Hello, good morning, and happy new year. I hope you had a lovely holiday season. I personally

got to take some time off, recharge, which is why I'm so excited to jump right into 2024 with you.

Now, I think for a lot of us, this last week has been kind of a whirlwind of family, friends,

or maybe you just hold up at home and binge TV shows, which good plan. The point is, everyone here might feel like we just slept through a week's worth of news.

So, what we thought we'd do here today is just get you caught up. Usually we pick a few stories and dive a bit deeper into them.

Today, let's just hit it all.

Right, a wrap-up of everything you missed starting around Christmas,

up through this morning.

We get it started right now.

The biggest story of this year is likely to be what's going to happen to former President

Donald Trump because conceivably the possibilities range from being sent to

prison to once again being elected president of the United States. Well last Thursday

just a few days after Christmas the woman who runs elections in Maine decided he

shouldn't even be on the ballot. And I was required by the law to hold a hearing

within five days and then to issue a decision.

You might remember the State Supreme Court of Colorado made a similar decision.

They ruled that Trump's behavior on January 6th and 2021 qualified him as an insurrectionist and that under the 14th Amendment an insurrectionist

can't serve as a government officer. Thus far no other state had agreed with them

until this. This is something that I did not choose to do but that I was obligated to do

under main law and the Constitution. When Maine Secretary of State Chena Bellows

ruled that he would be left off the primary ballot.

The Trump campaign dismissed it as a partisan decision, but regardless, it did several things

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