tonight s special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence o donnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people for presidential candidates taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. also two of them are debating, tonight nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that final hour debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate who of course has refused to participate in any debates at all of this year, but
right now, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is at the white house meeting with president biden. a fierce standoff in congress over ukraine aid. biden wants to send an under 61 billion dollars to keep. house republicans will not sign off on more aid until they get a series of immigration measures passed in return. earlier today, zelenskyy met with members of the house and senate to try and persuade them to try and change some minds. he argues this political deadlock is a dream come true for vladimir putin. let s get to cnn s mj lee at the white house and moderate who s live for us on capitol hill. first to you, mj. biden and zelenskyy essentially see eye to eye on the issue of military aid. so what will they try to get accomplished during this meeting? reporter: boris, president biden and president zelenskyy may see eye to eye on this issue, but frankly it is not up to them. it is up to congress. right now, what we are seeing on capitol hill is a total impasse over
a german u-boat turned up in the a german submarine hit a sandbar 100 yards off the coast in long island in the hamptens in new york. and this german nazi submarine drops off four guys, four saboteurs. and we know they were saboteurs because they came ashore in a raft that was launched from that submarine. once they hit the beach they buried the raft. they also buried what they brought ashorebu with them, whi was a big cashe of explosives and detonators. and then they got away. that was mid-june 1942. a few days later, four days later another nazi submarine turned up elsewhere on the american east coast. this time it was in just outside jacksonville, florida. and again another german submarine, a german u-boat turned up offshore and dropped off another four guys, four more trained saboteurs. these were germans who had previously spent time living in the united states andnt they kn how to assimilate here. but they had in the meantime been brought back to nazi germany for speci
says iran s bid dictator. what is unbelievable is that trump, who is not exactly known for his restrained or self discipline would actually stop after day one. it s a significant disturbing escalation of rhetoric. just rhetoric, but it is an escalation for him because of how bluntly an openly he s telling the country about autocratic plans for a second term. during last night speech, trump also issued a thinly veiled warning to president biden, saying that the criminal indictments against trump have, quote, opened up a pandora s box that may never let our country be the same, and quote. trump s most subservient allies are also falling into line, picking up on the themes of retribution. at the end of last month, robert kagan, another large for the washington post, published a lengthy piece warning about the increasing inevitability of a trump dictatorship. in response to kagan s piece, the republican senator j.d. vance of ohio sent a letter addressed to attorney general merric
three years later, he came back and killed. new reporting on the fighting in gaza. is israel reporting to flood hamas tunnels with sea water? what new satellite images tell us. plus, another day, another censure, what was once rare punishment gets handed down again, this time against a democratic congressman who falsely pulled a fire alarm. it s the third censure this year. and pro trump fake electors, nevada, the top republican officials facing felony charges. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in las vegas with nbc s dana griffin, and those new details on a college campus shooting that killed three people. what more, dana, are we learning about the suspect? reporter: we ve learned the suspect s name, 67-year-old anthony polito. as you mentioned, he unsuccessfully sought employment here at unlv. if that s part of the motive, investigators haven t said so. right now on campus, we are looking over our shoulders through this bree