right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
primary election that pits his candidate against donald trump s. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, may 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. president biden says the u.s. military will defend taiwan, if china invades its island neighbor. speaking in tokyo this morning at a joint news conference, with japan s new prime minister, the president addressed the growing tensions in eastern asia. you didn t want to get involved in the ukraine conflict militarily, for obvious reasons, are you willing to get involved militarily to defend taiwan if it comes to that? yes. you are? that s the commitment we made. shortly after that news conference, the white house seemingly tried to clarify the president s remarks. writing in a statement, quote, the president reiterated our commitment to peace and stability across the taiwan strait. and to provide taiwan with the military means to defend itself. different than military involvement perhaps. and on the island, we
Oh, my gosh. All right. With that, thanks to our panel. Thanks to you for joining us. Im casey. Dont go anywhere. Cnn news central starts right now her falling Breaking News overnight, a devastating earthquake hits taiwan. Dozens of people now, just rescued after being trapped in collapsed tunnels, at least nine people are dead, hundreds more injured. And we have new video of how it all played out breaking overnight signs of special counsel jack smith has had enough of the judge overseeing the maralago documents case, a scathing filing. It could be seen as a first step to try to get her removed from the case. Chaos swirling around donald trump social Media Company, a new lawsuit against two former apprentice contestants connected the truth social. Zara is out today. Im john berman im going with kate baldwin, Cnn News Central starts right now lets get straight to the Breaking News overnight, 75 people trapped inside the tunnels. They have now just been rescued after earthquake hits taiw
Taipei with the latest on the deadly earthquake. Plus the fallout from the israeli airstrike that killed several aid workers with the world Central Kitchen. The groups founder, Chef Jose Andres responding with an essay saying, and im quoting him now, you cannot win this war by starving an entire population meantime, Family Members of hamas hostag, storm the Israeli Knesset as antigovernment protests grow morentense in jerusalem hello, im wolf blitzer in washinon and year and the cnn newsroom these cnn its now 11 00 p. M. In Eastern Taiwan and Search And Rescue Operationare stretching into the darkness of earthqua, Nine People E confirmed dead and where ty, e most perful eauaked. This is strike the island 25 years the quake Hit Ring Mning Magnitude of sev this dash camera video captures the violent joke sharply rocking these cars and a busnd Bringing Traff to standstill and take a look at this video, the earthquake is triggered,andslides, likthe one you see redozens of people have been
Hi everyone. Im Jessica Gene In Washington and we begin with Breaking News, oversees a Frantic Search And Rescue operation is underway weigh in northern iran. After a Helicopter Crash involving iranian president Ebrahim Raisi. Officials say they have now detected the exact location of the crash site after hours of struggling to find it due to extreme fog and bad weather there that crash happening early this morning after the president and other officials attended a ceremony for the open putting of a new near the border with azure by john cnns Nic Robertson ies tracking all the latest developments from london and pentagon correspondent Oren Liebermann is here in washington with us with reaction from the us nic. Lets start first with you. And what were learning about this search the search has been hampered because theres dense fog and thats the reason its understood that the Helicopter Crash in the first place. Its raining. Ive been looking at video thats been posted on social media by