reinforce or dismantle the colorado supreme court s order excluding the former president from the ballot in that state. effectively punishing trump for a crime which he has neither been criminally charged for convicted. dana: as soon as it begins we ll listen to it live. until then our fox team coverage continues. we have andy mccarthy, jonathan turley, and kerri and joining us is karl rove and andrew. one of the things i wanted to start with you on, andrew, set the stage about how unprecedented this is and what this moment could actually mean. i think it s very interesting to think about today through the lens of donald trump. the justices are thinking about what this ruling does for decades or even hundreds of years to come. this is a precedent we ve never had before. what happens when states challenge candidates for presidential office? this is not just a donald trump issue. this is every single election that will come from here on out. i don t think that the justices
that tweet, be there, we will be wild. it was a tweet that set up a violent chain reaction that resulted in a deadly attack on our government. cnn is not reporting the special counsel is asking witnesses about a contentious oval office meeting on december 18th, 2020. more than a month after the election, and mere days after the electoral college made official the decision of the american people. in short, that trump had lost the election. in that moment, the disgraced ex-president had two paths. he had door number one, admit head on that his campaign met the end of the line, keep in pace simple peaceful transfer of power. behind door number two, not just fall, but vaults into the abyss, commit to antidemocratic measures. of course, we all know the rest of the story. on this night in december, this crucial juncture, the six-hour cage match essentially unfolded deep inside the white house. on one side, it would summon trump s own white house team, quote, crazy. as you know, peo
president zelensky is accused nature of weakness and uncertainty over the reluctance of some members to set a timetable for ukraine to join the military alliance. nato leaders meeting in lithuania have agreed they can try but only when certain conditions are met. nato secretary general the sun has said the alliance has never sent a stronger political and practical message about partnership but made clear they could notjoin while it was still at war with russia. our europe editor katya adler sent this report from the summit in vilnius. disappointed, volodymyr zelensky put on a brave face today for supporters in the lithuanian capital. translation: i came here today believing in partners, in a nato that does not waste time. ukraine will make nato stronger. nato will make ukraine safer. a very different tone from his tweet earlier in the day, when he blasted the military alliance as absurd and weak for not agreeing a timetable for kyiv to join the club. as confirmed by nato s
to fit it all into one. so on friday night, there was a much anticipated round of retail tory airstrikes against iranian back militias. the u.s. also says there are more on the way. at a time like this, there is literally no one better to talk to the national security advisor jake sullivan, and he s going to join me in just a few minutes. there was also a big development this week in jack smith s election interference case, as it slid off the march calendar. in a large part, because we still don t have a decision on trump s claim of presidential immunity. should we be freaking, out should we not be freaking out? everyone s favorite law firm of weissmann and cocktail is going to tell us how we should be feeling. and later this, our wriggling to dig into the absolutely shocking level of hypocrisy for republicans in the house this week. congressman dan goldman has certainly not held back in calling it out. i m looking forward to breaking it all down with him. and later, presiden
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i