former president trump heading back to court today. secretary of state antony blinken speaking now in da boats. and the call that sparked an fbi investigation into roger stone. what he allegedly said about assassinating two democratic lawmakers. we ll let you hear it for yourself. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s wednesday, january 17th. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington and also 5:00 a.m. in new hampshire. republican candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are scrambling to keep their presidential hopes alive after donald trump s decisive win in iowa this week. the gop front runner made a de detour to a courtroom and he s going to be back there again today where e. jean carroll is expected to testify and a jury will weigh how much trump owes for defaming her. trump also touched down in new hampshire, where he took aim at his rivals. she came in third. she lost to somebody that beat her by. desantis campaigned in
right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
good morning, everyone. it is friday! friday! i m so happy to have my long time erica hill with me today. and next week. thank you for getting up super early. great to be with you. a lot going on this friday. let s get started with five things to know for friday, may 26th. the house negotiators are moving closer to avoid a default. it would lift the debt ceiling and cap spending for two years. memorial day weekend kicking off to be a very busy travel summer. aaa expects air travel to be higher than pre-covid levels. airlines face staffing shortages and air traffic control problems. two workers in mar-a-lago moved boxes of papers one day before the fbi visited the former president s home to pick up classified documents last year. the post also reporting that he had classified documents in his office at times and showed them to others. also in texas, lawmakers recommending articles of impeachment against the state s attorney general. they re accusing ken paxon o
welcome. i m neil cavuto. it has happened again. a lot of people wondering how the heck it happened again. growing questions again for the transportation department secretary and what this means where we re going. garrett tenney in chicago chicago with the latest. folks that live in the small town are now allowed to go back to their home after the entire town was evacuated in the middle of the night. this train was 40 cars long. nearly two dozen derailed with several cars carrying hazardous material breaking open and catching 4. firefighters had to go door-to-door to evacuate the town. we heard the train come through. we heard a loud boom. it s like oh, my gosh, i wonder what is burning. i didn t know if it was toxic chemicals. 14 of the cars had hazardous materials, corn serum and ethanol, which is flammable. state officials say the fire is control and most of the spilled ethanol has burned off. we re concerned about what we re breathing, what s in the cars. look at
subpoenas like lolly pops, only on republicans, republican office holders and attorneys, crushing the constitution. what for? they are throwing a broad net trying to get trump, republicans, republican state legislatures caught up. i want to break it down with y you. this is your republic. let s focus on so-called fake electors. looking at language and constitution of the united states article 2, section 1, clause 2: that is the opening sentence. does not say the governor or the supreme court of the state or any court. doesn t say any board of elections or secretary of state. it says lore legislature. it represents the people best of any representative body. the state legislature. people have called this the independent legislature theory, which people? on the left who want their courts run by democrats to make decisions about election in the state, it could not be clear, you would not have a constitution today if the state legislature were not involved in making the decisio