tonight. about that turn out. if you re sick, if you re so sick you can t go there get up. tonight, the case for optimism. almost half of the base of the republican party showing up for this caucus tonight voted against donald trump. and the republican front runner liable for sexual assault returns to court for jury selection. plus should we expect to see you on the debate stage in new hampshire? is trump gonna be on the debate stage? nikki haley s latest move to squeeze out ron desantis. what it means from the biden campaign come november. and it s a serious point about conducting elections with zip lock bags and popcorn buckets. when all in starts, right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the very first votes of the 2024 election have now been cast. there are no big surprises in iowa last night is donald trump to cruise to victory. 51% of the total vote. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, earnings for 21% republican ca
as trump s lawyers are arguing? or is that claim not just constitutionally wrong, but also say license for future presidents to commit crimes while in office, as the justice department argues? and on the eve of a hearing on the question of whether trump can be prosecuted for his actions while in office, we are learning incredible new details about what donald trump said on january 6 and what h did and did not do. thanks t testimony, to the special l closest aides, the deputy chief of staff dan scavino. from that reporting, quote, sources say scavino told smith s investigators as the violence began to escalate that day, trump was just not interested in doing more to stop it sources also say that the former trump aidk luna told federal investigators that when trump wa informed that then-vice president mike pence had to be ush rushed to a secure location, trump responded so what. luna saw an unexpected willingness by trump to let potential harm come to a long time loyalist. and
congress came out forcefully on the side of the former president. they claimed others who did the same thing were let off or given a slap on the wrist. we re going to lay out the facts of those cases that they continue to cite to let you compare and contrast for yourself. but as for bill bar, donald trump s attorney general who helped shield him from trouble after the mueller investigation, there s no comparison. we re going to play that sound byte while we also watch this plane for donald trump to disembark. let s listen first. there are two big lies, i think, that are out there right now. one is, oh, these other presidents took all of these documents. those were situations where they arranged with the archives to set up special space under the management, control, and security provided by the archivist to temporarily put documents into the libraries were ready. these were not people just putting them in their basement. okay. and the second thing that the president, the id
and in the streets. we will fight the woke in the halls of congress. we shall fight in the hills. we shall never surrender. we will never ever surrender to the woke mob. so sad. a little historical perspective on wars. there are wars. a little hysterical perspective on this. you know, there was a great profile piece of ron desantis by mark lebovich and it talked about how everything seemed so sort of i don t know i don t know triefd. that it was all just very contrived. when he is going on and on, there will be and he s trying to sound churchillian and he s talking about again, most americans are going, huh? what is this? what? and he just keeps beating it. it s like america is not florida and that one little area in florida, by the way, ron desantis, but he continues to brag about his efforts to fight woke. we ve got a lot to get this this morning. that is seriously so 19 so 2021. it really is. speaking of actual wars, we will have new reporti
tonight, straight from the source. aftershocks as donald trump fires back all the way to the supreme court. the new push in america s most populous state to try and boot him off the ballot after colorado supreme court removed him from the republican primary for engaging in insurrection. his california next? the official leading that charge joins us tonight. also, the fate of the hostages in gaza. there is word of israel s new offer, how hamas is responding, as the humanitarian crisis in gaza grows more desperate by the day. and it s an infamous murder case that once gripped the nation. a pregnant woman killed and her husband s accusation that ignited deep racial divisions and mistrust in boston. tonight, an apology. 34 years later, to the two black men who are wrongfully accused. kaitlan collins is off tonight, i m brianna keilar. and this is the source. tonight, donald trump put potential return to the white house will depend, in part, on the same grinch of a governm