tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al
former president donald trump has left florida he is expected to touch down at laguardia airport any moment now, ahead of his historic arraignment in a manhattan criminal court tomorrow. what things will look like inside the courtroom after his booking and how much of it we re actually expected to see, all of that is coming up for you. and officials are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to security across this city. we ve got our reporters on the ground in manhattan where barricades are already up, protesters are expected to start gathering as well. almost every member of the nypd s 36,000 person force is now in uniform and on stand by and as donald trump continues to lash out on social media, how much more room is there for him to damage his own tastes we have got some new reaction from alvin bragg s predecessor coming your way shortly. join me right now from outside that courthouse in new york. we have nbc news correspondent garrett haake, outside of trump tower, nb
interview with him is like being in a washing machine, ali. don t tell ali that i did a rap lyric. we ll keep that between the four of us. good to see you. thank you for being here. i will see my reporter friends in the next hour. zak, good to see. you dasha burns and des moines. vaughn hill your indian indiola thank you for joining us. the fight over abortion access and the broader ability to save lives is that to go before the supreme court again this, from leaving the future of america s health care system up in the air once more. a law professor and author, dr. michelle goodman, goodwin, joins me after this. upped, or journalists groups and the families of two perspective reporters recently killed in gaza are restarting israel s claim that those reporters were terrace. we ll will talk about the firestorm that they re just have set off amongst press advocates worldwide. vocates worldwide. s it. new pronamel active shield actively shields the enamel
brand, just another sign again of how closely these issues are intertwined for the former president and current candidate. he certainly knows how to play to a crowd, that he has really figured out how to do almost to perfection over the years. let me ask you, dasha, where you are outside of trump tower, how heavy is the police presence again, we know that 3,600 approximately uniformed nypd police officers are on duty today. what are you seeing there? yeah, it s significant here alex, it s been growing throughout the day a lot of barricades set up around this area it s difficult to walk around here as there is also a lot, as you can imagine, of media gathered here, a lot of onlookers from the public. a lot of tourists coming to the area as well, and seeing the big set up from the press, the police, and also stopping to take photos. right now, though, we re not seeing a lot of protest action it s been fairly quiet and calm, though we don t expect that to be the case tomorrow new york
telling him, they are not yours, they do not belong to you, he s on notice of what the law is retention of classified documents does require this willfulness that you know what you re doing is against the law. if somebody doesn t know that, that could be a valid defense. once someone explains to you, they do not belong to you. the presidential records act, to make it sure they belonged to the united states of america, at that point, i think that defense vanishes, and i think if there s evidence he was actively concealing the intention of these documents, and that conflicts with the defense all together. okay. please don t go anywhere following a lot of angles as we watch donald trump s plane, trump force 1 as it s commonly called come to a full stop there. we ll see what measure of security greets that plane on the tarmac at laguardia. let s go to dasha burns, standing at her post outside