Ch change. The types of things youre looking for change. Is austin the right person to handle rooting out extremism for the military . He absolutely is. Secretary austin is someone who because of that experience and because he came up through the ranks and served as an officer, first africanamerican secretary of defense, he does have a unique understanding of the challenges that we face here. I think theres some very specific things that he needs to do and i think he understands that. I think he understands that he needs to be more intrusive. We need to be more intrusive into the lives of our service members. I think he understands we need to be absolutely sure we are using the uniform code of military to prosecute people on active duty who engage in these activities. And i think he gets we need to fully understand the full nature of the problem. s important to point out the vast people in the military are not interested in this. They want to do the right thing. Secretary austin gets t
Lunch break. Try now for free visit otter. Ai. Ai or down hello, the app on Jeremy Diamond in tel aviv. And this is cnn the is cnn Breaking News all, right everyone thanks for joining me today. Im omar jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We start with Breaking News. The Supreme Court announcing it may hand down a new ruling tomorrow. Theres growing speculation that justices could weigh in on colorados decision to remove former President Donald Trump from the ballot. Now, voters in that state are set to head to the polls this week for the Super Tuesday primary, colorado challenged trumps president ial eligibility under the constitutions 14th Amendment Insurrectionist clause. So here this, now for more on this Breaking News, former us attorney harry litman now, harry, thanks for jumping on with us. We dont yet know officially what this ruling will be on by the Supreme Court. But why does it make sense to you that this is what the justices could rule on tomorrow . You know, omar, its a cl
Trip of its leave. George conways gonna join us to break that down. Plus, your Information Secretary Pete Buttigieg joins us on set with a look at the president s and a Government Shutdown is just one week away, again. Republicans have a leadership problem, again. Congressman Gregory Meeks is here. Grab your coffee, settle in, welcome to the weekend. Congress has an extra week to get its act together and fund the government. After President Biden signed a Stopgap Measure late yesterday, there is a major challenge to getting a larger funding deal across the finish line. That is republican leadership. House Speaker Mike Johnson is once again drawing the ire of conservatives for his in the Biloxi Two To Go she ate on their behalf. Over in the senate, Mitch Mcconnells announcement hell step down as a republican leader this november was already sparked infighting, as other top leaders jockey to replace him. Turning us now to discuss is nbc news congressional correspondent, and the pride of
folks. we are just three days from the 2024 new hampshire primary. tuesy s elections can serve as the last chance for donald trump s republican challengers to change the dynamics of the race. with the landscape, it doesn t look like this primary will make it out of january. a new bost globe suffolk university poll finds trump leading both nikki haley and ron desantis by double digits in the state. trump is 52%, haley at 35%, and ron desantis adjusts 6%. other polls show almost exactly the same results. let s just be very clear, this is a make-or-break contest for the haley campaign. cnbc reports haley s deep pocket donors want her to win om a very close second to prove she has what it takes to defeat donald trump at the ballot box. as for desantis, he is not even in new hampshire today. instead he is focusing on courting even delicate voters of haley s home state of south carolina. with all of that, when it comes to new hampshire, you might be asking yourself, well, what shou
yeah, you can hear. this is the beat with ari melber, where one week at official voting of 2024, launch of these presidential primaries. candidates already barnstorming iowa this weekend. you re seeing just some of what happened on your screen. and for many reasons, these first few primary states at the pivotal and possibly last test of the republican party deciding whether to bring its trump passed into the future. nikki haley, trying to emerge as the one alternative to trump, arguing voters can get mugshot without trump chaos. by just picking her. i agree with a lot of his policies. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. and now, we look at the fact, rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. chaos follows him. and that may sound like a pretty team contrast that she s drawing, but trump views haley now as his main possible threat. an establishment hack of sorts. trump s pivot toaley after months of unrelenting attacks against desantis