this is cnn breaking with news. we are starting this hour with breaking news and out of the supreme court, special counsel jack smith is now responding to donald trump s legal team about the federal elections case. the special council is pushing high court even more now to take this matter up quickly, and we will get over to joan biskupic which have details that are truly just coming in. yes, the donald trump subversion case has just submitted another filing to the supreme court doubling down on the imperative of the supreme court to take this case up now before waiting for another court to handle it. the question is whether former president donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution for election subversion arising from the 2020 election right as we head into the 2024 election. what he is trying to do here, the special counsel jack smith, is to counter what donald trump s lawyer said yesterday. they said, supreme court, no need to take this case up hastily, and
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, i m paul gigot. the senate going into joe biden is his son hunter made a draconian gnat ick appearance on capitol hill and flouted a subpoena before the before a closed door deposition and defiant republican lawmakers and rizz father. in the depths of my addiction, i was extremely irresponsible with my finances, but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it s shameless. there s no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. paul: joining the panel this week, wall street columnist pam and senior fellow jason riley. kim, now that hunter has flouted that subpoena, what s next? well, it s pretty clear, paul, that the house, it might give him one more chance to see if he ll come in. they obviously later that same day voted to open a formal impeachment inquiry into the president. you can argue that hunter s defiance of tha
more on this development let s bring in wall street journal columnist henninger and dan and based on evidence that s swirling around in the public how strong is this case? that s an easy question to answer paul. because maybe a thousand or more people have already answered it. unanimously, it is not a strong case. it just isn t which raises the mystery of why it s being brought. what trump is being accused of which is related to the possibility of paying hush money to adult film ac tres years ago is a misdemeanor under new york state law. prosecutor bragg is thinking about elevating it to a felonny under federal law which most specialist say they ve never seen something like that happen before especially with the former president. so the question becomes what is going on exactly with prosecutor bragg? he was under a lot of pressure from his staff before this to do it two prosecutors resign one where a book about it. i think there s the possibility paul that he s facing
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own research has shown. sri lanka s president says his country will no longer be deemed bankrupt as it prepares to receive the first installment of a bailout from the international monetary fund. the bbc discovers seven british patients who travelled to turkey for weight loss surgery died after operations there. others have returned home with serious health issues. good afternoon. a 50 page dossier of evidence which the former british prime minister borisjohnson believes will prove he didn t knowingly mislead parliament over partygate allegations has been published. in it, mrjohnson accepts that he misled parliament when he said covid rules had been followed in downing street, but insists the statements were made in good faith. he raises serious concerns about the way the cross party privileges committee is looking into the case, saying it has gone significantly beyond its terms of reference. mrjohnson will be questioned by mps tomorrow. our chief political correspondent,