kennedy is eating into the president s lead. that makes some democrats very nervous. we have team fox coverage. byron york and andy mccarthy are standing by. rich edson is live from the white house as we get ready for this hearing to get underway. hi, rich. good morning. republicans are focused here on the federal government s coordination with tech companies. democrats are focused on that key witness robert f. kennedy junior. this hearing is just about underway on capitol hill. this is the select subcommittee on the weaponization of the federal government. xhiflty republicans say they ll examine the government s role in censoring americans and what is big tech s collusion with out of control government agencies to silence speech. previewing his appearance kennedy says it s working with partners in tech. this is a systematic program to control what americans can say and think. as such it is in a democracy the people tell the government what to think not the other way arou
the campaign trail here in beautiful columbia, south carolina, where today i sat down for an interview with republican presidential candidate florida governor ron desantis. desantis was here in south carolina to roll out a major policy announcement about the u.s. military but of course i asked him about the big breaking news that his key competitor, republican front-runner and former president donald trump announced earl ier today he is the target of a criminal investigation into efforts to overturn the 2020 election. trump also said that he s been told to appear this week, thursday at the latest, before the federal grand jury in d.c. trump wrote on truth social today, quote, deranged to jack smh, the prosecutor with joe biden s department of justice sent a letter, again it was sunday night, stating that i m a target of the january 6 grand jury investigation and giving me a very short four days to report to the grand jury which almost always means an arrest and indictment, en
tonight on all in. a decision about projecting lower than expected turnout tonight. about that turn out. if you re sick, if you re so sick you can t go there, get up. tonight, the case for optimism. almost half of the base of the republican party showing up for this caucus tonight voted against donald trump. then the republican front runner liable for sexual assault returns to court for jury selection. plus should we expect to see you on the debate stage in new hampshire? is trump gonna be on the debate stage? nikki haley s latest move to squeeze out ron desantis. what it means from the biden campaign come november. and a serious point about conducting elections with zip lock bags and popcorn buckets. when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the very first votes of the 2024 election have now been cast. there are no big surprises in iowa last night, as donald trump to cruise to victory, 51% of the total vote. florida govern
now. where are you? good evening. did you say where am i? yeah. you re not here. it s just that you know what it is it s steve kornacki and the big board. oh, the board is here. i got it. so i m here. come visit. i miss you. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night was not that much of a surprise. but this this was. i don t know if you know but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020. do you believe it was honest or not? 82% said 82% said it was not. now, before we go on any further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or his square footage in the new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc news constructed entrance polls of voters as they headed into those iowa caucus sites, and 66% of caucus goers polled said they did not believe joe biden legitimately won the 2020 elect
president mike pence responds to the federal indictment of donald trump. i don t know why some of my competitors in the republican primary presume the president will be found guilty all we know is what the president has been accused of in the indictment. been if you were president biden would you pardon him right now think this whole matter is incredibly divisive for the country. divisive for the country. as he launches his own run for the white house, he explains how he differs from his former running mate h as he launches his own run for the white house, he explains where he differs with his former running mate in 2016 donald trump promised to govern as a conservative, but he makes no such promise today his criticism in how trump would lead on the world stage. my former running mate has seen war raging in eastern europe is signaling an ambiguous message, not even able to say he would prefer to win war in ukraine. and now he thinks he can build support fo