this is a historic moment for the united states supreme court and for american democracy. the justices about to consider whether donald trump is constitutionally barred from being president again. we ll hear the unprecedented arguments and the court s responses live. welcome to cnn s special live coverage of the trump ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court. i m kaitlan collins live outside the supreme court. and i m jake tapper. the nation s highest court will review this landmark case. the division by colorado s supreme court to disqualify former president trump from the 2024 ballot based on what some call the insurrectionist ban 12349th amendment to the u.s. constitution. today the nine justices, three of them nominated by trump, are poised to have the most direct impact on a presidential election since the supreme court decided bush v. gore nearly a quarter sentry ago. now among the questions before the highest court in the land today, did trump incite an insurrecti
night in a stunning rebuke. it was a mess what happened here, but we re cleaning it up. the chasm between the two parties is wider than it s ever been. where does washington go now on issues millions of americans care about? plus, can donald trump be kept off the colorado s primary ballot for his role leading up to the january 6th attack on the capitol. that s the high-stakes question that will be argued before the supreme court tomorrow. what to expect in court and the critical implications for the decision. a defiant prime minister bibi netanyahu just moments ago telling the world israel will not stop until all of hamas is gone from gaza. those comments coming after a new hamas counterproposal for a cease fire and hostage deal, so what happens now? but we begin on capitol hill where chaos is winning in a battle over compromise. as soon as an hour from now, the senate will vote on whether to proceed with a $118 billion national security package including for the bo
repercussions for the election this year and also for the future of american democracy. it is arguably the most important election case to reach the supreme court since bush v gore nearly a quarter century ago. the question before the court is pretty simple actually. does section 3 of the 14th amendment, which bars, quote, an officer of the united states who, quote, engaged in insurrection from holding public office actually apply to the man who incited the january 6th riot, who tried to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power for the first time since the civil war. the colorado state supreme court has already ruled that, yes, trump should be barred from the ballot in that state based on the insurrection that he clearly engaged in. quote, president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the secretary to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot
in the words of one republican senator tonight, quote, i m just pissed off. lisa murkowski is hardly the only one in her party that feels that way right now and is completely exasperated what s been happening on capitol hill. in just the last 24 hours her party lined up to sink the border bill one of their own negotiated for months. you can hear the frustration in that senator s voice, james lankford, of oklahoma how he lamented the politics have overtaken the policy. this is the pen that i was handed at that desk when i was sworn in to the united states senate. there s no reason for me to have this pen if we re just going to do press conferences. i can do press conferences from anywhere, but we can only make law from this room. no law s being made right now. senator mitch mcconnell was even among the no votes today even after he helped craft this bill, but that was after it was made clear it was not going anywhere. tonight many in the republican conference are sounding t
around that time, scientists learned something extraordinary. whales were communicating with each other. sometimes by song over long distances. in part, because of that discovery, scientists and conservationists rallied to enact laws to protect the whales and it worked. the humpback whale population has made a remarkable comeback. now they face a host of new threats. global warming is killing off their food source and human activity is causing thousands of whale deaths a year from the stress of underwater construction noise to fishing entang amments and ship collisions. in the next hour, cnn s bill weir takes us to antarctica, a place very few get to visit to study these remarkable creatures and show us why saving the whales may also be saving the planet. because they are one of our best partners in battling climate change. reporter: those are the songs of humpback whales, flying about 15 billion miles away from earth, on the off chance intelligent life out there wants to