the democrats are going to stop at nothing, they see this train coming down the track, and they want to derail it. and if they can, they are going to game the system or maybe even cheat. whoa, what now? that was not foxes laura angrum in december of 2020. that was fox host laura ingraham this week, january, the year 2024. despite no evidence of election fraud last time around, and having to make $787 million to settle a defamation case based on their 2020 election lies. fox appears to be priming their audience once again to believe that if donald trump loses in 2024, it s because the democrats cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laurin graham. now turning to joe biden. what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa, about a third of iowa republicans saying joe biden was legitimately elected president. but almost half, almost double that i should say, double that amount say that he was not. a
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin with two major developments both of which could impact the election interference cases against donald trump. first up, we have the supreme court rejecting the special counsel s request for an early review of clumps claims that he should be immune from facing prosecution. a newly discovered recording of trump pressuring michigan election officials not to certify the 2020 election. we are going to go right now to nbc s erin gilchrist here that the white house fourth. aaron, welcome. what does this mean for trump in the cases against him? alex, to potential impacts. hear this phone call could turn into damning evidence in one of the four cases against trump. now at the same time the supreme court could be just the kind of speed bumps the trump legal team could be looking for. reporter: the setback for government lawyers trying to fast-track the prosecution of former president do
we ll see. thank you. good evening. i m bret baier. a huge damage award in the rudy giuliani election worker defamation case. we ll tell you how much the plaintiffs are supposed to receive. the top democrat in the senate says congress is getting stonewalled over ufos. we ll bring you that story. and we look at whether hydroelectric dams are having a dangerous effect on the salmon population. but first breaking tonight, president biden s national security chief says the u.s. and israel are discussing a timetable for scaling back intense combat operations in the war with hamas. jake sullivan speaking again today with israeli leaders and with the palestinian president. these meetings come as we learn of a huge tragedy in northern gaza. our correspondent starts us off tonight live from jerusalem. good evening, nate. bret, israel continues facing pockets of the resistance? the northern gaza strip. israeli soldiers encountered three hostages, but they believed they were hamas t
Source tonight donald trump dodging questions about abortion on the Campaign Trail as a top democratic governor who wants President Biden to push the issue four is here. Youll hear from Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer in moments and at the white house, biden hosting Muslim American leaders, but only a few of them after many rejected his invitation with Anger Building over the war in gaza. One palestinian doctor who spoke at that meeting to President Biden will tell me why he walked out. And dramas and promising to free january 6 inmates and dc jails . Yes. That convicted criminals that he calls hostages often. But a new report details how almost all of them were charged with assaulting Law Enforcement. Im Kaitlan Collins, and this is the source but. We start with our top story tonight as donald trump is back on the trail before were going on trial two weeks from now if our president was in a pair of states that could make or break his 2024 campaign. Michigan and wisconsin. These are