back in new york city, where he will be facing questions in a $250 million civil suit, separate from his indictment we begin this hour with a major development in the national fight over abortion rights today, widely used abortion pill mifepristone is still available to patients after a federal appeals court put on hold a judge s decision to suspend the drug s fda approval while leaving some restrictions in place. here in florida, any moment the legislature is expected to pass one of the strictest abortion bills in the country that would ban the procedure at just six weeks. joining us now with more is nbc news senior legal correspondent laura jarrett and with us msnbc news correspondent dasha burns in tallahassee in what appears to be a demonstration of some sort laura, all this is still difficult to understand because now there is a conflicting ruling from a judge in washington that ordered u.s. authorities to keep mifepristone available across 17 states and d.c. what does
mitchell reports, president biden in ireland revealing that investigators are closing in on the alleged person responsible for the major intelligence leak. there s a full-blown investigation going on, as you know, with the intelligence community and the justice department they are getting close i m concerned that it happened but there s nothing contemporaneous that i m aware of republican house intelligence committee chairman mike turner joins me this hour, former president trump is back in new york and testifying behind closed doors in a deposition for the state attorney general s $250 million civil probe into his business practices. the justice department is seeking emergency relief from the supreme court after a federal appeals ruling overnight keeping an fda approved abortion pill on the market for now but with many hurdles for many seeking medication abortions good day, everyone i m andrea mitchell in washington a busy news day. new details about one of the lar
without power and commuters facing a travel nightmare. i think people thought that w winter was going to be done and over with and now we re getting hit. this is new england it is about time well, on the west, more catastrophic flooding in the forecast in the wake of weeks of unrelenting rain thousands now under evacuation orders, rescue teams already deployed to save people trapped in those deadly floodwaters. we re timing out both of these systems. and the gloves are off former president trump in iowa taking direct aim at his biggest competition for the gop ticket, florida governor ron desantis. ron was a disciple of paul ryan, who is a rino loser. how the crowd responded to that and why it may not be what the former president wanted to hear we re going to begin with the latest fallout from the collapse of silicon valley bank and the new inflation numbers out this morning. starting us off, jake ward in san francisco. our business and data reporter brian cheung
good to be with you. i m katy tur donald trump says he will absolutely stay in the presidential race if he is criminally indicted. one-time fixer and now key witness, michael cohen, will be back in front of a manhattan grant jury tomorrow to continue his testimony against his former boss after that we could quickly see a decision on whether manhattan d.a. alvin bragg will bring charges against the former president for his role in the 2016 hush money payment to stormy daniels and others. last night in front of a crowd of 2,000-plus supporters in iowa, donald trump did what he always does in the face of political or legal trouble he leaned right into it. our enemies are desperate to stop us because they know we are the only ones who can stop them. i will totally obliterate the deep state i will fire the unelected bureaucrats who have weaponized our justice system look at what they ve done to our justice system so we are going to see if that line still works broadly, that at
freedom everywhere. it s about the kind of world we want to live in, and the world we want to leave to our children. president joe biden s remarks yesterday announcing that the u.s. will send several tanks to ukraine. we ll dig into this major policy reversal. and what impact the tanks could have on the war. plus, former president trump will soon have more places to post his social media rants. we ll tell you which platforms are reactivating his accounts. also ahead, republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene s ambitious plan to get to the white house. we ll bring you that exclusive reporting from nbc news. good morning, and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, january 26th. joe is on assignment this morning. in a few minutes, we re going to explain what he s working on. and along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire, and presidential historian, jon meacham joins us. he s the author of t