jerry nadler. t cnn has not independently verified the tape. in a statement to media claimed they were generated by a.i. thanks for joining us. ac 360 starts now. tonight on 360, the latest stop on the former president s road from courthouse to campaign stop and back. how it might play in new hampshire, whether he can make it lead all the way back to the white house. also tonight, what happened in the courtroom today as e. jean carroll already found guilty of abuse and defaming. a new murder charge against the long island alleged serial killer and a remarkable detail about how investigators made their case. thank you for joining us. we begin tonight with the former president wrapping up his event in atkinson, new hampshire after showing what his campaign will look like from here on out as both the republican front-runner and a defendant in multiple civil and criminal trials, straight after last night s victory in the iowa caucuses, he flew from des moines to new yor
and could face no criminal accountability or prosecution, unless he was first successfully impeached and convicted. could a president ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival? that s an official act, in order to s. e. a. l. team six? he would have to be, and would speedily be impeached and convicted before the criminal prosecution. but if you weren t? there would be no criminal prosecution, no criminal liability for that? in the chief justices opinion and our constitution, and in the plain language of the impeachment judgment clause, all clearly presuppose that what the founders were concerned about was not. i asked you a yes or no question. could a president who ordered s. e. a. l. team six to assassinate a political rival, who was not impeached, could he be subject to criminal prosecution? if he were impeached and convicted first. so your answer is? my answer is qualified yes. it was always clear that these weren t particularly s
we are awaiting a white house briefing moments from now, it s the biden administration s first in-person news conference since former president trump s landslide victory in the iowa caucuses and the first since lloyd austin s release from the hospital. sandra: and so many questions also swirling own hunter biden after a major development in one of the criminal cases against the president s son. for all of those reasons, we are going to be watching for the white house press briefing. when it begins, we will bring you the news from it. now this. 2023 was the biggest year for illegal border crossings, resources stretched, fentanyl in the country, do you think it s a crisis? we want solutions. solutions are at hand but frankly we are at an election year and the folks who want to return donald trump to the white house prefer to focus on the broken immigration system than the solutions at hand. petty politics at play on this issue as much as anything. john: vice president h
republican results out of the iowa, which show trump in the lead. as we were covering that night with rachel. but half of that red electorate open to alternatives. the top two alternatives, which are two individuals separated by just under 3,000 votes in iowa, are squaring off. there are high stakes in new hampshire. this is the more moderate independent state that could favor haley. its voters also will look more like the november electorate that the nominee will have to face. new tonight, desantis is not campaigning in new hampshire right now, having given up on the moderate-leaning state given the abysmal poll numbers, per the new york times. and while it is january, and let s remember the rest of the less political parts of the nation are probably a little more exhausted at the thought of turning back to campaigns and more focused on things like what we promised we d show you, christmas trees eventually coming down, and they re not so obsessed with new hampshire, but
it s one a. m. here in new york, midnight in iowa, and a very first test of the 2024 republican primary season is now complete. joining me now at the top of this hour, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and my former boss david plouffe, former rnc chairman and co-host of the weekend, michael steele, former communications director for jeb bush 2016 campaign, and now writer at large for the bulwark tim miller, and former communications director for president obama jennifer palmieri. now, tonight in iowa, nbc news projected that donald trump won the caucuses with more than 50% of the vote. his numbers really cement the four-time indicted candidate status as the front-runner. we already knew this. but in the republican field, the race for second place, it had a bit more drama with nikki haley and florida governor ron desantis locked in a dead heat for most of the night. but as awkward as he may be at times, and he is awkward, desantis did put in the w