jesse: no. you were booked. bret: thank you. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. we are come to you tonight live from bedford, new hampshire where citizens here and throughout the state have been voting all day long in the first of the nation primary election of the 2024 presidential cycle. former president donald trump had coming in to this day a commanding lead in the polls while on the democratic side president biden is not even on the ballot here. we will go over what we re learning from our fox news voter analysis, the early version in just a few minutes. but we have fox team coverage. bryan llenas in concord, new hampshire is following the nikki haley campaign. correspondent alexis mcadams starts us off from nashville with team trump. gogood evening, alexis. we did have a chance to catch up with the president here on the ground in new hampshire. he feels good going into primary night and feels like he has a lot of support here in the granite state. i asked him
Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
ron desantis dropped out a couple hours after last week s program after canceling interviews with me and other sunday shows. and then pundits pressing nikki haley why she was still running in new hampshire? look at the media saying oh, this is donald trump s to have. look at the political class all coalescing saying everybody needs to get out. howard: if they wanted the republican race over this minute. msnbc looking at exit polls kept talking up haley s chances. fantastic news for nikki haley s campaign in terms of her chances that night. howard: it took 13 minutes after the polls closed for fox and nbc followed by cnn to declare donald trump the winner. on iowa caucus night rachel maddow boasted msnbc would not air one word of a trump s victory speech because there was cost to us as news organization for unairing true things. msnbc flopped after critics like me called this blatant censorship. we ll see how it goes. this is decision one we consider to be open-ended liv
donald trump another chance. i ve had disagreements with donald trump such as on the coronavirus and anthony fauci, trump is sue pure yore to the current joe biden. it s now officially a two-person race for the republican nomination. with ron desantis ending his disappointing campaign, dropping out, and then promptly endorsing donald trump. we ll go through this major shakeup and preview tomorrow s primary in new hampshire. also ahead, an update on the border deal that includes critical aid for ukraine. president joe biden is challenging speaker mike johnson and house republicans to act on what he hopes will be a bipartisan package. plus, we ll go through the latest developments out of israel where there are growing calls for a leadership change now four months into the war against hamas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. he was once seen as potentially the m
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