tonight on three 60 breaking news. just days after the secretary of state kicked him off the the ballots, the former president takes her to court, i ll get a reaction tonight. also, chris christie joins me with the iowa caucus is growing closer, and many challengers seemingly grow slimmer. and you ve likely seen the japanese five people were killed on the smaller plane that hit, new details tonight on how every single one of the nearly 400 people on the airline got out alive. good evening, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news, the start of the year which will be unlike any in american political, legal, and history. a former president running for office, again facing 91 federal and state felony charges, also facing two civil trials, and fighting efforts in several states to remove him from the ballot. that s where we start tonight, with his attorneys late today asking a court to overturn maine secretary of state shana bellows s decision to remove him from the
the appeal that they made? well, anderson, one of the first things that the president s lawyers take on is the idea that he is an insurrectionist, which is something that the colorado supreme court had ruled. they say he is not, that the january 6th attack was not an insurrection, and that the former president did not engage in insurrection. they also say that the congress, not state courts, should be the ones that determine the eligibility for the presidency. they also say that the 14th amendment, the letter, if you read the 14th amendment, section three, it doesn t mention the office of the presidency and it doesn t apply, they say, to the former president. i will read you a little more of what they argue. they say that this colorado ruling, if allowed to stand, will mark the first time in the history of the united states the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major party presidential candidate. and obviously, that is what is at stake her
for the cockpit voice recorder, which could provide crucial clues to what happened. we re waiting for comment about cnn reporting that those lights on the runway were not working. could the plane possibly have just moved a little too far on the runway creating this disaster? gosh, who knows? but what a miracle and how incredible those flight attendants. holy wow. thanks to all of you for being with us. we ll be back tomorrow live in iowa. iowa. ac 360 starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com tonight on 360, there s breaking news. the former president tells the supreme court there s no 14th amendment case for keeping him off colorado s ballot and says the capitol attack was no insurrection. also breaking tonight, we ve just gotten court documents expecting to reveal the names of nearly 200 people connected to the late sex trafficker, jeffrey epstein. and what u.s. officials are saying tonight about who might be responsible for the bomb blasts in iran that
it restores a lot of faith in humanity. the 14th amendment of the constitution says insurrectionists cannot hold, quote, any office, civil or military, under the united states. and tonight, in a ruling, as stunning as it is unprecedented, the colorado supreme court said that donald j trump, the 45th president of the united states, is an insurrectionist, and therefore should be disqualified from being president. good evening, i m pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and we begin with not just the ruling, which is historic. but what happens when almost certainly reaches the u.s. supreme court, which could be seismic. starting us off tonight, cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, tell us more about this really surprising ruling? surprising, and remarkable, pamela. and the judges, here they acknowledge that. at the top of their opinion, they talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they are deciding here. i mean, this is the biggest c
fire. intense earthquake activity before this. it is, wow, magnificent to see. thanks very much for joining us. ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, is the gop okay with their presidential front-runner borrowing a notion and the words from hitler? some answers from 2023 not 1933. keeping them honest. also tonight, breaking news. a legal setback for his former chief of staff, mark meadows and rudy giuliani, who s getting sued again for repeating lies. later, more fallout in the case of the florida republican party chairman, his wife, the accusations of rape, a threesome and hypocrisy. good evening. pamela brown tonight. we begin with a return of the mostly tepid reaction to outrageous statements the former president makes that have slowly been returning within the republican party since the shock of january 6th wore off. specifically reaction to this from over the weekend about undocumented migrants. they re poisoning the blood of our country. that s what they ve don