made an extraordinary contribution to move this country toward being a more perfect union. the film rustin is streaming now on netflix. please watch it. it s great. audra mcdonald and aml ameen, so honored to have both of you here today. thank you so much. thank you. thank you very much. that does it for us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. hello on this monday. it is 10:00 eastern. happy caucus day. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. all eyes on iowa with the official start of the 2024 election season. republican candidates all making their final appeal to iowans ahead of tonight s gop caucuses. the caucuses will be called to order at 7:00 p.m. local time, 8:00 p.m. eastern. the vote will be held by secret ballot. our final nbc news des moines register poll shows donald trump maintaining his nearly 30-point lead over the rest of the field with a tight race for second place. one major and potentially dangerous obstacle stands in t
committees next month. his sugar brother. president biden: where is debra ross? i just had my picture taken with her. she couldn t be here actually, that is not true. i got mixed up. [indiscernible] carley: our commander-in-chief eating ice cream and looking for someone to remember she wasn t in the state. todd: buffalo bills asking volunteers to shovel snow. some people are outraged by new restrictions put in place. you re watching fox and friends, i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus live in washington. 51st annual march for life is taking place today. i will be live at the mall where the rally is taking place temperature is a snowy day, it is coming down. 100,000 will be marching regardless of weather. todd: i know you are prepared. you have your jacket. two polls out of new hampshire show donald trump with a lead over nikki haley. that is not horrible for the governor. carley: you see ron desantis in distant third place. madeline rivera has more. so g
for a fund raising push. and it was the state where he bagged it. so what s next for ron desantis after his distant second place finish in iowa? what he just told nbc news. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in new york where a jury was just seated moments ago in the e. jean carroll trial. msnbc s lisa rubin just stepped out court. give us your headlines. reporter: we just finished with the selection of a jury of nine people. one of the things that struck me about the jurors selected is how nonspecific they were about their media consumption. the judge has a battery of routine questions he asked of perspective jurors and the last one was where do you get your news from. what i saw today suggests to me that all the people assembled from the courtroom, irrespective of their political bias, they all wanted to be here because when they were asked where do you get your news from, most said i m news agnostic or i get it from the internet. i see
this is life, liberty & levin. he might have heard on monday the iowa caucuses begin. the republican primaries kicked off in earnest. but there is something taking place in this country that is so grave, it is so daunting that is the cloud overlaying the entire primary process of the selecti selection. like never before in american history. the democrat party, the democrat president biden has hand and pointed attorney general and the attorney general and put special counsel. democratic judges throughout the country, democrat prosecutors throughout the country, democrat othe trial juries throughout the country, are trying to affect the republican process and the general election process using the criminal justice system at the local, state, federal level with 91 charges to try and convict both for the general election going into the general election. donald trump, the president is the candidate we have never seen this before the americans. ever. even during the first times o
breaking news on capitol hill, congressional leaders come to an agreement they hope will buy them more time to avert a government shutdown. the problem is, speaker johnson will have to convince right-wing republicans to go along. and rising tensions before the second time in two days, the u.s. launches missile strikes against iran-backed militia militia. ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee, joins me live to discuss america s growing role in the middle east crisis. i m jonathan capehart, this is the saturday show. good evening. thank you for joining us in our brand-new timeslot. we really begin with the iowa caucuses, which are just two days away. and they could be the coldest caucuses ever recorded in the state. right now, temperatures are hovering around zero, with wind chills even lower. today, the clear front runner, donald trump, urged his supporters to brave the cold and show up to caucus, telling them he would be in iowa, possibly as soon as to