well, it s been one of those weekends where we kind of need for hours to talk about everything that has happened. we will do our best to fit it all into one. on friday night, there is a much anticipated round of retaliatory airstrikes against iranian- backed militias. serious as there are more on the way. there is nobody better to talk to the national security advisor jake sullivan. he will join me in just a few minutes. there is also a big development this weekend, jack smith s election interference case as it slid off of the calendar. in large part, we still don t have a decision on trump s should we be freaking out? should we not be freaking out? everybody s favorite cocktail is going to tell us how we should be feeling. and later this hour, we will shocking level of hypocrisy for republicans in the house this week. congressman dan goldman has certainly not held back in calling it out. i m looking forward to breaking it all down with him. and later, president biden won
good evening, everyone. i am ayman mohyeldin. is seven pm here on the east coast, which means the polls are now officially close. tonight s primary contests, marking the first official primary for democrats and in the first time that president joe biden s name appeared on a ballot this election season. now, alongside him on the ballot, democratic rivals, congressman dean phillips and marianne williamson. steve kornacki is live for us from washington prepared to break down the results for us. any moment now, as soon as we get them. however, to be clear, the nights outcome is all but decided. biden stands as the overwhelming favorite tonight in the state. and what we really want to watch out for you tonight is how many delegates he leaves south carolina with. a total of 55 will be awarded proportionally based on tonight s outcome. a candidate needs a total of nearly 2000 delegates to capture the democratic nomination. meanwhile, breaking news overseas tonight. the u.s. and uk l
welcome back to the weekend everyone. this morning, the world is reacting to new round of airstrikes from the united states and the middle east. last night, the united states and united kingdom targeted houthi rebels and iran-backed militant group in yemen. the government says they struck 36 targets and 13 locations across the country. all of this comes just one day after a separate series of very consequential strikes by the united states targeting iran- backed militias militants in iraq and in syria. let s get right to an msnbc news correspondent, matt riley, in tel aviv. thank you for being with us this morning. matt, these airstrikes and these retaliatory met, these airstrikes and retaliatory strikes, how do they complicate things for secretary blinken as he heads to the region? well, i think that this is a perfect timing for secretary blinken. and what he will be doing, he ll be coming here to israel. he ll also be going to places like egypt, saudi arabia. these
mother. she was the most amazing woman i had ever met in my life. and then, suddenly, one day, she was gone poisoned by carbon monoxide. he was like i couldn t get a pulse, i couldn t get a pulse. her husband blamed of faulty water heater, police blamed him. you don t think this is an accident? no. there was one problem, and it was a big one, no one could figure out exactly how he might have done it. he s an expert in gases, he s analyses urologist. murder or an accident. did you kill your wife? hello, and welcome to dateline, hundreds of americans die every year from accidental carbon monoxide poisoning, but according to police in ohio, one of those deaths wasn t an accident, it was murder, and they say if anyone would know how to use a deadly gas to murder someone, it was their prime suspects. here is kate snow with deadly exposure. reporter: he s come back to where it all began, to the town, the streets he knew so well, remembering the old times
fox news alert. president biden just reacting to a damning special counsel report, a report that called him an elderly man with a poor memory. the special counsel released their findings today about their look into my handling of classified documents. i was pleased to see they reached the conclusion i believe they knew all along they would come of there are no charges should be brought in this case. [applause] as many of you know, this was an exhaustive investigation. going back literally more than 40 years. 40 years, when i became a united states senator, i was a kid. [laughter] i was a kid. 29 years old. bottom line is the special counsel, in my case, decided against moving forward with any charges. this matter is now closed. dana: the special counsel releasing his long-awaited classified documents report. robert hur is his name and he is not recommending criminal charges, but he laid out how the president willfully retained and disclosed highly-classified materials whe