and the most part, that no. it as well as just as four to georgia election workers. ruby freeman and shaye moss when $148 million in their long running legal battle with rudy giuliani. let s get started. good evening. special counsel jack smith is calling the disgraced ex presidents bluff. this week, the supreme court granted smith s request to fast-track consideration of donald trump s claim of absolute immunity from criminal charges extending from his alleged attempts at interference in the 2020 election. trump s lawyers have been given until wednesday, that s december 20th, to file a response in their own briefed on this issue. following that move, the court of appeal and the d.c. circuit also graphics must owe motion to expedite trump s appeal. it s important to understand. this request from smith to the supreme court s for unusual. not only to the special counsel just the justices to roll for an appeals court could act he also urge them to move with exceptional s
now. mind bending. they are. they are. see you soon. welcome, everyone, to the beat. i m ari melber. the top story is the earthquake rocking the fox news empire. a lawsuit putting pressure on fox for the first time, puper murdoch who s wielded power and enjoyed it, and he s said so for about seven decades. do you like the feeling of power you have? yes. murdoch deploys fox news and his tabloids with that power that he admits he enjoys, to shape and sometimes all but run america s republican party and impact conservative discourse in this country. now he s under legal pressure because fox aired falsehoods and lies about the 2020 election. and allegedly pushed the specific lies they knew were false at the time which paved the way and built the support for many of the people who then showed up at the election. the company hit with this billion dollar lawsuit. weaver covered that before on this program, from a voting company that alleged defamation. this is the top
situation. we re going to have a live report from ukraine. and we ll speak with former ukrainian president on how his country can defend itself. 28 days until the midterm elections and georgia senate candidate herschel walker is getting help from two key republican senators. we ll have a report from georgia. pressure is growing on several city council members to resign after the release of a recording revealing of making racist remarks. we ll talk with with one of the reporters who broke the story. and an attorney at the center of the investigation into former president trump s handling of classified information speaks to federal investigators. and we ll speak with an iranian journalist about the situation in her homeland. why she s calling it iran s berlin wall moment. we begin this hour in ukraine where overnight air raids rang across the country including in kyiv as russia launched another wave of missiles striking multiple cities for a second day in a row. the mayor s
more history will also be made in the high court in minutes. judge ketanji brown jackson will be sworn in as the first black female justice on the supreme court. she will take the oath just after justice stephen breyer officially retires. let s start with cnn s jessica schneider. she is live at the supreme court for us this hour. quite a way to round out the term. reporter: absolutely. two big decisions from the supreme court. first in that 6-3 decision the supreme court really restricting the epa s power to regulate carbon emissions from power plants. and at the same time the supreme court here is sending a signal that for big issues, big decisions from the epa and even other agencies, those big issues and decisions could eventually be struck down by this court if they weren t explicitly written out by congress as agencies having the power to do. so this is what the chief justice john roberts wrote in his opinion saying it is not plausible that congress gave epa the author
unemployment staying at 3.6 pers percent. bill: there are at the moment 11.4 million jobs open and 6 million unemployed americans which means the math says two jobs for every person that s looking for work today. gas is soaring. another record high today. $4.76 a gallon now. that s nearly twice as high as when president biden took office. bill: here is the good news. wages rising slightly up 5.2%. not enough to keep up with inflation is the bad news. that disparity creating a nationwide pay cut. team fox coverage this morning. jacqui heinrich and we begin with kelly o grady live from los angeles. kelly. today marks the first weekend of june. you would normally have people excited for weekend getaways, beach trips. instead drivers are facing more dread at the pumps. today is the seventh straight day of record highs. the national average jumped 5 cents overnight. that s just two cents shy of double the price when president biden took office. that means an extra $33 ev