already struggling to wages war on ukraine. we have a live report what this means for the kremlin and will sit down exclusively with the key member of the senate foreign relations committee. democrat ben cardin to ask what the u.s. knows and how we should respond. plus we will ask about critics is a president biden is a bungling the u.s. relationship with china. and we will debut a brand-new survey from the reagan institute on how americans really feel about the u.s. position on the global stage. then, when you re after the dobbs decision states make bold moves on abortion and some candidates draw a line. the supreme court of the united states set roe versus wade to the ash heap of history where it belongs. former vice president mike pence calls were 2024 test on one of the nation s most divisive issues. asks for his rivals to join him. i did this call and every other candidate. for the republican nomination to support a minimum standard of 15 week band too. pence joi
they will most likely still lose i polling is any indication, we don t know. they could lose by a historic margin to a front runner, who, let s be, clear has spent more time in court attending his civil fraud trial this week than he has in the state of iowa. even if now it feels inevitable we ve come to this, it was not inevitable. it really wasn t. there was a time in winter 2020, one after january 6th, when donald trump was being impeached for inciting the capitol insurrection, his approval rating hit an all-time. low it looked like very well be sent to do a period of political exile. then he came back, the 2022 midterms, the elections worked out poorly for most trump endorsed candidates. he backed losers in a ton of winnable races and there seemed to be a daunting wherein us in the republican party that he was politically toxic. in 2024 could be a wide open race for republicans. all those folks gotta because if i was beautiful. not now. trump is polling at 54%, or 30 point
things, need a thick skin to be president. sandra: that s all for us. john: the story with martha in iowa starts right now. martha: good afternoon, everybody. via martha maccallum maccallum and this is the story live in freezing, snowy des moines, iowa, the center of the political world for the next few days during the iowa caucuses which happened on monday. today my camping trail interviews with nikki haley and ron desantis coming up on the story. but first, this. the pentagon says that the united states does expect iran-back to houthis will retaliate. that after the united states and allies carried out massive strikes last evening against the group in yemen. take a listen now to this new threat as articulated a short time ago, watch. this rally is the first to condemn this aggression against the republic of yemen last night. it is also a message to britain and the united states of america in particular that they will pay a heavy price for this aggression. these
yesterday s hearings. expert legal analysis straight ahead on all of that. meanwhile the former president is floating another birther conspiracy. we ll tell you who he is targeting this time and on capitol hill, how republicans will hold two hearings today focused on hunter biden and homeland security secretary mayorkas. we ll have reporting on that. plus, the new developments out of the middle east following secretary of state blinken s meeting yesterday in israel, the two sides appear to be at odds over plans for a post-war gaza. and days after a mid-air explosion on a boeing max 9 jet, the ceo is acknowledging the company s mistakes. we ll have the latest on that investigation and the very latest on secretary of defense austin and what is going on with his health. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it s a very busy wednesday, january 10th. joe? yeah, it s very busy, as far as boeing goes, not a great stretch that if your plane blow aparts in mid-air you take respo
with you, my friend. an hour that is yet to be disclosed. i can t wait to see you again. i never have enough. in a little bit, see you. thank you to you at home for joining me this evening. the republican primary field has won thus canada as of this evening. former new jersey governor chris christie has officially dropped out of the race. it s clear to me tonight that there is not the path for me to one denomination. which is why, i am suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. i know, and i can see it from the faces here, that i and people by doing this. people who believe in our message and what we have been doing. i also know though, it s the right thing for me to do, because i want to promise you this, i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again, and that is more important than my own personal ambition. christy made a number of big statements about the state of the republic