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
neil: well, this is it, the first in the nation if primary, and it s in new hampshire. 22 delegates at stake. i want you to think of that for just a second. it takes 1215 delegates to secure the republican nomination. at this rate and if he were to win this state, donald trump might have, well, about 30, 35 dell grates delegates. that s a long way to 1215. but the interesting aspect of this primary and this entire race is the belief that if donald trump does well here, he s all but wrapped up the nomination. for the next two hours, we re going to look at the risk and the reward of that kind of strategy and we remind you that sometimes coming in second here isn t the end of the world. in 1992 that honor went to one bill clinton who was called the comeback kid after scoring a silver again in new hampshire. new hampshire will surprise you. it has a long history of doing just that. a lot of comebacks have been scored here. ronald reagan, after losing iowa in 1980, and then of
fed up and frustrated. chicago leaders and residents pleading for the bite administration to step in as th migrant crisis takes up brand-new turn. hello and merry christmas. brian, this is a special edition of fox news life our three now. governor craig abbott sending more than 120 migrants to the windy city after mayor brandon johnson threatened to sue what he calls rogue operators, that said the only seeing a fraction of what border states are grappling with on a daily basis. during his life in chicago with the very latest rate where art migrants being housed? kick you right now, close to 30 migrants are spending the christmas on the floor of chicago o hare airport pick chicago hasn t been able to kee up with the demand. at tiny fraction of what border agency, the migrant say they want to come to chicago because it s sanctuary city but texas i started busting to the suburbs that weren t coordinating with the city by issuing fines and even impounding one bus great melt o
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that damage. reporter: the newly declassified footage appears to directly concept rah dictate russia s claim that the aircraft did not make physical contact. there was no collision. the problem is that we didn t contact to this drone. the russians have been just flat out lying. flat out lying about their account. reporter: the u.s. has not yet determined whether the pilots intended to directly hit the drone, forcing the u.s. military to crash the drone into the black sea some 80 nautical miles from land. we know that the intercept was intentional. we know that the aggressive behavior was intentional. we also know it was very unprofessional and very unsafe. the actual contact of the fixed wing russian fighter with our uav, the physical contact of those two, not sure yet. reporter: but cnn is learning that the russian pilots did not go rogue. u.s. officials familiar with the intelligence say the pilots were ordered to harass the drone by senior officials in russia s