those datetes will be e reresch. ac 360 starts right now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, breaking news, the supreme court takes the case that could knock the name donald trump off at least one state ballot and possibly redefine parts of the constitution. also tonight, president biden launching his campaign year with a full floated accusation saying the former president is, quote, willing to sacrifice democracy to put himself in power. and the latest batch of documents from the files of jeffrey epstein, that and new reporting. thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news. the supreme court tonight agreeing to review the colorado supreme court decision, which labels the former president an insurrectionist and bars him from the ballot. it comes on the eve of the third anniversary of that insurrection. the news also caps a day that saw the current president speaking bluntly and at length about what he sees as the ongoing threat his opponent
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 appeal that they made? well, anderson, one of the first things that the president s lawyers take on is the idea that he is an insurrectionist, which is something that the colorado supreme court had ruled. they say he is not, that the january 6th attack was not an insurrection, and that the former president did not engage in insurrection. they also say that the congress, not state courts, should be the ones that determine the eligibility for the presidency. they also say that the 14th amendment, the letter, if you read the 14th amendment, section three, it doesn t mention the office of the presidency and it doesn t apply, they say, to the former president. i will read you a little more of what they argue. they say that this colorado ruling, if allowed to stand, will mark the first time in the history of the united states the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major party presidential candidate. and obviously, that is what is at stake her
just in, brand-new charges against bob menendez of new jersey, going further then the accusations of the luxury cars and cold hard cash, now another country is in the pockets of the new jersey senator, allegedly. the scramble to learn how two planes ended up on a collision course before bursting into flames, video shows the panic on the passenger plane as nearly 400 people on board s escaped alive, and later, breaking news, the first major court filing for donald trump just a short while ago, as his team appealed the decision to remove him from the states primary ballot, this is just one of many legal issues facing mr. trump, colliding with the 2024 presidential election. what is trump s team basing this appeal in maine on? reporter: what they are saying is the main secretary of state exceeded her authority to disqualify the former president based on the 14th amendment, also the 14th amendment of section 3 which says you can t hold certain offices if you have engaged in in
for the cockpit voice recorder, which could provide crucial clues to what happened. we re waiting for comment about cnn reporting that those lights on the runway were not working. could the plane possibly have just moved a little too far on the runway creating this disaster? gosh, who knows? but what a miracle and how incredible those flight attendants. holy wow. thanks to all of you for being with us. we ll be back tomorrow live in iowa. iowa. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, there s breaking news. the former president tells the supreme court there s no 14th amendment case for keeping him off colorado s ballot and says the capitol attack was no insurrection. also breaking tonight, we ve just gotten court documents expecting to reveal the names of nearly 200 people connected to the late sex trafficker, jeffrey epstein. and what u.s. officials are saying tonight about who might be responsible for the bomb blasts in iran that