hostages are out of harm s way. they re calling for a cease-fire. also breaking, ukraine s president in washington pleading for aid. are his hopes of getting a deal dead? this as another country is taking a pang ge from the putin playbook. and trump selling his mug shot as trading cards along with pieces of a suit he wore that day. now being accused of breaking the law and how it is paying off for trump. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front, gaza s tunnels are being flooded. a u.s. official telling cnn this the israeli informed the united states that they are flooding some of hamas tunnels with seawater to flush ott the fi fighters and short tishcircuit infrastructure. they re flooding tunnels where they believe hostages are not being held. president biden could not say whether or not that is the case. i m not at liberty well, there is assertions being made that there s quite sure there are no hostages in any of the tunnels. but i don t kno
warning congress that failing to pass more ukraine aid would be, quote, the greatest christmas gift for vladimir putin. but house speaker mike johnson saying no new money for ukraine unless democrats agree to tackle tougher border policies. is there any path forward? our team in washington and moscow tonight. also this evening, new divisions between the u.s. and israel. president biden warning israel is losing international support because of the, quote, indiscriminate bombings of gaza. and the new reporting on israel flooding hamas tunnels. after the backlash to her testimony about antisemitism, why harvard s board says it s supporting the school s embattled president. the nightmare flight. a delta plane diverted to remote canada. 270 passengers on board for more than 20 hours. how did it happen? as u.s. and china tensions rise, our rare look inside, and how america is fighting the growing space arms race. our nbc news on hidden junk fees at car dealerships. the
asking the supreme court to fast track a decision on whether the former president should even face trial for january 6th and the supreme court has already responded. also in the documents case, new revelations about what the former president and his associates have been saying to a former employee and potential witness. and later, today s life changing decision by the texas woman caught between the state s strict abortion laws and a pregnancy almost certain to end in the death of her child. that and the court ruling on it just moments ago. we begin tonight with the breaking news. just hours after special counsel jack smith asked the supreme court to take up the question of whether the former president is immune from prosecution in the election subversion case, the court responded. though it s only the court s initial move, it is the speedy first step toward a historic decision, with echos of another landmark case involving the president and the law nearly 50 years ago.
The Israeli military has begun pumping seawater into Hamas' tunnel complex in Gaza, Wall Street Journal and ABC News have reported, citing unnamed US .
Deal with the nuclear crisis. that is to cool down the temperatures to bring counter insurgency the radiation levels at the site of the striken nuclear reactors. a couple of developments the last couple of minutes really. what they have been doing is pumping seawater through fire engine, through high pressure hoses, the latest reactor to be hit by all this water reactor number four, one of the most damaged, one of the most dangerous. that process has ended. we don t know what they have been able do town hall meetings that. come up with yet from they have been doing the exact same thing for 13 hours with reactor number three. and apparently according to the authorities they were able to bring it into some kind of a stable state. maybe not a vast improvement but also not a great deterioration. attention will be paid to reactors number one and two. they brought electrical lines up to the reactors and the he