threats after banning donald trump from the ballot. we ve got the details. also the political fallout. americans freed in a prisoner swap with venezuela arrive in texas. what we know about this deal, and who the u.s. handed over in exchange. also ahead, an estimated 20,000 now believed killed in gaza as fighting between israel and hamas rages on. this as talks to broker another pause in the fighting appear to stall. and today is expected to be the single busiest travel day ahead of christmas, but are the airports ready for the rush? hello, it is friday eve. we are almost there. thank you for joining us at 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. new fallout this morning from that bombshell supreme court in colorado, decision barring donald trump from the ballot. in the 24 hours since that decision was made public, social media sites have been flooded with new and alarming threats against the justices on that court, according to a report obtained by nbc
recording pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election results. overseas, police release body camera video about the shooting in prague that left 14 people dead. back here in the u.s., the humanitarian crisis at the border reaching record levels after a week of never before seen numbers of people crossing into the united states. and we begin this hour with yet another report of detailing former president trump s alleged efforts to halt the certification of the 2020 presidential election. new recordings reportedly detail trump pressuring canvassers in michigan to not certify the state s 2020 election results, which he lost. he reportedly told them, quote, we can t let these people take our country away from us. the detroit news says the recordings were made by someone presen f the conversation, but were obtained by intermediary who was not present. nbc news has not heard or verified the recordings. in response, the trump campaign says, quote, a
during transfer. tomorrow night, navalny s daughter, dasha, will be out front. wewe ll see yoyou thenen. thanksks for joining us. thanksks for joining us. anderson starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, the supreme court might soon decide an issue that could make criminal charges against the former president simply vanish. so, why is he telling the court, hey, not so fast when it comes to taking up the case? also tonight, was colorado supreme court right to boot him off the ballot under the 14th amendment? we re going to ask the voters. just in time for christmas, a judge rules that rudy giuliani defamed with his election lies can start trying to collect that nearly $150 million he owes them right now. good evening. i m pamela brown in for anderson tonight. first up, why the former president s legal team today asked the supreme court not to bypass an appeals court and quickly take up the question of whether he enjoys legal immunity for h
married up, dude. i sure did. thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. in the year 2000 george bush became the first president in more than 100 years to win the presidency and lose the popular vote. in 2016 donald trump became the second. now, what made both of those victories even possible at the expense of the popular vote was the electoral college. but in 2000 it wasn t just the electoral college. it was also the supreme court. the 2000 election came down to the state of florida, the margin between al gore and george bush was 537 votes, a number that remains staggering to this day. and even though al gore had won the popular vote by more than half a million votes, whether those 537 votes in florida did or did not get counted would decide the race. and after a flurry of legal challenges and appeals, that decision ended up in the hands of the supreme court. the supreme court hasn t been asked to decide the election, but their decision just might do just that.
trump incited the insurrection and there s no loophole in the constitution. to hold that there s a loophole for the president in the constitution would basically say donald trump is above the law when he engages in rebellion and insurrection. i think that s wrong. colorado secretary of state jenna griswald on trump s disqualification from her state s ballot. and now a compromised supreme court shaped by trump will decide his fate on that and his claim of presidential immunity in the election interference case. and predictable response from trump s maga allies, let the people decide, they say. after all of them tried to overturn the will of the voters last time. plus, trump s obsession with pure blood, which is now part of his increasingly fascist stump speech. but we begin tonight with the consequences of insurrection. because lately it doesn t seem like there have been many for politicians who participated in them. but there absolutely have been some. let s start