is focused on legal appeals, not campaign promises. plus joe biden, what he plans to say to voters but where he will go to say it. and with time running out for nikki haley and ron desantis to take down trump, why won t either of them hit the former president where it could hurt? good morning. i m kasie hunt. it is wednesday, january 3. 5:00 a.m. here in washingtonen a also 5:00 a.m. up in maine where donald trump s legal team just struck back on their battle to stay on the ballot. they appealed the ruling by sheena bellows that disqualified him for maine s gop ballot under the 14th amendment insurrection ban. trump s lawyers arguing that bellows was a biassed decision maker with no legal authority. here is bellows late last night on cnn. i think it is important to note my sole obligation is the oath i swore to up hold the constitution and follow maine election laws. i was duty bound by maine election laws which require this process of holding a hearing and issuing a de
killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. we re going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. good morning, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you this morning. we re going to begin in iran in the city of care monowhere just within the last couple of hours two explosions killed 100 people and injured nearly 150 people at the memorial site for ha sam soleimani. he was the head of the revolutionary guard corps. i want to bring in ali arouzi in tehran to talk more about this. this morning iran saying more than 100 people were killed in these blasts. what do we know? reporter: yeah, i mean, this just broke a few hours ago, yasmin, as you said. w
of msnbc, a tsunami warning in japan after earthquakes erupted off the west coast. the 7.6 quake causing mass blackouts and crippling communications. first responders are racing against the clock to locate the injured. plus, the israel-hamas war expected to go on for many more months as the first major drawdown of troops since the war began. what the next phase of the war will look like. former president trump s legal battles in the new year, what his appeal could look like after he was removed from colorado and maine, and the the latest on the slew of high stakes trials set to begin this year. happy new year to you. it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m frances rivera reporting from new york city. we start with breaking news out of western japan where a powerful earthquake hit overnight disrupting kplun communications. as tsunami warnings rang up and down japan s western coast. now, japanese officials are warning the aftershocks could continue for up to a week. we want to brin
particular smell on the money. the bank said they would take back taped together bills that had the full serial numbers of visible on the front. the couple sifted through his droppings with gloves and washed the money they found. in the end, they recovered an impressive $3,550. carrie said, i never thought i would be able to say i have laundered money, but there it is, apparently up first-time for everything. i don t know, maybe cecil should stick to dog biscuits next time. that is a ridiculous story that i hope you get to tell your kids in the morning, and on that note i wish you a very, very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late with me, i will see you again tomorrow. i m ali velshi in for alex wagner. ron desantis described it as a crisis at war. donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today, trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines regi
wagner. ron desantis described it as a crisis at war. donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today, trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they, and they alone, can t fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these offices, neither actually fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actually immigration policies. but they are the sort of plans you can tell people that you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be the most painful process possible. they want to set new records in deportations. again, none of that really addresses any of the root causes of migration, for the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it s a plan around which republicans