That. It s right back to you ax yeah, just remarkable hitting it from so far out repeatedly, patrick snell, thanks very much. Hi there. Thanks so much for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield. We begin this hour with the legal showdown in former president trump s election subversion case, he new latenight filing last night, setting the stage for a potentially contentious hearing. Next week in d. C. s federal court, where a judge will decide how and when the case will move forward. The standoff comes as special counsel, jack smith resurrected the january 6 case against trump with a new superseding indictment this week, both trump s lawyers and the special counsel are at odds about how this this case should now proceed. Trump s team is pushing for his schedule that would carry the pretrial disputes through the beginning of next year long after the 2024 election, cnn s holmes lybrand is covering these legal developments and joins me now. So homes, where
Hello, thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt part in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, we begin with breaking news. President biden has been briefed on the raid which injured seven u. S. Troops and killed 15 members of the radical group isis. The raid happened thursday in iraq two of the seven u. S. Troops were evacuated from the area for further treatment, u. S. Central command manages operations in the middle east. They said that the operation targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan further attacks from where we have cnn s chief international purity correspondent, nick paton walsh, joining us from london. Nick, what do we know about this american operation yeah, alex more details from the iraqi military he referred to the two months that was spent gathering intelligence ahead of this operation. And the four hideouts were targeted that appeared to be consumed camouflage of some description which would suggest yes a sort of camp of some desc
Did hehe say what is this s pla to watch your is now streaming exclusively on max hello thanks for joining me. I m alex marquardt in this weekend for fredricka whitfield, new details coming into cnn seven, u. S. Troops it s our recovering after they were hurt in a raid that killed at least 14 members of the radical group, i. S. I. S. That raid happening thursday in iraq. And according to u. S. Central command it targeted i. S. I. S. Leaders in order to disrupt the group s ability to plan future attacks. And you re looking at brand new images of the cache of weapons and other items that were seized in that raid in the anbar desert in western iraq, iraqi militia sorry, just releasing these pictures cnn s chief international security correspondent, nick paton walsh, is following these developments and has the latest from london will be hearing more details from the iraqi military as to exactly what s happened in frankly, the middle of the anbar desert in western iraq in the early hours of
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
shatters more members top members of the biden administration are en route to mexico for high state talks. i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. this is america s newsroom. mike, wonderful to be with you. hope you had a wonderful christmas and we re looking forward to a new year. mike: i hope santa was good to you are kids and you. molly: santa pulled it off once again. a record christmas at the border. more than 35,000 migrants crossed illegally into our country over the four-day holiday weekend and now a new caravan is heading our way but in just a few hours, secretaries blinkern and mayorkas will meet with mexico s president. i have 0 confidence in anything blinken does. everything he negotiates is actually not in the best interests of the united states. the first thing he has to do is say we ll shut down the border. anybody that comes into the united states send them back to your country. good luck with 700,000 immigrants