collision course for the u.s. supreme court and those colorado democrat justices who took aim at the former president. it is set to be an unprecedented showdown after colorado s highest court called trump an insurrectionist and wiped him off the state s primary ballot. i am harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying it s anti-american. and a huge danger to our democracy. colorado could be just the beginning. legal efforts to disqualify the former president are now underway in more than a dozen states. here is a look. the courts don t decide who will be on the ballot. this is the worst case of judicial activism that i ve ever seen. i think the supreme court will take it up and say it is ridiculous because it is. harris: even trump s critics are coming to his defense. former republican governor of ohio john kasich. you have a partisan court all democrats. they barely could say that he should be disqualified. think about the precedent o
breaking moments ago, the supreme court has refused to consider former president trump s claim of immunity in his federal election interference case until a lower court has its say. so the high court could eventually hear this case, but they re not going to do it jack smith s way which was to expedite it. we re waiting for trump s legal team to appeal the colorado historic decision to remove him from the state s ballot. we could get the move from the trump team on that any minute. we have a great legal panel standing by on this breaking news this afternoon. john yoo, former law clerk to clarence thomas. great to have this outstanding panel with us. first let s go to chad pergram and get the latest on the breaking news this hour on a friday afternoon on capitol hill. hi, chad. march that good afternoon. jack smith has lost his effort to speed up consideration as to whether the former president was immune from prosecution for interfering with the 2020 presidential election. n
emily: colorado supreme court has made historic and unprecedented decision to remove former president donald trump from the ballot. it appears deep blue california is making moves to potentially follow suit with lieutenant governor saying every legal option must be explored. hello, this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno. joining me today, co-host of the bottom line, dagen mcdowell. fox news contributor tammy bruce, former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus and retired nypd inspector, attorney and founder of ops desk.org, paul mauro. a potential trump challenge as do-or-die issue, writing in a letter to secretary of state, i urge you to explore every legal option to remove former president donald trump from california s 2024 presidential primary ballot. this is a dire matter, she writes, that puts at stake the sanctity of our constitution and democracy. adding to the drama, california trump challenge may only be getting started, legal efforts to disqualify him i
starts right now. i m john roberts. next november we re going to win so big. i m not going to be somebody s circus monkey a pawn on a chess board. we re not playing that game. you join me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. you guys support me, elect me. you re going to be satisfied when i get to work because you re going to say you know what? he s doing what he said he was going to do. martha: here we go. i m martha maccallum. this is the story. the first 2024 presidential contest is four weeks from today. the polls show the former president way ahead in iowa and nationwide. take a look at these numbers when it comes to a head-to-head with the president, joe biden, former south carolina governor and former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is six points ahead of the current president in the brand new fox news polls and it shows former president trump would also win a 2020 rematch by four points. former white house press secretary ari fleischer a
should the biden team be in panic mode? they re playing it cool. we just saw karine jean-pierre in there. look at the numbers. more tough numbers and a major slip among a key really the essential voting group for winning elections. independents. the current president is now 14 points lower than he was with these voters just in july. and a stunning turn-around we ll talk to experts to explain this one. young voters in a 2024 hypothetical now lean trump. they overwhelmingly voted for biden in 2020. a lot of factors here that we ll dig in to to what going on here. how long can the president to this and say you re looking at the wrong polls? you listen to the biden white house and you listen to the campaign and you listen to spokespeople. they say don t worry, be happy. oh, we have time. martha: hogan gidley who worked in the trump administration and philippe ryan are here. good to have both of you with us today. we re going to bring in first fox news correspondent peter do