If it's Wednesday, Colorado's highest court disqualifies former President Trump from appearing

on the state's presidential primary ballot for engaging in the January 6th insurrection.

Plus, NBC News exclusive reporting on Chinese President

Shejin Ping's blunt and private warning to President Biden last month

that he's planning to retake Taiwan

without a military confrontation.

And a record surge of migrant crossings at the southern border

shows no signs of slowing down.

I'll speak with the leader of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus

with lawmakers now aiming to strike an immigration deal in the 2024 election

after Colorado's highest court barred Donald Trump from appearing on that state's

presidential primary ballot. In an explosive four to three decision late yesterday,

the state Supreme Court ruled that the former president and current Republican

front runner violated the 14th Amendment's insurrection clause

and was therefore disqualified from holding the office of

president. The court's Democratic majority found that quote

president Trump did not merely incite the January 6th insurrection even

when the siege on the capital was fully underway, he continued

to support it. These actions constituted overt, voluntary, and direct participation

in the insurrection. The court put its own ruling on pause to allow for an appeal to the

Supreme Court which the Trump team says it plans to do. President Biden addressed

the court's decision today on his way to an event in Wisconsin.

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