byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
around the world. as well as the region since president trump made his announcement. on the one part, there are those saying it s a bold and courageous decision to kept iran in the box which stretch the tentacles across the mideast. and those who say pulling out on the makes the peace in the region much more difficult and they don t approve. leading the praise is the benjamin netanyahu. he is on a significant visit to moscow to visit vladimir putin. he and others have spoken out with the great support for president trump s decision. president putin said he hopes to prevent further conflict. for iran, yesterday president rouhani said his country was preparing to restart the urrainian enrichment in case the deal collapsed. today, iranian politicians burned american flags in parliament with screams of death to america and the supreme leader addressed trump directly calling for him to go to hell. translator: this man will die and his body will turn
she testified that her supervisor jose rodriguez who made the decision to destroy the videotape of the interrogation that included waterboarding and did this on his own authority. he did it without consulting the c.i.a. director at the time. and they did it because they were concerned that the c.i.a. officers were visible on the tapes and they could leak. i know from my own reporting that to this day, jose rodriguez has stood by that decision. haspel corrected a senior senator on the committee today dianne feinstein confirming that there are 92 or were 92 videotapes of the interrogations but they only applied to a single detainee. he was one of the senior al-qaeda operatives who was captured in the first wave of 9/11. he was the mastermind behind the uss cole attack. that is one of the seminole attacks before 9/11. republicans this morning made
the north korean air space, the three men were thrilled. they are back to the united states and president trump expressed the appreciation for the sign of good will. president trump: a special time. no one thought it would happen. if it did it would be years or decades frankly. nobody thought this was going to happen. i appreciate kim jong un doing this. pompeo said he spent 13 hours in total on the ground in north korea. on the way back he said, i m thrilled that we have them back. i m happy that actually president trump set the conditions for this to happen. and i m thrilled with that. but there is a lot of work to do to achieve our ultimate goal. that, of course, is the summit to denuclearize the korean peninsula and disarm north korea in that sense. to that, a north korean official meeting with mike pompeo in all this said north korea made it a point to say north korea had completed and perfected its nuclear program, that it was making the decision to focus on the economy n
not be there. i want to get it finished. the prize i want is victory for the world. harris: washington correspondent rich edson has more from the state department. rich? good afternoon, harris. secretary of state mike pompeo met for 90 minutes this afternoon with kim jong un. when he left that meeting the reporters traveling with him asked him if he secured the release of the three americans. pompeo would only cross his fingers. shortly after that, an official arrived at the hotel to inform him that kim jong un decided to grant amnesty to release tony kim, kim hak-song and kim dong-chul and added they should be careful not to make the same mistake again because it was a hard decision to release em. they boarded a plane and are seeing a doctor. pompeo said when they made the announcement they were leaving