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consequences. last night, there were consequences. also this hour, the iowa caucus campaign blitz with haley and desantis battling for second place. if the latest polls are correct, donald trump has a 30-point lead. kristin welker joins me live from des moines to break it all down. former president trump refocusing on iowa after his fireworks during closing arguments at his civil fraud trial in manhattan. the judge promising his decision on how much to fine the former president and his adult sons before the end of the month. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell back in washington. while u.s. forces in the wider middle east are bracing for retaliation after they struck back at houthi rebel forces in defiance of the ultimatums keeping up their attacks. the pentagon and british allies bombed more than 60 targets inside yemen overnight that they say were used by the rebels to plan and launch dozens of attacks against commercial shipping routes vital to the world ....
Chief, with president biden. the defense secretary is going to stay in office. the president has full faith and confidence in him. reporter: so one of the other things that s taken more time to refine here is exactly what they wanted to go after with these strikes. there s two real goals here. one is to be able to deter the houthis ability to continue to carry out these very dangerous and threatening attacks against ships in the red sea. they did that last night by going after warehouses, places where the houthis are storing or even assembling things like these one-way drones, where they store anti-ship cruise missiles and ballistic missiles. also going after radar sites that they use for targeting, launchers that they launch these things from. the goal to degrade their ability to stop the attacks. in addition to that, the hope is that this will deter. as we heard from richard and we have been hearing ever since last night is the houthis have ....
Choices for any of the countries. what we can do is play a leadership role in presenting a vision that is different than the vision from october 7th but greater for integration and peace and prosperity in the region. that s the vision the secretary will continue to present and will continue to press in what i m sure will be a number of future trips to the region in the coming weeks and months. thank you so much, matt miller. thanks for coming on after a very rigorous eight-day journey. thank you. ready to caucus. up next, kristin welker live in iowa and jen psaki backfrom biden s headquarters. you are watching andrea mitchell reports on msnbc. ea mitchell reports on msnbc ....
Christie s voters, 12% there in new hampshire, about half of them might go for nikki haley. that would give her momentum heading into south carolina. still uphill narrow path for the nomination. desantis defiant. the reality on the ground, he really has to have a strong showing here on monday night. in new hampshire, with an open primary, independents can cross over. they can register republican the day of. they would more likely go to m nikki haley than ron desantis. thank you so much. jen, i want to ask about your visit at the biden campaign headquarters. the biden campaign watching this from a distance. how well organized are they? there s been some reports of ....
Concern among democrats, including the leading democrat, of course, barack obama, joe biden s former partner and boss. we talked about all of that. i wanted to go there because president biden gave his two most powerful speeches that he has done to date. a lot of democrats are saying, thank god. the question is, is this a kickoff of what s to come? the answer is yes. there s a lot of tactics they are working on. i know a lot of what s happening on campaigns is you don t see. that s what we talked about when i visited there tuesday. more to come on sunday. the fact is, democrats getting nervous about this, because they see so much attention as donald trump goes through the court hearings. we will talk about that later in the program. he becomes more popular with each legal setback. he is using this to create this myth that he is the victim here. it s helping him with his base. the question is, how is it going to help does it help or hurt ....