Handful of swing states, its potentially those specific voters who will decide who wince. But maybe a better question to ask, who is the voter who voted for donald trump in 2020 but does not want to vote for him again in 2024. The New York Times and nbc have identified a batch of these very voters as have election pac Republican Voters against trump. Heres what some of them have to say. For the first time in over 50 year of voting in president ial elections, i will not vote republican. Im a twotime trump voter. Donald trump has shown that he has no regard for the laws of this country. Biden may not have policy that i agree with, but i know that democracy will be saved under biden. I voted for trump in the past elections. I cannot do it now. Trump is a gutless coward. Who would last five minutes in a combat zone. His character does not suit the presidency. I will no longer be voting for President Trump. Because trump wants to act like a dictator. At first listen, it sounds like great ne
a hamas leader linked to the october 7th massacre. all of this escalating as the conflict could become a regional war. also, with less than two weeks before the iowa caucuses, the race for the white house kicks into gear with top trump challengers. and president biden returning from vacation to face new challenges, as he plans to hit the road with a retooled re-election message. and i ll be joined by the premium ambassador to the united states, after a new year began there with a barrage of deadly strikes against kyiv and kharkiv, and no agreement with continued u.s. military aid. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. tensions are growing throughout the wider middle east today, stoking international fears that the israel hamas war is now spilling far beyond gaza s borders. more than 100 people, including children, are dead after two explosions in iran ripped through crowds commemorating general souleymane. he was the prominent ahead of the revolutionary
morning. morning joe starts right now. it s the top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel s ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we re going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. new york times investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were warned about. also ahead, a look at the long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were simply not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight timeline to rule on what would be one of the most consequential cases involving the presidency. we ll get expert, legal analysis on the issue of removing donald trump from the ballot in two states. are there going
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
nicolle wallace. all of the president s men, or in this case, four times indicted ex-presidents with notorious outliers and enablers. rudy giuliani is in court, a jury is deliberating for a second day on that right now, as soon as there is news from the courtroom, we re going to head right to our reporter in washington. and, of course, mark meadows, trump s former chief of staff turned codefendant in the interference case. he s he heart of the sprawling, high octane racketeering case brought by fanni willis, a case that s spooked meadows so badly, that he s using every oce of his firepower to get it moved to federal court, arguing everything he did was part of his official job as chief of staff. specifically, he s trying to dust off a 234-year-old federal statute which allows officials charged with state crimes to transfer them to federal court if the alleged criminal behavior was carried out as part of that person as official duties. meadows argues he was acting as trump