that s what is so confusing so to many people right now. ed, just hours before this opinion came down to leave the state to get her abortion, how are her lawyers responding to what we learned last night? they said she simply was running out of time. she is now 21 weeks pregnant. she felt like she needed to make this decision. after the attorney general had appealed to the supreme court, they essentially paused that lower court ruling, giving her the permission to get the abortion legally and waited for three days for the texas supreme court. so because of that, they described her situation as being in legal limbo and described the weekend as hellish for her. that s why she arrived on monday and made the decision to leave the state to get this abortion. and what many critics of the abortion law and the situation in texas is saying is that texas supreme court ruling really sends a signal to many women across the state of texas that you cannot go to a court and get that p
zelenskyy. the ukrainian president is set to meet with president biden and the entire senate in hopes of securing critical funding to fight off russian forces. plus, special counsel jack smith is taking his prosecution of donald trump all the way to the supreme court. we ll explain why smith is petitioning the highest court in the land. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israeli troops continue to hunt for the leader of hamas in southern gaza, but top officials there are now signaling an escalation with another terror group. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 12th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in washington where today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is state side for the third time since russia launched its full-scale invasion back in february of 2022. zelenskyy will meet with president biden at the white house to discuss his country s needs on the battle
hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visiting washington, d.c. this week to try to make a personal and desperate plea for his country. ukraine is just a stepping stone for russia. special counsel jack smith is asking the supreme court to take up two constitutional questions in his election subversion trial against former president trump. they know this is a case that question has never been decided. israel says after two months of fighting it is still battling hamas in two different strongholds in northern gaza. the situation is very, very challenging. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is tuesday, december 12, 9:00 a.m. in london and 4:00 a.m. in washington where the ukrainian president calls the d congressional deadlock a
will not be the final witness in the civil fraud trial against his business organization. we ll go through the last-minute reversal from the former president. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israel continues to strike what it calls hamas strongholds in southern gaza. it comes as we are learning more about some of the hostages still held by the terrorist group. plus, a controversial ruling in the state of texas. that state supreme court is blocking an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin here. former president trump will not, after all, testify in his own defense at his$250 million fraud trial. he was scheduled to take the stand today, but in a last-minute reversal, it was announced late yesterday he would not testify i his defense at all. he was previously called to t
assange to sign a blockbuster plea deal. another big hearing in donald trump s classified documents case. how his lawyers are trying to get a raft of damning evidence thrown out. and a new view inside president biden s strategy for this week s debate against former president trump. how he s preparing to take on two trumps. we re also tracking deadly flooding in the midwest, straining dams and levees and causing thousands of evacuations with more rain on the way. good morning, thank you for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. right now, wikileaks founder julian assange is on his way to a remote u.s.-controlled island in the pacific where he ll plead guilty to a conspiracy charge as part of a deal with the u.s. justice department. now, under this deal, as we understand it, assange will become a free man, ending a 14-year legal odyssey sparked when his organization posted nearly half a million classified military documents, one of th