zelenskyy. the ukrainian president is set to meet with president biden and the entire senate in hopes of securing critical funding to fight off russian forces. plus, special counsel jack smith is taking his prosecution of donald trump all the way to the supreme court. we ll explain why smith is petitioning the highest court in the land. and also ahead we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israeli troops continue to hunt for the leader of hamas in southern gaza, but top officials there are now signaling an escalation with another terror group. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, december 12th. i m jonathan lemire, and thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin in washington where today ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is state side for the third time since russia launched its full-scale invasion back in february of 2022. zelenskyy will meet with president biden at the white house to discuss his country s needs on the battle
person. you can come over here and relax in the chairs in between commercial breaks and you know, or do the long opening from here. we re all open to that. i have to say, the chairs look so comfortable that i can t possibly imagine ever being in one. i m so stressed when i m on tv, i m essentially levitating. so i could never. you don t seem that way ever. acting. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. it was june 1942, which means obviously, we are in the thick of it in terms of world war ii. june 1942, in a german submarine, a german u-boat, turned up in the hamptons. a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in amaganst which is in long island in the hamptons in new york. this german nazi submarine drops off four guys. four saboteurs. and we know that they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft launched from had submarine. once they hit the beach, they buried the raft. the
a german u-boat turned up in the a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in long island in the hamptens in new york. and this german nazi submarine drops off four guys, four saboteurs. and we know they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft that was launched from that submarine. once they hit the beach they buried the raft. they also buried what they brought ashorebu with them, whi was a big cashe of explosives and detonators. and then they got away. that was mid-june 1942. a few days later, four days later another nazi submarine turned up elsewhere on the american east coast. this time it was in just outside jacksonville, florida. and again another german submarine, a german u-boat turned up offshore and dropped off another four guys, four more trained saboteurs. these were germans who had previously spent time living in the united states andnt they kn how to assimilate here. but they had in the meantime been brought back to nazi germany for speci
this isn t just a french story. this is reflected. this surge and support for far-right be reflected in germany and italy in ostia so we ll wait to see what happens in those nations, but it feels like a profound change reverberations all around europe and the world. max foster in paris. thank you very much. i knew our have seen a new central starts right now just a couple of hours, a landmark ruling from the supreme court expected to justices will decide whether donald trump has sweeping presidential immunity from prosecution for standing by for the ruling that will define the presidency for years to come and we will continue to fight. those are the words from first lady jill biden in a new interview after the president s disastrous debate we have new reporting on the advice he has getting from his family this morning and will smith is going back to where it all started. music. he viewed his first new song and more than five years at the bet he awards, i m sara sidner with jo
legal matters and trump s life, but also the future of immunity for all president s, cnn s joan biskupic has more on today s ruling you are watching for this to come down. now, are we certain that this is going to come down today? we have been waiting for this throughout the course of this supreme court session it will share and i m about to leave my little posterior and our dc bureau and run over there because at 10:00 sharp, this is a very punctual supreme court 10:00 sharp eastern time. the justices will take the bench. they will read excerpts of the final opinions of this term with the last been i m sure this immunity decision. we don t know yet who will who has written it. there s a strong chance that s the chief justice of the united states, john roberts, who would have kept this very important case for himself. and just to remind everyone what s at stake here, the question is going to be at bottom will former president in donald trump be subjected to any kind of crim