ahead on "cnn newsroom" -- >> in their filing, the trump team attacking maine secretary of state sheena i did my duty and we await the court reviewing the matter. >> the leader of hamas is condemning the attack describing it as cowardly assassination carried out in his words by israel. >> israel's official line is no comment. >> fireball on the tarmac of haneda airport. the collision of the passenger plane with a japanese coast guard aircraft. >> this accident will go down as a bench mark and will be studied extensively going forward. >> live from london, this is "cnn newsroom" with max foster and bianca nobilo. >> it is wednesday, january 3, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in maine where former u.s. president trump is asking a court to overturn a decision removing him from the state's 2024 primary ballot. maine secretary of state said last week she was legally obliged to remove trump from the ballot over his role in the capitol insurrection. >> she that -- sheena bellows cited the section in the constitution. >> i think that it is really important to note my sole obligation is the oath

john and sheena thank you for allowing us to tell your story. we appreciate that. [applause] our policies change lives when their focus on the people we are here to serve. we give people the chance to succeed. people focus policies are also how we are addressing homelessness. some think we can wave a wand and those living in homelessness will simply disappear. but this is the real world and we have an honest solution. build more housing. connect people to the right services they will have a chance to succeed. at this time last year a woman named starr draper found herself upn in encampment of first avee mission street in seattle. we know that no one can live in danger expect their conditions to improve. no one can be swept from one dark corner to another and expect life to get better. we must lift people up and give them the tools, the services and the power of community necessary to get life back onom track. state and local collaboration got starr on her journey to and she said this program quote it renewed my trust. now she has got work, she has got a safe a priv

>> yeah. >> by spring of 2014, danielle had been living with sheena and her grandparents to close to they saw little dandy, maturing into a young woman. but she was still too young to spend the night alone. so on march 11th, when gina and her mom had to go over to atlanta for a doctors appointment, danielle's grandfather was given the responsibility of keeping an eye on the teen. >> so grandfathers in charge here? >> yes, grandfather is in charge. and this is something we would really never do, on the way down that we would text danielle, she was like, oh, you guys just left me? it's just me and pop pop. like that. because we would always joke. >> you would do that to me? >> yeah, like you guys just left me. >> it was a tuesday, a school night, after supper, just before bed, danielle asked her grandfather if she could drop off a school notebook at a classmates house a few doors away. he said yes. >> my dad says, okay, we'll make it quick. and we never had any issues with her. so, he lets her go. >> and of daniel went into the night. in atlanta, sheena said something was off. >> i had

john and sheena are here today as an example of your work.ng us to tell your story. we appreciate that. [applause] e lives when they are focused on the people we are here to serve. we give people the chance to succeed. also how we are addressing homelessness. something we can just wave a and those living in homelessness will simply disappear. but this is the real world, and we have an honest solution. build more they will have a chance to succeed. ear a woman found herself in a runaway encampment in■; seattle. we know that no one can live in no one can be swept from one dark corner to the we must lift people up and give them the tools, services and power of community necessary to get life back on track. state and local collaboration got her started on her journey to wellness and she saidhis program "renewed my trust." now she has worked and she has a safe private place to live and she is here today. congratulations. where are you? washingtonians can see the dozens of encampments along the highways are no longer there. ■and we need to know tha

. >> sheena brennan says her husband was riding his motorcycle at the intersection of west queen creek and alma school roads. a driver made a left on a flashing yellow light at the same time, her husband was entering the intersection in the opposite direction when he tried to avoid her car, but couldn't. yeah, he doesn'trillionemember any of it, but i got the text at 513 that said, i'm headed home, babe. >> and then at 520 i got the and it's not a text that he sends the apple app automatically sent it. so it detected the crash and sent me that text. his phone immediately notified his emergency contacts and automatically called 911. >> you know my phone, to my knowledge, was the first at a phone call that 911 had received his injuries could have turned deadly if it wasn't for the quick response of firstrillionesponders who got the call seconds after the crash and the response time since they got there so fast, they got him there enough to treat him and keep him calm and put him on the meds he needed to make sure his blood pressure stayed low, his heart rate stayed low so it didn't burst

partisan judges on the colorado supreme court and this unelected nonlawyer maine secretary of state sheenalows. you will see that they established these precedence in blue states and democrats will take their show on the road and try to kick president trump off the ballot in swing states. so if the american people want to put president trump in the white house -- back in the white house on november 5th, 2024, the democrats just want to disqualify trump under a bogus legal theory. that's not going to fly with the american people and the supreme court needs to fix this. >> judge jeanine: i suspect that it will. sol and mike. thank you so much for being with us this evening. and after harvard's president gay's resignation, racial arsonists are now lashing out and doing anything to shield their precious dei. leader grifter reverend al sharpton is here to react. here to react after this. stay here. ♪ charlotte! charl! every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt. - i'm sherry - and i'm john. i'm a pharmacist. as we were starting to age, it's like, well how can w

they appealed the ruling by sheena bellows that disqualified him for maine's gop ballot under the 14thndment insurrection ban. trump's lawyers arguing that bellows was a biassed decision maker with no legal authority. here is bellows late last night on cnn. >> i think it is important to note my sole obligation is the oath i swore to up hold the constitution and follow maine election laws. i was duty bound by maine election laws which require this process of holding a hearing and issuing a decision to ensure that every candidate on the primary ballot meets the qualifications of the office they seek. i did my duty. now it goes to the court. that is why i stayed, success pen pebded the effect pending the appeal. >> so trump also expencted to appeal also in colorado supreme court that sets up a potential showdown in the u.s. supreme court over his eligibility. let's bring in seth waxman. good morning. wonderful to have you on the show. let's start with what is going on up in maine as well as what is happening out in colorado. what do you see in this appeal and how does this play out next?

she got 20% in iowa sheena far a pace that hand in hampshire so to go into your home state not with election weeks down the road that's momentum building. what she's further behind. >> no one is driven a message yet. >> trump had a bunch of south carolina people here in new hampshire on saturday. >> who. >> tim scott, please? >> a number of people that were elected, just to be clear if she loses by 19 points you should still stay in the race. >> what i don't care what the results are. -- >> i don't know if it's a coronation if you win by double digits in both the first states. you recently said that he would support donald trump. you and said that for a while with a couple of interviews where you didn't say that you did recently say that. we did talk about this back in august and you said something that did stick with me so let's play it. >> oh boy. >> there is a tape for everything. >> you can't win in november. independent state. it there's no way donald trump when anything above 31% of the independents. that's why republicans as a whole get crushed. as bad as he would before being on top

>> katy, i think they will take this up, and the decision by maine secretary of state, sheena bellosdisqualify trump for her state ballot, increases the likelihood that john roberts and his colleagues will make a decision with respect to his cert petition from donald trump. the question is when, however, and that's one that the court and only the court can decide. you noted at the outset that the decision is stayed right now. which means donald trump will appear on the colorado ballot unless and until there is a decision from the united states supreme court either upholding the colorado supreme court or vacating that decision in some way, you know, either way, right now, donald trump is on the ballot, and therefore, the united states supreme court may not feel itself in any hurry. they also may make a determination that it is premature and not right when someone is just running in a primary to invoke section 3 of the 14th amendment. indeed, that's one of the arguments that team trump makes in their brief to the court, and that's a convenient off ramp for the supreme court, particular