his campaign year with a full throated accusation saying the former president is quote willing to sacrifice democracy to put himself in power. and the latest batch of unlocked documents of jeffrey epstein. we begin with breaking news. the supreme court 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 anniversary. trump won t do what an american president must do. he refuses to denounce political violence. so hear me clearly. i ll say what donald trump won t. political violence is never ever acceptable in the united states. political violence. never, never, never. it has no place in a democracy. none. the former president for his part is campaigning in iowa where he said in so many words i know you are but what am i. joe biden is a threat to democracy. he is weaponnizing law enforcement for a high level election interference. that is why crooked joe is st
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
there in his golf clubs. we re watching as some of the folks come off of the former president s plane. the former president said in no uncertain terms that he s innocent and he stands by that and he is returning for the 3:00 p.m. appearance tomorrow for the indictment. we do you know from friday, this is unsealed now. so the pages have already become part of the public record. you can see the president s attorneys no doubt getting off the plane. a lot of questions about who the team will be. there s been some changes in the team as of friday, a lot of guys with large briefcases getting off this plane right now. bret baier watching this with us this afternoon. good to have you with us, bret. i know you re in boston for an event, a senate-related event that we ll talk about. first to chad pergram to set the stage for us here this afternoon as this unfolds live. hi, chad. martha, good afternoon. republicans are drilling down on what they see as two tiers of justice. the gop
major highway collapse. it could big impact on travel. and the supply chain. we have a live report on that coming up. comprehensive coverage of the indictment of donald trump as he faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal accounts connected with his hoarding of classified documents at mar-a-lago. the former president at this we can get his first public defense against the charges and a familiar refrain, he now has his 2024 primary opponents singing along with. the ridiculous and baseless indictment of me by the biden administration s weaponize department of injustice. when i m your president, we will and the years of politicization and the department of justice. you can t have one faction of society weaponizing the power of the state against the factions that it doesn t like. not everybody in trump s orbit apparently got of the memo. it s very damning. they say d of presenting trump as a victim here. victim of a witch hunt is ridiculous. we re gonna have much
chief legal correspondent ari melber, legal analyst, andrew weissmann, and my friend and colleague, msnbc anchor katy tur. rachel, we re about to hear from jack smith himself. if i have to interrupt you abruptly, i apologize in advance. your thoughts right now. reading the indictment, nicolle, i was struck by the simplicity of it structurally. this is not a case where we need to wait for somebody to flip. there s no allen weisselberg character out here who we need to find out how much they re going to tell prosecutors. there s no opaque question of intent that we need to wait to see if prosecutors have some access to. there s no, you know, contingent second crime that elevates these things to a more serious thing. all things that we ve seen in other serious cases involving trump and his business. in this case this is straightforward. what they re laying out, it s an accusation. it is not a conviction. what they re accusing him of is that he was not allowed to have this stuf