siphon votes away from the democrat and help elect a republican. and help potentially elect donald trump. if you go on their website, they suggest that they can get 37% of the popular vote. and 282 electoral votes. now, if you think that sounds a bit outlandish, they think they can win texas, florida, montana and illinois. that is delusional. the likelihood that that is going to happen is zero. they are spending millions and millions of dollars and all they are going to do is siphon votes, anti trump votes away from democrats. all, right, well nick is telling me we have to. go you have we ve got to the top of the. our i appreciate you both. all of you, in just a few, minutes we re going to unpack these two headlines, with the journalist who cowrote them. the first is about the former presidents attachment to his boxes. the other is what one person close to trump called an unforced error. trump rejected lawyers efforts to avoid indictment. here we, are a minute, late but
obstruction, conspiracy, lying and espionage. what happens now? when it comes to republicans in congress, this time it is not so certain. a lot of them are split. some are willing to stick by donald trump, like senator eric schmidt of missouri who said that the charges are, quote, unequal application of the law. nor senator john barrasso of wyoming who said, quote, it feels political, it s rotten. others are being a little more cautious. after all, these are espionage charges. there s, quote, no way to defend the allegations said rep don bacon of nebraska. i would not feel comfortable with a convicted felon in the white house, said a rep from colorado. there isn t a clear ideological common denominator within this split. we re going to explore why that is. what is clear, and maybe this is part of the reasoning for some is that this indictment might not be the only criminal trouble that former president trump could be in. there are two more investigations related to overturnin
machine according to their report. and the 2024 gop field got even bigger. both former vice-president mike pence and the very unpopular former new jersey governor chris christie. i think he left office with about a 14% approval rating in his case now entered the race. we have full analysis of all this straight ahead tonight but we begin with this fox news alert. sources have now confirmed to fox that the doj s special counsel investing former president trump s taking of classified documents has now convened a second grand jury, this one not in dc but in south florida. that would be the same district where mar-a-lago is. and based on what we are hearing, the special counsel is now poiseded to wrap up that probe and there are many reports that charges could, in fact, be eminent. at the very same time, we are learning that an indictment against hunter biden could also be forthcoming, but don t expect hunter s charges to implicate the big guy. this will be all about optics, not a
with us. the 2024 announcement coming right here in moments. stand by for a cnn exclusive. plus, president trump s lawyers meeting with the justice department as the special counsel s probe appears to be nearing its final stages. we ll walk through what this means. ukraine cultivating a network of agents inside russia to carry out attacks of sa sabotage. u.s. officials believe they were behind the kremlin drone strike. we begin with a cnn exclusive. we know mike pence, chris christi and mike bergman have announcements planned. will that be it or will there be more? chris sununu has been a maybe for months. a popular government in a state with the first primary. governor sununu is here to share his announcement. dana bash has this exclusive interview. governor, thank you for inviting us here. your decision? we ve taken a look at everything and i ve made the decision not to run for president for 2024. it s been quite adventure, but not the end by any mean. why? why
hello and welcome to you if you re joining me around the world, wherever you may be watching in the united states, europe, asia. i m richard quest. together, we are in the cnn newsroom . president biden reveals that he didn t ask for a cease-fire in his long call, telephone call, with the israeli prime minister. at the same time, the military in israel is expanding its ground offensive in gaza. christmas eve for many, to be sure, as the war rages on in gaza. christians in bethlehem and around the world, it s a celebration much more difficult than in previous years. and at the cnn s weather center, some in the united states forget a white christmas. think rainy christmas, instead. it s an extreme ly busy morning, and i ll get to those stories in a moment. only after i ve updated you with one twor deve developments in d trump s legal battles. the former u.s. president has now asked a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal election subversion case against him. the