coverage continues with wolf blitzer. happening now, new explosions over gaza as the israeli military vows it will advance anywhere hamas has found, sending new signals a wider offensive in the south may be imminent. ton tonight, a judge s ruling on whether to bar donald trump from the ballot in california. trump owe pponents hoping it ge him disqualified. mike johnson is promising to release nearly all of the january 6 video security footage at the u.s. capitol. will it accomplish his goal of pleasing right wing lawmakers? welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. we begin near the israeli/gaza border with a new round of explosions in israel s war against hamas. nic robertson is joining us live, not far from gaza. tell us what you have been seeing and hearing at your location. reporter: i m just looking over my shoulder at the moment. we were watching tracer fire along the horizon. noth
how donald trump is ahead of hill in five key swing states, that in a new york times poll. biden consider dropping out of the race, such as former obama campaign strategist and white house official david axelrod. the issue is not for him is not political it is actual and you can see that in this poll and there s just a lot of concern about the age issue. it just has to ask himself is is this the best path? the cnn serving as brutal trump and among younger votes and independents, and the former president winning 23% of the black vote and 46% of the latino vote. and this gut punch only a quarter of americans say the 80-year-old biden has stamina and sharpness to serve effectsively as president no way biden is withdrawing from race and polls one year out a cloudy crystal ball, now trump has his own baggage with all of the indictments and civil fraud trial, and somehow helping him among republicans. meeting so riled up they re running more stories warning about the danger
night and lots of states across the country, we hear at msnbc we ll be covering it until the cows come home, until steve kornacki s eyelids turned inside out on live television. all, right that does it for us tonight. now it is time for the last word with of the great lawrence o donnell. good evening, lawrence. as word witgood evening, rachel. i have a programming question to your programming note about wednesday night. you said we will all be here discussing the so-called debate. you don t have somewhere else to be, do you? does all include me? yes? because i haven t watched a single republican debate. i have a perfect record of not watching or commenting on a single republican so-called debate. i am going to change you to the proverbial loom, it is good for you, you know, anything can happen, lawrence. do i have to talk? yes. okay. i won t ever tell you what to say, but, also i like that you are appealing to me like i am making these decisions. it s up t
it s up to you lawrence. yes, it s completely up to you. you must discuss a lot about vivek ramaswamy. now, rachel, i ve spent the weekend curled up with this amazing new york times number one bestseller, debuting at number one on the bestseller list. and i have so many questions. and i was kind of wondering if maybe tonight, you could come over? yes. okay, here s what we ll do, to give you time to come over. here is what we are going to do. we are going to do a first segment with mary trump s reaction to her uncle being out of control in court today. and then we are going to talk about rachel maddow s number one best selling, new york times number one bestseller, debuts a number, one prequel, an american fight against fascism. and what i m gonna do, rachel, is it is going to be a discussion, but i am going to be selling the thing. no, but it s specific. i am going to be selling the audio book. and you know why i want to push the audio book. we will discuss all of t
hard things. the question i leave you with tonight is what does that mean for you? on that note, i wish you a very good night. from all of our colleagues across the networks of nbc news, thanks for staying up late with me. i will see you tomorrow. you tomorrow. i was out sick. i finally got covid. i think and one of the last people in the country who had never had it before. but i finally tested positive like a week and a half ago. i m vaccinated so i think that helped me get an easier bout. i rested up, isolated from everyone. i took a five-day course of paxlovid which honestly is kind of grows while you re taking it. but it is, in my opinion, totally worth. it it s only five days of pills. by the end of those five days of the paxlovid, i had no fever, totally reduced symptoms, and most importantly, i was testing negative. and not a risk to other people. so, anyway, i m back, i m sorry, i missed you here last week. also had to cancel and reschedule the remaining book tour