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.
he understands the role of attorney general is to serve and protect the people of the united states, and that is exactly what he will do and do better than anybody else can. jeff sessions was a disaster as attorney general. he s not qualified. he is not mentally qualified to be attorney general. we hope bill barr going to be as good as we think because he is a great gentleman, a great man. by the way, when bill barr, who is a coward. you know, bill barr was a coward. he didn t do what he was supposed to do. i fired him, and he has great chairman. for the joint chiefs of staff, general milley will serve as my top military adviser. i have absolute confidence he will fulfill his duty with the same brilliance and fortitude he has shown throughout his long and very distinguished career. he was, frankly, incompetent. the last one i d want to attack with as my leader would be milley. general kelly has been a star. he s done an incredible job thus far, respected by everybody. a g
my advice for everyone is to go with golo. it will release your fat and it will release you. tonight on the reidout today is a good day. a jury stood witness to what rudy giuliani did to me and my daughter. and held him accountable, and for that, i m thankful. a lot less money for hair dye. a d.c. jury ordered rudy giuliani to pay through the trump brown nose for defaming mother and daughter election workers ruby freeman and shaye moss. i ll tell you what nine figure sum he owes them in just a minute. also, highly classified documents go missing. can you guess who took them? i bet you can. but i ll give you the big reveal in a bit. plus, i have a very special guest tonight. tarik black thought trotter of the roots joins me to talk about his incredible new . but we begin tonight with breaking news late today out of a washington, d.c. courtroom where a federal jury has returned its decision on the punishment rudy giuliani will face for defaming two georgia elec
forces working against him and his allies. concerns are mounting that we could see more than mere spikes of violence as we near the midterm elections. a motley crop of trump acolytes are running on the ticket in states across the country. it includes, and this is by no means a comprehensive list, election deniers, covid vaccine skeptics, a celebrity doctor pedaling quack medical cures and a former football star under fire for allegedly paying for a girlfriend s abortion while advocating for a near total ban on abortion. this is one of the great tricks that i think the sexual revolution pulled on the american populous, this idea, okay, these marriages were fundamental, you know, they were maybe even violent but certainly they were unhappy. and so getting rid of them and making it easier for people to shift spouses like they change their underwear, that s going to make people happy in the long term. 250,000 illegals cross this boarder every month. this is an invasion. i p
campaign whether they have been contacted by any of their former colleagues or anyone else who attempted to influence or impact their testimony. without identifying any of the individuals involved, let me show you a couple of samples of answers we received to this question. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal, and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. i think most americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns. tonight, cnn has learned that this example and one other example that congresswoman cheney highlighted were both directed at cassidy hutchinson. cnn has also learned more about the testimony about what fellow white house staffer told her and secret service head of detail. it was about the ride the former president wanted to t