Hi, this is Jen Rubin, and this is Jen Rubin's green room. A lot is going on in the news, isn't it?

First of all, some good news. We had two really, really important

decisions out of federal court last Friday, one from the D.C. Circuit Court that held Donald

Trump does not have absolute immunity against civil suits. And the other, even more more important from Judge Chapkin, who is the

judge in Donald Trump's criminal trial set for March 4 on the D.C. charges against him arising

from January 6th. She too helped that he enjoys no absolute immunity from prosecution

because he was president at the time. There's no such thing as a get out of jail card,

she said. And boy, is that important because that was probably his best chance not to avoid entirely prosecution,

but to drag this out past next year's election. Not only because she had such a clear,

well-reasoned decision, but because the appellate court also has weighed in on this, in all likelihood,

he is headed for trial in March of 2024. And that is, as our dear president says, a big

effing deal. That means that before voters go to the polls in 2024 November, they may well learn that Donald Trump is a

convicted felon. And that, despite all the talk that nobody believes anything, his base will never

leave him, Republicans have bought into this, actually will be perhaps determinative in the outcome because

large numbers of voters, believe it or not, still don't want a felon in the White House.

Imagine that. We still have some standards. So that is a very, very positive development.

Meanwhile, the Gaza-Hamas war goes on, and not only does the agony of the Palestinians trapped

in Gaza, because of Hamas, continue, but we are learning more and more, and thank God the

media is covering more and more the

horrors that went on in Israel and that happened to the hostages while they were in Gaza.

For many, many weeks, the UN, human rights groups, much of the media has ignored the sexual

violence that took place in Israel on October 7.

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