parties today finally getting a briefing on the classified documents found at the homes and offices of president biden, former president trump, former vice president pence. will they get the details they have been demanding on what secrets may have been exposed? the latest on rupert murdoch. a live report from kier simmons in crimea. many civilians will be caught in the middle. 2.4 million people live here. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where supreme court justices have been hearing arguments on two separate challenges to president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the 26 million americans have applied for it. putting at risk a program potentially available for 40 million people. the program blocked late last year by a circuit court of appeals and a federal judge, would provide up to $20,000 in debt relief for borrowers earning less than $125,000 a year. at issue, whether the states have standing to appeal as well as the larger constitutio
solve the problem of million of moms out there with the lack of affordable child care. how businesses may be part of the solution coming up. but we begin with the battle for the soul of the republican party amid new signs of momentum for ron desantis. his book, hitting number one just hours after going on sale, but also new signs of the challenge he and the rest of the potential republican field face. a poll out showing donald trump holding a 20-point lead. all of that coming ahead of two conservative events that will demonstrate the choice the party has ahead of it. one for cpac bound tightly to the maga crowd and the club for growth which mostly severed ties with the former president. while trump headlines cpac in d.c. nearly every republican hopeful will be at the donor retreat in florida, ron desantis, mike pence, estimate cot, trump very pointedly wasn t even invited there. but anyone ready to declare the end of the trump era needs to take a look at this new morning po
Is deepening this hour. It all began when a minister in president erdogans government was blocked from addressing a rally in rotterdam. That prompted mr erdogan to describe the dutch government, led by mark rutte, as nazi remna nts. A second Turkish Minister has now been stopped from entering the netherlands, and in ankara, the dutch ambassador has been told he isnt welcome. Mark lowen reports. They love his nationalism, his bluntness, his standing up to the west, and today Recep Tayyip Erdogan doled it out. After his Foreign Minister was blocked from landing in the netherlands, president erdogan hit back at the dutch, his diplomacy typically undiplomatic. Translation they dont know anything about politics or international diplomacy. They are very nervous and cowards. They are nazi remnants, they are fascists. The Foreign Minister had wanted to rally turkish voters in the netherlands before a referendum on boosting mr erdogans powers. But with the dutch election next week, the governme
good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now ron desantis is doing everything he can to look like a presidential candidate short of actually launching a campaign. nbc news has just learned his team is considering making stops at a number of critical early primary states in the coming weeks. and with two big gatherings of conservatives coming, the split in the party is on full display including the gop event where donald trump isn t welcome. plus, the incredibly high-stakes supreme court hearing on the biden administration s attempt to wipe out nearly half a trillion dollars worth of student loans. one justice pressing the solicitor general on why that s not an abuse of presidential power. and the white house receiving federal dollars as they try to
newt gingrich and rick santorum tied for third and fourth and rick perry moved on to south carolina. the new battleground will start late tonight. first the wig big winner, mitt romney taking on president obama and drew the biggest applause lines from the speech. the president has run out of ideas and now he is running out of excuses. i m going to be joined by somebody who was a candidate himself, tim pawlenty. has he sealed the deal yet? well, that s an understatement, piers, to say good. he won iowa and be many people s accounts and now won new hampshire convincingly, he s the first nonincumbent candidate to win iowa and new hampshire in history so it was a spectacular night for mitt romney and his vision for america, restoring america, rather than barack obama s declinist view of america. i notice in his victory speech again he resisted the temptation to whack his opponents and focused on president obama and on improving america. is that going to be the consistent