the u.s. capitol, field by donald trump s lie. but there is a new are bigger test for democracy that is in the hands of the court. also this hour, you will hear from a capitol police officer who defended the capitol that day. harry dunn is with us live with why he is running for congress. and also tonight, look here the man who led the nra four years into the ground is out. thanks in part to the legal process of new york s attorney general. i am paola ramos, in for a minute look at dean, let s do this. today, january 6th, marks three years since rioters violently stormed the halls of our nation s capital. three years since supporters of donald trump attempted to overturn the will of the, people and three years since americas nearly 250-year-long democratic experiment almost made its end. yesterday, president joe biden kicked off the 2024 election year by marking this anniversary with a grim warning, the threat to our democracy is still ongoing. trump is trying to stea
show, live from miami, florida. we ve got lots of news to cover and lots of questions to answer, so, let s get started. supreme showdown. the united states supreme court is now set to decide whether the twice impeached, quadruple indicted, one term disgraced ex president has accused of engaged of interaction, can remain on the republican primary ballot in colorado. how this key ruling could entirely reshape the 2024 presidential election. and before criminal trials the president faces. with a democracy still americas sacred cause, it s the most urgent question of our time. it s what the 2024 election is all about. democracy on the ballot. in his strong strongest trump takedown yet, president biden remind americans what s at stake in one of the most critical presidential elections of our lifetimes. as the nation process to remember the violence at the u.s. capitol three years ago today. and later, painting the pain away. the former u.s. capitol police officer returning t
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legal analyst. of course, the one and only, rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project, republican media strategist. welcome to all of you. he is also the author of run against the devil, a plot to save america from trump and democrats from themselves. i love that one. so, barbara, let s start with you. will the supreme court be forced to weigh in on trump s ballot eligibility? i think that s the driving question right now. i think so. i don t know how they dodged this. in light of the fact that we have seen different opinions now coming out of different states. i think, ultimately, there is a risk that we get this patchwork of eligibility that s different in all 50 states. even that each state gets to decide procedurally how they handle ballot questions, the substance of who is eligible is really a question for the u.s. supreme court interpreting the 14th amendment, it s a question. i think most people expect that the court might find some procedural off-ramp to avoid a
we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut jury, nearly a billion. let s go outside the courtroom. bryn, you were in there when the big figures were read out. walk us through the jury s decision. reporter: big figures leading up to the announcement of the numbers, even the jurors were taking a deep sigh. there was just so much pressure and tension inside that room. then what a release from these family members when those numbers were being read and tallied. i can tell you as we talked about, robbie parker, he received the biggest amou