is a u.s. president above the law? the lead starts right now. donald trump s day in court, as his legal team argues by the former president cannot be prosecuted, even if his actions were criminal. site i have skepticism from the judges will not decide how this case proceeds. six days before the crucial contest in iowa. a new cnn poll from another key primary state, chose a candidate gaining ground on the gop front runner. the defense secretary, treated for prostate cancer. the pentagon has been pressed on his hospital status. or the president didn t know one of his top cabinet members was in the hospital, and couldn t do his job. welcome to the lead. on pamela brown, in for jake tapper. getting ready for tomorrow s cnn republican presidential debate. we start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump, in a federal courtroom. lawyers say that he should be immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes that he committed while in office. the three appeals court
and some elsewhere, was that should this have ended in death. and protesters say no. despite of course what may have preceded beforehand. his defense, however, penny has argued that he was doing this to protect the safety of those on the passenger car, though witnesses said neely hadn t attacked anyone yet. but again, it s what passengers were feeling prior to that that will likely play a big part in this case. for our part we have reached out to attorneys for daniel penny on this particular on these particular details about the charge and turning himself in and i haven t heard back at this point. but obviously a significant development in this case. and again, tomorrow morning is when he s expected to turn himself in. we should note that this death not only has sparked protests but it also has prompted some very serious conversations about how society deals with people with serious mental health struggles in this country. yeah, jake. this was someone who by all account
the former governor of a big primary state, she s in the presidential race. she s the first one after president trump to throw her hat in the ring. you know what? they came going back to this age topic. they did it again today on the view. whoopi goldberg went after her. she said she s not a new generation. the former ambassador will be here to respond to that. first, the president makes a historic trip to ukraine as russia flexes their nuclear weapons muscle again. at the same time, we re $55 billion in to this war. and the president committed another half billion when he was on the ground today. is delayed timing on all of these weapons keeping the u.s. in this longer than we need to be? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off of the map. but war conquest is failing. general keith kellogg just returned. he s former national security adviser to mike pence, co-chair for the american securities company and a fox news contributor. great to have you with us. the president sur
present bidens state of the union speech last night. let s just say they are not fans. and just how widespread this surveillance program of theirs really is. we have fox team coverage with aishah hasnie on capitol hill on what we are learning about that briefing. myrtle beach, south carolina, on what navy divers are now discovering. jennifer griffin of the pentagon on the size of the china spy program that itself seems to be polluting. and general jack keane on just how concerning all of this really is down the road. welcome, everybody, grabbed to have you. neil kabuto, and this is your world, a very volatile world right now, where relations between the two biggest economic powers on the planet but to say nothing of the two biggest military powers on the planet are bad, they are fractious, they are ice-cold. that s go to capitol hill and aishah hasnie on the fallout they are. aishah? neil: hey there, neil. we are just getting brand-new information about the classified bri
behind the security breach. the washington post reports the man is a low-level government employee. he worked in a military base and share the documents in a private chat group at videogame sites. biden insisted he is not concerned about the leaks u.s. military and intelligence documents. they are getting close to tracking down the leaker. could you give an update on the leak investigation for the leaked documents? i cannot right now. there is a fluegel full-blown investigation going on right now in the justice department. they are getting close. i don t have an answer. how concerned are you about the leak? are you concerned about the relationship? we ve got to move. i m not concerned. i am concerned that it happens, but there is nothing contemporaneous that i am aware of. while the president appears to be brushing off the leak, it has undermined ukraine s defense against russia. it has damaged relations with allies and exposed intelligent resources and further er