and skies across the country supporting a familiar look, smoke from canada is drifting again. the right and dutiy to protect one another. did he act reasonably? none of us would ever want to find ourselfs in this situation. grounded to third, there it is! perfection for domingo german. an opportunity for a perfect game, i will remember it forever. a rare moment for the yankees to celebrate and now this. hunter biden not celebrating. he is said to be deposed today in a defamatory suit brought to the owner of the delaware repair shop where he left his infamous laptop. this comes as the irs makes claims about who decided whether or not the president s son would be charged with a crime. mark meredith joins us from the white house. good morning a lot to get to. the white house and the justice department are facing questions about how the government handled e their investigation into the first son. the whistle glour, gary shapley who is cooperating says he was prevent
claim, rejecting a request about the special counsel. we ll take a look at the potential impact on trump s trial date in the federal election subversion case, as the president seeks a delay until after the 2024 election. also, new details on trump s attempt to overturn the 2020 election results in michigan. tapped by for new reporting on the audio recording of trump, as he pressured republican election officials not to certify the vote. and a cnn analysis reveals israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs a gaza in the first month of the war. experts say the extensive use of such heavy and destructive bombs hasn t been seen since vietnam. welcome to our viewers here and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a significant new legal victory for donald trump over at the u.s. supreme court. the justices rejecting the special counsel s request for an expec expedited review of claim of immunity. what are the implications here,
to lead talks on how to stem the surge in illegal border crossings. those crossings reaching historic proportions with authorities routinely reporting 10,000 encounter a day. the influx is in border authorities, 10,000 in custody right now. so stretched are resources, customs and border patrol had to close two major railway crossings and other ports of entry so they can shuffle agents to busier points along the border. $43 billion in trailed a year are carried on those two rail lines alone. no telling how politically costly an extended closure could be. with congress on holiday, talks for a comprehensive border package have installed, and with them, hopes for ukraine and israel aid. republicans say funding for those embattled nations must be paired with measures to secure the u.s. mexico border. it s a quid pro quo triggering a backlash who fear an asylum and refugee crackdown could hurt the party among latino voters. joining us now, nbc news correspondent guad venegas who s
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hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing the sad news day with us. a massive earthquake shakes turkey and syria leaving thousands dead, buildings toppled. fear now that more will die waiting for rescues that won t happen in time. plus, super power spy games, right now american investigators are searching for the records of that chinese balloon, the weekend shoot down off the carolina coast, punctuating a tense moment between washington and beijing. and president biden enters tomorrow s state of the union with plan to spotlight his accomplishments but does so with americans, in a sour mood about his leadership, his management of the economy and his plan to wrangle inflation. up first tragic deaths and devastation, an enormous earthquake changing the landscape in syria and turkey be neath the feet of millions. the number of dead stands at 2300. it is sadly rising every hour. now, pulling people out is a constant, critica