an autocrat facing dozens of ny charges with an ax to grind against the government he seeks to lead. that s a question that republican candidates are either unable to answer or unwilling to answer at this moment. there s now just one major challenger to ex-president trump after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump. it s hard to remember but for a time, ron desantis was seen as the much vaunted trump slayer, the one candidate who could break the hold on trump that he had on the voters in the republican party. appeal to those alienated by trump and ultimately beat joe biden. back in 2022, the new yorker asked, can ron desantis displace donald trump as the combatant in chief? the new york times asked, quote, is ron desantis the future of the republican party? but a las as it turned out, voters didn t want a trump alternative, they wanted trump. that became clear as his legal troubles mounted with every indictment the trump got stronger in the pol
hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
him. so if you watched garland carefully, his press conference the other day, you may have noticed that he appeared highly annoyed by the idea of having to stoop to explain himself to mere citizens. he found a solution. being a liberal, merrick garland s first instinct was to seize the role of victim, because when you re a victim you ve already won the argument. you don t have to explain yourself. you don t have to change your behavior. you re by definition the good guy. the victim always is. being oppressed means never having to say you re sorry. so as garland explained in the press conference, the fbi was the victim. mean old fox news was asking unfair questions, and that s wrong. the real problem isn t that america s most powerful law enforcement agency is corrupt, no, the real problem is the people have dared to complain about it, and they must stop immediately or else they re domestic terrorists. as gary put it with genuine outrage, i will not silently stand by as the in
was likely scouting the store. police revealing tonight the suspected shooter was taken into custody a year ago for making threats at his high school. breaking right now. another mass shooting. this one at a church in california. the details coming in. overseas, russian missile attacks strike that steel plant in mariupol. and finland is applying to join nato. and the interview with the passenger forced to land a plane after the pilot became incapacitated. the plane was in a nosedive? correct, yes. this is nbc nightly news with kate snow. reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening. the word pure evil has been said a lot in the past 24 hours. the ten victims of what is being investigated as a hate crime. they were gunned down on a saturday night. they were parents, a deacon, all but two of them black. authorities believe the heavily armed man started shooting at shopper and had been plan thing attack. he was here casing the area on friday. 200 mi
We continue to provide assistance, this will, their victory will be assured faster with less loss of life if we dont provide the assistance, then the victory will eventually be in jeopardy. But there are a whole host of reasons why it looks like ukraine is winning. And so congress should do the right thing. Interesting argument, et and farkas, thank you so much. I appreciate it. The next hour of new central starts right now we are, standing by for the markets to open future for Donald Trumps social Media Company or down this after he lost billion dollars on paper yesterday. How much more could he dropped today Breaking News is real, says they unintentionally struck innocent people in a string right . The killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen. Were standing by for reaction from the organization. And then abortion on the ballot in one of the most important for his swing states, a Florida Court opens the door to a ban on abortion after six weeks, but now voters will decide i