i just hope we get fair treatment because if we don t our country s in big, big trouble. as the presidential election year begin, former president trump faces multiple legal challenges while president biden makes the case his likely gop opponent is a serious threat to democracy. the choice is clear. donald trump s campaign is about him, not america. not you. democracy is on the ballot. your freedom is on the ballot. i ll talk to republican congresswoman elise stefanik of new york and biden s deputy campaign manager quentin fulks. plus, wider wars. there are growing fears the war between israel and hamas could spread further after the u.s. killed an iranian-backed militia leader inside, and tensions are rising in the red sea. we have an intense focus from preventing this crisis from spreading. i ll talk to isaac herzog. and shutdown threat. will spending cuts lead to another government shutdown. we want to get the border closed and secured first. how far is t
because there s much more news coming up on msnbc. this hour, if you blink, you might have missed them. in the past 24 hours, new headlines proving the 2024 campaign season is already out for a frenzy s start. plus, donald trump s big day in court tuesday. whether he can pull the same antics we saw at his new york civil trial appearances. plus, the whole in a plane that has a lot of this country talking. new information from investigators, and had. and a very good day to all of you from nbc news here in los angeles, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with the countdown to the iowa caucuses, now eight days away, when temperatures in des moines are expected to be a frigid zero at degrees with a wind chill of minus 16. and new today, after trump spent time meeting voters in iowa, a stunning declaration from a republican congresswoman on certification of the 2024 election results, and a possible hint of what s to come. what about 2024? what about 2024?
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
Lemon controversy to a big and Important Supreme Court case. Thats coming up. Stay with me for that. While our top story right now are the new developments in the first criminal trial of a former president. This is now under two weeks away and a Judge Toughening the gag order for defendant trump and rebuking his efforts to as they put it, inject fear into the trial while attacking family members. They discuss the threats to the case. This is a response in part to the d. A. Prosecuting trump and has raised concerns about how the defendant is already acting. Trump has continued to attack the judges daughter in this case circulating pictures of her online. Trump using his platform to push the pictures as well as the coverage of this very storm recreated. He responds now to the Gag Order By Sharing A Fox Segment that also goes after the judges daughter and that is a topic thats only in the news or at least on fox news because of trumps earlier smears. The judge also dismissing exaggeration
At a donor event last night donald trump took another page out of the authoritarian playbook. I will get the congressmans reaction when he joins me here in studio. Later. It is clear that general z is going to be central to this campaign. A professor is here for a conversation about this moment for young people in america. My first interaction with some of his senior aides was in November 2016 two days after the election and it is still one of my clearest memories from that point of time. The day he visited the white house. He met with President Obama in the oval office. Well that was happening his son in law took a walk with them around the grounds. The Press Secretary at the time pointed out in the Briefing Room that day he brought someone else along to that day. The spokeswoman was here. He i had an opportunity to meet her while the President Elect was meeting with President Obama. Noted that she also had longer meetings with some of the members of the colleagues in the communicatio