hi, everyone and welcome to cnn this morning. it is saturday, december 23rd. i m amara walker. and i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. great to have you here. the eve of christmas eve. that is correct. there is more legal chaos involving donald trump heading into 2024. the supreme court rejects a request for justices to quickly hear arguments on whether the former president has immunity from federal prosecution. we ll walk you through what that means for his legal cal tar. plus, authorities at the southern border report a record number of migrant encounters every day. cnn is there. finally a cease-fire passes. we ll speak to an official about the humanitarian crisis in gaza. have yourself a healthy little christmas. it feels like i should be singing. does it feel like everyone you know is sick right now? we ll talk to a doctor about how to steer clear of the respiratory viruses that are out there. we re three weeks away from the iowa caucus and donald
worshippers, but also that he did so specifically because they were jewish, he did so in a truly horrific way. we did learn new details, today just about how violent and seemingly intentional this shooting was. prosecutors said that robert bowers went through the synagogue, methodically going room to room, and in their words hunting jewish worshippers. now after a while, law enforcement did come, in swat teams engaged in a shootout with mr. bowers, they were able to get him to surrender. it was during that point when he was why are you doing this? why did you do this? and the prosecution said the response was, quote, all jews need to die. are killing our kids. so that is really what the prosecution is saying. now alison, i should, say the defense in this, case they are not disputing the case that robert bowers killed these 11 people, the defense said that these actions were incomprehensible, and inexcusable. there is no question that it was a planned attack. that main defen
and his top republican rivals are swarming the campaign trail tonight with 2024 almost here. we re getting a new read on the former president s confidence heading into the iowa caucuses. his campaign already predicting when he ll clinch the gop nomination. also tonight, a major legal challenge to a strict and sweeping new immigration law in texas. will civil rights groups be able to block the measure that authorizes police in texas to arrest migrants? a stunning explosion of red-hot lava as a volcano erupts in iceland. cnn is right near the danger zone getting updates on the threat from the oozing inferno and the toxic gases spewing into the air? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with presidential politics at an all-out push for votes in iowa tonight. the top three republican candidates are getting ready to hold events in the lead-off caucus state. front-runner donald trump i
anti-immigrant rhetoric causing reverberations today. the white house calling the comments, quote, fascist, after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just south america or the three or four countries we think about. but all over the world, they re coming into our country, from africa, from asia, all over the world. they re pouring into our country. the biden campaign saying trump parroted adolf hitler. priscilla, let s begin with you. this is a strong rebuke from the white house. what else is president biden and the white house saying? it s a strong rebuke and it s in line with where they have been on the comments of making a stark contrast, as to the biden vision when it comes to immigration and that of his predecessor, former president donald trump. the white house released a statement this morning, and in
welcome to the programme. a medicalfacility in ukraine is destroyed by a russian missile strike, killing at least three people. two children are said to be among the injured. president zelensky has described the attack as another crime against humanity . we ll have the latest. also in the programme. the british television presenter, phillip schofield after acknowledging an affair with her younger colleague at this morning, has resigned. and the family of the british national that has died in sudan say they were abandoned by the embassy we will have the latest on the crisis and british cycling since it will ban transgender women from elite female competition. we will discuss that position. we start in ukraine, which has faced another heavy night of russian missile and drone attacks. a medical clinic in dnipro in the east was hit by a missile where at least two people died and around 30 people were injured, including two boys aged under six. president zelensky described the