What he texted. In stark contrast from each other . Yeah. Anderson, nick valencia, thanks. The news continues right here on cnn its thursday, february 20. Happy week here right now on cnn this morning the Supreme Court agree agrees to hear Donald Trumps absolute immunity arguments, throwing his 2024 trial schedule into turmoil, plus yet another legal challenge for trump for an illinois judge booting the former president off that states ballot will look at that and a deal to keep the federal government open is going to have a vote in a matter of hours or still the threat of a shutdown looms all right 05 00 a. M. Here in washington, a live look at the United States Supreme Court, the center of it all this morning morning. Good morning. Im kasie hunt. Its wonderful to have you with us. Were going to start there. The Supreme Court agreeing to decide whether or not former President Donald Trump is immune from criminal prosecution for the actions he took on and leading up to january 6, its a
congress. to pass new gun control legislation as the nation grapples with yet another mass shooting, but gop lawmakers contacted by cnn are resisting this latest call for reform, and there s more uncertainty surrounding the potential indictment of former president trump in new york sources now say in manhattan grand jury won t revisit the trump case during the rest of this week. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the city. aeration room. we begin this hour with all the new video and new information about the nashville school shooting and the attacker who was killed by police. cnn s aymara walker has our report and we want to warn our viewers. some of the video is disturbing. no body cameras revealed police running toward the sound of gunfire without hesitation. about 3.5 minutes elapsed between the time they go in. bbo . and when they confront the shooter. metro nashville police said these two officers op
they 70s dirt on scene cnn breaking news. welcome to inside politics. i m dana bash and we start with a monumental supreme court decision on the power of the presidency the highest court in the land is just ruled that donald trump is entitled to some level of immunity from prosecution for actions he took in the final days of his presidency it could put big parts of the election subversion case against him in jeopardy and sets a critical new precedent for future commanders in chief the split 6-3 opinion was authored by chief justice john roberts, who writes in part, we conclude under our constitutional structure of separated powers, the nature of presidential power requires that a former president have some immunity from criminal prosecution for official acts during his tenure. for an office. at least with respect to the president s exercise of his core constitutional powers this immunity must be absolute he also said that there are some parts of what the president does. tha
received a letter from fox s lawyers that basically said that murdoch himself probably couldn t travel the lawyers and clarified and said, look, we re not saying that he physically can t travel but that there s no need to bring him in again. the judge had addressed that physically can t travel thing by basically arguing. look we ve seen rupert murdoch up out and about in various reports. you remember seeing him at the super bowl with the elon musk. he just had an engagement party recently, but ultimately whether or not he pushes murdoch to come to the stand. it will be the big question because lawyers from both sides are trying to figure out how they re going to maneuver their legal cases ahead of april 17th. and of course, the murdochs would be the linchpin of any major trial heading into next month. oliver i m anxious to get your assessment on rupert murdoch and this case, what do you think? rupert murdoch is very important . obviously at fox, the buck stops with rupert murdoch, and
fumble a couple of races and get a couple of opportunities, but it s all about the economy. david weigel thank you. a trial heading into the fall that could embarrass the party. zoey lof grin says secret talks are ongoing between rangel s attorney and the nonpartisan committee. i guess not so secret anymore, kelly? reporter: well, what s going on behind closed doors, and i m glad you mentioned that because i think people have wondered about these negotiations. what s really happening is rangel s lawyers are able to talk to lawyers and staffers who work for the ethics committee, but they re not members, not colleagues of rangel and they have been working the evidence and the allegations against him for some time now. if they were to reach a