liable for everything he did while he was in office. didn t get away with anything yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one. even mitch mcconnell knew back in 2021 that trump can face criminal charges. well, now, trump s lawyer is making the absurd argument that a president can commit all kinds of heinous crimes and remain immune from prosecution forever. unless he s impeached and convicted. also tonight, trump s rhetoric is having dangerous consequences. as both special counsel jack smith and judge tanya chutkan are targets of swatting. and trump s big hope for 2024, he says he hopes the u.s. economy crashes some time soon. which of course, would leave huge numbers of his maga supporters jobless and broke. but we begin tonight with a hypothetical question. could a sitting president sell pardons or military secrets or order the navy seals to assassinate a
before those strikes took place, the boss of maersk, one of the world s biggest shipping companies, spoke to the bbc to warn of significant disruption to global supply chains because of the houthi attacks. maersk, like other shipping operators, is re routing its vessels away from the red sea and suez canal. instead they are taking the long way round , from asia to europe, and around the cape of good hope. that s an extra 3500 nautical miles, or up to two week s sailing, adding as much as $1 million per ship, in fuel alone. maersk ceo vincent clark told the bbc that these extra costs are already being passed onto consumers. this assessment of the most important oddities of global trade and to rewrote all of this cargo now south of the cape of good hope is going to create significant disruptions to the global supply chain for the duration in which we have to do that and probably a few months more as we have to get back then into normal. you need to see a stronger mobilisatio
reelection again with a rally in philadelphia with union members. the president is seeing endorsements from some of the country s largest unions, a preview in just moments. also new today, more details on trump s indictment. the justice department filing for a protective order which if granted would prevent trump from sharing any classified material for people not involved in the case. new york times says that order says ongoing investigations could identify uncharged individuals. i ll be discussing the latest on the diamond later this hour with jasmine crockett. secretary of state anthony blinken traveled to china today on a high stakes mission to ease rising tensions. blinken is the highest level american official to visit beijing since president biden took office. earlier today, president discussing china, despite balloon incident that delayed blinken s initial trip scheduled in february. i think one of the things about that balloon, it was not that it got shut down but i
strategy. we re going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnn s iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way back on october 15th. we now know that for the cnn january 10th debate, the three candidates who have qualified are former president trump, nikki haley and ron desantis. we also know that donald trump has not participated in any debate yet this cycle, and he doesn t intend on participating at the cnn debate on january 10th. that leaves haley and desantis on the stage, and that would be the smallest debate stage that we have seen to date. that means that they were the only candidates to hit 10%
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