why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scavino, t
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
norah: hundreds of thousands are without power tonight as a massive storm brings life-threatening conditions and at least a dozen reported tornadoes. the reason for the defense secretary s mystery hospitalization is revealed. complications from his prostate cancer treatment. why the president didn t know the reason until today. discussions about screening, treatment, and support are deeply personal and private ones. norah: a federal panel here s trump s claim of immunity but the judges sound skeptical. what it all means. a president has to have immunity. and the other thing is i did nothing wrong. the investigation into that alaska airlines 737 max that lost a door panel is honing in on bolts. norah: and the new concern tonight about bottled water and your health. what you should know. good evening to our viewers in the west. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us on this tuesday night. we want to begin tonight with a story that is impacting just
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
donald trump? from the xain trail to the courtroom, the former president set to make two court appearances in two cases this week. more on tomorrow s consequential hearing in washington and the end of his civil fraud trial in new york. also ahead, scare in the air. where investigators just found the part that ripped suddenly and violently off an alaskan airlines plane in mid flight. controversy at the pentagon. why did the defense secretary leave the white house in the dark about being admitted to the icu? hello, and thank you so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. as we come on the air, we re officially one week out from the first big political contest of the 2024 campaign season. republicans blitzing iowa, giving their last big pitch with seven days and counting until the caucuses. you ve got the future of america first standing right here. anybody saying somehow, like, we re only doing that s just a flat-out l