starts right now. michelle obama s as she is terrified about what 2024 election results will bring. the lead starts now. a crucial week before the caucuses in iowa and trump is not there. he is in court. he is falsely calling january 6 criminals hostages. plus, a cnn correspondent embedded with migrants trying to get across the u.s. border from mexico, a desperate journey but they are not from latin america. these migrants are from china. and it could be the smoking gun in the investigation as to what went wrong in a the alaska airlines flight. a missing door found in an alaska backyard. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. only seven days until the first of voters get their say in the 2024 election. next monday republicans will gather across iowa and they will caucus for their favorite candidates. the latest contenders, once again, they are off the campaign trail because of his legal issues. trump is expected to be in court as his lawyers face off against special couns
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this extrajudicial means of removing people from the ballot is catastrophic to the country if it is allowed to continue. if democrats can do it, you know republicans will do it. if republicans will do it, democrats will do it. he went on to argue that biden should be removed because of allegations that biden engaged in. he could not provide evidence of the claimed. what is your take? with the interviews, you bring people receipts. the younger ashcroft was just trying to throw stuff on the wall. he did not know the argument and he knew it was nonsense. this is a dangerous moment and i think it is important to call out the victim allergy that trump is feeding people into. that is what, over the next
she knew otherwise and these are just things that, take the rank-and-file of congress right now. they are scared to the death and they re looking for ways to hide and i think that is where it will be incumbent upon the press and citizens that ask these questions like, do you agree that there are hostages or do you think that trump did a good job negotiating without bloodshed. so after the colorado supreme court announced that they were going to strip donald trump from the ballots because, in their view, he had engaged in insurrection, so according to the constitution, he is not eligible, we now have all of these republican officials saying that they are going to take biden off the ballot. misery secretary of state was on cnn today talking about what happens if trump is removed from the ballot in colorado.
microphones there. and then he goes back to his car and goes back to the airport. so it is not clear how this will play out because it is not going to be the circus we will see on thursday or in the past. the dc circuit of appeals will be hearing about claims related to the smith january 6 case. it is similar but what are we expect that will be different? he is once again arguing immunity. but it is going to the appellate court. i don t think this is going to play out how trump expects. in the federal courts in washington, d.c., it is very buttoned-down. the special counsel, trump will have about 20 minutes to argue if he does or does not have immunity but the judge can make this a hearing last as long as they want. the jump in with questions. there are three judges.