hello, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. i want to get right to the breaking news we re following this morning. donald trump arriving just moments ago at a manhattan courthouse for the closing arguments in his multimillion dollar civil fraud trial, and he spoke just before going into the courtroom. there is high tension this morning because trump has suggested he could challenge the judge who has barred him from speaking during closing arguments. another big development, a threat we re following, law enforcement responding to a reported bomb threat at the judge s house this morning. a source with direct knowledge tells nbc news. i want to get right to our yasmin vossoughian joining us from outside the courthouse in lower manhattan. and also with us, former u.s. attorney barbara mcquade and criminal defense attorney danny cevallos. we just saw trump speaking before heading into the courtroom saying, you know, it s not fair that the judge won t let him speak at closing a
from rigid iowa. tonight we have a competence and preview of the first voting and the 2024 presidential election cycle. in the brutal winter conditions could affect it or not spread to thousands of islands will gather in homes, churches, schools tomorrow night to discuss the merits of the republican presidential candidates. what is called a carcass here in iowa they will vote on their preferences and at the end of all of this we will have the first official indication of who is in the lead and where the others stand sprayed the weather does figure to be a factor and monday s carcasses but how much of a factor yet to be seen fox team coverage janice dean is of the fox weather center in new york with the complete forecast. we begin with congressional correspondent aishah hasnie braving the temperatures here in des moines. goget even to some candidates did have to cancel early events but every single mom is back on the trail today. including former president trump who could
you are watching the beat with ari melber. we re covering this conclusion of donald trump fraud trial. there he was in court, the second time he s been in the courtroom this week, instead of campaigning in iowa. it s a telling sign of how personal this all is to trump, as you can see him there. he basically has opted out of the traditional campaign activities. he was not required to attend, but that s what it looked like in the courtroom today. we also heard from the attorney general who has been on something of a streak here. she already won the fraud finding portion of this. now they re fighting over potentially penalties. the judge also gave donald trump a chance to speak today, but required he had to comments only on facts and law if he did so. trump didn t stick to that, went into a ran, speaking for about five minutes, arguing this is wrong and a fraud, and he actually tried to attack the judge in the courtroom, making a reference to his own agenda. that was about eno
oh, yeah. beautiful every one of you with that precious snowflake. happy tuesday, everyone. so we re less than two weeks into the new year and not much has changed for 2023. i m still under 7% body fat. done. kill me. still writes at a fourth grade level. and the biggest threat on earth, big monster man. take this recent piece from axios which points to the former president as, quote, the risk that trumps all others. quote a second trump term would be far more radical than the first committed to stretching legal and governance boundaries and to pursuing retribution for the prosecutions he s been fighting since losing. trump s protectionist and isolationist tendencies would also nato while creating an opening for china as a global threat. he is unrivaled. so how is that a problem? i, for one, would like a second term that s more radical than the first. maybe we ll get that wall we were promised and i will get a cabinet position as secretary of abs. 7% body fat, maybe. yeah
good afternoon, i m chris jansing live from msnbc headquarters in new york city. ahead for us, how a trump co-defendant is trying to get the charges against him tossed out with accusations about the personal life of the fulton county d.a. we ll explain what s causing all the controversy. plus, the u.s. strikes back after dozens of attacks in the red sea, the pentagon launching strikes on houthi rebels. will it be a deterrent or lead to a wider war? . 14 nations and the united states all issued a warning to the houthis that this type of illegal and reckless activity needed to stop or there would be consequences, and last night there were consequences. and mother nature flowing down the final scramble before the iowa caucuses. the impact the weather could have just as polls show nikki haley beating ron desantis there. but we begin this hour in atlanta, what might have been a routine procedural hearing in donald trump s georgia election case is now anything but. one of