welcome to msnbc s special coverage of the new hampshire primary. we re here in manchester, new hampshire, for what could be the defining contest of the 2024 republican primary. for republican voters, there s now just one alternative to an ex-president who incited an insurrection, faces 91 felony counts in 4 jurisdictions who says he want thes to be dictator for a day. i could really go on and on about trump s alarming statements, but we don t have all day for that. the one person left standing in his way is former south carolina governor nikki haley. she spent the morning in new hampshire. trump did a stop and his surrogates marjorie taylor greene are also crisscrossing the state for him. out there campaigning on his behalf. haley now has that two-person contest she s always wanted. but everything suggests that she s an uphill climb. the last tracking poll out this morning shows trump up by 22 points. that s a lot. and over the last few weeks, the haley campaign has been res
4% of the dow is the worst we ve seen in two years. all hit hard because inflation remains stuck and no one can get it under control. an 8.3% annualized inflation rate. the core rate, that is without food and energy, also soaring more than 6.3%. this is the fourth 1,000 point sell-off for the dow just this year. again, this was a worse than expected inflation report. now the president is heralding this inflation reduction act that some people said is actually making the situation worse. because across the board, prices are going up. he s touting the prospect of eventually drug prices going down. even if he gets that and it s a herculean leap, it would be but a fraction of the overall costs that continue to soar. keep this in mind that with inflation running north of 8%, most food and related items are running at about double to sometimes triple that. whatever progress we ve seen on gasoline and related prices has done little to affect prices almost everywhere else. and then a
conspiracy theories about them. the first day of deliberations wrapping up a short while ago after giuliani opted not to take the stand. vladimir putin is vowing there will be no peace in ukraine until russia s military goals are received. krrn was inside the russian president s marathon end-of-the-year news conference, his first since the start of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin tonight with the war in gaza, president biden stressing just a short while ago that he wants israel to, quote, be focused on how to save civilian lives. we ll have more on the mounding u.s. pressure on israel to be more targeted in its battle against hamas. cnn s alex marquardt is standing by live in tel aviv. first i want to go first to clarissa ward who made a truly extraordinary excursion into gaza. cnn is the first western media outlet to gain independent access to southern gaza without an id
Ukrainian government which have links to Russian Politicians and operatives. The memo says the link compels investigators to examine russian efforts of interference in the 2016 election. The payments from ukraine to manafort is the basis for financial crimes charges he faces. Manafort wants the charges dismissed claiming beyond muellers scope because ukraine is unrelated to the campaign. The Declassified Memo was written in august by Deputy Attorney general rod rosenstein. It shows rosensteins strong backing for the special counsel despite attacks from the president. Lets discuss this with julian selzer. Good morning. Good morning. The constant attacks against the word collusion. The word he said the most in the first 14 or 15 months. How significant is this development . It doesnt seem there are any new findings here, but it shows
there is legitimacy to looking at the financial ties with officials in the trump orbit and russia. This just provides credibility for mueller looking into t
of the fed s signal come march it will play with the rates to do something about the inflation that s pushing up against 7% now? yes, it is something we expected, the market expected. the fed has been signaling that for a while now. the only question is whether in effect they may have waited too long. as you know, inflation has gone up a lot. the economy is roaring. you just saw what is going on with house prices, which is a principle target of interest rate policy to keep house prices from going up as fast as they ve been going up, but we are trying to land a plane going at a very high speed at the moment, and the market is, as you saw in the stock market numbers, quite nervous about there. there will be a lot of interest rate hikes, but the question is are there going to be so many that contrary to what the chairman just said it does affect the job market, it does affect growth, it affects the overall economy. there are not a lot of examples of us trying to decelerate an economy wi