inside iraq where they were around at militants for a drone attack, iraq is calling them hostile acts and warning them they can ratchet up tensions in the middle east. the anti-semitic outbursts, written in hebrew. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m pamela brown and you are in the situation room. we are with the next donald trump legal battles, just days to go before the new year and weeks to go before the first 2024 presidential contest. pamela, donald trump s legal team is spending the last days of 2023 prepping for an immunity case they will argue on january 9th. they have submitted their brief, that was over the weekend and they are once again arguing that donald trump cannot be prosecuted for anything related to january 6. as they returned the 2020 electric results. because he was acquitted, he cannot be criminally charged. we will see some response from the special counsel by the end of this week but then arguments before the appea
atop israeli official is meeting with the house over israel s war over hamas. the lead starts right now. meetings are underway with a close confident and senior white house officials as the administration asks israel to scale back the war strategy and the prime minister says he s not backing down. a new caravan of thousands of migrants is headed to the u.s. border from southern mexico. one day before secretary state antony blinken heads to mexico city in an effort to deal with the crisis. if you re planning to return an unwanted holiday gift, it may cost you. we ll tell you why. hello and welcome to the lead. right now, top biden administration officials are set to meet with ron dermer in washington, d.c. a close confident of benjamin netanyahu. antony blinken and jake sullivan are expected to press dermer are moving israel to a more targeted phase of the war. this as netanyahu vows a long fight in gaza. israel defense forces are using the ground, air and naval troops t
welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, october 25th. i m christine romans. we begin this morning with the raucous face-off last night between ron desantis and charlie crist in the first and only debate of the florida governor s race. crist, the democrat, is behind in the polls, nearly out of campaign cash so he charged at the republican governor like a candidate with very little to lose. desantis mostly stuck to his talking points as the two tangled over a range of talking points like abortion and whether desantis will run for president. i would like to see everybody have a shot. i m proud of the 15 weeks that we did. i know charlie crist opposes that even though the baby is fully formed, has a heartbeat, can feel pain and can suck their thumb. i don t want to bana b abortion want to make sure we keep a woman s right free. i want to make sure we don t have a governor who wouldn t allow exceptions for rape or incest. yes or no, ron