reporter: thank you very much the special. thank you for all you do for show, both of. you nbc s troy in the in north carolina, and south carolina. and charles coleman junior, supervise attorney at msnbc legal analyst, their host of the bring to msnbc special, black man in america, go in 2020. it airs tonight at msnbc s peacock. straight head, he of bob pennsylvania joins us the middle east in the significance of the upcoming reelection bid for joe biden, and how his state, pennsylvania, might hold the key to the future of american democracy. another hour of velshi begins, right now. good morning, sunday, february the 4th. i m ali velshi. in case you hadn t heard, with all the missiles flying around, there was an election yesterday, the democratic party held its first official primary of this election cycle in south carolina. and the result was on surprising. as an incumbent who wasn t facing any credible challenge, joe biden won the contest in a landslide. yesterday s ra
white house and republicans in congress, finally reached a deal late last night, hopefully to keep america from defaulting on its debt. we are digging and how each side had to compromise to get to this point, and there has been a lot of talk about the 2024 presidential race but not much has been said about the setting. democrats hold a razor-thin majority, they re what races are they focusing on to keep their majority? or even expanded? now the number of senators or retiring or seeking other offices. plus, republican attorney general, ken paxton of texas impeached. temporarily thrown out of office by a lone star state lawmakers, many of them from his own party. the question now stands will the state senate make the ouster permanent. i m simone sanders tones, and i have something to say. you can always get what you want. i know you all may think it s a song, it s with the leaders on both sides of the aisle are telling their voters this afternoon. late last night, congressi
office. [cheering] you go, colorado. it s not partisan, it s about applying historic principles. what do you say to the republican candidates argument the voters should have the say and not the courts? why are you standing with confederates. john: democrats celebrate the move to ban trump from the 2024 ballot, president biden is going to hit the campaign trail, other states are looking into it. jacqui: slow start to president biden s re-election campaign, heading to the polls weeks from today, the biden campaign is saying that president biden, kamala harris, and others will fend off his challengers in the democratic primary. john: the shift in strategy as polls show president biden struggling to energize his democratic base. and much win swing states. jacqui: karl rove standing by and whether the effort to ban trump from the ballot might backfire. peter, is the campaign planning a rose garden strategy for the president? peter: they say they are not, jacqui,
arrested another suspect who is on the terror watch list. he came in south of san diego. he was from afghanistan. the fbi is investigating him. he s one of dozens of terror watch list names who have crossed in to the country over the last several months. president biden though was pretty sanguin on how things are going. he s pleased since the end of title 42 last week. watch. how you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than you all expected. do you have any plans to visit the border? not in the near term, no. just be disruptive. not anything else. when i went to bo s bench at the four miles up, i met two people come up to me, a bunch of people. that s why i was late. i was taking a lot of pictures. came up and said, we want to st. paul s in scranton. martha: never know who you run into from scranton as the public changes the subject from the border to folks he ran in to on the bike path. let s go to joe concha, a fox news contributor and brandon
today ukraine battles its way into a second year of war defying russian expectations and denying moscow the swift victory it expected. this was the view one year ago yesterday as russian tanks rolled into ukraine launching its unprovoked war. to mark the anniversary, western allies bathed their landmarks in the colors of ukraine s flag and more importantly pledging more financial support. the u.s. has announced a $2 billion package. 8 million ukrainians have fled their country. of those who remain, 18 million are in dire need of assistance. that s nearly 40% of the population. let s begin this hour in ukraine s capitol. melissa bell is in kyiv. reporter: jim, a day after those ceremonies held here in the center of kyiv to mark the one-year anniversary of the russian invasion and to celebrate the fact that kyiv had been able toll stand no sign of the nationwide strikes that so many ukrainian officials had been warning about and ukrainian civilians had been preparing for. for