hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
faithfully executed allows him to violate criminal laws. a skeptical response to donald trump s immunity claims by one of the three federal appeals judges who heard arguments yesterday. we ll get expert legal analysis on that hearing. straight ahead, it comes just days before the iowa caucuses. nikki haley and ron desantis are in the state trying to cut trump s large lead while he is tied up with those legal issues. also ahead, the latest on the health scare for the secretary of defense. we re learning more about the medical issues that landed lloyd austin in the icu. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 10th. i m in for jonathan lemire. a decision could come as early as today fro the three judge appeals court panel that heard president trump s presidential immunity claim. prosecutors and lawyers for the former president made their oral arguments yesterday in washington, d.c. trump s legal team appealed an earlier ruling by federal judge
do you think it s going to be could it be as soon as this week, is it going to drag on for a while? do you have any reading there? i d be surprised if it drags on just because they did accelerate the briefing and oral argument to yesterday, so they re on an expedited time frame. the other thing is just to prepare for oral argument, their clerks would have prepared bench memos that could have been easily converted into an opinion once the judge reaches a decision. my guess is we ll see that opinion this week. we mentioned the fraud trial in new york and also the e. jean carroll trial which you said he s going tew peer as well and other legal processes coming up in a couple of week. if this immunity case is appealed again to the supreme court, how does that affect the timing of this but also all those other trump cases as well? well, if he s appeals to the supreme court, we are likely to see additional delay because one the dynamics that appeal creates
those arguments yesterday? i think they re going to decide this case quickly. before a court of appeals goes into oral argumente that, there are clerks that prepared for them very detailed bench memos that can be converted into a written opinion when they wanted to. my guess is based on the questions and the tells, all three of them seem to be very skeptical of this defense and so my guess is they will make the decision and probably sometime this week. i think the biggest tell was the hypothetical question asking, you mean to tell me if a president ordered seal team 6 to assassinate his rival and then resign fromffice before he could be impeached, that means he could not be charged with a crime ever? i mean, you know, they tried to dodge that question as best they could, but the court concluded so the answer you re saying is yes. that was a common sense moment for sure. looking ahead to tuesday, it will be the start of the e. jean
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