it restores a lot of faith in humanity. the 14th amendment of the constitution says insurrectionists cannot hold, quote, any office, civil or military, under the united states. and tonight, in a ruling, as stunning as it is unprecedented, the colorado supreme court said that donald j trump, the 45th president of the united states, is an insurrectionist, and therefore should be disqualified from being president. good evening, i m pamela brown here in for anderson tonight. and we begin with not just the ruling, which is historic. but what happens when almost certainly reaches the u.s. supreme court, which could be seismic. starting us off tonight, cnn chief legal affairs correspondent paula reid. paula, tell us more about this really surprising ruling? surprising, and remarkable, pamela. and the judges, here they acknowledge that. at the top of their opinion, they talk about the weight and the magnitude of the issue that they are deciding here. i mean, this is the biggest c
the government of new york, the governor of georgia and the government of the united states but before do we just the wet kisses pass between xi and putin? that is serious business outage or a group series businesses put out for both the chinese president xi jinping visit moscow at his first trip abroad from both no surprise to those who have been watching carefully. when one steps back and analyzes the relationship between china and russia, the real fox cannot be denied. along the dimensional personal, economic, diplomatic, the undeclared alliance that xi is with unreported has become much more consequential than most of the united states official lloyd s is today. the greatest art we have is china. is not russia, sought a wrong, it is china. that is like saying before world war ii but at the precipice. the greatest threat we face is italy but not japan and germany. this is a complete lack of knowledge of what s taking place here. china is on the move. it is not fortress in
tonight on three 60, breaking news. the house takes a major step and voted to authorize an impeachment inquiry into president biden. do they have any evidence of high crimes and misdemeanors? also, judge tanya chutkan. overseeing the federal january 6th case against the former president. today, hit pause on the proceeding raising the question will it ever go to trial at all. later, a cofounder of the conservative group, moms for liberty gets caught up in a sick scandal of her own, and now the school board where she serves once were gone. good evening, thanks for joining, us we begin with tonight s historic vote to formalize the impeachment inquiry into president biden that house republicans have been pursuing now for months with little or nothing so far to show for it. president biden tonight called it a baseless political stunt, the vote 221 to 212 was entirely along party lines. pushing toward earlier today, house speaker mike johnson said tonight, action was, quote, called
the new warnings are coming from the republicans this morning of what a second donald trump presidency could look like. and big pharma is colliding with the supreme court and happening is billions of dollars of stake as victims of the opioid crisis weigh in. and a stunning and controversial decision of the body that governs college football playoffs leaves florida state out in the cold. they will not be playing in the college football playoffs. with kate bolduan and john berman, i m sara sidner and this is cnn news central. 42 days and that is how close we are to the real test of the 2024 election, and the iowa caucus is kicking off january 15th, and this is a new warning from the republicans themselves about the republican frontrunner and what a second donald trump presidency could mean. former reagan official robert kagan calls a possible trump second term a possible path to a dictatorship. and another quote says it could plunge the country into a constitutional cri
against them. and a secret service agent involved in protecting one of president biden s granddaughters opens fire in response to a car break-in. and the response. and senator tim scott drops out of the presidential race, and his staff didn t even know. who might be the next to go. i m john berman with kate bolduan and fredricka whitfield is in for sara sidner. this is cnn news central. happening right now, donald trump jr. has just gone into the courtroom in manhattan and soon he is going to be taking stand, again, to testify, and this time, it is going to be as the defense team s first witness. still at stake, the fate of the trump business empire as you remember the judge in this civil case has already found the family liable for fraud, and so what is donald trump jr. going to try to do to tip the trial in favor of he and his family, and these are the live pictures that you are looking at of donald trump jr. sitting and waiting for the proceedings to get under way.