The Supreme Court says that itll decide the biggest question of all about donald trump and the presidency thats tonight on newsnight good evening. Im abby philip in new york, april 22. Thats a date that you should circle on your calendar. It may go down as a defining day in the history of the republic. Its the de, that the Supreme Court says that it will hear oral arguments on the question hanging over the 2024 election, like a guillotine is donald trump immune from prosecution on charges that he interfered with the 2020 election . Is he immune from anything related to that violent january 6 insurrection that he encouraged . The high court revealed its plan and to dry paragraphs, the justices set out a clear timeline. There one that collides directly with his other trials and with the election that is very much underway. March 19, for example, is the due date for briefs. March 19 is also the day when voters in arizona in florida, in illinois, and kansas, and ohio all head to the polls.
this is a historic moment for the united states supreme court and for american democracy. the justices about to consider whether donald trump is constitutionally barred from being president again. we ll hear the unprecedented arguments and the court s responses live. welcome to cnn s special live coverage of the trump ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court. i m kaitlan collins live outside the supreme court. and i m jake tapper. the nation s highest court will review this landmark case. the division by colorado s supreme court to disqualify former president trump from the 2024 ballot based on what some call the insurrectionist ban 12349th amendment to the u.s. constitution. today the nine justices, three of them nominated by trump, are poised to have the most direct impact on a presidential election since the supreme court decided bush v. gore nearly a quarter sentry ago. now among the questions before the highest court in the land today, did trump incite an insurrecti
border bill. johnson said it is dead on arrival as he reveals a bill for israel alone without a cent for the war against putin in ukraine or the border. top senate negotiator, chris murphy joining us coming up. plus, the pentagon fires off a weekend barrage of preemptive strikes against houthis in yemen after friday night s strikes for the deaths of three u.s. service members. we intend to take additional strikes and additional action to continue to send a clear message that the united states will respond when our forces are attacked or our people are killed. secretary of state blinken has arrived in saudi arabia today starting his fifth shutting mission to the region since october 7th to promote a halt in the fighting in gaza in exchange for a release of hostages. and donald trump widens his lead over president biden in our new poll. steve kornacki is here to break it all down. good day, i m andrea mitchell in washington. senate negotiators from both parties prod
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outside in brooklyn. school is still in session. prompting parents to keep their kids home. bill: nate foye is live in brooklyn. what are you hearing there? good morning. good morning. you can see parents are protesting at ps172 for a second straight day. after a pta meeting last night, many parents are holding a no-show protest holding kids home from school until this policy is reversed. this comes after yesterday where the pta co-president tells me 30% of the school was absent. 142 kids did not show up to school. i m joined now by rosie. she is a concerned grandmother. you have a grandson that goes to the school. you were at the pta meeting last night. what happened at that meeting? many questions were asked by the parents. we didn t get no concrete answers at all. we don t have no information. the mayor s office had a representative at that meeting. what did he say about your concern? most of the time he said he didn t know. he was not sure. no answers at all.