his second case against the president. my office will be unrelenting and an stopping. tonight, the story of the first world leader jack smith prosecuted and why there is good reason to think he won t let trump off easy. and then if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like donald trump who lost the house, the senate, and the white house, we all know joe biden will win again. the republican presidential field swells, as trump s calendar fills up with plus, the only people who believe they are above the law are members of the united states supreme court. justice samuel alito s long history of accepting lavish gifts, the titanic submersible lost at sea, and a blistering texas heat that s only going to get worse. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. special counsel jack smith has just turned over the first tranche of evidence in the classified documents case against donald trump. the ex president s legal team now
our nation s commitment to the rule of law sets an example for the world. the special counsel built his second case against the president. my office will be unrelenting and unstopping. tonight, the story of the first world leader jack smith prosecuted and why there is good reason to think he won t let trump off easy. and then if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like donald trump who lost the house, the senate, and the white house, we all know joe biden will win again. the republican presidential field swells, as trump s calendar fills up with plus the only people who believe they are above the law are members of the united states supreme court. justice samuel alito s long history of accepting lavish gifts, the titanic submersible lost at sea, and a blistering texas heat that s only going to get worse when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. special counsel jack smith has just turned over the first tran
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
welcome to inside politics. i m phil mattingly in for dana bash. the friday before christmas is supposed to be slow, but there s no shortage of major news right now, including a new report about pressure the then president put on officials in michigan after the election. but at any moment, the supreme court could announce whether it ses fast tracking a a decision on donald trump s claim he s immune from prosecution if i for trying to you are overturn the election. i they want a quick decision to move forward with the trial. trump wants to delay if as much as possible. we start things off with katelyn polantz in washington. what s so striking here is it may seem procedural, but my goodness, the stakes here could not be higher. reporter: they are. i can t risk getting into the weeds on this. but it is a really big deal. that became so apparent in the way that the justice department wrote about this issue to the supreme court yesterday. they wrote that this issue of presiden
president biden to respond as conflicts rage in the middle east. i am john scott, this is a special edition of the fox report. in the red sea, attacks on commercial ships from houthi rebels continue to ramp up. now iran might be getting involved. a us defense official telling fox news a drone launch from iran hit a japanese tanker off the coast to. iran rejects claims of involvement. that s not the only trouble for the white house. alexandria hoff live in washington with the latest on the president s struggle of brought it here at home. accusing iran of being behind these attacks with the biden administration saying the us has joined several other nations in k taking collective action against houthi rebels but republicans like bill haggerty feel iran has been emboldened by inconsistent reaction from the united states. what your aircraft carrier strike groups in the region, massive show of military force. it is highly inconsistent from an economic standpoint and his diplom