speeches and we get your votes and all that stuff. nobody has ever had to do this before. you know, people didn t do it before because usually candidates who judges say are rapists don t usually get this far, but what we found in iowa a couple nights ago was, well, iowa republicans that voted, those 14%, they like their presidential candidates that are called rapists by judges and they like their presidential candidates that steal nuclear secrets and like their presidential candidates that repeatedly defame women. now, you know, willie, i m new to this political thing. let me help you through this. you brushed me off yesterday when i fell off the turnip truck and i thank you that, right in front of an icy patch of snow outside of 30 rock. you dusted me off. that was nice of him. as we were leaving and going up into 30 rock. i was chewing on it. he explained politics to me. you need to hear it. willie, i still don t get it, though. like, this guy is complaining a
and i get there early in the morning. i go to a biden witch hunt, and then i come here in the afternoon, and i stop and we make speeches and we get you votes and all that stuff, but nobody s ever had to do this before. that was donald trump in new hampshire last night as he travels back and forth between courtrooms and the campaign trail. we ll have the latest on the race for the republican nomination now just days away for the first primary of the contest. also ahead, an update from capitol hill on the push to pass another short-term funding solution to avoid a government shutdown. and we ll go through the new developments out of the middle east including the escalating attacks from the houthi rebels in the red sea. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, january 17th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. we ll begin with politics, and former president donald trump is now focusing on the next big contest in the republican pr
hackers. officials say the kremlin tried but failed to hack voter databases. tonight we welcome to the broadcast danny sa val less. also joining us hill ka pure. gentlemen, thank you very much for coming on. sa hill, the president decided to go there this morning on the russian hoax and then this evening in front of a red meat crowd. what does it mean that he figures why not? it s an awful lot to be calling a hoax, right, brienl. we ve had a lot of revelations this week just this week. just this week including a report out today that 21 states, their election systems were attempted to be infiltrated. even if they weren t broken into, there were revelations involving paul manafort, his former campaign chairman. i think what s driving all of this, what i ve heard from people who are familiar with the president s thinking is that he