year s eve celebrations around the world. and, donald trump s legal life. a special counsel launches a new attack on trump s immunity defense while the former presidents legal team gears up to keep his name on the primary ballot in several states. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin today in maine where police are investigating a incident at the home of its secretary of state. the fake emergency call to the home of shana bellows coming after her decision to disqualify donald trump from that states primary ballot. fellas is telling msnbc that she is receiving nonstop threats of violence. i also want to call out the dehumanizing images that have been placed online of me. the threatening communications to people in my family, and to my staff. people who work for. me i is designed to instill fear, and to provoke silence, to keep people from speaking out. to send a message. that is
i m along with rachel, jessica, and jimmy. it s 5:00 in new york city. this is the five. well, democrats creating more election chaos as they try to stop americans from voting for donald trump. maine disqualifying the g.o.p. frontrunner from its 2024 ballot. and it s all thanks to the state s democrat secretary of state. she decided to follow colorado s lead and find trump to be ineligible under the 14th amendment s insurrection clause over his actions surrounding january 6th. she makes no secret she s a far left hack by routinely posting selfies with joe biden and barack obama. she is also an outspoken supporter of trump s second impeachment and of course, immediately ran to the liberal media to spike the football. first and foremost, it s important to know, my oath to the constitution, my obligations to the constitution and rule of law come before any other consideration. no other factors could weigh on that decision. and did not. i reviewed section 3 of the 14th am
i get to work here. and itjust makes me like show up more. you feel happy being in this space. i can see that. and i m actually quite. when i cook, i m quite manic about cleaning up as i go along, unlike my husband, who leaves a sort of minor nuclear disaster. that s me! iam. how can you cook like that? ..a total disaster. and then ijust throw everything in the sink and it s a big pile of dishes. and then wejust. we work our way through it. by the way, you have so many cookbooks. i have a few. out of the corner of my eye. i collect cookbooks, but nothing like on the scale that you do. i m obsessive. can we have a peek? can we have a look? come on. i love that. this is my collection of things that i use almost all the time. if i m looking for. like, what would a good french bavette, like a flank steak be? i ll just start looking in french cookbooks and just say, oh, that s interesting. julia child would do this and patricia wells would do that, and just kind of collect in
when the many legal troubles facing donald trump will come to a head, tonight the ex president has just lost access to the presidential ballot in a second state. secretary of state from maine ruled that, quote, donald j trump is not qualifi to hold the office of president under section three of the 14th amendment. which bars people who have engaged in insurrection from holding office. quote, the events of january 6th, 2021, where unprecedented and tragic. and the evidce here demonstrates that they occurred at the behest of and with the knowledge and support of the outgoing president. she adds, quote, i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived presidential candidate of ballot access based on section three of the 14th amendment. i am also mindful however that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. the main ruling comes just about a week before the colorado state supreme court reached the same conclusion. bayard trump from the ballot. t
lawmakers on both sides of the aisle criticizing it as well. we re going to break down what donald trump s options are now that two states have determined he s not eligible to run. and what it all means for the election year, which is quickly approaching. and more developments on this front. hours after last night s decision in maine, bellows counterpart in california announced trump would remain on the balin that state. i ll be joined by colorado s secretary of state in a moment to talk about where things stand with the supreme court, plus the latest request for the justices to speed up their review of the decision to keep trump off the ballot. we have a whole lot to cover. so let s start with the reporting. joining us now, nbc news justice reporter ryan riley, author of sedition hunters, now january 6th broke the justice system. so ryan, walk us through what happened in maine. unlike colorado, its state supreme court ruled this decision unilaterally was made by the sta