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The crackdown that has officials saying, its not us, its you. And in a league of her own. This for College Basketball history. Iowas superstar Caitlin Clark now major College Basketballs alltime leading scorer, men or women. Clark. Shattering a mark that stood for 54 years today, monday, march 4th, 2024. From nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb. From studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Hi, everybody. Good morning. Welcome to today. Thank you for being with us on a monday morning. Caitlin clark breaks the record fs the one that was in front of them right now, but other states had tried to ban him from the ballot including maine and illinois with the court doing this right now, those essentially will also be wiped away, craig. And again, as you point out, a unanimous decision, not something we see very frequently from the Supreme Court these days. There were two questions at hand, you had mentioned of course the clause in the 14th amendment, but there was also the question of who actually gets to decide who was engaged in an insurrection in this country. Yes, and Donald Trumps attorneys had essentially tried to convince the court successfully here that this was for congress to decide, not just any one state could sort of unilaterally take somebody off a ballot in a national election. That was something that the justices were very interested in at oral arguments, something that they appeared deeply skeptical of, the colorado voters in this case trying to do that, and obviously trumps position prevailed in this case. So this does now mean that the outstanding ballot challenges have been done away with . Yes. Remember, there were dozens and dozens of lawsuits across the country. Some courts tried to dodge the issue. Some courts had ruled in trumps favor saying states didnt have the power to do this. Colorado was the first one who had taken that unprecedented step in trying to ban him. Two others followed, illinois and maine and now those will no longer hold. Youre not terribly surprised. It seemed as if the justices were openly skeptical when those oral arguments were made roughly a month ago. They were. You remember how this all started was by voters. This was sort of a project that was started at its inception with a liberal think tank group that was trying to see if they could disqualify the former president. They started a state by state effort are trying to figure out which states would be most receptive to it. It wasnt just progressives who were thinking they might be able to do this successfully. There were a number of outspoken republicans and other conservatives who had tried to make this argument and say, if you look at just the plain text of the 14th amendment, he should be banned. Again, were going to work our way through the decision and see exactly how the courts dispense with that. Ill turn my attention to you, mr. Hilliard, youve been spending a fair amount of time over the past few months, actually, past few years covering the former president. What do we expect to hear from him when he does make some remarks with regards to had what were hearing from the Supreme Court . Right, donald trump is at his maralago estate in West Palm Beach right now. We saw in the minutes after the oral arguments in front of the Supreme Court a month ago him go and address cameras responding to it, calling it a beautiful process that he watched play out at the Supreme Court. The biggest reality here this morning is that americans should expect donald trump to be on the general election ballot for the white house this november. He is well on his way to beating nikki haley for the gop nomination. He could wrap it up as soon as march 12th or even march 19th and other attempts to keep him off the ballot failed. Laura mentioned congress and the Supreme Court suggesting its up to congress to determine whether he had engaged in insurrection. Folks will recall in the weeks after the january 6th attack when donald trump had left the white house, that the u. S. House voted to, in fact, impeach donald trump on insurrection charges, but then, the u. S. Senate came a few votes short of voting to convict him. Seven republicans voted to convict him during those proceedings. But it took twothirds of the senate to actually bar him from ever being able to serve in the white house again. In another argument from trumps attorneys in front of the u. S. Supreme court was the fact that the special counsel, jack smith, who is the one who charged donald trump with those felonies stemming from the efforts to overturn the 2020 election, jack smith the special counsel never actually charged him on felony insurrection charges, which, again, hits at the heart of for all intents and purposes donald trump as long as he wraps up this gop nomination, the efforts to keep him from the ballot in november are all but over now. Vaughn, stand by for just a moment now. I want to come back to you. I want to bring in carol lam, a former federal prosecutor, shes also an nbc news legal analyst. As my friend and colleague Laura Jarrett pointed out a few moments ago, a names decision here. Somewhat uncommon, what have we been able to glean from sifting through this order . Anything from the liberal justices, the more liberal justices specifically . The three liberal justices did write a concurrence where they essentially said we agree with the general ruling that colorado cannot by itself depart from the rest of the nation in taking donald trump off the ballot, but they said that the court went further than it had to. And this is a principle of judicial restraint that theyre advocating. They said you said enough. You said that trump cant be on the ballot, that colorado cant decide for itself not to put itself on the ballot, but you went further and said its congress who really dictates who can be removed from consideration because he is a socalled insurrectionist. They said you didnt have to go there. That was farther than judicial restraint permits you to go, and theyre critical of the majority opinion for that reason. I will also note that Justice Barrett typically considered a conservative justice, emphasize instead a separate concurrence that this was a unanimous opinion of the court and she said that is the message that the nation should take away from this, that we can decide these cases unanimously. Stand by for me if you will, nbc news legal analyst Catherine Christian is also with us now. Catherine is a former assistant District Attorney in the manhattan d. A. s office. Thanks for your time this morning. Throughout the argument, it really did seem to folks who are watching and listening that the justices didnt really spend a fair amount of time focusing on one of the central questions here in this case, whether the former president actually participated in an insurrection. What do you make of that part of this . They clearly did not want to go there. Its you know, the statement that the at the end of the decision all nine members of the court agree with the result. The result that section 3 rests with congress and not the state. Thats very important that it was unanimous. So you cant say it was, you know, 72, 54. Everyone was on the same page as to the result. As carol said, some of the more liberal justices had a little quibble, but they agree with the result, that colorado on its own cant do that. No state in the United States can do that. So i think they deliberately all nine of them really wanted sty away from insurrection versus not doing an insurrection. Stand by for me as well. I want to bring vaughn back into the conversation. Perhaps unsurprisingly, we do have a statement now from the former president on the heels of this unanimous Supreme Court decision. Whats he saying about this . Its a short one, creation. Quote, big win for america all caps on his social media account. Again, donald trump is in maralago ahead of super tuesday. We could expect him to go and make statements here today as he did after those oral arguments went before the Supreme Court in which he addressed cameras and suggested this wall part of democratic efforts to try to keep him off of the ballot and try to disenfranchise in his words millions of Republican Voters here around the country. Now, as for those republican votes, theyre going to have the shot, not only in colorado but those other 15 states for super tuesday tomorrow for vote for donald trump, if they so choose to. And quite likely come the general election, if donald trump does in fact become the presumptive nominee, we could expect to see him on the ballot. For donald trump making that case that there are efforts to take away the opportunity for him to be at the white house has been at the core of his 2024 president ial run. You spent a great deal of time covering the former president when he was in office and since hes been a candidate as well. The reality is with the exception of save washington, d. C. , this weekend none of the president s legal problems so far appear to have been to have any sort of effect on him politically, fair to say . Fair to say, and weve seen the republicans who were at one point running against him one year ago, it was a year ago march when that first indictment came down stemming from the alleged hush money payments and the criminal trial that he faces, which is slated to begin on march 25th, just three weeks from now. It was the republicans that were running against him that lined up in his defense, even around these Supreme Court arguments. It was again, republicans from ron desantis to nikki haley, to mike pence who, again, were arguing that donald trump should remain on the ballot and have come to his defense. Largely, we have seen Republican Voters, millions of Republican Voters come to his defense at the ballot box this spring. Lets pause the political and turn back to the legal analyst. I know youve been able to sift through this a little more. Anything jump out at you . The court seemed concerned with this patchwork of rulings across the country. Thats why the court for all nine members decided colorado cant do this is and some of the progressives on the court are concerned that the court went further than it needs to. We should note this is not the last word we will hear from these justices this term when it comes to the former president. They have an enormous issue on their plate. Immunity. Immunity. And in that case, again, his acts leading up to january 6th are going to be at the heart of that. Remember, in this case in washington, d. C. , hes being charged criminally with what the special prosecutor thinks, the special counsel thinks were his efforts to try to reverse the 2020 election. Even this case, his actions on january 6th were certainly an enormous part of it and theyve sort of dodged that issue, theyre going to have to confront it head on very soon. I know we havent had a great deal of time to start to sift through this. Have you been able to glean anything in terms of how these justices may rule on that based on anything thats written here or said here . No, they tried to dodge it so fully in this one that they dont dip their toe in that, but they could dodge it in that way. Here they didnt even have to get to the insurrectionist part of this because they had five different other ways to try to get out of it. They chose the congressional route. There were other ways. So they just werent confronted with it as head on as theyre going to be in immunity. Theres no way for them to dodge it. Theyre deciding whether or not he should be shielded from prosecution for his own acts, his acts are going to be at the heart of that case. To be clear, this decision today from the high court, not just immunity. The other legal challenges facing the former president , this doesnt mean anything for those . No, it doesnt, obviously the one thats coming up most sort of pressingly is the new york hush money case, perhaps the only criminal case that he will face before the november election. That one is of course slated for march 25th, craig. Lets turn back to the political for just a moment here. As you point out, we are just hours away from super tuesday, at this point, any reason to believe that the former president s momentum will be slowed at all tomorrow . No. Number one, polling shows no evidence of that and folks around the country are voting by mail. This weekend he won elections in mo missouri, in idaho, in michigan, picking up all the delegates. The only place he lost this weekend and the only place he has lost throughout this primary process so far was washington, d. C. , which donald trump said of course nikki haley in his words would win the swamp in the vote of the d. C. Insiders, but we and the Trump Campaign as well, they expect him to hit the dell grat threshold to become the threshold as soon as march 19th. That is the day when donald trump would hit that delegate mark to be the presumptive nominee. Its interesting when were talking about that march 25th hush money payment trial, that would start just six days later. So itd open up his calendar to almost set aside the campaigning for a moment and focus on the legal. One other note, when were talking about the Supreme Court in those oral arguments on april 22nd, around president ial immunity, donald trump for years since leaving the white house attacked this u. S. Supreme court in one cause for not overturning the 2020 election results. In 2022 he made the case on his social media account that they always rules against him. Thats why this celebration from him today is so notable. You also look at hes been touting the three Supreme Court justices, those conservative justices he nominated and got onto the bench. Donald Trump Realizes now how much is at stake on the Supreme Court. We also just received an official statement now from the colorado state, this is the secretary of state there in colorado. Jena griswold, the United StatesSupreme Court has ruled that states do no have the authority to enforce section 3 of the 14th amendment. In accordance with this decision, donald trump is an eligible candidate on colorados 2024 president ial primary. Of course that primary happening tomorrow with many others around this country, and as Laura Jarrett pointed out, this is not just the case for colorado. This answers the question about whether the former president can remain on ballots in other states where they have tried to take him off the high court saying, again, unanimously that states cannot do that. So a big thanks to vaughn hillyard. Vaughn, i know youre going to be very busy over the next day or so covering the former president. Laura jarrett, no one reads faster and processes and synthesizes information quicker than you, so thanks to you as well. And thanks to our other contributors who joined us for this special report. Of course were going to have much, much more on our streaming network nbc news now, online at nbcnews. Com and a full wrap up on nbc nightly were going to you to more of today. Threepointer. Focus on the fundamentals and make your free throws, everybody, and i did. Oh, Caitlin Clark, back to you, craig. Under pressure. Jess, wow, legit. Legit, jesse. That could have gone another way. Did you play in high school weve been practicing, out here a little bit, take some layups now, take some threes like caitlin. Quit while youre ahead. Thats two. Pressure shot there, check in with dylan. I was nervous watching him. Hes got to make the i made two, thats it, im done. No Caitlin Clark but still pretty good. Pressure shot there lets check in with dylan. I was nervous watching him. Like hoda kotb in high school. Do we show the picture of hoda kotb in high school no, please, im begging. We do have that big storm system thats going to make its way on shore, waiting for it to approach from the pacific, more snow, about one to two feet. In the meantime, on the east coast, more record high temperatures across and down the ohio river valley, and stronger storms along the gulf coast, thats the look at the weather across the country and your local forecast in the next 30 seconds. Rich is being able to keep your loved ones close. And also send them away. Rich is living life your way. And having someone who can help you get there. The key to being rich is knowing what counts. Good monday morning. Lets talk about the next couple of days in the bay area. Still dealing with some unsettled weather, some overcast skies. Dont put away the rain jacket just yet, as you will need it as we go through the middle portion of this week. There is better clearing, though, more sunshine and slightly warmer temperatures as we start to approach the weekend, thursday and friday. Following behind that is going to be another chance of rain as we approach saturday. You can always find your full forecast online at nbcbayarea. Com. And thats your latest forecast. All right, dylan. Thank you. A new push to solve the gre