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currently qualified to hold the office of president of the united states, or any elected office in the country for that matter? to start, let s go back 155 years to july 9th, 1868, went two years after passing the senate, the 14th amendment to the constitution is ratified. and within it, section three reads, quote, no person shall be a senator or representative in congress, or-elect or, or vice president, or vice president, or hold any office, civil or military, under the united states or under any state, who having previously taken an oath to support the constitution of the u.s. shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. donald trump having incited an insurrection and having tried to overturn the results of a free and fair election, in violation of the constitution of the united states, is now constitutionally ineligible to be president again. that seems pretty straightforward if you read your const ....
on its face, a hearing this week that donald trump s former chief of staff mark meadows, product around what might sound like a sideshow legal issue compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state, to federal court. but we learned from his nearly four hours of questioning, it has implications far beyond a potential change of a new first trial. in addition to giving us the first sense of where the argument may be for a number of trump s other coconspirators, of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. i mean, let s zero in on the key defense we heard from mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud, the pressure campaign and church officials to find votes? the conspiratorial behavior to keep trump in power? he says all of that was, quote, part of my r ....
let s bring in barbara mcquade along with greg bluestein, msnbc political contributor for the atlanta journal-constitution. and author of flood, how georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on republican power. greg, if you will, start us off. i mentioned the former president will be showing up. the arraignment will still go forward. what can we expect? in georgia defendants have the right to waive their arraignments. it s no surprise that at least a dozen of the co-defendants have already done so. that means they re gonna be bypassing with a packed courtroom, tv cameras rolling, they re bypassing logistics. it s not a huge surprise. what happens now as it ramps up the next phase of litigation. which is already underway. there s defendants who are trying to speed up trial, others that are trying to slow the trial down. there are these five that are trying to remove the case to the federal court. what we know now is that donald trump and his litigation strategy r ....
doing. face a hearing this week with donald trump s former chief of staff, mark meadows, or evolves along sideshow legal issue. compared to the larger problems facing the former president. he wants to move his case from state to federal court. we ll learn from his nearly four hours of questioning has locations of a change for venue for the. trial in addition to giving us the first sense of what the argument may be from a number of trump s legal coconspirators. of which there are many. the testimony was another flashing warning sign of what a second trump term could look like. let s keep defense for mark meadows. he argued that the allegations outlined in the indictment, you know, the unrelenting pursuit of baseless claims of election fraud. the pressure campaign on georgia officials to find votes. the conspiracy trump in power. he says all of that was quote, part of my role. and he doesn t think anything he did including overtly political campaign activities ....
you don t own pads like that, do you? i was a basketball guy. i couldn t take hits like those in football. it s not my game. you are still tough. i want someone to call foul if i get hit. good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. we have lot to talk with. so glad you are back. it is back to work this week for lawmakers on capitol hill and with the dwindling number of days, their to-do list is quite long. can they avoid a government shutdown? a major question. also, right now tens of thousands of people are stuck in the desert at the burning man festival after a rainstorm turned the site into a mud pit. people are being told to shelter in place. amazon s ceo tells employees to get back in the office or their days may be numbered. they are not alone. we talk to an expert about whether whizzes and their employees can find some common ground. and college sports before to look a whole lot diff ....