Im paula reid. Welcome to cnns special coverage of the 2024 election. The first debate and the surrender of former President Trump in georgia. We are on the cusp of a historic week for the nation and a pivotal week for the 2024 race. First, the former president and the latest indictment. Donald trump faces a friday deadline at noon to turn himself in to authorities in Fulton County, georgia. The result of his fourth criminal indictment. A senior Law Enforcement official tells cnn trump is expected to turn himself in thursday at the earliest. That would be just one day after the first debate of the 2024 president ial race which will take place without trump, who is the frontrunner for the repuican nomination. Just hours ago, he made it official, he wont attend. Now, the eht candidates who will attend all trail trump by doubledigit margins, and all of them are running out of time if they hope to catch him. Let me turn now to cnn senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz. Katelyn
nikki haley or ron desantis? then an issue affecting many of you watching right now, to bundle or not to bundle? what does the future of streaming look like? and take out your funny hats and glasses we re giving the yea or nay to the biggest new years tradition. the panel is here and raring to go. so sit back, relax and let s talk about it. up first, what is likely to be the story of 2024, the race for president. if you believe the polls, we re looking at a biden/trump rematch. in a world where people say and do pretty much anything and can still get elected, we re left asking, is a surprise still possible? the next few weeks may answer that. in politics, the new year means, after months of candidates talking, voters finally get their say. donald trump is still the clear leader, with nikki haley and ron desantis vying to become the main challenger. voting kicks off in iowa. on monday, january 15th, we re going to win the iowa caucuses. where trump is way ahead in rece
that criticism quickly spread to the mainstream media. what president could get away with shooting down unidentified flying objects all around north america and then not talk about it for days. president biden still silent after addressing the unidentified objects after taking down. so many questions and so few answers from the biden administration today after the united states shot down three more unidentified objects over the last few days. no excuse for the lack of action and no excuse for the people being kept in the dark when our military is shooting down objects we cannot even put a name to. this is becoming weird. dangerous even. more to communicate the american people about this issue. low-profile style, and times of trouble, people want to hear from their commander-in-chief. i am howard kurtz and this is media buzz. peppered with questions from reporters about the shootdown speared suddenly they struck a softer tone. there was not that much they are
night, reportedly. we ll bring that to you more details as we get it. this is happening at the same time that there was another shooting in louisville, kentucky, last night. a second shooting in that city, mass shooting, in a week. four people were transported with injuries including one in critical condition and two people are dead, after a gunman or gunmen shot into a crowd of more than 100 people at a local park in louisville, kentucky, chickasaw park last night. no word on arrests. they are asking for the public to help identify the suspect or suspects in that shooting. second mass shooting in louisville. we are trying to get more information on dadeville alabama. that is a town of just 3,000 people. what you are seeing is in louisville. what we have been talking about dadeville we have seen live scenes that show mahogany dance is that there was a gathering there, maybe a sweet 16 they are reporting, a bunch of teens, now 20 are injured. we will get you more information a
Phase of this war on ukraine. Just today, President Putin has made overt Nuclear Threats against europe. I talk with the president of finland, who knows putin well. I also sat down with the president of south korea to ask about the threat from his neighbor to the north, who just declared itself a nuclear state. Also, hijabs burned, protests rage and chants of death to the dictator ring out in iran after a woman dies in Police Custody there. What will come of the demonstrations . I will ask an expert. But first, heres my take. Lets not play down what has happened this week. The leader of the Worlds Largest Nuclear Power publicly threatened to use Nuclear Weapons. In an address in moscow on wednesday, vladamir putin declared that russia would use all Weapons Systems available to us to defend the country. He emphasized it. This is not a bluff. It might be. Putins threat is an addon of traditional soviet doctrine. Now they contemplate scenarios which it could use Nuclear Weapons. But putin