. today marks an historic day at the supreme court. you re looking at some of the footage and some of the protesters there this morning. if trump s conduct for alleged engagement in insurrection bars him from the ballot as colorado has decided, that was the question before the court. the justices at times considered implications. home in a physical sense how the high court operates. the justices referred to that attack at times but careful to avoid pre-judging the other prosecutions from that day. they focused on this question if a state can respond to that attack by deeming a politician an insurrectionist and then booting him off the ballot. everyone realizing today the stakes are high. monumental day in judicial history. donald trump is now at the center of a u.s. supreme court battle. a legal case that could rock the race for the white house. voters in colorado sued aiming to remove trump from the ballot. the supreme court facing a major test. all nine of the
donald trump is vowing to fight the seismic ruling by colorado s supreme court that would remove him from the gop primary ballot there deeming him and eligible to run for president. trump posting on troop social after the ruling, a sad day in america. the colorado supreme court said if trump appeals to the us supreme court by jan fourth, which his teams says that they well, the decision to kick him off the ballot will be paused until the nation s highest court decides if it will take up the case. remember january fourth is one day before state law requires the colorado secretary of state to certify the list of candidates for the march 5th presidential primary there. so if the justices take this up, they have a complex argument to review. the colorado supreme court found here, 4-3, that trump engaged in an insurrection and that he incited violence on january 6th 2021, when he was still in office. they actually affirmed a lower court s ruling that trump s january 6th speech wa
insurrection on january 6th. the republican front runner removed from the gop primary ballot in that state. what does this mean nationally for the primary, and for the general election? trump advisers are already vowing to appeal setting up another high stakes supreme court case, his republican primary rivals rushed to his defense, and one wants candidates to boycott the colorado primary all together. also developing this morning, talks under way for a potential new deal to free hostages held by hamas. the new israeli proposal floating around this morning that could lead to a second temporary truce. cnn this morning starts right now. here s where we begin, donald trump kicked off the ballot in colorado, in an historic ruling that could throw the 2024 presidential election into chaos. the president, advisers vowing to take this extraordinary case all the way up to the supreme court just weeks before the crucial gop primary season officially kicks off. here s what happe
los angeles and this is america s least news late news, fox news and i. former president trump is now facing challenges to his candidacy in multiple states tonight. while colorado is the first to boot him from the ballot, it may not be the last. the chief correspondent jonathan hunt is live with a look at those challenges, where they stand, and some of the other legal woes the former president is facing. good evening, jonathan. it s becoming a head spinning exercise just to try to keep up with the momentous cases the supreme court is now being asked to weigh in on, and to keep up with whom is asking for what. former president donald trump, for instance, apparently wants the court to decide whether section three of the 14th amendment to the constitution bars him from running for the presidency as a colorado court ruled it did this week. that might be because the colorado action seems to be spurring several other states to look at similar legal efforts to prevent trump from b
let s start with the war in ukraine. russia has launched a fresh wave of missile strikes against ukraine speaking to the bbc, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has ruled out conceding any territory to russia in a potential peace deal. our world affairs editor, john simpson, reports from kyiv. with the anniversary of the russian invasion coming close, president zelensky is showing signs of increasing confidence. he s been visiting several of his main backers in britain and other nato countries, and the promises of weapons and support that he s received have clearly buoyed him up. when i met him today, he was defiant and seemed more than usually sure of his position. i asked what he felt about the threat that vladimir putin might strike at ukraine through neighbouring belarus, and he dismissed it out of hand. it will be a big mistake for him and for belarus. it will be a historical mistake. but if belarussia does involve itself, can you survive? we will fight. we wil