to remove trump from their. ballots california says not so fast. why? well, i will as the california secretary of state. this is all happening as republican presidential contenders are gearing up for the first major test. the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primaries, there just a couple of weeks away. who has the most at stake in these early contests? we ll ask our political panel this hour. plus, our culture critics are here to ring in the new year. we are looking at the biggest moments of 2023, and what s in and out in 2024. i am symone sanders-townsend, i have something to say. in just over two weeks, all eyes will be on iowa. that s when the state republicans will caucus in the first nominating contest of 2024 for the president of the united states. now, these make-or-break races for republican presidential hopefuls, they will be happening against the backdrop of an urgent and unprecedented constitutional question. you are looking at the first seconds of donald tru
welcome back. you can see in the video, new york city getting ready for a big celebration and big new year s eve celebration and walled up in a hotel room and hope any asleep by the end. the ball will drop and a lot of people here in the streets. doing things who knows what. pete: far away from thousands of foreigners wearing diapers in time square. sounds like a party. joey: foreigners and more. rachel: i don t to want be there. pete: i did it one time and fox news new years with kennedy and it was maybe 2019. rachel: that could be fun with kennedy. pete: rained the whole time and standing on the riser and it was horrible. pete: i killed the new year s show twice. we did the show there and then didn t do the new year s show next year because it was so great and then we did it two years then kill it had this year. i kill it had twice. joey: you weren t crowd surfing like carley and griff did. i would take me legs off and crowd surf. pete. the crowd couldn t hold you up.
today with the happy face on, and kate is enjoying a little bit of time off, but not as much as you would have. this is cnn news central . happening on the campaign trail, nikki haley on an event and we have pictures of it, and she is on the trail for the first time since she gave that controversial answer overnight to what caused the civil war. she managed to answer the question last night without using word slavery. this morning she has tried to clean up the comments already on a radio show. she said of course she knows that the civil war was about slavery. what you are looking at right now is her first public event in north conway, the north country there in new hampshire back on the trail, and we will see, because we are watching it very carefully to see if she mentions it at the event. i want to remind you what she said last night. listen. what was the cause of the united states civil war? well, don t come with an easy question or anything. i mean, i think that t
good morning. i m victor blackwell. you will see amara walker later this afternoon. it is the last day of 2023 in the u.s. but look at this. it s 2024 already in new zealand. fireworks there at the sky tower lighting up auckland. let s take a break and listen to what s happening there. happy new year! woo! you hear the oh ohs and aahs. fiji is up next. then australia coming. so we will see the fireworks in sydney at 8:00 eastern. of course, we are 18 hours away on the east coast from 2024. we will be together for the next three. let s go through the news now. new court filing special counsel jack smith is laying out one of his first goals of the new year, to get donald trump s immunity claims thrown out for good. he is asking an appeals court to move quickly. he writes that the arguments the former president has been making threaten to undermine democracy. cnn s zachery cohen picks it up from here. reporter: special counsel jack smith is arguing that the former pr
tonight on 360, the former president makes a late move in his battle with states to stay on the 2024 ballot. details on that and what his next big court filing could come. also russia s worst air strikes of the war on ukraine, the civilians targeted, and what america s top european commander makes of this latest brutal stage of the war. plus we ll take you to the west coast where surf s up is now an urgent warning, and another round of waves, some more than two stories high, is now expected to hit. good morning everyone good evening, i should say. john berman in for anderson. first up tonight, the flurry and soon to be blizzard of new legal developments in what is shaping up to be a history-making fight over kicking the former president off state ballots under the 14th amendment. already divided states, legal scholars, and will almost certainly do the same with the supreme court justices. the newest headline came late today in a trump court filing in oregon, and it