pandemic that affected so many lives and dragged him down in the eyes of americans who concluded they failed when faced with that all-important task. as for trump, he said at the time he did not see the emergency as his test of a lifetime. was there a moment in all of this last two months where you said to yourself, ah, this is the leadership test of a lifetime? no. no. and no hesitation. now, that is a small part of one of trump s newsworthy interviews with bob woodward conducted across the outbreak of the pandemic and 2020 campaign. 20 interviews across that stretch. trump sometimes making the calls, something he apparently now regrets. the former president is suing woodward, we should note, over publishing these interviews that he agreed to. any legal expert say trump would be likely to lose based on the law. we published the interviews in the trump tapes , his assessment that trump is a unique danger to network. that conclusion goes parter quite frankly than much o
is this a moment of jeopardy for rishi sunak? tonight, the prime minister has lost two deputy chairman and one ministerial aid, and 58 of his own mps voted against him. has he lost his grip on his party? i ve been talking to one mp on the right of the party who defied the three line whip today. if we don t succeed in making the bill work and providing an effective deterrent that stops people setting off across the english channel illegally, then we will not be able to win the election. so, how much trouble is the pm s flagship policy in, if any? we ll discuss with two people in the know. also tonight, donald trump was the runaway winner of the iowa caucus. is he invincible? what donald trump has achieved here is remarkable. he is a phenomenon, especially when you consider that his attempt to overturn an election and unprecedented legal troubles do not seem to have dented the devotion of his supporters. and a mea culpa from fujitsu. we did have bugs and errors in the system, a
the woman at the heart of the post office scandal says she ll hand in her cbe but what s the plan for victims? on newsnight tonight, we hear from several former sub postmasters of south asian heritage who believe discrimination at the hands of the post office compounded their suffering. with my parents, because their english is very broken, people would get quite abrupt with them. so you re saying racism, in your mind, was at play? certainly with my parents. an mp who was also a sub postmasterjoins us does he see a plan forjustice for all the victims? also tonight, newsnight has seen nhs documents that say a student s life could have been saved had doctors at a brighton hospital acted sooner, yet an inquest concluded only yesterday there was nothing to trigger further investigation. we ll have an exclusive report. in washington, donald trump has been arguing that he should be exempt from prosecution. ifeel that, as a president, you have to have immunity, very simple. and if
grindavik, that s in southwestern iceland. they are evacuating in the face of nearby this follows a series of all small earthquakes and powerful eruptions last month. donald trump going after vivek ramaswamy, not over policy, rather rhetoric. actually not rhetoric, actually it s over a t-shirt. that story in just a moment. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest on the iowa caucus is now just one day away. five candidates on the home stretch braving frigid temperatures today, crisscrossing nine cities to convince voters to bundle up and go out in sub-zero temperatures at caucus time tomorrow night. in the new nbc des moines register media com poll confirms donald trump s dominant league and his supporters are bearing that out, facing down the elements to hear him speak today. in fact, nbc s vaughn hillyard has been talking to them about the determination to show up. i
tonight on the reidout there s something dangerous happening in america. there s an extremist movement that does not share the basic beliefs in our democracy. all of us are being asked right now, what will we do to maintain our democracy? history is watching. the world is watching. president biden s powerful new ad on the trump threat to democracy amid new polling that shows a shocking number of americans don t believe what they saw with their own eyes on january 6th. plus, two new challenges to trump s place on the ballot. this time in florida and illinois. as a deadline looms for the u.s. supreme court to decide on his disqualification in colorado. also tonight, the scandal that the republican-led oversight committee won t be investigating. the millions of dollars trump raked in from foreign governments while he was president. we begin tonight with the 2024 election cycle that s already under way. nearly three years after a heavily armed trump incited mob atta