many congressional republicans are resisting. president biden announced the u.s. will support ukraine for as long as it can, instead of as long as it takes. also tonight, harrowing testimony from the georgia election worker about what the lies rudy giuliani told about her and her mom did to their lives. that and a warning a judge gave him about continuing to spread misinformation. and later, the newest example of how cnn s exclusive reporting on sexual misconduct in the coast guard is getting results, this time on capitol hill. can good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin tonight with ukraine s war to drive russian forces out at a stalemate, and efforts in washing fund that were apparently at a standstill. tonight, no sign yet that president volodymyr zelenskyy meetings today with biden top lawmakers have done anything to break that logjam. house republicans are still demanding a large-scale concessions on migration from mexico, and before agreeing to any new aid for ukr
with collins can starts now. reporter: tonight, straight from the source, the supreme court getting a remarkable requests from special counsel jack smith. the high court says it will fast-track consideration of trump s claim that he s immune for prosecution in his election case. plus, rudy giuliani in court today, but the jury is set to decide how much he will pay for defamatory lives that threaten the lives of two election workers. plus, i should note that he still pushing outside the courtroom. also, a pregnant woman at the center of a flash point in america right now has just left her home state to get an abortion as the texas supreme court has just ruled against her. we ll have the latest, i m caitlin collins, and this is the source. reporter: tonight, we have exclusive reporting on the trump classified documents case. a phone call that apparently is of interest to special counsel s jack smith from the former president to a former longtime employee in mar-a-lago
from jack smith. the high court says it will fast track consideration of trump s claim that he s immune from prosecution in his election case. plus rudy giuliani in court today. the jury is set to decide how much he ll pay for defamatory lies that threaten the lies of two election workers, lies he is still pushing outside the courtroom. also the pregnant woman at the center of a flash point in america right now, has just left her home state to get an abortion, as the texas supreme court has just ruled against her. we ll have the latest. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, we have exclusive reporting in the trump classified documents case. a phone call that apparently is of interest to special counsel jack smith from the former president to a former longtime employee in mar-a-lago, who was there for key conversations surrounding that case. more on that important reporting in a moment. but also we have major news about the nation s highest court on j
breaking developments tonight on the civil fraud trial of donald trump, announcing that he is not testifying tomorrow in an 11th hour u-turn. the supposed party of law in order exposed, a maga mike johnson is desperately trying to rewrite history and protects rioters who stormed the capitol. and we re gonna unpack the growing backlash following remarks by university presidents about antisemitism on campus. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s get started. he, or won t he? it looks like we finally have our answer. breaking tonight, an hour reversal, former president announced that he will not take the witness stand tomorrow in the 250 million dollar civil fraud trial against him and his company. the disgraced ex presidents decision comes after a new york appellate court notified his lawyers that they missed a deadline thalenge the gag order issued against trump in the case. trump s lawyers argueth their client would ve been irrevocably harmed by the order lasting through the end of his
will not be the final witness in the civil fraud trial against his business organization. we ll go through the last-minute reversal from the former president. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east. israel continues to strike what it calls hamas strongholds in southern gaza. it comes as we are learning more about some of the hostages still held by the terrorist group. plus, a controversial ruling in the state of texas. that state supreme court is blocking an abortion for a woman whose fetus has a fatal diagnosis. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, december 11th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we ll begin here. former president trump will not, after all, testify in his own defense at his$250 million fraud trial. he was scheduled to take the stand today, but in a last-minute reversal, it was announced late yesterday he would not testify i his defense at all. he was previously called to t