the campaign trail. >> but the people who are in his base aren't really tuned into that. they are taking their cues from him >> we've known that for a long time and that's how it gets millions of votes. >> yeah. >> and just finally, the supreme court, what's your sense of it how they ruled today >> you can justify their decision and it was in the end unanimous, though. clearly the liberals different as far as the reasoning was concerned. but i've got to laugh again at the suggestion. well, congress should take care of this, right i think the next time there's a democratic president, a democratic senate and a democratic house that may happen. but as long as republicans anything, it won't larry sabato, thank you very much and thank you for joining me this morning. i'm jim acosta, our coverage of the supreme court's decision to keep donald trump on the ballot continues right now with wolf

blitzer thanks for joining us. >> cnn breaking, news >> and you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm wolf blitzer in washington and we begin with the breaking news this morning. the united states supreme court ruling that former president donald trump cannot be removed from any state's ballot for his actions on january 6. the nine justices affirming that he can run in a general election. and once again, serve as the united states commander in chief in the majority opinion, the court writes that only congress can enforce the 14th amendment's ban on insurrectionists holding federal public office trump is responding to the decision calling it, and i'm quoting him now, a big win for america. but the court did not directly speak to whether or not his actions on january 6 equate to insurrection. let's get straight to cnn anchor and chief legal analyst, laura coats. she's outside the supreme court for us. laura,

what more, first of all, can you tell us? about this very historic and consequential decision? >> it is very historic. it took about a month for us to get this decision, but essentially saying he can remain on the ballot now for practical purposes tomorrow super tuesday, he was already on the ballot and advents cross-state as they say, until this moment in time. but here's why they're saying it. saying look, congress is the one whose job it is to decide about a federal office and how to apply that section three, the so-called insurrectionist ban. now, this was a unanimous decision, but there was concurring opinions in this case that dealt with an issue of whether or not the majority went too far and it calms down to this a patchwork. remember that words they a patchwork. i'll bring in paula reid on this as well because the patchwork fala has really been about consistency. if every different state has different approaches to how they might determine whether there has been an insurrection, a criminal prosecution, or lack thereof, different states have different results and that could lead to a very confused

singh electoral process. the supreme court wanted no part of that. it seemed that's exactly right. and when most people think patchwork quilt, but here clearly the supreme court hears patchwork and they think, quote chaos, because that's the word that they use again and again, they say, if the states are each able to make their own determination about this particular subject, then we will have a patchwork. it will result in chaos and confusion. and they say in this opinion, nothing in the constitution requires that we endure such chaos. so this does appear based on the law in the country fusion around section three of the 14th amendment. this appears to be a correct decision now it is also an enormous win for former president trump, but it's what we expected after we saw the oral arguments, the justices just did not appear to be buying colorado's arguments. well, they seem to be questioning whether one state could decide for the rest because we know we are connected. i mean, we have electoral college mattingly. it's a family of sorts. it's a constitutional democracy,

right? but there was a really important point here because the so-called liberal justices, kagan sotomayor and pitons, you brown jackson. suggested that they went too far, but there was no need to go further and the patchwork argued because they said, listen, there's no federal entity asking us about this is a state action in colorado. and so therefore, asking or telling you how congress is supposed to act to clarify what they have not called vague is an oddity here, exactly. >> the realistic fact is that congress is unlikely to offer any legislation, particularly before this election, to clarify this. so they thought they went too far though it is notable that they were able to get a unanimous decision even though it was narrow. this is what we expected. this was the challenge for the chief justice john roberts. can you come up with a unanimous decision is likely going to be narrow. can you get everyone on board? and it appears he was able to do that. what else want to talk about another concurring opinion and that's from justice barrett and here it's interesting. she is she doesn't want to sign on with the liberals are saying because

they're arguing that they went too far. she said, in my judgment this is not the time to amplify disagreement with stridency. the court has settled a politically charged issue in a volatile season of a presidential election. yes. fair? true. but laura, that's what the supreme court does. they settled volatile questions of national significance so this quote could come back to haunt her because she goes on to say, particularly in this circumstance, writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up, but we know that's not always what supreme court decisions do. so i get what she's saying here. this is a time for consensus. a lot of questions about partisanship and ethics on the supreme court for the good of the country, we should all turn the temperature down, not up, but that, that could come back to haunt her in future decisions when right. she goes against maybe her colleagues goes against the grade of the national consensus on things. so interesting, the chief justice clearly had a lot of work to do behind the scenes to get a consensus here that might explain all so wolf, why it's taken a month to get to this

very point in time. now, if you look at look ahead there is another very consequential supreme court or arguments coming at the end of april. >> it's about >> absolute immunity and whether a former president can be criminally charged with conduct that occurred while in office. if the timeline holds and about a month takes place to actually a deliberate the ultimate holding and a case you're looking at well, june or more, which means just a few months shy of our general election. >> yeah, they're going to be hearing arguments. what, april 22. and that will be very important day as well laura coats, paula reid to both of you. thank you very much. this note to our viewers. be sure to join laura later tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern for her show. laura coates live will be watching for more on this major decision today. i want to bring in cnn senior political analyst gloria borger. cnn senior supreme court analyst, joan biskupic, and cnn senior legal analyst, elie honig and joan, let me start with you. 20 pages. if you read single-space, a lot of details in this document, i know you've gone through it. all of us have

gone through it no mention in this document whether trump actually qualifies as an insurrectionist what did you make of that? well, that's right. and i think we knew that the handwriting was really on the wall when we heard the oral arguments in february that the justices did not want to go to, whether donald trump actually engaged in insurrection is the lower colorado court's head had. but they were ready to get at least get to what i think was a relatively easy bottom line. it was easy bottom line. the colorado supreme court was an outlier states just are not empowered to enforce section three of the 14th amendment. but i think the language you're talking about in terms of any kind of insurrection, just look at what the three liberal suppose road as they talked about how the majority had gone too far, they agreed, of course, with the majority that donald trump should be on the ballot in this case. but they kept referring to this oath-breaking insurrectionists possibility. so at least that

was hanging over it. and one thing i wanted to mention about potentially why this took as long as it did, and why the liberal, three liberal justices wrote what they did the chief and the majority were able to put together that per curiam pretty quickly but they had to wait to see just how these concurring justices would write. and i think what that statement by just this is sotomayor kagan and jackson reflects reflects is intense frustration behind the scenes. >> they're >> losing on the big substantive cases that the court is taking. aside from donald trump, they have just lost in some ways as the majority decided to take up the immunity question and really run out the calendar on that because we know now because of the justices deciding to hear whether donald trump would be immune from any kind of criminal prosecution. it's unlikely he will have any kind of trial before summer, if not all of 2024. and i think they

just wanted to make sure they laid down a marker that they were not all in here. and justice barrett, who does play nice with all her colleagues all the time, felt like this was just not the time to do it. >> it was interesting. elie, because the majority opinion said only congress can enforce the 14th amendment to the constitution determining if in fact trump is an insurrectionist. >> yes. so the point of agreement here the nine to zero point, is, it is not up to the states. all nine justices agree on that. what they disagree on wolf is how exactly the 14th amendment could be enforced moving forward, the five justices said, only if congress acts as the only way this could work. and the liberal justices i think plus barrett, slightly different tones but the other justices say, well, there could be other ways this could be enforced, other than congress, for example, what if somebody was criminally charged with insurrection and convicted? and so sotomayor and kagan and

jackson say that should be enough the bottom line here though, is this is unanimous. it's not up to the states. and another really important point, this is nationwide all the 14th amendment challenges, maine, illinois, the dozens of others that had, had failed or were still pending it's over the 14th amendment will not be applied to donald trump. he will be on the ballot in every state where he wins the primary producer court has decided not to the decision. go ahead. >> think really gives us a clue. and as joan was saying about what's going on behind the scenes, and you've got, of course some unity case coming up, which, you know, this, this was easy compared to the immunity case will we'll see. >> but what what would barrett >> wrote was so interesting to me? she was telling her fellow female justices to calm down a little bit, but she said, particularly in this circumstance, writings on the court should turn the national temperature down, not up and

they've got this immunity case coming up, which is very important. and of course donald trump believes he deserves total immunity. and that's going to be a very divisive case. and lots of people think donald trump is going to lose. and the question is, does i mean to me, does this give us any indication about the arguments that are going to go on behind the scenes, given immunity, because, that is to me not a difficult decision either. but it seems to me like there is a lot of steam right now >> bloc nations join in this 20 page document that the supreme court released about where they might be moving on the issue of presidential immunity. >> know. but we got a clear picture last week when they decide to set oral arguments at a pretty essentially the latest date for the current session.

the last week in april so that's that's a sign in terms of just how they want to play it out. but well, if i have to say that everything that informs that case, you know, in terms of prior law and just where you know, where the legal arguments are, i would be shocked if they somehow grant former president trump immunity from criminal prosecution. the law just isn't there. i think they just wanted to have the light last word. they didn't want to leave it to the dc circuit even though that opinion was so soundly written. and as i said, hewed very closely to related precedent. so i don't think that that donald trump's going to win in that one. it's just said when he does lose, will it be too late for a special counsel, jack smith, representing the united states? hey, it's to actually bring criminal prosecution to try faculty. >> will it be difficult for the court to reach a unanimous decision >> oh, i don't i don't think i don't think you're going to see one single opinion on

immunity. they might all end up on the bottom line, whereas here they did up on the bottom line. but what what i've stressed is that this case was the easy one overall. >> the next case is harder. now, >> for weeks you've been saying on this program you've been saying to me and to our viewers what exactly happened with the supreme court today. you knew what was going to happen? 100%, right? so i asked you this, was going to happen on presidential immunity. >> boy, that's a tougher one, as john said. lucky guess. first of all, in this, well, i think this one wasn't hard to see coming because it just cannot be that we have 50 different states applying the 14th amendment, 50 different ways. and i think that was all that was sort of animating my view on this. here's my view on immunity some of the arguments that donald trump is making, i think are ridiculouss and easily dismissed. the idea that he has blanket immunity. the entire four years he was president because he was president and i think can get the back of the hand the argument that he made about impeachment. well, first i would have to be impeached and then convicted by the senate. and only then could it be removed. that one is to me

completely meritless, easily dismissed. also. well, not even get to hear that part of it, right? >> yes. >> so very easily that's the part that might get tricky, is an argument about whether donald trump was it's acting within or outside the scope and the grant of crt does suggest that they're interested in that. so it's possible the supreme court says, a person can be immune if these within the scope. now, we send it back to the trial court. you have to tell us, was he within the scope or not? that would be not a middle ground outcome, but that's the only reason i think it's going to be really tricky. >> yeah, that would be bending over backwards though. i mean, that would be doing somersaults to find a way to say that he could get some form of immunity. >> we've seen them do gymnastics before or gloria joan elie, guys. thank you very, very much this quick programming note later tonight, 06:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room, colorado secretary of state, jenna griswold, will join me. we'll discuss this historic day. at a lot more, we'll be right back

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last primary for nikki haley, the lone gop challenger, standing and donald trump's away. today. the focus is on the us supreme court ruling that donald trump should appear on the ballot in colorado, the justices rejected a push to ban him from taking he parked up in as part of an insurrection. that was the ruling cnn political commentator and republican strategist, alice stewart is joining us along with cnn political commentator and former south carolina state representative bakari sellers, to both of you, thanks for joining us. alice donald trump weighed in swiftly and succes success simply just a little while ago posting on social media big win for america. could this ruling actually be beneficial to democrats and president biden? >> it's certainly could be wolf because this is a win for america, because the american people will have the opportunity to decide who's on the ballot and not un-elected justices. and i think one of the important aspects that we heard out of the legal panel

earlier is what justice amy coney barrett said, is that the differences on this case are far less important than the unanimity of the court here. and all nine justices agreed this is the way there should come about. and donald trump's name should be placed on the ballot. and we heard reverberations throughout the gop agreeing with donald trump. this is a win for america. this was a over zealous liberal justices and secretaries of states who took action to remove who they see as a threat to joe biden and ultimately, this was unlawful and uncharacteristic for this type of action to be done. and they agreed with the supreme court's decision in the american people should have the right to do so. and look if i was a democrat, i would actually embrace so yes, if their argument is that a joe biden can beat donald trump fairly at the ballot box. then this is the perfect opportunity to do so and he doesn't need to rely on the crutch of removing donald trump from the ballot in any state, let alone colorado. yeah. important point to that, bakari, colorado's secretary

of state also weighed in very quickly, saying part let me put this quote up there. colorado should be able to bar oath-breaking insurrection, insurrectionists from our ballot. what's your reaction? >> well. >> first i just want to correct my good friend alice on her statement that he was removed because he was a threat to joe biden. in fact, that was not the case. the reason being is because he participated in insurrection that question was not answered by this supreme court. is donald trump in insurrection is can he be charged with those crimes as something? that we will have a oral argument on it. a decision later in the spring the fact is many democrats have not spoken out in favor of this ruling. many of us want to beat donald trump at the ballot box, not necessarily have him removed for the simple reason that this was a slippery slope you can have a president or candidate for president on a bad in certain states and removed from other states like texas or south carolina, arkansas, alabama. in that just that that

slippery slope seems to be unfair. and so the justices got it right in this case by restoring donald trump to the ballot in all 50 states the question still remains though. it did donald trump participate, helped orchestrate back an insurrection on january 6. i think we'll get that answer sooner rather than later. >> you know, it's interesting, alice, if you read this 20 page decision by the united states supreme court, the three liberal justices broke from the conservative majority on some important points. but the bottom line vote was unanimous. all nine justices agreeing trump's name should be on the ballot. what does that suggest to you >> well, it shows that they really looked at this from the legal standpoint and ultimately came to an agreement that donald trump should be on the ballot and look, this should not be left up to individual states and justices. this should be decided by the congress the section three of article 14 of the us

constitution should be dictated and determined by members of congress. and that is what the justices said. and look, i agree in part what my friend bakari said. if and when donald trump is convicted of an insurrection, i think this is an opportunity to revisit the question of his eligibility to run. but right now, he has not been convicted of an insurrection, and it is extremely premature to go about and have him suffer consequences for something that e has not been convicted of. >> yeah. bakari, political and other political issue. i want to share with you and our viewers are really fascinating profile by evan osnos in the new yorker magazine entitled joe biden's last campaign. campaign acidosis, who did a lengthy oval office interview with the president writes this, and i'm quoting him when i asked whether he thinks that trump will concede if he loses in 2024, biden said no losers, who are losers are never gracefully said, i just think

that he'll do anything to try to win if and when i win i think you'll contested no matter what the result is. so bakari, do you see this biden needling trump or an ominous prediction >> yes and i think, you know, the campaign, the biden campaign has made a concerted effort to labeled donald trump is a loser. i'm every since 2016, donald trump has not won much, whether or not his 2018 midterms 2020 election 2022, midterms, et cetera. and so i think that that loser caricature loser, loser label is sticking with trump and needling him. but this race is so far away from where we sit today. here in march, getting to november is going to be like seasons. it's going to be light years and even decades. the sum that feeling and we may have a convicted donald trump running for president of the united states and what that means is that after he loses this election, donald trump will continue to try to do everything like losers do to

maintain some semblance of power. and that is, that is the danger this democracy is fragile and donald trump knows that end he pushes and pushes and pushes to try to rip democracy apart at its foundation. >> we will see a bakari sellers, alice stewart to both of you. thank you very much. i want to tell you this important discussion joining us now, cnn contributor john dean, he served as white house counsel for president nixon. john, thanks very much for joining us big picture. give us your reaction to this united states united states supreme court ruling today. >> i don't think a lot of people and donald trump or plane, this is a trump win. i don't necessarily see it that way. this was a hurdle that came up late for him in his plans for reelection and he got around it. he was lucky. he didn't have much. there was not much forethought on this whole but the court did the right thing and they came together the chief got a unanimous decision, just as was

done in dealing with the president with nixon. and is important that the court speak with one voice. i can recall wolf that nixon was looking for a whole you could get around and the court forcing him to turn turnover his secret tapes there was no hole. they made it airtight. i think this is just a nice clean opinion as well. >> do you think that ruling was proper? >> i do. i you know, it's clearly a part of the amendment itself the un implementing section five therefore, congress to do as the court said, they should do. and i think i don't think this congress will certainly act on that. i'm not sure any republican congress just going to act on anything anymore. so it's just going to be out there >> yeah. all nine justices agreed on the final decision to keep trump's name on the ballot. but what do you make of the way the three liberal justices on the court, john accuse their colleagues of going too far with this decision well, i'm not

surprised by that because indeed the that's been the experience they've had with this court where excuse me, six justices leap out and take radical positions and they're stuck trying to actually be in the middle so did they are shooting want across the bow if you will, to remind them, they're here and they're going to call out radical decisions. >> the court took about a month to decide this case. john does does this give us a window into the timeline for the other huge case before the supreme court. trump's claim of presidential immunity and all these other legal cases against him. >> i think the amenity cases a little more delicate wolf, because there are some real issues there as to what the president can and cannot do and is official capacity. so there they're going to have to think about that in the area of national security it's clear president's du, often act

outside the law. when they get to magic business though that's another issue. and i think they're going to want to be careful as to how they do this. so it is going to be a little bit more protracted >> it will be >> well briefed because they're giving plenty of time for amicus brief to get filed. they have time to think about it. and i think it's not an exorbitant amount of time and still, the other cases can go forward with a little bit more rush. >> maybe have to be trimmed down a little bit. but i think we'll get some answers before the election. >> yeah, we'll get the oral arguments april 22. we'll see what happens after that. john dean. thank you very, very much. there's more we're breaking news coming into the cnn newsroom, right now, a former top executive at the trump organization pleads guilty to perjury charges were live outside the court with the very latest i'll just was caught in a trap and he

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the hearing life 30 jay risk-free challenge >> news night with abby phillip tonight at ten eastern on cnn >> we're tracking another breaking news headline for you this morning. the former chief financial officer at the trump organization has just pleaded guilty to perjury. allen weisselberg, guy i've been charged with lying under oath during an investigation into the trump real estate company's finances, our kara scannell is outside the court in lower manhattan for us right now. so update our viewers, kara, what can you tell us?

>> yes. or allen weisselberg just left the courthouse the short time ago, he entered a plea of guilty to two counts of perjury. these are felony counts relate to testimony that he gave to the new york attorney general's office in 2020 during a deposition as they were investigating the trump organization's finances, this specific charges that allen weisselberg said pleaded guilty to that were allies that he is admitted to involve him being asked, have you ever advised any financial institution that the value two of trump's triplex apartment was incorrect on the statements that they gave, he said, no, he only learned about it after it was given to them and they during the trial and during his guilty pleas today, they said that in fact, he did know because of conversations with forbes magazine, which was conducting its survey of trump's wealth that they had raised. questions about the size the triplex apartment in the financial statements, the trump organization had said that they were it was 30,000 square feet. in reality, is just under 11,000 square feet. now, the other count they said

the other lie that he admitted he told was he was asked, were you ever present when donald trump described the size of the triplex apartment, allen weisselberg said he wasn't, but this again, forbes magazine had an audio recording of an interview with donald trump in which he described the inflated size of this penthouse triplex apartment, and weisselberg was there. so that's specifically what he is pleading guilty to, but he also admitted to lying during his testimony in the fall during this trial with that, allen weisselberg, donald trump, the adult sons were all found libel and that massive fine that donald trump is facing a $454 million. so weisselberg, acknowledging that he lied under oath during that testimony, loading not plead guilty to that charge today. so weisselberg now how is expected to be sentenced next month, prosecutors said that they have agreed than recommend a sentence of five months in rikers island jail. remember, allen weisselberg already, please could be guilty in 2022 to tax fraud charges. he served a five-month sentence at rikers, ultimately, that ended up being about 100 days. so that is what looks like it will

play out now importantly, weisselberg just pled guilty today. he's not cooperating with them and hattan district attorney's office, who has investigated and brought a criminal case against donald trump in connection so the hush money payments made to stormy daniels just before the 2016 presidential election, that case is going to trial later this month. weisselberg is not expected to be he called as a witness by prosecutors or by trump's attorneys. they had been pressuring weisselberg for years to cooperate with them. he had been a close confident of donald trump for decades. he has not flipped, he has not agreed to cooperate, so another significant felony charge for allen weisselberg. he will serve more time in jail, but he is not going to cooperate against donald trump. well, which i >> don't understand, kara, maybe you can explain it to me usually when someone pleads guilty, they want to reduce sentence at an order to get a reduced sentence. they have to cooperate with the prosecution and you're saying in this

particular case, he's pleading guilty he's going to get a reduced sentence, but he's not going to cooperate. is that right >> that's right. well, if he could have faced a sentence of between 3.5 to seven years on these felony charges. initially, they were looking to charge him with five counts of perjury. they allowed him to plead guilty to two of these counts. and what prosecutor gary fishman had said in court today, was that one of the reasons they were agreeing to this deal in this sentence was because of allen weisselberg's age. he's going to be turning 77 years all this year. he had already served time in rikers, but fishman was saying that it is still important to bring this case because as he put it, perjury tears at the very fabric of our justice the system will kara scannell reporting from new york for us. thank you very, very much. an important case indeed coming up, we'll have much more on the breaking news out of the united states supreme court this morning, the nine justices ruling to keep donald trump on the colorado ballot what stay with us urine. the cnn newsroom

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teixeira, who was sitting in court right now with his father in court as well. teixeira wearing a rosary as the judge goes over some of the details surrounding this plea agreement that he's expected to enter into. again, he's expected to plead guilty, change his not guilty plea to guilty jets within the next few minutes. and once he does that, he's going to enter for into this plea agreement. we've got some details about that plea agreement. if he pleads guilty to all six counts of all six and indictments, this indictment in all six counts, rather of willfully retaining and disseminating national defense information, the us attorney will then agree not to charge him with anything else his sentence would also then be greatly reduced. >> will fuel. remember, he was initially facing a maximum of 60 years behind bars. but as part part of this plea agreement, now, he would only face 200 months behind bars. that roughly translates into about 16 plus years behind bars

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sensitive classified information >> right? because you remember wolf, this whole case opened up really a can of warm the intelligence community, asking a number of questions why someone like teixeira someone who had a checkered past, why someone like him? kim, had access to this type of classified information. for example, you remember in his past this is someone who has high school class that's me. it's i spoke to one last year who had said that he had made racist comments, made comments about having guns. he had done searches about mass shootings. there were concerns amongst some of his classmates that he would be someone who might want to commit a mass shooting. and in fact, at one point when he tried to get a weapon, a gun, he was denied hi to a permanent by local police who did their own check and had determined that he was not the type of person who should be owning a gun. so there were all sorts of these red flags that were there. and so now all sorts of

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