officially opens in 24 hours in iowa, where it s cold outside, but the race for the republican presidential nomination is catching fire. right now, the leading gop contenders are making their final pitches to voters, ahead of tomorrow s caucuses in the state. and despite facing a mounting of legal issues, donald trump appears to be the overwhelming favorites, pulling nearly 30 points ahead of his closest rivals, nikki haley and ron desantis. according to the latest nbc news des moines iowa, des moines register iowa poll, out of iowa, in just a few minutes, i ll talk to the chair of the democratic national committee about that. and, about iowa, and about the caucuses colliding with martin luther king holiday tomorrow. and about what his party needs to do, to not just unify against the eventual republican nominee, but to bring disaffected democrats, black voters specifically, back into the fold, ahead of november. let s check on the latest from iowa, however, with nbc s priscil
politicsnation. tonight s lead, a solemn anniversary. it has been four years to the day since and ceramicists stormed the u.s. capitol in former president donald trump s name. and despite the horrors of that day, very little has changed in our politics. capital rioters are still being brought to justice three years later. just this morning, three january 6th fugitives were arrested by the fbi in florida. and with just days before our first presidential nominating contest of this election year, the u.s. supreme court will soon decide whether colorado and other states can legally bar trump from the appellate over his january 6th conduct. though that conduct hasn t stopped much of the republican party from circling around trump as your choice for president. a reality that president biden, in his first campaign event of 2024 last night, cost a historic, existential threat to our union. democracies still americas secret calls, the most urgent question of our time. donald t
what comes next for israel? we re going to discuss with a former member of the knesset. the true story behind the ousting apartments first black president. spoiler alert, it wasn t about plagiarism. we will discuss the conservative effort to get claudine gay removed. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning it is sunday, january the 7th. it is orthodox christmas. i m ali velshi. if you paid any attention at all to the u.s. jobs report at any point over the next three years, there s a good chance you heard the phrase, better than expected. you probably heard it again over the past few days, following the latest report for december. 216,000 net new jobs were created. much better than expected, per cnbc. in the old days, we d say than 150,000 or more jobs created in one month was good. there are now one point 42 open positions for every job seeker in america. while every available job is not matched to every available job seeker, mathematically, america has more j
goalless at half time at the london stadium. a win for brayton could see them move into sixth place and they would leap frog the hosts in the process. staying with football, staying with english robot because wayne rooney us says he does not believe 13 weeks was sufficient to oversee changes at birmingham city. following his sacking by the championship club earlier on tuesday. he has been dismissed after just 15 games in charge following a dismal run of four. birmingham in the top six when he took over, but after just two wins the top six when he took over, but afterjust two wins come the club are now down in 20th place with just six points clear of the relegation zone. in a statement. he admits that results had not been at the level he wanted to be. the january transfer window may have only recently open, manchester united looked busy already after donny van de beekjoined eintracht frankfurt on loan, another of their players could be heading to germany. sancho being linked w
investigations into his son s foreign business dealings have been heating up. house or rub the leaders are expected to vote on tuesday on it i measure to formally launch impeachment inquiry into the president even though officials admit there s no direct evidence tying him to any illegal foreign payments. in the meantime hunter biden and died for the second time special counsel david weiss investigation hunter it now facing federal tax charges. on top of federal gun charge much more on hunter biden s cases and the looming potential impeachment inquiry in just a moment. ask first were going to start at the southern border were agents keep streaming migrants excuse me keep streaming into the county into this country in record numbers were agents in tucson, arizona said they have close to 19000 new arrivals in just one week. this is the highest a seven-dayy total ever arizona democratic governor is calling out washington s quote failure and in action for it hello everyone welcom