Tonigh tonight, the staggering Death Toll as helene barrels up southeast after leaving 4 Million without power. A Monster Category 4 storm. The impact across 15 state. More than 40 dead. Historic flooding. In tennessee, dozens trapped on a hospital roof. Airlifted out. A Flash Flood Emergency in atlanta. Hundreds rescued across the region. Tom llamas in the Storm Zone tonight. Also breaking, Kamala Harris making her first visit to the border as the democratic nominee. Now shes hitting back at Donald Trump over immigration. And mr. Trump meeting ukraines president zelenskyy. Vowing to negotiate a deal to end Russias War thats, quote, good for both sides. Israel striking Hezbollahs Headquarters in beirut. The target, the groups top leader. Richard engel on the ground for us. Prime Minister Netanyahu under pressure for a ceasefire. His defiant Message Today to the u. N. The Hacking Attack on the Trump Campaign linked to iran. Who the u. S. Has now charged. New York Mayor Eric Adams pleadi
What he texted. In stark contrast from each other . Yeah. Anderson, nick valencia, thanks. The news continues right here on cnn its thursday, february 20. Happy week here right now on cnn this morning the Supreme Court agree agrees to hear Donald Trumps absolute immunity arguments, throwing his 2024 trial schedule into turmoil, plus yet another legal challenge for trump for an illinois judge booting the former president off that states ballot will look at that and a deal to keep the federal government open is going to have a vote in a matter of hours or still the threat of a shutdown looms all right 05 00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the United States Supreme Court, the center of it all this morning morning. Good morning. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Were going to start there. The Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether or not former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for the actions he took on and leading up to january 6, its a
because the court of appeals heard a major concession, see what i did there, from the lawyer from a former president who has refused to concede that he lost the election, and he did lose that election. before today trump s lawyers were absolutely, what s the word, adamant, totally convinced that the president has absolute immunity from trump s conduct while of course he was in office. they wouldn t even budge on this point. well, first they wouldn t budge. right out of the gate with question from one of the judges in the federal court, they were forced to make a powerful concession, that of course there is not absolute immunity meaning, you can never charge a former president for action taken while in office, if it was criminal or otherwise? they could see that you can prosecute under certain circumstances. and they only admitted that after the judge gave them a whole string of hypotheticals, there s only one legitimate truthful answer could a president who ordered sealed
To kick mccarthy out of his job this week. Plus, transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg will be live in studio as the president frames this whole episode on a fullon failure for republicans. Later, donald trump is expected to travel to new york today and attend the start of His Civil Fraud Trial tomorrow. Michael cohen today. Hes on the witness list for this trial and he could come face to face with his former boss for the first time in years. Were waiting for remarks for President Biden at any moment from the white house and when hes ready well take that to you live. In the meantime, i want to level set on what weve seen in washington over the last couple of days. One Republican Congressman said that the last week was like, quote, riding a Mechanical Bull, quite a visual but pretty accurate. President is going to weigh in after Congress Managed to pass a shortterm funding bill that will keep the government open for the next 47 days. Preventing a Government Shutdown is good news. So f
Capitol hill its left the House Majority in a new crisis of its own making. President biden, saying today that the short term fix that keeps the government open through November 17th is a step in the right direction. He warned the gopcontrolled house that chaos is no way to govern. It is time to end governing by crisis, and keep your word when you give it in the congress. A few months ago, after a long negotiation between myself and republican speaker of the house of representatives, we came to agree on a Budget Agreement precisely to avoid any manufactured crisis that we just witnessed. The last few days, and the weeks, extreme maga republicans have tried to walk away from that deal. I strongly urge my republican friends in congress to not wait. Dont waste time as you did all summer. Past the yearlong Budget Agreement, honor the deal that we made a few months ago. The tempered deal includes new funding for Disaster Relief and important funding for the faa. It does not include new aid