They may need if they can. And its a reminder really here, and the reason i am bringing this to you as the top news right now of the hour, its a reminder how many tools this Prior Administration simply declined to use during the Ongoing Health crisis weve all been living through. Here is the bottom line, keeping it very clear. Under the traditional rules of obamacare, americans who qualify for those health plans, they must sign up within basically six weeks out of the year, and thats accept, unless they can prove they had a, quote, Major Life Change. Now think about this tonight. Havent we all had a Major Life Change since the virus hit in 2020 . What President Biden is doing with this new order is applying that straight forward logic. Call it logic. Call it humanitarian. Call it with a you want, to empower people to sign up now outside of that usual legal window, which can deliver more health care coverage, especially to people who may urgently need it, given whats going on. As for th
the. i am ari melber. i will be joining you now for the next two hours of a special holiday edition of the bee tonight on this friday december 29th. donald trump s criminal trial several looming in 24. that s where we begin tonight, and we ll do it a little different tonight here for the holidays. i have former federal prosecutor joyce vance, already with me to start the show. we are looking at this legal heat coming up. i want to get into this with the, joyce, but first show you and every something we put together to consider the historic indictments on the road that donald trump has already been on. donald trump has been indicted under seal of the new york grand jury. 34 felony counts of falsified business records. we have one set of laws in the country that we apply to everyone. this will now be months if not the next year of our lives. the former president was placed under arrest on charges brought by the government he once led. the guy running for president
you re in the situation room . the first republican presidential contest is two weeks away and a top obama adviser says the democrats are counting on a long primary season slugfest between newt gingrich and mitt romney. every word from the candidates could make a difference. jim acosta is covering the final sprint of the caucuses. jim, we re seeing a possible shift in the romney campaign strategy. what are you seeing? what are you hearing? reporter: well, there may be a big momentum shift for mitt romney out here in iowa, wolf. he had a pretty good debate on thursday night against the gop field. he merged pretty much unscathed. he was not the subject of the attacks from the other candidates. that was really newt gingrich s role. he was beat up pretty good during that contest. and so mitt romney came into a city and he said he plans to take over the voters in the coming weeks. what concerns me is that we have in washington a class of people who spent their whole time i
plus, the shocking end to an equally shocking case in saudi arabia. a woman beheaded for witchcraft. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. just 24 hours ago, the mud was flying between newt gingrich and mitt romney as they campaigned in the first primary state of new hampshire. now gingrich is vowing to run a clean campaign and refrain from initiating the kind of attacks that have come to characterize the modern race for the white house. some question, though, whether newt gingrich means it, whether he can live up to that commitment. joe johns is working the story for us. what are you finding out? well, wolf, the last few days have certainly been ugly, but now both candidates are saying they re going to do what a lot of voters have said they want and that is have a campaign that is free of negativism. of course, newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house running for president has gone as far to put his words actually in writing. though a lot of people out th