democrats controlling the senate chamber. although this hour, counteroffer for a hostage deal from the terrorist group hamas, which is calling for complete cease-fire. i m going to get the reaction from the father of nine-year- old emily hand. she spent nearly 2 months in hamas captivity. leading this hour, the major ruling earlier today for a three-judge appeals court panel agreeing that donald trump is not immune from prosecution for alleged crimes he may have committed when he was president, getting trump s team until end february 12, monday, to file emergency action with the u.s. supreme court if they want to afield. let s get straight to cnn s caitlin collins. this was more than just a denial of donald trump s legal arguments. it was the judge s unanimously rejecting and repudiating donald trump s actions around january 6. yeah, they said it could be criminal. jake, they noted all this is what laid out in the indictment from jack smith so they used the words allegation
but pages, new pages we haven t seen this before. specific information about the potential offenses that the justice department is investigating. in here is language that does sharpen the focus on the former president himself. for example, if you just look at this part, it says under the search is related to a violation of, it continues to say willful retention of national defense information, concealment or removal of government records, and obstruction of federal investigation. so we got a little bit here. this, again, is new information as part of the whole search of mar-a-lago. the federal judge today also ordering the justice department to possibly release the crucial affidavit used to get the search warrant. so prepare redactions in casey the ruling is to release it. the affidavit itself will tell us what specifically the justice department knew when it searched trump s home. what specifically investigators were looking for and why. what was their cause. and who helped
Pete doocy in washington tomorrow, john. John looking forward to that. Before thanks, you guys from a good afternoon, everybody, im Mark Mcculloch and this is still the story. What is likely to be the crescendo of the prosecutions side of this case. Is now under crossexamination. Cohen is a convicted perjurer, guilty of lying to congress and to the irs. He was stripped of his law license. But cohen is there to convince the jury that trump knew all about the payment to daniels. The former president says even if that were true w. Crime. Mr. Trump there is no crime. Everybody is saying there is no crime. Has never been anything like this in the history of our country. Its a scam. Its Election Interference at a level that has never taken place before. Martha later this our will republican senator j. D. Vance 1 of several republican standing up for the former president in and outside of court but First Foxbusiness Correspondent Wendy who is covering the probably Lower Manhattan. The crossex
with more news, right now. right now on andrea mitchell reports president biden calls for cease fighting on hamas terrorists as people around the world and here at home hear about the casualties in gaza. not a primitive cease-fire, even though protesteres like this rabbi are calling for them. i am a rabbi. i would call for a cease-fire right now. stand down. we ll get reaction today from a top adviser, to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. and a new strike on a palestinian refugee camp today. donald trump jr. on the witness stand and his brother, eric, in the on-deck circle for the civil fraud trial against the trump organization. and the frustration. a senate from alabama is coming out of the senate, with a growing number of his months-long hold on approximately 300 military promotions. this is doing great damage to our military. i don t say that lightly. i ve been trying to work with you for nine months. if this keeps going, people are going to leave. that w
seeking. evangeline they get this information. based on the information, i want to ask how far can the family s attorney go in terms of seeking prosecution? first of all, this case should not be handled in the courts. it s going to be a very long time before there s a resolution, if there is a resolution. congress needs to be involved. if i were the parents, if i were the parents attorney, i would definitely be pressing on our congressional representatives to get them involved. foia has a lot of exceptions. you don t want to compromise information of an ongoing information. we don t know if the officer is still being vegted at this point. you don t want classified military information, foreign intelligence in the public. so is the court the appropriate form to really balance disclosure versus national security interests. i don t think a court could make that determination. at this point can the family turn around and try to push congress to get involved at