rich: good evening, welcome to new york. i m rich edson in for bret baier. legal team is asking a federal appeals court to drop the election interference case, arguing that he is immune from prosecution. the fight of the senate will be one of the biggest stories of 2024. we will take a closer look. whatever happened to the nationwide protest over the death of george floyd in 2020? some protesters got a major payday. rich richer but, first, breaking tonight, hamas is reportedly rejected an egyptian led peace proposal that would have required the terrorist organization to cr cede power. pal citizennian parliament. knowingations at impasse. it will release more hostages if israel stops its attacks. benjamin netanyahu vowed sunday to keep fighting. all this as pope francis delivered his christmas message calling for peace in the world and calling for end to the gaza. trey yingst is in tel aviv tonight. hey, trey. trey: rich, good evening. it s day 80 of the war between isra
welcome to cnn tonight. i m jake tapper. and tonight we re less than a month, 27 days, away from one of the weirdest and least predictable midterm elections in modern memory. what s happening now and ending on election day, november 8th, is not typical. it s not. as of now it s not shaping up to be a wave for one party or another. no. it s more like a sharknado. now, typically, republicans would and should be feeling pretty good about their chances to retake both the house and the senate by significant margins, feeling good because things are bad. with high inflation and fears of a recession, voters are inclined to hold the party in power right now, that s democrats responsible and accountable. because phrases are up almost everywhere you look. life is more expensive. by which of course i mean life cereal, wheat and processed wheat products up more than 20% year-to-year. and as humpty hump might say, straight butter baby, by which butter is up 30% august to august. an
coup-plotting and pathologically duplicitous ex-president to subvert american democrat see and the process of given the persistent power of donald j. trump in the republican party and the depoched and decrepit party, will end the way it did with wyoming congresswoman liz cheney losing in a landslide. cheney s unforgivable sin in the ice of maga voters and a bunch of other republican voters, too, along with team trump cultivated and blessed the candidate who defeated her when it came to her conviction that trump is nothing more than an existential threat to our republic and cheney acknowledged as much. years ago i won this primary with 37% of the vote. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.7% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear.3% of the vo. i could easily have done the same again. the path was clear. but it would have required they go along with the lie of the 2720 election, that i would unravel our democratic system
right now. it s all in my mind right now. i love norman leer. i was just in awe in the front row when i saw him once. it reminds me of the nostalgia watching the shows with my parents and i still do today ooichlt jealous. live in the moment. i m angry at you. i appreciate it. everyone, i m laura coates. and this is cnn tonight. the january 6th select committee isn t resting. multiple sources telling cnn that the former secretary of state mike pompeo could sit for deposition as soon as this week. the committee shift to cabinet level officials seems to indicate they are interested in conversations about invoking the 25th amendment after the attack on the capitol. pompeo would join the list of several cabinet level officials to meet with the committee. and that panel isn t the only one moving forward. it s now clear the doj hasn t been dragging its feet. where it ends up is not entirely certain, but the doj seems to have its march of orders in place. we re going to follow th
defined by the defeat of this man, incumbent congressman peter meyer. one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump. and the victory of this woman, tudor dixon, former actress and conservative media figure and now a republican nominee for michigan governor, who scored the last-minute backing of the former president. meanwhile, in arizona, nbc has just projected the republican nominee for attorney general will be abraham hamaday, who was endorsed by trump. trump s pick for arizona secretary of state, mark fincham also sailed for victory, as did his pick for the senate, blake masters who will face democrat mark kelly in november. and arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, who was a star witness for the january 6th committee, lost his state senate race to his trump-backed opponent. but the most closely watched race there is still too close to call. the showdown between trump-backed election denier, kerri lake, and karen taylor robeson. our team is cove