We have upcoming discussion wives charles king, how a circle of rein theyd anthropologist reinvested race, sex and gender in the 3,020th center and jeff rowe with if become, white flight, race, fiction and the american imagination myung many others. For details and our full excel all check out online or feel free pick up an event flier this evening. Ims to talk with conclude with time for your questions and a book signing right here at this table. Were pleased to have cspans booktv here attaching todays event. When asking questions in the q a, please know your questions well be recorded and place wait a moment for the microphone to make its way to you before asking you question. We have copies of the book for sale at the registers in the next room which is my cue to say as per use, thank you for buying books from Harvard Book Store. You support the future of an independent book store so thank you. And before we start, quick reminder to please silence your cellphones for the talk. Im ve
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
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
good morning, to our viewers in the usa and around the world. i m john avlon. it is monday, december 18th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in new york, noon in tel aviv, where the u.s. defense secretary is scheduled to meet now with his israeli counterpart. secretary lloyd austin s mission is to press israeli officials on specific milestones for progress in israel s war against hamas, as civilian casualties climb. here s democratic senator chris van hollen talking to abc this sunday. we do have unacceptable levels of casualties. we see loose rules of engagement, way looser than anything that the united states would exercise. we would not drop a 2,000-pound bomb on a refugee camp to target a hamas commander. a senior defense official tells cnn that austin will, quote, want to hear very clear articulation of the israeli self-assessment today. that same official has confidence in the israeli military and so he s there to ask questions and learn more about their plan. elliott gotkine
today on inside politics, donald trump hanging onto commanding leads, his rivals are running out of time to catch up but one of them is starting to see a narrow path to a major upset. let s make a deal, senators are racing to get new border security measures. president biden facing pressure on one of the toughest problems to solve. democrats have never been this nervous about biden s chances, we will ask the pollster who elected bill clinton. i am jim acosta, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. four weeks from today, the first republican voters will make their voices heard, the iowa caucus is 28 days away, most of the major candidates were crisscrossing those states this weekend and are back at it today. the ones not named donald trump hoping to survive surprise finish, we have a lot of new polls this weekend, that will tell us what the challenges are for some of these gop rivals. they have been pouring all the numbers, what are you seeing right now? let s st