they say texas kept the feds from helping a woman and two children who died crossing the rio grande. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with donald trump getting a warm embrace from frigid iowa. nbc s garrett haake is just north of des moines. garrett, what is the former president saying in his closing pitch? reporter: good afternoon, from what will surely be a donald trump jr. event here today in ankeny as the trump team tries to lock in the results of what we have seen in poll after poll over the last couple of weeks. a dominant lead here in the hawk eye state. at his last major rally yesterday, donald trump basically tried to welcome in all the disparate elements of his movement here in this state, be they first time cause of action caucus goers, evangelicals, and warned primarily against their biggest enemy which he views as complacency. listen to what he told a call in indianola yesterday. a victory over all the liars, che
Another text from howard a few days later. I really cant say yet, sorry. Davidson reply. The prosecution asked him if he said that because he didnt know or because he wasnt ready to discuss the details yet. He said it was because i was not prepared to discuss the details at that point. A few weeks later, dylan tells davidson, quote, get me a price on mcdougal. All in. Consulting gig programs as a Fitness Expert thrown into the mix. As davidson said Karen Mcdougal was torn between a deal with ami or abc, howard texted quote, we are going to lay it on thick for her. Davidson responded, good, throw in an ambassadorship for me. Im thinking aisle of man. So what does this testimony on top of the other testimony weve already heard prove . And what does donald trump have to say . Judge merchan warned him this morning he is on thin ice, warning him not the say much. Holding him in contempt and fining him 9,000 for violating the gag order and cautioning while under the circumstances, the court
He gets more free advertising than anybody in the history of campaigns. I think its sort of twofold, chris. Certainly i hope this calms down the bedwetters. We do this well in the democratic party. Were constantly stressed. Constantly nervous. You cannot underestimate how significant these numbers are for the Biden Campaign. No candidate has had this much cash on hand. As Jeffrey Katzenberg mentioned, one of the chairs of the campaign, we have a significant number of grass roots donors, over A Million have donated. These are huge statistics, this is more than President Obama raised, more than secretary clinton, you know, at this time, and the other important factor, i think, to consider is q4 of the off year, which is the last quarter of the year before the president ial cycle is usually the hardest quarter to raise money. The fact that the Biden Campaign raised nearly 100 million. They have 117 Million cash on
sound byte that can be played over and over again. he s so good at taking any attack that comes his way and turning it to his advantage and flipping it back on the opponent. that s a communication aid s dreams. so not only did he say oh no i m not taking this, but he also said he made it clear that, you know, he s not going to sit there and defend the fact that he is taking money from well thinkier donors. that s part of the fact that he s leaning into. he s got to do that in order to fuel his campaign because he is getting a lot of grass roots donors, but he s not getting them in the numbers that elizabeth sawarren and bernie sanders are. i didn t come here to talk about this. and so if you have this, talk about the wine cave and bund lers and what happened at mckenzie or didn t happen at mckenzie and who is consulting for whom, how helpful is that
more looking like a biden, warren split. biden often the target of president trump and now dragged into the ukraine controversial seeing a surge of support for warren in the polls not necessarily at biden s expense, but drawing away from bernie sanders who took the time off the campaign trail, after a heart attack and the death of his daughter-in-law who was suffering from cancer. support is waning and the progressives are headed to warren s camp. this week warren double down to turn down lobby money and fund the campaign with grass roots donors. and biden is trying to widen his lead. north carolina is among the early primacy start. and tulsi gabbard who threatened