The Supreme Court says that itll decide the biggest question of all about donald trump and the presidency thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby philip in new york, april 22. Thats a date that you should circle on your calendar. It may go down as a defining day in the history of the republic. Its the de, that the Supreme Court says that it will hear oral arguments on the question hanging over the 2024 election, like a guillotine is donald trump immune from prosecution on charges that he interfered with the 2020 election . Is he immune from anything related to that violent january 6 insurrection that he encouraged . The high court revealed its plan and to dry paragraphs, the justices set out a clear timeline. There one that collides directly with his other trials and with the election that is very much underway. March 19, for example, is the due date for briefs. March 19 is also the day when voters in arizona in florida, in illinois, and kansas, and ohio all head to the polls.
Speaker mccarthy with another new. Neil so tonight, a wake up call. It is bound to be the hottest year ever. What can we still do about it . Author john valiant helps us find some hope against this heat. This is american voices. We begin this hour with a warning from gop voters. Donald trump is a loser. It is a message republican candidate, will hurd, is preaching to anyone who will listen. And iowa heard predicted that if his party sticks by the twice indicted, twice impeached former president , that The Grand Party will get what it caught the last time. Donald trump is not running for president make America Great again. Donald trump is running to stay out of prison. And if we elect i know, i know, i know. I know. Listen, i know the truth, the truth is hard. But if we elect donald trump, we are willingly giving joe biden four more years in the white house and america cant handle that. Will hurd got booed telling the truth. Telling the truth. That proved the latest on the gop voters ar
Say this will be my last term as republican leader of the senate. Im not going anywhere any time soon. However, ill complete my job, my colleagues have given me until we select a new leader in november and they take the helm next january. John as youve been following, Breaking News in the past 30 minutes. Mitch mcconnell stepping down from his Leadership Post this november and with that, welcome to our wednesday edition of the program. Im john roberts in washington. Sandra, big news in just the last little while. Sandra another Breaking News afternoon. Sandra smith in new york. Eightterm senator announcing during remarks on the senate floor moments ago he will continue to serve on capitol hill but hes giving up his Leadership Position within the Republican Party that he has held since 2007. John chad pergram is live on capitol hill with more. Chad, you were saying just in the last hour that he is the longest serving republican leader ever. Longest serving eithe majority or Minority Lea
a very good day to all of you. i m alex witt. our top stories this hour, israel says the war on hamas could last for many months as it carries out new deadly strikes in gaza, including on refugee camps. that s despite growing pressure from the biden administration to change course. michigan s supreme court rejects an attempt to remove donald trump from the 2024 primary ballot. the opposite of a ruling by colorado s supreme court. we will dig into what that means for the former president s campaign. top u.s. officials led by secretary of state blinken set to arrive in mexico to try to tackle the record number of migrants crossing into the u.s. 8,000 moving right now toward the southern border. new storm warnings on the east coast threaten holiday travel plans. a blizzard pounds colorado as more than 6,000 flights are delayed nationwide. we begin this hour with israel and the u.s. at odds over the war in gaza. a top advisor was at the white house to talk about what come
by the troubles awaiting turkey. the bbc s anna foster has been following the story in istanbul. that is a good question, there are two issues can he and does he want to? because he has won here by getting 52% of the vote. he will consider that to be a comfortable margin and a mandate for the style of rule he has been bringing to turkey for more than 20 years, he has created this executive presidency that gives him so much power over policy make and the direction of the country and things like cracking down on democracy and free speech. he will see this as an endorsement. he made a speech last night at the time of the result and talked about being a president for all of the country, whether they voted for him or not. but he also made disparaging remarks about the kurdish population and people from the lgbtqi+ community. and he how much will he feel the need to reach out? you also have 48% of the population who are opposed to his rule and to his style of government who hav