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you've got to watch the report. >> we trust you. >> this is -- >> the most expensive cemetery. >> -- cnn. first this -- welcome to the last week before the first votes. eight days to the iowa caucuses. and the republican frontrunner, donald trump, is expected to spend more time in court than on the trail. january will be a busy one for every one of the candidates,especially donald trump, when you look at this calendar. he's expected in court two times before the iowa caucuses and a second defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll will begin before the new hampshire primary. to this point, trump's legal troubles have not turned into a drag on his support. still with the commanding lead in iowa polling, how does that continue throughout the early election contests? let's get over to kristin holmes who has more on all this. what is this going to look like

for donald trump? what are you hearing from people close to him? >> reporter: let's start with this week because he does not have to be in court. you know, this talk of whether or not trump and his campaign can juggle the politics and the legal, they are choosing to do this. they are choosing to not be on the campaign trail and instead be in a courtroom. let's look at what this week in particular leading up to iowa looks like. tonight he is expected to fly into washington, d.c., so that tomorrow he can sit in on the arguments that his lead team is making to a d.c. appeals court on the immunity -- presidential immunity claim. wednesday he's back out to iowa, he's doing a town hall with fox. thursday, he's in new york listening to those new york civil trial closing arguments in that case. then for the weekend, back in iowa leading up to the caucus. again, he does not have to be here. there are two reasons that donald trump needs to be in court. one is these cases matter deeply to him, and he believes that he has immunity. this is a claim that we have heard him railing on social

media about. he wants to hear those arguments. two, as we've talked about time and time again, he 's felt deeply connect -- he's felt deeply connected to the civil case, goes to the core of him as a human being and a politician. he wants to see how this has played out. something he's been fixated on. the other part that cannot be left out is that there is a real strategy here. there is one way for donald trump to ensure that he takes up all the oxygen from all the candidates on the trail that week -- this week, and that is going to court. going to the cameras as much as possible. giving those media availability. sitting in on those sessions. that is something he knows. they've seen it time and time again, and this goes to an overall strategy of what we are going to see moving forward. again, when i talk to the trump adv advisers, no one is happy that he's caught up in all of these legal issues, that he has all of these trials. but they say they're going to play the hand that's been dealt to them, and that means turning trials and court appearances into campaign events.

kate? >> means lean in hard because there's no other option when you look at that calendar. great to see you, thank you. right now president joe biden is on his way to south carolina to court black voters critical to his re-election efforts. he is set to deliver a speech at mother emanuel ame church, the historically black church that you will remember where nine people were killed by a shooter who opened fire on a bible study group back in 2015. south carolina's primary next month will be biden's first real campaign test. cnn's priscilla alvarez is following the story for us, joining us from charleston, south carolina. good morning to you. there is going -- this is going to be no doubt an emotional moment seeing biden back there at the church where there was that horrific attack by a white supremacist. >> reporter: that's right, sara. he has a deep connection to the state and to this church. this is a moment that the campaign is looking to recharge

and re-energize the campaign. president biden has cited south carolina repeatedly as the state that turned the tide in the 2020 primaries and pointed to the black voters who buoyed his campaign at that time. but polls have since shown that black voters are disengaged and disconnected from the political process. so the goal here is to try to shore up those votes again. and the argument is twofold. the president is going to provide an extension of his speech last friday and talking about preserving democracy and personal freedoms and the risk that former president donald trump poses to all of that, particularly in a location like this one, the mother eman yell ame church -- emanuel ame church where nine people were killed in 2019. campaign officials say cuts to the prices of insulin or -- also

investing in hbcus and the drop in the unemployment rate for black voters, as well. so all of this is going to be folded into his remarks today. but south carolina representative jim clyburn, a key ally and voice for the campaign, has expressed concern saying the campaign hasn't yet broken through the maga wall. that's how he described it. in a followup interview he said what president biden does best issen gauge with voters -- is engage with voters firsthand. the voters can feel him. that is what this location is for. again, the south carolina primary, it's not going to be very competitive this time around, but it will be the first test for president biden where he stand with this key constituency. >> i have to give you kudos. are you competing with an excellent organist there inside of the mother emmanuel church. i see people are gathering there. thank you so much for that. >> terrific accompaniment for that there. with us, chief political correspondent and anchor of "inside politics," dana bash. it's interesting, with president

biden going to charleston todd to deliver the speech about preserving democracy, he's been on the trail calling things like the january 6th rioters who are in prison hostages. so the contrast, it's there. jim clyburn says biden's not breaking through the maga wall yet. how much does the campaign intend to continue? >> it biden campaign will continue and then some. they will continue to step up. look, it is important to remember, and john berman, i don't need to tell you this, we are still -- in fact, we haven't officially started the republican nominating process yet. when donald trump says outrageous things like calling the people who were in jail because they attacked the united states capitol and even democracy itself, calling them hostages when we know, unfortunately, as we speak, there are real hostages being

held, americans even, in places like gaza. it's -- you know, it's mind blowing. but for the people he's appealing to in the short term, it's not a problem necessarily for him. when you talk about if he does get the nomination, the general election, that is an area where the biden campaign thinks that talking about democracy, talking about these issues is baiting donald trump into playing on joe biden's turf. that's a term that one of biden's advisers used to me. but again, it's -- donald trump has got to get from here to there, and we'll see how long that takes or if something that is completely unknown to us happens between now and, you know, when the votes really start to add up in the republican nominating process. >> it is interesting they use that terminology, baiting donald trump to engage like that. saying things like calling the rioters hostages is just that,

it's engaging with biden on the terms of biden setting out. as you noted, right now donald trump is engaged in the nominating process with iowa a week and a day away. there's a big debate i'm told in iowa this week. pretty sure you're going to be there, dana bash, between nikki haley and ron desantis, it's really interesting. we just checked on this. all the spending from donald trump's super pac in the campaign, negative ads on nikki haley, zero dollars in new spending against ron desantis. so what does that tell us? >> reporter: that he sees nikki haley as a threat, not just in iowa but even more so in new hampshire. he did spend a lot of money to discredit and tried to really eliminate ron desantis early on. you remember the super pacs supporting donald trump in particular, and even the campaign really went after ron desantis very hard, even before desantis was an official candidate.

they defined desantis before he could. so it seems as though the trump campaign and people in the trump political orbit feel like that job was done, but it is nikki haley who is on the rise, and they are most concerned about her. maybe not so much in iowa, but definitely in the state of new hampshire which is why you are seeing the spending, you are seeing on ads, but you are seeing his own rhetoric now that he's finally -- at least he was this weekend back on the trail sharpen when it comes to nikki haley. >> yeah. just serial interesting to see all the spending being haley spending, not desantis spending. let's focus on the debate where you will be one of the moderators on wednesday night. these are two people that are going to be there. what should we be looking for in that, dana? >> you know, it is interesting that -- first, you know, yes, it's just those two who are going to come. unfortunately donald trump, obviously, qualified, he has sky 4 issed as he did -- he has qualified as he didding throug

primary process not to participate. what is the goal? the goal is to illuminate for the voters who are going to decide who the republican nominee is, what they stand for, who they are, where they differ, to help these voters decide first and foremost, obviously, where we are going to be in the state of iowa. and there are -- we're seeing a lot of sort of negative personal attacks, but there are really important substantive areas that really matter to people where they disagree. >> it will be really interesting to see the two of them, if they talk more about each other or if they focus on donald trump who will not be there. the last real chance to get a super close look before the caucuses. >> 1five days before. >> thanks for being with us. you can watch dana, of course, later on "inside politics" and on wednesday, if we didn't make it crystal clear, moderating the

cnn republican presidential debate with jake tapper live from iowa. kate? coming up, new concerns israel may have a new front to fight in its war to take out hamas. a senior hezbollah commander killed in an israeli strike in southern lebanon. the new details coming in. we also have new details about the terrifying 20 minutes an alaska airlines jet was in the air, a critical piece of the plane recovered in someone's backyard. and the earlier warning lights on that same jet. the ntsb says they're looking into it. for the first time in more than 50 years, a u.s. lunar lander is rocketing to the moon, and what cremated remains has to do with any of this. we'll be right back.

the ntsb is trying to get to the bottom of the explosive accident on an alaska airlines flight that left behind a refrigerator-sized hole in the plane and of course tearrrified passengers. happened on a max 9 jet. those jets are grounded this morning. hundreds of flights canceled, and an investigation, of course, under way after that chunk of the aircraft blew off in midflight. the fuselage door that was a plug, it ripped off from the side of the plane shortly after it took off from portland, oregon, on friday night. overnight, a portland school teacher found that door plug in his yard. we're learning this plane had just been restricted from certain long-haul flights. cnn with the timeline of exactly

what happened and where the investigation stands this morning. it was very violent when the rapid decompression and the door was expelled out of the plane. >> reporter: new images from the national transportation safety board show the force of the failure on board alaska airlines flight 1282. damaged and contorted seats from a 400 mile-per-hour rush of air through a refrigerator-sized hole ripped in the side of the plane. >> the headrests on 25a and 26a were gone. the extra oxygen mask was sheered off. >> reporter: ntsb chair jennifer homendy said even the cockpit door flew open. >> the time there is a bang, the door flies open. so it did eventually shut, but it did blow open during the explosive decompression. >> reporter: amazingly no passengers were seriously hurt.

>> i woke up to the plane just falling, and i knew it was not just normal turbulence because the masks came down. and that's when the panic definitely started to set in. >> reporter: the flight departed portland international airport at 5:07 p.m. on friday. six minutes in, climbing through 16,000 feet, passengers describe multiple bangs and the loud rush of air, audible as pilots radioed air traffic control to make an emergency landing back in portland. >> descending down to 10,000 -- >> reporter: the plane, a boeing 737 max 9, only months old it took its first flight on october 15th and flew only 150 flights for alaska airlines. investigators say a pressurization warning light came on three previous times including the day before this incident and prompting alaska airlines to restrict the plane from over-water flights. >> it's certainly a concern, and

it's one that we want to dig into. >> reporter: the federal aviation administration has now grounded max 9s until airlines can make new inspections, but the incident has once again thrust boeing under the microscope. two fatal crashes grounded the 737 max for 20 months in the u.s. >> all right. that was pete monteen. with those details, let's talk more about this. aviation analyst myles o'brian, good to see you. let's start with this missing piece, this door plug. they found it in this man's backyard in portland, oregon. the door plug, this piece that blew out, it can help investigators answer what questions? >> yeah. it's crucial, kate. this is one of those cases -- we often talk about crashes where we're looking for the cockpit voice recorder, the flight data recorder, to solve it. this is an investigation that is going to have a lot more to do

with looking at the actual metal, looking at how things were fastened and were those fasteners applied properly. and also going through the paperwork associated with all the work that is done on the aircraft to ensure every nut was tightened properly, that pins were put in and wires and so forth, that would ensure whatever was tightened down was tightened down properly and meant to hold. >> just the -- it's been a couple of days since, but i'm just still hit with what the pilots were experiencing, what the flight crew was experiencing, what the passengers were experiencing. the fact that by happenstance people were not sitting in those direct two seats right where this blew out, it's really just mind-boggling and terrifying that they -- what they all went through. >> yeah, you don't -- you don't want an aircraft to open up a door in flight.

that goes without saying, i think we can all agree on that one. and it would have been noisy, loud, extremely confusing. it would have been cold. a lot of things could happen. a reminder to all of us to please stay buckled when you're sitting in your seat no matter what. this is fairly short after takeoff. most people were, in fact, buckled. as you say, some good news is there weren't people right there. you talk about silver linings here. this happened at 16,000 feet which means the pressure differential between the inside and the outside would have been about two pounds per square inch given the size of the door, that would have been 5,000 pounds of pressure on it. now if they had been at 36,000 feet, it would have been 22,000 pounds of pressure on that same door, and would have been a much more dramatic incident. and incidentally, at 36,000 feet, you have ten seconds of what we call useful

consciousness, whereas at 16,000 feet you've got ten minutes. so the fact that it happened at that altitude is yet another silver lining here. >> absolutely. and i want to play for you -- talked about what we're normally talking about is the search for the black box, the cockpit voice and data recorders, to go through that. one thing we know here is that the cockpit voice recorder, they basically have lost all of the usable material from it because of how it gets overwritten every two hours. for the control room, this is the second sound bite. let me play what the chair of the ntsb said about this today, miles. >> we're disappointed that the cockpit voice recorder was overwritten. we can learn a lot from that cockpit voice recorder. we have urged the faa to extend the cockpit voice recorder time from two hours to 25 hours because we want to hear

communications, noise, alerts on the flight deck which may help us prevent future tragedies. >> jennifer homendy is not happy that this went down this way. what could be on there that now is not, miles? >> yeah, you've hit a pet peeve of mine, as well, kate. to me in this day and age, it's kind of scandalous that we only capture the last two hours with digital data and hard drives, and we don't have looped tapes anymore. we can capture in ebbs czyz of 24 hours -- in excess of 24 hours as recommended. i'm going to take it one step further from the good chairperson and suggest once again that we have video cameras in the cockpits. the pilots union hates these ideas, they consider it an invasion of privacy as they say. well, i don't know about you, but at work i don't consider

that a private place. if what you're doing can involve consequences that leads to the deaths of others, i think you might have to give up a little bit of your so-called privacy. it's high time that we improved the amount of data we got out of these cockpit voice recorders, including video. and for that matter, it should be streaming out of the aircraft in real time. but that's -- you got me on my high horse. >> i'll take you on your high horse any time. thank you so much, miles, so much of the investigation to go. miles will help us walk through it all. john? just in, a powerful house chairman released a resolution recommending hunter biden be held in contempt of congress. so what happens next? and developing this morning, a senior hezbollah leader has been killed by an israeli drone strike in southern lebanon. we have details.

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seen targeted and killed from the outset of the war. there have been fears over the last few weeks of the escalation of that conflict, the potential for it to spill over to lebanon and hezbollah more specifically, further into confrontation with the israeli military, and this may trigger a further response from hezbollah. of course as you mentioned, we heard a senior hebzbollah commander was killed, his car struck in an apparent israeli drone strike. cnn has reached out to the israeli military, no comment yet. we have over the last 24 hours seen israel carrying out strikes on lebanon's southern border area including targeting what appears to have been a hezbollah military compound. this does follow a large-scale attack by hezbollah over the weekend. 62 rockets launched on saturday by hezbollah across the border, the targets, among them a military surveillance base, a crucial target for hezbollah which has long been concerned about israel's ability to carry

out surveillance operations around that southern border area. according to hezbollah, this was a preliminary response to the targeting of senior hamas -- a senior hamas commander tuesday in the southern suburbs of beirut. we did hear from hezbollah's general condemning the strike, describing it as a cowardly assassination. hebsz vhezbollah -- hezbollah vowing if they wage war would be limitless and severe. of course this has raised concerns once again. this conflict could jesk latest further and -- escalate further, something they do not want to see on the border. >> nada, please keep us posted. thank you. all right. joining me global affairs analyst kim dozier. let's begin with a source telling us that a senior hezbollah commander has been killed in an israeli strike in lebanon. what might that mean for

reaction, response, and the potential of a wider war here? >> that's an escalation at a time when the u.s. administration is worried that prime minister netanyahu is looking at the northern border and an attack on lebanon, a greater incursion into lebanon as a way to secure his political support. israel has answered the volley of rockets that nada was talking about from hezbollah to israel's northern territories with another what looks like a targeted assassination. hezbollah, its next step could be targeting haifa. it hasn't done something like that. it hasn't hit any major israeli cities. if that happens, then we are looking at a move toward a greater armed conflict. >> yeah. as people should know, haifa is there on the border. a large city where a lot of people actually fled, worried about the fact that there may be

some sort of conflagration coming from lebanon or between israel and lebanon. i do want to ask you because all of this is happening as antony blinken is in the middle east. netanyahu hasn't been as forthcoming with his stance on what the united states has been giving him advice on which is to do his absolute most in the israeli military, doing their absolutes most to stop -- absolute most to stop killings in gaza. you have blinken there again, one of many trips that he's made to the middle east. he's now in jordan. can you give us a sense of what he might be able to accomplish when you have what appears to be a rift between netanyahu and the united states? >> reporter: each one of these visits is about impressing upon the israeli government that the scenes of destruction that are coming out of gaza are damaging israel's reputation and also damaging the white house's ability to continue to support israel wholeheartedly. we keep hearing from israeli defense officials that they're

going to start to move toward a more targeted phase of this campaign, but over the weekend there was another massive strike that the palestinian hamas-run health authority said killed dozens of people in the jabalia neighborhood, and that's not the kind of image that sends the message that israel is ratcheting back and going for more targeted special operations attacks on individual hamas members. >> yeah, kim. and you know as well as anyone that because it is one of the most densely populated place on earth, those targeted strikes are nearly impossible -- there always are civilian casualties in gaza in any war that i've ever been in on the ground there. it is very, very hard to watch and also to understand what happened on october 7th, as well. there's a lot going on here in the region, and we'll keep in touch with you to try get better analysis. we appreciate it, kim. kate? just moments ago, the top house republican investigating hunter biden just released

details on a resolution to hold the president's son in contempt of congress. we're going to take you live to capitol hill.

this just in -- a first look at the contempt resolution targeting the president's son hunter biden. house oversight chairman republican james comer, he is putting out the details of their move to hold biden in contempt of congress and also a 19-page

report. manu raju is on the hill with the latest. what does there say? >> reporter: yeah it details what it believes is a flagrant violation of law, essentially saying that what hunter biden did by not appearing behind closed doors for a deposition in december was a violation, and that the house should hold him in contempt. that is something that needs to be voted on in both the house committee, which will happen on wednesday, the house oversight committee, as well as the house judiciary committee also taking up this matter. this 19-page report, the republicans argue that hunter biden's deposition would be critical for their investigation into joe biden, president. they're trying to establish that hunter biden took action that could help his -- his father financially or that president biden acted officially in a way to help hunter biden's business dealings, though they have yet to prove that link. they believe that hunter biden's testimony could uncover some of the details that they have been

searching for for months. now in the report they say mr. biden, that's referring to hunter biden's flagrant defense of the committee's deposition subpoenas while choosing to appear nearby on the capitol ground to read a prepared statement on the same matters, it's contemptuous and he must be held accountable for his unlawful actions. the committee goes on to compare what happened in the democratic-controlled house where they are holding trump advisers steve bannon, peter navarro in contempt for defying democratic positions in the house. hunter biden said he would testify publicly, he said that himself, saying he did not want to go behind closed doors because he argued that republicans would have cherry picked and leaked his testimony, he said why not just do it in public? republicans said, you can go in public, but we want you behind closed doors first. so therein lies the tension. next there will be votes in the house committees, and then ultimately on the house floor where house republican leaders believe they have enough support

to hold the president's son in contempt of congress. >> i wanted to ask you, speaking about some growing support potentially, about everything that's swirling around with the homeland security secretary, alejandro mayorkas. and the efforts, the republican efforts to move toward impeaching him. what are you hearing about there now? >> reporter: yeah. in fact, we've spoken to a number of republicans, swing district republicans. there is a growing sense that they are in favor of moving ahead with impeaching alejandro mayorkas given what is happening at the southern border with mexico. this would be a dramatic and extraordinary move. only one other time in american history has a cabinet secretary been impeached, and that was the secretary of war back in the mid 1800s. republicans say that he is violating his oath of office because of what we're seeing as the uptick in border crossings along the southern border with mexico. democrats say there is absolutely no grounds to impeach mayorkas given that the dispute in large part is a policy

dispute between the two sides, not something that would rise to the level of charging the homeland security secretary with a high crime or misdemeanor. but nevertheless, in talking to members including new york republican freshmen, those who come from swing districts, some of them tell me along with my colleagues in a report we just put out about the fact that they believe that they are in favor of moving ahead with impeachment, and others signaling that they want moderates, signaling they will watch proceedings closely and are open to that, as well. so kate, you're seeing a shift on that approach while many of those members uncertain about impeaching joe biden, but they're saying as immigration becomes a dominant issue that it's time to go ahead on the mayorkas effort. >> interesting to see how these are happening on the different tracks that they're taking. it's something very different to move to impeach the president. still, great reporting. thank you so much. ahead, the lunar lander that launched from the u.s. hours ago is now experiencing a, quote,

anomaly. what does that mean? we'll give you the very latest on what's happening in space next. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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and creepy ads that follow youa from google and other companie. and there's no catch. it's fre. we make money from ads, but they don't follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. just in, a new filing there donald trump's legal team not in the federal election case, but in georgia, but the filing is calling for some of the same grounds for dismissal that he is in the federal case. he's saying the georgia case should be dismissed because trump and his legal team says he has some kind of presidential immunity for actions he took around january 6. cnn's nick valencia is live in atlanta with the very latest. nick, what are you hearing? >> reporter: yeah, good morning.

a bombshell filing and frankly one that we had been anticipating from the former president and his defense team here with his case related to the georgia election subversion case. as you mentioned, he's claiming that he should be immune from those state charges because these charges happened while he was serving as the president of the united states. it is similar to the claim and motion he filed in his federal hearing, and we should note that that hearing will be on tuesday. president trump tweeted -- he office his truth social saying he is expecting to be in person for that federal hearing. but listen to what his attorney had to say to us a moment ago after that immunity filing was put on the docket, quote, president trump has filed three persuasive meritorious pretrial motions seeking a complete dismissal of the indictment and thus an end to the fulton county district attorney's politically based prosecution. also still pending is president trump's first amendment as applied challenge which seeks the same relief. we're going through this filing here, over 140 pages, from his defense attorney.

bottom line here is the former president is seeking to get the georgia case dismissed because he's claiming presidential immunity. a district attorney we haven't heard from fanny -- fan i willis but saying claims of interference that this would go on during the primary, that is not a reason to dismiss the case. >> these are the same arguments that will go before a federal appeals court panel tomorrow. you're going to be able to hear those arguments here. as our senior legal analyst elie honig noticed this will hinge on whether donald trump can prove that the actions he took were part of his government role as president of the united states and not a campaign role. up until this point, every court that's weighed in on any type of this issue for any person involved with january 6th, either in a civil version or a criminal version, have decided this is not part of any government action. we'll see whether the appeals court feels differently tomorrow.

nick valencia bringing us the breaking news. the filing to dismiss the case on immunity grounds in georgia. thank you so much. kate? >> keeping a close eye that. also, a you in lunar mission and already an update today. we just learned that the first american-made spacecraft to attempt a landing on the moon since the apollo program, that mission has suffered what is being called an anomaly. the never-before-flown vulcan rocket launched just a few hours ago. it's carrying what is the first moon lander to launch from the united states since 1972. let's go to cnn's kristen fisher for much more on this. an anomaly mid flight. is the whole mission at risk now? >> reporter: it's just too soon to say, kate. it's certainly not good. to be clear here, the rocket that propelled the spacecraft into space, united launch alliances' vulcan rocket, the first flight for the rocket. the rocket itself performed well. that launch was a success. the problem now, this anomaly, as they like to say in space

terms, this anomaly occurred with astrobotics peregrine lunar l lander, the rocket propelled into space. on its way to the moon it experienced this anomaly. i'll read the statement that the company just put out. they say, quote, unfortunately an anomaly then occurred which prevented astrobotsic from achieving a stable sun pointing orientation. the team is responding in real-time as the situation unfolds and will be providing alleys as more data is obtained and analyzed. so it's unclear exactly how bad this anomaly is. it did happen after a successful separation from the rocket and the spacecraft. so that's some good news there. but you know, kate, so much money, so much time went into this mission. the very first american-made spacecraft to attempt to land on the surface of the moon since the end of the aprevail program in 19 -- apollo program in 1972. and there's so much nasa technology, nasa's a paying customer on this mission.

so much nasa technology on board this spacecraft. but also there's some other more unusual payloads, kate, like cremated human remains that are on board this spacecraft destined for what was supposed to be a lunar burial. so very unclear now what happens to those remains and also all the technology inside the lunar lander itself, kate. >> yeah. there's a lot going on with this to say the least. first and foremost need learn more about this anomaly. i know you're all over it. we'll stay in close touch. thank you so much. we are learning new details surrounding that terrifying mid-flight incident on an alaska airlines plane. federal investigators say that they have now found that huge missing chunk of the plane that fell from the boeing 737 max 9 jet. the latest on the investigation is just ahead. to duckduckgo on all your devie

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by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. the breaking news just moments ago. donald trump's legal team in georgia filing a motion to dismiss the case saying trump should be immune for actions he took on january 6th. this is the same type of argument a federal appeals court will hear tomorrow. plus, an explosive decompression. the door plug of an alaska airlines flight blows off mid flight leaving a refrigerator-size hole in the plane. that missing piece has now been found. new details on the aircraft and the investigation. it is the final week before the iowa caucuses, and one new and late addition to the campaign trail -- severe winter weather. campaign events already being el