Happening now, breaking news. A new Protective Order just issued 8020 20 election interference case against donald trump. The judge, barring the former president and his lawyers from publicly disclosing Sensitive Information. Also tonight, as the flames ease and the death toll is expected to keep rising, we are getting uptotheminute accounts of the damage from the Wildfire Disaster in hawaii. Cnn is of course on the scene. And the Hawaii Governor will join us live with all the latest developments. And the top prosecutor in the Hunter Biden Probe is elevated to Special Counsel as the president son now appears headed to trial. We are breaking down the legal implications and the political fallout. Welcome to our viewers here in the United States and around the world. I am wolf blitzer and you are in the Situation Room. This is cnn breaking news. Lets get right to it. Coming out of the first hearing before the judge in the trump election interference case. Cnn justice correspondent is on t
tarlov along with dr. nicole saphier there s lots of news to get to. we have a big show ahead. the biggest migrant caravan marches up from mexico. pro-palestinian protesters causing chaos. president biden lashing out at the media. but before we dive into all of that, our brains are still in vacation mode. let s feast off some holiday leftovers. it is time for the fastest. first up, returning gifts are without a doubt the guilty pleasure of the holiday season. in fact, 50% of all gifts get sent back. but watch out. retailers are making the whole process more annoying this year. you may encounter new policies like to return windows to higher return fees, and fewer every return offers. so is it even worth it anymore these days? first and foremost, hi, everybody. did everyone have a good christmas, those who celebrated? okay. fabulous. i have my return package waiting by the elevator to go down and started my business. are you a retainer? first of all, i am the person who wro
before. let s start this a half hour with the latest from sudan. so many through the course of the day let s start with the british nationals getting out because the foreign office said more than 300 british nationals have embarked on flights leaving sudan at the end of the date there will be eight flights. the airstrip being used in sudan, north of khartoum, is beginning to break up. that is what the bbc has been told, sparking fears over how long that runway will last. some of that detail has come from the most senior british commander in charge of that operation in sudan, brigadier dan reeves and had been talking to the bbc about so many different aspects of the operation from the runway to haul full the flights are to those questions around who actually gets on. it s here in the of that interview. some other countries have acted more quickly, some countries like france in particular have escorted his people out. people are terrified. is not the right thing to do? this peo
mcenany, harold ford jr, will cain and greg. it s 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. president biden pushing for a pause to the fighting in israel. but top terror groups, they ve got other ideas. m hamas rockets from gaza are still raining down on the jewish state. a dramatic scene unfolding while train gangs was live on the air. one of those rockets landing right near him. a rocket just slammed into sm e building right next to where we re at in terms of a cease fire. it s it s challengingto to to have a cease fire while rocketefirs are still raining dn on israel. and that s what s being called for here. and that s part of the reaso ann that the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, sayst of he won t have any sort of cease fire because the fire still ceasefe continueths into israelh plus, you have the issue of the hostages. ther.e are 241 israelis being held and some of them are foreign nationals. foreigbut the majority of them are israelis being held inside
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