now, in one legal fight he s facing just as he could soon be asking the high court to jump in and please intervene in another. and new u.s. intel on hamas growing influence. american officials warning the terror group is more popular since the horrific and brutal attack on israel. the holiday travel season is in full swing. today is expected to be the busiest day at the airports in this crazy holiday travel period. it s also officially the first day of winter. welcome. a look at the potential of storm cloud ahead for your travel plans. i m kate bolduan with omar jim jimenez. sara and john are off today. this is cnn news central. there s a new star taking the spotlight of the 2024 presidential election, no not a candidate but the supreme court. the justices could take up several cases that could decide the fate of republican front runner donald trump including if trump is even eligible for the white house. trump s team is expected to file an appeal with the high court
Of this has just been one where there have been more vacuums created than information to fill those vacuums. Whether thats how the Democratic Party from the political arm sort of does the political narrative. Its because the republicans have been very good and very consistent about that, right . So they have made, they have stood by and defended their guy regardless and now theyve got the message they all need to show up. So what are they doing . Showing up. How are we reporting that . As if this is something oh, very important, transfixed, transactional certainly, but a transition for donald trump. No. Its part of the political narrative. Its part of the fact that yeah, were trying to create a different image here than the one of the man sitting in the courtroom by himself because his familys not there. So were going to give him his political family. And theyre all starting to line up. So all im just saying is how all this comes together does matter in how the voters in may are lookin
Good morning, it is 10 00 eastern. Im ana cabrera alongside jose diazbalart for special breaking news coverage. Donald trumps Hush Money Trial is back under way in a manhattan courtroom and a significant witness is in the courthouse this morning, as proceedings get under way. Adult film star Stormy Daniels, who we learned is expected to testify today. Nbcs Vaughn Hillyard is at the courthouse. Here with me in new york for the hour, danny cevallos, criminal Defense Attorney, catherine christian, former assistant Manhattan District Attorney and jeremy solan, former attorney in the manhattan d. A. s office. Vaughn, kick us off, we have a witness on the stand right now, who well get to in a moment, but, again, this morning we expect Stormy Daniels at some point today to take the stand and the judge before the jury was even called in already set some parameters around her expected testimony. Fill us in. Reporter right. Some could say this was a long time coming. This began all the way back
formally launch their impeachment inquiry into president biden will they move now to hold his son in contempt. markets soaring, the dow reaches a new high. retail numbers in, beating expectations, stock furthers up again. how high can it do? i m john berman with kate bolduan and sara sidner, this is cnn news news central. just moments ago we watched as rudy giuliani arrived at court in washington d.c. after saying he intends to take the stand in his defamation damages trial. in a move to counter emotional claims from two election workers who say his lies and conspiracy theories after the 2020 presidential election turned their lives upside down. over the past two days, the court heard gut wrenching testimony from former pole workers. they described how giuliani s lies spawned a flood of racist messages and even death threats that forced them to leave their jobs and home, cost them some friends and made them feel so unsafe they were afraid ton even use their own names. ka
Manhattan assistant district attorney jeremy solan and cnn contributor and former georgia state senator who testified in this probe before the grand juror jen jordan. great to have everyone. thank you for being here. jen, full circle for you. you were a state lawmaker in the room when people like rudy giuliani came down and perpetuated lies and falsehoods about what happened in georgia. then you testified before the grand jury and now you see trump arrested, booked, mug shot. surreal? well, it feels a lot better or too real? it feels a lot better on this end than it did in the beginning. the surreal part was when they actually came down to georgia and presented basically a false narrative. and so now, you know, for feels like for two years there has been kind of this national gaslighting that what you saw wasn t real, you know, i didn t say that, but the video doesn t