grindavik, that s in southwestern iceland. they are evacuating in the face of nearby this follows a series of all small earthquakes and powerful eruptions last month. donald trump going after vivek ramaswamy, not over policy, rather rhetoric. actually not rhetoric, actually it s over a t-shirt. that story in just a moment. a very good day to all of you from msnbc world headquarters in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with the very latest on the iowa caucus is now just one day away. five candidates on the home stretch braving frigid temperatures today, crisscrossing nine cities to convince voters to bundle up and go out in sub-zero temperatures at caucus time tomorrow night. in the new nbc des moines register media com poll confirms donald trump s dominant league and his supporters are bearing that out, facing down the elements to hear him speak today. in fact, nbc s vaughn hillyard has been talking to them about the determination to show up. i
even if it s by a couple percentage points. ali, garrett, dasha, sophia, thank you all so much. appreciate you. tomorrow, rachel maddow leads analysis of the iowa caucuses of the big board, special coverage begins tomorrow at seven eastern, here on msnbc. now to donald trump s legal problems, my next guest was in court during his outburst last week. how the antics may have been perceived by the judge, when we re back in 60 seconds. n 60 seconds
saying a lot of the things that he wanted to say that engoron wanted him to commit to not saying. he got everything he wanted, even though he only got five minutes. just as a spectator, i felt yanked around. i wonder how judge engoron felt. let me quickly ask you fore you go, lisa, we take a look at include least one more trial in new york. whh of these, if any, do you think is most likely to wrap up with a verdict before the november election? my money is still d.c. election subversion trial. i don t think it will go to trial on march 4th, because of the delays occasion by trump s appeal. that having been said, it is the most likely of the federal trials to go to court, and i think there s an understanding on the half of both the state d.a.s when prosecuting former president trump, but the federal trials might need to come first. we can tenuously see showing that she doesn t intend
let me just tell you, i want to read you something that was literally just handed to me. the judge has made an accommodation, lisa, for trump to testify in the e. jean carroll case, while denying former trump s delay this trial which is what we ve been talking about, so that he can attend his mother-in-law s funeral this coming week. luis kaplan s e. jean carroll case, should he decide to do so. it is still, again, unclear if he s going to show up on tuesday when the court case is supposed to get underway. what are your thoughts on that? my bet, alex, is that he doesn t show up this week at all. that s in part because the case is going to start obviously with e. jean carroll s own presentation of the evidence. the order that we saw from luke kaplan points out the divergence that you noted earlier, that trump said he wanted to go to his mother-in-law s funeral and yet after making that represent nation to the court also scheduled a campaign event on
can tackle climate change, we can support women s reproductive rights, at the same time are able to help our allies to make sure democracy is strong. you ll hear that message, you ve got ten months. be very clear, donald trump is made sure very uncomfortable. joe biden has spent time improving our lives. i have one last question, this aonstitutionally based one, it remains uncertain if donald p will actually even remain ballot in many states february 8th oral arguments on the lodo supreme court s decision to remove him from the state ballot, because he engaged in insurrection. what do you expect will happen? i ll tell you, not being a constitutional scholar there s little doubt in my mind, i trust my eyes, addressed what was out there, i trust the hundreds of people who pled guilty to insurrection. donald trump did do this. i have to be honest with you, i just assumed meet him at the ballot box. he s not going to win the election. we need to make sure he s there, he cries foul