campaign is going to be unlike any other. yes, the new hampshire primary was a decisive win for donald trump. the kind of win that squashes any momentum for his one remaining challenger nikki haley. but buried in the results are also some very hard truths about americans views of donald trump, trumpism and the state of our democracy. as the bull work put it today, nikki haley has beaten donald trump in iowa. two groups of voters would be deciding the presidential nomination. the first group is a republican primary and caucus voters who acknowledge that tmp legitimately lost the 2020 presidential election. the second group, which overlaps with the first, is republican primary and caucus voters who accept that if trump were to be convicted of a crime, it would be unfit to serve as president. exit polling from nbc news shows that while the republican base may have stuck with trump, just 13% of hah lee voters said they would be satisfied with trump s winning the gop nomination.
good morning. 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific, i m jose diaz-balart alongside my colleague ana cabrera. for a second hour of coverage, donald trump back on the attack after beating nikki haley in the new hampshire primary. haley insisting she will not drop out with her focus now fixed on her home state of south carolina. but first, the race heads to nevada. this is an unusual one. why trump and haley won t be competing there head to head. meanwhile, president biden easily wins new hampshire s democratic primary. we got exclusive new reporting that he could pick up a major new endorsement as soon as today. and today, former president donald trump is now one step closer to the republican nomination for the white house after winning the new hampshire primary. trump s victory marks the first time a nonincumbent republican swept both iowa and new hampshire since 1976. his opponent former u.n. ambassador nikki haley by 11 points. but minutes after the race was call
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
ex-president it is explosive reporting from the washington post. there s this saying when it comes to donald trump and his slogan, remember the one on the hats, make america great again, that what maga said make attorneys get attorneys. the late breaking news from the washington post proves this case that now donald trump s attorneys appear to be in special counsel jack smith s cross hairs including some of the most notorious ones. federal prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election have asked witnesses extension sieve questions about the actions of rudy giuliani, including where he got his information about alleged fraud, what he did in the days around january 6th and what he knew about the actions coming that day. people who have appeared in front of the grand jury say. investigators looking into classified documents pertaining to mar-a-lago have sought testimony from another trump lawyer, ben cork ran saying there is evidence that the former president u
girlfriend s abortion. a woman who asked not to be identified out of privacy concerns tells the daily beast that after she and walker conceived a child while they were dating in 2009, he urged her to get an abortion. the woman said she had the procedure and walker reimbursed her for it. she supported these claims with a $575 receipt from the abortion clinic, a get well card from walker and a bank deposit received that included an image of a signed $700 personal check from walker. the daily beast independently corroborated details of the woman s claims, but a close friend who she told at the time and who, according to the woman and the friend who took care of her in the days after the procedure, walker who has likened abortion to murder and called for a total ban on the procedure even in cases of rape and incest and the life of the mother is denying the allegations, calling it a, quote, flat-out lie. nbc news has not independently verified the allegations or seen the docum