sandra: fox news alert and back to the live pictures out of lukeville, arizona, as we top a brand-new hour here. you are seeing the tucson sector, at the center of the most recent migrant surge, seen hundreds of mostly male adult migrants as you see on the screen there, queued up against the border fence. agents are now we are told, john, 200-1 in the field and this as the daily record for encounters was broken last week. remember, john, we were on the air when it happened, over 12,000 migrants hit the border in a single day and all this is coming after record setting 2.4 million encounters in the fiscal year 23 and all time monthly high of over 260,000 in september. i mean, those are numbers, you are looking at it on your screen, this is happening right now, john. john: populations, you know, some of america s largest cities, new york and los angeles aside, you know, you take houston, dallas, philadelphia, boston, places like that, population of one of those big cities c
right now on ana cabrera reports, the largest ever recorded lead so close to the iowa caucuses. new polling this morning showing donald trump well out front five weeks from those caucuses, just as he doubles down on his vow to be a dictator on day one. plus, an 11th-hour reversal. the former president not taking the witness stand today in the massive new york civil fraud trial. what to expect as the case nears the end. later, at least six people killed after tornadoes ripped tlup tennessee. where this extreme weather is heading next. s heading next thank you so much for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with new polling out this morning showing donald trump expanding his lead in iowa five weeks out from the caucus, and more than 50% of iowa republicans now say trump is their first choice. this as the gop front-runner doubles down on his controversial comments about being a dictator on day one. i said i want to be a dic
thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell has more news right now. right now on andrea mitchell report, ukraine s president zelenskyy is in washington in a last ditch effort to persuade reluctant lawmakers for billions more in aid. republicans are tieing it to more money for the border. also, president trump reverses course at the last minute and says he will not testify as a closing defense witness in today as new york civil trial despite previous claims that he would. this is our new nbc des moines register poll shows president, former president polling higher with iowa caucusgoers than any previous republican at this stage. steve kornacki will break it all down at the big board. plus, the recognition of penn s president shifts the attention to harvard and mitt after last week s testimony by the presidents of all three universities. leaders of harvard are meeting today. and the abortion debate heating up in texas with a state supreme court court now bloc
news. the united states supreme court just agreed to weigh in for the first time on donald trump s historic criminal prosecution. the justices now set to quickly decide whether to accept the special counsel s request to rule out trump s claims of immunity. also, cnn s new polling in both michigan and georgia finds trump is leading president biden in those pivotal swing states. we re going to break down the warning signs for the biden campaign and the democrats as trump also appears to be gaining support over his republican rivals in iowa. and president zelenskyy is here right now in washington for talks with the president and key lawmakers about stalled u.s. aid to his country. zelenskyy arguing the lack of new war funding is making putin s quote dreams come true. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. let s get right to the breaking news. the supreme court res
donald trump announced that he s now not going to testify at his new york civil trial. clearly a reversal here from donald trump. this is smart move, or the least self-destructive move. congress stalled over foreign aid to ukraine and israel. if we don t solve this, vladimir putin is going to have an opening to march through ukrainian threatening all of europe. two university of pennsylvania leaders have stepped down. an intense spotlight is on the heads of harvard and m.i.t. it made us feel like we re alone in this. good morning, everyone. we have new cnn polling this morning showing donald trump leading president biden in two crucial battleground states that biden won last election. in georgia, hypothetical rematch shows trump ahead by five points. many michigan, trump is up by ten points. a state that president biden won by nearly three points back in 2020. trump s dismissed biden s warning that he s a threat to democracy. he said it s a hoax. baker