Eight state delegates. And the last time is or republicans have caucus delicate to delegates was back in 2012, but this time around they switched the partys president ial nominating system to caucus after failing to set up a primary during last years legislative session. The rest of michigans delegates, 39 and all, were also awarded to trump today. Amid a complicating and Chaotic Convention process. Well talk about that later. You remember trump already won this weeks Michigan Republican primary. But again, as i mentioned, it is complicated this year. Since republicans hosted both ab primary as well as a caucus. To award their states delegates. That, of course, is because the state of chaos and Michigan State voted last throw to move their president ial primary up to february but that didnt fall in line with what republicans wanted and certainly the Republican National conventions rolls. So local and National Party officials basically landed on this Hybrid Method that we are watching p
Viewers. Thanks for watching. Im wolf blitzer in the situation room. The news continues next on cnn outfront next, the Supreme Court hands trump a win and we are now just hours away from the biggest de and the campaign. Yet, Super Tuesday, then tonight a competent trump celebrating high courts decision to keep him on ballots nationwide. Plus the price of loyalty to trump. Two of the former president s top aides are now facing prison time and a new guilty plea could put more of trumps inner circle in jeopardy and seizing Ukraine Russia is rolling out a new map that consumes much of the entire country of ukraine. Tonight, you go to the front lines where putins men are facing little resistance tonight. Lets go outfront and good evening. Im Erin Burnett Outfront tonight. The Supreme Court does it again, handing another major wind, donald trump, allowing him to stay on the colorado ballot and choosing to ignore the question at the heart of the case, which is whether trump is an insurrection
B is august. He has made an immunity argument, the same argument that is made in d. C. One minor difference. He wasnt president. His argument is, but i took the documents while i was president. I have said, that is like a bank robber saying you know, i legally got the gun that i used to rob the bank. Right. I was a customer of the bank when they went in and took the money. Everything is just such an irrelevancy. But hes got judge cannon and so the question is whether judge cannon will sit on that, whether she will grant it, or if she denies it and says but its not a frivolous argument, meaning all of these delays of appeal that we have seen in the d. C. Case, don trump is going to try that, of course. Same road. Back to the Supreme Court. Its much harder factual argument. But, thats not the issue. Just remember, we were all sitting here going, hes arguing that he can order s. E. A. L. Team six to kill a political important opponent and were going as absolutely laughable laughable. A no
Classified documents case to begin on august 12th. That is correct. Donald trump asked for that trial to start just three months before the president ial election. Except, that request may not exactly be what it sounds like. It could very well be a game of 3d chess. It does not sound like something trump placed on that often, but play with me here. Trump pitching that august date could be a way of trying to block the other federal criminal case, the Special Counsels much more serious a federal Election Interference case from going to trial before the election. Yesterday we got that massive news, the Supreme Court has agreed to hear trumps argument, that those criminal trials in the d. C. Case should be thrown out because a president ial immunity. But the court did not schedule oral arguments on that case to start until the week of april 20 seconds. Because of that delay, even if the Supreme Court decides this case incredibly quickly, this Election Interference case most likely could no
Boston the fog of Todays Supreme Court news is the hard fact that donald trump is still scheduled to go to trial In Manhattan On March 25th to Face Criminal Charges in his first Criminal Trial, charges that he tried to effect the results of the 2016 president ial election i by making Hush Money Payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who will likely become one of the star witnesses against donald trump in that trial, a witness who even Donald Trumps followers will have no problem understanding what she describes donald trump did with her alone in a hotel room while his wife was pregnant. And when she describes how donald trump delivered his Hush Money Payments to her. And i think r. That the Supreme Court did today is helping donald trump get out of the crushing weight of half A Billion Dollars of civil judgments he is now facing in new york. Today, donald trump said cihe i not rich enough to pay those judgments, after previously testifying under oath that he is rich enough to pay those