illusive deal. senators race to find an immigration compromise before christmas. we are making significant progress. and how will president biden balance the needs on the border with pushback from his own party. a return to failed trump era policies is not the solution. plus, abortion struggle. a case in texas hits a nerve. any comment on the kate cox decision in your state? senator cruz? do you support that kate cox decision? could republicans coalesce behind a coherent message. and impeachment saga. the gop plows ahead as hunter biden strikes back. there is no fairness or descentency in what these republicans are doing. and new reporting on the threat that speaker johnson faces from the right. we have to go back to doing things the right way. today was a abysmal failure. inside the corridors of power, inside politics sunday starts now. good morning, and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. it is been a busy weekend on capitol hill. w
town sweet 16 party. fox defamation trial delayed just hours before opening statements . is this a sign a settlement could be near. and spacex boss elon musk, downplaying expectations with his company about to launch the most powerful rocket ever built. good monday morning to you welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with carnage at a sweet 16 birthday party in a small southern town. four people were killed, nine injured, some critically in this rampage saturday night. indeed ville alabama so far, authorities have not released details about a suspect or a motive. but overnight we did learn the name of one of those killed kiki smith, who was a student athlete athletic manager on the high school s track team. for more on another of the victims. a star athlete, let s go to cnn s isabel rizal is indeed ville. i spoke with michael taylor, who is the assistant football coach over a day ville high school. and he says th
trailing donald trump here at home. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is monday. i m christine romans this morning. the u. s. has no embassy operating in sudan, a country on the brink of civil war president biden announcing the u. s diplomatic personnel and their families have been evacuated from sudan secretary of state antony blinken, adding that operations that the u. s embassy in khartoum have been temporarily suspended. cnn s sam kiley is reporting on the situation from djibouti for us and sam. how was the extraction of us personnel carried out and are officials saying why it was necessary? well let s start with why it was necessary there, christine, you say it s on sudan s on the brink of civil war, i think from the american and international perspective, it is a country in the throes of a very violent, actual civil war. there are, for example, sudanese jets bombarding positions inside their own capital. and it s that level of violence
start, former vice president mike pence will testify against his old boss, what dropping his appeal means for the case against trump and more bad news for the former president. top national security officials testify against him in the 2020 election subversion probe plus put your hands up in some noise for brandon. ahead we re going to have my interview with chicago s new progressive mayor elect brandon johnson, about how he pulled off his upset victory. what s going on everyone welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m omar jimenez in for the wonderful christine romans a lot to get to this morning, so let s get to it. we re gonna start with former vice president mike pence, deciding not to appeal a federal judge s order for him to testify in the case against donald trump. we don t know what date the date yet, but pence will now testify to a grand jury in a special council probe into efforts by trump and his allies to overturn the results of the 20
tornadoes kill at least two dozen people in the southeast, and the severe storm threat isn t over yet. and nukes next door, vladimir putin now says he ll put tactical nuclear weapons right on ukraine s doorstep in belarus. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. we begin with the crisis in israel , where the country s main airport just halted all takeoffs . it s part of a general strike called for just a short time ago by israel s largest labor union . the aim is to stop benjamin netanyahu s government from pushing through a highly controversial judicial overhaul what one labor leader called quote this craziness. right street. protests against that plan have intensified huge crowds filling the streets of tele viv after netanyahu fired his defense minister. for opposing the overhaul. cnn s had asked. gold is live in jerusalem this morning. what are we hearing from prime minister netanyahu this morning had asked nothing