these bombs today exploding feet from the iranian general s tomb. the questions still tonight is who did it. i m kaitlan collins, and this is the source. tonight, donald trump has officially filed that appeal to overturn last month s explosive ruling from colorado s high court that declared he was ineligible to appear on the state s primary ballot, determining that he had engaged in an insurrection. the new appeal tonight is only raising new pressure on the nine justices that you see here to settle this matter once and for all or potentially risk chaos in a presidential election year. with similar battles over the ballot and trump bubbling up in other states as well, we re left with a key question tonight, can the former president be disqualified from holding public office again under the constitution s insurrectionist ban, and do states get to make that decision? trump has also appealed the decision in maine that happened to remove him from its ballot. that was to the stat
could be cut off from electricity, get this, for another month. also tonight, ukrainian forces are making stunning gains on the battlefield, reclaiming territory illegally annexed by vladimir putin just days ago. we will get an update on the war from white house national security official john kirby. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m pamela brown and you re in the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with new developments in the mar-a-lago investigation. an emergency appeal from former president trump to the u.s. supreme court. trump s attorneys are pleading with the justices to intervene in a dispute over more than 100 documents marked as classified. our senior crime and justice reporter has more on this filing. kaitlyn, what exactly does the former president want from the high court here? reporter: well, pamela, what he is asking for is essentially he wants to turn back time. he wants to go
Iran suffered the deadliest terror attack in its modern history on January 3 after a twin suicide attack targeting mourners in Kerman, southeastern Iran commemorating the anniversary of late IRGC Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani’s death killed 91 people and injured more than 280 others.
officials are quick to say it was not the u.s., that they had no indication either that it was israel. this is coming four years to the day since that u.s. air strike took out the iranian revolutionary guards commander soleimani. the bombs detonated today four years after that near his tomb. among the more than 100 killed, many were mourners who were gathered there for the anniversary. iran s supreme leader is now warning that his country will have a harsh response to this. and all of this is coming, and this is the important context here, as iran-backed hezbollah has also been vowing a, quote, limitless response to a strike yesterday that killed a top hamas leader in lebanon. another group backed by iran, houthi militias have launched at least 100 attacks on ships in the red sea just over the last month alone. few have as long as a history in the region as my next guest, john bolton, who served as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations under president george w. bush and of course w