it is 4:00 here in new york, 3:00 p.m. in des moines where in just a few hours, the doors will open at caucus locations across the state. and the first votes will be cast in the 2024 election. voters going to the polls today in 1600 precincts across all of iowa s 99 counties will do it in some of the most brutal conditions imaginable. tonight could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. windchills could gets a low as 45 degrees farenheit, that is freezing. that brutal cold is putting a damper on what is normally a frenzy of campaigning. trump campaign and haley campaign canceled three events, but it doesn t mean candidates aren t asking people to get out and vote. ex-president said even if you vote and then pass away, it is worth it. yes? he really said that. there is no early voting and no mail-in ballot, so all of it comes to turnout tonight. the last nbc des moines register poll released last night shows trump with a commanding 28 point lead. if he wins by anything close to th
listen. i was focused on my craft. was that selfish probably but that s where my energy was. jesse: fans didn t tune in to sports for politics. jordan s focus was on his game, winning. and entertaining the fans every night by just being the best he could. and he wound up with six rings this way. and fans didn t love him. they always did respect him. you see, jordan understood something that most people today don t. people need a get away from all the politics and division. whether it s with sports comedy, music, or whatever. the majority of us just want a diversification to turn off all the noise. but when large companies start fighting the culture wars and ignoring the mission, which is business, people start looking for alternatives. it s that simple. and good leaders understand that. they know it s not worth sinking into the woke muck just do make a handful of people happy. no one is ever happy and no one ever respects people that cave. today, the streaming service net
This in iowa, i think its hard to justify sort of from a resource standpoint, from a Campaign Standpoint how he moves forward. So i think iowas actually going to probably slim down the field realistically here in the next couple of days. No ones going anywhere. All of you are staying put. Thank you for that. And when we return, the allimportant evangelical vote in iowa, which by the way to cornells point Ron Desantis has been betting on and still isnt winning. But why unlike eight years ago theyre much more likely to support donald trump. Plus well be joined by The One And Only steve kornacki. What hes watching for tonight. Hell bring us his viewers guide to tonights caucuses live as always from the big board. And later more developments in the many legal troubles facing the disgraced expresident in iowa caucuss favorite. What were learning about how Jack Smith plans to prosecute trump for his mishandling of classified documents at maralago. Thats also still happening. Our special cove
Overarching narratives that are happening right now. one is that every kid has to be a winner. and so parents or coaches get upset because their kids aren t winning or their team isn t winning and they feel like they need some kind of vindication and the second is that for the past two years kids and adults really have been taught that when they disagree with something or something isn t going their way, that they can resort to violence. we have seen that with riots and we have seen that with protesting outside of the supreme court justices houses. it s no surprise. kids are going to model bad behavior. jesse: what do you think has changed psychologically in the parental community that they feel the need for every child to win at everything and losing is unacceptable and being uncomfortable number two is unacceptable and not having the self-control to walk up and clock somebody. so much investment between
The conflict. i think the earliest assessment held for 50 days that the incompetence that the russian military both in the battle plan and the conduct is the story. it only seems to reinforce itself. we covered mariupol for as many days as the war and you have made the point that the ukrainians still control mariupol. it seems like even where the russian military is the most brutal, its most heinous, committed the genocide president biden talked about, it still isn t winning. yeah. it is astonishing. the defense of mariupol is magnificent. will go down in the annuls of military history. look. when we look at ukrainians, they do have several advantages. the generals are better.