Ch change. The types of things youre looking for change. Is austin the right person to handle rooting out extremism for the military . He absolutely is. Secretary austin is someone who because of that experience and because he came up through the ranks and served as an officer, first africanamerican secretary of defense, he does have a unique understanding of the challenges that we face here. I think theres some very specific things that he needs to do and i think he understands that. I think he understands that he needs to be more intrusive. We need to be more intrusive into the lives of our service members. I think he understands we need to be absolutely sure we are using the uniform code of military to prosecute people on active duty who engage in these activities. And i think he gets we need to fully understand the full nature of the problem. s important to point out the vast people in the military are not interested in this. They want to do the right thing. Secretary austin gets t
cheated. they are normalizing the completely false idea that american elections are rigged. and it is not just laura engroom. now, turning to joe biden and what we are hearing from voters on the ground in iowa. about a third of iowa republicans say joe biden was legitimately elected president. but almost half, almost double that i should say, double that amount say he was not, and next up we have the integrity of our elections. and up next moving on, no facts checks necessary. if you thought joe biden was not legitimately elected as president, you re in good company. multiple times steve kornacki mentioned two thirds of election goers, and fox moved onto the next thing, no mention that belief defies reality. after the attack on the capitol january 6th there was a moment it really felt like republicans might finally ditch donald trump. fox news owner rupert murdoch said he wanted to make trump a nonperson, which sounds severe. kevin mccarthy discussed removing trump from o
want to bring in ali vitali who is on the scene for us. this is breaking in the last hour or so. we re learning more by the minute. what do we know right now? reporter: learning more by the minute, yasmin. expected to get even more hard information as soon as this press briefing starts. i m told that the sheriff is on his way over right now. and we ll start getting more information. when that happens, i ll go over and try to ask all the questions that we still have, which is effectively what is the official timeline of what happened here. i will say i caught up with a parent, who was picking her children up here, they were thankfully okay, but she described to me that moment where she got the text message from one of her kids saying that there was an active shooting at their high school, and she never thought that it could happen in this community, and to her children, and unfortunately now this has come to perry, iowa. she also told me that while this shooting may have hap
right now on msnbc, we re following several breaking news stories. any moment now we re expecting police in rochester, new york, to give an update on a deadly crash yesterday outside a concert. the concerns it could have been an act of terror. plus, dramatic video out of japan, terrifying moments as a passenger jet bursts into flames. take a look at that after colliding with a coast guard aircraft on the runway. and miraculously hundreds escaped alive. also ahead, new year, new legal challenges for the former president. the high stakes hearing one week from today as he tries to claim presidential immunity. there is now just 13 days until iowa caucuses. we re live as republicans barnstorm the state ahead of the first in the nation contest. hey, everybody. good morning to you. happy new year. it is 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. we bring with dramatic video out of japan, showing a passenger jet engulfed in flames after colliding with a
ukraine stands and democracy stands. a vital message delivered by president joe biden today. made more significant when he delivered the words from kyiv itself. he walks side-by-side with president zelenskyy and the ukrainian capital. it s a moment filled with symbolism with an american president ineffectively a war zone with daily bombardment from russia s forces. two presidents who visit war zones like iraq or afghanistan. president biden delivered a message not just to president zelenskyy and the ukrainian people but to western allies as well as the russians. the message is that america the financial a military backer of ukraine is in it for the long haul. for you and all ukrainians, your mind the world every single day with the meaning of the word courage is. all sectors of your economy and all walks of life and it is astounding. astounding. it is priceless and worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that is how long we will be with you mr. president, for as long