Getting trump to trial for Election Interference before hes the nominee almost certainly gone. Before the rnc convention, unlikely there ta. So what happens now . Plus, a horrific tragedy. At least 100 killed according to the health ministry, locals blame Israeli Forces for opening fire. What are the implications for the wider war, and what about the hostage deal that President Biden had suggested could be just days away . And the political showdown playing out in texas today over the one issue that voters say rises above all others. Can President Biden and former President Trump, two men who have had their shot at fixing the border before, convince voters they can fix it now . But we start with Donald Trumps legal and political calendar being rewritten in realtime, with start dates for two and potentially three of his four criminal trials now up in the air, a direct result of the former president s strategy to try to run out the clock. And the Supreme Courts decision to take up trumps
as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
this is cnn breaking with news. we are starting this hour with breaking news and out of the supreme court, special counsel jack smith is now responding to donald trump s legal team about the federal elections case. the special council is pushing high court even more now to take this matter up quickly, and we will get over to joan biskupic which have details that are truly just coming in. yes, the donald trump subversion case has just submitted another filing to the supreme court doubling down on the imperative of the supreme court to take this case up now before waiting for another court to handle it. the question is whether former president donald trump is immune from criminal prosecution for election subversion arising from the 2020 election right as we head into the 2024 election. what he is trying to do here, the special counsel jack smith, is to counter what donald trump s lawyer said yesterday. they said, supreme court, no need to take this case up hastily, and
And khan younis areas. It says tents, food, water, and medication will be available. The Israeli Defence minister yoav gallant said Military Action against hamas in rafah is needed because of the groups refusal to negotiate the release of israeli hostages. A hamas official has described the move as a dangerous escalation. Jordan said what it called another massacre of palestinians was in the making. Egypt has urged israel to exercise maximum restraint. Jan egeland, secretary general of the norwegian refugee council, told us more about the situation in rafah. The fear is all over rafah now, because the idf has given us a map with eight sectors that are red and people are forced to leave them. Its a forced relocation, which is a violation of international law, because there is no safe place to go, there is no aid for them ready there. There is no shelter and there is no return guaranteed for the people. So we are appealing for them to not invade rafah. Its the largest cluster of Displace
so there s a lot here for the court to chew on, but jack smith has stuck with the same argument he s been making all along. do you think if you re team trump that this is about delay, or do you believe you have a the shot of getting this tossed. i think there s three things. he is hoping that eventually if he loses in the d.c. circuit and can get the supreme court to accept this case, he s hoping that he will pull enough justices to say there should be presidential immunity and will agree what he was doing was within the scope of his official act. he wants that because then the case is over. it is done. that s for all the marbles. but in the meantime, he want want thes to delay. as you know, the trial proceedings have been stayed. the judge hasn t officially moved the march 4th date, but nothing is happening now other than jack smith filing things going unresponded to. jack smith did ask in his brief in the d.c. circuit that whatever the d.c. circuit does,