Katy tur reports right now. Good to be with you. Im katy tur. Why wasnt there a red wave in 2022 . And why do we keep on seeing democrats win in blue places, in purple places, and red places . You can argue candidate quality. You can also argue threats to democracy, but you cannot argue with the impact of abortion. Ever since the Supreme Court overturned roe v. Wade, blue voters, purple voters and red voters across the country have turned up to protest it. Not through rallies or marches, though some have done that, too, but for voting. Both for candidates and for policies that promise to protect access to health care. It is the single issue that democrats close to President Biden tell me they are banking on most in 2024 in november. Just watch, theyve said. As we get into this year, there will be Court Decision after Court Decision, further restricting access and further alienating voters from the gop. And lo and be hold, here we are, the Alabama State Supreme Court ruled embryos are c
he s testifying for for the first time. he could not say, for instance, that he never assaulted e. jean carroll when another court of law established that he did. you stand by it, trump, 100% yes, habba, do you deny the allegations. trump, i consider it a false accusation, he said. judge kaplan, that answer is stricken from the record. habba, did you ever instruct anyone to hurt ms. carroll. trump, i just wanted to defend myself, my family, and frankly, the presidency. joining us now, msnbc legal analyst, she was inside that courtroom, lisa rubin. nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard, and criminal defense attorney and msnbc legal analyst, danny cevallos. that was the defense asking donald trump all of three questions, one of which was stricken. it then went to the prosecution. tell me what happened then. reporter: katy, first of all, those three questions, two of the answers were partially stricken. i heard yeses and noes to those questions before donald trump attempted
warning of chaos and bedlam if he s barred from the ballot. his argument to the supreme court in a case that could impact all 50 states. plus, house republicans get their wish. why hunter biden has agreed to a closed-door deposition following weeks of defiance. a disturbing report from gaza, the graves dug up by israeli soldiers. we ll tell you exactly what they were looking for. and 100 million people in the path of severe winter weather. it s already caused a plane to slide off an icy runway. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. but speaking of planes, we have this breaking news. let me show you a live picture that is coming to us from nbc 4 in washington. yes, that is what it looks like. that is a small private plane that had to make an emergency landing. this is in loudoun county, on loudoun county parkway earlier this afternoon. no injuries are reported, but this is very close to dulles airport. we don t know why this plane had to land
nothing. we ae over hav thirty one trillion dollars in debt and that massiv$3e tally continues to grow even afters bi this bill . stillll, small government economists, people like steve moore support the bill calling it a step in the rightir direction. republican congressmen, on the other hand , chip roy is referring to it as at sandwich. the washington times, meanwhile, they describe it as a win for the gop, all whiles representing nancy mace, is trashing the deal for normalizing record spendingt wh with the president who can t find his pants. now,ca some republican lawmaker, they are infuriated thatth the compromise maintains what h an unacceptably high level of covid error olef spending and repurpose nearly one hundred billion dollars in spending instead of making poi outright cuts to thent budget. u this is a bill that pushes any further negotiations back until after the presidential election, which is a very keyy point of contentioken. t to many republicans wanted yet an
president biden signalled he might be open to them, democrats in congress revolted. they aren t fair, and they don t work, dems argued. republicans say they are fair and that it is only responsible to have a baseline standard for who can receive government benefits like medicaid, that a requirement to work would motivate people to work. a hand up, not a hand out, says speaker kevin mccarthy. so how does a work requirement function in actuality? we ve got one of my favorite policy wonks with us to explain because it is a tricky issue. one that could sink a deal, and in light of that, a number of democrats are coming up with a plan b. there s one in the house to force a floor vote on the debt, over the objections of gop leadership if need be, and another being floated in the senate to negate a vote entirely. president biden, you have the authority all on your own, they say. one of those senators joins us to explain why. but first, let s get to the reporting and the policy. join