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Salaries. question number eight, is the border on the verge of busting? after weeks of record migrant encounters, seems somethings got to give. but tonight we begin where we started with trumps viability to be in the oval office again. the former president just a short time ago appealing maines decision to keep him off the ballot. hes citing the 14th amendment and its a first time the secretary of state made that call, just a couple of weeks after colorados judges did exactly the same thing, now...

On the other hand you have an argument that this is a political question that should be decided by congress under the 14th amendment. >> the question meaning should the fourth amendment exclude a president disqualified? >> absolutely and whether hes an officer. >> in the middle you will probably have the supreme court of the united states and have spoken to one of your producers, this is a hot potato -- justice knows that this opinion sign on to it will have to be decided by the supreme court co...

Speech on the anniversary. >> donald trump just actually goes there instead of cowers from things. so you have him talking about the people who were put in jail for the crimes they committed on january 6th as hostages and he has appealed the decision made by maines secretary of state to remove him from the primary ballot there. in maine election challenges are first ruled upon by the states top election official. secretary of state shenna bellows ruled trump was ineligible to appear on the state...

Argument that the secretary of the state of maine it should have been accused. the make the case that she is taking the will away of voters. she is taking the rights away to express themselves. what you make of that? >> it is fascinating. the 11 page appeal that we started last night, they started talking about exactly that. claiming that the secretary of state was bias. i dont find any of them to be particularly persuasive. secretaries of state in every state are political to one degree or anot...

But she was right in suspending the effect of her decision pending an appeal to the superior court of maine, recognizing that she doesnt have unilateral authority to make this decision. >> donald trumps new main lawyer is leaning on the statutes in maine, saying that those statutes only give the secretary of state authority to do things like make sure he has enough signatures to be on the ballot, requires thousands of signatures, make sure his address is correct, kind of clerical things like tha...

Delegated to her under main law, to make decisions about who actually is qualified to be on the ballot once there has been a challenged launch, as there was here. and so, what she has said is that she is required to determine whether somebody in fact is qualified, and that includes the requirements or the disqualifications under section three of the 14th amendment. so she did hold the hearing that was provided by maine law, and she sets forth in her opinion as she repeated tonight, she provided ...

Americans, who cant run because of h restrictions. youve got to be 35 years old there are 25 million people who cant run because they are american citizens, but they were born abroad. these are kind of morally arbitrary distinctions, but they keep at least 100 million people from being eligible for president. in this election. donald trump is in a class of maybe a dozen people, who essentially disqualified themselves under section three of the 14th amendment, because they have engaged in insurre...

Its not a great factual basis to claim due process. but i think thats the easiest off ramp for the supreme court. i just dont see the supreme court, the conservative more injury here, in a disqualifying donald trump from the ballot. i think they will vote view it as too drastic in tipping the scales. i dont see it happening. >> kristy, i want to clarify this. i was talking about was happening in pennsylvania, where you have citizens trying to remove congressional candidates. do you think, look, ...

Program are just getting warmed up when we have to go to a commercial. such are the perils of commercial television of course. that happened thursday night when historian david blight was explaining to us the history of the 14th amendment and how it has become the legal basis for banning donald trump from the presidential ballot in some states. >> the text is clear here. make no mistake. there are many constitutional lawyers have argued this. its the politics that of course is not clear. and we ...

They can also start by reading chapter two of the book the second founding. its called toward equality. its a single chapter on, how do these parts of the 14th amendment come about? they can read that in 20 minutes. then they can go spend hours on the great debates of 1866. and they should especially learn the speeches by john bingham, it was bingham who voiced that quote i use the other day, put them in terror of their laws. that was bingham, and by the way, bingham was an anti slavery genuine ...