own life, also found at the scene an improvised explosive device. our team is there. the major storm moving across the country, from the rockies to the gulf, then threatening to slam the northeast with snow. we re tracking it. the calculation in in the middle east. the u.s. drone strike in iraq, killing the leader of an iranian-backed militia. it comes a day after the blasts in iran that killed dozens. a terror group now claiming responsibility. the new batch of court documents related to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just unsealed. the high-powered names revealed and the fallout. the shocking moments in the courtroom. the defendant leaping over the bench and attacking the judge. her condition and the new charges that man faces. the new program just launched to make getting popular weight loss drugs easier. how it works and the concerns it s raising. and the classic video game unbeaten for more than 30 years until now. a 13-year-old gamer who toppled tetr
names revealed. who was mentioned in unsealed documents and their ties to jeffrey epstein as the next drop is imminent. can donald trump be disqualified from running for president? he s urging the supreme court to take up the case. will it take up the case, though? a drone strike in bagbaghdaa high ranking commander is dead. i m john berman, kate is away. i m here with the star of new year s eve, sara sidner. this is cnn news central. we re waiting for the next batch of unsealed documents to drop related to jeffrey epstein, hundreds of pages were already released that happened on wednesday under a december 18th, court order. they included deposition transcripts naming several prominent figures including prince andrew and former presidents donald trump and bill clinton. shimon prokupecz is joining us now. a lot of people were waiting for these names to come out to see who was in his orbit. it did you know necessarily mean they did anything illegal, but it does tie them
plus, donald trump and the supreme court, the former president asking justices to intervene in the decision banning him from colorado s ballot. the argument his legal team is making this morning. and we are tracking breaking news of a shooting investigation at an iowa high school. the latest from perry, iowa, in just a moment. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, i m chris jansing in for ana cabrera. the list of famous men connected to convicted sex offender jeffrey epstein just got longer as court documents that were kept hidden now go public. more than 900 pages of legal documents were unsealed in federal court, part of a 2015 civil defamation case against the late financier s convicted accomplice ghislaine maxwell accused of grooming teenage girls for sexual abuse. joining me now laura jarrett, and msnbc legal analyst and former prosecutor, kristen gibbons feden. laura, for years, there had been rumors, reports that bill clinton, donald trump, prince andrew, and others were menti
at all. what i am doing is very serious. it s very important work. nope, not a game. that was fulton county d.a. fani willis last summer talking about her probe of trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. and there are new indications tonight of precisely when any indictments will be coming this summer. also tonight, ron desantis gets set to formally launch his presidential campaign with the baggage of a four-plus year record of attacking the personal freedoms of the people and businesses in his own state. including his economically destructive fight with disney. plus, my conversation with chasten buttigieg who has a message for young people amid the growing threats to lgbtq youth. but we begin tonight with seven battle ground states that president biden won in 20202020. arizona, georgia, michigan, pennsylvania, and wisconsin. not only will these all be states to watch in next year s presidential election, but all part of the failed plot by donald trump and his
blockbursts reporting that solves the mystery of the missing link in a story that has rocked american politics and media. for weeks now, a question has loomed over the ouster of top fox host tucker carlson. why did the murdochs fire one of their biggest stars? the architect of a platform that unself-consciously peddles conspiracy theories. why did they fire him based on something that didn t happen on air? what was that missing link? and what if anything did tucker carlson do or say off camera that contributed to the nearly unprecedented 11th hour settlement of $787.5 million in the defamation case brought against fox by dominion voting systems. the new york times answers both those questions and reports on the missing text message that it found in some groundbreaking new reporting. the message was reportedly unearthed during the discovery process with dominion. here s how the times reports that out. quote, in the message sent to one of his producers in the hours after vi