a lot to get to this morning, including another state removing donald trump from the 2024 republican presidential primary ballot. we will have expert legal and political analysis all not big decision from maine secretary of state. plus we will show you nikki haley attempt at cleaning up her highly criticized answer on the cause of the civil war. , also ahead, the latest from gaza. israeli forces continue to strike refugee camps where it believes hamas terrorists are hiding. this comes as the biden administration is putting more pressure on israel to protect civilians inside gaza. plus we ll take a look at the stories that dominated 2023, from two wars overseas to chaos on capitol hill, as well as the former presidents many legal battles as he enters a presidential election. a lot to go through. witness for all of it, nbc news national affairs analyst john heilemann, president of the national action network and host of msnbc s politicsnation the reverend al sharpton, washingto
with the economy still fragile. but he has a motivation to not let his political career tank. donald trump has been attacking him over the fact that he cut a deal with the democrats a few months back. he has not let him forget that and he s tried to turn the republicans against him. he tried to figure out some way to thread the needle. we ll see if it works. he s trying to distance the republicans from this while not letting the economy tank. threading the needle. he has 60 votes to let them pass the legislation to let them pass the legislate ace by a simple majority. let s talk about the white house chief of staff mark meadows rescinded his cooperation. trump ally steve bannon looking to delay his contempt trial. is the committee s work moving fast enough given these headwinds here? it s tough for them to get their work done and talk about threading the needle, mark meadows seems to be on all sides of the aisle. originally saying he was going to cooperate, give a little bit
experienced career guy. so, yeah, threading the needle. carter page was on with chris hayes. chris hayes had one heck of a show last night. i watched it twice, it was so good. i saw it. carter page. this figure in the midst of all of this, claiming that he wants to have his fisa warrant declassified so that everybody can read it. what about all the confusion about the fisa warrants and whether the fbi acted appropriately or inappropriately and the doj, of course, in going to the fisa judge? i would sort of like to see it, too. but, frankly, as an institutionalist, i prefer these things to remain classified and under seal. that said, i participated in the fisa process when i worked for bob mueller at the fbi at his counsel, andrea. here s what i can tell you the process is really careful and really exacting. so mr. page ought to be careful about what he asks for because i m not so sure he really, truly wants all of this out in the public. there are also reports,
ground and grimes could be his first real senate challenger in decades. nbc s casey hunt has been following this case and sam in louisville, so you have good seats there. casey let me start by playing some of your interview with lundergan grimes. you say you re an independent thinker, i want to talk about president barack obama, would you want him to campaign for you? this race is about putting the people of this state first, and i speak for myself and don t need any other surrogate to do that. i stand in stark contrast to the president in many of his ideas and platform. what she s doing there, obviously, threading the needle. the reference to the surrogate is striking today, because she does have a presidential surrogate, right, in town? she does. she does not seem to have a problem with appearing with bill clinton, who is a long-time family friend of the grimes family, but that s going to be the trick for grimes, if she can
he s raise aglot of money. bingo. when you get on the list, you go to the functions, you get on the rga list and every other list. this is a fund-raising this is a fund-raising effort, and all ken langone is doing is being langonian, threading the needle. no, he s not being clintonian, langonian. he s saying the guy is not running for president. i m not raising funds. what he did say, when the guy does run, he will raise money. he s raising money for chris christie and laying the groundwork for this. now, here s the problem that ken has. this would be flame out number two for him. the first one see, now, it s just hatred. it s not hatred. i like him. we don t like italians fighting. do you know what happens when i hate somebody? listen, this is flame out number two. flame out number two. he screwed up on rudy giuliani. raised money, and this is blowing up, too. i m trying to be henry