the supreme court, now at the center of another presidential election. that s tonight, on news night. good evening, i m abby philip in the new york. breaking tonight, the high court gets saddled with the highest responsibility. now whether you can vote for donald trump, is now the subject of a fight that will end up before the nine justices of its conservative super majority. the colorado supreme court, handing up a dramatic ruling tonight to disqualify former president trump from the ballot. the colorado court answered yes, over 213 pages, to question after question. yes, the january 6th storming of the capital was an insurrection. yes, donald trump engaged in that insurrection. yes, donald trump expected, and wanted, violence on that day. and yes, the courts have the authority to enforce the 14th amendment. yes, again, section three of the 14th amendment does in fact apply to the presidency, and arguing otherwise is, quote, flatly unfaithful to what the framers demand
gates and sarah carter, investigative reporter down at the southern border with title 42 about to expire. the rush across this border will unlike anything we have seen, and by the way a lot after the 2-1/2 years of joe biden open borders. and senator ted cruz and mike pence with us. and begin with capitol hill, james comer will join detailed against the biden syndicate and damning new details involving joey himself. and what we learn from the investigation. this is the beginning of the investigation and interim report. first based on documents and believed that the biden family and associates established over 20 parent shell companies with no clear purpose but to obscure transfer of money, often to biden family members. and locke to vp and over 10 million from foreign nationals to biden and family and friends, for example, how payments of china ended up in a biden family member. and started at chinese state and to a national and filtered to five different shell companies set
a fiery field hearing taking place just a block away from progress da alvin bragg s office with absolutely harrowing testimony from new york city crime victims and their families. victims like joseph borgen a jewish man who was brazenly beaten by four men in broaddaylight. his attackers were only give an six-month plea deal. he only punched my son once. . perhaps some of the most dramatic moments came when madeline whose son was brutally stabbed to death nine times for significantly lowering the charges against two of her son s alleged attackers. i was totally disrespected. me, my family, my grand children, we were treated like garbage. like garbage. while republicans say the hearing was intended to highlight just how progressive policies are making america less safe, democrats dismissed it as political payback for bragg s indictment of former president donald trump. they insist the big apple is indeed safe. the chairman says this hearing is about violent crime in m
don t. attorney general merrick garland facing the self righteous indignation of ted cruz and other republicans. new reporting tension between the fbi and justice department over the mar-a-lago raid. cpac is back, home of normal conservatives nothing more than a clown show. it does reflect the current state of the republican party. and from performative to alarming, republicans and ron desantis s florida are cracking down on lgbtq people and moving to cancel the entire democratic party. we begin tonight with a lingering question from the 2016 presidential election. what was going on inside the fbi? remember, just 11 days before the election, fbi director james comey announced that the agency was reopening its investigation into hillary clinton. effectively costing her the election. the motivation behind comey s move seemed to be coming from the fbi s new york field office, which, according to reuters, had a faction of investigators based in the office known to be host
i m alisyn camerota. welcome to cnn tonight. we just heard the kind of conversations that a lot of us are having at our own dinner tables. bill maher talk to jake tapper about politics and race and cancel culture and wokeness. how do you define wokeness? because i hear people use the term all the time. and it means something different to everybody. well, again, i think it s this collection of ideas that are not building on liberalism, but very often undoing it. i mean, five years ago, abraham lincoln was not a controversial figure among liberals. we liked him. [laughter] now they take his name of schools and turned down his statues. really, lincoln is not good enough for you? are we all having conversations also where we accidentally step in it? and what conversations do we now feel uncomfortable having because we re afraid to get it wrong? so, our panel is going to tackle all that in just a moment. also, the supreme court hearing challenges to president biden s student