Aid before go to harrys. Com slash shave to claim your 7 Trial Vegas The Story Of Sin City to 9810 on cnn you are in the cnn newsroom, im jim sciutto in washington. All eyes on the Us Supreme Court where tomorrow the justices could back. It might look like likely theyre going to provide an answer on whether former President Donald Trump is eligible for colorados president ial so ballot and therefore for other states that have raised this issue, the constitutions 14th amendment says that americans who engage in insurrection are disqualified from holding future public office. The Colorado State Supreme Court ruled this applies to trump after his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election, which then led to the january 6 attack on the capital. But the constitution does not spell out exactly how to force that banned, nor does it define what qualifies as insurrection, leaving the Us Supreme Court now to fill those gaps, colorado Secretary Of State Jenna Griswold joins us now. Good to ha
trump s prediction there is, again, it s not their role to abide by what the impacts could be in terms of bedlam or the political impact, but also if they were to abide by that, they re essentially giving in to trump. i mean, remember that he is the one that helped cause helped fan the flames that led to the insurrection, however they decide, right? and that is still an ongoing threat that people are dealing with, people of both parties, legislated officials, people in the judiciary who are not political at all because of this rhetoric. so it s already happening regardless of how the supreme court decides on this, and i think that s important to remember. jen psaki and michael steele, our thanks to both of you. let s do a quick reset at the top of the hour, i m ana cabrera alongside my colleagues, josé diaz-balart and andrea mitchell. thank you for being with us as we continue our special coverage of the arguments before the supreme court that we brought to you live on a
that s not the first time i ve said it, far from it. the 14th amendment case heads to the supreme court with existential danger that donald trump poses to our democracy. plus, pictures don t lie. the horrors in gaza through the lens of now iconic palestinian photographer murtaza a visa. finally, republicans in control of the messaging law, while they are taking a victory lap over claudine gay resigning. when will liberals push back? good evening, i am mehdi hasan. three years, ago i launched the show with a very stark warning about the danger imposed to american democracy by one donald j trump. tonight, on the very last edition of the mehdi hasan show, yes, our last show. i want to begin by again warning you all about the threat to our democracy from donald j trump. the donald trump who was running for president again, who s leading joe biden in some of the polls. and who continues to make violent authoritarian unconstitutional threats about his political opponents. the donal
court. jack smith requested that the supreme court circumvent the normal appellate process to quickly decide the process and presidential immunity. it is an important question about the powers of the presidency that the courts have really considered before. it could determine whether the criminal election interference cases against trump in washington d.c. and in fulton county georgia can move forward on schedule, or at all. this decision from the supreme court does not mean that the case against trump is dead. far from. in the d.c. court of appeals has agreed to expedite this case. a hearing is already scheduled for january 9th. the supreme court could still weigh in on the matter at a later date. however, this decision does threaten to delay the march 4th start date for trump s federal election interference trial, since judge tanya chutkan was, as a matter of normal procedure, compelled to pause proceedings on her case until the appeal is resolved. however, simultaneously
happening right now, sentencing is under way for oathkeeper s founder stewart rhodes for his part in the capitol riots, and we will find out the time he is going to get for seditious conspiracy. and ron desantis has a huge gap to close against donald trump and we hear about the plan he has to try to close it. and a man is able to walk for the first time in decades, and we have the latest of what is helping him to do it. this is noouz. this is cnn news central. negotiators are working 24/7 to get a deal on the debt limit as the treasury department is warning that the u.s. could default one week from today. this is what house speaker kevin mccarthy said in the last hour. every hour matters, and this is why the white house is meeting on this, and why last night, the team they have is very professional and very bright. they know where the differences are, and how to work on this. as the talks are playing out, the house will recess today and head home for the weekend,