currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your constitutio
let s bring in barbara mcquade along with greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor for the atlanta journal-constitution. and author of flood, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, if you will, start us off. i mentioned the former president will be showing up. the arraignment will still go forward. what can we expect? in georgia defendants have the right to waive their arraignments. it s no surprise that at least a dozen of the co-defendants have already done so. that means they re gonna be bypassing with a packed courtroom, tv cameras rolling, they re bypassing logistics. it s not a huge surprise. what happens now as it ramps up the next phase of litigation. which is already underway. there s defendants who are trying to speed up trial, others that are trying to slow the trial down. there are these five that are trying to remove the case to the federal court. what we know now is that donald trump and his litigation strategy revolve
today we re going to tell you about that, and if you can t win, change the rules. that is what republicans are doing to try and sway states in the 2024 election. i m ayman, let s get started. all right, mark your calendars. this week judge tanya chutkan set a date for trump s trial. we now know it will be monday march 4th, 2024. if that does sound familiar to you, that s probably because you re familiar with politics and it happens to be just one day before what is perhaps the most important day in any presidential primary season. super tuesday. on march 5th, republican voters in over a dozen states are set to cast ballots for their 2024 pick. in total, you ve got about one third of all delegates that will be up for grabs on super tuesday. that s more than any other day on the primary calendar. meaning the parties presumptive nominee could very well be decided right then and there, on that day. and since trump s lead over the republicans is growing, that means the disgraced
headquarters in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing this hour a major week ahead in the georgia election case. former president donald trump and his 18 codefendants are due to be arraigned. trump and 11 codefendants have waived the need to appear in person, but we ll be watching for the six others who have yet to do so, including mark meadows, since they could be televised life. we could also see the release of the fulton county special grand jury report by the end of this week which has been at the center of d.a. fani willis investigation. now, despite legal troubles, trump is dominating the gop primary, leading in a new poll by 46 points. earlier today, republican governor chris sununu said the former presidents rivals need to hit him harder. i think they have to be a little tougher on trump. chris christie goes nuclear on him, god bless christy, he does a great job with that. he exposes a lot of that, which i think is important. i think what we
the cameras will continue to roll. they are breaking down all of the cases on his very busy court calendar. and, we the loss of a music icon, jimmy buffett, the singer of margaritaville has died. let s take a look at his decades long career, all of this and more, coming up. a good saturday morning to you all. i am katie phang. we begin this morning with president biden s trip to florida today to get a look at recovery efforts after hurricane adalja made landfall as a category three storm. the damage estimates could be as high as 20 billion dollars according to moody analytics. the president said he would meet with florida governor, ron desantis today. in a statement, desantis said the governor does not have plans to meet with biden during his trip. instead, biden will meet with republican senator, rick scott. the response comes days after president biden approved a major disaster declaration for florida and ordered a federal aid to supplement recovery efforts in sev