hey everybody, good afternoon. i m yasmin vossoughian. donald trump is in for the fight of his life. the former president faces a tuesday arraignment on 37 criminal counts, involving his refusal to turn over classified documents that never should have been in his possession. this hour, he s gonna be taking his defense public within appearance in georgia. as his gop political rivals tiptoe around the story. in addition to the politics of, this we are going to dive deeply into the substance of the allegations in the indictment. it is a treasure trove of damning material from photos that showed documents being hoarded and bedrooms, bathrooms, and even the mar-a-lago ballroom. conversations where trump himself waves around top secret material as well as evidence, in which he apparently tries to get his own lawyers to lie to the feds. looking for the documents. we will get into all of this coming up. we begin with the new information that we re learning with the unsealing of the h
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
2020. but if you look at polls among republican voters, it is, this man is who they want, as of now. he s far ahead of everybody else. we have not had a debate yet. i mean, not even a single debate. the field is still yet to be defined, whether it s myself or other candidates. you think the debates really matter that much? oh, my god, yes, absolutely. i think those debates, folks are going to see he is not the same. guy this is not 2016. he doesn t bring the same fire. there s no new ideas. he s just going to try to re-litigate what happened in 2020. but we all know exactly what happened there. he s going to be on the defensive. he s not gonna have the energy. so, i think there s a huge opportunity for the new generation, the new voice the republican party, new ideas to come to fruition. there s still a lot of play here before we even get to the first of the nation primary in new hampshire, which is next january. so, i understand the polls. when someone pulls and says
together. it s very nice to see you, i hope you had a great holiday. and look for a great new year. you too, my. friend thanks to all of you for joining us at home this hour. i m nikole all us two days after election day in 2020, before the result of the presidential election, president donald trump s chief of staff received a step message laying out a very detailed scheme. for keeping donald trump in power. attacks was from donald trump son, don jr.. it described in detail the plot to use republican legislature to keep trump in office. regardless of the actual and if that failed, republicans in congress could keep trump in power. the description pretty much matches up exactly, with a scheme that trump s allies did try to carry out. trying to replace biden electors with fake trump electors, in states that joe biden won. today, the committee investigating the deadly january 6th attack release the transcript of its interview, with donald trump junior. and donald trump g
there as far as we can tell at this time. that ll be where the where this white house is meant to determine, these are the things we ll yay john. but we feel very little responsibility to engage on these other issues, especially given what went down over the past four years of the trump administration. and the uniform stonewalling-able subpoenas. we re grateful were the story. we ll stay on as. well thank you for your time tonight. that does it for us. now it s time for the last word with my friend alicia menendez in for laura. hi nicolle, it s like the christmas present i forgot to ask for. i get to see you. happy new year. i feel like you come over, we could ve been in the basement together. like twins. have the best, nicolle. house committee investigating the attack on the capitol set dissolve next week with the start of a new congress. but not before releasing even more transcripts. a new batch of interviews interview today offers new insight into the weeks leadin