who is the pick for trump? don. likely temp scott. okay, all right. he s your friend. all of you, my, friends thank you so much for joining me. that s going to do it on this breaking news coverage with jonathan from washington continues next on this big news day. we begin the 4:00 hour with breaking news from the presidential campaign trail. florida governor ron desantis has officially dropped out of the republican presidential race, following his disappointing and distant second place finish in the iowa caucuses. desantis said, quote, we don t have a clear path to victory. instead, desantis said he will endorse former president donald trump. moments ago, the florida governor released this statement on x. we have prayed and elaborated on the way forward. but if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, and more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources. we don
of the hundredth day of the captivity of the hostages, and i ll tell you what, 1968 democratic convention in chicago, there was a lot of protests. this is protests against the biden administration, so i think that the democrats, secret service, everyone needs to be on alert for what could happen next. bill: we ll watch that. we ll wait to see whether or not there s another chapter to that in washington either today or coming up this week. that s one hour down, dana. dana: it is taye caucus crunch time iowa caucus crunch time. of it s freezing cold, but the candidates are are out in full force making their final pitch to voters. welcome to a brand new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: hello to you. short night. [laughter] right on. i m bill hemmer. the weather could have a major impact on turnout, so we think. we don t know. the wind chill getting as low as -45, that s cold enough to really cause a lot of health problems, right? iowans are
but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
in recent days. take a listen to how he has framed his positioning within some of those names we ve already seen jump into the race. whether it s ron desantis or nikki haley or mike pence or tim scott, no one wants to say it. they want to cuddle up next to him. not let him get mad at them, and hope people say all right i don t like him but i ll take one of those. let me tell you, everybody, if this choice in this primary is between trump and trump-like, trump wins. reporter: and christie has officially filed his paperwork to run for president according to an s.e.c. filing and we re expecting him to make that announcement in new hampshire here a little bit later. omar, thank you so much. we ll be watching. let s discuss. kristin, chris christie can be a colorful and brash character, even outrageous before we met donald trump as a politician. here s a little bit from his time as governor. after you graduate from law school you conduct like that in a courtroom your rea
the tape from donald trump discussing a very sensitive military document could be a game-over moment for the ex-president in the classified documents investigation. it s a recording that not only significantly increases trump s legal exposure. but it also blows a gaping hole through many of the defenses that team trump has been peddling in public in the case. the ex-president s lawyer jim trusty went on cnn last night, playing defense in the wake of the bombshell news first reported by cnn of the tape s existence. and repeated a line that will be familiar to anyone who s been following this case. will trump display documents at will or as trump puts it even by just thinking about it. what i will tell you is there is no doubt as commander in chief when the president left washington, d.c. for mar-a-lago, he was actually still president, when he left with boxes that he brought he was the command in chief. there s no doubt he had the authority as commander in chief to be classi