of presidential immunity. then the baseless inquiry. house republicans have moved and impeachment inquiry into president balking that isn t supported by evidence. and the most part, that no. as well as justice for two georgia election workers. ruby freeman and shaye when 100 and $48 million and their long awaited legal battle with ruby giuliani. let s get started. good evening. special counsel, jack smith, is calling on the disgraced ex presidents bluff. this week, the supreme court granted smith s request to fast-track consideration donald trump s claim of absolute immunity from criminal charges that were stemming from his alleged attempts set interference in the 2020 election. trump s lawyers have been given until wednesday. that s december 20th, to file a response in their own brief on this issue. following that move, the court of appeals in the d.c. circuit also grants this motion to expedite trump s appeal. it s important to understand, this request from smith, to the
i have a trump aiding judge with a trump hating wife and family. donald trump back in court as a judge sorenson to watch his mouth. tonight, the trial date for the people of the state of new york against donald j trump. then, the latest on the man with a not see vlad arrested for threatening the president. plus, really tired of the republicans acting like they own this state. the outrageous moved by ohio republicans undermining democracy to ban abortion. this poem right at the integration of joe biden is now banned from a classroom in desantis run florida. it s because being american is more than a pride we inherit. it is the past we step into, and how we repair it. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. today, donald trump appeared in manhattan in court virtually for the first time since his arraignment on 34 criminal courts of falsifying business records. and judge judge juan merchan announces related to the hush money payments
russian fighters who damaged it and was then forced down. somebody could ve gotten hurt. nobody wants to see that happen. and it could lead to miscalculations between two militaries that are operating not obviously in ukraine together, but in proximity in the region. we don t want to see this war escalate beyond what it is already done to the ukrainian people. so this is clearly, it was an appropriate, unsafe, unprofessional conduct by the russian. pilots russians ambassador to washington was summoned to the state department. we ll have more on that shortly. also get a perspective from retired three star general mark hertling. but the latest on the incident rob leaning joins us from the panic. is it clear what happened? this all plays out early tuesday morning over international borders over the black sea, when u.s. air force reaper drone is doing what it has done countless times before. not only the during the war, but before the war, that is surveilling the black sea
because it is a concern, as you said, as it s close to the affluent neighborhoods. it s something they don t want to see, and people want to be necessarily herded into shelters either. let me just tell you it is a profound crisis here. this is just in the city. there s over 50,000 people living on the streets, who have pitched tents and a lot of different places. and we do absolutely have to get people off the street right away, but my concern is that our city kind of has two choices to go, are we gonna go back to failed strategies, which is really just about hurting people and incarcerating a percentage of folks, or are we going to build the type of housing that is needed, and address the underlying problems? and so, that is a very big issue. and we have to involve every single level of government, that s one of the things i bring to the table, especially with my federal state county and city relationships. this should be interesting. are you ready for a runoff, if it ha
was a blatant attempt to use force, to destroy american democracy and the rule of law. that s what made that day so uniquely terrifying, such an existential threat to the democratic order. the organizers, the rioters, wanted to topple the rightful government, and install a wrongful one, using mob violence to do so. the president backed them on, as some of the people closest and participated in the planning. in the variety of wannabe paramilitary groups, they view january six as a testing ground for precisely this undertaking, for using force, violence, intimidation and the threat there of, to overturn the democratic order. today, we saw a big development in the case against one of those groups, the proud boys. department justice charged the longtime leader of the proud boys, enrique tarrio, and four of his top lieutenants, with extremely rare charges of seditious conspiracy. as the indictment alleges, quote, the purpose of the conspiracy was to oppose the lawful transfer of p