world. i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live from london. just ahead on cnn newsroom secretary of defense lloyd austin came to get more details from prime minister netanyahu to get a real sense of where israel is in its operations against hamas. the israeli military on sunday revealing new video of what it is calling the largest hamas tunnel they have discovered inside the gaza strip. former president donald trump ramped up this anti-immigration rhetoric during remarks in nevada sunday. they come from prisons, they come from mental institutions and insane asylums, many terrorists. senators have spent the weekend trying to see if they can get any sort of compromisen out issue of immigration. this is not just immigration reform. they re basically working diligently on just security at the border. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s monday, december the 18th. 9:00 a.m. here in london, 11
fascinating move, he s calling on the supreme court to weigh in and decide on donald trump s claim that immunity, once and for all. meanwhile, no trump, no trial, at least for today. the former president s civil fraud trial on hold until tomorrow after he says he will not, in fact, testify as promised. so why the last-minute change of heart? could it impact the judge s thinking as he weighs the future of trump s business empire in new york. plus, it doesn t matter what the other candidates do. it doesn t matter what they say. quote, i m voting for trump. those are the words of an iowa voter backing up the numbers in our new poll showing trump beating everyone else in the race combined. what are the chances any of that changes in the next five weeks? could harvard s governing board cut ties with president claudine gay just a year after she was chosen to lead the school over her remarks about anti-semitism and how over 650 faculty members are on the record wanting her to keep
prosecution. bringing children with you doesn t guarantee you want get prosecuted. the administration knew what the results of its policy would be. absolutely. the administration intended to do what they did and jeff sessions believed that the bible was supporting the decision, which is one of things he communicated. what he didn t intend was to have the type of reaction that he got even from some people among the base, specifically some white evangelicals and other conservatives who found this policy problematic and that s why we re seeing recei reversal. liz, thank you for being with us. i m going to ask eugene and betsy to stick around because we do have more questions, including if the president has made this move, putting this in congress s court, what happens over on capitol hill. that immigration impasse has become a lot trickier. is he throwing in a towel on a fix? we re head to the hill next live.
sanders was saying in the briefing room, she was saying she would side with people who were in the room. well, senator dick durbin was in the room. he said he heard that remark. senator lindsey graham was also in the room. he s not denied the remark was made. as a matter of fact, he told senator tim scott that s exactly what happened. so the white house is choosing to rely on the word of senators cotton and perdue, not from graham and durbin, bipartisan senators who were invited over to the white house to try to craft some way out of this immigration impasse. they just haven t been able to do that at this point. but anderson, it just goes to show you when we try to ask for straight answers over here, it is just extremely difficult. they can filibuster, they can move on to the next question, they can go around us. at one point, sarah sanders described the president s remarks as strong language and not always politically correct. to go after countries, to talk about countries in that fas
go to stamps.com/tv and never go to the post office again. laura: once again, it s crunch time i capitol hill, as lawmakers decide the fate of daca. sender marco rubio joins us now from capitol hill to discuss those and a lot of other issues. thanks for joining us, senator rubio. let s get right to appear the topic of the day is this immigration impasse once again. for our viewers out there, are you more attuned to the current durban-grandma version of the immigration bill? or were to be closer to the republicans who are called the more hard-line people like tom cotton or senator purdue? i don t know the proposal