded russian in the house who wants to take you with them. and you can see in this video how they may carefully approach another home. go inside, you see immediately open fire as they go in. according to the battalion by time they reached the neighborh