right now on early start, the new poll releasing this very minute showing nikki haley is closing the gap on donald trump in one early primary state. plus the republican front runner planning to be in court just hours from now while his lawyers argue he s immune from prosecution. hi, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. good to see all of you. i m omar jimenez in for kasie hunt. it is tuesday, january 9th. we are we have a lot of news to get to. let s get going. we want to start with 5:00 a.m. in washington. we have a brand new cnn poll for you all. that poll shows donald trump s lead narrowing as nikki haley surges. the former president now at 39% of likely gop primary voters with haley just 7 points behind at 32%. the rest of the field hovers at least 20 points further back in the poll taken just this week. chris christie is at 12% fo followed by vivek ramaswamy and ron desantis in single digits. now trump is roughly where he was
lets you pay off your high-rate debt. and you can save $500 a month. nobody takes care of veterans like newday usa. john: pentagon press secretary pat ryder will give an update the first time on camera since lloyd austin s secretive hospital stay. both sides of the aisle demanding to know how was president biden in the dark for days before learning a top cabinet member landed in the icu. sixth in line to the presidency, he is, hello, john roberts in washington. a jam packed first hour. here we go again. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. breaking in the last hour, this incident, now forcing the white house to launch a review of protocols for cabinet secretaries, if you can believe that. secretary austin is still in recovery, we are told in walter reed, and the pentagon is not offering any information about that elective procedure that originally sent him into the hospital but ultimately landed him in the icu. john: even the deputy defense secretary d
hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
also tonight we now know why defense secretary lloyd austin has been in the hospital for the last week. president biden himself just learning today that the pentagon chief underwent surgery after being diagnosed with cancer. as we also learned that he was under anesthesia without his deputy being aware. also tonight on the 2024 campaign trail nikki haley now within single digits of donald trump in the first primary state. the question is does this make the case for narrowing the gop field? we ll ask our political experts. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. with just six days to go before the first votes in the 2024 primary race, donald trump was in a courtroom in washington today hoping to evade charges for attempting to overturn the last election. but the three federal appeals judges before him sounded deeply skeptical about his lawyers argument that he has absolute immunity from prosecution for anything that he did while in office. this case is not only potenti
erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, donald trump making his case in court and not ruling out violence if his case is moved ahead. the former trump white house lawyer ty cobb is out front. and federal investigators looking for four bolts crucial to securing the door plug that blew off that alaska airlines plane. but were they ever on the door in the first place? it s an incredible question. we go inside the investigation as boeing calls an all emergency staff meeting. and the pentagon filing revealing what sent defense chief lloyd austin to the hospital twice even as his own deputy was in the dark. will the explanation be enough to save his job or make it worse? let s go out front. reporter: and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight trump threatening chaos. the former president warning today if his prosecution continues, very bad things will happen. i think they feel this is a way they re going to try and win, and that s not the way it