donald trump another chance. i ve had disagreements with donald trump such as on the coronavirus and anthony fauci, trump is sue pure yore to the current joe biden. it s now officially a two-person race for the republican nomination. with ron desantis ending his disappointing campaign, dropping out, and then promptly endorsing donald trump. we ll go through this major shakeup and preview tomorrow s primary in new hampshire. also ahead, an update on the border deal that includes critical aid for ukraine. president joe biden is challenging speaker mike johnson and house republicans to act on what he hopes will be a bipartisan package. plus, we ll go through the latest developments out of israel where there are growing calls for a leadership change now four months into the war against hamas. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. he was once seen as potentially the m
it, with a republican primary dominated by an ex-president who has centered his candidacy around his legal woes, look no further. this morning donald trump, fresh off a decisive win in the iowa caucuses, was at a federal courthouse in manhattan as the defendant in a second defamation trial brought by the writer e. jean carroll. this time there s no question of whether trump defamed her. judge kaplan has ruled trump is liable for remarks he made in 2019 mocking carroll s claim that he sexually assaulted her in a chance encounter at a department store dressing room in the 1990s. and trump is not allowed to dispute carroll s account. the question now is how much a jury should award e. jean carroll in damage for those comments. opening statements are currently under way. we ll have a live report from the courthouse when the trial wraps from the day. so far, donald trump was in the courtroom. alongside his lawyer, alina habba, as well as e. jean carroll and her attorneys. the firs
i m alycia menendez in for nicolle wallace. from the president, a reminder of the stakes in the next election and an existential question, the president asking all americans, who are we? cited valley forge and on the each of the third anniversary of the january 6th attack, the president describing democracy as a sacred cause and the central issue of the 2024 election. this is not rhetorical, ak dem academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy s question is the most urgent question of our time. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you. donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he s willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. our campaign is different. for me and kamala, our campaign is about america. it s about you. it s about every age and background that occupy this country. the speech today another episode in what has become one of the biggest themes in the biden presidency. president biden ha
ahead. possible indictment of a former president trump. wall street journal is today reporting this, that special counsel jack smith has all but finished obtaining his evidence into whether donald trump mishandled evidence at the mar-a-lago. and some of the trump close associates are bracing for his indictment. they say that clashes within the trump legal team have led to the departure of a delawyer. and the wall street journal goes on to report that jack smith appears to be tying up loose ends saying in recent weeks prosecutors working for smith have completed interviews with nearly every employee at trump s florida home from top aides to maintenance staff. they have pressed witnesses on questions that appear to hone in on specific elements that they need to show to include a crime. and questions aimed at undermining potential defenses that trump could raise reports are that the special counsel as assembled evidence and much of that appears to obliterate many ofhe argume
can try and make that argument. the challengers might say this collateral estoppel, you ve litigated this in one court, you don t get another bite at the apple. it will get pretty technical and probably too hard to resolve on this video discussion right now. it strikes me that we have this breaking news about the supreme court choosing to hear president trump s 14th amendment appeal as you have president biden making one of the most important speeches of his political career, talking about the stakes of this election and defining those stakes as democracy itself. connect those dots for us between what we heard today from president biden and the decision we got today from the supreme court. i think the way to connect that is the way that ian did earlier in your show, which is, regardless of what the supreme court does, obviously this is a