. today on inside politics, epic failure. dysfunction, humiliation, and inability to govern. that s the most charitable way to describe congressional republicans right now. a stunning series of mind boggling defeats. and minutes from now, senate republicans will almost certainly torpedo the most conservative border bill before them in decades. plus a win for, quote, none of these candidates. nikki haley loses nevada s nonbinding primary even though she was the only candidate on the ballot. her campaign insists it s full steam ahead. and the trump campaign s moment, all eyes are on the supreme court preparing to hear arguments on whether donald trump can be disqualified under the constitution s insurrection ban. a sign of how serious the former president takes this, he s staying out of washington trying to avoid a political spectacle. i m dana bash let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in the nation s capital where senate republicans are about to ki
captions by vitac www.vitac.com today on inside politics ease, a well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory, eight words that set off a five-alarm political fire inside the biden white house and sent the president himself into a fury. plus nikki haley s yolo strategy. she s trolling donald trump like never before and seems to be having some fun doing it. this year s super bowl ads won t all be about drinking beer and buying cars. new england patriots owner robert kraft s foundation is spending $7 million on a commercial to fight anti-semitism. kraft joins me live from the super bowl site in las vegas. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. when the history books are written of the 2024 election, there will be a lot of ink spilled about february 8th. that s how my colleague terrance burly described yesterday, and he is so right. the supreme court seemed likely to side with donald trump in the first election-related case to come before
primary contest. how people are reacting. plus, the city of new york ramping up security for the big party in sometimes square. how tensions over fighting in the middle east are playing a major factors. russia launching its largest aerial assault on ukraine since the start of the war. the images coming in as ukraine pleads for more military aid. we re beginning the hour with the new legal showdown over donald trump s eligibility to even be on the ballot. maine s secretary of state issuing a decision last night that the former president can t be a candidate in the primary, because he violated the constitution s insurrection clause. the weight of the evidence, all of the evidence made clear that mr. trump was aware of the by a multi-pronged effort to delegitimize a democratic election, the election of 2020, and then chose to light a match on january 6th. we should note on the same night we got that news from maine, the state of california made the op sid decision sayi
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticizing it as well. we re going to break down what donald trump s options are now that two states have determined he s not eligible to run. and what it all means for the election year, which is quickly approaching. and more developments on this front. hours after last night s decision in maine, bellows counterpart in california announced trump would remain on the balin that state. i ll be joined by colorado s secretary of state in a moment to talk about where things stand with the supreme court, plus the latest request for the justices to speed up their review of the decision to keep trump off the ballot. we have a whole lot to cover. so let s start with the reporting. joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, author of sedition hunters, now january 6th broke the justice system. so ryan, walk us through what happened in maine. unlike colorado, its state supreme court ruled this decision unilaterally was made by the sta