hi, everyone. merry christmas eve to you and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. thanks for being here. here s what we re watching for you. new overnight, attorneys for donald trump with a late-night court filing urging a federal appeals court to throw out the fed federal election subversion case against him. could the former president s claim of absolute immunity work? and what does it mean for the 2024 campaign and piresiden biden? we ll ask an expert who say democrats need a healthy dose of realism. and israel s war with hamas rages. we ll speak with a pastor in bethlehem on how the birthplace of jesus is marking the holiday without the usual celebrations. new this morning, president trump s legal team, the former president trump s laelegal team arguing presidential immunity should clear him of wrongdoing in his federal election subversion case in washington, d.c. they say he was merely working in his offici
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coast. the main focus for tomorrow being really georgia into the clips. then from there that low pressure system will continue up the eastern seaboard. by late sunday, the delmarva region and the mid-atlantic, that s where the issues will be. by monday morning if you have to go to work, it s going to be a very soggy commute first thing monday for much of the northeast. very heavy rain. flooding is going to be a concern for this storm. you re talking 3 to 5 inches. coastal flooding are going to be major concerns up and down the east coast. even for areas of the northeast, you re still looking at that 3- to 5-inch rainfall totals. flooding concerns three different days, three different ranges. today the focus will be on florida. tomorrow the carolina coast into the mid-atlantic. then by monday, the main concern is going to be areas of the northeast. also talking winds. you re looking at a lot of these winds in that 30- to 60-mile-an-hour range. that could lead to trees and powe
school now. because in a way, we have all become law students. how could all of this legal trouble just maybe fade away? i will explain to you, but don t worry. no pop quiz. no socratic method. that s all coming up. but first, i want to look at what we have learned just in the past few hours. first, kenneth chesbro coming back to maybe haunt the former president. he is the ex-pro trump lawyer whose claim to fame is helping to cook up the fake elector s plot and who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in the election interference case. well now, he is talking to investigators in michigan, nevada, wisconsin as well as georgia. if we were in an old time gangster movie, you could say he was singing like a canary. this is what he told michigan prosecutors about a photo op gone wrong in the oval office way back in december of 2020. i ended up explaining that arizona was still hypothetically possible. it was i think clear in a way that maybe hadn t been before that we had un
media outlet to gain access to southern gaza without a military escort. we ll bring you that report ahead as the defense minister says the war in gaza will last several more months. and exonerated. a man in illinois spent 35 years behind bars for a murder he did not commit. and now his conviction has been vacated and he is a free man at least. he will join us live just ahead. we re following these major developing stories and many more coming in to cnn news central. thanks for joining us this afternoon. it s the top of the hour, and we re tracking a set of counterterror operations in europe. multiple suspects were arrested in germany, denmark and the netherlands today. german officials arrested 3 hamas members for allegedly planning to attack jewish institutions. authorities in denmark made several terror arrests that are unrelated to the germany case. israeli officials claim the suspects were also acting on behalf of ha mast. alex, all of this is confusing as you try t