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After iowa, you will see great pressure on one or two of these candidates to get out if they dont score someplace in the high 20s. i think there will be a great deal of pressure. if they end up at 16% in the polls, if they end up with 16% of the vote share on the caucus night, it will be a big push to get out. >> yeah. and we will be looking for that. david, thank you so much. alyssa, maggie, thank you so much for being with us this evening. >> thanks for having me. in the meantime, former pre...

Says that the president can be prosecuted, or even if he is impeached for office, he is still subject to prosecution and trial. article one, section three, clause seven, but even beyond that stuff, in terms of what youre raising there, theyre running around saying, well, he should be able to take office again, this by section three of the 14th amendment. why, because it would be undemocratic to exclude him from the ballot. of course, that was a decision made when the constitution was amended in ...

2024 elections, the whole idea is to create gaps and undermine the legitimacy of the current system of democratic government. that really is dangerous for a democracy. >> professor to professor here, i have struggled with watching organizers and activists trying to remove a candidate from the ballot. and my political science core im like no, they should be up to the voters. but we are in a unique circumstance where you have a former president who has consistently attempted to foment violent insu...

State, the responsibility to assure candidates on the ballot for the office they seek. section 3 of the 14th amendment is part of the constitutions, not an option that a requirement. i had a duty and obligation to follow the constitution. >> laura: [laughs] oh, first of all, she looks like shhate is created in some kindf ai lab, that is weird.ly second of all, what constitution iss she rooting? her only duty was to the democrats who want to trump upht the ballot because he is leading. tonights l...

>> yeah, i think the main thing to know about the 14th amendment there is so much we dont know. if you look at donald trumps brief yesterday, he smartly not unfairly tries to take advantage of that. what he does is leans into the procedural uncertainty that we have that david just talked about. is this up to congress? section 5 says congress shall have the power to pass legislation to enforce this. do we have to wait for congress to do that? the only legislation they passed tha that is that crim...

By now, says any officer of the government that has engaged in insurrection is disqualified from holding office again. page eight of donald trumps maine lawsuit filed tonight says president trump did not engage in insurrection. and it says section three of the 14th amendment bars persons otherwise subjected to its disqualification from holding specified offices, not from running for them. or from being elected to them. the simple nine-page lawsuit asks the court require the secretary to immediat...

Honig beating up george conway the other night and i dont want any part of that. you dominated him. >> we think you can handle it. >> thank you. the primary part of the beginning of their complaint, bare bones complaint to get the process started, to get the appeal going, the main superior court, is one of bias. i dont know where thats going to go in the case. i think the secretary made some inappropriate comments that seemed indicate prejudgment in the case. but quite frankly, there is always a...

Section three at the 14th amendment. its just stating a qualification or a disqualification for serving in federal or state office after you have engaged in insurrection or rebellion. >> what is your sense of how this plays out? donald trump has built everything as his legal right to do, that he has the ability to reveal the d. c. court of appeals, quite central these days, well be hearing from them a couple of times. at some point, we are probably going to miss the dates by which the federal tr...

Prosecution happens in the executive branch. jack smith has made this argument powerfully before the court of appeals. i heard harry say earlier that he was absolutely confident that this argument is a loser, and i want to adopt his view here. its absolutely a stone cold loser. >> on that absolute confidence of joyce fans and harry litman i want to thank you both very much for starting our conversations tonight. very much appreciated. coming up, tonight donald trumps lawyers went to court in mai...

The ballot or noncitizen or if barack obama or bush and get significant signatures, i would be prohibited under maine law from placing them on the ballot. >> john: she insists, professor turley, she is similarly prohibited from putting donald trump on the ballot because of the prohibitions included in amendment number 14. because of him committing insurrection that he cannot qualify for being president. what do you say? >> jonathan: shes wrong. theres a big difference between saying that you hav...