people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. a black man can t. you just learn to be good, and in the and you benefit from that extra resilience. coates: i want to get right into all this with attorney jeffrey toobin, he is the author of the nine inside the secret world of the supreme court. as well as home grown timothy mcvay, and the rise of homegrown extremism. jeffrey i m glad you re here tonight. first of all take a step back with me. many people are wondering if tomorrow is the day that the appellate court will decide that trump committed an insurrection. that is not tomorrow is, tomorrow is about whether immunity exists for a president. what do you say? correct. what is important to remember about tomorrow, is it is a question of does donald trump have to stand trial? trump is arguing that the whole case should be thrown out, before it is even tried. which is unusual in a criminal case. because under his understanding of presidential immunity,
this is cnn breaking news. hello again, everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we are starting with this breaking news. the secrets around austin lloyd s secret hospitalization are growing. antony blinken and even his own deputy secretary of defense kathleen hicks did not know that he was incapacitated last week. he was admitted to walter reed last week after complications from an elective surgery. natasha bertrand and arlette saenz are gathering more details. and how were so many top officials kept in the dark about what was happening? well, that is really the big question that we have right now, fredricka, is whose information is this to keep it from the public and also from the white house for roughly three days after secretary austin was first transferred into austin reed hospital to receive treatment for a complication from an e elective surgery that he had, but what we know is that the secretary of defense was learning that she was to take o
good morning, everyone. so glad you re with us on this monday. poppy harlow in new york. this breaking overnight, major new details released in this critical part of the alaskan airlines flight. new warnings that may have been missed. there s one week to go until the iowa caucuses. . republican candidates, they are out in full force. donald trump s campaign message will come from not one, but two courthouses this week. and they were arrested, convicted, and they re serving prison time for their role in the january 6th insurrection, but former president trump c calling them hostages. cnn this morning starts now. here s where we begin. new this morning, a crucial, missing piece of an alaska airlines plane has been found as investigators try to figure out why a gaping hole blew open on the side of the jet mid-flight after it took off from portland. now the ntsb says the boeing 737 max s door plug was discovered in somebody s backyard. these new images from investigat
good wednesday morning. it s top of the hour. i m phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. for the first time nikki haley and ron desantis will be going head to head alone on a debate stage tonight right here on cnn. this will be one of their final chances to shift the dynamics of the race just five days left until the iowa caucuses. donald trump, of course, still the clear favorite. right now, nikki haley is riding a wave of momentum after a new cnn poll showed her closing the giant gap with trump in new hampshire and cutting his lead to single digits. we have been waiting for this. i ve done 150-plus town halls, and it has come to this moment. don t complain about what happens in a general election if you don t play in this caucus. it matters. meanwhile ron desantis has been sharpening his attacks against haley on the campaign trail in iowa. last night, he pointed to the recent gaffes she s made like failing to mention slavery as the cause of the civil war. she
there is the is the ingraham from washington tonight. shocking video of a journalist getting arrested just for doing his job. the video and that journalist are here tonight. but, first, mr. trump goes to washington. that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: the same federal court building where many of the j-6 defendants have been sentenced to prison sentences longer than convicted rapist, donald trump and today as a three-judge panel, appellate panel heard arguments on his claim of presidential immunity for actions he took when he was in office. his lawyer john sawyer pointed out a key concern. we are in a situation where we have the prosecution of the chief political opponent who is winning in every poll presidential election upcoming next year and is being prosecuted by the administration that he is seeking to replace that is the frightening future. that is tailor made to launch cycles reef cripple nation that will shape our republic for the future. laura: a val