when the many legal troubles facing donald trump will come to a head, tonight the ex president has just lost access to the presidential ballot in a second state. secretary of state from maine ruled that, quote, donald j trump is not qualifi to hold the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment. which bars people who have engaged in insurrection from holding office. quote, the events of january 6th, 2021, where unprecedented and tragic. and the evidce here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of and with the knowledge and support of the outgoing president. she adds, quote, i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived presidential candidate of ballot access based on section three of the 14th amendment. i am also mindful however that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. the main ruling comes just about a week before the colorado state supreme court reached the same conclusion. bayard trump from the ballot. t
Good afternoon. I am richard lui in for yasmin. The christmas dozens of Flights Canceled due to weather in the mid let leaving airline scrambling to get Travelers Home for the holidays. A live report on the situation just a moment. And, a brandnew falling by Donald Trumps legal team on the issue of president ial immunity, essentially their clients commute completely immune from prosecution. This sets up a showdown of what the Special Counsel and the hearing set for early january. Breaking news for you as well, the Israeli Military revealing the fate of five hostages whose bodies were found in the tunnels of gaza. We will get the details with that just into. Us with record breaking numbers of migrant the board of this week, some negotiators working the phone lines through the congressional recess to find a deal on immigration. Well also look back at the Culture War Bottles of 2023 when america appeared to be a war with itself. That is coming up, later this hour. We are going to start th
i m standing for children. and i think a multi billion dollars company that s sexualizes children is not consistent with the values of florida or the values of a place like iowa. jesse: desantis says trump is pro-disney and the former president hit back. disney has become a woke and disgusting shadow of itself with people actually hating. must go back to what it once was or the market will do irreparable damage. this all happened during the governorship of rob desanctimonious. instead of complaining now for publicity reasons only, he should have stopped it long ago. would have been easy to do. still is. notice the new nickname is rob. sources inside the trump campaign tell primetime that trump knows his name is ron, but just likes robert. ron not rob was on fox & friends this weekend and promised to defeat leftism, listen. everyone knows if i m the nominee i will beat biden and i will serve two terms and i will be able to destroy leftism in this country and leave w
jack smith to accelerate a decision on donald trump s claim of presidential immunity in his federal election criminal interference case. now, the one sentence reply the order from the supreme court reads, quote, the petition for writ of serzh yry is denied. in other words we re going not going to the appeals process could give donald trump ample time to further delay this case, which is of course supposed to go to trial just a few months from now, the first week of march. trump may now try to delay the start of the trial until the calender begins to encroach on next november s election. in which if he s the nominee the next court could ask to put the case on pause until the next presidential contest is decide. and should trump win that election the case will go away entirely which is to be clear and we all understand including the people on the supreme court exactly what he wants. although i have to say it is stel unknown if trump will be allowed to meaningfully delay thi
now it s time for the last word with lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. good evening, alex. we have a big guest tonight, so we re gonna move right to it. have a great show. thanks, alex. the breaking news of the night is that the colorado supreme court in a 4 to 3 decision ruled that donald trump, quote, is disqualified from holding the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment of the united states constitution. because he is disqualified it would be a wrongful act under the election code for the colorado secretary of state to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. neal katyal and andrew weissmann will join us to discuss that historic ruling later in the hour, but we begin tonight as we promised you a week ago, with the vice president of the united states and an exclusive interview. i met kamala harris when she was district journey of san francisco, and an actor friend who was wiser than most of us about politics or to b