officials decide to remove donald trump from maine s primary ballot. but what happens next? and could other states follow suit? i ll talk to one of the lead plaintiffs in the case. plus, the do nothing congress. congressional republicans face a hefty to-do list when they return to work in the new year. including keeping the government open. so why are they already putting their focus on an impeachment inquiry into president biden, despite no evidence of wrongdoing? and as the war between israel and hamas wages on, we will take a closer look at how the conflict has become a political and religious flash point, in this country. a powerful discussion with a diverse group of faith leaders is coming up. we begin this hour with donald trump getting the booed off the 2024 primary ballot in a 2nd state. on thursday, in a historic move, main secretary of state shenna bellows ruled that trump is not qualified to hold the office of the presidency under section 3 of the 14th amendment to
actor s representatives for comment and we ll let you know if we hear more. thank you for joining us on this busy news night. cnn news night with abby philip starts right now. lady liberty has a problem. no one knows what tad with the tired, par, huddled masses coming to america s border every day. that s tonight on news night. good evening. today a meeting with massive consequences. america s top diplomat antony blinken making a day trip to mexico for a two-hour meeting with the country s president. the topic is immigration. the immovable object of american politics. the latest pressure point is a migrant caravan winding its way through our neighborhood to the south. the border patrol was already overwhelmed before this month and then this month broke records for illegal crossings. 10,000 humans in a single day at the southern border on multiple occasions. if you live in new york city or chicago and you go for a walk, you will see the ripple effect of all this. migrants, m
hour of ayman. donald trump s obsession with the patient becomes a focus of the 2024 campaign. but will it be enough to draw voters towards joe biden. plus, house oversight chairman james comer s desperate your went fishing expedition into the biden family. and the worst of the year. a tough matchup between two republican house speakers. i m paola ramos in for ayman mohyeldin. let s get started. dictatorship, autocracy, revenge. those were just some of the terms included in that word cloud former president donald trump posted to his truth social account this week without comment or context. within hours, journalists connected it to a poll that asked voters what word they associate with trump and a second term. earlier this month, at a fox news town hall, trump declined to say he would not use power to seek retribution. he said, i would not be a dictator except for day one. that wasn t a top whistle. it was a focal. and perhaps the only thing monitoring and the threats
as we begin a new hour, a breaking news on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent urging an appeals court to dismiss former president trump s immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get a ruling. plus, nikki haley s campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what her answer says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, but look at how the polls have shifted over the course of 2023 and what that means for 2024. and why and immigration law in texas is drawing the attention of the justice department. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa, where several gop presidential candidates are spending the weekend in hopes of dismantling donald trump s hold over that republican party. that includes former south carolina governor nikki haley. but as she works to capture momentum from a surge and the polls, her campaign is also cleaning up he
loive at the southern borde as the u.s. and mexico hold crisis talks of the surge into the united states. we ll get an update of the meetings still underway, and the growing pressure on joe biden to take action. also this hour, the michigan supreme court rejecting a bid to remove donald trump from the primary ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist ban. we ll break down the decision and how it differs from the colorado high court ruling that did bar trump from that state s ballot. plus, cnn investigating the shadowy world of dogfighting. our crew rode along for a federal crackdown on the blood sport that s thriving across the country. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins, and you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with those urgent border security talks underway in mexico at this hour. secretary of state antony ball blinking are pressing the mexican president to stem the su