the new hampshire primary. all three top republican presidential candidates are there and for nikki haley, she says it is about beating former president donald trump. we were focused on desantis in iowa. we re no longer focused on him. it is trump in new hampshire and trump in south carolina. meanwhile, new developments around several of trump s legal issues including his new warning to the supreme court about what could happen if he s left off of more state ballots this election. in washington today, top u.s. and mexican officials are meeting to discuss the humanitarian crisis at the border. we ll talk to denver s mayor who says his city is at a, quote, breaking point. and the brutal and in some cases deadly weather conditions across the country, with at least 95 million people under weather alerts. we begin this very busy hour with a 2024 race for the white house. the republican candidates are entering the final weekend to make their pitches in new hampshire, whic
since a pro trump mob stormed the u.s. capitol. an insurrection that instantly reshape american politics. and the plot to overturn the 2020 election, continues to underscore the stakes heading into our next presidential election. on friday, president biden laid out donald trump s assault on democracy in his first campaign speech of the new year. biden called trump s actions on 16, quote, one of the worst derelictions of duty by a president in american history. today, we are here to answer the most important of questions, is democracy still americas sacred cause? this is not rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical, but the democracy still america sacred cause is still the greatest question of all-time. and it s what the 2024 election is all about. the choice is clear, donald trump s campaign is about him, not america, not you, donald trump s campaign is obsessed with the past, not the future. he is willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power, our campaign is diffe
donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
michael steele on what it will tell us about the gop. and as the doj sued texas over its extreme immigration law, weighs in on the republican leadership of his home state. this is american voices. it has been four years since a pro trump mob stormed the u.s. capitol, an insurrection that instantly reshaped american politics. and the plot to overturn the 2020 election continues to underscore the stakes heading into our next presidential election. on friday, president biden laid out donald trump s assault on democracy in his first campaign speech of the new year. biden called trump s actions on january 6th, quote, i m not the worst derelictions of duty by a president in american history. today, we are here to answer the most important question. is democracy still americas sacred cause? it s not rhetorical, academic, or hypothetical. whether democracy is still america s secret calls is the most urgent question of our time and it s blocked the 2024 election is all about
you. i m alex witt in for chris jansing here in new york city. there has been a major development in the israel-hamas war. hamas says one of its senior leaders has been killed in an israeli strike inside lebanon. these are live pictures of the site of the attack in beirut. what it could mean for the war as israel s full cabinet considers a plan for gaza after the fighting is done. plus, the border crisis officially hits historic levels. roughly 10,000 people arriving every single day, simultaneously overwhelming processing centers on the border and packing city shelters 2,000 miles away. what will the white house do about it. and with new hampshire s first in the nation primary just three weeks away, an incredible 40% of voters there are undeclared. why that could lead to a result no one is anticipating. but we re going to begin with that major breaking news tied to the israel hamas war. a senior hamas official killed in an israeli air strike in beirut. it comes as mome