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
lawsuit that was brought in 2015 by one of the victims against jeopardy seen s former girlfriend, ghislaine maxwell, who was convicted back in 21 for sex trafficking and essentially aiding jeffrey epstein in the sexual assaults of these women. so, this lawsuit was brought back in 2015 against ghislaine maxwell. and just now, the court is unsealing all this. and really it s because of the fight by victims and journalists, in this case, specifically the miami herald, which has been fighting for this information. and finally today, we re first seeing these documents. and as you said, it s hundreds and hundreds of pages. and it all relates to depositions and other court actions that the victim in this case, virginia giuffre, was doing. she was doing stuff to try to get information to substantiate her allegations. so, there s a lot of documents here, and as you said, a lot of names, some names that will be
the issue is relatively straightforward. on the other hand, it could be, you know, it could be 1-2, but i don t think it will be much more split than that. well, you know, and i hope people will replay your answer here because did you lay it. there are many say it s circular. you scoff if you say you can t have the president as an overs but it s important for people to hear all the details as you lay them out. we do have some reporting separate from the issue of being on the ballot, the issue of immunity itself and the doj case january 6 against trump. a source tells cnn he ll be attending next week s court arguments on presidential immunity and his side is saying he can t be prosecuted for official acts as president. you were among more than a dozen attorneys and former government officials who signed on to a friend of the court brenchings an amicus brief filed in the d.c. circuit court of appeals to argue against trump s claim immunity, you think he can be prosecuted, so why do you
news tonight at this hour. former president trump tonight asking the nation s highest court to keep him on the ballot in colorado filing that appeal. the former president appealing to the historic ruling by the heist court in colorado which deemed him an insurrectionist and held that that made him ineligible to hold public office according to the state s 14th amendment. according to the filing trump s lawyer is right. the colorado supreme court erred in how it described president trump s role in the events of jer 620, 21, it s not insurrection and in no way did donald trump engage in an insurrection. separate from the issue of being on the battle, to focus on the crucial point, they are saying it s not an insurrection. his lawyers going on to write in the days leading up to january of and on that day hisself his only explicit instrikesed call for protesting peacefully and to support our capitol police and
take a look at meat. last week the secretary of state there announced trump would be cut from the maine primary ballot. trump is appealing that decision as well and another challenge to trump s eligibility for office is now before the top court in the state of oregon. in a moment i m going to speak to the former trump white house attorney ty cobb but i want to break with the breaking news with paula reid outfront live in washington. paula, this appeal coming in the colorado case which was the crucial canary in the coal mine for this, right, perhaps led to then what happened in meat. what can you tell us from your reporting about the appeal and what happens from here? so the way the trump team has framed this, they are asking the supreme court to return to voters the ability to choose the candidate they want. they argue that the colorado supreme court s decision to remove trump from the ballot was the first time in this country s history that the judiciary has prevented voters from