dealing with hamas, or getting the hostages home. what we are seeing now is not the best way to do that. ben rhodes, thank you for spending time with me tonight. that s our show for tonight. now the time is my last word with ali velshi. i hope a lot of people listen to what ben says. we ll continue this a little later. but you have a good evening, my friend. tonight the special counsel jack smith is once again making his case for the supreme court to weigh in on donald trump s claims of presidential immunity in the criminal case of united states of america versus donald trump. the special counsel and his team are asking the supreme court to grant an expedited review of trump s claims that his attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election fall within the, quote, outer primitive perimeter, end quote, of his official duties as president and easier for immune from prosecution. yesterday fog filed a brief before the supreme court urging them to stay way for the issue
happy holidays, everybody. you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin about breaking news. president biden revealing details about his long phone call with benjamin netanyahu. we re following everything at the white house. kevin, what did the president have to say? reporter: yeah, he was on the south lawn on his way to camp david, and he said that it was a long phone call with netanyahu that he had earlier today. he said he didn t call for a cease-fire and wanted the talks to remain private. i do think it s interesting, president biden of course is someone who believes very strongly that all of the advice, all of the recommendations that he can provide to the israelis is best delivered behind closed doors. he thinks that s the most effective way to sort of apply pressure on israel to to alter its war plans. certainly the backdrop to this phone call has been this parade of american officials who have been traveling to israel over the last se
all right now. yeah. it was awesome for, you know, she was on top of the world for a week. she was the heavyweight champ. i love, them i love their whole family. philadelphia might not have won the game, but that right there was the definition of brotherly love. and on that note, i wish you all a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with, me i will see you at the end of tomorrow. we start tonight without late breaking, news special counsel jack smith has subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith and vesta geisha and into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. now i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, and we see has not independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for documents and testimony sometime in january. this comes just one week afte
we start tonight with a late breaking news of special counsel jack smith subpoenaed former president donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows as part of smith s investigation into trump and his role in the january 6th insurrection. i should say this as according to a single source, and it s being reported by cnn, msnbc has not yet independently confirmed this reporting. cnn reports tonight that meadows received a subpoena for a sometime in january. this comes just one week after we learned the special counsel smith subpoenaed trump s former vice president mike pence. clearly, things are heating up. beyond the fact that subpoena of the former presidents chief of staff is a huge deal on its own, mark meadows in particular is quite a potential witness. meadows was involved in the infamous phone call between trump and georgia secretary of state brian rat in which he pressured raffensperger to find 11,780 votes. meadows was in the over office with trump for a lot of t
last heard from in ukraine around april 23rd, according to a family friend. alexander and andy went missing last week. videoed surfaced today on pro-russian social media appearing to show those two men in an unknown location. we re not showing the video because it appears to show the men under duress. sam kiley is in kharkiv just miles from where those two veterans were last seen. he spoke with an american who was fighting with andy and alex just before they went missing. these two americans fighters have their hands bound behind them. they re dressed in uniforms not their own, and they may well have been captured by the very russians they had been fighting. this as far as it goes is good news for the comrade who last saw a t-72 tank open fire on his two friends. does that give you any kind of cause for hope? absolutely. absolutely. i wish i could say with 100% certainty that it s not a fake, but i have a lot of hope that it s them. a former u.s. serviceman, he was in