tapper starts now. what are governor nikki haley and ron desantis s plans to derail the trumps trained? the lead starts right now. after a blowout in iowa, next stop, new hampshire as donald trump pushes his competitors to drop out. ron desantis in nikki haley make their next move is vowing to stay in the fight. were going inside the campaign to learn their battle plans and defiance on display and for sale. we will take you to a store in trump country that has trump memorabilia that really has to be seen to be believed. the new round of strikes on the iranian backed. seizes iranian made weapons on their way to arm. welcome to the lead. i am jake tapper. cue the music. the election jam is underway. a runaway victory for donald trump last night in the iowa republican caucuses. the strongest showing for any nonincumbent in the modern era of the iowa caucuses since the 1970s with trump winning 51% of the vote. that is 10 points higher than the previous record. george
who is this guy? well, he is 40 years old. his name is matt muffley. he was flying, anderson, from the airport in northeastern pennsylvania on a flight to orlando, according to the f.b.i. he checked the bag, and in the routine screening that was happening by the tsa, they found explosives in this checked bag. according to the f.b.i., this is what they found. they found powder that was in a plastic wrap. they found fuses. the powder appears to be from commercial-grade fireworks, and so the question is, you know, what was he doing with this? the airport tried to page him while he was still at the airport. he left. and he was later arrested later that evening on monday. by the f.b.i. now, the court documents that were released today by the u.s. attorney in philadelphia don t mention any indication of extremism or his ties to terrorist groups or anything like that. this is something obviously the f.b.i. was focused on over the last couple of days. nothing like that appears t
mar-a-lago. and we re keep ing an eye o flooding in the southwestern u.s. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with kim brunhuber. the biden white house is officially hands off regarding last week s fbi search of donald trump s mar-a-lago residence. it turned up 11 sets of classified material, including some with the highest secrecy. privately, some white house officials admit they re worried about what other sensitive docu might be out there. as jessica schneider reports, the department of justice is pushing back. reporter: prosecutors have less than one week to submit proposed redactions to the judge so he can decide what might be released publicly. it will likely be a tall task for this department of justice. they have said repeatedly that any retaxedactions they would propose it would make the affidavit devoid of content. regardless, the judge wants their recommendation business next thursday at noon, and he might have additional conversations with the do
it. also this hour, president biden talking with brittney greiner s wife. we ll talk about how the president is getting ready to respond to greiner herself today. and an interview with the d.a. running the investigation with possible election interference in georgia. what she s saying about more subpoenas, including whether to issue one to donald trump. my job is to make sure that we get all the facts, that we get the information, that the grand jury can do their job and that i can make a decision. reporter: might we see a subpoena of the former president himself? more of that later in the show. i m hallie jackson in for katy tur. joining us, dasha burns, who is outside chicago for us, investigative correspondent tom winter and former federal prosecutor and legal analyst paul butler. dasha, let me start with you. the suspect in court today after the seven murder charges, first degree murder charges were filed against him. a lot of new details coming out just this mornin
Christie . I dont. Youre even more expressive. I admire it in you. I dont have that chip. But i admire it. Thank you, nicolle. Good to see you. Thanks to everyone for joining us on the beat. Were all returning from this holiday weekend. I hope youre ready to dive back into the news. We have Breaking News nicolle was just reporting on. We also have lots to cap up on. Reports of trump allies turning on him in the rico case. Where seinfeld meets legal accountability. Really. For all the talk about whether defendants believe their own lies, we will break down that costanza defense and its problems. Also tonight, Chai Komanduri back with us on a chai day for the data one Talking Point is turning into a loser. Right now, Breaking News, a reckoning for the militant violent lead earth of the January 6th Insurrection. Breaking news in the last few moments, a judge handing down an extraordinarily stiff and historic Prison Sentence for insurrectionist and proud boyce leader Enrique Tarrio. 22 yea