A florida courtroom as he pushes to delay his classified as thousands of russians gathered to pay their respects to Alexey Navalny crowds chanting his name and turning his funeral into a protest against Vladimir Putin plus An Extreme Winter Storm is slamming california, bringing 100 mile per hour wind gusts and dumping up to get this ten feet of snow will talk about that in a little while from now. In the meantime, im jim acosta in washington as the news right now and we begin with for President Donald Trump returning to his playbook of attempting to delay another trial this morning, trump is set to appear inside a florida courtroom as a matter of fact, we think he just five moments ago and the federal criminal case over his handling of classified documents, a judge could determine whether the trial will go ahead in may or be delayed. Cnn chief Legal Affairs correspondent paula reid is live outside the courthouse for us in fort pierce, florida paula, what do we think were going to see
What he texted. In stark contrast from each other . Yeah. Anderson, nick valencia, thanks. The news continues right here on cnn its thursday, february 20. Happy week here right now on cnn this morning the Supreme Court agree agrees to hear Donald Trumps absolute immunity arguments, throwing his 2024 trial schedule into turmoil, plus yet another legal challenge for trump for an illinois judge booting the former president off that states ballot will look at that and a deal to keep the federal government open is going to have a vote in a matter of hours or still the threat of a shutdown looms all right 05 00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the United States Supreme Court, the center of it all this morning morning. Good morning. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Were going to start there. The Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether or not former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for the actions he took on and leading up to january 6, its a
Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
Ari melber starts right now. Nicole, one week down, thousands to go. Eternity to go, we hope. Have a great show. Eternity, we could be so lucky. Have a great weekend, our thanks to Nicolle Wallace first big week back. Welcome to the beat, im ari melber, we have a special show for you tonight. We have a lot to get to. Lets get right into today. Jack smith making a new pitch on behalf of the doj on why donald trump must be put on trial before the election. If that sounds like a familiar issue, jack smith has more than one case against Defendant Trump. So, the defendant was actually down in Federal Court today watching as doj prosecutors argued for a july beginning to a trial in the other jack smith case, earlier in the week discussing the big coup case and the Supreme Court slowing that down. This is the classified documents case, you probably remember both, and they are saying, over at the doj, there is nothing in their rule or precedents which prevents this trial, on the documents, fro
have now infiltrated every sector of british society. and lights, camera, picket line. the actors join the writers at the barricades, after negotiations with the studios collapse. but first, to the pay award. over a million public sector workers, including teachers and doctors, will get a rise in this financial year of up to 7%. rishi sunak has agreed to honour the recommendations of the independent, pay review bodies. the deal covers 45% of the public sector. and on top of that pay award, the government has committed additional funding for schools above what was proposed in march and in addition to the £2 billion already given to schools in the autumn statement. the four teaching unions said that was a basis to call off strike action. which will be welcomed by parents up and down the land. however the junior doctors, who went on strike today, say it is not enough. their continued absence will make it almost impossible for the pm to meet his promise of cutting waiting lists.