steve: thank you very much, todd and carley, 6:00 in new york city on this thursday, january 18th. and it is currently 21 degrees in new york city. lawrence: from maga surveillance to maga warning. an investigation is underway after the feds ask banks to search and filter its customers transactions with terms like trump and maga. why the ceo of j.p. morgan chase shares this advice for the democrats. i wish the democrats would think a little more carefully when they talk about maga. this negative talk about maga is going to hurt biden s election campaign. ainsley: but it seems vice president harris missed that memo. why she says she s scared as heck of former president trump taking back the white house. brian: and, could you ditch your cell phone for a month italics? that s the challenge that could earn you $10,000. think about that for a second while i officially start the show by saying fox & friends is ready to begin because your mornings are better because you
telling you that. that s why they re sending all these democrats into run and it s crazy. it s not personal for me. i had no people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i think politics is too personal and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with very different approaches to talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire while ron desantis, meanwhile, has his sights scarily set on haley s home state. we ll have much more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest from capitol hill on two major items, the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, and the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. and also ahead we ll bring you the new developments breaking out of the middle east. the u.s. is hitting more houthi targets as tensions are now rising between pak
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
right now on early start, less than five days to go until the new hampshire primary. donald trump levels personal attacks against nikki haley pushing his rivals to bow out of the race. the front runner campaigning from the courtroom yesterday. what he said that had the judge threatening to have him removed. and new overnight, pakistan has just carried out military strikes inside iran. how leaders are responding this morning. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s thursday, january 18th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington. only five days left until the high-stakes new hampshire primary. it s likely nikki haley s last chance to demonstrate she has the ability the to donald trump. the front runner using her given name and making false claims about her immigrant parents. last night at a rally in new hampshire, trump called on the republican party to unify and to beat president biden. it s time for the republican party
grindavik, that s in southwestern iceland. they are evacuating in the face of nearby this follows a series of all small earthquakes and powerful eruptions last month. donald trump going after vivek ramaswamy, not over policy, rather rhetoric. actually not rhetoric, actually it s over a t-shirt. that story in just a moment. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest on the iowa caucus is now just one day away. five candidates on the home stretch braving frigid temperatures today, crisscrossing nine cities to convince voters to bundle up and go out in sub-zero temperatures at caucus time tomorrow night. in the new nbc des moines register media com poll confirms donald trump s dominant league and his supporters are bearing that out, facing down the elements to hear him speak today. in fact, nbc s vaughn hillyard has been talking to them about the determination to show up. i