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hours. heres wolf. happening now, breaking news. donald trump files a new brief urging the u.s. supreme court to reverse colorados decision kicking him off the ballot. our legal experts are standing by with details on the filing and what it could mean for the truly historic oral arguments next month. >> also tonight nikki haley sharpens her attacks on her rivals just five days out from the new hampshire primary. haley going after donald trump for losing the white house and dragging d...

were live outside the federal courthouse on long island where hes scheduled to appear in just hours. also breaking this morning, we are hearing now from e. jean carroll for the first time since former president donald trump was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine writer. a jury awarding carroll $5 million after a contentious civil trial, but today carroll says it was never about the money. >> i didnt even hear the money. this is not about the money. thi...

were beginning with chaos in the skies during what may be the busiest weekend so far this year for air travel. according to the flight tracking website flight aware more than 900 flights were canceled on sunday alone across the u.s. since friday there have been more than 3,000 flight cancellations. >> so the airlines are blaming weather problems and ongoing staff shortages, in particular a shortage of pilots, so can travelers expect more of this as we enter the peak summer travel seaso...

to being irrelevant in the state of american politics. >> yeah. >> maybe not this year, maybe not next year, but that time is coming. >> i agree. >> this is unsustainable. >> yeah. >> this republican party is unsustainable. >> were going to explain that more because theres different strains of that that are really coming to light. also, when it comes to helping ukraine, a new report finds some countries are really helping while others are mostly talking. we will discuss the growing p...

for life. a doctor recounts wounds that are inflicted in movie theaters, synagogues, supermarkets, and most recently, fourth grade classrooms. john berman here in for anderson. today, members of the house oversight committee heard from people whose lives were changed forever in the mass shootings in uvalde and buffalo. i want you to hear from these witnesses, starting with miah, 11 years old, talking about the moment the gunman came into her fourth grade classroom at robb elementary sc...

>> congressman, what does that mashup tell you? >> a bunch of hot garbage from republicans today. call it what it is. it is not hard to take the side of a victim in a case where you know donald trump was just found liable for sexual assault. and that includes the likes of those being silent. ron desantis and others, it is not hard to say im glad e. jean carroll had her day in court. and i think donald trump should be held accountable. you can still hug his politics closely if you want to out of ...

Engage, decided to let the primary process play out. now they want to take a heavier hand. one person who suggested as such was senator john cornyn. he said elections, the candidate quality is so significant here. he would know. he was chairman of the committee when they had nominated lackluster candidates about a decade ago, what happened? >> they didnt take the senate. >> this is so fascinating. the reason they didnt weigh in on these primaries was trump. trump, they knew, was going to back so...

Affiliation and, you know, support people who -- >> i want to listen to a moment involving senator john cornyn. you mentioned, of course, berman, crenshaw and sort of what he was getting because of his support for some gun legislation. this is some of what cornyn got. [ crowd boos ] >> do you worry that something like that endangers bipartisan agreement on -- on guns? >> oh, yeah. i think it absolutely blocks it. somehow or another the nra and those like-minded people have a lockdown on the repu...

We need to see more polling. as for the texas gop, youre absolutely right, it is an unrepresented minority. but cornyn has problems inside his own conference, as i reported. there is a rebellion inside the senate gop among the conservatives against john cornyn for cooperating with democrats and negotiating over guns. there have been pretty heated meetings behind the scenes that mitch mcconnell presided over and cornyn has at the lunches. you have members like ted cruz, tom cotton, mike crapo, jo...

>> didnt get much coverage, actually. >> it didnt, but people should have paid attention to it because it was mitch mcconnells way of sending a signal to president trump saying, we are not afraid of you. we will do this to you again and they will do it certainly if there is this declaration of national emergency by the president. that will be tricky, though, because you already have people like lindsey graham who are saying, we need to get behind this president, so where does the party come out ...