hello and welcome to the cnn newsroom. boris sanchez, everyone boris great to be with you. i m jessica dean and we begin with breaking details another major legal blow to former president donald trump. on the day his attorney had to testify before a federal grand jury. in one case. we re learning. in a separate case, his former top administration aides have now been ordered to testify, and that includes his past white house chief of staff mark meadows. this specific investigation is the federal criminal. probe into donald trump s efforts to overturn the 2020 election loss. cnn senior crime and justice reporter caitlin poland s is with us live standing outside of the department of justice on a rainy day. caitlin tell us so much about this development, the claim of executive privilege by the former president thrown out by this judge. right so this is another attempt where donald trump was coming into court secretly behind closed doors and trying to say that people around him sh
bill whew being rammed through congress does little to nothing for as example u.s. border security. all while democrats, and frankly some senate republicans, of course, continue to shrug off the worst border crisis in modern american history, hurting americans more and more by the day. yet again this week, video shows illegal meetings pouring across the border, overwhelming authorities with no end in sight. get this, in just the last year, well over 100,000 overdose deaths here in the united states as drugs continue to pour across the southern border and take innocent american lives. in 2022 alone, the dea seized enough fentanyl to kill everybody in our entire country, but for the far left democrats it s low on the list of priorities, as senate democrats for the third time blocked republican senator bill haggerty s legislation to crack down on fentanyl crossing the border. remember, biden s border crisis is so bad that every state of course is now a border state. cities a
and cancellations at airports across the country just as folks are trying to get home from the holidays. charles watson is live at the airport in atlanta. charles, you know, i don t know, was it one hour or two hours ago you were giving an offering the workers there a round of applause. did you go and shake their hands? i hope so. i haven t gotten around to that just yet. i will in just a short time. it is absolutely packed here at the atlanta airport. this is a taste of what we re seeing, long lines like this. folks have been lined up at these delta counters trying to check in and drop their bags off so they can make it onto their flights. with the massive crowds and the weather delays not only are these folks in for a busy day but they could be in for a miserable day. that is possibly the outlook at airports across the country. thousands are still facing flight delays and cancellations as airline disruptions continue to build in large part due to the deadly arctic blas
when you re telling people that a presidential election is being stolen, you can t be shocked when people believe you and then become violent. at some point, they have to take responsibility. you know, you know, the thing is, mika first of all, donald trump is saying that it s smart. yeah, so smart that while he is sitting there lying to them and grifting and getting hundreds of millions of dollars from people lying, saying, give me money and we ll fight the election, and it all goes to him. first of all, not smart there. also, unfortunately, there were a lot of people that went up to the capitol because they believed donald trump. they believed his lies. yeah. they re sitting in prison right now. he s just sitting back at mar-a-lago, living his life, loving it. family vacations around the world, on beaches. flying all around on his private, well, you know, 757, whatever it is. flying from one country club to another. and they re sitting in jail, yeah. you ll no
And on the ground in tehran tonight is mourners flocked to the president s funeral and a top official reveals what happened on that president s helicopter that someone had survived for hours. Its go out front and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Breaking News trump claims Deadly Force Authorized the quotes. The former president and his allies absurdly accusing President Biden of trying to assassinate trump. But moments ago, trumps team sent out this newsletter, just got came into my email. They call it the palm beach playbook, but it comes from donald j. Trump. Com. The very first line under top news, falsely claims that deadly force was authorized against trump bring an fbi rate at maralago that you know, the intent of that being possible assassination, the newsletter coming just an hour after trump gave this Radio Interview newly released Court Filings showed that the fbi was authorized to use deadly force if needed during the rate of your private home in august 20