Thank you so much for letting us into your homes on this monday. We are grateful. The beat with katie phang and ari starts now. If i havent said it before, its really good to have you back. Thanks for being here. Thank you, my friend. Have a great show. Thanks. And to all of you welcome to the beat. Im katie phang in for ari melber. We begin with donald trump doing what he does best, trying to delay justice by claiming, wait for it, president ial immunity yet again. Today trumps legal team filing a motion to delay his new york criminal hush money trial, which is currently set to begin march 25th, just two weeks away. Trump argues the trial should wait for the United States Supreme Court to weigh in on his president ial immunity claim. Those arguments are scheduled for april 25th. Trumps legal team writing, the court must preclude the people from Offering Evidence at trial of President Trumps official acts as the commander in chief. Trump claiming that even though Stormy Daniels was pai
advanced cyber security, it s ultimate speed for ultimate business. and it s all from comcast business. and this is cnn welcome everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m omar jimenez in washington. we re going to start this our breaking news out of southern california. the post fire has already burned over 12,000 acres in los angeles county, and it only started yesterday. hundreds of firefighters are battling to keep the blaze and check, but officials say the fire for is just 2% contained at this point with powerful wind gusts in the forecast camila bernal is on the scene and gorman, california. camille, i know you ve been out and about over the course of the day. what are you seeing there right now hey omar. so right now what we re seeing is crews trying to prevent those blames from getting closer into the areas where we are now. so what you re seeing here behind me is actually a back burn. and so we ve been with this crew for awhile now, what they re telling us is that th