tonight on laura coates live. news today has been stunning. the republican national committee was considering, i mean seriously considering a resolution that would declare donald trump the presumptive nominee. and just like that, after we have only heard from, remember, it has only been two states. we do have 50. and territories of course. so in essence, that would mean that iowa, new hampshire, would get to decide who is the nominee. leaving everybody else, even those who wanted to vote, totally out of luck. until the whole thing blew up in their faces. trump ally david bosse withdrawing the resolution tonight. a source tells cnn the trump campaign had initially backed the idea. and the former president himself was, well, on board. not surprisingly. then all of a sudden he changed his tune when the backlash began. posting on social media tonight they should quote do it old fashioned way and finish the process off at the ballot box. all caps of course. even captain obvious wo
a.m. eastern. polls are open across new hampshire and the first primary of the 2024 republican race for the white house. it s now a one-on-one face-off between donald trump and nikki haley. today say make or break moment for the campaign, in a mission to beat donald trump after she finished third in iowa. but new hampshire marks an entirely different landscape. undeclared voters make up a state that is more suburban and more secular than iowa. past midnight, a bright state for the haley campaign in dixville notch, betweening all six votes that has endured since 1960. trump s opponents rallying around him in a show of force while haley took jabs on her own. so if you want a losing candidate who puts america last, vote for nikki haley. but if you want a president who puts america first every single time, you re going to vote for donald j. trump and you have to get out. so, what i will say to donald trump is, if you have that political elite, you can have them, because that
donald trump s role in the plot to overturn the 2020 election. including the violent and deadly attack on the capitol by a mob of insurrectionists, and ongoing threat to democracy. they will be the first opportunity for the public to see clips from the star witness, pat cipollone, s recorded testimony last week. the former white house counsel was reportedly cooperative. the panel has requested that an added version of alex holder s newly released documentary, unprecedented. so we could see some behind the scenes footage. not included in the final cut. although, it s not clear just how much we will learn from it. what we did learn is that the trump kids had nothing to say about january 6th. you said before you didn t want to talk about january 6th, the capital hearing let s skip the sixth. let s go to nbc s, julia, at the capitol where anticipation is building. she is getting new information about the committee s witness list. julia, we ve heard another big player, steve
probably made the right decision. and coming up on bbc news, two of european football s heavyweights, france and belgium, go head to head at the euros with kick off this afternoon in dusseldorf. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. a head teacher convicted of grooming and sexually abusing four girls has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. neil foden was the head of one school in bangor in north wales, and strategic head of another. he d been a well known and well respected figure in the local community before his offending was exposed. made a superhead in 2021, headteacher neil foden was a regular on the tv and radio news. none of us know for certain exactly how their work is going to be assessed. but in september last year, he was arrested after a girl came forward with allegations of sexual abuse. her evidence would prove pivotal. because she was quite involved with the defendant, she had a lot of evidence to give, not only in terms of her own account, but a