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You are in the cnn newsroom. Im jim sciutto In Washington. We begin with what could be a Major Development from the us Supreme Court. The court has scheduled the release of a ruling tomorrow, driving speculation. This could be the decision on whether former President Donald Trump can appear on colorados president ial ballot. The courts decision likely to decide the matter in several other states that now have similar pending challenges. Those states include maine and illinois boy, he states argue that trumps actions surrounding january 6 and the 2020 election, his attempts to overturn it disqualify him for office under the constitution based on the 14th amendments insurrectionist ban. Cnn Senior Supr ....
Election. The court says it will. Its unclear which ruling they will release, but this is notable colorado votes on tuesday the justices might very well wish to settle once and for all the question of whether donald trump is disqualified from that states ballot. And therefore, other states where this is upending question and this tuesday, the Super Tuesday, when voters will likely end the republican primary, give donald trump his partys nomination. Thats at least what trump wants. Thursday, President Biden, he will get a primetime platform to sell his own track record for a mammoth america, his State Of The Union, offering a rare opportunity to speak to millions of americans, tried to convince them that he deserves four more years. It happens as a spate of new political polls show that biden theres more vulnerable th ....
that does it for a special coverage primetime special coverage this evening but we have much more ahead and now it s time for the last word with a great lawrence o donnell. we have breaking e. jean carroll knows which away began on your show with your interview with e. jean carroll and her lawyer, and that is in the lawsuit, she has another lawsuit against donald trump for all the comments he made about her, and today a federal judge, luis kaplan, granted e. jean carroll s request to revise the defamation lawsuit that she filed against donald trump to include the similar comments that he made recently on cnn, that he made last month on cnn. you had a chance to ask them if that is what their plan was. and it certainly sounded like it was. i said, i mean, you just got this huge judgments against him for saying these terrible things about you that were untrue, and then as soon as the judge came back he said again, what can you do about? that and e. jean carroll s lawye ....
Long, tedious job. it takes a long time. i was prepared to do, but i have a very busy life. i have had a very busy life. andrew, i ve never heard the busy life defense to any crime, for that matter. i m trying to think how the busy life defense will work on the january 6th case, because one camera on what jack smith is doing in a given day is not enough, it turns out that there is very important stuff happening with the january six grand jury in washington tonight. as somebody who does have a busy life, it is jack smith. and i think this is so telling that while this was going on in florida, where jack smith was president, his team was also at work in washington d.c. where two of the so-called fake electors or team going into the grand jury. and i just think that is a sign of who jack smith is trained, the eastern district of new ....
The country, and areas that are not swing political districts. and again for folks just joining us, the vote for tonight is off. all we know is the house may be in session as early as 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. a whole lot of talking going on in washington tonight. we ve been part of it. great thanks to our starting line this evening. to shannon pettypiece. to ashley parker and robert costa. thank you very much for starting off our conversation and reacting to this breaking news. coming up for us, they have been called simanchin. manchinema. we ll talk about these two senators. again, both actually democrats with the ability and maybe the desire somehow to hobble their own president s agenda beneath that dome. and later, this was a bad day in the brief history of the pandemic in terms of the staggering loss we have suffered thus far. one of our top doctors standing by to explain why we aren t giving up anytime soon. the 11th hour is just getting under way on this thursday night ....