most significant of our time. it s about who can hold office in our country. a foundational statement on what are the basic qualifications to be president. of which there are three. an american-born citizen, age 35 and older and not an insurrectionist. that question right now is how that last part, the shall not be a traitor part, is defined. as you know, colorado has inked their definition, kicking donald trump off the ballot there. now the supreme court is considering it, and trump s legal team is officially weighing in. they ve submitted their brief to the justices, warning disqualifying the former president from the ballot in colorado would result in chaos and bedlam, their words. the words in question, are all in article 14, section 3 of the constitution. a word salad of an amendment that was ratified in 1868 in the que, no personha be a l war. senator or representative in congress o elector of president and vice presidt or hold any office, civil or military under the un
good evening, lawrence. good evening, law alex. lawrence i just got my hands on this filing while you ve been working here. we ll very much on the fly going into live coverage of it. you will not be surprised to know that on the first page of this filing the second paragraph mentions the historic landslide victory in the iowa caucuses yesterday. that is considered a of legal import in this case by the trump lawyers in their filing tonight. i wonder if there s something about his inauguration crowd size on page 67. we ll see. i haven t read the whole thing, but so far i have not found that. your crackerjack team of producers is on it. thank you, alex. we are about to be joined by andrew weizmann and bradley moss, who have this document that joyce vance has just been discussing with alex wagner and it is a filing clearly to delay this case. it makes the argument that house no foundation in law, that there is a bias in the prosecution, and because there is a bias i
washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the first t
symone sanders-townsend and michael steele. here are some of the stories we are following today. americans are finally feeling better about the economy and they are starting to credit president biden. rod chopra, the director of the consumer financial protection bureau is here in studio. plus, the national security council john kirby on the growing unrest in the middle east, president biden s latest call with netanyahu. and new developments in the fight to remove donald trump from the ballot, mark lance joins us to grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. we begin in new hampshire, where the first votes will be cast in the republican primary in just 40 hours. nikki haley is now belatedly taking aim at donald trump openly questioning whether who s mentally fit to serve as president. hey these comments come after trump seemed to confuse her with nancy pelosi at a recent rally. they re saying he got confused, they re saying that he was talking about something els
already. the blizzard conditions and now the tornado threat as we go into the night. more than 40 states on alert. heavy snow, strong winds, and flooding, and then the east gets hit tomorrow. rob marciano standing by to time this out. also, the breaking news from fort worth. those images just coming in, investigating an explosion. multiple injuries already reported tonight. they are going from room to room in that hotel, searching for possible victims. first responders at the scene. matt rivers in texas for us. the new discovery after the terrifying moments onboard that passenger jet, when part of the door ripped off at 16,000 feet. cell phones sucked out of the cabin. a teenager s t-shirt ripped off. a key piece of the plane found in a backyard in oregon. now, we learned what was known about that plane a month ago and what inspections have just revealed tonight. several other passenger planes affected, and gio benitez reporting. stunning new details about the effort to