happy wednesday! so, last night new hampshire clarified a few things for us. first, that donald trump will probably be the nominee for 2024. true. that s as much a lock as president biden making up a new word. we ll teach donald trump a valuable lesson. don t mess with america unless you want to get the benefits. wait. what was that lesson exactly? don t give a microphone to someone with dementia? the second lesson that dana perino will never be welcome in new hampshire again. that was a water fountain, not a bidet. now somehow nikki haley came out and gave a victory speech which is kind of like the hindenburg declaring victory over fire. but she is doing a speech like she won. she said she is doing a speech like she won. she didn t win. she lost. this is not your typical victory speech. let s not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. she had a very bad night. a very bad night. yet i can go up and say to everybody thank you for the victory. i s
Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
something a more limited escalation from the east. he turned out to be wrong. the u.s. intelligence agencies turned out to be right. i think that s something he s going to have to answer for later in the war. those questions are already bubbling up into ukrainian society. so far they ve left it until after the war to have a reckoning on those questions. the showman, inside the world that shook the world and made a leader out of volodymyr zelenskyy. simon shuster, thank you for coming in this morning. that does it for us. on ana cabrera reports, donald trump back in a new york city courthouse. just moments ago the judge delaying this second e. jean carroll trial. it s on the day trump was possibly going to take the witness stand, now set to happen on the day of the new hampshire primary. the desantis departure. new nbc reporting on the final hours leading up to the end of the florida governor s president campaign. and then there were two. nikki haley finally gets
will tomorrow s primary be her last stand? trump s political and legal fortunes collide in dramatic fashion. we re waiting to hear whether the judge in the e. jean carroll s case, whether he ll move testimony to tomorrow, primary day in new hampshire. the former president may very well face a choice, the courtroom or the campaign trail. the most serious, most damaging attack yet on a u.s. military base that leaves multiple soldiers seriously wounded. could this be the strike that forces the u.s. to escalate the fight against iranian-backed militants and escalate it to a whole new level? we we ginn with trump versus haley, a heavyweight fight with extraordinarily high stakes, a fight not unlike david and goliath. here is the good news for nikki haley, she has more momentum and money than just 24 hours ago. her campaign said today she raised $500,000 from grassroots donors online after ron desantis announced he was dropping out yesterday afternn, and she can now aim her f
all in person. you have a great, weekend it s a busy week so i m sure we ll be talking during the week. see you, guys. velshi, starts now. good morning. it s sunday, january the 21st. i m ali velshi. we re two days away from the very first primary of the season. and perhaps, two days away from donald trump so in up the republican nomination in record time. the former president, who s been twice impeached and currently faces 91 criminal charges, appears headed for another easy victory and tuesday s primary. with all the legal troubles he still has a head of him this year, he is looking to shut down the primaries as soon as possible. new hampshire is nikki haley s hail mary moment. she has been gaining ground on trump in recent weeks, it appears to be too little, too late. while polls out of new hampshire have been historically volatile, no signs have emerged that haley will get the surge of support that she truly needs to boost her chances. even if she did pull off a miracle