tracks. carolyn manno, thanks so much. happy new year. coming up, we speak with morgan more artie with a look ahead to the massive college football matchups between alabama and michigan, texas and washington. so stick with us for us for that. all right. next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning to you. 7:00 here on the east coast. we ve got, what, 17 more hours until we hit 2024. so happy new year eve to you. we start this morning with a new court filing from special counsel jack smith. he is urging an appeals court to reject former president donald trump s claims of presidential immunity in the 2020 election subversion case. jack smith, quote, says he threatens to license presidents to commit crimes to remain in office. trump s lawyers says unless he is impeached and convicted by the senate. let s go to cnn s zachary cohen. he s got more for us. reporter: perez special counsel is arguing that the former president donald trump is wrong in claimi
you with us, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york, and a lot of news to cover this hour including a major house vote on the debt deal set to happen today, right now kevin mccarthy is trying to hold back a republican revolt. dozens of gop members have come out against this bill. progressive democrats aren t happy either. the whip of the progressive caucus will join us live. and breaking 2024 news this morning, a familiar name is getting ready to enter the race, chris christie hoping to be a disrupter to the trump desantis dynamic. plus, a dangerous moment high in the sky when a chinese pilot flies just a few hundred feet away from a u.s. surveillance plane. tensions between the two nations threatening to boil over. and later, at least five people are still unaccounted for after that iowa apartment building collapsed with two of them thought to be buried beneath the rubble. with we re all heartbroken. we re all confused. we re all looking for answe
the debt ceiling deal heads to the house floor tonight. but not everyone is sold on it. we ll talk to democratic congresswoman teresa ledger fernandez about why she voted against advancing the bill out of the committee. in iowa, the search for survivors. families say there are still people trapped inside a partially collapsed apartment building in davenport. we ll talk to a member of one of those families desperate to find his cousin before the city tears the building down. breaking news in the republican race for the white house. we ll tell you who plans to launch a bid for a second time. tense moments over the south china sea as a chinese fighter jet aggressively cuts in front of a u.s. air force plane. it is just another sign of the strain in the relationship between the u.s. and china. and a convenience store owner in south carolina charged with murdering a 14-year-old boy he wrongly accused of shoplifting bottled water. we have the latest on the investigation.
were strip searched by police forces in england and wales over four years. and counting is under way in a referendum on whether to make berlin climate neutral by 2030. president biden has declared a major emergency in the state of mississippi, where a tornado has left hundreds homeless. this is the moment on friday when the wind barrelled through a school in the area, captured by cctv cameras inside. and these are the latest drone pictures after the tornado struck carving a path of destruction 170 miles long. at least 26 people were killed in mississippi and one person in alabama. dozens have been injured. 0ur north america correspondent sophie long reports from mississippi. this is rolling fork, a small, close community in mississippi. there is little left. they ve lost loved ones, their homes, everything. we get storms like bad rain or, you know, probably high winds or something. but we never experience nothing like this where it can wipe out a whole town. you know, schoo
on privacy and content concerns, as well as the company s connection to the chinese government. we ll have the highlights for you just ahead. plus, what we re learning about a drone strike overnight in syria that killed at least one american and injured a handful of u.s. service members. a lot going on. good morning. welcome to morning joe. can you believe it s friday? it s friday, march 24th. you know, it is friday. you know, willie, it is interesting. you have trump raising $1.5 million off of this. puck noted last night that people around donald trump see this as a bad sign. his fundraising prowess is dried up. he s worn out all of these lists. he sent spam out for six years, seven years. the small money donations just aren t coming in. you know, right after access hollywood, he raised $11.5 million off of small donors. after the fbi raid last summer at mar-a-lago, as he called it, he raised $2 million in two days. he s raised $1.5 million over the week. what we