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
his attempt to be speaker of this house. this historic fight now surpassing the last time it went to multiple ballots. the prolonged 1923 ballot which was decided on the ninth ballot. this one will not be decided on the ninth ballot. it looks. yet for first time this week, there are some positive signs for the republican leader. they re drawing a line in the sand whether they go to the holdouts. it s not clear a deal will even net kevin mccarthy the total of 218 votes he needs to be speaker. republicans, they say they are firmly in the never kevin mccarthy camp. never. they just have one more house republican continues to join those four, he can only afford to lose four. kevin mccarthy will never wield the speaker s gavel. that is without help from democrats or changing the rules in some way. let s go straight to cnn chief correspondent who is live on capitol hill. we keep hearing progress is being made. progress is being made. kevin mccarthy is well on his way to breaking re
Reporters a little bit earlier. Why do it today . The idea that you why not . Rip the bandaid off here or what . Why not . I think matt has planned this all along. Didnt matter what we transpired. Youre calling his bluff . Yeah. Mccarthy or one of his allies can delay by asking the house to kill gaetzs resolution. But he has little chance of winning that vote without at least some support from democrats. And they have been clear this is the republicans mess to figure out. They wont save him. Today, gaetzs republican colleagues acknowledge Whether Mccarthy can survive or what happens if he doesnt is up in the air. Most members in the room are solidly supporting Speaker Mccarthy. There was an admission by matt gaetz, who is my friend, that there is no plan. There is no one that has stepped forward to run. There is no one that is coming out saying ill be speaker and rallying support within the conference. So there you have it. Joining us now, nbcs ali vitali as she has been living on capi
of aiding and assisting an international wrongful act. the prime minister rishi sunak is already facing growing cross party pressure, after seven aid workers were killed in an air strike. our diplomatic coreespondent james landale has the story. the air strikes that killed international aid workers in gaza have prompted global condemnation, and now they re shaping political choices. more than 600 lawyers have written to the government, urging it to suspend arms sales to israel, because they believe there is a risk it s breaking international law. they said, serious action is needed to avoid uk complicity in grave breaches of international law, including potential violation of the genocide convention. to continue the sale of weapons and weapon system to israel falls significantly short of your government s obligations under international law. the whole framework of international law, governing war, it dictates that the fact that you have been provoked and attacked, howev
jon: i m jon scott is, and this is the fox report. 9 with sad news breaking just a short time ago, rosalynn carter, the former first lady to the longest living president in american history, jimmy carter, has passed away at the age of 96. he died peacefully at home she died peacefully at home in georgia. tribute withs are pouring in honoring her service in the white house as a longtime trusted partner and adviser to her husband and her decades of work as a humanitarian. bret baier looks at her long life and legacy. former first lady rosalynn carter was born in the small town of plains, georgia, in 1927, the same place as her husband, the 39th president of the united states, jimmy carter. i, jimmy carter, do solemnly swear and even though the couple only spent one term in the white house, rosalynn carter s effect is still felt in washington. i never doubted that he could be can a great president. [applause] while her husband was working on middle east peace and