collins starts right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. we do begin with breaking news. a blockbuster from the colorado supreme court, ruling that donald trump is disqualified from running for president in that state in 2024. officially booting him from the ballot. tonight, the country is in uncharted waters. from the ruling, i m quoting, president trump is disqualified from holding the office of president under section 3 of the 14th amendment. it would be a wrongful act to list him as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot. this ruling just out tonight goes tonon to say, president tr didn t merely insight the resurrection, he continued to support it by demanding the vice president, mike pence, refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling senators to persuade them to stop the counting of electioral votes. these actions constituted overt, voluntary and direct participation in that insurrection. of course, as you look at this tonight, it s import
authority ten, the chair now says that the committee approval to release the deposition good morning, last week, the select committee laid out a preview of our initial findings about the conspiracy overseeing and directed by donald trump to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, it blocked the transfer of power, a scheme unprecedented in american history. my colleagues and i don t want to spend time talking about ourselves during these these hearings, but as someone who has run for office a few times, i can tell you that the end of a campaign, it all comes down to numbers. the numbers tell you the winner and loser. for the most part, the numbers don t lie, but if something does not add up with the numbers, you will go to court to get resolution. that is the end of the line. we accept those results. that s what it means to respect the rule of law. that s what it means to seek elected office in our democracy because those numbers are not just numbers, they ar
the conversation was pretty heated. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp. i don t remember if he said you are a wimp. it was a different tone that i had heard him take with the vice president before. these pictures of pence never seen before, the vice president being hidden by the secret service in an underground garage under the capitol, reading the president s tweet that said that pence lacked courage to overturn the election. that tweet helped inflame the mob, a mob that had come within 40 feet of the vice president when he was making his escape. markets are mixed today after thursday s disastrous day on wall street and president biden gets defensive about economists predicting a recession. two american veterans fighting in ukraine have gone missing, along with a possible third who volunteered to fight the russians. we will have the latest from kyiv. follow the money, nbc justice correspondent pete williams retracing the steps of the watergate bre
i m jake tapper. aides say this second hearing will drill down on evidence that president trump knew he lost the election but spread false claims of fraud anyway, ignoring court rulings, ignoring the will of the american people. lead-off witness, bill stepien, who has firsthand knowledge about what trump knew about the election numbers. stepien tells cnn he is appearing under subpoena. also testifying today, former fox digital content director chris stirewalt. he was fired after his accurate call of arizona for joe biden. we ll hear directly from republicans who investigated and rejected claims of election fraud in the key states of georgia and pennsylvania, and felt trump s anger for it, former u.s. attorney bijay . . ak and al schmidt and ben ginsburg will testify there was no widespread fraud in 2020 and discuss the trump team s failed challenge to the election results. the select house committee is aiming to connect more dots between the insurrection and its allegation
ballots, the allegations that they are taking one ballot and scanning it through three, four, five times to rack up votes for vice president biden. i told him the video did not support that. then he went off on double voting, he said that dead people are voting, indians are getting paid to vote, and he meant people in native american reservations. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. i told him flat out that much of the information he s getting is false and therefore is not supported by the evidence. we looked at the allegations, but they don t pan out. mr. barr and his advisors were not the only ones to determine that the president s allegations regarding dominion voting machines were false. i asked unanimous consent, reports issued by the department of homeland security, cybersecurity, and infrastructure security agency otherwise known, that reject the claims of manipulation of voting machines in the 2020 election. without objection, so ordered. thank you, mr.