good evening, i am abby phillip in washington. tonight, just one sentence from the supreme court may trigger eight train reaction for jack smith, donald trump, and every single voter in the 2024 election. the nine justices only required 11 words to turn down special counsel s request to rush and provide an answer to any central question. is donald trump ultimately immune from prosecution? the high court s decision to take special counsel case off the fast track ushers in a world of uncertainty. the special counsel now must go through the regular process. he and trump s lawyers will make their arguments before the d.c. circuit in january. on january 9th, just six days before the iowa caucuses. now, today s choice by the justices almost certainly guarantees that the trial, scheduled for march 4th a day before super tuesday, mind you will like and are we on schedule. and if the supreme court decides to take the case, and no one knows of course right now if that will ha
and before we go, dasher, dancer and vixen, is that you? what could have been an early christmas miracle in the skies above utah, well, actually it is a routine check of my wildlife officials. instead of pulling center s slate, the deer were pulling three at a time transporting them to biologists. while nora truck santa claus s journey on christmas eve, the dwr tracks of your migration with gps devices. oh dear. thank you for joining us. cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts now. read it and weep, that s tonight on newsnight. good evening, i m abby phillip in washington, and tonight, just one sentence from the supreme court may trigger a chain reaction for jack smith, donald trump, and every single voter in the 2024 election. the nine justices only required 11 votes to turn down the special counsel s request to rush and provide an answer to an essential question, is donald trump ultimately immune from prosecution? the high court s decision to take the special counsel s c
tonight, straight from the source, not so fast, special counsel jack smith denied as donald trump gets something he very much wanted from the supreme court. will his federal elections subversion trial be delayed? breaking point, at the border, an unprecedented surge in government overwhelmed and the private militias now taking it upon themselves to patrol the border. as america pushes to bring hostages home from gaza, russia, iran and venezuela, i will talk to a wife who is pleading for her husband s safe return from afghanistan. he s one of three americans being held by the taliban. kaitlan is off tonight. i m on a keeler and this is the source. a win for former president trump, at least for now, with the supreme court denying special counsel jack smith urgent request to put the issue of trump s claim of presidential immunity on the fast track. a one sentence order, denied, no explanation, no notation, of whether any justices dissented. and here s what this means, the ni
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welcome to world news america, in the uk, on pbs, and around the globe. we begin here in washington, where the us defense secretary had a rare phone call with his russian counterpart in the aftermath of a collision between a russian warplane and an american surveillance drone. russia s security council says it will try and retrieve the wreckage of the us drone that crashed into the black sea on tuesday. moscow has told washington to keep well away from its air space, as the two sides blamed each other for the incident, which took place in international air space near territory russia claims to have annexed from ukraine. the us says russian fighterjets intercepted the drone, causing it to crash, but moscow denies this. a senior official in washington says the us is also assessing whether it can retrieve the drone, which is in very deep waters. the us defense secretary said today the episode was part of a pattern of aggressive, risky and unsafe actions by russian pilots in in