nation. zelenskyy says when? the lead starts right now. let me in the message from the ukrainian president who showed up at the nato summit, cheered on in a city square as he pushed to join the international alliance. his criticism about the process as russian strikes were hitting his cities back hoeme. and will donald trump be indicted a third time? today a new grand jury was selected to decide just that while a different federal grand jury in d.c. is also hard at a work. plus do you believe that white nationalists are racist? yes, if that s what racist is, yes. it s not really a difficult question. white nationalists are racists. that s what the term means and yet senator tommy tuberville of alabama keeps making a spectacle of himself and his struggle with trying to discuss this issue. he just gave yet another answer on the topic. welcome to the lead , i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead in one of the most consequential gatherings. today the alliance
99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year s republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that s about 14% of the state s registered republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big loser. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party, who is strapped with a republican loser, a seven-time loser. the problem for republicans is they started in iowa. this is just a perennial problem for the gop. it really, willie, is a problem that the democrats fixed, but you go back and look. who won in 2008? mike huckabee.
of ayman, televising trumps trial. my argument that the public needs to see the documents case lie banned in color as it unfolds in realtime in court. then, the pardon primary, republican presidential candidates are scrambling to pledge to protect the ex president. and worst of the week, two republican senators have become human roadblocks, putting our nation security at risk in the process. who will take the title this week? i m ayman mohyeldin, let s started. so donald trump surrendered to authorities this week at a federal courthouse in miami. this is one of the only glimpses that we got of the ex president at the courthouse that day. a shadowy figure, waving behind a car s tinted glass. that sad images now how generations will remember the historic second indictment of donald trump. and that s because just hours before trump s court appearance, magistrate judge, jonathan goodman, who oversaw the proceeding, denied a request from a group of local and national media outlets
of ayman, televising trumps trial. my argument that the public needs to see the documents case live and in color as it unfolds in realtime in court. then, the pardon primary, republican presidential candidates are scrambling to pledge to protect the ex president. and worst of the week, two republican senators have become human roadblocks, putting our nation security at risk in the process. who will take the title this week? i m ayman mohyeldin, let s started. so donald trump surrendered to authorities this week at a federal courthouse in miami. this is one of the only glimpses that we got of the ex president at the courthouse that day. a shadowy figure, waving behind a car s tinted glass. that sad images now how generations will remember the historic second indictment of donald trump. and that s because just hours before trump s court, appearance, magistrate judge, jonathan goodman, who oversaw the proceeding, denied a request from a group of local and national media outlets,
out front next, putin s nukes are on the move. as putin warns he can still destroy ukraine s capital. we are live in moscow, and along ukraine s front lines where the attacks are intensifying tonight. plus, the justice department tonight taking steps to prevent trump from releasing classified materials in the mar-a-lago case, as one of his now former lawyers reveals why he is no longer advising the former president. and after the spy balloon, and dangerous close calls. tech can u.s. prevent another dangerous incident with china? a critical meeting about to happen. let s go out front. good evening, i m brianna killer in for erin burnett. out front tonight, putin surrounding ukraine with nuclear weapons. the russian president declaring today he now has nukes on standby in belarus, which is where putin launched his invasion of ukraine from more than one year ago. the first nuclear warheads have been delivered to the territory of belarus, but just the first ones. this is the