donald trump soon back on his courtroom campaign trail this morning trying to keep people guessing will he or won t he testify, but should he? so an historic trial asked a question can a parent be found guilty after their child commits a heinous crime? opening statements just minutes away. after a botched execution two years ago an alabama inmate will be put to death in just hours. why a new method never used before in the united states, the ethical concern that it s now raising. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan and john berman. this is cnn news central. right now, donald trump is on the campaign trail and on his way to a new york courtroom. we are now waiting for him to arrive at the manhattan federal courthouse for the next day of his civil defamation trial and this is the case brought by e. jean carroll. trump has been liable for defaming her and sexually abusing her. today donald trump may take the stand all in an effort to convince a jury to not make him pay
tonight on the reidout friends of mine have said you are the most honest person in the world. you have done a good job. our first look at trump s deposition from the new york civil case. and of course, he s the most honest, smartest, richest, tallest person we have ever had ever, in his own mind. meanwhile, trump says there will be bedlam if the supreme court doesn t keep him on the ballot. plus, the right wing advocacy group moms for liberty has become a force in conservative politics by getting books removed from school libraries and by limiting the teaching of race and lgbtq issues. tonight, i will be joined right hoar on set by tiffany justice, cofounder of moms for liberty. and nikki haley doubles down on her claim that america has never, ever, ever been a racist country. after telling fox, quote, joy reid lives in a different america than i did. well, all righty, then, i will have some thoughts. but we begin tonight awaiting a number of key decisions fro
fifth amendment, as you know, if you refuse to answer the question with a truthful answer would tend to incriminate you. do you understand that right? yes. tonight, our republican underpricing the risk of a convicted canada. a president of the united states needs to have immunity, the supreme court is gonna be rulli of that. what happened to the desantis campaign? thank you everyone, governor desantis, i want to present to you this precip new signs that the florida governor s run is over. we re proud of you for trying. sorry, buddy. and some more genuinely good news. the u.s. stock market continues to hit record high after record high. why just about every indicator of the biden economy is pointed up except one, until today. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes, for four days from the new hampshire pioneer, looked shaping up to be a make-or-break moment for both republican parties in the nation. i think over a year
already made her way to new hampshire where we have team coverage of the presidential race after donald trump s blowout victory in iowa. he won the caucuses by a huge margin making it clear that he still has a dominant grip on the republican party. trump crushed the competition with 51% of the vote, ron desantis narrowly beating nikki haley for a distant second place. today all three candidates will be campaigning eventually in new hampshire with just one week left until that primary. this is a live look in new hampshire where desantis will face questions from voters at a town hall tonight. desantis and haley are vowing to turn the tide next week in what could be a make or break primary. trump is already acting like this race is over. i can safely say tonight iowa made this republican primary a two-person race. our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the trump/biden nightmare. because of your support, in spite of all of that that they threw at us, everyone agai
bl blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, donald trump, nikki haley, and ron desantis, they are all hunting for votes here in new hampshire just hours after trump s iowa landslide and exactly one week before this state s pivotal republican primary. we re closing in on a cnn presidential town hall with one of the final three. also tonight, former president trump detours from the campaign, from the campaign trial returning to court to face his accuser, e. jean carroll, again, in a second defamation trial. and after two u.s. strikes against iran-backed militants, the u.s. military s central command confirms a third retaliatory attack on houthi rebel targets inside yemen. stand by for details on the mission and whether more strikes from the u.s. may be coming. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in new hampshire and you re in the situation room. we re live here in new hampshire at new england c