thank you for joining us live at town hall in new york city for this very, very special addition of why is this happening. he is incisive, he is big hearted, he is very, very smart, and admit it, he s taller than you expected. [laughter] please give a warm welcome to my friend and beloved colleague, msnbc s chris hayes. hello! [applause] thank you! hey! stop it! [applause] how are you? good! thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. sit down, sit down. thank you, that s extremely kind. i hate attention and positive feedback. [laughter] that was a really, really hard 20 seconds for me. so thank you for cutting it short. it s amazing to be here in my hometown of new york city. i ve got some family here. so, tonight, we re gonna talk about democracy. and that word, we ve probably talked more about democracy in the last four or five years than i had in all of my time as a journalist beforehand, i would say. like, even that is a topic seems a little weird. we all know, ameri
election ballots. these decisions are based on an interpretation of the 14th amendment, and trump s actions during and after the 2020 election. but late thursday, california s secretary of state, decided the former president should appear on that states primary ballot. all this sets up an explosive legal and political drama that will inevitably end up before the justices of the nation s highest court. nbc s ryan nobles has more. for the second time in two weeks, a state has ruled that donald trump is ineligible to run for president of the united states. it was not a close call on the question of whether january 6th, 2021, was an insurrection. the events of january 6th 2021 were impressive dented and tragic. reporter: shenna bellows, the secretary of state in maine, a democrat, determined that trump s actions on january 6th constitute a violation of the 14th amendment. the weight of the evidence makes clear that mr. trump was aware the of the tinder laid by his multi min
to remove trump from their. ballots california says not so fast. why? well, i will as the california secretary of state. this is all happening as republican presidential contenders are gearing up for the first major test. the iowa caucuses and new hampshire primaries, there just a couple of weeks away. who has the most at stake in these early contests? we ll ask our political panel this hour. plus, our culture critics are here to ring in the new year. we are looking at the biggest moments of 2023, and what s in and out in 2024. i am symone sanders-townsend, i have something to say. in just over two weeks, all eyes will be on iowa. that s when the state republicans will caucus in the first nominating contest of 2024 for the president of the united states. now, these make-or-break races for republican presidential hopefuls, they will be happening against the backdrop of an urgent and unprecedented constitutional question. you are looking at the first seconds of donald tru
and that the republican front-runner is heading into the new year with section 3 of the 14th amendment nipping at his heels. first it was colorado, now it s maine saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. and let s not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14th amendment cases. now the new ruling from the maine secretary of state is as fiery as it is somber. quote, i nclude as did the colorado supremeou that the record establishes that mr. trump over the course of several months and culminating on january 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certificati o the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power. i likeise conclude mr. trump was aware of the likely hood for ce and at least initially supported its useiven he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it. the weight of the evidence ma
days after that of her husband, also killed in the massacre. colorado s republican party jumping into the legal fight to keep donald trump on the presidential ballot. the latest on the supreme court appeal that has the u.s. heading for a legal showdown unlike any we have ever seen. it was a year that saw trump surge, biden slip, and the rest of the republican candidates essentially spinning their wheels. 2023 may be nothing compared to what s in store for american politics in 2024. steve kornacki takes a lok back and ahead coming up. we will start overseas with the growing violence inside and outside of gaza. an increasing fear the war could spread. inside central gaza, israel s military offensive is systematically destroying refugee camps for a third straight day as they hunt for hamas terrorists. more than 60,000 people who had been sheltering in those camps now forced to flee south. some on foot, somen donkey carts. israel is warning it could step up attacks i leb