a lot to get to this morning, including another state removing donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis all not big decision from maine secretary of state. plus we will show you nikki haley attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. , also ahead, the latest from gaza. israeli forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians inside gaza. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023, from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former presidents many legal battles as he enters a presidential election. a lot to go through. witness for all of it, nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation the reverend al sharpton, washingto
we are live in new hampshire. also tonight, a trump court victory keeping him on michigan s primary ballot. but will the same be true in november? and we have breaking news on a similar case, a trump defeat in colorado. later, the remarkable story of how two men s fishing day ended with them saving another man s life. a man trapped and lost to the world for near i will a week inside a wrecked truck, with deadly weather closing in. john berman in for anderson. what christmas break? that s what the republican presidential candidates must be asking tonight. there was virtually no time left before the first contest. and happening now, live pictures of former south carolina governor nikki haley. she is in the middle of an event in new hampshire. she s armed with the governor s endorsement there, a fresh infusion of cash, and possibly, she hopes at least, one of the most precious commodities in politics, momentum. it is a relative term, with donald trump looming over everyt
loive at the southern borde as the u.s. and mexico hold crisis talks of the surge into the united states. we ll get an update of the meetings still underway, and the growing pressure on joe biden to take action. also this hour, the michigan supreme court rejecting a bid to remove donald trump from the primary ballot under the 14th amendment s insurrectionist ban. we ll break down the decision and how it differs from the colorado high court ruling that did bar trump from that state s ballot. plus, cnn investigating the shadowy world of dogfighting. our crew rode along for a federal crackdown on the blood sport that s thriving across the country. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m kaitlan collins, and you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with those urgent border security talks underway in mexico at this hour. secretary of state antony ball blinking are pressing the mexican president to stem the su
amnesty international has a warning for the world, at the u.s. supreme court does in fact overturn roe v. wade. i mean that theme, it saturday night, let s get started. one week ago, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in buffalo new york, killing ten black people in what the justice department is now investigating as a hate crime. an active racially motivated violent extremism. but what happened in that supermarket is part of a much larger and dangerous trend in united states. according to the anti-defamation league, according to the last decade, there have been 443 murders by people or groups identified as political extremists. left wing extremists were responsible for 4% of those murders, islamic extremists accounted for 20%. but the group responsible for the largest percentage, by far, right wing extremism, who carried out 75% of the murders. so think about this for a moment. while political violence is an american problem, one we all have to reckon with, there is no
and my conversation with the secretary of amnesty international has a warning for the world, as the u.s. supreme court does in fact overturn roe v. wade. i m aymon , it s saturday night, let s get started. one week ago, a gunman opened fire at a supermarket in buffalo new york, killing ten black people in what the justice department is now investigating as a hate crime. and an act of racially motivated violent extremism. but what happened in that supermarket is part of a much larger and dangerous trend in united states. according to the anti-defamation league, over the last decade, there have been 443 murders by people or groups identified as political extremists. left wing extremists were responsible for 4% of those murders, islamic extremists accounted for 20%. but the group responsible for the largest percentage, by far, right wing extremists, who carried out 75% of the murders connected to political extremism. so think about this for a moment. while political violence is