hi, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 23rd. i m amara walker. and i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. great to have you here. the eve of christmas eve. that is correct. there is more legal chaos involving donald trump heading into 2024. the supreme court rejects a request for justices to quickly hear arguments on whether the former president has immunity from federal prosecution. we ll walk you through what that means for his legal cal tar. plus, authorities at the southern border report a record number of migrant encounters every day. cnn is there. finally a cease-fire passes. we ll speak to an official about the humanitarian crisis in gaza. have yourself a healthy little christmas. it feels like i should be singing. does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? we ll talk to a doctor about how to steer clear of the respiratory viruses that are out there. we re three weeks away from the iowa caucus and donald
this is america s newsroom. a years long investigation. a grand jury brought an indictment to president trump. the charges are under seal for now. the counts number in the dozens. bill: that s sparking a firestorm of criticism for the manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. known as a soft on crime prosecutor. since he took office in january, he has downgraded more than 50% of felonies in new york to misdemeanors. he appears to be taking the opposite take against the former president. republicans calling it political persecution. manhattan d.a. s office is in contact with the former president s legal team. they re working to coordinate his surrender. a logistic call nightmare. one of the president s attorneys said the d.a. wanted when im to surrender today. the president pushed back on that and expected to happen on tuesday. bill: let s begin now. chad pergram on the hill. andy mccarthy with analysis. bryan llenas joins us outside the courthouse in lower manhattan, new york city.
metro police. neil: body cam footage showing metro national police storming the school. they tracked down the suspect, neutralized the shooter in a second floor lobby. the police chief praising the officer s quick actions. i was impressed with all that was going on, the danger that somebody took control and said let s go, let s go, let s go and went in and took care and just tried to end a situation. neil: in a moment, we re going to speak with andrew pollack, whose daughter was among 17 people killed in the parkland high school shooting five years ago. why he wishes there were us aers like that in 2018 when an armed guard never took on a gunman that destroyed so many lives. what he would like to see what happened now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. would have, should have, could have. what we know is that because of the quick response of officers on the scene what had already turned into a deadly scene avoided becoming something far, far worse. c.b. cotton has more from nas
trying not to get hit. they are stonewalling reporters day after day. now the justice were dumb department is blocking the intelligence committee from accessing the documents found at both president biden s home and former president trumps properties. lawmakers from both sides of the aisle are going after that move. and they are not they are no warning, rather they will stop at nothing to get their hands on those documents so they can do their jobs properly. you know, investigate, watch. the members of congress have an absolute right to this information so we can make an informed judgment that the risk if and eight this document imposed by not being properly handled. how can we judge and to see if it is accurate or if there mitigation efforts are sufficient if we don t know what it is where the materials that were exposed potentially as? we are left in limbo until somehow a special counsel designates it is okay for us to get briefed. is not going to stand. harris :
this is a difficult and dangerous effort on which we have set out to. neil: you know they say history doesn t repeat itself but man, oh, man it sure does. that was armageddon and out does not joe biden warning the risk of nuclear armageddon and john f. kennedy dealing with the cuban missile crisis 60 years ago this very month. tensions were escalating fast between then soviet union, now escalating between russia and ourselves in ukraine. and in north korea, the recent missile test seem to be happening every other day and a chance have been accident on the pins and needles. we are all over it. mark meredith in washington and the administration is responding to the latest russian crisis. jennifer griffin and the pentagon not changing fostering just a joke. general david perkins on whether we should all be wearing and whether we could revisit something very secluded 60 years ago. welcome, everybody, no caboodle and let s get with it with mark with the latest. good afternoon