LEAKY SUB: Shortly after he left the White House, Donald Trump shared what is believed to be classified information about American nuclear submarines with a billionaire Australian businessman at Mar-a-Lago, the former president’s club and residence in Florida ABC News reported in a story confirmed by other news outlets.

  Federal prosecutors working for the special counsel Jack Smith have since interviewed Anthony Pratt, who is a member of Mar-a-Lago as part of their investigation into Trump’s handling of classified documents, according to the news reports. Pratt is now among 80 people who could be called as witnesses against Trump in the criminal trial regarding his handling of classified documents that is scheduled to start in May. 

  Preparing for historic criminal trials of a former president, a coalition group of news organizations has asked a federal court to allow video and audio reporting of the Trump trial in Washington. Federal courts have not allowed television coverage as has become customary in state courts. Federal judges fear being hosts to an OJ Simpson television blockbuster.

  The news outlets including CNN, ABC News, The Associated Press, The New York Times, and Washington Post, asked that if a live stream is not allowed that the court “release visual and audio recordings of proceedings at the conclusion of each day that this matter is heard in Court.”

THE WALL: Facing both a political and humanitarian crisis with illegal migration over the southern border, the Biden administration said yesterday that it will expand former President Donald Trump’s wall on the Mexican border and begin deporting thousands of Venezuelans to stem the migrant surge.

  This is a big reversal for Biden, who’s been under heavy criticism by politicians in the southern border states, and now by political leaders in northern cities like New York and Chicago that have been trying to absorb bus and planeloads of migrants.

  The situation is particularly critical in Chicago, where migrants are sleeping on the floor at the airport and as many as 2,300 are encamped at police stations, in lobbies, and just outside on the sidewalk. And the brutal Chicago winter is coming.

  Notably, Biden is doing a turnaround on his policy of refusing to deport Venezuelans back to their politically fraught country. Just last month, 50,000 Venezuelans crossed the order, a record number, and they are now second only to Mexicans entering the US illegally.

THE WAR ROOM:  A Russian air strike yesterday on the tiny Ukrainian village of Hroza killed 52 people, about 1 in 6 of the local population. It happened while residents were gathered for a memorial service. In his nightly address to the nation President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to struggle describing the attack. He said that to call it “beastly” would be an affront to beasts.

  The village is nearly 30 miles from the front lines and has no evident military value.

THE OBIT PAGE: Dick Butkus, who in the 1960s and 70s was one of the most feared linebackers in the NFL, a one-man wall who could either stop a runner in his tracks or drop back and flatten a receiver, has died at age 80. He is reported to have died at home in Malibu, California.

  He was 6-3, 245, and brutal. Butkus once said, “When I went out on the field to warm up, I would manufacture things to make me mad.” He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979, his first year of eligibility.

  Butkus played eight seasons with the Chicago Bears and later took up acting. In commercials for Miller Lite beer he delivered the slogan “Tastes Great, Less Filling.” He appeared in movies, including “Necessary Roughness” (1991) and “Any Given Sunday” (1999) and had parts in television shows including “My Two Dads” and “Hang Time.”

THE SPIN RACK: The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi “for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all.”  Mohammadi said in a statement released after the announcement, “I will continue to fight against the relentless discrimination, tyranny and gender-based oppression by the oppressive religious government until the liberation of women.” — Donald Trump endorsed Ohio’s firebrand Rep. Jim Jordan for speaker of the House. Jordan is vocal about abandoning military support for Ukraine. Trump also said he would be willing to serve as an interim speaker to unify the party. — George Tyndall, the former University of Southern California gynecologist accused of sexually abusing hundreds of patients over nearly 30 years, was found dead at home in Los Angeles. The 76-year-old Tyndall was facing criminal trial next year. — As many as 80 people were killed in a drone attack in central Syria during a graduation ceremony for military cadets.  Most of the dead were graduates. No one has taken responsibility, but US-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces are suspected.

BELOW THE FOLD: Kansas City tight end Travis Kelce said in his podcast that NFL commentators could focus a little more on the game rather than the presence of his girlfriend Taylor swift in the box seats. “I think they’re overdoing it a little bit for sure,” the 33-year-old Kelce, 33 said.

  Ya think? The football experts mentioned her about a dozen times on Sunday. Kelce was also present on the field.

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