hitting texas that s gonna be a big test for the states elector electric grid updates. d updates. as i got you all very good day from nbc headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, two pm in iowa, which is when they left before the first round of iowa caucuses. we begin with a live looks at the frosty iowa city, where the temperature is hovering near minus ten degrees right now. those temps are forecast to warm up, though, sort of buy caucus time tomorrow night. they will still remain below zero. candidates are bundled up. they are out and about making campaign stops across the state, even as trump is projected to run away with a contest, that is according to the latest nbc news des moines register poll. and trump s die hard supporters are seizing their moment, trudging through the snow today just to catch a glimpse of their candidate. nothing bothers me. as long as i have some heat somewhere, i ll be fine. we have
tuesday. mark meredith in palm beach, florida with more. mark: hey, good afternoon from hot and humid palm beach, florida as we await any potential motion that former president trump s lawyers may file and we are also looking for those redactions may be like because, again, the former president s legal team is giving claiming that the search here at mar-a-lago was a violation of trump s fourth amendment rights and while we await the motion we are looking to see when it may be filed or justice department response will be to this and we will be looking to see what happens on thursday, that s when federal prosecutors have to submit to a judge proposed redactions to criminal affidavit detailing what led up to search in mar-a-lago, we are also hearing from tennessee senator marsha blackburn. we still do not know exactly what they are up to and we know it s broad and far-teaching, going for documents anywhere between 2017 and 2021. it wasn t a focused raid, if you will. mark: we
despite the fact that he has a house of representatives and that is marginally, very close in terms of republican domination, and he can still do things that affects blacks on the ground in terms of dealing with the fact that unemployment, under his administration, has been less, unemployment for blacks than has been in many, many terms of presidents that proceeded him. but it s still a higher unemployment rate than whites in this country. how do we close that divide? what does he need to be able to do to reach into congress, if that is his goal. and i m sure it is for the democrats. that he put through the congress that would deal the unemployment problem and the voting problem. and we still have the issue of police reform. i want to give him an