closing in. candidates make their final pitches and sparks fly. donald trump has been throwing temper tantrums about me. donald trump is running for his issues. nikki haley is runner for her donor s issues. one week before iowa decides, do they have any hope. and an urgent warning. as we begin this election year, we must be clear. democracy is on the ballot. three years after the capitol attack, the president tries to reframe the race. as trump defends the rioters. nobody has been treated ever in history so badly as those people. plus deal or no deal? what we see here is absolute mayhem. some republicans threaten to shut down over the border. l i will not vote for the funding of the government. and new deetails on plans to impeach secretary mayorkas. inside politics starts now. good morning and welcome to inside politics sunday. i m manu raju. it is almost time for iowans to have their say at who should be president. in just eight days iowa repu
for iowa voters?ch the country is in disarray. we see it with crime on our streets, or a border that is s irresponsible, reckless, and ee odangerous. we. see it with our world on fire. fo r the first time, 81% of americans don t think their kidd oare going to live as good of t life as we have. we can t be okay with it. we have one job as parents, and that s to do rightds. by our kit every child deserves a good education, regardless of whereit they are born and raised.. we feel it with our mortgage payments, our insurance payments, everything that we have to pay has all gone up. i analyzed the threats, and the stronger the threat, the higher the heel.i i m a problem solver. but more than that, i love america. e inne is going to outwork m this race. no one is going to outsmart me in this race. we do havee a country to save, t i promise you this if you doing with me in this movement, if you joiinn with me in this fight, i promise you our best days are yet to come. ,
defense lloyd austin after austin failed to tell the president that he was in the hospital in intensive care and temporarily off his job. days after the revelation we still don t know why secretary austin was hospitalized in the first place. leaving this hour, president biden goes to south carolina bringing his campaign back to the state that he hopes can save him again and he went to emanuel church in south carolina, that was the site of the 2015 shooting fueled by white supremacy. his speech interrupted by protesters calling for a ceasefire in gaza. ceasefire now! you hear the crowd afterwards, folks tried to drown out the protesters by chanting four more years. there was nothing subtle about the contents of president biden s speech in an attempt to tie the ideology behind those racist murders in mother emanuel church in 2015 to donald trump and the maga movement. a mob attacked black officers, black veterans. maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to
andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
by, trump was reportedly just not interested in doing more to stop it. and trump learned that his own vice president had to be rushed to a secure location, trump reportedly responded, so what? so what? trump accepted the violence that they. he liked the threat to democracy than, they re whipping of violence on his behalf, the anger. and he still does. and that s quickly emerging as the core argument in president biden s reelection campaign. in a speech on friday, biden called democracy the most urgent question of our time, saying trump is willing to sacrifice it. and just this afternoon, speaking at mother emanuel church, he compared the perpetuation of the big lie to those who denied the outcome of the civil war. biden isn t imploring americans to save democracy from the man who by his own account wants to destroy it. but as president biden leans into this contrast with trump, this particular line of attack, something to think is just kind of old dunes, it s in the past. rep