china has dismissed the elections, saying it doesn t change the fact that from beijing s perspective, taiwan is part of china, and she jinping has been clear in his view that reunification of taiwan with the mainland s, in his eyes, inevitable, and he will use force to achieve that same. it doesn t mean that war is imminent here. tension is likely to escalate. the icy tension that has defined the past eight years, but throughout the day today, people we were talking to and in polling stations, and on the streets, people were saying that this was an election about choosing taiwan s identity, and choosing taiwan s future, and it s just choice asked a be left to the people of taiwan. listen, keeping a close eye on all of this in the future, and we thank you for doing so. janis mackey forero. in a moment, oh the possibilities. who will get the not from donald trump for vice president? we re going to run through the list. list as i bid you all a very good day from msnbc world
zero temperatures canavan impact on caucus going turnout monday night. joining me now, nbc s garrett haake in des moines, iowa. i mean, garrett, folks have got to be talking about how much the weather might impact their monday night plans. what are you hearing about that? do you think it s going to dampen turnout? yeah, i think that s the expectation of all of these campaigns. most of the iowans i ve talked to here, as we are in negative one here in the morning now, that s why this texan is indoors, i don t know that we ll get back above zero until after the caucuses are over. all of the campaigns starting to make contingency plans will to keep their offense going, to try to juice turnout, get a couple more those caucus commitments, see how many more people that can get lined up before the hawkeye koch i start in earnest on monday night. we re also hearing from the candidates themselves that are canceling events or trying to find some way to still communicate to urge their folks to s
below, 22 below, we will see these bitter cold temperatures as far south as texas. and this is what it looks like in des moines right now. a blizzard warning in effect there. that area is getting more than nine inches of fresh snow. the bitter snow expected to last until wednesday. nikki haley, ron desantis, vivek ramaswamy, donald trump. they are all shuffling appearances, and canceling many infects, ahead of monday s presidential caucuses in iowa. longtime iowa republican strategist saying this is probably the worst weather you could have for a caucus. but we ve got our correspondents in place from iowa to michigan, covering all the days developments for you. first, we re going to head to the great lakes as we give you a live look at mackinaw city, michigan, where it s about a warm 13 degrees right now, not nbc s jesse kirsch is south of there in grand rapids for us. welcome, again,. jessie how much worse is it gonna get this weekend? alex, it s tough to imagine it s getting much
is a non answer to the question of what you rule at being donald trump s running mate? so, yeah. you know, it s a clever answer. it gets applause. it s self serving in the moment, but if anyone who s listening to politicians over the years, and unfortunately, sometimes, we ve listened to too many of them and know their moves too well. it s clear that what you are saying is i m not ruling this out at all. as far as the other three, i think no, i think they re all probably possibilities except for green, and i would be very, very surprised if trump picked haley, because he has been so intent on picking someone loyal, someone who would be, you know, basically a carbon copy of him and haley, for as much as she might try to pivot or be cute about, this it s not going to be able to pull this off. if those are the qualifications, what about kari lake? she is out there all the time, promoting him, very, very solidly. i think it s probably more likely that someone in the template of kari la
be an incredible thing, for, to put that forward as not being law? we seem to be, as much as watergate, shook this country up, don t you feel like we re almost in more turbulent times now? oh, no. i think we definitely are in many, many ways. i think that the threat to the republic is far greater with us than it ever was with watergate. and that s really saying something. this is not just about one act of corruption or a break-in or a cover-up of that. this is about the powers of the presidency overtaking that of everything else in the constitution. that s what it is at stake right now. yeah, talk about a calendar. let s look at trump s d.c. election subversion trial. that is scheduled to begin march 4th, okay? then, you have the hush money trial. that stas march 25th. trump had toak mar-a-lago classified documents trial, that is may 20th. georgia electionteering and conspiracy trial set for august 5th. are there any of these, tristan, you think could be put there in courts, wrappe