reporting to special counsel jack smith will square off in front of a three-judge pam of the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. at issue whether trump has immunity for conduct he undertook as president or cannot otherwise face prosecution because it would represent double jeopardy. that s the legal issue. but what s most important here is the timing. trial court judge has determined she can t move forward until this issue is resolved. she entered an order on december 13 saying trump s appeal automatically stays any further proceedings that would otherwise move the case toward trial. but that stay could be lifted after the outcome of tuesday s argument. for sure, the losing side is going to appeal to the supreme court after perhaps first asking for the first court of the appellate court to hear the matter on bond. the losing party has 90 days to ask for supreme court review. as i detailed before, smith is eager to get trump tried before the election. trump, on the other ha
donald trump s allies taking their fight to the supreme court, their appeal to be-to-get his ban from the ballot in colorado overturned. what caused the civil war? that was the simple question posed to nikki haley at a campaign stop overnight. her answer that confused some voters failed to mention slavery. and today the idaho home where four college students were murdered will be torn down. why some of the victims families do not want that to happen. i m sara sizedner alongside joh berman. and finally kate bolduan said if you re going to be off i m going to be off. she could be here, i m here. she said i m done. this is cnn news central. this morning the $2024 million question, will the u.s. supreme court weigh in on whether the u.s. constitution can keep donald trump off the presidential ballot. overnight the colorado republican party appealed a state court decision that said that trump is ineligible to run because the 14th amendment bans insurrectionists. other
investment through the chips and science act, and now we have an enormous investment in the united states, well over $200 billion in long-term investment in semiconductors and we re rebuilding the economy of the united states with those semiconductors it s not designed to hurt china the only thing i did say, certain that we build useful for nuclear weapons systems, we are not selling, we are not exporting to china or anyone else that s the context in which this has all occurred in the meantime, we are creating thousands of jobs and bringing back a sense of pride and dignity to so many towns in the country where all of a sudden over the last three decades we found out that factories have had 600 people shut down the soul of the community was lost, and so i made sure when the semiconductors were coming back that they were not just going to go to the coast they would be all over the country. and so we have a significant field of dreams outside of ohio, in columbus, we re in texa
here in new york by all appearances it looks like da alvin brag is wrapping up his investigation into potential hush money payments before the 2016 election. and there is a chance that criminal charges could be filed against donald trump a chance his former attorney, michael cohen, who served time for violating campaign finance rules when he paid porn star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about the affair she said she has with donald trump is testifying before a grand jury as we speak. michael cohen is he said that donald trump knew what he was paying for and knew that michael cohen, his lawyer, was doing it on his behalf we ll get into the evidence he could be presenting to the jury in a moment. we also have an answer from donald trump s lawyers about whether he, donald trump, will accept his own invitation from da alvin bragg to also sit for the grand jury. we have no plans on participating in that proceeding it s a decision that needs to be made still, no deadline h
can t have your cake and eat it, too. so there may be a rude awakening now that the special master is on the job. you might have heard me say this if you follow our coverage. there was a procedural step that the trump folks got that did slow things down, and they wanted that. the procedure is not how you win. it s not how you get out of the clear. it just is a step, a process, and now that they have to deal with this actually judge and deal with a special master and deal with what is a fact based court system, now they re having trouble. in florida, you have a chaotic start. bloomberg reported many people who dialed in did not mute their phones. bloomberg calling it a descent into chaos. people screaming at people to mute, and then someone saying, god bless america. today s hearing comes on the heal of trump s attorneys pushing back on the special master they sought and demanded, which is, if you declassify stuff, and that could be a valid defense if true, well, which things