to a very special edition of outfront. the breaking news, chris christie drops out. the bombshell coming just two hours before cnn s gop debate, the last debate before the first votes of the 2024 election. i m erin burnett in new york, and welcome the our viewers here and around the world. and i m anderson cooper in des moines, iowa. behind me, the stage is set for the debate tonight between nikki haley and ron desantis. and christie s surprise announcement just raised the stakes here in a big way. here is chris christie in his own words. it s clear to me tonight that there isn t a path for me to win the nomination. which is why i m suspending my campaign tonight for president of the united states. the question, of course, who will christie endorse. conventional wisdom says nikki haley. but christie was caught on a hot mic right before his announcement saying this about haley. she s going to get smoked. and you and i both know it. she is not up to this. well, obvi
and it s about a young man at 24 years old that was living his dream, that a few hours ago was getting ready to play the biggest game of his nfl career and there was probably nowhere else in the world he wanted to be, and now he fights for his life. we forget that part of living this dream is putting your life at risk. and tonight, you know, we got to see a side of football that is extremely ugly. shock and sadness during monday night football. buffalo bills safety demar hamlin is in critical condition this morning in a cincinnati hospital. he suffered cardiac arrest following a hit during last night s game. we re following the latest on his condition this morning and also the outpouring of support. also this morning, kevin mccarthy has already moved into the speaker s office on capitol hill despite an influential group of republicans who have vowed to vote against him today. we ll tell you why we may see something on the hill today that hasn t happened in 100 years. we re
And yet all of this is a distraction, an attempt to get us away from it. Whats also interesting to me, hallie, the president of the United States takes a lot of time trying to take down joe biden. That suggests to me that he believes biden is the strongest possible opponent. Weve had 70 headtohead matchups in polls. Biden has won every single one of them. In that sense its not a surprise the president is spending the time, using the power of his office to try to take down his number one opponent. Tony, thanks for being on. Im way out of town. I have to hand it over to craig melvin on what has been a very, very busy morning. Indeed, a Story Changing by the moment. Craig melvin here at Msnbc Headquarters in new york city. We pick up the breaking news. Huge implications for this president , the administration, the Justice Department, perhaps for the system of checks and balances in our country. The Trump Administration just releasing that memo detailing that controversial conversation bet
they have pulled back all ads spending on attacking ron desantis. they are expressing confidence. i was told by one senior adviser sure, it will impact some undecided voters. but it s not enough to change the trajectory of the race. we also got a memo put out. they said it was confidential memo, written by their pollster to the campaign heads, put out by the campaign that said this isn t going impact trump winning in the state. but, again, as we know, they have been concerned about nikki haley. they are watching those numbers carefully. they are looking at the tabs in every single poll. as we have reported, erin, the team that is around him right now is one of the most disciplined to date, which means they are analyzing data looking through this, and there is a reason they are spending so much money going after nikki haley. so it s certainly not all a celebration tonight. anderson? kristen, thanks very much. with me is david axelrod and scott jennings. david, if the former president
about what we faced, what my men and women had to deal with, what i had to deal with before calling for my resignation. we ll go through what happened that day and your point of view, which is so gripping issue as you read through the pages of the book. let s talk about the couple of days beforehand. from your intelligence division there was a memo put out that said they picked up chatter that something violent was going to happen on january 6th. were you aware of that? did you get those warnings, and if not, how is that possible that the chief of the capitol police was not made privy to them? what you ll find as you go through the book, there s a series of intelligence assessments that are put out for january 6th. the last one being put out on january 3rd pretty late in the evening. it comes down, it s a 15-page assessment with a paragraph at the end talking about it could be violent. they see this as the last chance opportunity to overturn the election. so that one paragraph in i