i want to promise you this, i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again. and that s more important than my own personal ambition. [ applause ]. breaking news from the presidential race, trump s most persistent critic on the campaign trail, chris christie, announces he is dropping out. also tonight, trump often claimed to have unlimited power as president. now his pitch for absolute power. and his claims of immunity from any legal consequences should be setting off alarm bells. and yet, all we re hearing from republicans are the sounds of silence. good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with breaking news. just one day since the attorney for the former president of the united states argued in federal court that a president has the authority under the theory of absolute immunity to murder their political opponent. only one republican, one, reacted to that insane idea. former new jersey governor, chris
viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world, i m bianca nobilo. i m max foster joining you live on cnn. just ahead on cnn newsroom. they wind up stopping innocent people and they wind up using brute force to do it. this incident was heinous, reckless and inhumane. helping ukraine defend, protect ukrainian land. they do, however, pose a significant event to forces inside ukraine illegally. the fbi searching the home of a sitting president. the justice department was not fully comfortable with joe biden s team doing the search on its own. reporter: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it s thursday, january 26th. 9 a.m. here in london, 3 a.m. in memphis, tennessee, where any day now we could see the police body camera footage of the arrest of tyrei nichols who was stopped taken into police custody. the family of the 29-year-old black man is demanding answers. the preliminary autopsy says nichols s
Campaign on tuesday because the key thing is what s happening behind the scenes, to your point. right. and how they see it is there s speeches, there s joe biden campaigning but a lot of what is going to happen is going to be targeting voters, it s going to be private conversations and whether it s online, whether it s neighbor to neighbor, things along those lines. yes, you ll see campaign ads. you ll see speeches, but a lot of this is equipping and empowering their supporters with how they should talk about this to people that they need to bring along with them. you know what the challenges i think, michael, too. what s that? is that traditional politics is slow at getting me the things i want. the hammer is quick. and so biden does traditional politics an gets a little bit of student loans and gets some things. he gets the chips act which is great but it s down the road before it kicks in. trump says i m going to build a wall, ban muslims. it s quicker. people who are frus
Now this is a boon in trump s campaign effort for 2024. he has announced he is running for president. again, we have seen in the past the trump campaign really effectively use and spend hundreds of millions of dollars of advertising on facebook. it is a very effective way, they have found, of targeting voters but also fundraising. as you can imagine, a lot of people on both sides of the political spectrum here speaking out for and against this decision. of course, many people saying it s important to be able to hear from a former president and candidate for president. that s including the aclu, who at this statement they said this is the right call. like it or not, president trump is one of the country s leading political figures and the public has a strong interest in hearing its speech. indeed some of the most offensive posts were evidence against him.
And twitter. the election officials just have to say i don t know this. so bring it. you don t have staffers. right. to help guide them through the process. i would say politically what s very smart about what the trump campaign is doing is by messaging on facebook, because of the way their algorithm works, they are capable of targeting voters that you would not see in the poll, that pollsters can t call. they can t find on other digital websites. they are watching the process. they are opening the process. they are not active in the traditional sense. that is very, very smart. there could be a pool of potential voters, particularly white older voters that haven t really been engaged or unaccounted for in most data that s readily available that we may not be aware of that could give trump this is what happens on facebook. right, right, right. to curt s point, democrats, if they re smart, they would some kind of way play fire with fire, if you will, on facebook. take som