One of lifes most underappreciated talents is to know when its time to move on to lifes next chapter. So i stand before you today, mr president and my colleagues, to say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. For more on both mcconnell s stepping down and the spending deal, heres our North America correspondent gary odonoghue. After repeated attempts to get a spending agreement, it does look like leadership in congress from both sides have at least reached a partial agreement on some of the Spending Bills that they have been arguing about. It looks now in the next couple of days that resolutions were put through both the senate and the House Of Representatives to extend one of the deadlines until next friday, by which time they will pass Spending Bills on six separate departments. Now, they havent reached an agreement on the other six departments, but they are going to push the deadline for that back until march 22. So in some ways, this is progress being made, i
79594061 call now vegas story of sensitive. Sunday at ten on cnn its thursday, february 29, right now on cnn this morning, happy leave here the Supreme Court announcing it will hear Donald Trumps Immunity Claim further delaying the former president s federal election subversion trial. And more trouble for trump in illinois, judge, removing his name from the state ballot citing the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban and the races on top, republicans already angling to replace their departing senate leader, Mitch Mcconnell all right, its 06 00 a. M. Here in washington. A live look at the Supreme Court, not usually the Critical Center of deciding our elections. Its looking like it might be this year. Good morning, everyone. Its wonderful to have you here. Im kasie hunt, donald trump strategy to delay those trials until after the november election, just got a big assist from the Supreme Court, the justices announcing they will here are the former president s claims of absolute immunity. T
But the Supreme Courts decision to take up the case could delay it beyond the election in november. Earlier, i asked our North America correspondent peter bowes if this announcement comes as a surprise. I think it was inevitable that this would end up in the Supreme Court. Donald trumps claims averted been rejected by a lower court and he claims he is immune to this kind of criminal prosecution because he was president at the time. This relates to the allegations that he tried to overturn the result of the 2020 election and mr trump faces multiple charges including one that he conspired to defraud the come of this was a trial does do to start very soon next month and it is been delayed and it is now on hold reading from the Supreme Court that they intend to hear arguments in april, the third week of april and a decision expected at some point injune and we know now that this trial, if indeed it goes ahead, it will not be happening until at leastjuly and were getting into Political Conv
Joe biden and donald trump both heading to the border as close to a facetoface clash that theyve come to this Election Cycle raging Out Of Control told historic fires in texas turned deadly as crews rush to save lives and homes more than 1 million acres snell burned the us Supreme Court, thrusting itself into the president ial election. Again, the back the justices will now have on Donald Trumps legal and political future im kate baldwin with The One And Only john berman. Sara is off today. This is Cnn News Central as we have all been told, everythings bigger in texas. And today that even includes the political clash headed to the border. Both President Biden and donald trump are headed there it as they each try to make the Migrant Crisis really a pillar of their reelection bids. Biden is going to brownsville. Trump is going to eagle pass, texas and speaking of big the numbers, speak for themselves and showing how big of a problem the Migrant Crisis has become. And big political and bi
Show he was pushing extreme election Subversion Strategies that could now put him in brave league goal peril. Were talking about Kenneth Chesebro chesebro was the rightwing attorney who helped devise the fake electors plot. The scheme to a appoint fake president ial electors that republican legislatures would then use to overturn the actual results of the 2020 popular vote in key states. Chesebro has already pleaded guilty to a crime in the Georgia Election subversion case, and he cooperated with prosecutors and other states so that he could avoid additional charges. Lets get more details from cnns Marshall Cohen who is breaking the story with kfile. Marshall, tell us about these tweets and could chesebro be at legal risk for seemingly hiding them . Jake, he could listen when you cooperate, you need to tell the truth and cnns kfile team uncovered a secret twitter that cheseboro concealed from prosecutors in michigan. There are dozens of tweets from 2020 that undercut what he later told