politicsnation. tonight s lead, trump in or out. there is just hours left in 2023 and if this last week is an indicator, the looming presidential primary season will be dominated by without republican front runner donald trump can legally seek the office again. three years after he fanned an insurrection. this week that states of maine and california said yes he could. the state of maine said no he couldn t. but there are just three out of more than a dozen states weighing the issue. and trump head and especially venomous message for one michigan lawmaker who get to criticize his increasingly nasty campaign language over the christmas holiday, dragging her late husband into the war of words. that lawmaker, congresswoman debbie dingell joins me shortly with her reaction to that and to trump s enduring impact on her state ahead of 2024. and 2024 contender nikki haley has had an entire week to demonstrate that she knows the root cause of the civil war. the enslavement of
but as always, the finer details reveal the true winners and losers of the gop s latest manufactured political crisis has a new york times writes, the president and his negotiators believe they worked out a deal that allowed republicans to claim big spending cuts, even as the reality was far more modest. joining me now is one of those negotiators, shalanda young, director of the office of management and budget director. welcome back to the sunday show. thank you, jonathan. let s put on the screen some of the provisions of the law. i know we did that in the introduction. imposes new caps on federal spending for two years, restarts the federal student loan repayments, new work requirements for food stamps, cuts 1.8 billion dollars in irs funding, rescinds 30 billion dollars of unspent covid funds. now, the president the speaker both said they didn t get everything they wanted. what didn t the white house came? look, we always said, if you have a true budget discussion, if
after the pump at the treatment facility failed. some residents have little or no water in their homes. mississippi s governor declaring a water emergency. until it is fixed, it means we do not have reliable running water at scale. it means the city cannot produce enough water to fight fires, to reliably flush toilets and to meet other critical needs. the city of jackson has battled water issues for years. let s begin with isabel gonzales with our top story. good morning. good morning to you, erica. this is an emergency. the governor there telling the people of jackson not to drink the water, saying that the water and sewer is on the brink of collapse for 250,000 people. now, the governor was alerted last week that pumps at one of the city s two water treatment plants was damage. then came all of the rainfall and the flooding of the pearl river. that was the straw that broke the camel s back. the water is not safe to drink and little to no water pressure for people in j
today after local prosecutors told giuliani s lawyers this week he is a target of their election interference investigation meaning an indictment is possible. in a separate investigation, cnn learned that two former trump white house lawyers were interviewed by the fbi about the classified documents seized last week at the former president s home in florida. let s get to it and begin with nick valencia live at the courthouse. rudy dgiuliani is still in the courtroom. you caught up with him. what did he say? reporter: defiant and computicom compcomexuding confidence. he asked for a continuance last week because of health concerns and ultimately a fulton county judge ordered him to appear today. on his way in to court, i p peppered him with questions including asking whether or not he lied before georgia lawmakers when he spoke to them at least three times in the wake of the 2020 election. mr. giuliani when you met with l lawmakers did you lie to them? we will not talk abou
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m alisyn camerota. at this hour, two former lawyers for donald trump are facing the subpoena power of georgia s special grand jury looking into trump s attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. right now, rudy giuliani is testifying before that grand jury after learning he is the target of their investigation. in the meantime, conservative lawyer john eastman is trying to avoid the grand jury. he has a hearing right now in new mexico to fight that subpoena. both men along with other trump advisers who have been summoned echoed election fallacies that trump votes were somehow stolen. cnn s sara murray is outside the fulton courthouse where giuliani has been, what is it, six hours now? reporter: he s been back there for a while. 9:00 a.m. is when they got rolling. before he went in, his attorney was pretty clear that if these prosecutors thought they were going to ask rudy giuliani anything about his conversation