made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
good morning, welcome to way too early on this monday, january 16th, martin luther king jr. day. thank you for starting your week with us. one week after we first learned that a small number of classified documents had been found in president biden s personal collection that number of files continues to grow. in the same box where a single other document was found the previous day. the president s personal attorney discovered the documents, they stopped searching because they lacked the security clearance needed to handle classified material. and they return the next day with department of justice officials, he says he discovered the additional five documents in the same box. those files are separate from two other batches we report on last week. one found inside president biden s garage and another found inside an office he used at the penn biden senter in washington, d.c. sources tell nbc news that one of the documents was marked with the highest security classificatio
While republican White House hopefuls are focusing on iowa, President Biden and Vice President harris are heading to two important States Today to mark mlk day. President biden will be in swing state pennsylvania. Hes arriving right now. Hes volunteering at a Hunger Relief Organization there while the Vice President heads to South Carolina which holds the first sanctioned primary for democrats in a couple of weeks. Shell be speaking at an naacp event. They have some wind in their sails, announcing a hefty Reelection War Chest as we begin the slog toward november. Nbcs Aaron Gilchrist joins us from philadelphia where well see the president. Is this their version of counterprogramming today . Reporter ana, i think you can look at it a couple of different ways here. First the president practicing what he preaches, in his proclamation for this holiday, Martin Luther King day, the only congressionally designated national day of service. The president encouraged
still commit both humanitarian and military aid. and that s going to be so vitally important as analysts are starting to think about the length of this conflict, not in terms of months but in terms of years. national security analyst for nbc news, clint watts, we appreciate it as always, and we ll speak to you again soon. a look at the state of play for the republican party ahead of 2024. and on morning joe, democratic senator raphael warnock joins the conversation on the heels of president biden s trip to atlanta to mark mlk day. and the fallout over the classified documents situation. carol leonnig joins. morning joe is just moments away. g joins. morning joe is just moments away of relief from chest congestion and any type of cough, day or night. mucinex dm. it s comeback season. (vo) give your business an advantage right now, with nationwide 5g from t-mobile for business.