faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. a skeptical response to donald trump s immunity claims by one of the three federal appeals judges who heard arguments yesterday. we ll get expert legal analysis on that hearing. straight ahead, it comes just days before the iowa caucuses. nikki haley and ron desantis are in the state trying to cut trump s large lead while he is tied up with those legal issues. also ahead, the latest on the health scare for the secretary of defense. we re learning more about the medical issues that landed lloyd austin in the icu. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 10th. i m in for jonathan lemire. a decision could come as early as today fro the three judge appeals court panel that heard president trump s presidential immunity claim. prosecutors and lawyers for the former president made their oral arguments yesterday in washington, d.c. trump s legal team appealed an earlier ruling by federal judge
confident as they settle on a playbook for the 2024 race. in new york a grand jury just indicted the former u.s. marine who held a homeless man in a fatal chokehold on the subway. we ll tell you what we re learning about the charges. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight as the federal prosecution of donald trump moves into the next phase the nation s chief law enforcement officer is breaking his silence about the case. we re following all the new developments of trump s indictment. as the former president is predictionably lashing out what is the attorney general of the as you know attorney general garland doesn t like to talk at all about ongoing cases. this is the first time since former president trump was formally charged that we ve heard garland speak. of course he appointed special counsel jack smith back in november. today he talked just a little bit about his historic role i
they take in the case directly to voters and they are going that they are the best parties hope for the future and for retaking the white house. we have to bring common sense back into the country. from one point thing is i am a person with common sense. and so are the people in this room and our country needs common sense back in leadership. i m running for president because i don t think there s a client of our is inevitable, we have it in our power to choose a better path. a path is going to lead to the revival of this country and a restoration of american greatness. dana: at least ace presidential hopefuls will be it therefore the ammo roasted right what is that? what is going to get pretty busy here i think barbecue and harleys in fund-raising and all sorts of other fun stuff at the iowa fairgrounds here in des moines, the two republicans in the top of primary polls they ve been coming to iowa over the last few days. in the former president donald trump, he wra
president. and after the colorado supreme court disqualified donald trump from the ballot, they are asking the supreme court to stay out of the federal election case. how is this playing out in the 2024 case. evan, the colorado supreme court said last night that trump is not eligible to be on colorado s ballot because the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution bans insurrectionists from holding office. the u.s. supreme court is going to decide whether that ruling stands ultimately. what might this mean for the 2024 election? well, jake, what it means is that it puts the supreme court squarely in possibly deciding how this election goes forward, right? not since the bush v gore decision in 2000 have we had the supreme court in the middle of an election race. you look at the timeline that we have ahead of us, the former president has until january 4th to file an appeal. we don t anticipate he will do that for a few days, but we think he will go to the supreme court, because
starts right now. i m john roberts. next november we re going to win so big. i m not going to be somebody s circus monkey a pawn on a chess board. we re not playing that game. you join me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. you guys support me, elect me. you re going to be satisfied when i get to work because you re going to say you know what? he s doing what he said he was going to do. martha: here we go. i m martha maccallum. this is the story. the first 2024 presidential contest is four weeks from today. the polls show the former president way ahead in iowa and nationwide. take a look at these numbers when it comes to a head-to-head with the president, joe biden, former south carolina governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is six points ahead of the current president in the brand new fox news polls and it shows former president trump would also win a 2020 rematch by four points. former white house press secretary ari fleischer a