caucus day, and it has some beef with new hampshire s primary. he is sidelining it, why? congresswoman barbara lee is here to read between the lines for us. and there is a nationwide uptake in swatting s across the country. what is behind these criminal hoaxes, and how do we rein them in? i am a man with a dean, let s do it. after months of speculation, polling, punditry over the 2024 race for the white house, we are now hours away from the first contest of the election season. tomorrow at seven pm local time, about 24 hours from right now, voters in iowa will be asked to brave what appears to be the coldest caucus day in decades. and according to the last and final poll before caucus day, a new nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his commanding lead over his rivals. that is not unexpected. right now, 48% of likely caucus goers say the twice impeached, and quadruple indicted ex president has their vote. that is an almost 30 point lead over forme
last des moines register poll a flurry of final campaign events. it s all totally normal, except for the minor detail that the front runner is a four times indicted wannabe dictator. his whites. two of my favorite political experts are standing by as we countdown to tomorrow s iowa caucus. plus, congressman adam schiff here with reaction to trump s wild argument for presidential immunity. also today, the law from neal katyal on the intimidation and harassment facing basically every and later, my day in delaware at biden campaign headquarters. as democrats freak out ahead of the general election, i ll talk to some of the brains behind the biden strategy. well, it s finally here. the first contents of the 2024 election cycle. just about 31 hours from now, caucus goers in iowa brave record cold conditions. i m talking sub-zero temperatures with life-threatening wind chills, the cast their votes for the candidate of their choice. and last night, we ve got our best prediction
history. you can fill in the crisp cold air as we speak. i remember as a kid watching a guy nobody knew by the name of jimmy carter with this very state. not realizing at the time he had actually technically place a second to uncommitted but it was good enough to launch a white house career. that was then. think of all of the election since and the expectations that did not pan out. barack obama was not supposed to win in this lily white state but he did. and all of the others who are expected to do very well and did not. the last three republican winners in the iowa caucuses never went on to actually win the nomination or the white house. that is the thing about original expectations. they don t always pan out. that s it make the caucus date so unpredictable. history has a way of humbling you. many say iowa could do it again. even if it doesn t we will keep you waiting and wondering, and nailbiting. that is iowa. [cheering] like a big day coming up. i think too much going to
is money. would you ever allow a shutdown in the future? a shutdowns in terms of covid? i let the governors make their decisions, some of them from south carolina, you know and frankly, north dakota a few of them tennessee, they didn t shut down at all. florida did shut down, ron desantis shut down, or ron desanctimonious as he is known. he shut his state down, very violently down. he shut the highways down. donald trump criticizing ron dissents for his response to the covid-19 pandemic at a town hall last night at iowa, it aired on fox news. that happened not too far where desantis was on with former u.n. ambassador nikki haley at a debate that trump chose not to attend. republican presidential governor ron desantis joins us now from altoona iowa. what happened yesterday, as you are well aware. i m looking at this fat check for march 1st 2020, the headline is. trump praises florida governor despite criticism of coronavirus response. he called you a great governor. i ac
i think we need to look beyond the next four years and make a commitment you keep it in this country. that is what it means to have a president who actually has a spider. i could see myself putting my support behind desantis. got several five year old president preble win these battles for you. would be hard for him to convince me other than nikki haley progressive new a new genegenerational leader the sovereign focus on the path to correct some caucusing for president trump are going to think you look at joe biden as a bedlam. you have a vendor cannot lead too. they think we are a flyover state we want to get our voice heard we will get out. ibrexit selection eat and ioa in baby it is cold outside. caucus scaucus scores are such e dangerously cold temperatures so they can cast the very first in the 2024 election. who knows where we will be in the end but good afternoon everybody. good morning to those here in iowa or west of the mississippi. i am built here in des mo