tomorrow s contest is now out. if the trends in this poll hold, donald trump is going to pull off a win by an unprecedented margin for a republican or a democratic presidential candidate in iowa. this is the final nbc news des moines registry iowa pole ahead of tomorrow s caucuses. trump, his lead is down ever so slightly, by the way. this is what was in december, 51. now he is at 48. you can see that he has 28 point lead over his next closest competitor, nikki haley. nikki haley s first choice support, meanwhile, rose from 60 to 20 points. ron desantis support has slipped three points from last month, 19 to 16. vivek ramaswamy is an out below, heat remains below 10%. the current record margin of victory in the iowa republican caucus says for a non incumbent candidates is 13 points. that was set by bob dole in 1980. trump wins to more by anything remotely close to what these polls were predicted, he won t make history. that s an addition to the history that donald trump is al
war against hamas as fears of a potential escalation in the region intensifies. plus, russia pounds ukraine s two biggest cities in a new wave of attacks. the assaults are likely to strain nuclear s defenses as the country continues to plead for more military assistance from the u.s. and donald trump is appealing the landmark ruling from maine that disqualified him from the state s primary ballot. later in the program, we ll be joined by maine s secretary of state to talk about her decision there and charlie sykes with his new piece that asks, is disqualifying trump anti-democratic? we ll get the answer along with willie and me, we have the host of way too early jonathan lemire, u.s. special correspondent to bbc news, katty kay, and founder of the conservative website, the bulwark, charlie sykes is with us. willie, we are going to start with some political snapshots of where the race stands, and then we ll get to all the big major news breaking overnight. we have a lot to
links between extremist groups like the oathkeepers and the proud boys and members of former president trump s inner circle. marshall cohen is live in washington this morning with a preview for us. how does the committee plan to connect those dots, marshall? reporter: good morning, it is all about the right wing extremist groups and donald trump and the committee has been making the case that this was so much more than a wing k and a n, this was a real affiliation to create a violent attempted overthrow. so as you mentioned, we re expecting in-person testimony from two witnesses today. i ll break them down for you. the first is a guy by the name of jason tatenhove, former national spokesman of the oathkeepers. their members breached the capitol on capital 6 and some charged with sedition. this guy tatenhove was not part of the group on that day, he hadn t been affiliated but he h critic these days of their right wing violent ideology and their anti-government views. so he w
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diplomacy, the president meeting with world leaders at the g-7 summit. his message on gaza and ukraine. good morning, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. let s get right to breaking news on capitol hill where former president trump has arrived in just the last hour, his first visit to the hill since his supporters tried to stop the peaceful transfer of power on january 6th, 2021. a reminder, trump himself didn t go to the capital that day, and he won t be in the capitol building today. instead he s holding meetings with sitting lawmakers nearby. right now he s behind closed doors with members of the house. later he meets with senators. nbc s ali vitali is staking out this meeting and joins us live from the hill. also with us former democratic congressman from new york, steve israel, and former press secretary to republican house speakers john boehner and paul ryan, brendan buck. ali, what have you seen out there this morning, and what should we