ballot. trump vowing to swiftly appeal. it s a crucial ruling. will other states follow? also breaking tonight, israel says it s ready for a week-long pause in the fighting for the exchange of release of more hostages and the live, spectacular pictures from iceland, lava at one point flowing so past it could fill an olympic sized pool in 20 seconds. we are live with fred pleitgen. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news and this is important. the colorado supreme court ruling just moments ago that former president trump should be removed from colorado s primary ballot. the consequences of this decision be obviously enormous. the court upholding a trial judge s decision that trump engaged in the january 6th insurrection, and the colorado supreme court saying that therefore, he engaged in the insur eksz and he is not qualified to be a presidential candidate because of the 14th amendment insureccist ban. it says a person is inel
crossing the line. a pandemic-era border policy expires. our border is not open. but with washington deadlocked on how to fix it, what s the long term solution? i ll speak with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and house gop homeland security chairman mark green next and deal or no deal as the u.s. barrels closer to a debt ceiling deadline, president biden says the two sides are making progress. can they strike a deal in time? deputy treasury secretary wally ariyemo joins me ahead. plus primary problems, the president frames his re-election pitch around donald trump. sinister forces may believe they ll determine america s future. while ron desantis makes his case for change. if we focus the election on the past the democrats are going to beat us again. will voters agree? hello. i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is wishing all of the moms out there a very happy mother s day. president biden is making his general elect
expires. our border is not open. but with washington deadlocked on how to fix it, what s the long-term solution? i ll speak with homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas and house gop homeland security chairman mark green, next. and deal or no deal, as the u.s. barrels closer to a debt ceiling deadline, president biden says the two sides are making progress. can they strike a deal in time? deputy treasury secretary wally joins me ahead. plus, primary problems. the president frames his re-election pitch around donald trump. sinister forces may believe they ll determine america s future. weil ron desantis makes his case for change. if we focus the election on the past, the democrats are going to beat us again. will voters agree? hello, i m dana bash in washington, where the state of our union is wishing all of the moms out there a very happy mother s day. president biden is making his general election pitch to voters, painting 2024 as another battle fo
begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
the prior administration. we do not resemble it at all. what we do, and by the way, we have rebuilt an asylum system that was dismantled in the prior administration. we have resumed refugee processing all around the world, and these regional processing centers are going to accelerate the refugee process in an unprecedented way. we are a nation of immigrants, and we are a nation of laws. and those laws provide that if one qualifies for humanitarian relief, then one has established a basis to remain in the united states. and if one has not, then one is to be removed. and that is exactly what is going to happen. you talk about cost, what s the rough cost to american taxpayers to the roughly 4 million people who have come into the country illegally since january of 2021, as those people show up at community hospitals, enter the school system, get other government help. let me turn that question around a little bit. i m going to turn it around to match the question that an int