Washington. We begin with a Fox News alert. Hurricane helene as strengthened to a category 4 storm with winds up to 130 miles per hour. Its expected to bring a potentially unsurvivable 20foot Storm Surge and major flooding later tonight and the states big Bend Region. We are praying for everyone in the Storms Path in florida and we bring you the latest updates we will with reporters on the ground throughout this hour. But, first, should have stuck with joe. Thats the focus of tonights angle. Now, for years, at public appearances, Joe Biden was repeating limbself, often speaking in gibberish. Those were the words of ja john, ketanji brown jackson. Repeat the line, will not bring israel will only bog down israel in gaza. Laura well, they are about to contract a wicked case of Buyers Remorse over at the Democrat Party because the new immember Son Swing State poll shows that every battleground is tied except georgia where trump is up by 2. The economy remains the number one issue in all of
With jake tapper starts right now the man trump calls old crow, is flying the coop the leads Ich Mcconnell there with his own 2024 plants, stepping down as Senate Republican leader, though hes going to stay on as a senator from kentucky. The new era of republican politics. Now, loading as a new highstakes restate kicks into gear to replace mcconnell, odds are the winter will likely be an old white guy named John Plus A Monster Wildfire in Texas Exploding at one point burning through 150 football fields a minute charring through land 11 size 11 times the size of washington, dc. Were going to go live on the ground as this fire and wide open land prompts evacuations in its path and President Bidens date with the dr. The report, do any moments after his annual physical welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper. We start with our Politics Lead and the end of an era on capitol hill, senator Mitch Mcconnell, the longest serving Congressional Party leader in american history, announced today hes ste
most significant of our time. it s about who can hold office in our country. a foundational statement on what are the basic qualifications to be president. of which there are three. an american-born citizen, age 35 and older and not an insurrectionist. that question right now is how that last part, the shall not be a traitor part, is defined. as you know, colorado has inked their definition, kicking donald trump off the ballot there. now the supreme court is considering it, and trump s legal team is officially weighing in. they ve submitted their brief to the justices, warning disqualifying the former president from the ballot in colorado would result in chaos and bedlam, their words. the words in question, are all in article 14, section 3 of the constitution. a word salad of an amendment that was ratified in 1868 in the que, no personha be a l war. senator or representative in congress o elector of president and vice presidt or hold any office, civil or military under the un
as donald trump makes a third bid for the white house and is the the first votes are to be cast in iowa in just under two weeks. trump s lawyers say the 234-year unbroken tradition of not prosecuting the presidents for official acts, despite calls to do so from across the political spectrum, provides powerl evidence. no president prior toth donald trump tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. had his attorneys point to the likelihood of mushrooming prosecutions. and future cycles. the ex-the president snlt prolsing retribution. his al lies aren t the ones plotting to end the independence of the justice department. the most audacious argument, one yesterday. on this program donald trump cannot be tri a criminal court for role in the january 6th insurrectn because heas acquitted by the senate during his second impeachment the new york times reports both legal perts have disdegreed with that position. not least because the federal charges he s facing are not analogous
ballot bombshell, the special counsel argues former president trump does not have immunity as another state moves to strike him from the ballot. mr. trump engaged in that insurrection. could the supreme court buy that argument? the constitution could not be any clearer. former january 6th committee member jamie rask inis here exclusively. and closing in, two weeks until iowa and nikki haley is still cleaning up comments about the civil war. her allies say acknowledge it and move on. her opponents disagree. new hampshire is seeing the slippery, slick, nikki haley. how will she fare in new hampshire? governor chris sununu joins me exclusively. american epidemic. this holiday season there s a new public health crisis. isolation. people are feeling more lonely. why and how can we fix it? senat senator chris murphy is here ahead. hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is finishing a wild 2023 and looking ahead to a pivotal 2024. we ar