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with collins can starts now. reporter: tonight, straight from the source, the supreme court getting a remarkable requests from special counsel jack smith. the high court says it will fast-track consideration of trump s claim that he s immune for prosecution in his election case. plus, rudy giuliani in court today, but the jury is set to decide how much he will pay for defamatory lives that threaten the lives of two election workers. plus, i should note that he still pushing outside the courtroom. also, a pregnant woman at the center of a flash point in america right now has just left her home state to get an abortion as the texas supreme court has just ruled against her. we ll have the latest, i m caitlin collins, and this is the source. reporter: tonight, we have exclusive reporting on the trump classified documents case. a phone call that apparently is of interest to special counsel s jack smith from the former president to a former longtime employee in mar- ....
good evening, i m abby philip in new york. tonight, the special counsel bets big on the supreme court. how big of a bet? well, every single check and balance on all presidents might be at stake. jack smith is wagering that the justices will side with him. he is wagering that the high court will see the wisdom in answering this question sooner rather than later, is donald trump immune from prosecution? now, the special counsel writes like he s running out of time, and in a way, he is. the normal appeals process would give no guarantee that the high court considers the immunity question before next november. now that is, i don t have to remind you, when america chooses its next president. how the court rules may reshape democracy as we know it. the justices have never said yes or no that a president can be criminally prosecuted for crimes they perpetrated while president, a ruling that the constitution does not offer a get out of jail free card would put trump in immediat ....
will not be on stage, instead he will spend the evening fundraising. but he has already captured the headlines with a fox town hall he did last night, hosted by sean hannity, who gave him an opportunity to deny these reports that, were he return to the white house, he would rule as a dictator. except for day one. except for day one. ~ . i except for day one. except for day one i want except for day one. except for day one.- i want to - except for day one. except for day one.- i want to close - except for day one. except for day i one.- i want to close the one. meaning? i want to close the border and one. meaning? i want to close the border and i one. meaning? i want to close the border and i went one. meaning? i want to close the border and i went to one. meaning? i want to close the border and i went to drill, - one. meaning? i want to close the border and i went to drill, drill, i border and i went to drill, drill, drill. . , ., , ., border and i went to ....
in a major blow to the prime minister tonight, the minister responsible for immigration, robertjenrick, has resigned at the very moment legislation on asylum seekers was being announced to the commons. his resignation came over a bill attempting to enable the government s policy of sending some migrants to rwanda to go ahead after the supreme court ruled it unlawful. mrjenrick said it didn t go far enough and it would not end what he called the merry go round of legal challenges which risked paralysing the scheme. our political editor chris mason is here. a huge embarrassment this for rishi sunak? it this for rishi sunak? is a huge embarrassment. bu quite it is a huge embarrassment. but quite the thing to do so in the very week that you are attempting a reset on, yes, you guessed it, immigration policy. on monday we had government plans to cut legal immigration adjuster the home secretary james cleverly went to rwanda to set out part of the approach on illegal immig ....
glasgow and edinburgh, five for liverpool and then this is what we call anomaly map so it tells us whether it will be above or below average for the time of year. much of the continent below average in spain and portugal slightly warmer. cold weather is with us to stay and you can on newsnight, abigail s parentsjoin other bereaved families calling for a national inquiry into maternity care in england. speaking exclusively to newsnight, katie fowler and robert miller, whose baby abigail died at royal sussex maternity unit, talk about the trauma they went through, and claim that nobody is taking failures in maternity care seriously. also tonight. are we heading for a standoff between the home secretary and the immigration minister over migration policy? the former immigration minister joins us from westminster. and there s to be a two day extension of the ceasefire in gaza to allow more hostages and prisoners to be swapped, but is there anything to suggest the violence wi ....