critical meetings with officials on the next phase of the war amid growing concerns of a whiting conflict. we will bring you his remarks when they began. and in the meantime in the u.s., a critical question, two presidents have absolute immunity from prosecution? that is the unprecedented question before the federal courts. this morning, donald trump s attorney, and his lawyer from the special counsel s team making their opposing cases. over the course of an hour, a judge appealed the panel hearing, heated arguments and hypotheticals ranging from president ordering political assassinations to courts being powerless to review presidential actions. this is part of trump s legal effort to get his federal election subversion charges thrown out. the former president was there for the proceedings and so a special counsel, jack smith. the judges are now set to huddle and they will get their written ruling at some point soon. the ultimate answer will be headed to the supreme court.
president biden s handling of the migrant crisis unacceptable. this is unacceptable. our city here, we ve been getting slammed with #,2,000 to 3,000 people a day and it is just an unfair, unethical situation what is going on here. we feel ignored by the federal government. right now 11,000 migrants are waiting in shelters and catches on the mexican side of the border with hopes of crossing into the u.s. and we start on with priscilla alvarez who has more reporting from what is going on inside the white house in advance of these talks. what is the administration looking for? reporter: this is telling who is going to max comexico to mar meeting. secretary of state antony blinken and secretary alejandro mayorkas coming with specific requests to drop the numbers. and that is according to officials moving migrants south on mexico s northern border and controlling railways often used by my grants to quickly get to the u.s. southern border and also providing incentives like
very good to beac you for another hour. i m alex witt in for katy tur. we re continuing our breaking news coverage of a legal setback for special counsel jack smith in his election interference investigation into the former president. the supreme court has just put out a single line order statement denying smith s request to immediately settle trump s presidential immunity claims, meaning the issue now heads to the court of appeals in d.c. we do have the date for those oral arguments. so what this decision all means for timing and how quickly the supreme court could take up the case once that court rules, there s a lot to get into. we re going to dive in right now joining us, justice and intelligence correspondent, ken dilanian, and msnbc legal analyst, and former assistant d.a. with the manhattan district attorney s office, catherine christian. ken, first off, were we expecting a sidestep like this? because that s essentially what it is. it s a punt, if you will, from the su
a not so perfect phone call, former president trump recorded pressuring michigan canvassers to not certify the vote in 2020. what he said and the new details according to the detroit news, just moments from now, we ll get to that. and new video from the southern border of the united states, a mother and her crying child struggling to cross the rio grande river, the texas national guard this morning is denying claims that it ignored her calls for help. and the peak holiday travel rush is under way. i don t have to tell you, millions of americans hitting the road for the holidays, and the airports, what you must know to save yourself. i m sara sidner run. as fast as you can. with kate bolduan, john berman, hopefully loving life right now, this is cnn news central. we begin with this, new reporting have surfaced of former president donald trump pressuring election workers, this time in michigan, a swing state, as you know, in his bid to overturn legitimate results
unprecedented case to the other one that s likely going to go in front of those nine justices. trump has been barred from the 2024 primary ballot after the state supreme court found he violated the 13th amendment s insurrectionist band. trump s lawyers taking of course the opposite approach straight to the court on this. we have cnn tracking both of these stories. walk us through the immunity issue, what we are expecting compared to what happened. donald trump headed to trial in march in the court in washington. the supreme court has to resolve, they are going to have to figure out whether donald trump is immune from going to trial beakers because he was trialed in the senate and acquitted there. before they can do that trial, someone will have to figure it out and it will be the supreme court. the justice department wants to skip the middle court and go to the supreme court straightaway. the supreme court is considering that, we have this new brief in from donald trump