yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis
center headquarters. this is msnbc headquarters on the right. the iconic christmas tree in the middle and this is our news proof to you that they haven t taken down the big tree yet. people still enjoying the ice skating in the holiday season. the new year naturally begins with a presidential race as well as a possible trial of donald trump. later tonight we have some developments in that jack smith case. our top story of the new year right now is this official home stretch of the primaries in the 2024 presidential race. president biden is the presumed democratic nominee. there is no big race there although there are some other announced candidates. we even heard from cornell west last year. on the republican side there could be an open race. will republicans decide between trump or his remaining opponents? and how soon does that process start? if you ve been busy, you know, having a little time off or enjoying your holiday food or your new years workout routine or any of the
dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in iowa. we had to have someone who isn t springing out of bed to tweet. let me tell you what i really think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. donald trump is a serial philanderer. and he boasts about it! this is not a secret. he s proud of being a serial philanderer. ted cruz, john how to go against trump in 16. we re joined by an msnbc contributor senior news anchor with the washington post. welcome to both of you. brianne, what do you think about the history showing that it s hard to predict iowa, that it might work better to listen to the voters in realtime than get ahead of them, and what if any insights do you have about what s going on this weekend and over the next week? well, i think it really right on there. it s tough to look at the polling and use those as predictive factors of what s
politicos viewed it. but it is about iowa, not about poll or beltway predictions. i mentioned my control room, brian williams. we may have a different shot of ted cruz. if we have that, let s take a look. i recognize that donald is dismayed that his poll numbers are falling in iowa. we ought to have someone who isn t springing out of bed to tweet. i m going to tell you what i really think of donald trump. this man is a pathological liar. donald trump is a serial philanderer, and he boasts about it. this is not a secret. he s proud of being a serial flanlderror. that s how ted cruz was talking. imagine if trump had been indicted once or four times whether he would have mentioned it. the reason we show that you is the polls had cruz trailing. cruz was going after donald trump for all the things people