good evening, i am abby phillip in washington. tonight, just one sentence from the supreme court may trigger eight train reaction for jack smith, donald trump, and every single voter in the 2024 election. the nine justices only required 11 words to turn down special counsel s request to rush and provide an answer to any central question. is donald trump ultimately immune from prosecution? the high court s decision to take special counsel case off the fast track ushers in a world of uncertainty. the special counsel now must go through the regular process. he and trump s lawyers will make their arguments before the d.c. circuit in january. on january 9th, just six days before the iowa caucuses. now, today s choice by the justices almost certainly guarantees that the trial, scheduled for march 4th a day before super tuesday, mind you will like and are we on schedule. and if the supreme court decides to take the case, and no one knows of course right now if that will ha
and before we go, dasher, dancer and vixen, is that you? what could have been an early christmas miracle in the skies above utah, well, actually it is a routine check of my wildlife officials. instead of pulling center s slate, the deer were pulling three at a time transporting them to biologists. while nora truck santa claus s journey on christmas eve, the dwr tracks of your migration with gps devices. oh dear. thank you for joining us. cnn newsnight with abby phillip starts now. read it and weep, that s tonight on newsnight. good evening, i m abby phillip in washington, and tonight, just one sentence from the supreme court may trigger a chain reaction for jack smith, donald trump, and every single voter in the 2024 election. the nine justices only required 11 votes to turn down the special counsel s request to rush and provide an answer to an essential question, is donald trump ultimately immune from prosecution? the high court s decision to take the special counsel s c
tonight, straight from the source, not so fast, special counsel jack smith denied as donald trump gets something he very much wanted from the supreme court. will his federal elections subversion trial be delayed? breaking point, at the border, an unprecedented surge in government overwhelmed and the private militias now taking it upon themselves to patrol the border. as america pushes to bring hostages home from gaza, russia, iran and venezuela, i will talk to a wife who is pleading for her husband s safe return from afghanistan. he s one of three americans being held by the taliban. kaitlan is off tonight. i m on a keeler and this is the source. a win for former president trump, at least for now, with the supreme court denying special counsel jack smith urgent request to put the issue of trump s claim of presidential immunity on the fast track. a one sentence order, denied, no explanation, no notation, of whether any justices dissented. and here s what this means, the ni
Winter storms from the Pacific Northwest to new england, texas to tallahassee, weve seen temperatures plunge in some places by tens of degrees an hour. Coastal flooding, gail forced winds, Blizzard Conditions, roads iced over causing massive pileups, including the one you see here on the Ohio Turnpike that took one life at least. Were also seeing more than a million homes without power tonight, more than 5,000 flights cancelled. C cnn Polo Sandoval is live for us and drivers are stranded on icy roads and omar jimenez is at ohare. We begin with Polo Sandoval. What can you tell us about the stranded drivers and what theyre facing tonight . Reporter it is going to be a very long frigid night, Jim For County officials as they will be out in these conditions going through hundreds of Stranded Cars Inn erie county and rescuig people inside. Officials said this is something they feared of happening so they implemented at 9 30 this morning a driving ban hoping people would stay home but sadly,
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome. after a dangerous confrontation in the skies, a warning tonight from russia to the u.s. not to fly aircraft near its airspace throwing the onus on the united states for that midair collision between a russian and american plane over the black sea yesterday. the u.s. making clear its pilotless surveillance plane was flying legally in international airspace when it was knocked from the sky by a russian fighter jet that had been flying close and aggressively the act raising alarms in the pentagon. secretary of defense lloyd austin confirming he spoke by telephone today with the russian defense minister, though not revealing the nature of their conversation. the u.s., however, accuses the russians of reckless and unprofessional behavior, and we have new reporting tonight on just how high up the orders came from in russia. peter alexander is at the white house with more reporter: tonight, for t