before we go on this sunday, an important programming note. we are back at 4:00 tomorrow to kick off the special election coverage of the iowa caucuses. jon king with the magic wall and stay with cnn tonight with the special edition of acc 360 beginning now. tonight done 360. new endorsements and fresh pulling and subzer o temperatures. were out across iowa with the opening contest of primary 2024 just underway. also tonight, the role that evangelical voters are expected to play in iowa and beyond. and later, the rising discontent in israel 100 days since hamas took hostages with the conflict widening. we are not 24 hours away from the first vote of the first presidential race and the start of the iowa caucuses. most of which convene at this time tomorrow night. just getting started at what is normally poll closing time and most other states. one of the many things we will talk about tonight including the blizzard in the final days of the campaign and record cold temperat
it s time for closing arguments, only three days away to go in iowa tonight on laura coates live. can you believe it? we are now they ve days away till when iowa republicans turn out to choose their candidates and the forecast is for temperatures to feel like 30 or 40 below zero. what could possibly go wrong? fasten your seatbelts. it s going to be a bumpy night. oh, my god, a betty davis reference on a friday night? no other show, people, no other show. that might be a bumpy ride if you re a republican presidential candidate and there are a lot fewer these days. it s all eyes on iowa as we speak. the candidates making their closing argument and taking some pot shots at each other. ron doesn t beat joe biden. trump is head to head. on a good day he might be up by two points. i defeat biden by 17 points. donald trump s not willing to show up on the debate stage. has he come to communities and answered questions? has he gone to all 99 counties? heck, has he even gone
wider conflict. the latest from the region is coming up on cnn. but first, why do we keep giving donald trump exactly what he wants. tonight on laura coates live. but donald j j trump got exactly what he wanted today. and i mean again. a giant megaphone to call the 370 million dollar civil suit against him, say it with me, we all know the phrase, a witch hunt. but as you know, this is an unconstitutional witch hunt. its election interference at the highest level. but then in the courtroom, right in front of the very judge who is going to decide just how much he has to pay. again this is not a jury trial. no dye audience, he s talking to the person who is going to decide how much he has s fraud case. so maybe you want to want your words, saying, quote, this was a political witch hunt, what s happened here sir is a fraud on me. and that is donald trump s closing argument. the world of bach, or the 370 million dollar box stop here. now i want to bring in former trump
today on inside politics a plea deal for the president s son. the justice department says hunter biden will admit he broke federal tax and gun laws. a development already kicking up a hornet s nest of house republicans. plus, we have brand new cnn poll numbers this hour. they confirm donald trump s big early lead, but not as big as it was. and the former president walks into a trap of his own making. he goes on fox news and talks a lot about the legal case against him. did he accidentally confess to some of the crimes he s accused of committing? i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, crimes and punishment. we learned this morning that hunter biden plans to plead guilty to tax crimes, not paying his taxes on time. we also learned the president s son struck a deal on a gun charge and prosecutors will ask mr. biden be put on probation. i want to go straight to delaware where this all went down. that s where cnn correspondent cara accide
tonight on three 60, can the president get away with murder? that question in the chilling answer got a court today is the former president makes a case for presidential immunity and raises the specter of criminal impunity. also tonight, the grandmother who bought the election lie, does she still believe it going into her first night of a five year sentence? and later, meet the man who has found a airliners missing door plug in his own back yard. his find could help find experts find out what severely damaged airlines flight. that nothing a president doesn t office can be criminally prosecuted unless he or she is first impeached by the house and convicted by the senate that s what his attorney, john sauer told a three judge panel of the d. c. circuit court of appeals today. and what s more, in a remarkable exchange with one of them, judge florence pan he conceded that the principle would apply even if a president ordered a hit on a political opponent. i asked you, yes or