As a surge in cases of a more contagious Covid Variant is worrying Health Officials there and now here at home. Thanks for being here, everybody. Happening rival at this hour, President Biden is meeting with nato allies in brussels. The president will soon be meeting with turkeys president on the sidelines of this summit. This is President Bidens first inperson gathering with nato leaders where this morning he is calling the alliance critically important and a sacred obligation in stark contrast to his predecessor. This all comes ahead of bidens highly anticipated meeting with russian president Vladimir Putin on wednesday in geneva. Lets begin with jeff zeleny live in brussels for us now. The president has already had some tough words just today for russia and china. What did he say . Reporter well, President Biden has been repeating that message everywhere he goes throughout his European Tour here about the rising aggression from russia and the rising threats from china. Hes doing the
strikes against iran-backed targets in iraq and syria in retaliation for a drone attack that killed three american soldiers. here s the first video we re seeing from the region, an iraqi security official said a u.s. air strike targeted a weapons warehouse and three houses belonging to hezbollah in anbar province. it happens the same day that president biden attending the arrival of troops from jordan. forces conducted the air strikes against iran s islamic revolutionary guard force and afitiated militia groups. they struck more than 85 targets with numerous aircraft to include long-range bombers flown from the united states. president biden released a statement saying in part, quote, our response began today. it will continue at times in places of our choosing. the united states does not seek conflict in the middle east or anywhere else in the world. but let all those who might seek to do us harm know this. if you harm an american, we will respond. let me bring in nbc news c
is it about him? i really think he has a heart for the common man. he s not with the status quo. eight years later and the media still treating trump voters like zoo animals. what s your message to iran? don t, don t, don t, don t. jesse: guess what? they didn t, and now three americans are dead. along the way we discovered secret chinese staging hotels embedded with an illegal alien caravan that rode the next san train of death. a look inside a migrant caravan where biden s approval rating is a hundred percent. [chanting biden] we re drinking a hundred beers and a hundred vodkas. jesse: it was the end of the korean war and soldiers returned home. the new york times dropped the bombshell. some g.i. captives fear converted was the headline. it was the government s biggest nightmare come true. american prisoners of war were coming home converted by communist brainwashers. the story kicked the cia into high gear. just weeks into his job as cia director, a
first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa, with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
iowa caucuses and instead of being in iowa, the front-runner, donald trump was in court. using the civil fraud case to grandstand before the judge sent him fresh off the cnn debate and income i haley and ron desantis debated in iowa as he tries to sway any possible votes their way. joining us now republican presidential candidate asa hutchinson, the former governor of arkansas. thanks for joining us. i want to get your response to something donald trump just said outside the courtroom in his civil fraud trial against him. take a listen. my legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil and the criminal ones are all set up by joe biden, crooked joe biden. this is something that s never happened in this country. even the civil ones, this civil and they re set up by biden. every single, just about case that i m involved in they re doing it for election interference. obviously, there is zero evidence that president biden had anything to do with the civil suits or the prose