on capitol hill, senators negotiating a deal on the border as house speaker mike johnson and fellow republicans are set to visit the border this afternoon. we want to begin this hour with that breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people confirmed killed. iranian officials calling the explosions a terrorist incident. want to bring in now tehran bureau chief ali arouzi who is live for us on the ground in tehran. we spoke last hour, what updates are we getting this hour as to what may have taken place and who is behind it? reporter: hey, yasmin, so we know there were two explosions about 15 minutes apart from each other at 3:00 local. the death toll keeps rising. right now saying at least 103 people have been killed, and over 210 people have now been confirmed injured at that blast, went off near a cemetery in iran where that ceremony was being held to mark the death of soleimani in 2020 by a u.s. drone attack. state media saying there was one explosion and second one du
Welcome back, everybody. former president donald trump appealed the decision by maine secretary of state that he is not eligible to appear on the state ballot because of his role in events leading up to the january 6th attack on the capitol. the secretary of state saying the maine superior court is expected to rule by january 17th, coming as colorado s secretary of state filed a brief with the u.s. supreme court urging it to take up the colorado republican party s appeal of a state supreme court ruling, barring trump from that state s ballot. with us now to talk more about this, nbc news correspondent garrett haake and joyce vance, a former u.s. attorney who is now a law professor at the university of alabama, also an msnbc legal analyst. garrett, talk about this appeal, the argument being made by the former president and his team. the trump team makes several arguments in here including that the maine secretary of state is biased against donald trump, based on comments she made prev
Talking about this, joyce, when it comes to maine, but not yet appealing the decision in colorado despite the fact that the gop colorado party has in fact appealed. why do you think that is? what is he waiting for? the deadline is coming. yeah, we may well see that appeal filed today or they may have made a decision to let the republican party in colorado, which has already asked the supreme court to hear that case, to stand in as a place holder for trump himself. that filing by the republican party in colorado is enough to keep a stay in place, which means that trump s name remains on the ballot. and there is also a little bit of a political calculus here. trump really has nothing to lose in colorado, where he s expected to lose all of the electoral college votes in 24 as he did in the last election. but in maine, because they have a different sort of a voting system, trump won one of that state s electoral college votes and it may be too important to