welcome back to the weekend, everyone. we are beginning this hour with a late night court filing from donald trump s legal team. the filing argues that trump shouldn t be charged in the classified documents case because president biden was in charge and his case. this is true. i m going to quote from it. president biden will not be charged. president trump should not have been either. now, never mind that the special counsel made clear in his report that the two cases were wildly different. joining us now, january six investigator , also joining, former fbi general concert, andrew weizmann. he is the host of the msnbc podcast, prosecuting donald trump. greetings, everyone. you and i were on set to get there when the report broke. i do wonder if it was always inevitable that donald trump s lawyers were voting to cite this report as soon as it came out. also, talking about this specifically is a motion to compel discovery. i m curious why this becomes relevant and that ty
on that. he will bring us the breaking news as it continues. meantime, breaking today, it is now in the supreme court s hands to decide whether or not former president trump is eligible to run for president. the nine justices hearing arguments today around this question. is colorado correct in barring trump from its 2024 ballot for engaging in insurrection , which is something the former president has never been criminally charged with. all of the states that you see on the screen also weighing challenges to trump s eligibility.so the decision really has massive implications for millions of voters across the country. here s reaction from the former president. watch. i listened today. i thought our arguments were very strong. an argument is you re leading in every race and every state. and biden, you re leading in the country, by a lot. and can you take the person that is leading everywhere and say hey, we re not going to let you run. you know, i think that s tough to do. b
hi there, everyone. i m nicole wallace, thanks for being here with us. we ve got a lot of places you get your news today, we re glad you re joining us. four pm in the east, it s 11 pm in moscow. we re following breaking news this hour, with the latest on the revolt unfolding in russia. and we see news is confirming, yevgeny prigozhin is the head of the wagner group, which is a private mercenary army in russia, that s done a lot of the fighting in the war in ukraine. he has called for his moscow bound convoy to stand down for now. that s only after advancing to within 120 miles of the city of moscow. in the biggest threat to russian president vladimir putin s grip on power that we ve ever seen. prigozhin sent a voice note, signaling that the forces would stand down, saying the group understands, quote, the responsibility for spilling russian blood on one of the sides. we are turning back our convoys, and going back to field camps, according to the plan. this comes just hours a
bring ryan riley, i want to thank him as well, and everyone who was here tonight. i want to throw to another big gun, chris hayes. i toss it to you, my friend. this is one of the biggest nights i think for any of us who are in this business. it is a night of pathos not joy in the sense that the american republic is having to witness this integration of the presidency or the former presidency in the form of the apparently now confirmed indictment of donald trump. now c there is something so different about the manhattan district attorney indicting donald trump for actions that he took in the run up to him becoming the president in in that hush money payment scheme. we have a multi jurisdictional form of justice. they re from different jurisdictions for different crimes. the united states department of justice, this is the sort of republic at its, defending itself against itself in some senses here. it does feel like we are at the, you talk about all the clichés we is about g
the kids that is? the key thing is controlling when they actually get to the tree is critical. 3:30 a.m. over here. we need to learn that control. normal week day. normal week day. that s so true. it is tuesday, december 26th. we re glad you re with us. i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly. breaking overnight, the u.s. launching targeted air strikes in iraq. the operation in response to an attack by an iranian-backed militant group that injured u.s. troops. live to the white house with details. ukraine reportedly strikes a russian warship docked in crimea. the blast there you can see near the flight. alexei navalny s first message since his arrival at a penal colony near siberia. what they are saying this morning. and donald trump s very bitter christmas message. how the front-runner for the republican nomination lashed out against his political rivals and what it says about his campaign. cnn this morning starts right now. we do bin egin with tension fr flarin