dangerously for american women post-roe and a hot off the presses economic stump speech that debuted yesterday in chicago. and all of that just since saturday. without further ado, the 46th president of the united states, joe biden. thank you for being here. thank you for having me. this is very exciting for us. exciting for me. you said today and i know that you have a lot of power but i can t imagine you manufactured the breaking news about the court. you say this court is not normal. what did you mean? what i meant by that is it s done more to unravel basic rights and basic decisions than any court in recent history. that s what i meant by not normal. it s gone out of its way i mean, for example, take a look at overruling roe v. wade, take a look at the decision today, take a look at how it s how it s ruled on a number of issues that are have been precedent for 50, 60 years sometimes, and that s what i meant by not normal. can i read you some of your ap
taken action to remove president trump from the ballot. secretary of state belllows ruled he is ineligible to run if they have engaged in insurrection. the events of january 6 2021, unprecedented, tragic, were unsurrectorion. mr. trump engaged in insurrection and therefore disqualified. upon alexandria: like colorado state supreme court belllows based her ruling off the ruling used once in 1919. make no mistake, this is assault on democracy. biden does not trust voters for a free and fair election. this is being pursued in 13 other states. in colorado, trump s name will appear unless the supreme court affirms the decision to remove him. here is the chair weighing in. it is an act of desperation, they are afraid donald trump will win against joe biden. i m afraid other states will follow suit if the supreme court does not step in. alexandria: penning appeal by the trump team. right now her ruling is stayed until we get a ruling on that appeal from the state supreme c
brand-new numbers this morning show 276,000 migrants crossing illegally in december. the highest monthly total ever. border patrol sources report more than 760,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that s another record. the highest first quarter of any fiscal year. more on this breaking story throughout the hour. but first. former president donald trump is off the 2024 ballot in the state of maine. potentially big factor in what is expected to be a close race for the white house. good morning, i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. good morning, molly. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. maine s democratic secretary of state following colorado s lead disqualifying trump based on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. a crime for which he was never charged. mike: colorado s ban is on home after the state gop appealed it to the supreme court. the former president faces challenges in many states including wisconsin and november. bellows is the first election
Meeting with japans prime minister. But theres an issue loming over the white house. The Mounting Fallout over bidens handling of classified documents during his post obama years. Thbz has learned one of the classified documents found at the d. C. Office was marked with the highest classification in the u. S. Government. Thats according to a senior u. S. Official and another person familiar. We got that development after attorney general Merrick Garland announced hes appointed a Veteran Prosecutor to serve as Special Counsel to review the documents. Ahead, what were learning about hur and how hes proceeding. Plus the tight rope both the white house and Justice Department are walking considering theres another Special Counsel investigating President Trump. Also this morning, devastation across the southeast. Search and rescue operations are underway after tornadoes in multiple states. By the grace of god, we all survived. We jumped out the car and we all got in the freezer. A lot of pra
does the act opposite. at least she did leave the balloon prop at home. also embarrassing herself, her bff kevin the speaker and the whole country, too. meanwhile in the republican response, sarah huckabee sanders does her version of carnage tying the party back to trump. also tonight, reaction to president biden s call for police reform as twisted new details emerge today about tyre nichols death after a vicious beating by memphis police. we begin tonight with a state of the union address for the books. when last night president biden achieved what kevin mccarthy could never do, which was uniting the room and getting republicans to jump to their seats in support of medicare and social security. yes, that happened. it was a master class, really, on outnegotiating republicans, pulled off by biden who sparred with a raucous crowd. no president added more to the national debt in any four years than my predecessor. they re the facts. check it out. check it out. some re