andrea mitchell is on assignment traveling with secretary blinken. right now, countdown to the caucuses. just one week today as the republican candidates for president make their final push in iowa. meanwhile, president biden is on the trail in south carolina where he ll be speaking at mother emanuel church, the scene of the horrific hate crime in 2015. his message today, the hate that fueled the killing of nine worshippers still rages. at the pentagon, demand for answers grows after lloyd austin failed to tell the white house for days that he had been admitted to the icu. and a critical piece of the alaskan airlines flight has been found as it blasted off the plane mid flight, taking passengers belongings with it. we begin this very busy hour with the race for the white house. we are now just seven days away from the very first primary contest of this high stakes election year. the republican iowa caucuses. while there is still time, so far, it s shaping up to be a 2020
the weekend in the state making their closing arguments in a state that can make or break their campaigns. fighting hate and extremism is p president biden s focus when he speaks from the same south carolina church that a wall street shot and killed nine parishioners. and the secretary of defense is still in the hospital as washington demands answers. why did he and his staff wait days to tell the white house that a criminal member of the chain of command was in the icu. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics . first, breaking news, donald trump is asking a judge to throw out the election subversion case against him in georgia. the former president s legal team just filed a motion claiming presidential immunity, just like they have in other cases. paula reed has been going through the court filings. what s his reasoning, paula, for wanting immunity in this particular case? reporter: dana, this is all familiar. the president s lawyers argue a ing
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