my saturday morning weekly program is approaching its tenth year here on cnn. thank you for that. i can this a great privilege. i m grate ful for all the regulr viewers. a quick story. back in 2006 after i was appearing regularly on cnn as a legal guest, the network told me they liked my work but didn t know what to do with me. do you have any ideas, i was asked. i do. i think the network brass were surprise d when i pitched my idea. hosting a weekly book club. i envisioned an entertainment show featuring author interviews and discussion of the best in journalism. the network was intrigued and decided to go ahead and order a pilot. we filmed it beginning with me back at home on market street in philadelphia. i remember being so nervous and having to do many, many takes. headlines plucked from today s newspaper. when you add in drama, when you add in a wisecracking whip, when you add in a sexy, smart love interest, then you can gentlien transition from the hard news to the h
starts right now. good morning to you. it is saturday, december 30, closing out 2023. i m victor blackwell. amara walker will be with you this afternoon, so just you and me this morning. as soon as today, the oregon supreme court could decide whether to keep former president trump s name off the 2024 primary election ballot. liberal advocacy group filed a 14th amendment lawsuit earlier this month. they argue that trump is ineligible to run for office because of his role in the january 6 insurrection. now, in believriefs filed yeste trump s lawyers asked for the courts to dismiss the case. other states have already weighed in on this issue. maine joined colorado thursday in banning trump from its primary ballot, but both rulings are on hold caught up in court battles. sources say trump is expected to appealing them on tuesday. paula reid reports. reporter: the supreme court facing increasing pressure to weigh in on whether states can remove former president trump from the
i m raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham. this is a special of the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. efforts underway in severali states to remove formerdo president donald trump fromght, the ballot. we ll get to that in a moment. tonight, the vacuu vivekm swamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heartwarming, inspiring story that you have to hear. but first, william faulkner famously said the past isn t dead. we it isn t even pase sat. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessonsr. that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new yea g . you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage heee of the momentie that we miss the larger trends. this hour, wpo e will reportthey breaking news. look at the big stories shape ho the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fuin hour. i want to start with the narrative that has sounded all year long and it slond g mae a major theme in the new
and that the republican front-runner is heading into the new year with section 3 of the 14th amendment nipping at his heels. first it was colorado, now it s maine saying that trump is disqualified from being on the ballot. and let s not forget that more than a dozen other states with the 14th amendment have cases pending. 14th amendment cases. now the new ruling from the maine secretary of state is as fiery as it is somber. quote, i nclude as did the colorado supremeou that the record establishes that mr. trump over the course of several months and culminating on january 6, 2021, used a false narrative of election fraud to inflame his supporters and direct them to the capitol to prevent certificati o the 2020 election and the peaceful transfer of power. i likeise conclude mr. trump was aware of the likely hood for ce and at least initially supported its useiven he both encouraged it with incendiary rhetoric and took no timely action to stop it. the weight of the evidence ma
good morning. i m victor blackwell. you will see amara walker later this afternoon. it is the last day of 2023 in the u.s. but look at this. it s 2024 already in new zealand. fireworks there at the sky tower lighting up auckland. let s take a break and listen to what s happening there. happy new year! woo! you hear the oh ohs and aahs. fiji is up next. then australia coming. so we will see the fireworks in sydney at 8:00 eastern. of course, we are 18 hours away on the east coast from 2024. we will be together for the next three. let s go through the news now. new court filing special counsel jack smith is laying out one of his first goals of the new year, to get donald trump s immunity claims thrown out for good. he is asking an appeals court to move quickly. he writes that the arguments the former president has been making threaten to undermine democracy. cnn s zachery cohen picks it up from here. reporter: special counsel jack smith is arguing that the former pr