Trump appeals Maine decision barring him from ballot

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Former President Donald Trump has asked a Maine court to overturn the secretary of state’s decision to remove him from the 2024 primary ballot there because of his role in the U.S. Capitol insurrection on January 6, 2021. Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows joins Anderson to talk about Trump's appeal. Republican presidential candidate and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie joins Anderson to discuss Trump’s legal fight in Maine, the state of play in the 2024 GOP primary, and the new charges against New Jersey Democratic Senator Menendez. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Tonight on 360, breaking news just days after Maine Secretary of State kicked him off the ballot,
0:06.3	the former president takes her to court, I'll get her reaction tonight.
0:09.4	Also, Chris Christie joins me with the Iowa Caucus is growing closer and any challengers chances seeming to grow slimmer. This
0:15.0	Christy joins me with the Iowa Caucus is growing closer and any challengers
0:15.0	and later you've likely seen the Japanese airliner engulfed in flames.
0:18.0	Five people were killed on the smaller plane it hit.
0:21.0	New details tonight on how every single one of the nearly 400 people on the airliner
0:25.3	got out alive.
0:26.3	Good evening, thanks for joining us.
0:28.3	We begin with breaking news at the start of a year which will be unlike any in American
0:32.1	political legal and constitutional
0:33.6	history. A former president running for office again facing 91 federal and state
0:37.8	felony charges also facing two civil trials and fighting efforts in several states to remove him from the ballot.
0:45.0	That's where we start tonight with his attorneys late today asking a court to overturn
0:49.2	Maine Secretary of State Shenanabellos' decision to remove him from the ballot because of his
0:54.2	role in the January 6th insurrection. We're also waiting for his appeal on a similar case in
0:58.4	Colorado and a filing tonight on the question of whether a former president can even be prosecuted for actions
1:04.2	taken while in office. In addition the former president is also spinning fresh
1:08.3	conspiracies about his legal troubles online, all of this with the Iowa
1:12.3	concussions now less than two weeks away.
1:15.0	Welcome to 2024.
1:16.4	We're going to speak with one of his challengers shortly from New Jersey Governor and
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