people can be indicted a bunch of times and still run for office. a black man can t. you just learn to be good, and in the and you benefit from that extra resilience. coates: i want to get right into all this with attorney jeffrey toobin, he is the author of the nine inside the secret world of the supreme court. as well as home grown timothy mcvay, and the rise of homegrown extremism. jeffrey i m glad you re here tonight. first of all take a step back with me. many people are wondering if tomorrow is the day that the appellate court will decide that trump committed an insurrection. that is not tomorrow is, tomorrow is about whether immunity exists for a president. what do you say? correct. what is important to remember about tomorrow, is it is a question of does donald trump have to stand trial? trump is arguing that the whole case should be thrown out, before it is even tried. which is unusual in a criminal case. because under his understanding of presidential immunity,
hour. what an inspire story. sandra: i love a good story with a happy ending. this very special conversation coming up as the student athlete, the sixth grader and his mother, all join us live coming up. we ll start things off with this fox news alert. john: secretary of state antony blinken wrapping up his historic trip to beijing and attempt to clear the air between the world s top two superpowers. sandra: they say the conversations were constructive but admitting they failed to reach notable breakthroughs on taiwan, slamming the talks as fruitless. the risk here of this renewed engagement strategy is we will abandon important defensive actions to engage in a series of endless fruitless talks with the ccp. john: a bipartisan group of lawmakers is calling on president biden to take a page out of his predecessor s playbook. he want to expand israel s diplomatic ties with countries in africa to keep china from establishing a bigger footprint there. sandra: we will
u.s. department of agriculture considers a ban on the childhood treat in school cafeterias. congresswoman elise stefanik tells us why it is not only government overreach but could hurt her constituents. john: stunning video of a ten-foot croc after it made its way into somebody s back yard pool. we ll talk to one of the men who secured it about his 40 years in the wrangling business. it s 3:00 a.m., you know what time it is, let s get ready to commute. sandra: that is a young south carolina woman landing an internship in new jersey. but instead of finding a place to live up north, she s travelling back and forth by plane. are housing costs so outrageous this is actually saving her money? what a story. i m sandra smith in new york. and on the crocodile, i bet they are glad they have lights on in the pool. john: 2:00 in the morning, imagine waking up to that. all those stories are coming up in a jam packed hour. we begin with a fox news alert on the unrelenting border c
i get a good feeling. griff: good morning, looking live at a gray kind of looking pittsburgh. you are listen to florida. florida is back. good morning, griff jenkins, joey jones joining us christmas week. you are stuck with us another day. do you know what i like to do before the little bug shows what city it is. i look at the city and try to guess. guess how many times i have gotten it right. griff: zero? carley: goose egg. maybe this time will be the time i get it right. joey: go with the state. west coast i don t know if i could go city. griff: new york city wet and rainy. carley: cats and dogs. griff: handed me at the hotel i m staying at umbrella covered in cats. did not protect me. joey: only one umbrella for this show called the weatherman. carley: i needed one. i never have an umbrella on me. and i m always surprised. i never learn my lesson. every time i leave my apartment building always running. run. griff: katy our producer doesn t do umbrell
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi