conflict. all of that of course on the line tonight and of course this saturday morning where will is right now.w. thanank you all l for being g w and thanksks to will. it s time now for ac 360. tonight, which candidate benefits when the roads to the white house freezes over. we re live in iowa where blizzard conditions and subzero temperatures threaten to be a decisive factor in monday s caucuses. also a night after the u.s. and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen a new message from a top houthi leader. and later cnn s donee o sullivan investigating how skeptical officials can face backlash from conspiracy theorists. thank you for joining us. we begin with iowa three days from the caucuses and the state is being hammered by winter weather. this is video of the capital des moines where the temperature is now 9 degrees. the wind chill is minus 13, and a blizzard warning is in effect. cnn s jeff zeleny is there for us tonight. jeff, i don t know how we conv
and that the republican front-runner is heading into the new year with section 3 of the 14th amendment nipping at his heels. first it was colorado, now it s maine saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. and let s not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14th amendment cases. now the new ruling from the maine secretary of state is as fiery as it is somber. quote, i nclude as did the colorado supremeou that the record establishes that mr. trump over the course of several months and culminating on january 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certificati o the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power. i likeise conclude mr. trump was aware of the likely hood for ce and at least initially supported its useiven he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it. the weight of the evidence ma
today on inside politics, disqualified. the state of maine becomes the second to say donald trump is an insurrectionist barred from seeking the presidency. now it s up to the supreme court. plus damage control mode. with just days to go until the first votes are cast, nikki haley is trying to move past a controversy. her opponents are not so eager to let her. and where have all the democrats gone? i ll talk to a leading liberal political analyst about how he thinks the party lost its way with working class voters and the dilemma democrats face in turning it around. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up is donald trump eligible to be president again? that s the legal question face ing this country after maine became the second state to say he s not buzz of the 14th amendment s ban on insurrectionists holding federal office. it is a recipe for constitutional chaos at the supreme court will almost surely have to solve. cnn senior repo
ac 360 starts right now. all right. the breaking news, and it is big, just a week after colorado did it, maine becomes the second state to bar donald trump from its republican primary ballot. john berman here in for anderson in the decision from maine s secretary of state cannot be any plainer. quoting now, he is not qualified to hold the office of the president under section 3 of the 14th amendment, period. she joins us momentarily. this comes on a day in which the former president was temporarily back on colorado s ballot pending a supreme court decision. cnn s katelyn polantz joins us now with this breaking news out of maine. what can you tell us about this decision, katelyn? john, there is a lot of meat to what secretary of state shanna bellows wrote from maine today in her ruling. one, january 6th was an insurrection. she made that finding. two, donald trump engaged in that insurrection. three, that means he s not qualified to be on the primary ballot in maine. and
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