good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
julie: thousands and thousands of migrants are currently trekking through mexico headed for the southern border right now as we speak. it is the largest caravan in over a year and it comes as law enforcement at the border is struggling to process a record number of crossers. i m julie banderas in for harris today and you are watching a special edition of the faulkner focus. this migrant march north comes ahead of secretary of state antony blinken s trip south tomorrow. he will sit down with the mexican president and identify ways both countries will address border security challenges. but the new york post editorial board is not so hopeful calling out the president s lack of action writing this, i quote. biden can stop migrant caravan heading to the border if he cared. the administration s inaction can be seen in the historic numbers at the border. more than 241,000 migrant encounters so far this month alone. approximately 79,000 known gotaways. republican congresswoman
presidential immunity, whether a president can be prosecuted for crimes allegedly committed while in office. how this could affect the trial scheduled for march. and it comes after that new report in the detroit news of previously unknown recording of a phone call between trump, the rnc chair, and republican canvassers in michigan in the wake of the 2020 election. trump allegedly pressuring officials not to certify the results after joe biden won. aaron katersky with late reporting. the record holiday travel crush is on. millions of americans take to the skies and the roads, in what is expected to be the busiest air travel christmas season ever, as a major cross-country storm sweeps east. rob marciano with the forecast, and gio benitez with the best and worst times to travel. the new images just coming in, a terrifying moment at sea. a cruise ship slammed by a rogue wave, sending hundreds of passengers scrambling. the war between israel and hamas, an american hostage co
merry christmas to you. it is a new, leak prison for alexei navalny. he has been found, but his new home maybe the worst yet. it is a penal colony. no public celebration in bethlehem as the death toll mounts with 250 killed in the last 24 hours alone. the israeli prime minister vowing to intensify the war. and the former president urging an appeals court for out a case against him. will accept his argument? following the stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. vladimir putin s most famous critic has been found in one of the most remote prisons. alexei navalny is doing well despite being at a penal colony in siberia known as polar wolf. that is according to his legal team spokesman. it is nearly 2000 miles from where he was held before. the 47-year-old opposition leader has been missing since december 11th and his team said he was never hidden for so long. he missed two scheduled court appearances last week. his protest of vladimir putin
stream of threats after ruling former president trump should be taken off the state s primary ballot. we re following breaking news overseas, in prague, authorities say an unspecified number of people are dead after a shooting at prague university. at the border, we re live in eagle pass, texas, where agents are trying to process thousands of migrants at the bridge crossing. plus, why the governor of texas chartered a plane to fly migrants to chicago. breaking overnight, ten americans jailed in venezuela are now back on u.s. soil after the u.s. frees a major maduro ally. we begin this very busyour with the aftermath of the colorado supreme court s bombshell decision to bar former president trump from the state s primy ballot next year. afr the ruling, threats aimed at colorado s justices flooded social media, according to a report nbc news obtained exclusively from a nonprofit organization that conducts public interest research. it says some of the threats came directly