Hour, and we are told he will talk about the big u. S. Supreme Court Victory for him today. The decision was unanimous, and it says colorado must include former President Trump on the states primary ballot. The high court issued a 90 rejection. Wow. They all agreed a rejection of colorados attempt to disqualify donald trump. And the effect could be farreaching, because you know both maine and illinois have also taken his name off the ballots, and there are efforts pending all across the country. A big day for trump. Im harris faulkner. You are in the faulkner focus. A quick recap now. Last year, the Colorado State Supreme Court cited Section Three of the 14th Amendment as grounds for removal of Donald Trumps name. That is the socalled insurrectionist clause. It was originally used to prevent former confederates from Holding Public office. Colorado claimed it applied to trump over his role in the january 6th capitol hill riot. Trumps appeal made it all the way to the u. S. Supreme court
Right now. Martha thank you very much, guys. Good afternoon. Im Martha Maccallum on this monday. This is the story. Nikki haley will join us live on this day before Super Tuesday. Lots to speak with her about today. Also john kirby is here as the white house faces huge chal challenges electorally, israeli and the border. But first, former President Trump celebrating the Supreme Courts unanimous decision rejecting State Efforts to keep him off of the ballot. You cannot take somebody out of a race. The voters can take the person out of the race very quickly. But a court shouldnt be doing that. The Supreme Court saw that very well. I really do believe that will be a unifying factor. While most states were thrilled to have me, there were some that didnt. They didnt want that for political reasons. They didnt want that because of poll numbers. The poll numbers are very good. Were beating President Biden in almost every poll. Martha okay. Well talk about a lot of these polls. These are the n
A track record that shows that even those who have come out of guantanamo, and spent years there, and been released, have been able to return to the fight with relative ease. we have a case in the last significant afghan who was released was in 2007 and it wasn t that long before he was back in the fight in that country. greg, i also want to pick up on what you ve been reporting on, the story about the accidently leaked name last weekend of the cia station chief in afghanistan. how did that happen? right. that was about a week ago. well, this looks like a case, as far as we know, of just a bad mishap, an accident, an embarrassing one for the white house. because obama had made a secret trip to afghanistan as part of memorial day weekend. while he s there, he s holding meetings. one is a senior sort of military strategy meeting. and of course, there s some press who s accompanying the president on this trip. so the white house press office wants to give them those reporters a list