colorado and maine on tuesday following the decisions in both states to remove him from the ballot for the 2024 gop primary. petition in colorado set to head so the supreme court for a ruling. welcome to fox news live, everyone. i m anita vogel and, griff, we have another hour packed with news to go. griff: here we go, anita. great to be with you. the colorado republican party filed an appeal for the decision in their state earlier this week leading to trump being put back on the ballot until a decision is reached. alexandria hoff kicks things off this hour for us with the latest. hi, alex. hey, griff, we re waiting for the supreme court to weigh in and that ll be criminal and the legal battles are hardly confined to maine and colorado. there s 13 states with pending action to bar trump from the gop primary ballot and using a civil war era clause in the constitution that bans a person involved in insurrection from holding public office. what makes the decision out of maine
good morning. welcome to morning joe. that s a look at times square. we re a heart of hours the ball the will drop and we ll turn the page to 2024. good morning. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to this morning, including another state remove donald trump from the republican presidential ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis on that big decision from maine s secretary of state. plus nikki haley s attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. also forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure to protect civilians. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023 from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former president s many legal battles as he enters the presidential election. a lot to go through. with us for all of us is nbc news national affairs analyst john heilem
martha maccallum. later this hour, mike rowe is here on a story you probably won t see anywhere else. right now top biden officials including secretary state blinken and alejandro mayorkas meeting with the mexican president. a caravan up to 10,000 migrants makes its way to the u.s. sources telling fox the past three months have seen some 730,000 migrant encounters at the border. that is bigger than the populations of major cities like denver, nashville, and boston. let s bring in k.t. mcfarland and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state under president george w. bush. welcome, merry christmas, happy new year. k.t., to you first. it s interesting because we have been covering this on fox news channel since the border crisis, since the day president biden took office, right? and you look up at all the other networks are not covering it. i look up today, everybody is covering the border. everybody has people down there. that is bad news for president biden. yeah,
since donald trump s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election culminated in a violent mob storming the u.s. capitol. for a few weeks, trump was an outcast. a political comeback seemed farfetched, almost impossible to imagine. and yet, thanks to his allies in congress and the maga movement on hold, donald trump has emerged here at the end of 2023 not nearly rehabilitated politician but as the undisputed leader of his party. now, trump began this year as the prohibitive favorite for the republican presidential nomination. even in january, he had a monster 20 point national lead over his closest rival, florida governor ron desantis. and in the months since, trump s lead has only widened. at this point, a rematch against joe biden appears almost inevitable. and yet, while trump s march towards the republican nomination this year was mostly interrupted, there has been for the last 12 months an x-factor that he has had to contend with, a series of criminal investigations. as the year
griff: you are looking live there on the surf line cam at deerfield beach, place i have surfed dozens of times. you can see the waves are flat and outlook very poor with winds 5 knots. carley: that looks like low tide, is that safe assumption or just low wind? griff: low tide, another couple hours because o but it will not matter, there is no swell in the water. just a few days after christmas, there were 15 foot waves in new jersey. carley: i didn t know what to say except low tide. joey: i live in hawaii and california, i am afraid of the water griff: i saw you wake boarding. joey: it doesn t mean i won t do it. it was a good time. carley: week between christmas and new year is my favorite. most people get hahang out, that is what president biden is doing, going to saint croix. only problem with that, there is a lot go og in this country. griff: there is, there are issues at the southern border and he is facing impeachment inquiry and now a situation