Through some of the more rural and red parts of the state, but places were turning out dormant democratic voters could be game changing. More than ambitious, its a sign of optimism. The Harris Walz Campaign is playing offense right now, while trump and vance find themselves on defense. Forced to answer for and try to clarify one negative story after another, be it an alleged physical confrontation or altercation with an Arlington National cemetery worker, a repost of memes calling for the jailing of trumps political opponents or yet another unearthed tape of j. D. Vance attacking women without children. This time, its teachers. Days after telling nbc news that democrats, quote, willfully misinterpreted his childless cat ladies remark, the audio of vance going after the head of the nations Largest Teachers Union who says she became a mother through marriage. So many leaders of the left, and i hate to be so personal about this, but theyre people without kids trying to brainwash the minds
Nikki haley . What she needs to prove on Super Tuesday to stay in the race. And if she does not stay, will she abide by the rnc pledge to endorse the nominee . What shes signaling now. The rnc is now not the same rnc. Youre no longer bound by that pledge. No, i think ill make what decision i want to make. And what the u. S. Is now saying about the war in gaza. Could harsher words turn into a change in policy toward israel . Good to be with you. Im katy tur in for Andrea Mitchell. The Supreme Court just gave Donald Trumps candidacy a big win. In a unanimous 90 ruling, the justices declared stated have no authority over federal candidates, overruling colorado Supreme Courts decision citing the constitutions insurrection clause to disqualify donald trump from the primary ballot. Quote, Congress Rather than the states, are responsible for enforcing Section Three against federal Office Holders and candidates. Colorado primarys tomorrow during Super Tuesday and this decision secures Donald T
laconia to portsmouth, asking voters if they want something new in this small slice of america, where making your decision is a point of pride. it is hard to predict what will happen in any given election. or is it? i changed my vote this morning and went, instead of voting for haley, i voted for trump. why? i think the election, the primary s over. i think that you know, mr. trump s going to be our next candidate. trump or haley? trump. yeah. considering haley? yes, i was. this morning. how did you make up your mind? really just i like when trump was already kind of in there. he has the experience and just kind of having second guesses about nikki. so what would another general election with donald trump as the nominee look like? if that happens, well, exactly like this, according to donald trump. how do you bring nikki haley voters, some who voted for you in 2020. how do you bring them back? they re all going to vote for me again, everybody. i m no
a matter of hours they took control of a key military base in southwest russia. they got as close as 120 miles from the russian capital. their leader struck a sudden deal agreeing to go into exile in belarus and avoid prosecution. antony blinken calls the weekend s events extraordinary. we haven t seen the last act. we re watching it closely and carefully. 16 months ago russian forces were on the doorstep of kiev in ukraine thinking they would take the city in a matter of days and thinking they would erase ukraine from the map as an independent country. now over the weekend they have had to defend moscow, russia s capital of mercenaries are putin s own making. it raises profound questions and shows cracks. putin has more to answer for in the weeks and months ahead. sandra: a former russia ambassador said it is a fresh reminder of a long-held nuclear fear. he is known quantity. hardened adversaries of the united states. the alternative could be worse. i think the biden a
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