to determine when to get on the road, there is your. guidance probably sooner rather than later. because the roads will be packed starting around 5:00 this evening. alex? i agree, just wait one more hour until the show is over and then hit the road. blaine alexander, thank you so much. moments, the alarm bells are ringing but former trump white house insiders are saying his possible return to power how political battles are intensifying in the keep to keep donald trump off the primary ballot in several states. the new warning from the doj to texas. texas. good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york. welcome to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with new reporting in a new warning that the new york times has donald trump s lawyers plan to file challenges as early as tuesday to ongoing efforts to disqualify the former president from the ballot in maine and colorado. this as three former trump insiders are sounding a new alarm, a potential second
because there s light at the end of the tunnel, and by that, i mean not in a negative way, it s sort of. ..getting control of my life again. and then very, very sad emotions because it s the end of an era and it s. i also feel sad and emotional for all my team here, some of which, in fact, most of which i deem as family. and some of them, we ve grown up together, basically. so very, very mixed emotions. and the last the last week, i know i am going to be a wreck. why? why are you shutting down? because you could fill every table here for the foreseeable future. everybody wants to come and eat here if they can afford it. so why shut it? yeah, i mean, the business is successful and it s. ..it is going well. reservations are very good especially since i announced that we re closing, it s gone crazy. but there are many reasons. i mean, first of all, i m getting on a bit. i m 63 and i m thinking, what next? do i want to sign up to another lease? the lease is coming to an en
absence. we will be live at the high court. hello, iam hello, i am matthew and welcome to cap his verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. lots to dig into intraday s programme, especially what is happening on the battlefield in ukraine and what appears to be the start of the counteroffensive. the key of says it is, shifting to offensive actions in some areas. ukraine s deputy defence minister described the eastern city of bakhmut is the epicentre of hostilities and claimed russian forces are on the defence there, as well as in the self. the ukrainian army has released these images, showing what it says are ukrainian forces destroying russian positions in the direction of bakhmut. this is in the direction of bakhmut. this is in the direction of bakhmut. this is in the occupied eastern region of donetsk. in contrast, russia claims it has faltered in major ukrainian attack in the same regions. its defence ministry has released this
legal analyst. of course, the one and only, rick wilson, cofounder of the lincoln project, republican media strategist. welcome to all of you. he is also the author of run against the devil, a plot to save america from trump and democrats from themselves. i love that one. so, barbara, let s start with you. will the supreme court be forced to weigh in on trump s ballot eligibility? i think that s the driving question right now. i think so. i don t know how they dodged this. in light of the fact that we have seen different opinions now coming out of different states. i think, ultimately, there is a risk that we get this patchwork of eligibility that s different in all 50 states. even that each state gets to decide procedurally how they handle ballot questions, the substance of who is eligible is really a question for the u.s. supreme court interpreting the 14th amendment, it s a question. i think most people expect that the court might find some procedural off-ramp to avoid a
and could a conviction in any of these cases be a tipping point for voters? scheduling nightmare aside in all of this, the former president might not even get on the republican ballot in some states. we ve got a wave of new developments in the effort to disqualify trump ahead of the primaries. where it s working and where it s getting kind of messy. meanwhile, in d.c., another motion has been filed by jack smith in donald trump s election interference case. what the special counsel is now asking the judge to block the former president from doing during trial proceedings. let s dive right in. joining us now is washington post senior political reporter aaron blake, former congresswoman and msnbc political analyst donna edwards, and msnbc political analyst, democratic strategist, and pollster cornell belcher. thanks for being here. aaron, let s start with you. as we approach the new year, paint a picture of this, if you could, of just how chaotic this could get. only one of do