good day. i m chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. devastatingly cold weather is making these caucuses even more unpredictable in a state known for surprises. we have the latest on former president trump s bid to run away with a win tonight and the fight facing the other candidates to have a strofrng enough showing to stay in the race. we ve got the latest straight ahead. plus, congress on the clock again. with just four days to go before a government shutdown, leaders of both parties float a plan to keep the lights on, but there s a catch. conservatives hate it. so will that sink it? iranian-backed rebels refusing to back down despite dozens of u.s. air strikes against their home base. another u.s.-owned ship attacked just a few hours ago in the red sea. this time they actually hit it. so how is the u.s. going to respond? a lot to get to on this very busy day. we start in iowa where the first votes in what will almost certainly be one of the wildest
open, millions more will do the same. the domino effect of who wins and who loses will serve not just as a referendum on the nation and its politics, but a single senate seat, a houseful of house seats will have an impact on this country and the leaders s futures. the power of america is in your hands. it really is. a rematch between president biden and former president trump. trump is clearly up for the fight. what he is saying on the campaign trail, including a preview of what could be a mild primary fight for the republican nomination. i m in the classroom. please hurry. there s a lot of dead bodies. could that ad featuring a 9 11 call from the shoot anything uvalde be the last-minute push to the governor s race. we ll discuss it later in the show. but we start with that fran sick push to get voters to the polls on the eve of one of the wildest, most consequential and most closely fought midterm elections of our lifetime. a new poll by nbc news shows democrats ar
vote with their wallets. democrats are arguing that if democracy doesn t hold, nothing else matters. when true democracy goes away, people get hurt. it has real life consequences. it s not some abstract political science question. we are all affected. and we take this for granted, and we can t. so, who s right? we ve got reporters in some of the most closely contested states in the country. plus ukrainians now bracing for the unthinkable, a possible nuclear attack by russia. and if that wasn t bad enough, vladimir putin now appears to be joining forces with another one of the most dangerous men in the world, kim jong-un. and finally, anyone who s tried to cram themselves into an airplane seat knows they can be unbelievably cramped and uncomfortable. but could they also be dangerous? what the faa and lawmakers are doing to change things. that s later in the show. but we start with president biden and his decision to focus his formedable bully pulpit, a prime-time spe
no one is perfect. i even said at a meeting, i m a sinner. we all sin before the dploir of god. but every day i pray to god to let me do his will. that s the reason i m in this race right now. when i see people getting hurt on the street, the crime going on, i see the crime like nobody wanting to hold anybody accountable for. plus president biden and the first lady just arrived in florida. they will get a firsthand look at what s left of that city. reeling from hurricane ian s direct hit one week ago. the death toll from the storm is now at 112, half of those happening in lee county, where fort myers is located. and finally, former president trump now asking the supreme court to step in to negotiate the fight over classified tmts found at his home in florida. could it be a winning legal strategy or another tactic to delay the doj s investigation as long as possible? we re going to dig deeper into that in just a moment. i want to bring in washington correspondent yamiche a
blastoff. nasa will try to launch the rocket again on friday for the six-week test flight if it can the fix that engine. if it is successful, artemis is poised to carry astronauts back to the moon nearly 50 years since astronauts last walked on the moon. new fallout from the fbi search of president trump s florida home. the director of national intelligence is launching an assessment of the potential risk to national security, including to human intelligence sources. a florida judge appointed by trump is prepared to grant his request for an independent official to review everything seized by the fbi. the judge is set to get a detailed list of the material from the doj tomorrow to make her decision. a u.n. watchdog agency team is set to arrive in ukraine to assess potential damage to the nuclear power plant. first to those classified documents seized from former president trump s home. joining me is ken delanian, jonathan lemire, former u.s. attorney and law professor joyc