good morning. it s saturday, february the 3rd. i m ali velshi. the israel, gaza war continues. it s steady creep outward, threatening to explode into a widespread regional conflict or worse at any moment. now, the united states has upped the ante, conducting what the biden administration says is the first in a series of strategic retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed proxy forces operating in iraq and syria. and their iranian handlers operating alongside them. these groups are among those responsible for more than 160 tags on u.s. troops in the region since the october 7th attack on israel. that include last sunday s deadly attack on tower 22. it s a u.s. base in the extreme northeast corner of jordan. right near the border with iraq and syria. more than 40 u.s. service members were wounded and three u.s. soldiers died in that attack. 24-year-old specialist, kennedy sanders, was posthumously promoted to sergeant. 46-year-old sergeant, william jerome rivers, and 23 year o
that mass shooting in philadelphia last night. at least five people are dead, two injured after a gunman wearing body armor opened fire in a southwest philly neighborhood. the two injured victims are 2 and 13 years old according to police. police say they believe they have the suspect in custody, but are trying to establish a motive. what s the latest? reporter: details still emerging this morning. initially, police had said four people were shot and killed. all of them dead. we are learning there s a fifth victim, another man that was found in a nearby home. police saying this crime scene was expansive, several blocks. they apprehended a 40-year-old man after this mass shooting that now we know seven people were shot at, including two young children, a 2-year-old and a 13-year-old. police say this suspect was heavily armed, carrying an ar-15-style rifle, a handgun, wearing a bulletproof vest and had a police scanner. they say they followed him into an alley where he surren
president biden kicks off a key endorsement. then, the former president also looking for a showdown in court, where he could testify as early as tomorrow. and what business leaders are thinking as they brace for a potential trump nomination, as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening, once again i m stephanie ruhle, live from msnbc headquarters here in new york city. today, donald trump and joe biden are making a serious pivot towards a general election. nikki haley says she is still in the race after trump s double digit win in new hampshire last night. haley is already looking ahead to south carolina s primary, that is one month away. it s haley s home turf, she was born and raised there and served as governor for six years. tonight in charleston, she went after donald trump and challenged him to a good old fashioned debate. bring it donald, show me what you got. the political elites in the state and around the country have said that
he s testifying for for the first time. he could not say, for instance, that he never assaulted e. jean carroll when another court of law established that he did. you stand by it, trump, 100% yes, habba, do you deny the allegations. trump, i consider it a false accusation, he said. judge kaplan, that answer is stricken from the record. habba, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll. trump, i just wanted to defend myself, my family, and frankly, the presidency. joining us now, msnbc legal analyst, she was inside that courtroom, lisa rubin. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. that was the defense asking donald trump all of three questions, one of which was stricken. it then went to the prosecution. tell me what happened then. reporter: katy, first of all, those three questions, two of the answers were partially stricken. i heard yeses and noes to those questions before donald trump attempted
affirmative action and college admissions calling the policy on constitutional decision came after a case was brought in front of harvard in the case of north carolina. our reporter has the details. a landmark decision from a bitterly divided supreme court, rejecting the use of race as we know it in college admissions, chief johnson to conclude programs at harvard and the university of north carolina violated the law, riding the schools unavoidably a cloyed race in a negative manner involved racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful and points. the polarizing stigmatizing and on fair jurisprudence that allowed colleges and universities to use a students race and ethnicity as a factor to either admit them or reject them has been overruled. praise there from the architect of the lawsuits, the schools were accused of giving substantial preferences to black and hispanic applicants while discriminating against asian students. what this lawsuit reveals is that personality