him from the presidency, the leader starts right now. any moment, we are expecting team trump to appeal the ruling by colorado supreme court that he disqualified by engaging in insurrection, former u.s. attorney chan general who is a critic during his desperate attempt to hold onto power is here to discuss plus signs from both israel and hamas that a temporary pause might be on the table, 40 hostages are held by hamas, breaking this hour, the deal brokered between u.s. and venezuela who they were deemed lawfully detained, who will the u.s. give up, in this latest swap. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper and we start with a stunner, the legal and political shockwaves reverberating around the country after the colorado supreme court last night ruled donald trump s engagement in insurrection disqualifies him for presidency. the colorado judges say he should not be on any state balanced ballots which reads in part quote, no person shall hold any office who have previously t
but back on the trial. why he is declaring that he never red mein kampf. and flooding affects tens of thousands of people in maine, and temperatures there dip to below freezing. this is cnn news central. donald trump vowing to fight this huge ruling out of colorado by the colorado supreme court court which removed him from the comele coal ballot dealing him ineligible to run for president. last night the court disqualified trump because he, quote, engaged in insurrection. majority opinion wrote, trump did not merely in-scite the insurrection and it was fully under way, he continued to support it by completely demanding that mike pence refuse to perform his constitutional duty and by calling senators to persuade them to stop the countingeelectric orrial votes. so while trump himself has not commented publicly, his campaign saying that it is a completely flawed decision and they plan to swiftly file an appeal and take this extraordinary case all the way to the supre
intense negotiations are continuing in the hope that the united states will finally back a resolution. it comes as hamas said that more than 20,000 people have now died since israel launched its military offensive after the october 7th attacks, in which 1200 people in israel were murdered. hamas which is designated a terrorist organisation by the uk government says the majority of those who ve been killed in gaza are women and children. 0ur fergal keane reports. the boy lies on the body of his father. his father is among the 20,000 reported dead. but the survivors do not think of the deadin survivors do not think of the dead in figures of thousands. there is is an intimate reckoning. counted in the vanished faces of those they loved. from the beginning, they have known there is no escape. from gaza. 0rfrom grief. in this hospital in central gaza, the wounded child holds to symbols of antiracist normality. this girl lost ten members of herfamily normality. this girl lost t
hi there. thank you for being with us. we begin with a developing story in the united states. the colorado supreme court has disqualified trump from the ballot in the state s presidential election next year. it its ruling the court says it is because of his role in the capitol attack in january 2020 one foot his campaign immediately denounced the ruling is undemocratic and said they would appeal to the us supreme court. let s bring in north america correspond to peter bowes who joins us life. peter bowes who joins us life. peter connelly ruling applies only to the state s republican primary. so what does this decision mean? primary. so what does this decision mean? well, this, as ou decision mean? well, this, as you say. decision mean? well, this, as you say. applies decision mean? well, this, as you say, applies only - decision mean? well, this, as you say, applies only to - decision mean? well, this, as you say, applies only to the l you say, applies only to the republ
unprecedented case to the other one that s likely going to go in front of those nine justices. trump has been barred from the 2024 primary ballot after the state supreme court found he violated the 13th amendment s insurrectionist band. trump s lawyers taking of course the opposite approach straight to the court on this. we have cnn tracking both of these stories. walk us through the immunity issue, what we are expecting compared to what happened. donald trump headed to trial in march in the court in washington. the supreme court has to resolve, they are going to have to figure out whether donald trump is immune from going to trial beakers because he was trialed in the senate and acquitted there. before they can do that trial, someone will have to figure it out and it will be the supreme court. the justice department wants to skip the middle court and go to the supreme court straightaway. the supreme court is considering that, we have this new brief in from donald trump