podcast, all two hours sitting there lick our big delicious cheeseburger. our coverage continues in the situation room with wolf blitzer. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. donald trump appeals colorado s decision to remove him from the state s republican primary ballot. he s asking the u.s. supreme court to decide disputes about eligibility for his office under the u.s. s constitution insurrectionist ban. also tonight, iran is warning of a harsh response to deadly explosions near the tomb of a top iranian general exactly four years after he was killed in a u.s. air strike. cnn is in the region with an update on the blast and the rising most tensions. and house speaker mike johnson and dozens of gop lawmakers visit the southern border turning up the pressure on president biden to cut a deal on immigration. this hour i ll discuss the migrant crisis with new york s democratic mayor eric adams. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around t
good evening. this is america s late news. breaking tonight the u.s. supreme court has now decided to review the colorado decision banning former president trump from the state ballot. the court has also scheduled oral arguments for february 8 in what could be the high court s biggest political decision since bush v. gore 23 years ago. in the meantime president biden began his 2024 campaign push but instead of running on his own record it appears biden is choosing to villainize former president trump. even some democrats are saying biden is being hypocritical when it comes to democracy but first senior national correspondent dev is life in d.c. with what former president trump is is saying. a very interesting rally to watch. on the heels of joe biden s campaign launch, as you know, punctuated by ominous warnings of what a second trump presidency just might entail, former president obviously responding today. holding a pair of rallies ahead of the iowa caucuses. mr. tr
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
the appeal that they made? well, anderson, one of the first things that the president s lawyers take on is the idea that he is an insurrectionist, which is something that the colorado supreme court had ruled. they say he is not, that the january 6th attack was not an insurrection, and that the former president did not engage in insurrection. they also say that the congress, not state courts, should be the ones that determine the eligibility for the presidency. they also say that the 14th amendment, the letter, if you read the 14th amendment, section three, it doesn t mention the office of the presidency and it doesn t apply, they say, to the former president. i will read you a little more of what they argue. they say that this colorado ruling, if allowed to stand, will mark the first time in the history of the united states the judiciary has prevented voters from casting ballots for the leading major party presidential candidate. and obviously, that is what is at stake her
trump on tape acknowledging he kept a classified document after leaving the white house. what it could mean for the ongoing doj investigation. one of the most powerful bank ceos in the world deposed for hours in a lawsuit over jeffrey epstein s sex trafficking crimes. what lawyers want to know about jpmorgan s long time relationship with epstein. amazon will shell out more than $30 million after being accused of violating user privacy for years. this is cnn news central. we begin with a story you saw first on cnn. federal prosecutors now have a tape of former president trump acknowledging that he held on to a classified pentagon document and suggesting that he wanted to share it but had a limited ability to declassify records after leaving office. the tape is from a meeting at his new jersey golf club in the summer of 2021 with the team working on mark meadows autobiography. while cnn has not obtained the recording, multiple sources have described it saying the tape