paul: welcome to the journal editorial report. i m paul gigot. we given this week with begin this weeking with a supreme court showdown. the justices set to hear oral arguments on thursday in a case that could upsend the 2024 presidential race as they consider whether donald trump can be removed from the my mare primary ballot in colorado. that state s court ruled the president president is ingel under section three of the 14th amendment which prohibits an officer of the united states who took an oath to support the constitution and then engaged in insurrection from holding office again. let s bring in former attorney general of the united states michael mukasey is. judge, welcome back to the show. good to have you here. you ve written, for us in fact, hat president of the united states is not covered by the disqualification claus. why not? right. first of all, the presidency is not an office a under the united states. s it is, it has an independent source of power. i
With the most intense night of israeli airstrikes to date. We have reports unconfirmed by nbc news at this time of israeli troops crossing into gaza from the north and clashing with hamas fighters. Information is scarce. Right now, gaza is in a near total communications blackout. Gaza is the largest internet provider, as well as multiple gaza Cell Phone Service providers, they are all off line. That is due to both lack of fuel, and infrastructure that has been destroyed. The humanitarian aid group, red crescent, reports that without Cell Phone Service, they are now unable to dispatch their ambulances. The World Health Organization says it has lost contact with its staff, and its Health Facilities in gaza. Just hours ago, nbc news managed to make contact with a member of the nbc crew in gaza, he told nbc, ive managed to get connectivity for a minute with a lot of difficulty and i wanted to let you know that all internet, electricity, and everything has been cut off. The situation we are
center. but again we can report tonight that robert card has been found dead, which means the 48-hour man hunt that is terrorize the state of maine is now over, and we are just moments away from a press conference at lewiston city hall. special coverage of this breaking news out of maine continues in the next hour on the last word, with my colleague, jonathan capehart, who is in for lawrence. good evening john. good evening alice. list just jump right into this, because the breaking news tonight, as alex and explain to you, on forsman officials tell nbc news that robert card, the suspected mass shooter in maine, who killed 18 people and injured more than a dozen others at a bowling alley and bar and grill has been found dead. any minute now officials in maine will be holding a press conference to give us the latest. jonathan detest is with us, but let s go to corresponded where she is in the room where we expect the press conference to begin. kathy? we had problems with
Usain bolts nine fold medals, at three different olympics, was unprecedented. Now, through no fault of his own, that history has been tarnished. The reason lies with this man, nesta carter, bolts team mate in the relay at the 2008 beijing olympics. His start propelled jamaica both to gold and to a world record. But last year, carters sample from these games was retested and today he was found guilty of doping. Under the ioc rules, the whole team is now disqualified. Its an outcome that bolt has feared for some time. I asked him about it back in august in his hometown of kingston. At any point, if i lose one of my medals itd be devastating and stressful, do you know what i mean . To know that, after all that hard work, this would happen. But i think the sport is in a really bad place now and the only place it can go right now is up. It must be hard as well because the triple triple is such a special achievement . Its very, very, very special, but well see. Fingers crossed. Sadly, whilst
okay. to whom my concern. his lab tests were astonishingly excellent. if elected, mr. trump i can state unequivocally will be the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency. i m sorry to say that astonishingly excellent was in the letter and jesse was not correct. that was a very difficult one because each of those potential answers was equally ridiculous. but jesse, you still have a chance to redeem yourself and get all the loot with your last question. ready for question three? i am ready. okay. this one is from wednesday night s show. this week s republican presidential debate in las vegas, chris christie said when i stand across from king hussein of jordan, i will say you have a friend again, sir. on wednesday night show, we reported one problem with that. what was the problem? was it, a, jordan doesn t have a king.