hi, everyone. merry christmas eve to you and welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. thanks for being here. here s what we re watching for you. new overnight, attorneys for donald trump with a late-night court filing urging a federal appeals court to throw out the fed federal election subversion case against him. could the former president s claim of absolute immunity work? and what does it mean for the 2024 campaign and piresiden biden? we ll ask an expert who say democrats need a healthy dose of realism. and israel s war with hamas rages. we ll speak with a pastor in bethlehem on how the birthplace of jesus is marking the holiday without the usual celebrations. new this morning, president trump s legal team, the former president trump s laelegal team arguing presidential immunity should clear him of wrongdoing in his federal election subversion case in washington, d.c. they say he was merely working in his offici
the charges here are of the utmost gravity. it s just one, just one trump-related case before the supreme court right now. we re going to start with cnn legal analyst kari cordero and cnn supreme court analyst joan bis biscoupic. what do you make of this request from jack smith? he wants to reiterate as strongly as possible as the justices are considering it at this very moment the importance of the case, why delay would hurt the situation, hurt the public interest. not so much hurt the government s case as hurt the public s interest. he says nothing short of democracy is at stake. he really uses the fact that we re dealing with a former president here. he wants to say why donald trump is not like any other defendant, why he needs to jump over an appellate court at this point because donald trump should have to account for his actions back in 2020. he doesn t mention 2024 s election at all. he wants to he s talking about the imperative of being able to hold him accountab
i m a little anxious, i m a little excited. i m gonna be emotional, she s gonna be emotional, but it s gonna be so worth it. i love that i can give back to one of our customers. i hope you enjoy these amazing gifts. oh my goodness. oh, you guys. i know you like wrestling, so we got you some vip tickets. you have made an impact. so have you. for you guys to be out here doing something like this, it restores a lot of faith in humanity. you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with the biden campaign linking donald trump to adolf hitler, saying the former president parroted adolf hitler at a new hampshire rally last night. that s in response to trump once again accusing immigrants of poisoning the blood of the country, an echo of the vile rhetoric used by nazi germany to justify the holocaust. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve done. they ve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not j
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