collision course for the u.s. supreme court and those colorado democrat justices who took aim at the former president. it is set to be an unprecedented showdown after colorado s highest court called trump an insurrectionist and wiped him off the state s primary ballot. i am harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying it s anti-american. and a huge danger to our democracy. colorado could be just the beginning. legal efforts to disqualify the former president are now underway in more than a dozen states. here is a look. the courts don t decide who will be on the ballot. this is the worst case of judicial activism that i ve ever seen. i think the supreme court will take it up and say it is ridiculous because it is. harris: even trump s critics are coming to his defense. former republican governor of ohio john kasich. you have a partisan court all democrats. they barely could say that he should be disqualified. think about the precedent o
degree murder and home invasion in the shooting death of his estranged wife. the tv appearance from three years ago did not come up at the trial but the marital troubles were central to the prosecutor s theory of the motive in that case. thanks for joining us. cnn tonight starts with alisyn camerota right now. that was a plot twist, abby, that i did not see coming. i thought that was your kicker. do not kill your wife. that s not a good idea. thank you for sending us off on that message. we will all take that to heart, abby, thank you very much. see you tomorrow. evening, everyone. we re awaiting the senate vote on the debt ceiling bill. we ll take you live to capitol hill to see if there are any last-minute obstacles. more follow-up to donald trump caught on tape discussing i classified pentagon document about a potential attack on iran. now team trump is trying to defend the former president with an array of different excuses, so we will fact check what they re sayi
numbers. we ll speak with the bishop about that. the new take on the color purple comes out on christmas. what is it that resumes with so many people? we re going to discuss next. we promise we ll get to the color purple. we ll dive deep. but first the iowa caucuses about are three weeks away and republican front-runner donald trump got a win, at least for now, as he battles legal troubles on the campaign trial. on friday there was a denial of jack smith s request to fast-track the former president s immunity case. trump is also waiting for his colorado ballot case to full ya played out. his team appeals to boot him based on 14th amendment rules regarding insurrectionists. we bring in joey jackson. frank question, you tell me, what are the odds trump s name appears on a ballot in colorado in 2024. i do think, danny, there could be many odds in favor of trump, but i think we can t look at this from a political perspective. i guess it has to be because it s an e
to avoid a monday default, simple majority needed in the house and senate. this is a two-year deal, that is hope, dream and handshake you will commit to spending caps. nobody gets everything they want in negotiation. take two trillion savings. ashley: lucas tomlinson has more from washington. good morning. lucas: good morning. more time to watch more racing. debt ceiling deal only passed by a single vote, it needs 218 to pass. speaker mccarthy is confident it will. see where things stand. one democrat, aoc and third of know ares are against the bill. here is some speaking out against it. sending one person into a room with another person and no cameras and they come out and say up or down, take it or leave it, that is not a good process. this is about increasing the credit card for prospective spending. this bill is smoke and mirrors, never are we talking about interest on existing debt. 32 trillion, one trillion is 30 billion. lucas: americans are over trilli
harris. julie: the floodgates are woad open at the southern border. the speaker of house demanding president biden to take executive action on the crisis. the images we see every day are just simply stunning. i m julie banderas in for harris today. thanks for joining us. president biden spoke directly with mexico s president yesterday sending secretary of state antony blinken and secretary of homeland mayorkas there in the next few days. border patrol sources reporting a record number of migrant encounters, 200,000 so far this month alone. an average of about 10,000 a day. those are just the ones we know about. monday alone that number topping 12,000. border patrol agents outmanned by a 200 to one ratio even. wives of agents speaking out on the hardships suffered by those on the front lines. he is infuriated and heartbroken. he has loved his career up until this administration. and we have literally watched our border be handed over. it has become too much. it is overwhel