county. the presiding judge there says all hearings and trials in his courtroom can be live stream and televised. that also applying his co-defendants. joining us now, former republican congressman, adam. i want to get to the latest news and donald trump s legal trouble but we re about four and a half months from the iowa caucuses. trump is out to this massive lead. a brand-new wall street poll shows trump is the top pick with 59%, 59% of republican voters supporting the rest of the field is way behind him. what do you make of that? here s the interesting thing, jim. when donald trump was charged with this stuff, if people, because even the rest of the people in the polls not named donald trump, generally have the trust of the gop base. had all those people come together and said this is not our party. this is not okay. as chris christie said, we can t normalize this. i think you d be seeing a very different number. instead, what you see is the vast majority of donald trump
president biden will kick things off here in london tomorrow where he will meet with british prime minister rishi sunak before heading twindsor castle for anagement with king charles. this will be the first time the two men are meeting since the king s coratn in may. they are expected to discuss climate issu which are a key priority for king charles. after the meetings in e ited kingdom, the president will tra lithuania, and then travel on the finland, to welcome and offer support to nato s newest member country. but really, that nato summit will be the centerpiece of president biden s trip here to europe. and at the top of the discussion, there will be russia s war in ukraine. the president is hoping that he can once again build and strength support and unity around ukraine and continue to secure these long-term security commitments to assist ukraine going forward. and additionally, one issue that s already served coming up to be a flash point at this summit is the prospect
in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour in nashville, where key vote is likely tomorrow on one of the lawmakers expelled from the tennessee legislature, the national city council could vote on whether to send justin jones. you see right there, right back to his seat. he was one of the three state tennessee lawmakers, all democrats targeted by the gop supermajority. for their loud but peaceful protest on the house floor. they were demanding gun reform after the nashville school shooting that left 39 year old children and three adults dead to expelled. lawmakers justin pearson and justin jones are black. gloria johnson, who was white kept her seat by a single vote. let s go to nashville right now, and cnn s isabel rosalia is isabel. um the national city council would have to suspend its rules to vote tomorrow on jones. what are you hearing at this point? does it sound like they might have the votes to put them right back into the state house? so ji
holiday. freeze warnings still in effect in several states at this hour. blizzard conditions, at least 26 people have died in the actic blast, across eight state. in a hard-hit erie county, new york, roads remain impassable. still, a very dangerous situation. driving bans are still in place. this was the first time in buffalo fire history that they were unable to respond to calls. we want to remind everybody, there was a period hours straight in which we could not send out emergency service crews, because it was too dangerous. we will talk to that official in just a few minutes. plus, bitter-cold icing over the christmas celebrations in the midwest, east coast and southeast, even florida is feeling the chill, much of the state experiencing its coldest christmas since 1983. let s start in buffalo, new york. polo sandoval is braving is the cold temperatures there. merry christmas. reporter: merry christmas. it is in a recovery process right now, the sun finally came o
we also learned the mob s chants of hang mike pence erupted after a rioter broadcast a trump tweet about pence s decision to certify the election results. the committee revealing trump s shocking reaction. and aware of the rioters chants to hang mike pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, maybe our supporters have the right idea. mike pence, quote, deserves it. i m joined now by former democratic senator from minnesota and host of the al franken podcast, al franken. senator, thanks so much for being with us. we appreciate it as always. thank you, jim, for having me. absolutely. how do you think the committee did in that first prime time hearing? what was your assessment? i was very impressed, especially impressed with cheney. she gave i thought she did a devastating job. she laid out the case and not just the case, but the stakes of it. i think she showed that it wasn t just that one day, that this was a multiweek expeconspi. i think the conspi