presidential election. the first american election with a front-runner indicted for conspiring to steal the last one. dividing his time between the campaign trail and the courtroom. i think he s got a lot going on. i think the d.c. circuit will rule against him. in the frigid cold. the coldest in modern history. temperatures so low, they bring new meaning to the term negative campaigning. republicans in iowa will make their choice. donald trump is a threat to democracy. tonight, special election coverage, with joy reid, chris hayes, alex wagner, ari melber, jen psaki, lawrence o donnell, stephanie ruhle, plus campaign experts and steve kornacki with results and analysis at the big board. once every four years the big one. msnbc s special coverage of the iowa republican caucus, the start of the 2024 presidential election, is right now. and here we go. ready or not. time to stop worrying about it. time to start actually doing it. good evening. i m rachel mad
the coverage. the new yorker cover with donald trump portray thed as a metal-wearing, goose-stepping nazi e soldier. trump continues to dominate the coverage as he did by doing an iowa town hall with fox news overshadowing at the same hour the ron desantis-nikki haley slug fest on cnn. and the former president generated wall the wall coverage by showing up in washington on his claim of immunity for actions in office; namely, challenging the last election. trump s presence in that courtroom which took him off the campaign trail just days before the iowa caucuses underscored the vindictiveness of the lawfare if being waged against him. why s he in court instead of campaigning? because donald trump being in court is the greatest bully pulpit for him where he can plaw fake. howard: trump wasn t required to be in court then or on thursday when he denounced the judge in his new york civil fraud trial, but he drew attention from his rivals whose iowa events are being buried by s
president. we re getting new information right now on the multiple fronts in this trump investigation. tonight, the u.s. justice department details systemic violations by the minneapolis police department, saying the problems of excessive force and racial discrimination led to the murder of george floyd. dozens of guilty verdicts against the gunman behind the 2018 massacre at a pittsburgh synagogue. now that a federal jury had its say, will the killer be sentenced to death? welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin this hour with a new request by the special counsel in the classified documents probe. the filing reflects prosecutpro fears donald trump might go public with information about the investigation. paula reed is joining us now. walk us through this protective order as it is called, this request. reporter: wolf, this is a request from prosecutors that we would expect in a ca
protesters calling a dystopian nightmare. if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they don t want to hear. are you worried about that rate going ahead? the shape of things to come? it is not whether the protesters were right or wrong, it s about the right to protest in the way they did, and is perfectly possible to think that the coronation was the most marvellous magical thing you ve ever seen but also to be extremely worried about this, or are they walls that divide us just too tall these days? are we to polarise? the protesters, the old dell have said sorry, is the hardest word are the easiest word the old bill. in moscow, hong kong, tehran, we want to know what it looks like to you, macclesfield, tonbridge, many other places. or is this all a bit hysterical? nothing to see here, move along? the police were ultra cautious, perhaps overcautious? now they are sorry. get in touch. here is your news. scotland yard says it has regrets about th
details. reporter: it is deeply troubling case, trace. first reported by the washington examiner, a grieving mom, tammy nobles looking frantic as to how an ms13 member entered the u.s. and stayed here and allegedly raped and murdered her daughter. came into her room and he started her. she called her boyfriend but it went to voice mail. the voice mail was two minute and 30 seconds of him strangling her. they think he raped her after she was dead. reporter: police in maryland where kayla hamilton was killed and learned the 17-year-old suspect was a gang member and had illegally entered into the u.s. last march. he was apprehended at the border and handed over to the department and health services. they are responsible for handling unaccompanied minor. it is not clear hhs knew at the time jim jordan is now demanding answers writing to homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas. the biden administration border and immigration policies increase the likelihood that those