tonight on three 60 breaking news. just days after the secretary of state kicked him off the the ballots, the former president takes her to court, i ll get a reaction tonight. also, chris christie joins me with the iowa caucus is growing closer, and many challengers seemingly grow slimmer. and you ve likely seen the japanese five people were killed on the smaller plane that hit, new details tonight on how every single one of the nearly 400 people on the airline got out alive. good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news, the start of the year which will be unlike any in american political, legal, and history. a former president running for office, again facing 91 federal and state felony charges, also facing two civil trials, and fighting efforts in several states to remove him from the ballot. that s where we start tonight, with his attorneys late today asking a court to overturn maine secretary of state shana bellows s decision to remove him from the
killed in an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah mwarning israelis thi won t be tolerated. and claudine gay is officially out as harvard s president. her controversial testimony on capitol hill about anti-semitism. kaitlyn collins is off tonight. this is the source. i m brianna keeler. tonight donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by maine secretary of state to remove the former president from the state s primary ballot. trump, of course, was booted off the primary ballot in colorado. we re still waiting on that appeal. we will have more on this breaking news in just a moment, but it is all unfolding 13 days from the iowa caucuses, where republican voters will have their first say about who they want the party s nominee to be. if you think those court battles are getting in trump s way, think again. not only did he nail down an endorsement today from the second highest majority leader in the house, majority leader steve scalise, but his base is growing mo
viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i m rosemary church. just ahead, a u.s. official says israel was responsible for the strike in lebanon that killed a senior hamas leader. donald trump appeals the decision to remove him from maine s presidential primary ballot, accusing the state s top election official of bias. and investigators begin their search into what caused that fiery runway collision in japan. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. thanks for joinings us. a top hamas leader has been assassinated, and a u.s. official told cnn that israel carried out the hit. senior hamas leader saleh al arouri was killed in the suburbs of lebanon on tuesday. lebanese media report the strike targeted an office belonging to hamas, and several others were also killed, including leaders from the hamas military wing. earlier, an israeli government spokesperson issued this statement about the incident. israel has not taken
fighting tradition. a history of ferocious resistance. but it s nothing like what you might think. not at all. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la anthony: this is okinawa, just south of mainland japan. for all the relative rigidity of the mainland, okinawa answers in its own unique way. don t eat the same thing each day. that s boring. there s even an okinawan term for it. chanpuru, something mixed. bits borrowed from all over served up for anyone to eat. but maybe you re more familiar with the name okinawa from this. as the setting for some of the most horrifyingly bloody battles of the second world war. how horrifying? for the allies there were more than 50,000 casualties with around 12,000 killed, or missing in action, over nearly three months of fighting.
plagiarism? what we are learning today from harvard insiders. plus, the deadly airport runway inferno. two lanes collide, five on one jet nearly killed, 400 escaped alive. how did the planes and up on the runway in the first place? and the senior member of hamas assassinated at an explosion in beirut. is the situation in the middle east about to get even worse? happy new year, and welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper, and we start out with raking news. harvard university s claudine gay is stepping down as president, resigning after just about six months on the job. the student journalist who broke the story of her stepping down for the harvard crimson newspaper noted that this is the shortest presidential tenure in harvard s august history. it has been quite a tumultuous month for the now former present. when asked for calling for the genocide of would violate harvard campuses code of conduct. yes or no. it can be, depending on the context. from that, to multiple allega