and will droonald trump fil appeals in colorado and maine to get back on the ballots? we will speak to the colorado secretary of state. i'm rahel solomon alongside john berman today, and good to be with you, john. this is cnn "news central." we are getting new details on the breaking news out of japan, and an investigation is under way after a japan airways collided with a japanese coast guard plane after it all burst into flames. you see it happen right there as the passenger jet landed. five crew members on the coast guard plane were killed and the captain was injured as they were preparing to fly to the west coast of japan to help with the earthquake relief.

the pilot of the passenger plane did not spot the plane on the runway. they had 90 seconds to de-plane, and nobody on the aircraft was seriously injured. some were taken to the hospital saying they did not feel well. this is the passengers seen getting off. will ripley has the latest. >> the japanese prime minister is sending condolesses to the five coast guard crew members who lost their lives in the fiery runway collision right in the heart of tokyo. look at this in haneda airport shortly before 6:00 p.m. local time. a massive fireball erupted in the runway right in the middle of the busy runway when a crowded jet with 67 passengers including eight children under the age of 2 and 12 crew members on board collided with a coast guard plane that was taking off

to deliver leaf supplies to parts of central japan on the western side that are desperately in need of aid right now because of the massive earthquake that struck hours after the country rang in the new year, and began 2024. after that tragedy and all of the hustle and bustle of the holiday weekend coming to a close at this very busy airport, haneda hub that serves the japanese capital along with narita airport, and two major airports in town, and one operational, because haneda airport had to shutdown operations after and all of the questions being raised of how this happened, but the extraordinary part of this story is that everybody on that plane in a matter of seconds was safely evacuated. everybody on the passenger plane even the parents of the young

children, and the passengers thought they were going to die and they could see the flames spreading and they claimed that the exit doors were not operational and they had to go out of the exits near the front of the aircraft, they all made it out alive. half a dozen people on the coast guard plane, and only one of them survived in critical condition right now at the hospital. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> our thanks to will ripley for that. >> we will continue to conversation and bring in our faa correspondent pete muntean, and pete, we have been learning more throughout the morning and i am curious about your reaction of the preliminary reports we are getting, but apparently the pilots of the passenger aircraft did not see any other aircraft on the runway. >> clearly one airplane was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and now the question is who was in the wrong place at the wrong time. it is a wakeup call to aviation around the world, and in japan

who has an incredible safety culture and especially near the united states. we will get to that in a second. you can see in the video of the flight coming in to land on the 3-4 right in haneda of the plane breaking into a fireball, and of course, this image is going to be used heavily by investigators at the japan transport safety board. they are in charge of the investigation, and the airbus that made the a-350 that japan was flying is now going to be a part of the investigation and they are sending a team to help out. what is incredible here is that all of these people, the 379 people including 12 crew were able to make it out efficiently and quickly and safely from this japan airlines flight 516. that is really pretty incredible, because you can see in an evacuation after evacuation passengers grabbing their bags and then leaving the plane. this happened so quickly, and

they were able to do it so easily with no major injuries and only a few people going to the hospital. we know that five people have died on the japan coast guard flight, and was it that plane that was in the wrong place at the wrong time or the japan airlines flight that was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and investigators will want to listen to air traffic control audio tape to see what tra transpired and was the airline flight cleared to land or was the japan coast guard flight told to be on the runway or crossing or taxiing, and why were they in the same place at the same time? that is the huge failure here of the safety culture in japan. you can see the runways there in haneda and 3-4 left and right, and busy airport, and buttressing the northeast sides, and it is a very complex runway on both sides, and we have seen it happen over and over again in the united states, and not end with dramatic outcomes like we

saw in this most recent incident. they are known efficiently as runway incursions, and in the u.s., they are so serious that the ntsb in the u.s. has investigated seven of them over the course of 2023, and we thought that it was a problem in the last year, and now it appears worldwide continuing this year, rahel. >> pete, it is so quickly and remarkable that everybody is going to be off of the passenger flight, and so quickly within 90 seconds, and what are the takeaways for the passengers in terms of how quickly they are able to evacuate and get there safely. >> first and foremost congratulations to the crew, and all of the crew and not just the pilots, but the flight att attendants, because it is a wide body airplane, and it takes a while to evacuate, and it is incredibly complicated and you have to have spatial awareness and the crew who practices it over and over again not only in the airplane, but in static

mock-ups in large buildings where they run through the evacuation procedures and deploy the emergency slides like we saw in this incident, and sometimes the slides and those exits can be blocked. so you need to go to one that is different. i saw in the video that some of the folks were using r-1 exit which is the door at the front most nose of the airplane to get out on that slide. although, it seems that some parts of the plane were engulfed with flames and you want to go away. and this is to take away, listen to instructions of the flight crew, and they are there for your convenience and your safety and seconds can be the difference of life and death, and the rules of safety are written in blood. >> thank you, pete muntean, live for us in washington. thank you. and this is how it happened the flight 516 approached the

haneda runway and this is where it made contact right there with the coast guard plane on the runway, and that is important to note, and this coast guard plane was there, and the japan airlines collides with it, and streaks down the runway in flames, which is remarkable in and of itself, and ends up at the other senend of the runway this fireball and this is where all of the passengers manage to get out from, and that is a story in and of itself, and now with us, is mary schiavo and the fa faa expert, and was it even cleared to land. and what questions do ju you ha this morning? >> that is one of the questions i have, and what is going on in the tower. in the the united states, when this is on the radar screen, and as pete said, this is one of the

safety statistic on the rise in a bad way. and we have had more near collisions than elsewhere, and so many that the united states senate had hearings, and bipartisan effort of what to do about this, and my questions is what is going on in the tower, and who were the controllers and did they have relief control ters and supervisors in the tower, and what is the rest schedule and the training and the same questions in the u.s. that we have with the air traffic controller, and there is no indication that there are shortages in japan, but we have asked these of our own controllers. as we have seen from the videos and the passengers or the people in the terminal have taken, but you can see from the videos that the nose of the plane hit something, and the pilot of the coast guard plane has now reported that it exploded. so it is looking like the fuel for the fire on the passenger plane came from the coast guard plane which is very significant, because the wings, the fuel tanks, the wings of the fuel

tank stayed intact on the passenger plane, and airbus wants to look into this, because this is a kudo to airbus that it stayed intact, and finally the other questions is that the people got out because they followed the instructions of japan airlines and i have flown them many times that. i make you pay attention and if you are knitting and they are doing the security an announcements, they say, hey, listen up, and they say it better than that, but they make you pay attention and this is important, because we have had similar situations including planes engulfed like this, and in most cases the people got off, but some people stopped to collect the baggage or put on the shoes here, and here, the passengers have reported that nobody did, everybody followed the instructions and left their stuff and jumped on the slides and miraculously life saving. >> we have views of what it looked like inside japan airlines flight as it was going down the runway there in flames and you have to see the window there, the wings are still

intact on the japan airlines flight. which indicates that perhaps what you were saying before that the flames themselves came from the fuel on the coast guard vessel, and then you could see the people sitting on the aircraft going down the runway, and then this, this is the moment before the passengers get up to evacuate, and you can see the smoke already there, and one thing that you do notice as you point out, nobody is going to the overhead bin to get their bags which is the problem or can be the problem talking about evacuations. we do believe that all of the evacuations happen toward the front of the plane, and the passengers are reporting that the exits and the rear were not working. is that a concern or something that can happen because of the collision in the fire. >> i think that is something that happened because of the collision and the fire and then in other videos that other people have posted, it is the back of the plane that everyone is off that is so involved that the tail fell off in the fire.

so if the windows and you are looking out the emergency exits and you can see the flames, you are instructed not to open it, and had they done it, and it was engulfed in flames and they had opened it maybe there is a much worse result for the passengers if the flames got in the cabin. so if the emergency exits are not working when you take off, and you can do it legally, and have one or two that are not functional, it has to be marked with tape and signs and big signs that say nonoperational before you ever take off, and we don't see anything like that in the picture, but the report will indicate whether all of the exits were working. i suspect that they were and it is simply the flames and the smoke at the back of the flame where the people wisely did not open up the exits to allow the flames inside until people got off. >> how long before answers here, mary? >> oh, there are so recordings, and this is a very new airbus, and a 2021 airbus and the best

recorders on the plane and every piece of the tower and with each other and even someone saying is what is that on the runway and not saying is it, and every piece of airbus they will have, and the cockpit recorder, and the tower as well, and we have to give kudos to the tower, because there is a fire emergency phone in the tower, and you pick it up and the crews respond, and clearly they will, and that is recorded, too, and the only question is the dash-8 which is the coast guard plane, and it could be very old and could have not a lot of recording and may not have any recordings at all, but everything is recorded in this accident. >> mary skichschiavo, thank you coming on. >> thank you. and now, the details of a accident in rochester, and what we have learned about the suspect who crashed into a crowd

of concertgoers ahead. plus a man is in custody after he stabbed the south korean main opposition leader in the neck. we have new details about this attack. and when will former president donald trump appeal his removal from the colorado primary ballot. ahead, we will speak to the secretary of state jenna griswoldld ahead. yeol.

we are learning new details about a man who rammed into a group of concertgoers. he sped up before crashing into another car and plowing into the crowd. the fbi and the joint terrorism task force is investigating what happened. >> what i can tell you is that so far we have uncovered no

evidence of ideology or nexus to terrorism international or domestic i will. we will see this investigation through to end with the partners, but it is not abnormal that we would do in cases such as this one. >> all right. we will bring in brynn gingras, and what are you hearing? >> he said no nexus of terrorism, and we will see where the investigation goes from here, but the driver who plowed through a group of concertgoers. his name is michael avery and he has since died from the injuries in the collision last night at the hospital. we know that he superis from th syracuse area, and drove down to rochester on the 27th and checked into a hotel. two days later, the authorities in press conference said that he went around and bought several gas canisters and gas and rented

an suv. it is the rental zu suv that he used to plow through the crowd. and this is what appeared to be a preplanned thing that he put into motion that day. what we have learned is that two people were killed when that suv collided with another car that is a ride share car that tried to get two people out of the concert, and two people were killed in that car. so a lot of questions still unclear here as to the motive of what the intent of this avery person was. obviously, this investigation is still on goring, and the authorities according to the sources have talked to the family members and trying to pinpoint what happened, and our understanding is that the family was sort of hinting at the fact that he might have been suffering from the bipolar disorder, and did that play a part in this, and still a lot of questions here, and at the end of the day, two people were killed and some heroes here, and the mayor did talk about that at the news conference. take a listen. >> it should be noted that there

were off duty rochester police officers springing into action to render aid to the individual responsible for this heinous act and not even thinking about their own safety even in the midst of this despicable tragedy, there is a reminder that there is still good innocence this world of -- >> and we are talking about, you know, a concert that had 1,000 people trying to exit, and this happening not even an hour into the new year, and some witnesses saying that the flames from the explosion with all of the gas canisters went 15 feet, and so, it is pretty incredible, you know, that the heroes should be thanked, but two people were killed at the end of the day here. >> and this is supposed to be an event for people to celebrate the new year, and only ended in fatalities. thank you, brynn gingras. an andrew mccabe, they said no known nexus to domestic or foreign terror, and no known

political motivations one way or another. and what do you think that the major questions to investigate right now still are? >> so, john, that is fbi speak for we don't have any evidence that connects this actor to a terrorist group or terrorist motivation, and that is consistent with what we heard at the press conference earlier today, but they will not give up the search to uncover, to turn over every rock to see what they can uncover, and the reason for that is that the mission of the fbi, joint terrorism task force is to mitigate any threat to national security. so even though this individual is deceased, they want to know was he working with anyone else or did anyone push him in this direction, and did anyone support his efforts or did anyone send him money or materials in order to accomplish this attack. they will look, and the questions they will ask are what did he write? what did he say? what did he post on social media? what does his family know about

him? does he work somewhere? let's talk to the co-workers, and they will go out in every direction to try to find any indicator to nexus to terrorism. >> they indicated that in the hotel room, there was no note left behind, and so at least that is a dead end. the fact that seems to jump out in this case, andy, is that this suspect went to several locations to buy gas canisters. then he got a rent-a-car, and drove his own car raw ches t and then got a rental car, and bought the gas canisters and then filled them up and drove to the concert location, and what is that is going to tell investigators? >> what you have laid out there, john, is very highly organized structured planned attack by this person for whatever reason. the travel to rochester in one vehicle, renting of a second vehicle, the purchase of gas cans and not just the purchase,

but the deliberate dispersed purchase, and the way he bought them not the attract attention, and then he arms the vehicles full of gas. so no question, this is series of intentional acts with the point of resulting in civilian casualties. the only question for investigators at that point is why did he do it and was anyone else involved. >> again, the facts there that you can understand why they want to keep on investigating this so thoroughly. andrew mccabe, thank you, and happy new year. >> thanks, john. all right. today, donald trump's lawyers could appeal both colorado and maine's decision to remove him from their primary ballots. coming up, the colorado secretary of state jena griswold is goingng to join us next.

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new questions this morning after a man was arrested inside of colorado's supreme court building. the police say that just after 1:00 a.m. local time the suspect fired into the window and forced his way in and then held a security guard at gunpoint and then at 3:00 a.m. the suspect called 911 to voluntarily surrender. we are told that the building now has significant damage. last month the colorado supreme court voted to disqualify donald trump from being on the primary ballot, but there is no reporting right now on whether or not this incident was related to that at all. also today, the lawyers for donald trump are expected to appeal the decisions in both colorado and maine to remove him from their primary ballots. with me now is the colorado secretary of state jenna griswold, and thank you for being with us, and we have no reporting that the courthouse was in any way connected to the election business. do you any information or new

reporting on what happened there? >> well, thank you for having me on. and at this point, no. we are under the impression that it is unrelated, but we are going to continue to keep an eye on it. >> obviously, it is of concern, because just over the last few days, you have been saying that since the colorado supreme court case which is notable, because you are not a party to that, not a party to the court case, but you been receiving threats after that became a case, and what happened exactly? >> i was actually a party to that case. but i was not the petitioner who brought the case. i was actually one of the defendants as the chief election officer and the person who certifies who is on and off of the ballot, but what happened as is that as soon as the case was filed, i started to receive a lot of death threats. and when the colorado supreme

court acted and in deciding that donald trump has disqualified himself, because of engaging in insurrection, they received a bunch of death threats and so did i. it is an atmosphere of political violence that is unfortunately not new. it has been with us since 2020 and 2021 trying to intimidate the secretaries of state and election workers, but i won't be intimidated, and we will have great elections in the state of colorado. >> what is the cause of this threat of violence, do you think? who is to blame? >> i would say donald trump and republicans and congress and high ranking republicans across the nation who have not stood up to condemn the rhetoric of violence. all of the lies, all of the disinformation are used as justification to suppress the vote across the nation, and the laws have incited security breaches including the election

officials breaching their own election equipment, and incited a wave of political threats to election workers. and the intended result is happening. a lot of the election workers have said they will step down or have stepped down including colorado seeing a turnover rate of one-third of the elected county clerks, the people who run the elections at the county level since 2020. so, donald trump is and his rhetoric is dangerous, and of course, i would say that there was not a mistake or he knew what he was doing when he posted on social media that the biography of the main secretary of state, and that led to intimidation and threats against her. >> you noted that i incorrectly said that you were not a party to the case in colorado and obviously, you corrected me on that, but it is not your decision to remove donald trump from the ballot in colorado, but in maine, it was different when

the secretary of the state had that power, and you praised her decision, and do you wish that you had the power in colorado to make that decision unilaterally? >> colorado law is set up where the secretary of state does have the authority to determine qualifications, including the presidential candidates, but there is an apparatus in colorado law where the voters can challenge any decision-making. so this lawsuit in colorado was actually brought before i had made any decisions as to whether trump is on the ballot or off of the ballot. it was brought by six colorado voters who are republicans and unaffiliateds. i think that the colorado supreme court got it right. only two courts in this country have looked at the base question did donald trump engage in insurrection, and both of the courts have said yes. again, i believe that the colorado supreme court got it right, because i don't believe that there should be a loophole in the constitution for a president trying to engage in

insurrection or rebellion against the country. >> so what is going to be happening in the next few days with donald trump's name being put on the colorado primary ballot as we wait to see when he files the appeal with the u.s. supreme court, and what do you do in the next few days? >> i certify the ballot on friday. so that is the process telling all of the county clerks which candidates can be on the ballots that they will then go print. now, the colorado supreme court has said that he is disqualified, but putting a hold on the decision. so, they said that he is disqualified, but if an appeal is filed, he is presumed back on the ballot unless the u.s. supreme court takes some action. so as of today, donald trump is back on the ballot, and the republican colorado party file an appeal last week. from here, it is believed that donald trump is going to file his appeal today, and until the

supreme court refuses to take the case or take some action, he is back on the ballot in the state of colorado. >> colorado secretary of state jena griswold, thank you for coming on. appreciate it. >> thank you. a terrifying attack in south korea, the country's main opposition leader is stabbed in the neck. the whole thing was caught on camera. a word of caution that the video is disturbing. >> oh! >> wait, wait, wait. >> he is now recovering in the hospital after undergoing surgery. we will bring in paula hancocks who is following the developments for us. paula, what can you share about the latest of his condition. >> well, rahel, what we are being told at this point is that he is recovering in intensive care. he has undergone surgery of vein reconstruction surgery we are

told. now, when the attack happened, it was believed that he did have damage to his jugular vein, and that is the latest update that we have on his condition, but what actually happened is a brazen attack, rahel. it was in broad daylight, and he was surrounded by the supporters, and by many people, and reporters, and it was all captured live on television. there was an individual in his 60s we are told by the police who approached him as he was talking to the reporters on the camera asking for his autograph. then he lunged forward and attacked lee jae-nyung and we are told that there is a one centimeter laceration in the side of the neck. he collapsed and the assailant was wrestled to the ground and arrested. what the police are trying to find out is what the motive is for this attack. we know that politics in south korea has been extremely

polarized over the recent months, but the police are looking specifically about this attack, and previous stabbing attacks on high profile individuals, and it is happened just before local elections and high profile individuals are out on the streets of south korea, and you can see that the members of the public are allowed to get very close to the politicians, and little security, and this is being looked at. rahel. >> yes, you wonder if there is going to be changes there because of this incident. paula hancocks, thank you. and so nikki haley and ron desantis are both trying to close the gap between them and donald trump by not going after donald trump. details ahead.

so this is it, two weeks to the iowa caucuses and the last chance for candidates not named donald trump to close the gap there with donald trump. so, what are they doing? super pacs supporting ron desantis and nikki haley have released ads going after each other and not donald trump. steve is joining us now where it is smooth sailing for the frontrunner? >> yes, that is right, john. he is going to be here to remind the supporters that the lead is large, but we have to make sure that we show up to the caucuses on january 15th, but meanwhile, he is going virtually ignored on the airwaves by the two most, the people closest to him in the

polls, nikki haley and ron desantis, and the hawkeyes on new year's day was competing on the citrus bowl, and there were ads attacking nikki haley from ron desantis, and ron desantis attacking nikki haley but not a single ad attacking donald trump. so if you are watching these back and forth, they are all over the map on the issues central to the two candidates. here is one going back and forth on the stances of china. >> and nikki pretending to talk tough about china. >> china is a friend of ours. >> i officially work for you. >> you can't trust tricky nikki. >> desantis is lying. >> he has called china the most important trading partner. >> desantis, too lame to lead and too weak to win. >> reporter: and now desantis is going be here tomorrow and throughout the week leading up to the town hall thursday, and nikki haley is spending a lot of time in new hampshire where the

campaign is focussing a lot of efforts. they don't believe they need to come out of iowa with a victory or second-place finish, because they feel they need a strong showing here and on to new hampshire where she is challenging strongly and has the support of the governor and chris christie is a obstacle for her there, and depending upon how desantis does in iowa could prove to be an obstacle, but both of the candidates will be in the early nominating states to get the vote out and convince the voters to catch up to donald trump here, but most of the time, they are mostly ignoring him on the airwaves. >> thank you, steve cotorno. >> and now, joining us is jackie kucinich who is the washington bureau chief for the "boston globe," and jackie, good to see you, and let's start where steve left out, and the push to iowa and where john berman said, what is a strong showing looking like for nikki haley and ron desantis here at this point? >> well, it is a really good

question, because frankly, these polls in the last couple of months have been really stagnant. trump has a large lead between 25 to 30 points over his next competitor. so these two have been left to duke it out. it is more important for desantis because of the resources and the most important resource is time that he has spent in iowa over the last few weeks than haley who is focused on new hampshire in part because she is doing better in the polls there. and if desantis does not have the showing, then you have to wonder, what happens next for him, and you know, what kind of conversations are going to go on in this campaign, because he needs it. he needs it badly because of everything that i mentioned. >> and likelihood of any surprises? might we see a more stronger showing from vivek ramaswamy for example? >> usually, so, at this point, you are usually going to see the rising of someone else. you saw it with rick santorum in

final weeks really start to rise in 2012 for example. nothing is impossible, and the caucuses are a very unique part of american politic, because of how they are conducted, but again, just seeing what we have seen on the ground here, and heard what we have heard on the ground, it does not seem like any big surprises, but i love the news, so fingers crossed, because it would be fun to cover if they were thrown some curveballs. >> touche. jackie, what are you making for the calls for chris christie to drop out of the race, and of course, the new hampshire governor sununu saying that he is backing nikki haley in the primary, and so what is the signal to you? >> so, christie has indicated that he would not drop out, but you have kind of saw this coming. you saw it on the horizon, because of haley's rise, and you saw sununu as mentioned endorsed

haley, and this big argument that the consolidation could help to boost her potentially, and this is about stopping the former president trump's momentum, and she is right now the only candidate of the challenging of trump to be poised to do that in new hampshire, and without christie in the race, those folks who are saying that he should drop out, those others will be going to haley and give her the boost that she needs, but it is really is at the end of the day, it is up to christie, and he has said that he is on to a mission here, and we will have to see if the pressure gets to him, but it does not seem like it yet. >> and jack kix before we let you go, we have new reporting that the biden campaign is carefully ratcheting up the intensity against trump, and worried that the voters are desensitized or dulled to the president's rhetoric and the promises of what he would do if he were back in power. do you think that it is a winning general election strategy for biden?

>> i think that what the interesting thing is that they are just focusing on the general election at this point, and assuming that trump is the opponent at this point. initially, you would not hear biden say trump, but he would say the other guy or other thing, and slowly but surely trump is coming back into the speeches, and what trump is going to do, and he is looking at this as potentially a rematch. looking at the field right now, that is looking like what we are headling to, and so it is going to make sense that this is the way that the biden campaign is headed into the general election, and my goodness, it is 2024, isn't it? >> yes, it is here upon us. buckle up. jackie kucinich, thank you. reminder that ron desantis and nikki haley are going to be taking questions directly from iowa voters in back-to-back town hall, and the cnn town halls moderated by kaitlan collins and

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new this morning, researchers are releasing this new study documenting the wo world's first partial heart transplant. it was done to save the life of a baby who was just 18 days old at the time. medical correspondent meg terrell joins us now. what's new and different about this surgery? >> what's really amazing about this surgery is previous ly the option would have been to use a donor valve, which essentially wouldn't grow along with the child. so the problem with a that is that as the by by gets older, you have to continue to have surgeries to get bigger and bigger valves until they reach

adulthood so you're undermultiple surgeries. there's also a 50% survival. so with this baby who was born with a heart defect that needed emergency care, the doctors used a technique using donor functional valves and arteries in this partial heart transplant procedure in order to hopefully have those heart parts grow along with the baby. and what they have seen is that that surgery has been successful and he is continuing to do well. the valves are growing along with him. he's now 20 months old out from the surgery. his parents say he's hutting all his developmental milestones and it's miraculous to see the procedure and to see him now functioning as a normal little guy. >> he had the surgery when he was 18 days old and now 20 months. what does this mean for other

babies who might need surgery? >> so he was the first one. his doctor at duke really pioneered this procedure say this is could potentially help save hundreds of i babies a year. one other function of this new procedure is that you would potentially use one donor heart to save two babies because it's a partial heart frtransplant. they have done it on additional 12 infants so they need to do this more to prove it out it's offering a the lot of hope for parents and babies in a really tough situation. >> we're looking at pictures of him when he looks terrific at age 20 months. just like you'd want any baby to look happy and smiling right there. looking healthy. what a wonderful story and breathtaking technology in medical technology.

thank you for being with us. good to be with you. >> it's great to have you here. >> an eventful day. thank you fog us. this is "cnn news central." "inside politics" is up next.

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today on "inside politics," campaign crunch time. 2024 is here. and the first presidential votes are 13 days away. donald trump rees oos rivals are hoping to be the last republican standing to take him on. plus fight ing back. any moment now, donald trump is expected to appeal two decisions that kicked him off the ballots in colorado and maine. the supreme court will likely have the final word. and less about biden, more a about trump. sources tell cnn that's president biden'