new york city in court for the first day of the damages trials in e. jean carroll s case against him. this morning all eyes are on new hampshire now after iowa casts the first ballots in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. former president donald trump cruised to victory in the iowa caucuses winning by nearly 30%. and you can see ron desantis came in a distance second, narrowly edging out former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. and then vivek ramaswamy came in fourth and dropped out of the race. and asa hutchison just announced he was dropping out of the race. 100,000 iowans turned out, much lower than in 2016. so it s now off to new hampshire. great place. we won it last time, and we won it both times, and we love it. the people are great. we thank you for your effort and we thank you for your support. you helped us get a ticket punched out at the hawkeye state. our campaign is the last hope of stopping the biden/trump nightmare. and stev
the goal to quote reclaim our school from activists imposing harmful agendas. despite calling itself a national grass roots education, parents defending education is funded by the koch political operation, which has been bankrolling for more than a decade a at least. the founder is nicole neily, the president of another so called grass roots group called speech first and as the nation first reported back in 2018, that group s board of directors contains quote a former head of a koch backed trust and two attorneys from koch programs. the guest was founder of coalition for tj, a different group who sued to block race related admission standards at a virginia high school. that group is represented in its lawsuit by the conservative pacific legal foundation, which surprise surprise received a million dollars from the charles
confront our history, and not just talk to people who sound like you and look like you, but to people who don t. we re not going to be able to move forward as a society. one group of people can t be the only ones to talk about it. gl it s all of our problem. erica, rachel, congratulations, it s a great film. civil war, 10:00 p.m. eastern on msnbc. that s the reidout, all in is up next. the disgraced ex-president, what we know about donald trump s last ditch appeal to the supreme court. then colin powell succumbs to coronavirus complications at age 84, and the vaccine misinformation machine kicks into gear. here we have a very high profile example that is going to require more truth, more truth from our government. how dark money groups that catalyzed obama era tea party
as we ve covered extensively on this show, school board meetings are quickly becoming the latest flash point in the right wing culture war, with sustained outrage directed at local leaders on everything from masks and schools to critical race theory and lgbtq rights, the outrage is an organic grass roots protest from concerned parents, take a listen to one self-identified concerned parent who has made multiple parents on fox news. i am a concerned parent. i am not a plant. i am not an activist. as anyone who knows me, i have always been identified as a democrat. i am not a plant is a really an amazing thing to say in an interview like that. that man, harry jackson is a virginia parent, that s true. fox news left out some important context as journalist judd lagham reports in a great piece today. jackson is on the leadership team of a group called parents defending. a dark money organization with
you work for us. hear our voice. hear our voice. that chaotic scene at a 2009 town hall for congresswoman kathy caster, one of many protests that unfolded acrosses country in cross to the affordable care act that turned into a political juggernaut. today we know it was not activists that fuelled that. groups like americans for prosperity, funded by chals and david koch amplified through dark money, as the koch brothers have certainly spent or raised more than a billion dollars to successfully bend one of the two national parties in america to their will. . the long rise of the tea party movement was orchestrated, well funded and deliberate. we re now seeing a similar phenomenon in the school board meetings across the country. a leaked letter shows how a koch backed group fueled opposition to school mask mandates a new