all right, hanako montgomery, thank you for being there. the news continues, the sort starts now. see you tomorrow. tonight, straight from the source. donald trump, formally challenging the decision in maine to remove him from its primary ballot based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. and we expect other legal challenges from his team any minute now. plus, a senior leader of hamas, killed an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah warning is released this kind of action inside lebanon s borders won t be tolerated. could this lead to another front in israel s war? and is officially out as harvard s president. her resignation following mounting accusations of plagiarism that began after her controversial testimony on capitol hill about antisemitism on orbits campus. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by mains secretary of state to remove the former president from
killed in an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah mwarning israelis thi won t be tolerated. and claudine gay is officially out as harvard s president. her controversial testimony on capitol hill about anti-semitism. kaitlyn collins is off tonight. this is the source. i m brianna keeler. tonight donald trump s legal team appealing the decision by maine secretary of state to remove the former president from the state s primary ballot. trump, of course, was booted off the primary ballot in colorado. we re still waiting on that appeal. we will have more on this breaking news in just a moment, but it is all unfolding 13 days from the iowa caucuses, where republican voters will have their first say about who they want the party s nominee to be. if you think those court battles are getting in trump s way, think again. not only did he nail down an endorsement today from the second highest majority leader in the house, majority leader steve scalise, but his base is growing mo
so it could happen. i think it s probably unlikely it s going to happen. i think after iowa, you re going to see great pressure on one or two of these candidates, both desantis and haley, to get out if they don t score someplace in the high twenties. i think there s gonna be a great deal of pressure if they re still pulling it 16% of the polls, if they end up with 16% of the vote share on caucus night. it s going to be a big push to get out. yes, and we are going to be looking for that. david, thank you so much. alyssa, maggie, thank you so much to all of you for being with us this evening. thanks for having me. in the meantime, former president trump is now formally challenging the decision to kick him off of the primary ballot in maine, based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. this is one of a growing number of 14th amendment cases working their way through the courts in several states. former federal prosecutor, now cnn senior legal analyst elie
all right, hanako montgomery, thank you for being there. the news continues, the sort starts now. see you tomorrow. tonight, straight from the source. donald trump, formally challenging the decision in maine to remove him from its primary ballot based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. and we expect other legal challenges from his team any minute now. plus, a senior leader of hamas, killed an explosion near beirut, lebanon. hezbollah warning is released this kind of action inside lebanon s borders won t be tolerated. could this lead to another front in israel s war? and
after iowa, you will see great pressure on one or two of these candidates to get out if they don t score someplace in the high 20s. i think there will be a great deal of pressure. if they end up at 16% in the polls, if they end up with 16% of the vote share on the caucus night, it will be a big push to get out. yeah. and we will be looking for that. david, thank you so much. alyssa, maggie, thank you so much for being with us this evening. thanks for having me. in the meantime, former president trump is now formally challenging the decision to kick him off of the primary ballot in maine based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. this is one of the growing number of 14th amendment cases working their way through the courts in several states. now cnn senior legal analyst is with us now to talk about this. in summary, what is the argument that trump is making when it comes to maine? so i just read the brief. it s short. it s sort of short on detail. but the first part of hi