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
The former US president's legal team filed an emergency appeal looking to put a hold on a ruling denying him immunity from standing trial for alleged 2020 election interferences
political director. what do these new hampshire poll results say to you about the state of the gop race at least in new hampshire? well, they say that momentum that we ve been talking about related to nikki haley s candidacy for the last couple of months, wolf, is still very much apparent in new hampshire, and i think it s so specific that this is about new hampshire because i think there s a different structure to the race. and you can see it inside these numbers. nikki haley s rise that you just talked about is largely do to her support with moderate republicans, with independents who say they re going to participate in the republican primary. donald trump is still dominant in the granite state, wolf, with conservatives, with registered republicans. and it is not everywhere that nikki haley s going to have that kind of opportunity to pull in independents because they can t participate when there are closed primaries. so new hampshire is particularly fertile ground with her, and she
i believe president trump was the right president at the right time. i agree with a lot of his policies, but rightly or wrongly chaos follows him. you know i m right. chaos follows him, and we can t have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. we won t survive it. so, of course, haley is in an aggressive fight with florida governor ron desantis. they re trying to become the leading alternative to former president donald trump. desantis for his part was in tallahassee, florida, delivering a state of the state address in florida. he flew back this afternoon, arrived a short time ago. he of course will be on stage with haley toornt tonight for our cnn debate. vivek ramaswamy for his part the snow caught up to him and he was unable to get to his events. the question is of course in these final six days the weather could have an affect on turnout and organization. yes, snow is pretty common here
judges there. you ve got two on the left who one of them including judge child was on a short list of potential supreme court justice nominations to replace justice breyer, judge pam, judge henderson, the person to decide whether or not you could bring the michael flynn case. we re talking about really serious judges here, and this is a bench more broadly has a lot of alum supreme court justices, kavanaugh, thomas, roberts, the late rbj, and scalia. this is a bench that knows quite well what could come next and the entire en banc process and beyond. you know what you didn t hear today that is fascinating. you did not hear them try to decide whether an insurrection was engaged in by donald trump. you did not them going through the facts of the case to decide whether he was criminally liable or not. all they wanted to focus on which is why it s so important. they wanted to focus on the attorney not to go into the