claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunity and
refusing to fast track the immunity claim surrounding one donald j. trump, rejecting for now a timeline of special counsel jack smith if was pushing. so where is all of this going? we ll ask former attorney general bill barr because he s here. but first, to the holiday hustle. everybody s a little anxious, people are worried about after last year s travel experience, this year s travel experience. might as well get some. gifts for my wife. be patient. that s it. that a s all you can be. you can t be mad at anybody. i was [inaudible] i ll be glad when i make it through it. [laughter] i just want to get to my, i just want to get home. neil: well, hopefully they will get home. fox on top of travelers on the run and last minute hoppers on the hunt. ho, ho, no, and away we go. neil: welcome, everybody. glad to have you. merry christmas. and we re on top of the hunt for gifts and the hunt to be just get out of town. at lot easier said than done. a lot of procrastinato
collision course for the u.s. supreme court and those colorado democrat justices who took aim at the former president. it is set to be an unprecedented showdown after colorado s highest court called trump an insurrectionist and wiped him off the state s primary ballot. i am harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying it s anti-american. and a huge danger to our democracy. colorado could be just the beginning. legal efforts to disqualify the former president are now underway in more than a dozen states. here is a look. the courts don t decide who will be on the ballot. this is the worst case of judicial activism that i ve ever seen. i think the supreme court will take it up and say it is ridiculous because it is. harris: even trump s critics are coming to his defense. former republican governor of ohio john kasich. you have a partisan court all democrats. they barely could say that he should be disqualified. think about the precedent o
new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i m mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. claudia: this is a special edition of america s newsroom. the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s. central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.
fed up and frustrated. chicago leaders and residents pleading for the bite administration to step in as th migrant crisis takes up brand-new turn. hello and merry christmas. brian, this is a special edition of fox news life our three now. governor craig abbott sending more than 120 migrants to the windy city after mayor brandon johnson threatened to sue what he calls rogue operators, that said the only seeing a fraction of what border states are grappling with on a daily basis. during his life in chicago with the very latest rate where art migrants being housed? kick you right now, close to 30 migrants are spending the christmas on the floor of chicago o hare airport pick chicago hasn t been able to kee up with the demand. at tiny fraction of what border agency, the migrant say they want to come to chicago because it s sanctuary city but texas i started busting to the suburbs that weren t coordinating with the city by issuing fines and even impounding one bus great melt o