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
hello. i m judge jeanine pirro, along with jessica tarlov, jesse watters, dana perino, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. the secondary president biden refusing to talk about the scandal that could have put american lives in danger. the defense secretary face and calls to resign, after keeping both biden and senior officials in the dark on his recent hospitalization. for three whole days, america s defense secretary went awol with two wars raging in ukraine and israel. that s because he was secretly in the icu after a couple occasions following elective surgery. the second in command was put in charge while she was on vacation in puerto rico, but even she didn t know her boss was in the hospital. according to politico, one official was told that the secretary was working from home for the week. the pentagon now claims it did not give an update about boston them, because his chief of staff had the flu. and, austin is no longer
right now on andrea mitchell reports, president biden taking his state of the union message on the road after pitching unity and compromise to the new house majority. when republicans engaged in unprecedented heckling, he did not hesitate to take them on. nearly 25% of the entire national debt that took over 200 years to accumulate was added by just one administration alone, the last one. they are the facts. check it out. check it out. with tyre nichols parents in the chamber, the president reaching out to black americans on police brutality by acknowledging what black parents know so well, how they have to teach their children how to interact with police, what s known as the talk. my children, i never had to have the talk with them. i never had to tell them if a police officer pulls you over, turn your interior lights on right away, don t reach for your license, keep your hands on the steering wheel. imagine having to worry like that every single time your kid got
vision we have brand new reporting on what president biden s campaign launch could look like and who will lead his team with his re-election announcement expected to come as early as tomorrow this as a new nbc news poll shows a vast majority of republican primary voters stand firmly behind former president trump despite the criminal charges and the looming legal challenges he faces. are we headed for a rematch? steve kornacki is here to break down all the um numbers for us the race to evacuate is under way in sudan american forces rescuing personnel from a u.s. embassy in a nighttime mission, as fighting the africa s third largest country enters a second week we have more on the incredible mission to get them to safety. what about the 16,000 americans still on the ground there in sudan? an american travel writer stuck in the capital describes chaos in the country the city is so tense right now. a lot of people are fleeing left and right. i can see the cars outside i m just
hi there, everyone. it s 4:00 in new york on state of the union day when president joe biden delivers that state of the union address to we thought it was important to remember that that address will take place in what amounts to a crime scene. for which there has yet to be accountability for many of its perpetrators. members of the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6th have been swept into the largest investigation in justice department history. more than 950 of them from all 50 states have been arrested. at least half of them have pleaded guilty to charges. on trial right now at this very moment on the rare and historically significant charge of seditious conspiracy, the right-wing militia groups, the oath keepers and the proud boys, the groups that form the tip of the spear of the mob that reached the capitol on that day, january 6, 2021. what about the campaign staffers? attorneys, activists, officials, the members of congress who helped put into motion complex