shocking images coming out of the midwest right now where detroit and chicago have some of the worst air quality in the world as smoke from canadian wildfires smothers cities. cars vanishing into white clouds in michigan as they move across this bridge. you can barely see them there. in chicago, the skyline today is almost completely blurred out. more big cities now in the path of the smoke. and in fact, right now president biden has just walked up to the podium in chicago to sell his economic agenda, a vision aides have branded as bidenomics, we re going to bring those comments to you live. also this hour, new developments in multiple cases tied to former president donald trump as he denies showing off classified material in that potentially damning audio saying, quote, yeah, it was bravado. it comes just as georgia s secretary of state brad raffensperger just finished meeting with the special counsel team. but we re going to begin the hour with extreme weather affecting t
a new wave of deadly attacks on civilians. does a weakened vladimir putin and a divided russian military help ukraine? to the extent moscow is distracted by its own internal divisions, it may help. it s early days. i think this will play out over the next weeks and months. president biden is in chicago to deliver a key economic policy address as the white house crafts a strategy to combat the growing concerns among voters over the president s age. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in new york today. former president trump s explanation for the leaked audio recording from bedminster, where he appears to be showing a classified document about the war in iran to people with security clearances at his new jersey golf resort or people without security clearances, of course. that s evolving by the day with two new lines of defense on tuesday. first in new hampshire, to fox news digital. a whole desk full of lots of papers, mostly newspaper articles, copies of maga
msnbc headquarters in new york city. receipts, proof of timeline, screenshots. trump unconstitutionally profited millions from the presidency, and democrats like congressman robert garcia bringing the receipts. we begin this hour in frigid iowa, where enlisted 48 hours, caucus goers will brave sub-zero temperatures on the martin luther king jr. day to decide who they think should top the presidential power ticket for 2024. joining me now from des moines iowa is nbc news correspondent vaughn hillyard. vaughn, i will not ask the obvious about how cold it is, but you have to set the stage for us. talk about how the extreme weather in iowa could actually dictate the outcome of monday. okay, my friend, we are standing in here in this isn t just nothing here. i know that you are in new york today, where it s actually a balmy 60 degrees, but your family down miami right now, he did next is 89. i was looking this up in miami. here at the windchill is negative 20. we re talking ab
book called the power of, one how i tell the trent strength to tell the truth and blow the whistle. happy father s day to all the dads and father figures out, there stay right where you, are inside jen psaki begins right now. another week, another arraignment for donald trump. the former president pleads not guilty to 37 felony counts. as lots of his former allies say enough is enough. trump s former national security adviser john bolton is among those speaking out, and he s coming up first. plus trump on enemies list congressman adam schiff is probably on it. so what does he think about trump s promises to weaponize the doj against his opponents if he is reelected. i will ask him when he joins me in just a few minutes. also today, we are hearing a lot of complaints from the former presidents defenders about a two tiered justice system. and they are right. just not in the way they think. and later, a trip to maryland for a conversation with one of the democratic party
suggest that a potential defendant cooperate with a prosecutor, just because he might be wrong about his blanket immunity statements. but look. it s very clear evidence wise that voter fraud is not why the election was lost. in fact, the middle part of my book explains in great detail with verifiable proof why trump lost the election. there is a simple explanation. it has nothing to do with fraud whatsoever. and when i m free to talk about it, everybody will understand. it makes perfect sense. president trump is not actively making sure that all conservative voters are in his camp. bottom line. and it s really hard to win an election when you carve out a piece of the electorate and tell them, you are dead to me. which is what former president trump has done many, many times. you have to have a broad coalition to win an election, and president trump has actively narrowed his base of support overtime. okay. it s disproven, it s coming out march 12th, it will probably be requi