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♪ this is a historic moment for the united states supreme court and for american democracy. the justices about to consider whether donald trump is constitutionally barred from being president again. we'll hear the unprecedented arguments and the court's responses live. welcome to cnn's special live coverage of the trump ballot battle at the u.s. supreme court. i'm kaitlan collins live outside the supreme court. >> and i'm jake tapper. the nation's highest court will review this landmark case. the division by colorado's supreme court to disqualify former president trump from the 2...

election he lost. >> and hearing the case, the panel of nine supreme court justices including three that president trump himself appointed to the bench. >> whatever they decide has the potential to transform the trajectory of this year's election, and trump's bid to retake the white house making it the most consequential election case since bush v. gore a quarter century ago. >> these oral arguments expected to begin in moments and potentially last several hours, and we will be here with you for all of it. >> and joining us now, nbc's ken dilanian outside the court along with andrew ...

reinforce or dismantle the colorado supreme court's order excluding the former president from the ballot in that state. effectively punishing trump for a crime which he has neither been criminally charged for convicted. >> dana: as soon as it begins we'll listen to it live. until then our fox team coverage continues. we have andy mccarthy, jonathan turley, and kerri and joining us is karl rove and andrew. one of the things i wanted to start with you on, andrew, set the stage about how unprecedented this is and what this moment could actually mean. >> i think it's very interesting to ...

I think they have a high burden to reach for the court to uphold this. however i do think that you are going to see public outrage and they would like to know the safe houses for their children to approach. it could be something that jury ends up ruling differently for the court of public opinion. >> and you believe the sheriffs office argument goes way too f far? >> the plaintiffs attorney is arguing that the sheriff is guilty of trespass because he came onto the property. i think there is a better argument on due process like i made in the beginning. when the defendants enter deals and they ...

Was beneath a set of layered messages about temperament and with voters that tempement argument and argument of bigotry did not move them. so that's a big part of it that they chose to go with that sort of unfitness for office argument instead which that made se sense because one can make the case that he's unfit f for offic but the economic message got lost. hillary clinton turned out to be not actually the best vehicle for that sort of economic message. >> you know, back in 2008, she won against obama with these people. th's thehe great irony. she beatbama with these veryy voters in primars....