starting with just weeks to go until the start of the 2024 presidential race. gop frontrunner donald trump just scored a major legal victory against special counsel jack smith in that the supreme court issued a one-sentence judgment yesterday bluntly rejecting smith s request to fast track arguments on the former president s immunity case. so what comes next? evan perez breaks it down. reporter: the u.s. supreme court rejected a request by federal prosecutors to skip the appellate court and have the high court decide whether donald trump has immunity from prosecution in the election subversion charges. the decision deals a significant blow to special counsel jack smith s effort to keep a march 4th trial date on track. that s a lot harder now that prosecutors will have to wait several weeks while the d.c. court of appeals weighs the same questions. trump argues he has immunity. he also claims because he was impeached by the house of representatives and acquitted by the senat
liv golf. i m sara sidner in for fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us on this christmas eve. a winter wholall up leaving millions out in the cold, some enduring their coldest christmas in decades. right now nomore than 100 milli people under windchill alerts. the arctic blast extending from montana all the way down to florida. some areas in the midwest are dipping into the negative 30s. yes, i said negative 30s. new york state police are warning people to stay off the roads amid white outconditions. they say search and rescue is moving extremely slovakia slowly due to the blizzard. the bitter cold proving dangerous. at least 15 people have lost their lives across the country so far. in ohio, icy roads are blamed for a 50-car pileup. you are looking at it there. devastating. in north carolina and a tennessee, places not used to this kind of cold, power companies are running short rolling blackouts to keep up with unusually high energy demand. more than 1.6 million custom
great to have you here. was it in your opinion the economy ultimately or did boris johnson just lie himself out of office? your thoughts. partly policy. he was elected as a conservative but governed as a liberal. the state increased taxes went up. the net zero agenda was putting out the price of energy. we weren t self-sufficient. and there s policy considerations here. ultimately in the united kingdom tell untruths. you cannot tell lies and get away with it. it started over the parties governing at number 10 downing street when the rest of us were living under draconian lock down. we continue visit our moms, for example. over the sex scandal involving a senior conservative politician and in the end, people just said he s lied to us. that is not good enough. we ve had enough. we saw support just disappear over the course of the last two or three days. trace: to those that say it wasn t as much the scandals or the lying or the appointment of his chief deputy whip, chris pi
Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. We start here in the uk. Defence secretary grant shapps said it would be irresponsible to carry on Pumping Money into the h52 high speed rail line if costs had spiralled and there was a perfectly legitimate question about its sequencing. Mr shapps, the uks former transport secretary, told the bbc s Victoria Derbyshire that costs had increased significantly, citing inflation as having been part of that. He stressed that hs2 was not the be all and end all for northern transport projects. On hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets on hsz, we do have to respond to the budgets that have been hit not only by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine by coronavirus but by the war in Ukraine I By Coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. Ithink by coronavirus but by the war in ukraine. I think any responsible government looks at that and says, does this government looks at that and says, does this still stuck up for what the country requires in terms of where the coun
Hello, im rajini vaidyanathan. Its been described as the new High Speed Railway that will form the backbone of britains transport network. But there are now questions over the future of the h52 project which had planned to connect london, the midlands and the north of england. The uk government says it would be crazy not to review the project given soaring costs due to the war in ukraine and a rise in inflation. Defence secretary, and former transport minister grant shapps told the bbc the government would need to make serious decisions on how affordable it is. The hs2 project was originally due to link london with manchester and leeds, via birmingham. There is speculation that the link between birmingham and manchester may be under threat as costs have increased significantly. The line to leeds has already been scrapped. With more, heres our political correspondent, jessica parker. Hsz hs2 is this enormous rail project, and they actually already scrapped a bit of the leg of the line t