right now on ana cabrera reports, two candidates, two events, two very different messages. president biden and donald trump both holding campaign events around the anniversary of the january 6th attacks. one warning about the stakes of this election, the other remaining defiant. plus, next week mr. be a big one for trump s legal calendar. i ll preview a high stakes hearing in washington and the dramatic conclusion of his civil fraud trial here in new york. also ahead, a winter storm threat for the east coast. millions under weather alerts. who can expect what and when? and later, breaking economic news this morning, new jobs numbers beating expectations. what it signals about our economy in this new year. happy friday, thanks for joining us. it s 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. great to be with you. we begin with president biden and donald trump both returning to the 2024 campaign trail as we prepare to mark three years since the attack on
days after that of her husband, also killed in the massacre. colorado s republican party jumping into the legal fight to keep donald trump on the presidential ballot. the latest on the supreme court appeal that has the u.s. heading for a legal showdown unlike any we have ever seen. it was a year that saw trump surge, biden slip, and the rest of the republican candidates essentially spinning their wheels. 2023 may be nothing compared to what s in store for american politics in 2024. steve kornacki takes a lok back and ahead coming up. we will start overseas with the growing violence inside and outside of gaza. an increasing fear the war could spread. inside central gaza, israel s military offensive is systematically destroying refugee camps for a third straight day as they hunt for hamas terrorists. more than 60,000 people who had been sheltering in those camps now forced to flee south. some on foot, somen donkey carts. israel is warning it could step up attacks i leb
primary contest. how people are reacting. plus, the city of new york ramping up security for the big party in sometimes square. how tensions over fighting in the middle east are playing a major factors. russia launching its largest aerial assault on ukraine since the start of the war. the images coming in as ukraine pleads for more military aid. we re beginning the hour with the new legal showdown over donald trump s eligibility to even be on the ballot. maine s secretary of state issuing a decision last night that the former president can t be a candidate in the primary, because he violated the constitution s insurrection clause. the weight of the evidence, all of the evidence made clear that mr. trump was aware of the by a multi-pronged effort to delegitimize a democratic election, the election of 2020, and then chose to light a match on january 6th. we should note on the same night we got that news from maine, the state of california made the op sid decision sayi
our top stories this hour the ballot ballots destined for the u.s. supreme court. colorado republicans appeal a ruling that would have kept donald trump out of that state s primary cost. so what happens next. plus, new scrutiny for nikki haley, after a voter confronts her with this question what was the cause of the united states civil war? well, don t come with an easy question or anything. so her full response and the damage control she s trying to do today. and the sight of a quadruple murder. today there s a lot of debate about tearing down the house where four college students were brutally killed. we begin the hour with former president donald trump and the efforts to boot him over the ballot over the constitution s so-called insurrection clause. in colorado, the state democratic republican parties is asking the supreme court to consider the issue. maine s secretary of state is due to decide whether trump can be on their state s ballot. the former pres
is seeking to stop the january six committee from obtaining to handwritten notes that he allegedly received from the former president his self. the lawyers have characterized the notes as quintessential privileged material. such communications are protected by attorney client privilege. no word yet on whether the argument will hold up. as the january six committee prepares to take its pro public, it becomes every day that the attack on the capitol was part of a larger scheme to overturn the election results, and that there was a lot more going on behind the scenes. you remember that the ex president and his allies focus most of the detention and election lies on battleground states like arizona, georgia, pennsylvania, where biden s margins a victim were relatively narrow. one wave did not get of way with it was because the governors of those states decide to not be complacent in helping the fraudsters overturn the will of the majority of their voters. those actions, a fire wa