neil: are you ready for this? one week till iowa and the heat is on. ron desantis and nikki haley duking it out in the hawkeye state. donald trump continueses to hold a commanding lead there. team trump is ramping up its attacks on haley. that has some folks wondering what has him nervous. desantis supporters chip roy here to say don t count out my candidate, ron desantis. get ready. your world starts right now. i m neil cavuto. and let s get to it. we ve got aishah hasnie in des moines, iowa where things are heating up despite an arctic blast. at least it s not just constant blizzard conditions like it was for you earlier. how are things there now? i like that music. we re going need that to get us through the next couple days. it s going to drop to one degree by the time we hit caucus night. that will be a problem possibly the weather to make sure some of these folks get out there and caucus for ordinary candidates. today the weather was a problem. a lot of folks had
joey: here we go, starting the third hour this morning. carley and i had to take a double take to see if that was behind us, that is how good the graphics are. we thought you had a fireplace. maybe i m letting the cat out of the bag. that is a graphic. carley and i both had to look back. carley: i was like, when did they hang that ball in the building. they changed it to a bowtie pattern. griff: interesting new year s eve in new york. the weather looks like it will be warm. we got rain today and yesterday and all week long pro-palestinian protesters disrupting the airport and fifth avenue. and see if they show up for new year s eve, it could be something. carley: do you remember when it rained, we were hosting the pre-show. it was raining so hard that the teleprompter broke 30 seconds before the show started and we had to ad lib. griff: we were 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. joey: that is where you want to be, people are not overboard and you get to go ring in the new yea
unprecedented decision to kick him off the 2024 ballot. justices there now reportedly facing violent threats in the wake of the historic decision. israel ramping up operations in gaza. the u.s. increases pressure on its ally to lower the intensity of the war. a key meeting between a close confidante of netanyahu and white house officials just wrapping. amid an unprecedented surge of migrants at the southern border, cities as far north as new york are scrambling to contain the crisis. populations in shelters there are exploding. we will talk to someone who is at the center of the battle to provide shelter. kaitlan collins is off tonight. i m brianna keilar. this is the source. any time now donald trump could appeal to the united states supreme court after colorado s supreme court disqualified him from the 2024 ballot one week ago. that decision cited the clause of the 14th amendment that bars insurrectionists from holding office, ruling trump participated in the attack
court. yesterday the state supreme court ruled that the former president should be barred from holding office under the constitution s so-called insurrection clause. however state justices have agreed to pause their decision until january 4, meaning donald trump has time to appeal, which he said that he will do at the u.s. supreme court, quote, swiftly. so how much of a shot does he have of reversing it? the use of this little known civil war era provision is unprecedented, and yesterday s decision was also not unanimous. so we ll dig into the dissenting opinions and how they could play out. but also prominent supporters and opponents of the former president are expressing their opinion. most significant, president biden who just said there is, quote, no question trump assumed an insurrection. the ruling does not apply outside of colorado. lawsuits challenging donald trump s candidacy have been filed in more than 25 states. this ahead of 2024. and have so far failed in key on
good day to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is wednesday, december 20th. 5:00 a.m. here in new york. 3:00 a.m. in denver where layers for donald trump have vowed to appeal a colorado supreme court ruling that could keep the former president off the 2024 ballot before state justices ruling 4-3 that trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment because he engaged in an insurrection on january 6. the court put its ruling on hold until january 4 pending trump s planned appeal to the u.s. supreme court. an attorney for the plaintiff seeking to block trump says he thinks that they have decent odds at winning there. first of all, trump is going to have to convince the supreme court to take this case. and i can imagine a world in which the supreme court says this is pretty early on in the election cycle, let s see how it plays out in some other states first. so he is first going to have to convince the supreme court