year s eve celebrations around the world. and, donald trump s legal life. a special counsel launches a new attack on trump s immunity defense while the former presidents legal team gears up to keep his name on the primary ballot in several states. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin today in maine where police are investigating a incident at the home of its secretary of state. the fake emergency call to the home of shana bellows coming after her decision to disqualify donald trump from that states primary ballot. fellas is telling msnbc that she is receiving nonstop threats of violence. i also want to call out the dehumanizing images that have been placed online of me. the threatening communications to people in my family, and to my staff. people who work for. me i is designed to instill fear, and to provoke silence, to keep people from speaking out. to send a message. that is
and there s no catch. it s fre. we make money from ads, but they don t follow you aroud join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. good morning, it s saturday, december 30th. and you re watching velshi on msnbc. i m charles coleman junior, in from my friend ali velshi, and we have got a lot to talk about. we begin this hour with the very latest with the legal drama unfolding around the twice impeached, multiple indicted ex president donald trump, who also happens to be far and away at the front runner for the republican nomination for president once again. in addition to the 5 separate trials hughes pacing in 2024, donald trump has now been removed from the primary ballots in 2 states. colorado, as well as maine. both on the grounds that he is ineligible to run for office because of his role in the january 6th insurrection. now, the trump campaign is calling both rulings election interference. and lawyers from
bret: good evening. i m bret baier. president joe biden vacations in the caribbean as republican presidential candidates return to the campaign trail. police in texas investigate the deaths of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend in what they call a perplexing case. and doctors are warning about a tripledemic this winter as a new covid strain spreads throughout the united states. dr. marc siegel joins us to discuss. but, first, breaking tonight, another massive group of migrants is making its way through mexico as immigration officials work to process the thousands already waiting at the border. many of those who have been allowed to enter the u.s. are being sent further north where local officials say president joe biden and his administration have ignored their pleas for additional assistance. the president, meanwhile, is heading south to the caribbean for vacation as his top cabinet officials meet with mexico s president to discuss the crisis. we have fox team coverag
ballot. appeal means he will remain on the ballot for now until the justices decide whether to take the case. hello, everyone, i m anita vogel in los angeles. hi, bryan. bryan: i m bryan in new york, sandra and john are off, this is america reports . the former president is facing a dozen challenges to eligibility to office, but caucus next month in iowa and new hampshire, and today at least two of his rivals are barnstorming the state. anita: chad, how are trump s republican rivals responding to his legal issues? chad: vivek ramaswamy wants gop candidates to withdraw from states who refuse to place mr. trump on the ballot. republicans can protect ourselves, i ve led the way in doing it, by saying any state that removes donald trump from the ballot, none of us should be on the ballot because that then takes states like colorado out of the gop primary which stops them from engaging in this kind of election interference. chad: the colorado gop is appealing the ruling
today on inside politics, what caused the civil war? most would give a one-word answer. slavery. but not nikki haley. this morning she s trying to clean it up. plus donald trump s lawyers have a very busy few weeks ahead. we ll tell you key dates to watch in his civil and criminal kriel trials. and lauren boebert barely won her red district last time around. her solution, move to an even redder district. i m dana bash. let s go hbehind the headlines and inside politics. we start in new hampshire and one of those campaign moments that you just knew would immediately go viral. it was a town hall last night where nikki haley has been doing quite well. a voter asked what seemed like a simple question with a simple answer. listen to part of what happened. of course, the civil war was about slavery. we know that. we know the civil war was about slavery. but it was also more than that. it was about the freedoms of every individual. it was about the role of government. by