claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunity and
he is on a cross-country trip to another early primary states. he is in nevada today. that, after the former president fired up supporters in new hampshire yesterday. a new poll show he is increasing his lead over his rivals. two of those rivals are in iowa today. nikki haley and ron desantis the caucus there 29 days away. vivek ramaswamy is stumping for votes in arizona. welcome to fox fox news live pe eric shawn. arthel: hello everyone i am arthel neville bert new fox poll shows trump 69% among primary gop voters. that is up from last month. and more than 55 points ahead of the next closest candidates for governor desantis and former un ambassador nikki haley. trump also leads president biden and a hypothetical head to head rematch. mark meredith is ahead of them off he is light in new hampshire you get my vote any days ago take it away. left that flex arthel, see if i can live up to the polls good afternoon to you. former president trump is dominating among the republican
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shawn. army sergeant daniel perry says he fired that day in self-defense. he claims that the protesters surrounded his car while he was driving through downtown austin and basically ran into a black lives matter protest. his lawyers argue that he had the legal right to open fire after one of those demonstrators raised an ak-47 and pointed it right toward him, so he feared for his life. christina coleman has the very latest. christina? reporter: hi, eric. texas governor greg abbott says he has requested the state s board of pardons and parole to expedite its review of this this case after army sergeant daniel perry was convicted of murder for killing air force veteran garrett foster, a black lives matter protester. it was an emotional day in court after the verdict came down on friday. members of foster s family could be seen crying and hugging the attorneys that they worked with. some eyewitnesses strongly kiss piewpted perry s claims in this case. they testify that foster
reaction to the by the administration s report on the botched withdrawal from afghanistan nearly two years a ago. the report blames the trump administration from the deadly chaos of august 2021. critics also slamming the timing of the release just before a holiday weekend. i ll miss as we learn about a severe intelligence breach involving classified documents leaked on social media concerning ukraine, china, the middle east. alexandria hoff s life from the white house with more, alexandria. good evening jon. the scope of this leak is growing along the potential consequences. among the images that have been found media leaked there on friday, most describe destroying maps of ukraine and positions of forces. all concerning their. on top of that the maritimes reporting that 100 similarly damaging documents may have also been part of this breach, more than 100 as a matter fact. they say this includes sensitive breathing, slides related to china, the indo pacific region, the mid