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im martha maccallum. this is "the story." an appeal to the supreme court from the trump team could be imminent. the state could bar him from being on the ballot in the colorado primary. massive implications for the election and for the country really. these judges say that he incited an insurrection and he should be disqualified from office and therefore not allowed to be on the ballot. he has never been criminally charged with insurrection in this country. but president biden, he had ...

Airplane. that will give details on what might be happening. we dont know anything about the suspects. where they are from, what they want and what their goal is. we just know that its being called a group three which is a high-level alert at the airport. its about 9 miles outside of amsterdam. and again, its an a330, a big plane. we dont know anything else about whats happening on board the plane. are they holding hostages or what are their demands? this all is very unclear but there is a group...

Killed. now the number is three. including sergeant elliott j. robins who died of noncombat-related injuries last weekend. he joins more than 2,000 other americans who died trying to pacify afghanistan. so far unsuccessfully. after interviewing president trump in japan, we traveled to korea to the d.m.z. to see his historic encounter with kim jong un, the dictator of north korea. well revisit that meeting next. in order to see it, we took a trip on air force one. >> we are getting off the plane,...

Worlds longest non-stop commercial flight. when it touched its air bus at newark airport. it traveled from singapore to newark airport. thats a distance of 10,291 miles. the trip departed from singapore at 11:37 p.m. local time on thursday. landed at newark at 5:29 a.m. local time this morning. the flight took 17 hours and 52 minutes. get this, the return flight is going to be even longer. while that is a long flight, passengers on board were not cramped in coach seats. the flight had only 161 p...

Drain the swamp image he brings to the table. this has been a bad week per that. the luther strange defeat in the alabama primary. he was at the opposite end of his base on two things and the latest failure in the senate to pass health care legislation. the end of a bad week, he felt the need to get control of his public image again. >> i agree. its become the capstone of the week. lets talk about the big picture. trump has fired the guy. heading to another airplane. another weekend at some luxu...

Think that we are so almost naive to just drop it all in the hillary bucket. i think there are a large swath of cuban voters that will vote trump. that being said im not suggesting trump is going to win the latino vote outright but i think something underdiscussed is the fact there are 1.2 million unaffiliated voters who turned out in florida. we know that in florida -- >> more republicans turn out in election day. >> absolutely. and also republicans voting early is up 2% from 2012. democrats ar...

Eastern ukraine. what we know at this point, malaysia airlines confirms it lost contact with that flight over eastern ukraine. and by that image youre looking at right now, you can see where it lost contact. im joined here in the studio by richard quest, of course, and our military analyst, retired lieutenant colonel rich francona. based on what we though -- now, we dont know much, but we do know that malaysia airlines has lost contact with a lot of people on board a big plane. >> we know theyve...

Clinton. this is my favorite. it shows her smiling at what looks like a ooid pad and the former president bush is showing her his most recent artwork. susan rice, the look on her face is great. eric holder. and in the foreground to the right, thats mrs. bush. and michelle obama just to the left of the secretary in the picture. and this shot was right before dinner. i love that theyre all dressed so comfortably. flying together for somewhere around 16 hours to fly to johannesburg. i just wanted y...

Speed. it also suggests a few things chblg the pilots didnt recognize the auto throttle was disengaged. they werent cross checking their equipment. or again, they fully didnt understand how to operate this automated system on the triple 7. all of those scary possibilities when you consider this plane had passengers on board. >> and that we all get on planes and assume that the systems are perfect. i want to move on now. because if that pilot or that plane crash because of bite error, what does...

In. so why, then, is it that this pilot wouldnt have known that the ought pilot wasnt on? how does that work? he was an experienced pilot. its not like this was his first day the rodeo. >> he was pretty new in this plane. now the ntsb hearings are going on all day. and they have been questioning boeing saying is this good enough in the manuals? and boeing did say that they moved this from chapter 9 to chapter 4 but it was always in the manuals and also trained for it. so the ntsb will be looking...