ballot. one of the leading arguments, in fact, the first argument trump makes, is that this is a political question that should be resolved by congress. which sets up, actually, a kind of terrible potential which is that the supreme court says, this is congress business, trump appears to win the election on january 6th, 2025, the democratic congress says he s disqualified. so this issue may not go away even if we get an opinion from the supreme court in the middle of february of this year. rick, we re hearing, and viewers are catching up going, oh, this started as almost a long shot or hail mary approach. but it spread across several states. it s now reached the supreme court. they obviously, as renato explained, don t think they can duck it. i m curious what you think, as an election law expert, whether it was unavoidable or not, the court getting dragged in earlier. what i said was not rhetoric, the opening of some political novel. it is true that tonight the court is getting invo
have to get resolved pretty fast. because what happens if trump wins the election. and then when it comes time january 6th 2025. democrats in congress let s say they control house of congress, they say no so he s an eligible. that would be a huge crisis if we ve had an election and trump declared the winner and now we ve got this legal sticks that just gets pulled out. so however this gets resolved legally, i think it needs to get resolved sooner rather than later. that is a really, really good point for qassem. thank you very much. thank you. still to come, dozens killed as wildfires leave a hawaiian town in ruin. the latest disaster in a steadily heating world ahead. dily heating world ahead
the idea of who might have been right or vindicate it in a subtle way here is congressman liz cheney, who has made a great deal of discussions and points about the idea of trying to reclaim the republican party. listen to what she had to say when she was speaking to chicago just a few days ago about what republican she said need to do. do you feel like there is a stiff enough spine in the party to stand up to future insurrections, are we worried about january 6th 2025? no, we definitely need stiffer spines. that is for sure. i think i think elected officials need to understand that words matter, and when you see again and again people accepting things that are indefensible, we watch what happens in our society and when
rejecting the will of michiganders and sending a pro trump slate of electors to d.c.. tim michael, elected governor in 2022 after he attended the glenn youngkin academy for a non threatening west varying republican candidate, he certifies a win for biden and sends a pro tree trump slate to d.c. as well. michaels has a victory in 2022. in this recording released by the republican accountability project, he said the quiet part out loud, didn t he? republicans will never lose another election in wisconsin after i m elected governor. [applause] to repeat, imagine it s january 6th 2025 and biden has lost his atoll college votes for michigan, wisconsin, pennsylvania. the right is now shockingly 269 votes for biden and 269 for trump in the electoral college. it s a dead heat. under the 12th amendment, it
sound less than it really was. how do you put january 6th in that plot in the sweep of history? i 100% agree with you. we have the capacity as a country to prevent the assault on the capitol from happening again. you can have better response, the national guard i m sure will be there on what the equivalent is of january 6th 2025. the story here is a months long wide ranging criminal conspiracy to overturn the election but also to project that forward. you have a republican gubernatorial candidate in michigan arrested in the house, a pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate who ran on the platform of giving pennsylvania s electoral votes to donald trump no matter what the voters say. this is a clear and present da danger, and i think as we think about what success means for the hearings it is focusing the mind for what is coming not just what