today on inside politics waiting and watching. we are about to find out how much donald trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. it is now all up to the jury. we will have live updates from inside the courtroom. plus, pushing for a pause. president biden dispatched his cia director to help negotiate a deal to release israeli hostages kidnapped during the brutal october 7th attack. this as we are learning about a very tense call between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister. and ignoring the supreme court. that s what the state of texas is doing when it comes to the southern border, and almost every republican governor is supporting the decision. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. as we speak donald trump s attorney is giving her closing argument in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. the jury will start deliberating this afternoon on how much trump must pay in damages. this morn
clclosed capaptionings brou to you b by mesobookok.com tonight on 360, all a aboard on new hampshire, days before the governor is going to back. the d.a. willis who hired him and allegationless of an improper relationship between the two. and alec baldwin how he came to be charged again today. good evening thanks for joining us we begin with breaking news within the next hour or so, south carolina governor tim scott is expected to support the former president as the inevitable nominee. to that point, governor scott and his fellow republicans are helping. and to show how eagerly they ve been falling in line earlier than in 2016. this was after trump victories in new hampshire, nevada and south carolina. this time around the endorsements have been coming earlier in some cases much earlier. most recently, senator cruz and rubio. senator scott gave his nod back in november. and tuberville who got on board a year before that. we ll have more on what that says about the for
the union. mom and baby are doing great and both are gorgeous. our coverage continues with wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, donald trump and nikki haley are making final appeals in new hampshire with the republican presidential race now a two-person showdown. and the first primary votes just hours away. we re following the candidates and the contest that could effectively decide the gop nomination. plus, a cnn exclusive interview with vice president kamala harris. she is speaking out about the biden campaign, throats democracy and whether she s personally worried about a repeat of violence on january 6th. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, the countdown to the high stakes new hampshire primary. the granite state now holding extraordinary power to speed or slow donald trump s march to the republican presidential nomination. cnn s jeff zeleny has more from salem, new
tonight on 360, all aboard in new hampshire. just four days before the primary south carolina senator tim scott is expected to endorse the former president snubbing south carolina governor nikki haley and becoming the latest republican of many to fall in line. more breaking news tonight. a new georgia court filing adding to the controversy over the trump special prosecutor. the d.a. fani willis who filed allegations of an improper relationship. and later, alec baldwin and how he came to be charged with involuntary manslaughter after similar charges were dropped last year in a deadly shooting onset. we begin with breaking news. within the next hour or so, south carolina senator tim scott is expected to endorse the former president who has been working to establish himself after just one contest as the inevitable nominee. to that point, republican lawmakers are certainly helping and it shows how early and eagerly they ve been falling in line compared to the first trump campai
governor ron desantis is wrapping up events in the granite states. nikki haley will hold a rally there tonight. donald trump is also expected to head to new hampshire after spending the day in court in new york. let s bring in former arkansas governor asa hutchinson. he finished sixth in the iowa republican caucuses. governor, i want to start with the fact that the democratic national committee put out a snarky statement about you suspending your campaign, saying this news comes as a shock to those of us who thought he already dropped out. a number of democrats said you were telling the truth about donald trump and standing up for democracy. i understand that president biden s chief of staff called you to apologize. well, that s correct. of course, i didn t pay much attention to what the dnc said, but it s actually gratifying to see a bipartisan rebuffing of this snarky tweet, as you say, or comment. to me, it just doesn t reflect the best of america whenever you have ridic