last des moines register poll a flurry of final campaign events. it s all totally normal, except for the minor detail that the front runner is a four times indicted wannabe dictator. his whites. two of my favorite political experts are standing by as we countdown to tomorrow s iowa caucus. plus, congressman adam schiff here with reaction to trump s wild argument for presidential immunity. also today, the law from neal katyal on the intimidation and harassment facing basically every and later, my day in delaware at biden campaign headquarters. as democrats freak out ahead of the general election, i ll talk to some of the brains behind the biden strategy. well, it s finally here. the first contents of the 2024 election cycle. just about 31 hours from now, caucus goers in iowa brave record cold conditions. i m talking sub-zero temperatures with life-threatening wind chills, the cast their votes for the candidate of their choice. and last night, we ve got our best prediction
menendez. we begin tonight with what comes next after this weekend. short-lived yet startling rebellion against russian president vladimir putin. saturday s march on led by the one-time protegee did a head blow to the strongman image. he still wages war on ukraine. today, we learned president biden spoke by phone with ukraine s president on the sudden instability in russia. the white house says president biden offered his, quote, unwavering support for ukraine s counteroffensive against ukraine. the revolt is the first serious threat to putin s power in decades. secretary of state anthony blinken today said could it could change the port of the democracy in ukraine. i think we ve seen more cracks emerge in the russian facade. it is too soon to tell exactly where they go. and when they get their. certainly we have all sorts of new questions that putin is going to have to address in the weeks and months ahead. and we also confirmed that u.s. intelligence agencies knew in ad
questions after valid claim to have captured the city of rostov on don. it ended quickly, less than one day after it began after a deal brokered by pollution president alexander lukashenko. an ally of putin who also has ties to prigozhin. according to the kremlin, but i go asian and his forces will be out to belarus, and charges against him for taking part in an armed rebellion, charges against them will be dropped. now they re putin nor prigozhin have seen or heard from him publicly since the deal was announced. joining me now in london, nbc news correspondent ali arouzi, and in kyiv ukraine, chief correspondent kelly cobiella, and wall street journalist and simmons. good to have all of you here. so ali, the russian foreign ministry said yesterday that the country remains in support of president vladimir putin, but bogosian lost the severn town of rostov with armored tanks in vehicles, to cheering crowds. if you are in the kremlin, does that of support for the moodiness or t
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.
his second case against the president. my office will be unrelenting and an stopping. tonight, the story of the first world leader jack smith prosecuted and why there is good reason to think he won t let trump off easy. and then if we nominate a lawless, selfish, failed politician like donald trump who lost the house, the senate, and the white house, we all know joe biden will win again. the republican presidential field swells, as trump s calendar fills up with plus, the only people who believe they are above the law are members of the united states supreme court. justice samuel alito s long history of accepting lavish gifts, the titanic submersible lost at sea, and a blistering texas heat that s only going to get worse. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york. i am chris hayes. special counsel jack smith has just turned over the first tranche of evidence in the classified documents case against donald trump. the ex president s legal team now