republicans facing critical questions about the future of their party as newly announced presidential candidate nikki haley hits the campaign trail for the first time, officially giving the gop something they haven t had in nearly seven years. an alternative to donald trump. we re ready, ready to move past the stale ideas and faded names of the past, and we are more than ready for a new generation to lead us into the future. but look at the mountain she s got to climb to win the nomination. according to a new reuter s poll she places a distant fourth among potential candidates, barely ahead of people like liz cheney and mike pompeo. i want to bring in nbc capitol hill correspondent ali vitali who is in charleston where nikki haley just spoke. nick canard is national politics reporter for associated press, he s on the phone with us, and charlie sykes is editor at large
the the department of public safety. accountability, for, me at that level means that this governor, who may cross to rex lee reports too, needs to do something about steve mcgraw and what his actions to his own officers are. in the 77 minute video, we see a texas ranger, you can see it on the back of his red vest, he s on the phone. he s on the phone for 20 minutes or so. he s walking around inside and outside. he s talking to someone. i want to know who is talking to. which supervisor? which layer up supervisors finally gets to steve mcgraw and when somebody says, go in, or don t go in, or whatever it is that they told them. that is the kind of accountability that s kind of answers that we get. the accountability is, we ve got to get rid of people that aren t doing their jobs effectively. not just of the school district level, at the city, the county, at the state, at the federal level. violations of protocol at every level. this is the most disgusting and
on the paul eastmans of the world. the testimony today coupled with the testimony earlier, this is not like some eastman thing, this is not some people who invaded the capitol on their own. this is donald trump at the center. he s the hub of the criminal conspiracy. i am so struck now by where this january 3rd showdown in the oval office takes place in the time line of what we already know. it s saturday night around this is obviously when trump s nocturnal impulses are most rage filled. saturday night, he s on the phone with raffensperger asking him to find 11,800 votes. raffensperger rebuts him, so all he s got sunday night by 8:00 is jeffrey clark. his attempts to corrupt up and down the line failed. and we know that call leaked by sunday night, or at least while the meeting was going on. you have to look at trump s role in the fake electors plot
any more events than we have. i think the committee can work around these two guys, i really do. let me ask you this, do you worry that trump and some of his top aides like mark meadows are going to be let off the hook for all of this? meadows was the chief of staff to the president. he s intimately involved in planning meetings at the white house with members of congress. he s on the phone with ra raffensperger in georgia, the secretary of state trying to change the outcome of the election down there, and he s not going to feel the heat of a congressional hearing. what i m really worried about is the trump white house is on a crime spree for four years, and no one in law enforcement seems to be very upset about it. maybe i m told by people, the attorney general is a very diligent, very thorough man and that he s working through this on his own time schedule. i ve got to trust the president s judgment in picking attorney general garland, and i got to trust that attorney general gar
evacuated. students say it was chaotic when the shooting started with people basically running for their lives. parents were frantic to find their kids. i just want you to take a listen to this. she texted me and said there s been a shooting and i m in a closet, but don t worry. i said, well, just keep texting me. so that s what we re doing. my son is over there. i have a daughter here in middle schoo school. more on the shootings throughout the morning as well. they are spending time in tennessee today. that s ahead of next week s big super tuesday contest. and more apparent retaliation for last week s burning of korans by nato troops. a suicide bomber detonated explosives, killing nine civilians. the taliban are claiming responsible for the attack and for poisoning food at another base. we have traces of bleach found in fruit and coffee. no troops were sicked. they re eating now prescreened meals. president obama s apology nor the koran burning has sparked criticism f