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♪ ♪ ♪ innikki haley just raiseded bunch of money, donald trump announced a symbolic endorsement and which of those will have the largest impact. >> you get an appeal and you get an appeal. donald trump and his team handing out legal filings left

and right and more could come down today. what we are watching for and itif a strategy will work out for him. >> and immigrants descending on the southern border as the cities across the country are taking the influx of migrants into their own hands. i'm john berman with rahel sol medi solman, and this is cnn news central. >> we have breaking news out of iran. we are getting word that more than 100 people were killed and 140 injured after two blasts struck near the grave of the iranian military commander, the late iranian military commander qasem soleimani. state media captured the moment the blast happened near very crowded streets.

[ explosion ] [ screaming ] >> you can hear the fear and the screams there. according to iranian state media, officials described the explosions and they're calling these explosions a terror attack. cnn's nada bashir is following this for us. nada, what is the latest? >> well, this is certainly a developing story, john. we are still getting more details from officials and media on the ground in iran, but in the last hour or so, we have seen the death toll steadily rising and at least 103 killed and 141 injured according to state media in iran, citing officials on the ground. some of those injured are said to be in a critical condition and we have seen a dramatic footage emerging from the scene showing crowds running away from the site of the blast. we've seen ambulances and emergency services gathering, rushing people to nearby hospitals. of course, we are getting more details around the specifics, around these twin blasts

according to state media and the first blast took place about 700 meter away from the burial site of the late iranian commander qasem soleimani. the second blast took place about a kilometer away from the path in which pilgrims had been passing through to visit the burial site. important to note there would have been huge crowds at the time of the blast. today marks four years since the commander qasem soleimani was killed in a u.s. strike on baghdad international airport ordered by then u.s. president donald trump. so you would expect to see huge crowds around them. this comes at a time of heightened tensions in the region and while we are waiting to get more details in iran and the specifics of the motive behind the attack and who may have carried out the attack and iranian state media have characterized this as a terrorist attack, but again, there are tensions mounting around the region particularly when it comes to groups that are

allies to or backed to iran and that is the case in lebanon. we are expecting to hear from the secretary-general of the iran-backed group hezbollah and nasrallah expected to speak in about an hour and we'll wait to hear what he has to say about the situation in iran and the death of qasem soleimani and this is a day after we saw another attack here in beirut in the building behind me. a senior hamas commander killed commander al arouri killed on tuesday and that strike was carried out by israel and hamas pointing the finger squarely at israel and at this point officials are not claim ing responsibility nor denying responsibility for the attack. nada bashir, keep us posted. >> here is general steve anderson. good to have you today. first, your reaction to the news

out of iran. it is four years after the death of soleimani. what do you make of this? >> well, thank you, rahel. obviously, great concern that tensions couldis escalate and there be more bloodshed and what's going on in the gaza strip escalates to something much bigger, but i can tell you right now and say that the united states had absolutely nothing to do with this. my suspicion is this is an internal issue within iran, particularly if you look at what was targeted. soleimani who was taken down four years ago by the united states, but the last thing we want to the do is take out civilian casualties like this and escalate tensions. everything is already on edge right now after the assassination yesterday of al arouri in beirut and there's no way the united states did this and my inclination is this is an internal issue within iran

because they have a lot of competing factions within that country. >> that senior hamas leader who was killed in southern beirut, how does that complicate any conversations and negotiations about the hostages who were still in gaza? >> well, it does complicate that significantly. i would point out, though, that no doubt the israelis are behind this, but it was a precision attack and they very rightfully just targeted al arouri and two of his compatriots and they didn't take out any other casualties, and so their focus has been on hamas, and i think they've made that very, very clear that they are trying to minimize casualties in beirut and i've been there a couple of times in the last couple of years and it is a very vibrant city and everyone knows where the shia areas are and the sunni areas are. everybody knows this is not --

this is where hezbollah is hanging out, so to speak and where hamas, and i'm sure the headquarters there were well known and the fact they take it out and minimized the casualties is a good sign that israel is doing everything they can to take down hamas without escalating tensions further. >> what will you be looking for? we expect to hear from hassan nasrallah. when he speaks in this environment a lot of people will be paying attention. what will you be listening for when he speaks? >> we want to minimize lebanon's involvement in this, and i'll be listening for how does he attribute this attack and what is he calling his people to do. there's already a lot of tension on the northern border of israel and there are 40,000 missiles aimed at israel from north in the lebanese area in hezbollah-controlled areas. so i'm going to be looking for what is he calling his

compatriats in hezbollah in support of hamas and then further, what is he saying to his leadership in iran because iran is behind all of these activities. what i want to see is hopefully a de-escalation of tensions and a recognition that israel did everything they can to minimize casualties and focus only on hamas leadership. >> general steve anderson, thank you for the time today. >> thank you. >> new this morning a symbolically important endorsement for donald trump. tom emmer who was the number three house republican, the whip, he now has endorsed donald trump and that means the entire house leadership has endorsed donald trump and steve scalise did yesterday and this comes as trump's top rival, it seems, arguably, top rival, nikki haley doubled into the new year raising $24 million in the fourth quarter. haley is in new hampshire today and ron desantis and vivek

ramaswamy are in iowa and also in iowa, most importantly, cnn's jeff zeleny. jeff, what do things feel like there? does it feel like this is the final push into the caucuses? >> john, good morning. 12 days until the voting finally begins into this 2024 campaign and it feels like there is no doubt that donald trump is still the overwhelming front-runner, and you mentioned nikki haley's money. she's using the newfound money to put television ads on and right now this is a race for second place. we've talked about this a lot for the last several months and you can feel that taking shape, though, between nikki haley and ron desantis through television ads, through their own messages and what their supporters are saying. it is clear thatteth both of th are trying to slow the others' momentum. in nikki haley's case she believes it could end the candidacy of ron desantis. ron desantis, the florida

governor, will be campaigning behind me in waukee, iowa, where a lot of republicans are and he'll be traveling to four other spots today, but it is the race for second place and so many republicans had their eye on. it breaks down like this. if you've been a supporter of donald trump and you've been a longtime supporter of donald trump and you will still be supporting him and half of the party are split between desantis-haley and probably vivek ram swammy and others. that is the question, can either of those two pry this race for second place loose? that is what they're trying to do. the cnn town hall is here tomorrow. that debate next week, so, yes, it feels like caucus time is just around the corner, but it also feels like donald trump has to win and the second place is what everyone has their eye on and that's important heading into employ nah the following week, john? >> jeff zeleny for us in iowa.

stay warm, jeff. with us now laura barron lopez white house correspondent for pbs "newshour" and fred upton from michigan. laura, i want to start with you. jeff laid out a battle for second place and i get the expectations game and i get that you want to be seen as rising when you get to new hampshire. what do any of these candidates get long term out of being in second place if that's all they ever get? >> well, they're not going to get the nomination if that's all they ever get, john and that's an issue right here. you're seeing that ron desantis and nikki haley at different points are trying to still defend former president donald trump, the front-runner, maybe potentially like ron desantis are looking for some type of cabinet position. there's a bit of skepticism from really close trump allieses about whether or not nikki haley would be some that the majority of supporters really want as a

potential vice presidential pick, but right now nikki haley appears to be gaining momentum in states like new hampshire and is coalescing a lot more support and getting more money from donors, but it doesn't look like it's going to be enough. >> so congressman, something just happened which is notable which is that the house republican whip tom emmer has now endorsed donald trump for president which means the speaker, the majority leader, the whip and elise stefanik who is conference chair, all of the house leadership is behind donald trump. tom emmer voted to certify the election so here you have a guy unlike scalise and johnson and others who felt that joe biden won the election, but is still endorsing donald trump. what do you see in all this? >> well, you've got to remember, too, and tom emmer is a really good friend. he was one of those who was running for speaker. he was the fourth or fifth ballot back in october after mccarthy took the hit that he did, and at the time trump

called him a rhino, but now the entire leadership is with trump. they see the writing on the wall. trump's going to win in iowa and it would be really interesting to see what happens in new hampshire. i think it will close up a little bit, but you know, by most experts, most pundits will say that trump is the leader and now he's got the leadership in the house and you saw tom cotton get out and it's trump's to lose, and he's been pretty smart on the campaign trail. he knows that particularly, chris christie will go after him in a debate. he will force him to answer the question why didn't mexico pay for the wall? why did you let the debt increase like it did? it hit $34 trillion now? he did all these things and

they'll force him to answer. he doesn't want to and he's just ignoring them and by ignoring them he's at 50%, 60% of the republican vote literally not only in iowa, but maybe in new hampshire, as well. we'll see. >> another campaign development, and important development, this coming from president biden's re-election campaign is that they, announced there will be an event on january 6th in valley forge and he'll go to south carolina, the mother emanuel church which was the site of the mass shooting several years ago, but leaning in, very much leaning in the biden campaign to the idea that donald trump is a threat to democracy. just a few minutes ago i spoke to the biden-harris campaign chair. listen to what he said. >> donald trump is telling us every day who he's going to be in he's re-elected president. a dictator on day one, ripping healthcare away from millions of people and these are threats to democracy, and we feel that the american people deserve to hear these things from us and that's a moral responsibility of this

campaign to paint that picture for the american people. >> what does it tell us that the biden re-elect campaign launch in 2024 really will be on that message? >> it really harkens back to his launch in 2019 ahead of the 2020 campaign. president biden when he launched then also made this very much about threats to democracy and about what he saw is rising extremist forces referencing charlottesville repeatedly in his launch video when he ran in 2020, and so we're seeing that again that president biden is saying that the threat hasn't gone away and if anything, it's only grown because of january 6th and the insurrection on the capitol because of the very rhetoric from former president trump himself from rhetoric where he says migrants are poisoning the blood of a country and echoing adolf hitler. that is something that the biden

campaign will repeated lead talk about and the attacks on personal freedoms. it's not just attacks on the foundation of the country itself and they'll be hammering not just trump, but the larger republican party, attacks on abortion and potentially other freedoms and possibly birth control and things like that that they see as republicans targeting. >> congressman upton, how much of an audience is there for this message from the biden re-elect campaign. >> january 6th, most people have formed an opinion in terms of what happened. i think you have to look to the future now and you have to look at the issues today and you see many republicans and 60 going down to the border tomorrow or actually it's today or tomorrow to look at the whole immigration issue and of course, that's the lynchpin in terms of trying to keep the government open with a continuing resolution that otherwise expires in just two

weeks with the house coming back next week. that's one of the big lynchpins. trump probably is not going to want to see some type of acceptance on immigration because it's not going to be good enough, and so you will see this dysfunction really propel itself into the next couple of weeks with a real threat of a shutdown across the government with no deal on the spending. the top line spending number still has not been agreed to despite congress being out of session now for three weeks and negotiations were supposed to be happening on the side, but really, there's been no breakthrough at all. january 6th is going to be an issue way back in the past as people look at the issues that confront us literally in the next couple of weeks. >> fred upton, laura barron-lopez, thanks to both of you. ron desantis and nikki haley will take questions from voters in back-to-back cnn town hall events and kaitlan collins and

erin burnett will moderate live at 8:00 eastern time. donald trump's attention has been focused on appealing the many court cases that he's tied up in. we'll discuss whether his legal arguments can hold. plus we are live in chicago as the city takes new steps to deal with busloads of migrants being dropped off at their door and bob menendez being hit with another superseding indictment in his case. hear which country he's accused of taking favors for in exchange for high-dollar gifts. we'l'll be rightht back.

a lot of new legal moves coming from donald trump and his lawyers. last night he appealed maine's decision to remove him from the state's primary ballot. he also asked a federal appeals court to re-hear his immunity argument in the e. jean carroll defamation suit. a new lawsuit in the subversion case as he seeks immunity and in colorado they did not appeal, not yet, but they have a few more hours to get that appeal in which is, of course, expected. cnn legal affairs correspondent paula reid watching this all of this, and by all, i mean there is a lot of it. there is a lot of it, indeed and we are waiting right now, first and foremost for that appeal to

the supreme court on colorado supreme court's decision to remove trump from the ballot. notably, there is actually already an appeal in colorado. technically, trump wouldn't have to appeal. he could let that case go before the supreme court and it would answer the same questions, but in speaking with the team last night he does want to file his own,a own appeal and it's been two weeks and timing is of the essence here because we're trying to get some clarity, right? for the 50 states and of course, the candidates as well on this question of whether he is eligible under section 3 of the 14th amendment of the constitution. there seems to be broad consensus that the supreme court really needs to weigh in here. the republicans in colorado have asked for clarity before super tuesday. so the fact that they've taken over two weeks before filing this appeal is notable, but as you laid out at the beginning of the segment there are a lot of

different cases they're working on and this is a tough balancing test for him through 2024 and possibly beyond trying to balance all of the legal casework with the usual behind the scenes antics and chaos of trump world with all of these critical election deadlines. >> next week we get oral arguments before a federal appeals court and this is in donald trump's effort to get immunity in the federal election fraud case here and they will lay them out and then it becomes how quickly does this appeals court make a decision? >> that is exactly right and the timing is the question and the constitutional arguments that they're going to make. i talked to one of his former attorneys over the weekend and he told us live on air, this immunity argument, this is not going to win. the goal here is to try to delay this case until after the 2024 election and it is unclear how successful they'll be, if this will take enough time to

potentially push this entire trial which was scheduled for march back beyond the election or if it's decided pretty quickly by the court of appeals and the supreme court does whatever it will or will not do here, they still might be able to squeeze in this case. they put it at 50/50 whether this case will go and whether or not we're looking for answers from the court of appeals whether trump has immunity and we saw him doubling down last night in his filing. the bigger question is how long does it take to wrap up this issue so this trial may go forward? >> paula reid, i always get so excited when you say you're exactly right. thank you very much for being with us, as always. let's continue the conversation with us now is former assistant prosecutor and former assistant u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york nick akerman. good morning. what do you make of trump's main filing? >> his main filing, he's trying to throw as much ketchup on the wall as he possibly can and

hopes nobody washes it off. none of these arguments really carry any weight. the 14th amendment is really straightforward. it says that if you have previously taken an oath of office to defend the constitution and engage in an insurrection thereafter, you are no longer qualified to be president. >> is that going to be the issue if the supreme court takes it up? are they going to weigh into that? because that seems to be the issue that legal observers say they're not going to want to get into the politics of this and they'll perhaps choose a more procedural route. >> there's no procedural route here. you have to be 35 years old to be president. you have to live in the united states 14 years. you have to be a natural-born citizen. if you're a president and won twice election for presidency, you can't run a third time. these are self-executing requirements that the constitution sets out and that

people have to be pre-qualified before they can run for president. the issue before the supreme court, the only real issue is was there an insurrection that he engaged in and that's what they have to look at and they're in a very unique position to look at evidence that neither the colorado supreme court looked at or the secretary of state of maine. as essentially the body that oversees the federal grand jury system, they have the right to reach into the washington, d.c., grand jury that brought that election interference criminal case and look at the testimony that's there in camera to be able to review it. look at what mike pence had to say about what happened on january 6th and look at what his lawyer his to say on those particular issues. >> trump's lawyers would say and have said what about our due process? it's not up to the states. it is up to congress to determine how the 14th amendment will be applieded and to that y

say -- >> no, absolutely not. congress says there has to be a two-thirds vote that can take that ability from donald trump. short of that, congress has zero role in this. the amendment is ambiguous and it doesn't just relate to people that were confederates in the civil war. if you have that kind of argument then the 13th amendment passed at the same time which abolished slavery means it only applies to the people who were alive at the time. that is not the way the constitution works. these are rules that cut out the voters. the voters have no role in this. >> if the supreme court picks this up is this something that comes down as one ruling and it provides clarity? is this something that goes back to the states because i would imagine that the chief justice would try to avoid the perception of a partisanship on the court as there has been in

the past. >> absolutely. it will have to be one ruling. the problem is you don't want a patchwork of different state rulings. you need to have one ruling on it. this has never happened before. no one has ever contested any of these prerequisites to be president. there's never been an issue as to someone was foreign born or whether they were actually 35 years old and this was the first time that we've ever had a president that was involved in an insurrection and this has never come up before. the supreme court has got his hands full and there's no question about it, and i think that the way to do this as i said before that the chief justice can get involved with looking at the actual underlying evidence particularly what donald trump's vice president had to say to the grand jury, to me, that would be critical. >> nick akerman and the stakes could not be higher. good to have you.

>> thank you. >> new indictment and the alleged bribes that bob menendez received from qatar and as mike johnson leads a delegation in the southern border today, a look at the northern cities and the situations that they're dealing with there. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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new charges this morning facing bob menendez in a new indictment which supersedes the previous one. prosecutors charged him with receiving gifts from qatar and the bribery and extortion scheme continued into 2023 which is a year longer than initially alleged. menendez and his wife nadine were indicted accused of accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in gold bars, that include money, gold bars, a luxury vehicle and they maintain they did nothing wrong and cnn's kara scannell and there are

more. >> in these new allegations are that the senator took steps that were favorable to qatar in order to help his friend, a new jersey real estate developer who is a co-defendant in this case receive a multimillion dollar investment from the qatari investment fund. according to the indictment menendez made introductions between this developer and a member of the royal qatari family as well as an investor and he made statements praising qatar and told the developer he was issuing a press release so he could tell the qataris it was coming and the evidence according to the indictment is that the qataris were aware of the statement. in addition one of the qatari investors were meeting in london, menendez reached out to that investor saying he was hoping to reach a deal and prosecutors allege that after the fbi had searched menendez's home in 2022 and the subpoenas were sent that menendez took steps to try to cover up these alleged bribes of mortgage

payments and payments for a luxury mercedes benz convertible and he disguised it as loans and overall in this alleged scheme involving both the qatar actions as well as the aid that he gave to egypt, prosecutors say he received gold bars, cash, a luxury mercedes benz convertible and tickets for a formula 1 race and grand prix race in miami and he was shown a luxury watches and one worth as much as $120,000 and the new jersey developer asked him if he was interested in any of them and it is not clear whether menendez had received one and this was just growing allegations facing the senator who has stepped down as chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, but is still a member of that committee. his attorney said that all of the senators' actions were appropriate and they said in a statement last night the government's new allegations stink of desperation. what they have, instead, is a

string of baseless assumptions and conjectures based on routine, lawful contacts between a senator and constituents and foreign officials and that was always based in his professional judgment as to the best interest of the united states because he is and always has been a patriot. menendez and the others have all pleaded not guilty to these charges. john, they're expected to go to trial in just a few months from now in may. >> all right. as i said, it keeps on developing before our eyes. kara scannell, a lot for you to cover. thank you so much. rahel? >> in a couple of hours, 60 republicans will head to the southern border where they're expected to criticize the surge in migrants and demand policy change. in december alone, border patpatrol encountered 275,000 migrants and an issue far reaching and sanctuary cities are overwhelmed by asylum seekers receiving them

by the busload and now cities lake denver, chicago, new york and their suburbs are seeing the influx. veronica, how are these measures going over and what would this look like? >> rahel, certainly a very difficult situation here. as you mentioned cities like chicago, denver and new york they have enacted measures to manage the influx of migrants coming in in order to really get a handle on this, but what's happening is in order to bypass the restrictions of the big cities, now those bus companies, those busses are dropping off migrants in suburbs outside of the city where these cities are just unprepared. they don't have the resources to handle those migrants like in hensdale, a city 20 miles outside of chicago, just a few days before christmas randomly without any notice received several busloads of migrants at a train station so they could

take the train 20 miles into the city. now the suburban cities are passing their own measure. city councils and several of them on tuesday either unanimously passing or on their schedule to create their own measures requiring in some instances several days' notice for these busses to let them know that these migrants are coming or else those busses could be fined, seized and impounded. in joliette they passed. >> this is a tough one because we don't want to seem like we don't care, but we have to move forward and get a handle on all of this. >> suburban cities, some some of them saying they do not have the resources in order to handle the migrants and the influx of migrants getting dropped off and even here in chicago where temperatures have hit freezing overnight and even as i was walking in here it's been

snowing so there have been issues housing migrants in the city and a lot of concerns, rahel? >> veronica miracle live for us in chicago. veronica, thank you. >> new research shows how the uncertainty about how access to medication abortion is driving demand for the bills.

welcome back. a new ruling blocks the biden administration from protecting some abortions in texas. a federal appeals court ruled that doctors in texas are not required to perform emergency abortions even in life-threatening situations and that's contrary to hhs guidance. that guidance instructed medical providers to provide abortion services in life-threatening or health-saving situations and they be protected in states where abortions violate stay law. the decision comes as new research finds that the uncertainty around medication abortion has led to thousands of women preemptively requesting the pills in case they need them in the future. let's bring in cnn medical

correspondent meg tirrell who joins us. meg, how does the supreme court overturning roe, how has that affected demand? >> well, rahel, we know that medication abortion which is when pills are used in early pregnancy up until ten weeks to end pregnancy, that is the most common form of abortion in the united states accounting for more than half of abortions according to the cdc and other data providers. researchers looked at the impact of the overturning of roe v. wade through the dobbs decision on orders of this medication through advanced provision essentially just in case somebody might need it. they looked at data from a company called aid access and this is a group that's the telehealth provider of medication abortion and they found in the two months following the leak of the dobbs decision in may of 2022. you saw a real spike in this advanced provision ordering by ten times. it went from 25 average orders per day to almost 250 in those two months following.

they saw it did come down after the actual decision was released and then again in april of 2023 when this sort of legal uncertainty with one of the medications mifepristone came about and they saw another spike, and so you're really seeing this sort of legal uncertainty leading folks to stockpile this medication. overall they say since september of 2021 they've seen advanced orders for medication abortion pills. >> was it clear where the demand was highest? >> they looked at it by state and by states with different access to abortion and they found the states where there was uncertainty about potential future bans. that is where they saw the highest rates of this advanced provision and so you're really seeing the impacts here of that legal uncertainty in boom trying to access this even when they don't necessarily need it as a precautionary. >> meg tirrell. thank you, meg. so the 16-year-old who is making history as the youngest

person ever to make the final of the world darts championship, which is a thing. ♪ ♪

dart history is about to be made. so luke littler which is sort of the ultimate dart name, is just a few weeks shy of his 17th birthday, and he's doing something no one else his age has ever done. he's made the final round of the world darts championship. cnn's andy scholes is with us now. i know all of the dart reporters are talking about this. >> yes. yes. in my vast dart reporting, this is the most excited i've ever been, john. luke littler started playing darts when he was 18 months old. you fast forward 15 years later and he's on the brink of becoming the world champion and he's doing it by just having incredible composure in front of thousands of people. littler already knocked out the reigning champ, 33-year-old rob cross in impressive fashion and he did that last night and he knocked out two former champions on his way to become the

youngest to ever make the final. littler now faces the number one player in the world, 28-year-old luke humphries who he lost to in a competition when he was 12 years old four years ago and littler has won won $250,000 thus far and he could walk away with another 630 grand if he wins it all tonight. >> it's crazy. it's crazy to even think i'm a world championship in my debut and i could go all of the way. >> does the approach change tomorrow night? you're in the world finals and it's the biggest game in the sport or do what you've been doing? >> do what i've been doing. in the morning have a ham and cheese omelet, have my pizza and that's what i've done every day. >> ham and cheese omelet for breakfast, pizza for lunch and he celebrates wins with a kebab. john, win or lose at the world championships, littler already has the title for the

oldest-looking 16-year-old i've ever seen. >> that's what i was going to say. i was going to get daniel dale to fact check this because he's not 17 yet. really? really? he started with the dart stuff when he was 18 months old? you've got some young kids. how do you feel about 18-month-old kids chucking darts? >> i think he had the ones with the magnets and i'm not sure he had the sharp edges at that point. we have an electronic dart board at my house and my 9-year-old, 7-year-old, 5-year-old are not very accurate. holes all on the wall. >> 10,000 hours. get them practicing and then maybe one day they'll be at the world dart championship and andy scholes, good to see you. thank you very much. >> at the world championship at 16 years old. >> not bad. we are staying on this breaking news out of iran and over 100 people killed that happened at the grave site of qasem soleimani and how this could play out in the wider conflict

in the middle east. we'll be right back.

♪ ♪ ♪ border negotiations are set to pick back up in washington as house speaker mike johnson leads dozens of congressional republicans to the southern border today for a first hand look at the crisis. deadly twin explosions in iran. more than 100 people killed and even more injured, well over 100 injured in two separate blasts. iranian state media reports officials are treating this as a terror attack. >> and the president of harvard is out