This weekend, all eyes are on the battle for gop delegates as donald trump wins the republican caucuses today in idaho and missouri. The former president also swept michigans chaotic and somewhat complicated caucuses, winning an overwhelming majority in each of the states 13 congressional districts. In the end, trump wrapped up the states after winning the states primary earlier this week. In missouri, nbc news projects donald trump the, winner of the republican caucuses, when all of the states 54 delegates. Over in idaho, donald trump won 32 delegates that were all up for grabs. As for donald trump, he is not in any of the caucusing states today. Hes instead on the stump in virginia and North Carolina, clearly feeling that momentum ahead of Super Tuesday. Over the past few weeks weve been on a rocket to the republican nomination. Its been a rocket. Lets not forget about nikki haley. Her campaign, also in North Carolina today, stumping ahead of Super Tuesday, despite todays outcomes in
Politicians nation. Tonights lead, order in the court. The third week of Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial here in manhattan ended with one of his closest former president ial aides on the stand tearfully recounting her memories of the alleged payout to Stormy Daniels and how trumps comments about groping women sent his 2016 campaign into the kind of panic mode. Also tonight, many of americas colleges and universities are grappling with how to move forward with commencements as Campus Demonstrations continue over the war in gaza and u. S. Involvement in the conflict. President biden has called for restraint from all sides as interactions between protesters, counterprotesters, and Police Forces have grown violent in some places. And arrests now number in the thousands. We start with the epicenter of the unrest just a few miles from here at Columbia University in new york city with one of the schools most prominent graduates joining me now in studio, congressman gerald, democrat of new york
we will get the thoughts tonight of our panel, democratic strategist ameisha cross and tom peck, the political sketch writer for the independent. in new york state, the democratic governor breaks ranks, blaming the white house for a migrant crisis in her cities. plenty of crossover with the debate here in the uk. also tonight, a black box has been recovered from the plane crash that we assume killed the wagner boss yevgeny prighozin. the kremlin said today they are not responsible. good evening. donald trump is the only us president to have ever posed for a mugshot, an image that becomes instantly iconic. in short order, he had posted it on x, the site formerly known as twitter, with the words, election interference. never surrender! which is, of course, richly ironic given that he has now surrendered to the authorities in four differentjurisdictions. what has taken place here is a travesty ofjustice. we did nothing wrong. i did nothing wrong, and everybody knows it.