ruhle starts now. th hour with stephanie ruhle starts now tonight, donald trump s day in court, as his lawyers put forward some shocking arguments to back his sweeping immunity claims. what went down and what happens next. then, count on to iowa. republican candidates making their last-minute pitches while the front-runner is pushing lies on social media. , then a day s dangerous rise in 9-1-1 calls to report fake crimes. the real life consequences for victims as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening once again i m. stephanie ruhle, live at msnbc headquarters, right here in new york city. today donald trump showed up in person at a d.c. courthouse for the most important hearing so far in his federal election interference case. keep in mind, he did not have to be at the appeals court proceeding, but given he is the front runner for the republican nomination and his legal team s strategy is delay, delay, delay, you get why he might be interested
when we get this done can you go out there and bring it home? tomorrow night we caucus and win the primary and we win the general. bill: the stage is set. first votes in the 2024 election will be tallied hours from now. tonight in iowa voters get their first verdict on the republican presidential field when they go to caucus. we ve waited a long time for this one, right? it s finally here. w welcome to a frigid iowa. i m bill hemmer. great to kick it off with you. all right. let s go. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it s cold outside, warm inside. the iowans are saying what are you complaining about? we ll be fine. if they re not worried maybe we shouldn t be worried for voter turnout. the coldest in history, frigid weather and a wild card that could maybe have a major impact on turnout. the candidates will make their final pitches today across the state to deliver last-minute bids to win over voters. all pockets of the hawkeye state could hold
the guns, kit is greater. think about those kids practicing the speeches at home, heartbreaking pleas for change from what is now known as the lockdown generation takes us off the air tonight. and on that note, i wish you all a very good and safe night. for all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thank you for staying up late, see you at the end of tomorrow. the end of tomorrow the united states senate was still in the middle of impeaching the previous president for stoking insurrection. the house impeachment managers, all of them democrats, were making the case that even though trump was no longer president, he had to be impeached because otherwise future presidents would be free to commit any crime or misdemeanor as long as they did so right before leaving office. to rebut that, trump s lawyers offered this counter argument. if my colleague on this side of the chamber actually think that president trump committed a criminal offense, and let s understand
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