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i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former ....
News tonight at this hour. former president trump tonight asking the nation s highest court to keep him on the ballot in colorado filing that appeal. the former president appealing to the historic ruling by the heist court in colorado which deemed him an insurrectionist and held that that made him ineligible to hold public office according to the state s 14th amendment. according to the filing trump s lawyer is right. the colorado supreme court erred in how it described president trump s role in the events of jer 620, 21, it s not insurrection and in no way did donald trump engage in an insurrection. separate from the issue of being on the battle, to focus on the crucial point, they are saying it s not an insurrection. his lawyers going on to write in the days leading up to january of and on that day hisself his only explicit instrikesed call for protesting peacefully and to support our capitol police and ....
Pressure already on the high court but that coupled with the numerous appeals that we re seeing here, we really need the high court to weigh in and give clarity to all 50 states on all of these issues. it s very much expect that had they will weigh in. what they will say, erin, is anybody s guess. all right. thank you very much, paula, with the breaking news. now let s go as promised to ty cox the former white house trump lawyer. you ve had a chance to read through trump s filing this, appeal we knew was coming. you ve had a chance to see the arguments and details that they make. you know, you thought originally this could be a 9-0 ruling in his five. got whether he s an insurrectionist. it was whether he can remain on the ballot. do you think the supreme court, now you ve read this appeal will keep him on the colorado ballot or not? yes, i do. i think i think the way that the court will analyze this, they will not i don t think they will reach the issue of was it or was it not ....