an extraordinary case. that s tonight, on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in new york. tonight, the special counsel big on the supreme court. how big of a bet? well, every single check and balance on all presidents might be at stake. jack smith is wagering that the justices will side with him. he is wagering that the high court will see the wisdom in answering this question sooner rather than later, is donald trump immune from prosecution? now, the special counsel rights like he s running out of time, and in a way, he is. the normal appeals process would give no guarantee that the high court would consider the immunity question before next november. now that is, i don t have to remind you, when america chooses its next president. how the court rules may reshape democracy as we know it. the justices have never said yes or no that a criminal can be criminally prosecuted for crimes they perpetrated while president, a ruling that the constitution does not offer
from jack smith. the high court says it will fast track consideration of trump s claim that he s immune from prosecution in his election case. plus rudy giuliani in court today. the jury is set to decide how much he ll pay for defamatory lies that threaten the lies of two election workers, lies he is still pushing outside the courtroom. also the pregnant woman at the center of a flash point in america right now, has just left her home state to get an abortion, as the texas supreme court has just ruled against her. we ll have the latest. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, we have exclusive reporting in the trump classified documents case. a phone call that apparently is of interest to special counsel jack smith from the former president to a former longtime employee in mar-a-lago, who was there for key conversations surrounding that case. more on that important reporting in a moment. but also we have major news about the nation s highest court on j
the republican front runners nixon defense goes poof. when the president does it, that means that it is not illegal. tonight, why two major rulings against donald trump could be jack smith s biggest victory to date. then, the tragic culmination of the george santos saga. you have no business in this building! tonight, the long road to today s historic expulsion. that makes me jewish. it s always been a party favor, everyone s always laughed. now everybody is canceling me. just when you thought ron desantis couldn t get cringier. you are trolling folks and trying to find migrants to play political games and get some attention seeking out trump trump. by the way, how is that going for? you all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. we ve got huge developments tonight in two of the trials of donald trump. just within the last half hour, judge tanya chutkan, who was overseeing the federal criminal case of january 6th and the attempt to
fredericka witfield. israeli forces fire new strikes at gaza as fighting resumes following a weeklong truce between israel and hamas. those strikes include targets in southern gaza. it s an area that remained largely unscathed during israel s initial assault of northern gaza. talks of a new truce have reached, quote, a dead end, according to prime minister netanyahu s office. israel blames hamas for the breakdown in talks and accusing the terror group of not fulfilling its promise to return all women and children being held as hostages. the idf says there are still 136 hostages in gaza, including 17 women and children. 110 hostages were released during the week-long truce. let s turn to our team on the ground, ben wedeman in jerusalem, oren liebermann in tel aviv. tell us the latest on these negotiations to bring the remaining hostages home. reporter: the negotiations have all but collapsed at this point as benjamin netanyahu ordered the mossad to pull back its negotiations
you ve live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. former president donald trump is campaigning in the key battleground state of iowa, and he s back to pushing his lies about the 2020 election. the former president told supporters he hopes judges will let the 2020 election be prosecuted in court. the gop front-runners encouraged his supporters to go into vote-counting facilities in 2024, saying they need to watch the votes. let s go live to kristen holmes in cedar rapids, iowa. kristen, you re there with the former president. looks like he ll be talking there shortly. what can you tell us? reporter: yeah, jim, i mean, as you noted, right now, we are just about six weeks away from the iowa caucus in 2024, and donald trump is still talking about the 2020 election. now, earlier today at another event in iowa, he asked his voters, encouraged them, actually, to go into big cities, democratic strongholds, and watch the vote. take a listen. the most important part