will see if our election coverage happening now, breaking news colorado's top election official response to the us supreme court's historic ruling, keeping donald trump on the ballot in her state and others. secretary of state jenna griswold, is joining us live also tonight. the huge stakes of the 2024 election are on vivid display this week as trump aims to sweep super tuesday contests tomorrow, and president biden prepares for his critical state of the union address thursday, while also facing dismal new poll numbers. and there's more breaking news, vice president kamala harris just wrapped up talks with a top political rival of israeli prime minister benjamin at a time, you escalating the biden administration's push for an immediate six week ceasefire in gaza >> we're getting a readout of the meeting. >> welcome to our >> viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in the situation room this is cnn breaking news. >> the colorado secretary of state is standing by to discuss the consequences of the us supreme court's unanimous rejection of her state's efforts to remove donald trump from the presidential ballot. speak with her just a moment. but first, let's get a breakdown of the landmark high court decision from cnn chief legal affairs correspondent, paula reid former president trump today claims the supreme court has unified the country by securing >> his place on the 2024 ballot. >> there voters can take the person enter the race very quickly. but a court shouldn't be doing that. and the supreme court, so that very well. and i really do believe that well, be a unit defining factor in a unanimous opinion monday, the court ruled that colorado could not remove trump from the ballot under the constitution's ban on insurrectionists serving an office, states may disqualify persons holding or attempting to hold state office but states have no power under the constitution and to enforce section three with respect to federal offices, especially the presidency, the justices warned that allowing states to each make different decisions about ballot eligibility would result in a patchwork creating chaos around elections the victory for trump was expected after february oral arguments were justices from both sides of the aisle appeared skeptical of colorado's case. >> i think that the question that you have to confront is why a single state should decide who gets to be president of the united states? >> and the chief justice john roberts, signaled where he would ultimately find consensus across the court. >> the whole point, of the 14th amendment was to restrict state power while the decision was 90 and applies to all 50 states. there was some tension below the surface with for justice just is writing concurring opinions the three liberals saying their colleagues went too far by finding only congress can enforce the 14th amendment. justice barrett, a trump appointee, agreed, but didn't sign on to the liberal justices language. instead, highlighting unity on the court for present purposes are differences are far less important than our unanimity. all nine justices agreed on the outcome of this case. that is the message american should take home the liberal watchdog group and longtime colorado republican who brought the state lawsuit disagreed with the court's decision. an argued that the issue isn't settled yet. >> the issue of donald trump's eligibility for the office of the presidency remains very much alive. issue but of course it's unlikely that congress will do anything before november. and in less than two months, the court will hear arguments on another major trump case that could impact the outcome of the election. there the question is if trump has immunity that could protect him from criminal charges related to his efforts to subvert the 2020 election now we'll, most legal experts do not think trump will win on the merits. but the fact that court has even taken the case could help them delay it until after the presidential contest. >> we shall see a huge, huge decision coming up on that front as well. paula reid at the supreme court. thank you very much joining us now, the colorado secretary of state, jenna griswold, madam secretary thanks so much for joining us. the high court says states don't have the power to remove federal candidates from the ballot. what's your reaction to this historic decision today? >> well, thank you for having me on first and foremost, i'm glad that they issued a decision colorado voters and american voters all across the country deserve to know whether donald trump is qualified or not as we go into super tuesday but in terms of the bigger decision, i'm disappointed. we believe that it's up to colorado or any state to determine whether to disqualify oath-breaking insurrectionists from our ballots. ultimately, the united states supreme court disagreed. votes for donald trump will count and he is on our ballot. >> the court didn't address the sensitive issue whether trump has actually an insurrectionist. are you disappointed by that and what worries you most about this decision? >> i wouldn't say i was surprised they didn't address it but it is the big elephant in the ram. only two courts have looked at the question of whether trump engaged in insurrection, and they both determined that he did and i think one of the concerns from this decision is that without congressional action, oath-breaking insurrectionists running for federal office will not be able to be stopped from appearing on ballots although congress could act, it's highly unlikely with such congress that we have that just doesn't function very well >> as you heard, the madam secretary, even the three liberal justices agreed that trump can't be removed from the ballot, given that did the colorado supreme court, from your perspective? go too far? >> i don't think the colorado supreme court went too far. i think there's different opinions that's why we have a judicial system as to whether section three of the 14th amendment is self-executing, whether states can apply that provision of the constitution to protect hectare ballots from oath-breaking insurrectionists >> i also >> think that the big concern is still there. donald trump incited the insurrection. he incited that violent mob onto the capitol to try to stop the peaceful transfer of presidential power. and he has not stopped his attacks on democracy since then >> it's clear you disagree strongly with the supreme court decision as a legal matter. but madame secretary, is it better for the country that if if trump goes ahead and loses the election, it's a result of the voters making their choice at the ballot box as an elected official as colorado's secretary of state, it's my job to uphold the law in the constitution if there is a provision in the constitution that would bar someone like trump from appearing on the ballot. it's my job to enforce that. when there's big questions while it goes into litigation and we've seen that play out exactly how it did. trump is a qualified candidate. the united states supreme court as decided states do not have the authority to remove him and ultimately will it will be up to the american people to save our democracy in november at their voting centers trust in the supreme court, according to various polls, is near record lows right now, will today's decision >> lower the court's standing with the public even more so. do you have less faith yourself in the court? >> my opinion on the court does not immediately matter to this case in hand. i am disappointed. but as secretary of state, i'll uphold the united states supreme court's decision donald trump, i believe, is a danger to american democracy. we all ready? see maga, extremists trying to undermine confidence in 2024 trump himself is facing 91 felony counts in four separate cases. the american people, from the very beginning have all the power in the world to safeguard our country. i was never waiting on the supreme court to do that because that will will be the american voters job this fall. >> we still see what happens. the colorado secretary of state jenna griswold. thank you so much for joining us >> thank you. >> wael, let's get some reaction right now from our legal and political experts and laura coates, i'll start with you. how significant is today's decision? >> oh, it's a huge decision wolf. the idea they've been waiting for over a month, of course, very dressing as well. >> but >> this tells you that they have foreclosed in some respect and only a former president being able to be found in this way, but also any official that's not explicitly laid out in section three of the 14th amendment. it's consequential. could they told the states essentially, although your job is to oversee elections, to stay in your lane it's a state issue. it's all yours, but for federal office, you cannot and that's pretty significant here. >> what did you think of what we just heard from the colorado secretary of state, her reaction while i think it's obvious she wanted a different conclusion, her job as an official obviously has to carry out the law as it's written. but the notion that they're taking away the state's ability to decide who can be on their own ballots is a huge step for the supreme court and why? >> because they believe that it's >> inappropriate for one state to decide how the rest of essentially the union will be able to operate. but their role is hold on. if i'm in charge of my own state elections than why would i not be in that best position here for my own voters? this is a way i think them to have the off-ramp he was even herself because of being happening. and here it is, the off-ramp and the supreme court got off at that exit. >> what did you think norm eisen from what we just heard from the colorado secretary of state. well, wealth their legal issues that reasonable minds can disagree about. i think secretary griswold position that the evidence strongly supported donald trump engaged in insurrection and in our federal system, states run elections. so it was reasonable for to say, yeah, i should not put him on, but i think this was a reasonable off-ramp for the supreme court as well. there were some crazy ones, like saying the president trump argued the president is not an officer of the united states that would have been a head-scratcher to me if the supreme court nine justices agreed on that, this is one where reasonable minds can disagree and the other thing is they he did not accept donald trump's invitation. he said, please say in his papers, please say i'm not an insurrectionist. nine nothing. they declined to take him up on that request and discuss that at all of the supreme court decision. and if you read it, fascinating, 20 pages, i've gone through a single single-spaced david, what do you think of the secretary of state of colorado is saying that trump still represents a threat to democracy. here in the united states. well, listen, she's referring to a candidate who has said he intends to use the justice department if he's elected and serves as president again, to go after his political local enemies. i think that is a fair assessment that that is a threat to the democratic norms of the system. i think here though you can't underestimate the political win for donald trump, a nine, nothing unanimous. supreme court decision is just something we saw him do it this afternoon. you could just take out and sell on the campaign trail as, as validation. now, i know this wasn't the thorniest or trickiest of all the legal issues he faces and that he had a pretty strong case here to take before the supreme court. but that is still sort of a feather in his cap now to as he's trying to do away with all of these legal it will challenges to get a nine nothing supreme court decision on one that keeps you on the ballot is no small thing. >> yeah, that's important point. laura based on what we saw today with today's supreme court decision, how if at all do you think that potentially could affect the other major supreme court decision that's coming in the weeks ahead, whether or not the present the former president in this particular case has presidential immunity. in other words, he can't be charged with a crime. >> well, there was this idea that the supreme court might sort of split the baby. they might say in the colorado case. okay. you're on the ballot, which again, be careful what you wish for it because if your whole schtick is that i'm capped off on political martyr. now that you're back on you should lose. you can't really blame the supreme court, although likely someone will, then the other part of it is hold on a second. you've got this immunity case here. well, that seems to be a much stronger argument in favor of not allowing a president to be immune, which would be the other side of the coin for the supreme court, not having a win for donald trump. now, if they are inclined to make because a political calculation that would be outwardly surprising, but there's a legal argument as to why he would not have immunity as opposed to one strong and the other direction either way, if the timing holds, it took about a month to actually have a decision. if you have an oral argument in april on april 22, if it's a month from then you have an actual decision well, there might in fact be some time on the clock before the election to have some meaningful argument or a trial and to david's point about putting the wind in donald trump's sales before super tuesday. clearly, they're focused on the political calendar and the right of every american to be informed. well, if you apply that same logic, how much more so, super majority of americans wants to know did donald trump abused the powers that he's seeking to regain? 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>> well, there's no question that is rankled. not only the israeli prime minister, but also many of his allies in government who viewed this visit by benny gantz has somewhat of a breach of protocol, but of course it's important to keep in mind that gantz is effectively netanyahu's chief political rival, even as they are both in this kind of uneasy marriage political convenience within the war cabinet and israeli government officials saying that gantz's not officially representing israel along the, during this visit, the israeli ambassador in washington was instructed not to facilitate this visit. a sign of the disapproval of this visit, but of course, all of this spotlights the possibility, the alternative that gunman it's represents not only here in israel, but also in the united states, where us officials have been growing increasingly frustrated with the current israeli prime minister. and this is certainly an opportunity for them to get a look at what israel's next prime minister, which he would be if elections were held today, might look like very, very important jeremy diamond in tel aviv, mj lee at the white house. important developments we're following all of this. there's more breaking news. we're following right now, a united nations team finding what it calls clear and convincing a direct quote, clear and convincing information that israeli hostages in gaza as it were sexually abused, and that there are reasonable grounds to believe the sexual violence is ongoing. that report also finding evidence that rape and gang rape occurred during the october 7 hamas terror attacks in israel. we're watching this story as well just ahead, we'll have more of donald trump's the to a supreme court win today and how he's using it to push his next big case before the high court. and we're also going to be new insights right now. and to president biden strategy as he prepares for his high-stakes state of the union address this week on thursday amid new warning signs for his reelection bid >> headline, her las vegas that's what i wanna do it. so unlike anywhere else in the world, vegas, the story of sin city next sunday at ten on cnn with so many choices on booking.com, there are so many tina fey's. i could be hired body doubles, 30,000 followers, tina and a boutique hotel for 30,000 steps. gene at a mountain cabin booking.com, booking dot yeah. >> hi. we've both got a big birthday coming up. so we have a lot of porches about medicare plans. >> we've got a lot of answers. how can i help? 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>> well, it's not where a president would want to be heading into the heat of his reelection campaign. that being said, you just showed a slew of polls. trump in a couple of them is outside the margin of error with a slight lead in others, it's within the margin of error clearly are the average is 48 to trump 46% for biden. here's the difference. four years ago, we here at cnn did 12th polls matching up biden and trump throughout the entire 19.20 election season. donald trump was never numerically ahead of joe biden. that's not the case now. so joe biden enters with low approval ratings. historically, low approval ratings. and he is doing so in a weaker position than no doubt his campaign would want to be at that point. i just think we're now getting to the season of a fully engaged campaign battle, yet still plenty of months ago before the actual election. so we'll see what happens but van man jones is with us the new york times poll showed this nearly three-quarters of voters, van 73% say biden is too old. they say he's too old to be an effective candidate including actually a majority of democrats, just 42% say that of trump should this be a major flashing red light for the biden campaign? >> it should be, and it is. unfortunately, he can't get any younger. so that that much that they can do about it he has a chance this week though, to remind people that sometimes having a good grandpa on the case is better than having a bad grandpa in the case. and that's really what he's got to lean into it. he's got to own it. he is an older guy, but he's an older guy who's a good guy, is a good man. he's done well for the country and he's got a track record to run on. but anybody who says it's not a real issue or it's just something that the media is making up. that's not true. >> se cupp, the writer evan osnos, as a new article in the new yorker magazine in which he speaks to president biden and others. he writes this about president biden's polling struggles right now, and i'm quoting from the article, a series of senior aides told me that they doubt biden is trailing trump as much as some polls have seen justin polling is broken. one of them said, is the biden white house se in some sort of denial right now >> yeah. i mean, i read that interview. biden was defiant and that's a good look for him, right? being angry, being determined. that's good. but there's a fine line between define denial and there isn't denialism inside the white house about, about his age and about the importance of some of the issues to a lot of americans, including two democrats and i watched over the weekend as all these not great polls came out for joe biden and my liberal friends on twitter were tweeting, slamming the media and the poles themselves very similar to what you heard in that article. and that's very trumpian. that sounds very trumpian to blame the media and the polls i don't think that's going to serve him really well. he's got like van said, i think address this head on, tackle it, lay out the stakes at the state of the union of what what exactly is at stake here and get people to see beyond this mess, the mess of his age and the mass of some of these issues that have just not been dealt with. >> well, van let me get you to weigh in on this as well as the white house in denial i think that if the white house thinks that the age issue is a media made-up thing. they're in denial if they're think these polling, these polls are made up, they're in denial. it is true that biden, that the democratic party tends to do a little bit better than we expect almost every time, given how i'm bad, biden's numbers are so the red wave turned out to be a little red trickle. we did a little bit better. these off-year weird year allegedly been doing a little bit better. we're doing better than biden. but how is biden going to do better than biden? that's hard for me to understand. they think that will listen. democrats keep doing better. the only hope is is that the economy continues to heal. abortion stays. a strong issue and people start paying more attention to what it really mean for trump to get in there. but in the meantime, this is the hard sledding season for biden and you want to see him come out strong. this weekend and take this issue on. >> let's see how he does in a state of the union address on thursday, david, among the so-called so must-win blocks out there that biden must win in order to be reelected as president these latest poll numbers are not necessarily showing a lot of good news for the current president. >> no, indeed showing a similar story that we've been seeing over the course of the last year. he is losing ground with some key constituencies. take a look on the screen here you can see the new york times poll there on the left compared to the 2020 exit polls. now, what does a poll? and one is voters coming out of the voting booth telling us what they did. but nonetheless, those under 30 biden as at 12 point advantage in this poll. well, it was twice that in the 2020 election among female voters, biden is tied with trump in this new york times poll this weekend, he had a 15 point advantage. you see with black voters he was he's got a 43 advantage. that substantial except in the 2020 election, it was a 75 point advantage. and then if you look at nonwhite voters without a college degree, you see he's got a six point advantage over trump but that was a 46 point advantage in 23. so clearly they have a to-do list here. there's no doubt to try and bring some of these key pieces of the coalition back into the fold at the robust levels that they were four years ago. i'm sure when they read these new york times sienna poll numbers yesterday in the new york times, there was a lot of depression over there, but probably little prize. yeah. good point. all right, guys. thank you very, very much. just ahead the top democrat on the house intelligence committee will join me in the situation room. we'll be right what. >> happened. >> to the. golden boy of new jersey. >> i engaged in an affair with another man. >> did you want to be outed in knighted states have scandal with jake tapper they're. >> going to therapists if they're having an interview with jake tapper, new episode next sunday night on cnn >> one greeting seven >> yeah, that's not good happened huge things happened happened >> be there >> with three, learn more at rnc.com cracked windmill, make it easy and schedule would say fly because you can track us and see exactly when we'll be there. >> a few more minutes. let's >> that's service that fits your schedule. go to safelite.com that we see flag we place a, you know, no, it's landing >> looking the hotels.com to find your perfect somewhere >> why always the couch? 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that's something they haven't granted. and the tide you since his reelection well, wolf, i think it's it's i hope two things are going on. number one, it sends a signal that united states stands with israel and that we have not forgotten the horror that was visited on israel on october 7, and the necessity, the righteous necessity to make sure that hamas is not an operative force ever again, it also, and i imagined that behind closed doors this message was delivered is essential that the conflict in gaza, the israeli attacks in gaza happen in a different way than they have. these many months in a way that is much more consistent with the kind of humanitarian improvement we would like to see in gaza. and in which hamas is the target and in which there is much less damage done fatalities, casualties amongst the civilian population. >> because i know congressman, you've joined most of the democrats in criticizing the tiny house, far-right policies. but given the very sensitive talks over a potential ceasefire and hostage deal, could it actually backfire on the white house to angle? during the ten you >> well, i don't know about angering netanyahu, what the united states is doing here. and i think the vice president was very clear in her statements in pointing at hamas as the barrier at this point to a cessation of hostilities to allow for for the humanitarian situation to be addressed, to allow for the release of hostages. and, the united states needs to continue to play a role in saying to the israeli leadership, regardless of who it is. and of course, benny gantz is in the war cabinet that we must together undertake the attacks in gaza in a, in a different way than they have been. the way they have been undertaken from a humanitarian standpoint is just not tenable going forward. and as you know, wolf, the israeli leadership prime minister netanya now who most notable amongst them, it has not been open to that message. and it's really going to be critical not just for the moral reasons, but for ultimately the ability. and we all hope the disability comes sooner rather than later, but to migrate this catastrophic situation to something that is ultimately about the peace and security and the safety of the israeli people and of a legitimate end state for the palestinian people, which of course is a two-state solution. so my hope is that the conversation in the white house is about taking the steps to get us closer to that. what seems like today, very distant solution because as you know, the vice president kamala harris, is speaking out a lot more forcefully and publicly about the humanitarian catastrophe in gaza right now. and the white house's frustration with israel clearly is growing. i want you to listen and watch this listen to this people in gaza are starving conditions are made. there must be an immediate ceasefire we're lost, at least the next six weeks. she added, should president biden himself, congressman, be speaking out like this? >> well, obviously i think we all believe that the vice president is echoing a message that that is consistent with the president, consistent with the administration, consistent with a lot of members of congress. and i have to say this a lot to my constituents, wolf, which is that two things can be true at the same time. number one, that what happened on october over seventh, what was perpetrated by hamas was inexcusable, was barbaric and was monstrous, and that hamas must cease to be a player in the region. and on the global stage, it is also true that 30,000 dead gazans is not a tenable situation that a humanitarian crisis in which gaza they're not getting enough nutrition, not getting the medicine. that is also untenable. >> so again sadly in this >> conflict, people have a tendency to take sides. >> we have to >> remember that the life of an israeli and the life of a gazan are morally equivalent and that we shouldn't take sides. and yes, we need to prosecute the war we're against hamas, but we need to do it in a way that is different, frankly, from the way we have seen the war undertaken in these last several months, garners, but jim himes, thank you so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf >> and we'll have much more news just ahead tomorrow. >> its super tuesday, 16 races one consequential day and no one could breathe. do you like cnn and the best political team of business super tuesday special coverage begins tomorrow at 06:00 p.m. on cnn and streaming on max >> you struggle with cpac. you should check out, inspire inspire sleep apnea, innovation, learn more and view important safety information at inspires leap.com >> are you good no. >> i think i'm laying my car insurance >> good thing. the general gives you a break when you need it >> with flexible payment options, keep your cover. just heard this in like right now. >> oh >> he was talking about insurance break low rate. >> go with the general >> i'm a guy lost the bet. my dignity as of watching my team lose wasn't funny there's been enough >> what do you look at at home? 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>> the idea was if you engage in insurrection after previously swearing an oath to the united states, you are disqualified unless two-thirds of both chambers of congress say you can come back. >> specifically, section three of the 14th amendment says, no person who's previously taken an oath to support the constitution shall hold any office who has engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the constitution, or given aid or comfort to the enemy he's thereof. the colorado supreme court had ruled that's what trump did on january 6, 2021, when he implored his supporters to go to the capital. we're going to the capitol. >> the 14th amendment was ratified in 18, 68, another period of raw political turmoil that was reconstruction amendments in 18 68 came about because her country was torn apart in the civil war. >> the purpose of section three, at least in that moment, was to make it impossible for jefferson davis or alexander stephens, or the other senior leaders, the confederates krissy, to simply come back into the national government as if nothing had ever happened in 18, 70 zabiullah and vance, who had served in the confederate army, was appointed as a senator from north carolina, but the senate refuse to seat him citing the 14th amendment. vance later got amnesty and did end up serving in the senate in the early 1900s routes victor burger, a socialist from wisconsin, was refused a seat in the house of representatives twice after having been elected. his opposition to world war i had led him to be criminally charged with disloyal acts and the house use the 14th amendment to keep him out. but he eventually got his conviction overturned. and did serve in the house more recently, coy griffin, a county commissioner in new mexico, was removed from office in 2022 on 14th amendment grounds because he actually was a convicted january 6 rioter. now, the supreme court has said, not only does trump stay on the colorado ballot, but states can never keep a federal candidate off their ballot. for instance, correction. their biggest ruling on elections since 2000, the country is much more divided now than it's ever been before. and being in a sense, if you're a supreme court justice, it makes bush versus gore looked like a walk in the park. >> donald trump denies doing anything wrong on january 6. and as of now, he's not been convicted of any crimes related to january 6, but legal analyst stephen vladeck says at least one of those previous cases where congress has denied seats to people based on the 14th amendment, isn't an indication that you don't have to have been convicted to be prevented from holding office under that amendment >> wolf. very important. brian todd reporting for us. thank you, brian. very much coming up. a state of emergency in haiti right now as gangs seize control of the nation's capital we'll be right back >> back room deals, cia secrets, affairs, bribery, corruption, prostitution there's so much more to the store. >> united states of scandal with jake tapper next sunday at nine on cnn look we know it's going to be a big change, but it's the right thing to do for all of us. it's just your mother and i went different thing which is why we got sling tv so we can watch live and free tv on one app that's right. dad gets live sports >> and news and i get my reality shows. >> and when we don't want to pay your mom and i can still get hundreds of channels calls for free saying is really keeping this family together, you have no idea. >> i had no idea >> why choose asleep numbers, smart bad. >> can it keep me warm when i'm cold? 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