good morning. welcome cnn this morning. merry christmas eve out there. santa is making his rounds. new developments from former president trump s legal team in a filing submitted late last night. the president is urging a federal appeals court to slow out the federal election subversion case against him in washington, d.c. his attorneys driving home the point trump was working in his official capacity as president to make sure the integrity of the election results. in the document they said before any single prosecutor can ask a court to sit in judgment of the president s conduct, congress must have approved of it by impeaching and convicting the president and since that didn t happen, trump has immunity. well the appeals court expedited the process and will hear arguments january 9. the judge for the case paused procedural deadlines. it s up to an appeals court to decide if presidential immunity applies here. he is not the first president to invoke presidential i
serious. . also this hour, the latest developments from the southern border as homeland security officials report a steady decrease in migrant crossings after days of record setting entries following the elimination of the title 42 policy. it is too early but the numbers we have experienced are markedly down over what they were prior to the end of title 42. and ron desantis takes center stage in iowa over the weekend making the case against another four years of donald trump while the former president postpones his own iowa rally due to severe weather warnings. we must reject the culture of losing that has infected our party in recent years. if we focus the election on the past or other side issues, then i think the democrats are going to beat us again. hello and thank you for joining us. i m in for andrea in washington where the white house is juggling major foreign policy challenges to begin a critical week. there is cautious optimism among officials over the sou
presidential trapper. available at walgreens. some republicans are jumping on the discovery of classified documents at president biden s private office, equating it to former president trump s large stash of government material stored at mar-a-lago. apples to oranges, really. we re going to go through the differences and play for you president biden s first comments on the matter. house republicans creating a special committee for gop grievances and what they call the weaponization of government. what could possibly go wrong for republicans there? yeah. meanwhile, a republican lawmakers calling out her own party for being tone death on the re-elections. plus a significant development. dozens of soldiers coming to the u.s. for weapons training. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, january 11th. go to have you with us. we have san sfrin politico and host of way too early white house bureau chief at politico jonathan lemire. by the way, shoc
hours of the race. we re in dangerous times. this is not the first time we ve been we ve been threatened. arizona s kari lake after a suspicious white powder was sent to her campaign office. and a potential tropical storm could impact florida just as voters are heading to the polls. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m christine romans. today, one final day of campaigning before it s all in the hands of voters. at stake, control of both houses of congress along with dozens of state offices including governor. early voting still under way in 47 states with more than 40 million ballots already cast. here is what some voters have been telling us. i drive a truck. and it does not get very good gas mileage. i had to quit my last job because i couldn t afford to drive all the way out there. why is the price of gasoline where it is today? you can t just overlook that issue. i came up in a union household. my dad was a teamster for 3
look, this election isn t a referendum, it s a choice. it s a choice between two fundamentally different visions of america. i said from the beginning, my objective when i ran was to build an economy from the bottom up and middle out. and i tell you what, it s a fundamental shift and it s working compared to the maga, mega america trickle down economics. joe biden snapped back at hecklers and stays on message while campaigning yesterday in new york state. part of a busy final stretch for the president before election day. also ahead, what massive turnout in early voting across the country could mean for the midterms. plus, president donald trump missed the deadline to turn over documents to the january 6 committee. we ll tell you how lawmakers are responding and what it could mean for his potential testimony. good morning. welcome to way too early on this monday, november 7th, election eve. thank you for starting your week with us. tomorrow, millions of americans will hea