starting with just weeks to go until the start of the 2024 presidential race. gop frontrunner donald trump just scored a major legal victory against special counsel jack smith in that the supreme court issued a one-sentence judgment yesterday bluntly rejecting smith s request to fast track arguments on the former president s immunity case. so what comes next? evan perez breaks it down. reporter: the u.s. supreme court rejected a request by federal prosecutors to skip the appellate court and have the high court decide whether donald trump has immunity from prosecution in the election subversion charges. the decision deals a significant blow to special counsel jack smith s effort to keep a march 4th trial date on track. that s a lot harder now that prosecutors will have to wait several weeks while the d.c. court of appeals weighs the same questions. trump argues he has immunity. he also claims because he was impeached by the house of representatives and acquitted by the senat
. we re following breaking news from the supreme court with the rejection of jack smith s request for expediting the presidential immunity and the question is if trump can be prosecuted for alleged crimes while he may have been committed in office is very much in the air. that is delay, delay, they if you re on the trump side of things and we have the full slate of analysts tracking this. evan, take us through this ruling, a one sentence order but with major implications? that s right. they denied this which jack smith raised, which is the question if the former president has immunity for the actions he took while he was in office, you know, during the closing days of the 2020 election season, and the other thing that the former president is raising that because he was impeopled by the house but acquitted by the senate, it would be a double jeopardy, and the department of justice cannot bring charges in that same action, and this is pending in the supreme court, and the
meet me at the door. good morning, everyone. that is charles barkley. don has the day off. poppy is in utah. you see her there for the nba all-star game. poppy, i m so excited jealous of your co-anchors, for sure. rough assignment, right? i cannot believe they sent me here. i m going to complain to the bosses. this is terrible p i . i m just in centre court. this is amazing. we have a fun lineup. i sat down yesterday with shaq with, chuck, with kenny. i couldn t get a word in edge wise. it was awesome. you re going to see that at 8:00 a.m. then we re joined by ryan smith, the utah jazz owner and someone who loves the state of utah, you ll hear all about this sill con slopes. we ll talk about the tech scene here. the wnba commissioner krajy engelbert and an update on brittney griner. the first time they had the all-star game in utah in 30 years. super excited. we ll be checking back in with poppy. we also have a lot going on in the news development has. did hackers j
and extreme poverty. hello and welcome to bbc news. us defence chiefs have identified what they say is a second chinese surveillance balloon, this time over latin america. the first balloon is floating across the us mid west. antony blinken, the us secretary of state, has cancelled a trip to beijing, and accused the chinese authorities of being irresponsible. china insists the balloon is a weather monitoring device which has blown off course amd has called for tensions between the washington and beijing to be handled in a cool headed and prudent manner. our north america correspondent peter bowes reports. a surreal but increasingly serious international row. this speck in the sky could be spying on the us the chinese balloon that s been hovering over the country for several days. china insists it s a platform to conduct weather related research that s deviated from its route. beijing has apologised but the us state department says it stands by its assessment that the ball
charges brought against him by the company s shareholders. raise your voices against injustice the call from pope francis to south sudan s christian leaders on his first full day in the world s newest country, which remains plagued by violence and extreme poverty. and it s one of mother nature s greatest displays, flock of starlings. china has made another attempt to calm the diplomatic crisis caused by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. by the detection of a chinese surveillance balloon over the united states. the top foreign policy official wang yi has discussed the dispute with the us secretary of state anthony blinken, who postponed a trip to beijing this weekend in response to the dispute. china insists the balloon is a weather obervation airship