ballots in maine and colorado during his actions during the january 6th capitol hill riot. i m dana perino. bill is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. the decisions in both states not only threatening the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination but where these cases could be eventually heading. the u.s. supreme court as you see there. karl rove said last hour the rulings go against our very system of government. it s anti-democratic and looks like a stretch and it is a stretch. maybe one of the stories we ll find out after november is that this was a clever plot by the trump campaign to sucker left wingers into opposing him being on the ballot knowing it would engender greater support for him and their efforts to remove him would be overridden by the u.s. supreme court. which i fully anticipate. bret: fox team coverage. jonathan turley standing by with the big legal picture. rich edson live in d.c. with the details. good morning, bret.
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
outfront next, ukraine s offensive. a widespread operation underway right now across eastern ukraine. forces on the ground claiming to be seizing territory from russia as a disturbing video tonight emerges of the russian private army holding a russian commander prisoner. plus, tonight, a cnn exclusive. a mar-a-lago employee drained the resort s swimming pool. it s flooded a room where surveillance video logs were kept of the rooms where the documents were. is an indictment imminent? a former member of trump s legal team is outfront. a war of words after another dangerous encounter between american and chinese warships. it s not just the chinese government that s angry with the united states. tonight you ll hear some of the hate, the anger coming from chinese citizens. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, show of force. ukraine s deputy defense minister telling cnn an offensive is now taking place in multiple locations across easte
ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, where is the document? exclusive new cnn reporting that the former president s attorneys were unable to find the classified document he s reportedly telling people he had. we also have new reporting about what sparked investigators to go after him in the first place. also tonight, president biden speaking to the nation, spreading the credit for the budget deal, praising republicans and democrats for coming together to get things done. and later we take you inside ukraine s effort to build and acquire 200,000 drones this year, and what kind of impact they may have in the fight against russia. we begin tonight with new cnn exclusive reporting on the classified document the former president claimed to have. prosecutors issued a subpoena related to it, but his lawyers told authorities they were unable to find the actual document. evan perez joins us with the latest. what s going on here? they literally cannot find this thing? repor
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