it s good to be back with you for this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, nikki haley says she s staying in, but will her donors stay with her? what s next for her as trump touts a powerful south carolina fire wall. tragedy overseas, a shocking video of the moment a russian plane crashes, killing dozens of ukrainian prisoners of war. why the kremlin is now blaming kyiv. plus, new evidence of how the war in gaza is impacting president biden s reelection bid. jill and i had a chance to sit down. how many kids [ chanting four more years ] and senator bob menendez says the fbi knocked down his doors and ransacked his home. his new fight to suppress evidence in the federal bribery case. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in south carolina, where the next competitive gop contest takes place. nbc s ali vitali is there. how confident is haley that the donors will stick with her that she can afford to stay in?
last year amy klobuchar said she would support impeachment beginning now and the house was on the right track with investigation. klobuchar released her 100-day plan today laying out a number of actions she plans to take if she wins the white house. we have more on that coming up. democratic senator and candidate for president joins me now. thanks. you re always smile when you come on this show and i appreciate that. well, you re fun to listen to. i think the calendar is moving. the older i get, the faster the calendar moves, i got to tell you. all of the sudden it s going to be july, it s going to be august. do you think there is enough time to begin an impeachment unless we start fairly soon? the house is doing its investigation, chris. yeah. as you point out on your show, they re going to hear from critical witness this week. i know they re still pushing to get mueller. i personally think they should subpoena robert mueller to testify. but i can tell you one thing we c
all this stuff will coalesce very quickly as calendar moves along. on the 20th of february in south carolina republicanshold their primary. a week after that democrats hold primary on 27th. we ll see whether or not it matters and a game between sanders and clinton on that point. bottom line, we re on 6th of january, where will we be at end of february for both candidates? seven 1/2 weeks of good stuff. nine 1/2 minutes past the hour. martha: stay tuned. meantime north korea s claim of conducting a hydrogen bomb test has sparked strong condemnation from the international community. the policy chief of the european union saying such a test ordered by north korea s leader would represent a threat to the peace and security of the entire region. nato s secretary-general calling this a clear breach of u.n. security council resolutions which they have done three times before this and nobody really batted an eyelash.
attack mitt romney and now gone to a crucial bellwether region. reporter: no question about it. the 16 time for that swing state, the commonwealth of pennsylvania since he became president. the eighth this year alone. i thought that speech was very interesting for a number of reasons. oxley specifically it is about this coming battle to extend the pay roll tax cut. but that isn t much of a battle. everyone agrees it will be extended. the president wants to cut it in half. not only for employees but employers as well. would it cost a lot of money and there in as they say lies the rub. it is how you pay for it. the senate will put a bill on the floor that would charge a surtax to people making more than a million a year. this speech was broadly political. as the calendar moves toward november of next year, the line between politics and policy gets ever more blurry. the president using aspirational imagery, talking about the values of hard work and fair