atop israeli official is meeting with the house over israel s war over hamas. the lead starts right now. meetings are underway with a close confident and senior white house officials as the administration asks israel to scale back the war strategy and the prime minister says he s not backing down. a new caravan of thousands of migrants is headed to the u.s. border from southern mexico. one day before secretary state antony blinken heads to mexico city in an effort to deal with the crisis. if you re planning to return an unwanted holiday gift, it may cost you. we ll tell you why. hello and welcome to the lead. right now, top biden administration officials are set to meet with ron dermer in washington, d.c. a close confident of benjamin netanyahu. antony blinken and jake sullivan are expected to press dermer are moving israel to a more targeted phase of the war. this as netanyahu vows a long fight in gaza. israel defense forces are using the ground, air and naval troops t
president. and after the colorado supreme court disqualified donald trump from the ballot, they are asking the supreme court to stay out of the federal election case. how is this playing out in the 2024 case. evan, the colorado supreme court said last night that trump is not eligible to be on colorado s ballot because the 14th amendment to the u.s. constitution bans insurrectionists from holding office. the u.s. supreme court is going to decide whether that ruling stands ultimately. what might this mean for the 2024 election? well, jake, what it means is that it puts the supreme court squarely in possibly deciding how this election goes forward, right? not since the bush v gore decision in 2000 have we had the supreme court in the middle of an election race. you look at the timeline that we have ahead of us, the former president has until january 4th to file an appeal. we don t anticipate he will do that for a few days, but we think he will go to the supreme court, because
times on the stand. people inside the courtroom said rudy giuliani would just sit there looking on with little reaction. what do you make of that as somebody who knows a court room, that does not seem to be a good way to win a case to look on stoically as these two compelling witnesses cried. unless you are contemptuous of the system which rudy apparently is, he said he hopes to get an appeal so he can get a fair trial before a fair tribunal record and i don t know what that looks like, even if he got an appeal. certainly this was a fair proceeding. he is just tap dancing and the music is stopping. giuliani, and we discussed this he was supposed to testify he said he was going to testify and he had evidence to back up his lies and he did not takes the stand in his own defense that would have been unwise but he was still doubling down about the falsehoods of these women. the judge rebuked him saying it could lead to another defamation case he keeps lying about these women
and some elsewhere, was that should this have ended in death. and protesters say no. despite of course what may have preceded beforehand. his defense, however, penny has argued that he was doing this to protect the safety of those on the passenger car, though witnesses said neely hadn t attacked anyone yet. but again, it s what passengers were feeling prior to that that will likely play a big part in this case. for our part we have reached out to attorneys for daniel penny on this particular on these particular details about the charge and turning himself in and i haven t heard back at this point. but obviously a significant development in this case. and again, tomorrow morning is when he s expected to turn himself in. we should note that this death not only has sparked protests but it also has prompted some very serious conversations about how society deals with people with serious mental health struggles in this country. yeah, jake. this was someone who by all account
heard the name george santos. oh, we do know him now, though. a wild scene today as the republican congressman caught in lie after lie is arrested and charged on 13 criminal counts. will george santos, aka anthony devulder stay in congress, go on his own or will he be pushed out? plus, taking the stage, donald trump now hours away from facing questions at a cnn town hall one day after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. and following the money. republicans flagging what they call shady deals as they lay out their case against president biden s family, including son hunter. is there evidence behind these allegations? welcome to the lead. we start with our politics lead, and a defiant congressman george santos saying he has no plans to resign despite facie ing 13 criminal charges. santos pleaded not guilty in a new york courtroom this afternoon before facing the news media where he insisted he is innocent. this is the beginning of the ability for