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
The firerescue unit in sumy oblast. As a result of the attack, the building of the state Emergency Service was damaged and equipment was damaged. This was reported by the ministry of internal affairs. At the time of the impact, the rescuers were in shelter. Fortunately, no one was hurt. Two people were injured as a result of shelling in nikopol, dnipropetrovsk region. 21yearold girl and 49yearold man. Were admitted to the hospital. This was reported by the head of the region, serhii lysak. The invaders hit the city with artillery. As a result of the attack , a twostory residential building was destroyed, private homes, farm buildings and an infrastructure object were damaged. The gas pipeline and power line were also damaged. They tried to connect the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear power plant to rosatom. The Security Service of ukraine detained the engineers in kharkiv. Designers. We are talking about six former officials of various institutes of ukraine. By order of the occupiers they develope
Committee on Homeland Security will come to order. Committee is meeting today to exam the most serious threats confronting our homeland. Before i recognize myself for an opening statement, i would like to take a moment to welcome the newest member of our committee, don bacon. Don served nearly 30 years in the air force and is experienced in cybersecurity and Airborne Reconnaissance will prove greatly beneficial to this committee. Thank you, sir, for being here. Thank you, chairman. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. I would like to thank each of the witnesses, acting secretary elaine duke, fbi director christopher wray, ctc director nick rasmussen, for joining us today. You represent thousands of patriotic men and women who go to work every day to insure the safety of their fellow americans. Everyone on this committee is extremely grateful for your service and director rasmussen, for over two decades, you have helped navigate an unprecedented landscape in combat terrorism
Armed Services Committee on their respective commands. This is an hour and 45 minutes. We will call the meeting to order. Were going to receive testimony from two of my favorite people, general lori robinson. I have to say that i taught her everything she knows from when she was the Wing Commander in the ticker air force base in oklahoma, and from curt tid, commander for the u. S. Southern command. I think there is a lot of overlap. Week talked all three of us have talked about this between the north and the south command, and i think thats one reason that senator mccain would want to have these meetings together. The new National Defense strategy, the nds identifies protecting the homeland and sustaining american advantages in the western hemisphere as key priorities, even as the d. O. D. Focuses on the rising challenge of great power competitors. As we have seen from increasing economic and military efforts by china and by russia to gain a footholds in the americas, the boundaries be
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