ballot. trump vowing to swiftly appeal. it s a crucial ruling. will other states follow? also breaking tonight, israel says it s ready for a week-long pause in the fighting for the exchange of release of more hostages and the live, spectacular pictures from iceland, lava at one point flowing so past it could fill an olympic sized pool in 20 seconds. we are live with fred pleitgen. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news and this is important. the colorado supreme court ruling just moments ago that former president trump should be removed from colorado s primary ballot. the consequences of this decision be obviously enormous. the court upholding a trial judge s decision that trump engaged in the january 6th insurrection, and the colorado supreme court saying that therefore, he engaged in the insur eksz and he is not qualified to be a presidential candidate because of the 14th amendment insureccist ban. it says a person is inel
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Want. While some iowans want to see policy comparisons, others dont want moderators and other candidates getting in the way of their guy guywell that megyn kelley. When she talks you can tell right off shes against him. The result is an environment he controls completely where he can say what he wants unchallenged. Trump supporter at the same time . Oh thats good. Hell draw the crowd over there. Yeah. Yeah. I like that. Hahaha. Hes smart. I have full faith and trust in me donald trump to do the right thing and im behind him 110 percent. Former George W Bush White House Press secretary Ari Fleischer says marco rubio could have an opportunity tonight to make it all abut him and ted cruz. And make up ground heading into the caucuses monday night. In des another celebrity came to the corridor today to campaign for one of the leading democrats. Actress Susan Sarandon spoke at a luncheon in marion on behalf of senator bernie sanders. The event at mjs was put on by women for bernie. Sarandon
Hamas militants [ gunfire ] there they are. Hamas militants in gaza keep unleashing rocket attacks on israel and get alarmingly close to jerusalem. A new provocation as they continue the air assault on what it calls terrorist targets in za. The death toll i rising along wiars of anallout Israeli Ground invasion. The Israeli Cabinet has just approved the callup of 75,000 Army Reservists in addition to the troops already positioned along the border with gaza. A visit to gaza by egypts Prime Minister failed to stop the bombardment and pull the region from the brink of allout war. U. S. Officials blame hamas for starting this conflict. But they are also urging to be measured in its response. The defense secretary leon panetta says israel and the palestinians need to negotiate a more permanent piece his words, a more permanent piece in the region. Our pentagon correspondent barbara starrs been watching whats going on. Barbara, what is the u. S. Military most concerned about right now . Wolf
Im wolf blitzer. Youre in the situation room. We begin with president obama getting into a new fight with republicans and its a fight he may actually lose. This afternoon in detroit, the president blasted a package of antiunion bills. Michigan republicans, governor, is ush pushing through his states legislature. What we shouldnt do, i just got to say this, what we shouldnt be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages and working conditions. Even though the cheering went on for nearly half a minute, it looks like those antiunion bills may, in fact, have enough support to pass michigans legislature, despite Union Threats of massive demonstrations. Cnns alison kosik is in the capital, lance, watching whats going on. Explain what the fight is all about, why its so intense. Reporter well, first of all, here at the Michigan State capit capital, its more about the calm before the storm. Those demonstrations of thousands of people descending on the state capitol. Pol