with a very good day, from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome to all of you to alex witt reports. it is three pm eastern, out west. the campaign season certainly heating up with events on both coasts. president biden is campaigning in columbia, south carolina today. republican candidate, nikki haley, it campaigning trust about 90 miles or so away. early voting starts today in nevada and vice president kamala harris is in las vegas. so is gop front runner, donald trump. also new today, trump is reiterating his call for senate republicans to reject a bipartisan border deal that ties ukraine aid to border security. speaker mike johnson s already said that bill may be dead on arrival in the house. president biden is urging congress to get on board. saying he will use his authority and the bills provisions to, quote, shut down the border. meanwhile, texas is escalating its efforts to divide this week s supreme court ruling. refusing to allow federal officials to r
brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. now i guess we are going to see, is this number enough or potentially do we go through this again? nancy: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m nancy cordes in for norah. thank you for being with us. we are going to have more on that massive payout donald trump was ordered to make to e. jean carroll in a moment. also tonight, though, big news from the border, where migrant crossings hit a new record in december. hundreds of thousands of them, and countered by border agents. plus, boeing 737 max 9 is returning to the skies. cbsnews is there as the first flight takes off from seattle after the planes were grounded for three weeks following that terrifying midair incident. but we want to begin tonight a jury found he acted maliciously, out of hatred, ill will, or spite in his ongoing verbal attacks on the former elle magazine columnist. they concluded he should pay $83.3 million in damages. a previous ju
just won a key endorsement from the united auto workers union as he and trump ramp up preparations for a divisive rematch. team biden seeking to bring the democratic coalition together amid protests of discontent among progressives. and my exclusive interview with second gentleman doug emhoff. the vice president and husband of vice president harris warning of the dangerous rise in antisemitism across the united states and remembering the horror of the holocaust. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you re in the situation room. tonight the trump and biden campaigns are in a full-scale pivot just hours after the former president s double digit win in new hampshire. trump and biden allies now convince that had the fight for the gop presidential nomination is effectively over. but trump rival nikki haley says not so fast. more on where the race goes from here. reporter: joe biden and donald trump are headed closer to a rematch. i ve never been
today in washington, d.c. what s now coming from d.c. to new york to boston. rob marciano is here. there is also breaking news tonight. iranian militants striking a british ship with a missile. that ship is now on fire, in danger of sinking tonight. martha raddatz with late reporting. there are also late developments in the israel/hamas war tonight. 12 u.n. aid workers accused of taking part in the hamas terror attack on october 7th. what s now happened to those workers tonight. matt gutman standing by in israel. in the u.s., the dramatic testimony in the trial of jennifer crumbley today, the mother of school shooter ethan crumbley. the parents who bought their son the gun, days later called into school over concerns about his behavior and what he had written. prosecutors saying they never told the school they might want to check for the gun. he opened fire hours later. the first-ever execution in the u.s. using nitrogen gas. witnesses on what happened in that room as
right now on andrea mitchell reports, former president trump back in court after storming out this morning, fuming in the middle of closing arguments in the e. jean carroll defamation and damages case with the jury watching it all. while nikki haley scheduled two south carolina rallies this weekend. donors pour millions into her campaign, defying trump s appeal to write her off. and the u.n. s highest court pressures israel to stem the loss of lives in gaza but does not come down hard on israel, as cia director bill burns crosses the atlantic, trying to pose a deal to free the hostages. and critical funding for border. israel and ukraine. it s all hanging in the balance as mr. trump tries to get senate republicans to scuttle a border compromise that was weeks in the making. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. donald trump back in a manhattan courtroom for closing arguments in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. earlier today, the former president le