iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
already. the blizzard conditions and now the tornado threat as we go into the night. more than 40 states on alert. heavy snow, strong winds and flooding. and then, the east gets hit tomorrow. rob marciano standing by to time this out. also the breaking news from forth worth. those images just coming in, investigating an explosion. multiple injuries already reported tonight. they are going from room to room in that hotel, searching for possible victims. first responders at the scene. matt rivers in texas for us. the new discovery after the terrifying moments onboard that passenger jet, when part of the door ripped off at 16,000 feet. cell phones sucked out of the cabin. a teenager s t-shirt ripped off. a key piece of the plane found in a backyard in oregon. now, we learned what was known about that plane a month ago. and what inspections have just revealed tonight. several other passenger planes effected. and good owe benitez reporting. stunning new details about the e
why not give it a try? good to be with you. i m katy tur. president biden once again today said donald trump is a threat to democracy. calling him a, quote, loser who tried to violate the constitution to stay in power. biden speaking at mother emanuel in charleston, south carolina, said a lot of the same things liz cheney said over the weekend in new hampshire. that donald trump is a want to be authoritarian, don t take that chance. he won t leave office, cheney warned. quote, i think there s a lot of living in a fantasy world that s going on with republicans telling themselves, look, we ll vote for him. it won t be so bad. it may well be the last real vote you ll ever get to cast. it will be that bad, and cheney says, the message is urgent. iowa is just one week away. and if you don t believe the urgency, abc news citing unnamed sources is reporting jack smith has yet another trump aide saying the former president didn t want to leave office. this time, it s dan scavino, t
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what