loive at the southern borde as the u.s. and mexico hold crisis talks of the surge into the united states. we ll get an update of the meetings still underway, and the growing pressure on joe biden to take action. also this hour, the michigan supreme court rejecting a bid to remove donald trump from the primary ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist ban. we ll break down the decision and how it differs from the colorado high court ruling that did bar trump from that state s ballot. plus, cnn investigating the shadowy world of dogfighting. our crew rode along for a federal crackdown on the blood sport that s thriving across the country. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins, and you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with those urgent border security talks underway in mexico at this hour. secretary of state antony ball blinking are pressing the mexican president to stem the su
and disregard them, the jury, as subjected to them, may not. the court shall not permit the defendant to turn the courtroom into a forum in which trump inject politics into this proceeding. jack smith then kicks off a highlight reel of trump s favorite spurious arguments, things like, trump, quotes complaints about the jury indictment and the trial date will interfere with his political activities. or trump s quote, false accusation was directed at the former president. jack smith also takes issue with some of the trump s favorite catch phrases like the injustice department or biden indictment. all of it, jack smith says, would taint a jury pool. quote, the in addition t being wrong, these allegations are irrelevant to the jury s determination of the defendant s guilt or innocence. it would be prejudicial if presented to the jury. put another way, the trump defense was, quote, repeatedly used rhetoric that made the acceptable on the campaign but not on the trial. make no mi
saturated from recent heavy rain. rob marciano timing it all out. the midair emergency. a bird strike shortly after takeoff forcing a southwest airlines plane bound for austin to instead make an emergency landing in fort lauderdale. gio benitez with late details. the crisis at the border. top u.s. officials head to mexico for major talks with the country s president about slowing the record migrant surge, as a caravan of thousands of migrants, some of them families with small children, make their way towards the u.s. border. and tonight, the urgent plea from the mayor of new york city. mireya villarreal reporting. the new fears of a wider war in the middle east. u.s. troops come under attack again in iraq. militants claiming responsibility for the latest drone strikes just days after the u.s. hit targets in iraq. and the urgent effort to free the hostages still held by ha hamas, some of them americans. president biden talking with leaders in the region. terry moran in w
to keep donald trump off the ballot in 2024, and overseas israel s expanding its ground offensive into refugee camps in central gaza in what it calls, quote, a new battle zone. the government there saying the war against hamas will go on, for, quote, many months. secretary of state tony blinken, and other top biden officials, set to meet with mexico s president in the next couple hours for critical talks about the border crisis happening as a caravan with a reported 8,000 migrants heading towards the u.s. border. hey, everybody, good morning to you, we re going to begin with the latest developments in the israel-hamas war. israeli defense forces saying they have expanded their war effort into central gaza where several refugee camps are located. it is the same area where just earlier this week 70 people were killed in the strike on a refugee camp, the announcement coming with no clear end in sight for the war, israel s army chief saying their operations could last for mo
hey, everybody. welcome back. it is 11:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian back for a second hour here. we re following the breaking news out of michigan that is putting pressure on the u.s. supreme court this morning. the state supreme court rejecting a case to remove trump from the 2024 ballot, just a week after a ruling by the colorado supreme court removing him from the ballot in that state. want to bring in nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, carol lam, and former republican congressman from florida david jolly as well. vaughn, if you will, walk us through this ruling out of michigan. it is most notable the supreme court, we should understand, is not actually taking up the appeal from the litigants. instead, they denied to hear any arguments and to take up the case. but by doing so, they are all but affirming the lower court s decision, which in the state of michigan is to not disqualify donald trump from the ballot, like the state of colorado did. on the p