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citing the 14th amendment, finding that donald trump engaged in insurrection on january 6. trump, as you can imagine, already fighting back this morning. alice barr has the details >> reporter: in a bombshell ruling, colorado's supreme court deciding that former president trump should not be allowed on the state's primary ballot in 2024 on constitutional grounds the ruling states that mr. trump is disqualified from holding the office of president again because of his actions on january 6, 2021, citing the 14th amendment of the constitution, which says that no person can serve as an officer of the united states who engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the u.s. the decision reverses a lower court's ruling and is the first of its kind after similar challenges in other states have proven unsuccessful. former president trump campaigning in iowa.

he has called efforts to keep him off the ballot nonsense and election interference. >> they want to silence me, because i will never let them silence you. >> reporter: the trump campaign calling the colorado decision politically motivated and completely flawed and promising to swiftly file an appeal to the u.s. supreme court the decision is temporarily on hold to allow time for appeals in washington, alice barr, nbc news meanwhile, another member of the proud boys has been sentenced in connection with the events of january 6. charles donohue, whom the u.s. government described as a trusted lieutenant in the far-right organization was sentenced to 40 months in prison on tuesday donohue had pleaded gylfuilty to multiple charges he had cooperated with the government on the seditious conspiracy case brought begins members of the proud boys, including chairman enrique tarrio who was sentenced earlier

this year. after several israeli or israel-bound ships were attacked in the red sea by the yemeni houthi group, the u.s. is announcing a new coalition to defend commercial vessels passing through that key trade route. let's go live to claudio lavanga. what countries are part of this alliance >> reporter: good morning, jessica. the u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin initially said the countries that would participate in this coalition, britain, bahrain, canada, france, italy, netherlands, norway, the seychelles and spain the only country from the middle east that does participate is bahrain. austin has called for other countries to take part in the coalition. what they'll do is, as you mentioned, think will tax commercial vehicles from

attacks. they are launching droinsnes an missiles in response to israel's assault on gaza. as a consequence, many commercial shipping companies have decided to take an alternative route around africa. that takes many, many more days of navigation, raises cost and has a big impact on global trade. on the war front, israelis say they have taken control of the jabalia camp but at a cost. the gaza health ministry said about a hundred people were killed at jabalia during that fighting, bringing the total death toll since the start of the war to 20,000. j jessica? on monday, more migrants crossed into the u.s. than ever before more than 12,000 that record comes as texas is being sued after it gave state

law enforcement expanded powers to arrest migrants morgan chesky reports from eagle pass, texas. >> reporter: stunning images from eagle pass, texas, where thousands of migrant men, women, and so many children now fill entire fields. the groups lining the rio grande, clinging to blankets, huddling to stay warm, all waiting for hours to be processed, and most likely to be released into the united states. of all our trips to eagle pass, this is the largest group we have ever encountered. sources tell us the majority of these families are venezuelan. on monday alone, a staggering new record dhs officials telling nbc news more than 12,000 crossed the border, the most recorded in a single day ever. the surge sparking a new battle between the lonestar state and the white house. republicans here blaming president biden's border policies for a record number of illegal crossings. >> biden's deliberate inaction

has left texas to fend for itself >> reporter: now governor greg abbott sign agnew law, making illegal immigration a state crime and empowering police and sheriff's deputies to arrest migrants they have already put barbed wire along the border, but it faces ongoing challenges the white house calling the new law extreme. the aclu of texas saying they'll sue. >> that is going to drive our immigrant communities into the shadows. it's going to increase suspicion of relying on law enforcement. >> reporter: how much longer can you keep up? >> we can't. we can't now it's like 3,000 or 4,000 right now. they're coming in. >> reporter: the sheriff tells us they're struggling to cope with the number of migrants, but the new laws only raise new questions. namely where newly-arrested migrants would potentially be held his jail holidayds 250 and today

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the creative use of educational videos but critics say the conservative company's content is not accurate antonia hilton has more. >> what does it mean to be feminine >> reporter: your kids may have seen these videos online >> embrace the idea of being a wife or mother >> reporter: educational videos on everything from culture to history to climate >> without fossil fuels, much of the world's population would starve to death in a year. >> reporter: this is prager u. not an actual, accredited university, but rather, a quote, pro-american education, non-profit with growing school partnerships in new hampshire, florida, and oklahoma. >> it's called edutainment >> reporter: according to the ceo, their videos are an answer to an education system too focussed on diversity and gender they used artists focussed on american exceptionalism. >> they feel like they're serving on the front lines of saving the war of ideas in

america. >> reporter: since the pandemic, prager u says it has doubled revenue and reached nearly 10 billion views of their videos. founder dennis prager has been a controversial radio host for years. >> if you're spending a good part of the day teaching kids about preferred pronouns and other, what we call, woke issues, then you're really not teaching them. >> reporter: what i hear from teachers of every background is that they are slammed from block to block underpaid, underappreciated. and that they don't even have time to talk about pronouns, gender theory, critical race theory >> i don't believe that they're telling you the truth. i actually think they're lying to you >> reporter: in oklahoma, some teachers like gabe wooly are using prager u in the classroom. we watched prager's video. here's the first thing you need to know. a short history of slavery together >> after centuries of human slavery, white men led the world

in putting an end to the abhorrent practice >> reporter: she's giving credit mostly to white people right now for ending it before the acknowledgement of the pain that some of your students might know about and feel in their families, right? >> right, and there's a lot of content that we cover that does cover that but what we almost never talk about is the reality of slavery happening almost since the beginning of time to the end of time >> reporter: a few minutes down the road families like the reyes, who are a mix of white, choctaw and mexican-american say the broader culture war playing out in schools is hurting teachers >> we trust our people, right? we trust our educators this is our community. >> reporter: we showed them some of prager u's videos designed for kids >> 300,000 u.nion soldiers overwhelmingly white died in the civil war. >> something i noticed was no other culture did anything no other culture died.

no other culture tried to stop slavery. which, i know that isn't true. >> that's extremely concerning to me. because it's, you know, so much inaccuracy with things >> reporter: what would a good, american education system look like to you? >> like it did ie it did in t1 minus -- >> reporter: minus the bad things >> that's correct. minus the bad things >> reporter: a vision he's now trying to bring to schools nationwide antonia hilton, los angeles. still to come. more than 500 million reasons to pick up a powerball ticket this morning. and you may finally be able to grab clhick fil an on a sunday hick fil an on a sunday. lth insurance at the time, and now i have a plan that keeps me covered for $9 a month. half of my monthly premium is covered with financial help,

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sandra day o'confor. >> a pie fne pioneer in her own. >> reporter: the first woman to serve on the high court, yueill jie ji jietzed by the chief justice who helped her prepare in 1981 >> see had to find her own style, with tarehere was no exal to follow. >> reporter: she resisted the swing vote label >> she would say, that sounds fickle >> reporter: her biographer recalling how she wooed her colleagues to lunch. >> she was the glue. >> reporter: the glue for her family as well according to her son jay >> she did it all. organizing the household, outstanding cooking. grocery shopping, getting the kids where we needed to be

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