and on that note, i wish you all a very, very good night. it is an honor to be back with you. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me. i will see you at the end of tomorrow. with news out of colorado, the state supreme court has ruled that state donald trump should be removed from the 2024 republican primary ballot. since january 6th, there has been plenty of discussion and legal circles and even some excitement about section three of the 14th amendment of the constitution, which bans insurrectionists and people who have aided insurrectionists from holding office. there has been a whole lot of interest into whether this section of the amendment might bar donald trump from running from office because of his role in the january 6th insurrection. the minnesota state court dismissed the idea. over in michigan, a judge ruled trump could not be taken off that state s ballot. in total, 14th amendment suits to disqualify t
viewed justice clarence thomas as key to stopping the certification of the election. the former director of national intelligence is my guest tonight. let s go outfront. and good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, biden s major speech this hour, with just six days until election day, president biden any moment now will deliver a major speech. the topic is the threat to democracy, and it comes on the heels of a violent attack on the house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. biden betting this will turn the tide of the midterms. but as he prepares to speak, only 9% of likely voters say voting rights and election integrity are the most important issues to them. 51% say the economy is their number one concern. 51%. and today that issue was front burner. the fed raising interest rates by another three-quarters of a percentage point. rates have been rising at an unprecedented pace with mortgage rates above 7% for the first time in 20 years. you can see the stage
secretaries of state across the country have really stressed that you need to have patience, especially in states like pennsylvania where we can t begin processing mail-in ballot envelopes until election morning in a state that s so evenly divided and with a very close senate race on the horizon. so you could be looking at days, whether it s there or arizona or other states, georgia, whether it goes to a runoff. all right, thank you all so very much. i appreciate your time. and, next, just in, the wall street journal is reporting now that trump aide kash patel has been granted immunity and will soon testify before a grand jury regarding the classified documents seized at trump s mar-a-lago. you get immunity when they know you have something to give them, this is very significant. plus, a power struggle inside russia. the leader of putin s private army, a man that we have been telling you about for months, is now using russia s failures on the battlefield to gain
prosecution is going to want to focus on when he does appear before the grand jury. so, you ve got this breaking news on kash patel. and then you have some newly released emails that show that trump attorneys back in 2020 describe supreme court justice clarence thomas as, quote, key to their plot to delay congress from certifying biden s victory. how did trump s lawyers hope this would play out? they were hoping this was a sort of a flyer they were taking. they were hoping that clarence thomas, that justice thomas, would be the person who could at least put on hold the certification of one of these states and, again, give an opportunity for the delay on january 6th and perhaps open the door for the former president to remain in power. of course, this is an email from kenneth chase, one of the other trump attorneys at the time. and they acknowledged, however, that this was a very small
erin, it signifies that in this investigation of the classified documents that the department of justice has found there is probable cause that crimes were committed when these documents were removed from the white house to mar-a-lago, that kash patel himself has some fear of self-incrimination. that s why you you get an immunity order because what you have to say could get you in criminal trouble. and, erin, i think here it also signifies grave criminal peril for donald trump. because it s pretty unusual to give this immunity to a witness. it means it will be very difficult for them unless he lies to prosecute kash patel. why do you do that? because you think a witness has incriminating information about someone else. right. and that person obviously here it s very clear who it is.