engaging in insurrection. plus explosions across ukraine after what kyiv calls the biggest wave of russian air attacks since the start of the invasion. and the moment people ran for their lives as a rogue wave slammed into the california coast. good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is friday, december 29. happy friday. 5:00 a.m. in washington and in maine, 2:00 a.m. out in california. those two states have differing decisions on whether to remove trump from the primary ballot over the 14th amendment insurrectionist ban. in california the secretary of state opted to keep trump on the ballot despite pressure from the lieutenant governor to remove the former president. contrast that with maine where yesterday democratic secretary of state 1450sheena bellows disqualified trump writing that it was an insurrection at the behest of then president trump. it became clear that it was an attack on the rule of law, that it was an insurrection and that the u.s. constitution does not tolera
colorado and maine on tuesday following the decisions in both states to remove him from the ballot for the 2024 gop primary. petition in colorado set to head so the supreme court for a ruling. welcome to fox news live, everyone. i m anita vogel and, griff, we have another hour packed with news to go. griff: here we go, anita. great to be with you. the colorado republican party filed an appeal for the decision in their state earlier this week leading to trump being put back on the ballot until a decision is reached. alexandria hoff kicks things off this hour for us with the latest. hi, alex. hey, griff, we re waiting for the supreme court to weigh in and that ll be criminal and the legal battles are hardly confined to maine and colorado. there s 13 states with pending action to bar trump from the gop primary ballot and using a civil war era clause in the constitution that bans a person involved in insurrection from holding public office. what makes the decision out of maine
byte is and that answer. with us this morning we have mike barnacle, mara gay, georgeway and staff writer david from. a lot going on this morning. we start with that historic decision. the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualify ed from holding office again after determining he engaged in insurrection on january 6th, 2021. the fourth ruling keeps the former president off the state s presidential primary lot next year. the court stayed its decision until january 4th to allow for any further appeals, and the trump team is already vowing they will be doing just that. but the fourth is just one day before the deadline for the state to print its presidential primary ballots. colorado secretary of state discussed the tight timeline in an interview last night on msnbc. if they take the case, we will make clear to the court that the deadlines and the timelines. the bigger thing is if the court does not take the case, as of january 5th, if the u.s. supreme court
translator: i want to see the sun so when our houses are rebuilt, we can live if peace, we can live in ukraine, because this is our native home. reporter: a ukrainian official in mariupol saying a planned evacuation has been thwarted by the russian military. he says at least 200 civilians who thought they were on a bus headed to safe points were instead taken into russian-controlled territory in the east. russia capturing dozens of small towns in eastern ukraine, but uk officials say russians have not made any major gains in the last 24 hours. and this as russia reveals its end game in this invasion. top military officials say they plan to take full control over southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region. let s bring in scott mclean in lviv. what more can you tell us about these missile strikes in odesa? reporter: hey, fredricka. one city counselor in odesa called these an easter gift from vladimir putin. this is not the kind of gift that you want to get. we re talk
legal minds and america made a major waves, they announced it in the form of a blazing headline in the atlantic. the constitution prohibits trump from ever being president again, and quote. it s an argument that had been made by legal scholars before. the dual endorsement of the legendary constitutional law professor laurence tribe of high bird and the retired conservative judge michael luttig was game changing. they came on this show for us to explain the argument, which is actually quite simple. it says that section three of the 14th amendment of the constitution says that anyone who has taken an oath to uphold the constitution and then engaged in an insurrection cannot hold office again. plain and simple. donald trump had been incited an insurrection is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. the question, though, as luttig, as judge luttig outlined for us last weekend, how you enforce it. anyone state or federal is