hello and merry christmas eve. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m danny freeman in for victor blackwell. thank you for joining us. here s what we are watching for you. attorneys for donald trump with the late night court filing urging a federal appeals court to throw out the federal election subversion case against him. why they claim he has absolute immunity. war in the holy land on this christmas eve. the idf expanding operations in gaza as president biden gets on the phone with the israel leader to discuss the war a. the latest on the victims and gunman police are searching for. t tis the season for spreading holiday cheer. a study shows people sharing time to volunteer is dropping. we will discuss ahead on cnn this morning. new this morning, former president donald trump s legal team a major legal move. a light night filing urging federal appeals court to throw out the federal election subversion case in washington, d.c.. that trump was w
let s do it. cnn news central starts now. he shared photos of guns, targets, ammunition boxes and a tactical vest. this morning the disturbing social media posts from the gunman who murdered eight people at a texas mall. a pivotal meeting today, an attempt to keep the debt ceiling from crashing down. president biden is sitting down with top congressional leaders from both parties, but can they hammer out a deal before the u.s. goes into a catastrophic default? king pinning terrorist, that is who israel said it was targeting in an overnight military strike in gaza. now at least 13 people are dead. these major stories and many more all coming in to cnn news central. we begin with today s high stakes meeting amid a resolving the debt ceiling standoff. if there is no deal it could lead to financial disaster. in just a few hours president biden will meet at the white house with these four congressional leaders, house speaker kevin mccarthy, senate majority leader
provide more details from its closed-door interview with former white house counsel, pat cipollone. he testified friday for eight hours. yesterday at the south said cipollone reinforced alleged misconduct by trump, adding that his testimony included information that demonstrates the former presidents, quote, supreme dereliction of duty. a member of the committee explaining more of cipollone s testimony this morning on meet the press. he made very clear that he took the side of many of the folks we have already seen come before the committee. and he was asserting that there was not enough evidence to prove that the election was not free and fair. and that the right thing to do, i think, for a democracy is to have a peaceful transfer of power, especially after december 14th, when the states have certified their electors. also new today, former trump strategist steve bannon says he is now open to testifying before the committee. he resisted requests and defied subpoenaed,
Good evening. Its 5 a. M. Jerusalem. This is Fox News At Night. There is word coming into Fox News At Night that the United States has conducted airstrikes in syria. Lets get to our chief National Security correspondent jennifer. We broke the news moments ago that u. S. Warplanes made airstrikes in syria against Iranian Proxy Forces that had been firing on u. S. Bases more than a dozen times in the past week. We now have a statement from the defense secretary, lloyd austin those strikes what are being described as irans Islamic Revolutionary guard and affiliated groups inside syria. These were precision selfdefense strikes theyre being described as on two locations in Eastern Syria. Way told by senior military sources this is very similar to the kind of strike that we saw in the march 23rd time frame when the u. S. Had to respond to multiple strikes by Iranian Forces so we know f15 and 16s were involved. The statement from the Department Of Defense reads that the United States does not
chief of the islamic jihad. they are accused of coordinating attacks of the israelis, in response to the death of a prominent palestinian prisoner who had died after a prolonged hunger strike. we are learning that there were others killed as a result of these air strikes. you noted the women and children. many of these were families of these operatives. we re also learning of a prominent palestinian dentist who was killed as a result of these strikes. he actually also held russian citizenship. there is the question, though, of what will the response be and especially will hamas, the militant organization that really runs gaza, will they get involved? they ve issued statements saying there will be a unified response from the militant factions, that there will be some sort of response to this, but the question will be if hamas gets involved what will that look like and that will turn into a much bigger and broader co