washington, d.c. i m in for nicolle wallace. we begin with the one thing that has consistently haunted the disgraced, twice impeached, four times indicted vice president, something that has time and again kneecaped donald j. trump, in the way his adversaries, even the legal system has struggled to do. we re talking about donald trump s own words. today we re reminded that words do, in fact, matter, particularly when they are uttered during a deposition under oath. it s part of the $370 million civil fraud suit brought by new york attorney general letitia james. as viewers of this show know well, that trial has not been short on fireworks between trump grandstanding outside court or grandstanding inside the court. time and again, trump has turned this trial into a cross between a maga rally and a wwe wrestling match. whether he s sparring with the judge or delivering last week s blistering six-minute soliloquy in open court, or final day of proceedings. this is not the first t
this is why we fight. i m adam schiff, and i approve this message. welcome to a special coverage of the iowa republican caucuses. in a few hours the gop will be one step closer to choosing a candidate to take on joe biden. here is des moines, where it s 2 degrees below zero, trump himself has expressed concerns that his margins could take a hit from the frozen temperatures. what are the candidate saying in these final hours? nikki haley began her day at the drake diner here in des moines, a popular spot. and she s telling iowans to go out and caucus for her, she says she s not worried about the weather, she s feeling a lot of momentum and excitement on the ground. she has centered her campaign on this notion that she would be the strongest person to go up against president biden in november, so principally, about electability. meanwhile governor desantis, crisscrossing the state as well. take a listen to what he had to say. people are going to say, there s only two poss
rich edson is at the white house with the latest. he did not make the trip but can he report on it. no trip for me but we will see where the day goes. he spent his weekend in philadelphia. he made his first major campaign rally of the campaign cycle. he announced major union endorsements in filly. today biden s first stop in california takes him to a nature preserve in palo alto where a white house official says he will tour a coastal wet land and announce more than $600 million in projects to help the u.s. expand more extreme weather from climate change. campaign money in silicon valley. gavin newsom will reportedly be at one of these events this evening. also in california today, florida governor and presidential candidate ron desantis who hab eggs on newsom to challenge biden for the democratic nomination. stop pussy footing around. are you going to throw your hat in the ring and challenge joe? are you going to get in and do it or are you just going to sit on the sidel
time for choosing. the trump indictment forces republican candidates to make a choice, tiptoe around the former president or take their best shot at the front-runner. he s saying i m more important than the country. this is vanity run amok. republican presidential candidate chris christie joins me live next and out in the open. trump s team starts to prepare his defense. what do experts charge with our national defense say about the classified documents stored at mar-a-lago? house intelligence committee chairman mike turner and former trump defense secretary mark esper will be here exclusively. plus a way forward? america s cities confront challenges on crime and justice and a new mayor is delivering on a promise to end homelessness, but now her city faces a new test. this does not catch us off guard nor will it intimidate us. l.a. mayor karen bass joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is thanking dad. happy
the chain of command it was broken. why was it broken an how was that allowed to happen? he told everybody he was homeworking. he wasn t in the hospital. how did this happen? why did they think it wasn t important that the president of the united states or anybody else was informed? out of office. defense secretary lloyd austin leaving his bosses in the dark about a hospital stay at the worst possible time. all this happening while iranian backed militias hit u.s. forces overseas in syria and iraq. a mystery on our hands not solved yet. i m bill hemmer. hope you had a grand weekend. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is baffling and the more i hear the more questions i ve had. we ll get to all of those. the strange saga engulfing the biden administration in controversy raising questions about who exactly is at the helm of the pentagon with so much at stake. bill: secretary austin went in for electrictive surgery before chris