iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
welcome back. more apparent evidence has emerged of donald trump sweeping post-2020 pressure campaign. stop me if you ve heard this before, breonna. then president trump calls a fellow republican and pushes them to block joe biden victory. we know that he did it with vice president pence. we heard the recording of him doing it with georgia secretary of state brian rothberger. now they have a were recording of him pressuring to michigan election workers. the difference here is this time it appeared to work. according to the detroit news, hours after to michigan certifying the election results they got a call from trump. he urged him not to sign a certification. the pair then refused to sign. in the end it didn t matter, at least not to the outcome of the voting. it could matter to these folks. here we have cnn katelyn polantz tracking out of. this kaitlan, i do want to be clear here. cnn has not independently heard this recording. the detroit news is reporting that it has
over his claim of immunity from federal election subversion charges, at least for now. the trump team opposing the special counsel s request for the justices to immediately review the case. trump is planning to take a very different matter to the high court. we are awaiting his formal appeal of the historic decision barring him from the republican primary ballot in colorado. tonight, trump s gop rivals are taking his side and slamming the ruling. plus, president biden says the united states is pushing israel and hamas to reach a new deal to free more hostages held in gaza. we ll get an update on the talks and the potential terms and timing. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, the u.s. supreme court could rule at any time on whether to expedite a review of donald trump s immunity claim in the federal election subversion case. this, after the trump team s legal filing a short whi
a dire warning from the u.s. and european officials as funding for ukraine remains stalled in congress. one senior u.s. military official warning that with a crucial aid, ukraine is, quote, certain to fail without us. plus, any moment we could get a verdict on damages in rudy giuliani s defamation trial. jury deliberations are happening now as they weigh potential 48 million dollar decision. the cdc sounding the alarm. why the agency is begging americans to get vaccinated. the troubling data behind this new push. we are following these major developing stories and many more on this friday, all coming in here to cnn news central. we begin with a dire new warning in the face of russian aggression. officials say if more military aid is not green light for ukraine, it will doom kyiv s prospects of winning the war. the white house wants to send another 61 billion dollars. a logjam in congress is holding it up, likely through the holidays. allies say that if that aid is not app
hostages as a threat and shot and killed them during combaera. very heavy fighting between israel and hamas over the course of the last week. two of the three hostages have been identified. one of the families of the one of the deceased hostages asked their name not be broadcast, but the two that we can tell you are your time high and the summer is summer who was kidnapped from kibbutz near also on october 7th. israeli military effectively recovered the bodies in gaza, moved them to israel where they were taken to a forensic center, and then subsequently positively identified as the bodies of three hostages who have been kidnapped by hamas on october 7th. we should note amid all of this that it comes as the israeli military had loosened its rules of engagement as it began this war in gaza following the october 7th attacks. allowing israeli soldiers to fire up on suspected terrorists while kidnapped-ing fewer checks than they normally would have. the israeli military we ar