The campaign. Plus, iowa not so nice. Hecklers turn up the heat and grill mike pence serving up a side of jeers with their deepf deepfried oreos and calling the former Vice President a traitor for doing his job. And a former republican says he doesnt need to wait for evidence to find out if hunter biden reaped rewards. Im dana bash. Lets go behind the headlines and inside politics. A win, kind of, coupled with a warning. The federal judge presiding over the President Trump 2020 Election Trial sides with the defense and rules against an attempt to totally restrict what their client can do or say with evidence. But that judge did establish clear limits to how trump can use what he learns from the lawyers in public, and this is important. She issued a stern warning to the former president , one, that everything he says is now under scrutiny. Another, is that the campaign will take a backseat to what happens inside her courtroom. Cnns Katelyn Polance is outside the federal courthouse. It s
Pair of legal bombshells here in washington today that could have huge ramifications for the 2024 election. Last hour, attorney general Merrick Garland announced a federal prosecutor who is raiding hunter biden has been Special Counsel, at his question. David weiss requested the status change. Garland did grant that. This comes just a few hour after trumps lawyers and Special Counsel prosecutors appeared for the first hearing in the election interference indictment. A key ruling could come down at any moment. Were on top of this. Lets star with the hunter biden news. Kara, tell us about this special appointment. Merrick garland announced this a little less than an hour ago, that david weiss, overseeing the investigation into hunter biden, requested Special Counsel on tuesday. Garland said he agreed to grant that. What this Special Counsel status means is david weiss, the u. S. Attorney for delaware, will have authority to investigate this case anywhere in the u. S. Thats been an issue,
expected to make a full recovery. the officers were executing a search warrant when they were met with gunfire. a standoff is still ongoing where the shooting took place. chief graves gave an update on the officers, three officers were struck, they did return fire and self-transported to the hospital and all three are in non-life-threatening condition. chief graves spoke to all the male officers in the hospital. mayor lucas tweeted a response saying we ve been reminded too much in kansas city how dangerous police work can be, praying for a full recovery for our officers injured this evening and that everyone on duty gets home safely. missouri highway patrol will handle the shooting investigation since it was kansas city officers involved. back to you. ashley: thank you, lori lightfoot on her way out of the mayor s office, conceding just before 10 p.m. todd: brooke singman live in washington, good morning. brooke: lori lightfoot, first chicago mayor in 40 years to lose t
. right know, on msnbc, the massive winter storm bringing holiday travel to a virtual standstill, a dangerous weather system marching across the midwest, toward the east coast, as we come on the air. high winds and bitter cold keeping planes on the ground and many cars off the roads. threats now of a so-called flash freeze, in parts of new england, as heavy rain turns to ice. we ve got the latest forecast, with our reporters standing by. also this hour, new fallout from the final report of the january 6th committee, what committee members are telling us about how it all came together, and what former president trump is saying after the panel said squarely that he is the one to blame. plus, the clock ticking down to a government shutdown. the house voting now on a bill to keep everything open before the midnight deadline. our nbc news reporting on the last-minute vote wrangling on capitol hill. good to be with you. we start this hour with the latest on this monster storm t
theest eastern city of dnipro and zaporizhzhia as well. officials say at least five people have been killed, at least 12 injured. we re still waiting for more numbers on that. video here, this is a pedestrian bridge in kyiv, a nearby strike damaging it with this explosion here. a missile also hit a children s playground. you can see the crater that it left here. the mayor of kyiv is warning people to shelter in place. this morning the russian president, vladimir putin, held a national security council meeting after accusing ukraine of carrying out a terror attack that damaged that bridge that links russia and russian occupied crimea. take a listen. translator: we have no doubt that this is a terrorist attack aimed at the destruction of the critical infrastructure of the russian federation. and authors, executors and master minds are the secret service of ukraine. ukrainian officials have not claimed responsibility. meanwhile, there is growing concern that russia is gear