investigator of the january six committee, on the growing fears about how donald trump will use the military if he s reelected. then we ll talk about election ranks with minnesota governor tim walz. at three eastern, nikki free, democratic chair on the new tweets and abortion rights in that state. good morning to you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we re going to begin with the final countdown to the iowa caucuses, just one day to, go and republican candidates are battling an unexpected challenger, mother nature. as we look at iowa city right now, the temperature today, minus ten. the temperatures and forecast to warm up kind of, by caucus time tomorrow, but will remain below zero. conditions on the ground are treacherous for campaigners. it could hinder the ability of voters to get to caucus locations. however, the candidates are braving the weather today. they are blitzing nine cities and the crisscross on the state for
Haley supporters and desantis supporters arent. I mean i think the only way the cold could wiped up hurting trump is i suppose if his folks who look at this poll and see hes got it in the bag and think, well, im not going to brave, you know, negative 27 and go stand in the gym around the corner for a few hours to make this happen when hes clearly going to win. Theres some risk of complacency there. But i think generally speaking its pretty clear the enthusiasm for him is there. Its interesting. I think stuart was talking about strategy. Its interesting to me none of the candidates zeroed in on making the electability argument. They sort of started to do that in these final weeks, but nobody really came out of the gate coming at what a weak general Election Candidate Trump would be. That could have been a way one of them could have threaded the needle. To me that doesnt necessarily, that doesnt let them off the hook for allowing for not being willing to say that donald trump is unfit to
door to your car, you ll be okay. the trump team, by the way, is confident on this fact. they believe those supporters aren t just supporters of politicians, their supporters of a movement. they won t miss this for. anything that was donald trump was telling folks in a hastily scheduled on the town hall last night. take a listen to this. they re saying the trump voter has so much more spirit, dedication, they walk over atlas. trump voters are coming to vote. yeah, voters are i m hearing basically the same thing from trump caucus goers here. from the trump campaign, senior staff, they are all projecting confidence. what we see and that poll, the sky high enthusiasm numbers for their guy, they will turn their supporters into actual caucus goers, actual votes. when 7:00 rolls around tomorrow evening, alex. hank, thank you so much for all of that. we ll see if that prediction is true. let s go to nbc s dasha burns,
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can marry under the law, regardless of their agenda. this woman voted yes. i think it s only fair to give them the same rights as every other person has. reporter: colin wants change, too. i think it s important to the measure of not all, but most european advanced countries. reporter: and we heard similar views at polling stations across dublin. i m going to be voting yes. i m going to vote yes. reporter: but yes supporters aren t happy about the result. this was the capital, the support for change here was always expected to be allow and enthusiastic. the no vote will do better in regional areas. and all sides here talk about high no-voters. the unknown number of people who quietly oppose gay marriage and who could help to decisively wrote it down. i voted no. reporter: keith mills is a