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battles for former president donald trump. there were two big developments last night. maine decided donald trump is constitutionally ineligible to appear on the ballot. the secretary of state citing the 14th amendment which bans from office those who engage in insurrection. on the west coast, the california secretary of state deciding to keep trump on the ballot. all this putting even more pressure on the supreme court to weigh in. we want to bring in vaughn hillyard and former rnc executive committee member jennifer horn. vaughn, start us off with maine. >> reporter: in the state o...

a very good day to all of you. i'm alex witt. our top stories this hour, israel says the war on hamas could last for many months as it carries out new deadly strikes in gaza, including on refugee camps. that's despite growing pressure from the biden administration to change course. michigan's supreme court rejects an attempt to remove donald trump from the 2024 primary ballot. the opposite of a ruling by colorado's supreme court. we will dig into what that means for the former president's campaign. top u.s. officials led by secretary of state blinken set to arrive in mexico to tr...

plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we're going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we're going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico's president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s...

about little changes, not that little, that do happen. >> they are smart but they all meaningful. >> they're meaningful. >> i think that's why you see a lot of tension in this country. because the progress happens in small steps, but it's happening. in palpable ways. >> it's happening. this evening was interesting, the speech by president biden, the address from the white house. i thought what was interesting about it was the quiet normalcy. the idea that the lack of superlatives, there isn't punditry all over the place. twitter is not -- it could be a tree falling in the woods. the ...

what we are learning tonight. a family's nightmare. a 6-year-old traveling alone to be with his grandmother for the holiday put on the wrong spirit airlines plane arriving in the wrong city. the tense moments for his family and what the airline is now saying this in the middle of a record breaking holiday travel season with millions hitting the roads and taking to the skies. we're following a cross-country storm making its way in the south. millions on alert for potential flooding and the blizzard warning in the northern plains. christmas celebrations canceled in the traditional ...