ballot in colorado. the state supreme court there ruling donald trump violated the 14th amendment by engaging in insurrection, disqualifying himself. you re watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the decision will go to the supreme court as soon as possible. similar lawsuits are pending in a dozen states. griff jenkins is live in washington, d.c. with all the details this morning. griff: good morning, todd and carley. it is a stunning decision, a 4-3 decision, it is first time section three of the 14th amendment has been used to keep a presidential candidate off the presidential primary ballot. colorado supreme court finding trump engaged in insurrection on january 6 and is barred from holding office again. the court writes, we are questioning before us, we are mindful of our duty to apply the law without fear or favor and without being swayed by public reaction. the decision marks reversal from district judge s ruling last month that
after that plane crash in russia. russian aviation officials saying his corporate jet fell from the sky wednesday and putin s one-time ally, prigozhin, and the other leaders of the military group were among the ten passengers on the manifest and killed. nbc news has not independently confirmed he was on the flight or what the cause was. prigozhin was popular with the military. u.s. officials believed he would pay a price for challenging putin s power. i asked secretary of state blinken if the peace could last. if i were mr. prigozhin, i would remain concerned. nato has an open door policy. russia has an open window policy. he needs to be focused on that. joining me now is richard engel and john brennan who was cia director in the obama administration. richard, what s the latest
from administration officials across the board. president biden warned that prigozhin should be careful about the food that he was eating. cia director bill burns agreed with that assessment and said prigozhin shouldn t fire his food taster and said that putin is the, quote, apostle of paybacks saying he would be surprised if prigozhin were to escape further retaliation. the secretary of state antony blinken said that russian has an open window policy. so all of they will being very clear saying, even though there was a certain period of time where perhaps things had been smoothed over or there was a perception that thing were smoothed over between putin and prigozhin with the two meeting and prigozhin trying to say that what he was doing was really just to protect wagner or not to go after the kremlin, u.s. officials were still saying that prigozhin wasn t safe. i talked to one u.s. official today who said that he has been
so little about who was on that plane and where prigozhin is now. i would not be popping up in public if i was prigozhin to tell anybody where i am now and that i was safe. it might not be possible. and there was the possibility that putin could come out stronger to those willing to challenge him and there s been black humor you ve heard from senior western officials describe prigozhin s situation going forward. this is what antony blinken said last month. if i was yevgeny prigozhin, i would be very concerned, nato has an open door policy and russia has an open window policy. and there s a hard record of that. there are a number of folks who have died in various ways from
i don t know enough to know the answer. reporter: biden previously said that he believed prigozhin should be careful what he was eating. we heard the director saying he shouldn t get rid of his food taster saying that putin is someone who looks to pay back. he would be surprised if there wasn t retaliation for the effort that prigozhin took back in june to try to march on moscow. the secretary of state also warning, of course, of russia s open window policy, as he put it. of course, therefore referencing the other opponents of putin who have fallen out of windows mysteriously at times, leading to their death. yep, thank you. joining me now, the historian staff writer for the atlantic, anne, thank you for joining us. do you think putin was behind this plane crash? reporter: i think given the context, given the number of people who have died mysteriously in russia beginning in the late 1990s, putin s