we are less than a week of nate from entering a presidential election year. and if i had to choose just one thing the republican front runner said this year, i think we should carry over to the next year, just one thing from 2023 that tells us everything we need to know about the upcoming election, well, it would probably be this. under normal circumstances you are promising america tonight, you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. except on day one. he s going crazy. except on day one. meaning? i want to close the border and drill, drill, drill. that s not retribution. i am going to be he says, you are not going to be a dictator, are you? i said, no, no, no, other than day one. donald trump telling the world he plans to be a, quote, dictator on day one of his presidency. defenders at the former president at this missed that comment as a joke, a one-off quip that was never meant to be taken literally. trump himself has continued to promote t
joey: here we go, starting the third hour this morning. carley and i had to take a double take to see if that was behind us, that is how good the graphics are. we thought you had a fireplace. maybe i m letting the cat out of the bag. that is a graphic. carley and i both had to look back. carley: i was like, when did they hang that ball in the building. they changed it to a bowtie pattern. griff: interesting new year s eve in new york. the weather looks like it will be warm. we got rain today and yesterday and all week long pro-palestinian protesters disrupting the airport and fifth avenue. and see if they show up for new year s eve, it could be something. carley: do you remember when it rained, we were hosting the pre-show. it was raining so hard that the teleprompter broke 30 seconds before the show started and we had to ad lib. griff: we were 8:00 to 10:00 p.m. joey: that is where you want to be, people are not overboard and you get to go ring in the new yea
the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. cross border strikes leave death and destruction in russia and ukraine. now president biden has a message to those who would hold up additional aid to kyiv. a former israeli hostage released and reunited with her family, , but hear why s she ca make peace with her return home. and from hong kong to key west, we ll take you around the globe see how the world is preparing to ring in the new year. announcer: live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. moscow has fired a new salvo in the wave of cross-border attacks and counterattacks between russia and ukraine that s been going on for the last couple of days. ukraine says russia targeted the car kyiv region overnight, where three people were killed and 28 others injured. three regions in southern ukraine also came under attack, while officials in kyiv say they ve repelled the latest wave of drone strikes. now, hours earlier, ukraine says that russian
has just lost access to a presidential ballot in a second statech the secretary state from maine ruled that, quote, donald j. trump is not qualified to hold the office of president under section 3 of the 14th enent. it bars people who have engaged ipinsurrection from holding office. quote, the events of january 6, 2021, were unprecedented and tragic. an the evidence here demonstrates that t occurred at the behest of and with the knowledge and support of the outgoing psint. she adds, quote, i am mindful that no secretary of state has ever deprived a presidential candidate of ballot access based on section 3 of the 14th amendment. i am also mindful, however, that no presidential candidate has ever before engaged in insurrection. the main ruling comes just after a week before the colorado state supreme court reached the same conclusion, barring frump from the ballot there. for now, though, trump remains on the ballot in both states as the maine secretary stayed her decision pend
because it was an insurrection at the january six. almost three years ago and with a ruling maine has now become the second state, to say that trump is ineligible to appear on the 2024 republican primary ballot. the decision comes after a week of the colorado supreme court issued a similar ruling. and that ruling is now being appealed by both sides the nation s highest court. the nine justices of the supreme court are being position to settle the issue of whether trump s serving as president, under section three of the 14th amendment which bars and the candidate from holding the office who engaged in insurrection. in a, ruling tonight, secretary of state road, and i quote, i have little trouble concluding that the events of january six, 2021 or an insurrection within the meaning of section three of the 14th amendment. the record establishes that mr. trump, over the course of several months in culminating on january six 2021 use the false narrative of election fraud to inflame