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i m bret baier meets with ukraine leader at the white house as that leader president zelenskyy desperately tries to get congress to authorize new funding for ukraine s war of resistance against russian invasion. two men have a joint news conference a short time ago at the white house. we will talk with president zelenskyy in just a few minutes. later in the show, the new house speaker, mike johnson on a host of topics. he is live here on set. first, white house correspondent peter doocy has the latest. he was at that news conference a short time ago e joins us live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. pete: president biden just answered a question whether or not he wants ukraine to defend itself or to win the war. he wants ukraine to win the war but he is not giving us any details about how he thinks that could or should happen. mr. president i will not walk away at the white house this tripe it is toned down. congress needs to pass the supplemental funding for ....
you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. any minute now, president biden will meet with ukrainian president zelenskyy as he makes a direct appeal for u.s. aid for their grueling fight against russia. and it is in russia where allies have imprisoned putin foe navalny are sounding the alarm, saying they haven t heard from him in days and his whereabouts remain unknown. plus, the big cop 28 climate change summit forced into overtime after activists warned a deal was in complete failure. plus, decision day. the embattled president of harvard will keep her job after nearly over a week of outcry over the speech she made about antisemitism. our nbc news reporters are following the latest developments and we start with ukraine s leader sitting down with ukraine s leader sitting down with president biden any minute now. kelly, set the stage for us. the stakes are particularly high and they have been in different ways each time zelenskyy has come to the united sta ....
just into cnn, brand-new poll numbers that spell trouble for president biden s campaign in two key battleground states. plus, former president donald trump not testifying after all today in his civil fraud trial in new york. so what changed? and with time running out for aid to ukraine, a special guest will appear at the white house this week. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s monday, december 11th, 5:00 a.m. here in washington where we have new cnn poll numbers this morning in two critical battleground states. the news is not great for president biden and his campaign. the numbers show donald trump leading in both georgia and michigan. in georgia a state biden carried by a very narrow margin in 2020. registered voters say they prefer trump over biden by 5%. in michigan where biden carried in 2020, polls show trump ten points up, up 10% in each polled in each state say they wouldn t support et cetera candid ....
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not co ....
continue to follow breaking news and an extraordinary request by special counsel jack smith at the supreme court decide to whether the former president have immunity from prosecution for alleged crimes he committed while in office, this will be the first time the high court could weigh in on the historic prosecution of the former president. joining us now is a senior supreme court analyst job is cubic and paula reid. so, paula, this is a pretty aggressive move from the special counsel. what is the play? that is exactly right, this is the first time the special counsel jack smith has gone to the supreme court, he is asking it to decide if the former president is immune from criminal prosecution. that is a constitutional question that has never been decided, but really what is at stake is the timing of trump s first criminal trial. trump has been litigating this issue of immunity, he lost at the district court level and signaled he would appeal, the next stop would usua ....