just in, brand-new charges against bob menendez of new jersey, going further then the accusations of the luxury cars and cold hard cash, now another country is in the pockets of the new jersey senator, allegedly. the scramble to learn how two planes ended up on a collision course before bursting into flames, video shows the panic on the passenger plane as nearly 400 people on board s escaped alive, and later, breaking news, the first major court filing for donald trump just a short while ago, as his team appealed the decision to remove him from the states primary ballot, this is just one of many legal issues facing mr. trump, colliding with the 2024 presidential election. what is trump s team basing this appeal in maine on? reporter: what they are saying is the main secretary of state exceeded her authority to disqualify the former president based on the 14th amendment, also the 14th amendment of section 3 which says you can t hold certain offices if you have engaged in in
court says not so fast to jack smith. the former president says he knows nothing about hitler while defending and repeating his hitler like language. a survivor of the october 7th massacre and her remarkable journey to find the man who saved her life and the lives of many others that terrible day. good evening, anderson is off tonight. we begin with the supreme court s decision not to decide just yet the central question that could invalidate in of the charges against the former president. namely, does donald trump enjoy immunity from prosecution in actions he took as president? the judge in his january 6 trial ruled he did not. his lawyers appealed to the dc circuit court of appealings, jack smith asked the supreme court to by pass the dc circuit and take it now. and they said no. so we have not a clear understanding of why the justices decided to do this. but walk us through what we know. how many votes this got and so forth. reporter: we don t know how many votes. we j
in the united states and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is friday, december 22, yes, i m wearing a candy cane tie. stunning new revelations into just how far donald trump went to overturn his loss in the 2020 election. a new report from the detroit news alleging that then president trump pressured two election officials in wayne county, michigan to not certify the results of the vote, that is according to audio recordings they have reviewed for a phone call trump made in 2020 following the election. the newspaper reports that he told them we can t let these people take our country away from us and everybody knows detroit is crooked as hell. joining me now, joey jackson. thanks for getting up early for us. this recording seems to go to the core of the case jack smith is building against trump, namely that he actively conspired to overturn the 2020 election. and you remember of course that phone call pressuring georgia election officials to find him vote
hit the campaign trail in iowa today. getting brand new reporting on the former president s strategy there and how it might play nationwide. and we have wild pictures out of iceland, just look at this, when a volcano began erupting overnight. it would be beautiful if it wasn t so destructive and dangerous. an update on what is happening there now. and new law in texas making it a state crime to enter illegally from mexico. the details after the increase in crossing at the attorney border. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan. john is off. this is news central. and today, it is all about iowa. nearly all of the 2024 republican presidential candidates will be in the state. and ready to rumble. they have no time to lose. less than a month until the caucuses. and that is translating into more face time with caucusgoers. more money going to ads, more money going to bolster every campaign s ground game to get iowans to turn out and caucus on january 15th. and this morning cnn ha