iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barn storm iowa. there will be a new day in america without chaos. i m running for your issues. one point down. is this race more fluid than it seems? and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an all out focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tries to flip the script. will biden s strategy work. three years after the january 6 attack, mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then south carolina democratic congressman jim clyburn. plus health scare, defense secretary lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the public he is in the intensive care unit. how serious was it and why was it kept secret. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. eight days from the iowa caucuses, one day past the third anniversary of the january 6 attack on the capitol. and donald tru
race? it is nikki haley. and meanwhile one of the reasons that i ve heard it theorized that donald trump has been doing well in the polls is because he has basically been quiet. some people calling it a basement campaign. not on truth social. and not on some media outlets, but he is out there now and here is an example of some of what we ve heard. the civil war was so fascinating, so horrible. see, there was something that i think could have been negotiated to be honest with you. i think you could have negotiated that. abraham lincoln, if you negotiated it, you probably wouldn t even know who lincoln was. box obamacare is a catastrophe. john mccain couldn t get his aarm up that day, remember? just for those who are not aware, senator john mccain who was a key vote against getting rid of obamacare, the reason president trump is talking that way is because john mccain, he s
we ve seen trump develop these fixations, over the size of his inaugural crowd, the size of his electoral victory that he keeps coming back to even though it seems like a ridiculous and petty obsession. one thing, though, is that this still shows that despite the fact that republicans won the white house and they control the senate still and they controlled the house for a couple of years, the civil war in the republican party is still raging on. and donald trump didn t always know where he fit in that, when he came down the escalator in june of 2015. but remember, he came down the escalator. he started insulting mexicans as rapists. then two weeks later he says about john mccain he didn t think he was a war hero. then what happened? he got rewarded. in the polls after that, he took off and never again was he really in second place, almost always in third place in a majority of the polls. so he just doesn t see any cost to doing saying outrageous things like this. and we really hav
overdrive as to whether joe biden would announce a running mate at the launch of his campaign with many pointing to his recent meeting with stacey abrams. not everyone thinks it s a good idea. i think it would be a mistake for joe biden to come out or any other candidate and announce a running mate right out of the gate. that s taking a lot for granted. and how low will he go? john mccain s children speak out against the president s continued attacks on their late father. even as many in the republican party stay silent. and i gave him the kind of funeral that he wanted, which as president i had to approve. i don t care about this, i didn t get a thank you. that s okay. good day. i m kasie hunt.
christchurch mosques that left 50 people dead. prime minister jacinda ardern announcing an immediate ban of all military style semi-automatic weapons in new zealand including assault rifles and high capacity magazines. it will get a vote by the country s elected officials next month. she spoke to her constituents earlier today. virtually all of the weapons that i have announced as being banned will be categorized as weapons that require an a class endorsement. no one will be able to buy these weapons without a permit to procure from the police. i can assure people there is no point in applying for such a permit. coming up, bully pulpit. why aren t more republicans calling the president out as he continues his attacks on the late senator john mccain? you re watching andrea mitchell reports only on msnbc. [leaf blower]