ballot. trump vowing to swiftly appeal. it s a crucial ruling. will other states follow? also breaking tonight, israel says it s ready for a week-long pause in the fighting for the exchange of release of more hostages and the live, spectacular pictures from iceland, lava at one point flowing so past it could fill an olympic sized pool in 20 seconds. we are live with fred pleitgen. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, the breaking news and this is important. the colorado supreme court ruling just moments ago that former president trump should be removed from colorado s primary ballot. the consequences of this decision be obviously enormous. the court upholding a trial judge s decision that trump engaged in the january 6th insurrection, and the colorado supreme court saying that therefore, he engaged in the insur eksz and he is not qualified to be a presidential candidate because of the 14th amendment insureccist ban. it says a person is inel
the supreme court for more than two decades and was at the center of some of the most impactful decisions impacting the lives of all americans. thank you for joining us. the lead with jake tapper starts right now. team trump just took out its first new hampshire ad against nikki haley. the lead starts now. by this time, next month, we will know if the polls are right. do you hear that sound? that s the sound of us surging. this hour i will speak with haley s biggest supporter in new hampshire where she has got to stop trump if she wants to be president, plus democratic senator john fetterman from pennsylvania will be here taking headlines and waves in his party for backing israel wholeheartedly, pushing border security, and saying he s not a progressive. what is going on? and the volcanic eruption creating warnings and wonder around the world. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. off the top are live images of that incredible volcanic eruption in iceland. the largest
warm welcome to our viewers all around the world. bianca is off. but just ahead on cnn newsroom the colorado supreme court found that former president trump should be disqualified from being on the ballot in that state. we ve never had a president inside an insurrection and then tried to run for the presidency again. thousands of migrants in eagle pass, texas waiting to be transported for immigration processing. congress has not been able to come together and do comprehensive immigration reform which would help prevent a lot of the scenes that you see at the u.s./mexico border. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, december 20, 9:00 a.m. in london, 2:00 a.m. in denver, colorado where the state supreme court has delivered a stunning decision disqualifying donald trump from the 2024 presidential ballot. justices ruled trump is not eligible to be a candidate because of his role in the 2021 insurrection. his c
the 14th amendment of the constitution says insurrectionists cannot hold, quote, any office, civil or military, under the united states. and tonight, in a ruling as stunning as it is unprecedented, colorado supreme court said that donald j. trump, 45th president of the united states, is an su insurrectionist and therefore should be disqualified from being president. i m pamela brown in for anderson. we begin with not just the ruling, which is historic, but what happens when it almost certainly reaches the u.s. supreme court, which could be seismic. starting us off tonight, paula reid. tell us more about this really surprising ruling. surprising, remarkable, pamela. and the judges here, they acknowledge that at the top of their opinion. they talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they re deciding here. i mean this is the biggest court decision to impact a national election since bush v. gore. even though this only impacts colorado, the implications could b