made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
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
public square. welcome to all you in the united states and around the world. i m fareed zakaria coming to you live. we begin with the stunning new development in russia over the last few days. i ll be joined by top analysts who will help us understand what has happened so far, what might happen next and what it all means for the war in ukraine. also, french president emanuel macron. i talked to him at a global summit he hosted in paris this week about how the west can help end extreme poverty and curb climate change. and about the striking rise of china and the potential of a thaw in its relations with the u.s. it s been an extraordinary 48 hours in russia as the world watched what president putin called an armed rebellion. the leader yevgeny prigozhin was the kremlin s top caterer before he threw away his kitchen apron. he wears fatigue as the head of the shadowy wagner group which has fought in conflicts in africa and the middle east and has been a key player in r
i know this is an important issue for you. i appreciate you sharing all that with us. we ll see you soon. in moments, for all of, you the big switcheroo from the rhonda scent s campaign, and whether it s a warning sign. a warning sign. and welcome to everyone, to alex witt reports. glad to have you. here is two pm eastern, 11 am out west. it is a first in the nation in new hampshire. we take a look at the mountain tops and pittsburgh. the temperature there, a whopping six degrees. some candidates are crisscrossing the ground today, nikki haley, ron desantis, they all have in-person events planned. as do democrats, dean phillips, in marion williamson, who have just two days to go until decision day. although donald trump remains the front runner, nikki haley is certainly gaining momentum. she picked up the endorsement of the conservative new hampshire union leader today. and a new cnn poll of likely voters in new hampshire, this push within 11 points of trump. historically
shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about india s current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? it s not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that it s a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now it s number one in global population, it s number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gdp, number five in dollar terms. it s a country of some substance. it does have free and fair elections. every once in a while we sort of overturn state governments, so we haven t yet been able to overturn the central government. so it counts for a great deal on the world stage. and i must say that when you look at things like technology, it s done rather well for a so called developing country. it s got some very fine talents. we seem to have exported an