currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your constitutio
on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state, to federal court. but we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning, it has implications far beyond a potential change of a new first trial. in addition to giving us the first sense of where the argument may be for a number of trump s other coconspirators, of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. i mean, let s zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud, the pressure campaign and church officials to find votes? the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power? he says all of that was, quote, part of my role as
shook my whole house. it took my kitchen out and my stairwell so we had to climb out the window. i just yelled for my neighbors and they got a ladder and got me and my daughter down. reporter: the csx freight train traveling from chicago to selkirk, new york, crashing in the tiny town of hyndman, about 100 miles southeast of pittsburgh. the entire town, over 1,000 people evacuated. the red cross setting up a shelter. david, train cars are still burning at this hour. the ntsb is on the scene, and the department of health is conducting air pollution tests and thankfully, no one was injured. david? linzie janis, our thanks to you as well. the u.s. military testing a long range missile amid rising tensions with north korea tonight. the launch from an air force base in california was previously scheduled with advanced warning to commercial airliners and ships in its path. it was last night here, we reported that north korea s most recent missile test landed in the same area where an