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cnn this morning starts right now. well, good morning, everyone, i m poppy harlow with phil mattingly in new york. a lot to get to. specifically politics. pre-christmas campaign push lands in iowa today. donald trump, ron desantis and nikki haley all holding events there, sharpening their closing messages and attacks against one another this morning. a new signal the trump campaign is concerned about one candcand candidate s growing momentum. abbott signing a controversial bill making illegal immigration a state crime that will allow texas police to make mass arrests. the protests and threats of legal challenges already under way. and bursts of lava and smoke filling the sky in iceland today as a volcano dramatically erupted overnight after weeks of warnings. threatening a geothermal power plant. cnn this morning starts right now. new this morning, it looks like donald trump may be feeling some pressure in new hampshire as nikki haley chipped away at what was ....
meeting with israeli president herzog this morning after talking with prime minister netanyahu yesterday and jake sullivan addressed reports that biden administration wants israel to end high-intensity phase of the war with hamas. we are in high intensity war in gaza. there will be a transition to another phase, focused on targeting leadership and intelligence-driven operations that continue to deal with the ongoing threat that hamas poses. carley: you are watching fox and friends first on friday morning, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. sullivan leads talks on the ground and back at home vice president kamala harris is at odds with president biden over lack of support for the palestinian people. greg palkot with the latest. greg. greg: todd, carley, we are a mile from the gaza strip and hearing outgoing artillery hitting hamas over in that location and that is exactly what national security advisor jake sullivan has been talking about for two days her ....
er good evening chris, book bans, just saying the phrase book bans. very understandable, doesn t seem to pull well, like so many things, desantis is overseeing the state of florida. it is a mystery to me how he does not think this is an absolute kryptonite in terms of a net national bay. more kryptonite, further goes on, i found the washington post finding that there are 11 people who are filing. okay, that s cancellation, 30 million. i think the rest of folks are like, i don t need to go through every book in the kids libra. please make me less involved. that s what i say. enough emails. anyway, that s one of another show. thank you, chris, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this evening. today, for only the second time in american history, a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time, last month. when donald trump is arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case ....
so it s really the second time in american, history the former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. the first time as last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. now, today, mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again, virtually. by video conference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary. because donald trump has a real tendency to post about his various legal entanglements. this weekend, for example, the former president went on a truth social tirade, the radical left democrats will step up their fake investigations on me because they they now see they can t win at the ballot box. trump hating special prosecutor jack smith, whose family and ....
filing with 11 people and i was like that scans in a nation with 30 million people. i think the rest of the folks are like i don t need to go through every book in my kid s library. please make me less involved. enough e-mails. that s for another show. thank you, chris, as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. today for only the second time in american history a former president appeared in court as a criminal defendant. now, the first time was last month when donald trump was arraigned on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in the manhattan district attorney s case against him. and now today mr. trump appeared in that courtroom again virtually by videoconference from mar-a-lago. the reason for this hearing was that the judge in this case needed to explain to former president trump why he is not allowed to post any of the evidence from this case on social media. which seems like it was probably quite necessary because donald ....