i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
the issue is relatively straightforward. on the other hand, it could be, you know, it could be 1-2, but i don t think it will be much more split than that. well, you know, and i hope people will replay your answer here because did you lay it. there are many say it s circular. you scoff if you say you can t have the president as an overs but it s important for people to hear all the details as you lay them out. we do have some reporting separate from the issue of being on the ballot, the issue of immunity itself and the doj case january 6 against trump. a source tells cnn he ll be attending next week s court arguments on presidential immunity and his side is saying he can t be prosecuted for official acts as president. you were among more than a dozen attorneys and former government officials who signed on to a friend of the court brenchings an amicus brief filed in the d.c. circuit court of appeals to argue against trump s claim immunity, you think he can be prosecuted, so why do you
unlike the principle forever honored in america in the last 250 years or so, that no man is above the law, you know, that contrary to that belief that he is, and he s wrong. all right. ty cobb, thank you investment we appreciate it as always. and next two bombs in iran kill more than 100 people. tonight calls for retaliation. iran blaming the united states begging the very serious question now for all of us of whether we re on brink of a much bigger global war. and 12 days until the iowa caucuses ran desantis ramping up his attacks not against the front-runner donald trump. i think he needs to go after trump, and i don t see him doing it. plus, breaking news. dozens of documents connected to accused sex trafficker jeffrey epstein were just released. going through them now, possibly including the identities of some of his very well-known associates.
take a look at meat. last week the secretary of state there announced trump would be cut from the maine primary ballot. trump is appealing that decision as well and another challenge to trump s eligibility for office is now before the top court in the state of oregon. in a moment i m going to speak to the former trump white house attorney ty cobb but i want to break with the breaking news with paula reid outfront live in washington. paula, this appeal coming in the colorado case which was the crucial canary in the coal mine for this, right, perhaps led to then what happened in meat. what can you tell us from your reporting about the appeal and what happens from here? so the way the trump team has framed this, they are asking the supreme court to return to voters the ability to choose the candidate they want. they argue that the colorado supreme court s decision to remove trump from the ballot was the first time in this country s history that the judiciary has prevented voters from
law enforcement and to stay peaceful and remain peaceful. here s trump leading up to january 6. but have you to fight hard and then you fight hard and you hit them back. we have to fight? now is the time to fight harder than ever before. if you don t fight to save your country with everything you have, you re not doing have a country left. on the day of the insurrection here is donald trump in his own words. fight. fight, fight. fighting, fight. so i d fight. they would fight. fight, fighting. we fight. we fight like hell. fight like hell. trump mentioned the word fight 16 times he said the word fight in the minutes before his supporters stormed the u.s. capitol. now today s filing by trump thrust the supreme court into having to resolve an unprecedented legal issue and it s one that will affect not only the election in colorado but also entire election itself.