general election matchup between biden and trump, and we re going to have some clips of that interview to play for you momentarily, but first i m going to send it up to you in new york, ayman. it to away, my friend. you re going to give us a big preview and the latest on the 2024 presidential race and the sper spective down there in south carolina. we do want to start with the front-runner in new york. the republican primary was once again in a new york courtroom. this afternoon trump took the stand in the damages case brought by writer e. jean carroll. the former president has already been found liable of sexual abuse and defamation by a civil jury. trump today testified for only three minutes, but in those three minutes, believe it or not, the judge had to tell the jury multiple times to disregard trump s out of order testimony. at the same time trump was taking the stand, there was a split screen, a jarring split screen. president biden was hitting the campaign trail at
nikki haley s pat the victory, impossible no difficult yes. the lead starts now. in south carolina nikki haley gets ready to make a new pitch, why she says she should stay in the race in losses in iowa and after, more gop heavyweights are urging her to get out. her number 1-man will be here as nikki haley assesses her campaign. a big endorsement for president biden as campaign 2020 for its closing in on a race between president biden and donald trump and a new mystery involving russia when a plane crashes with conflicting accounts about who or what was on board the plane. was it 65 ukrainian prisoners of of war or was it weapons for war as ukraine says? welcome to the lead i m jake tapper. republican voters delivering donald trump another victory sending them one step closer to the white house. nikki haley s campaign insists they still see a path forward to dethrone donald trump after his double-digit victory in new hampshire. in the modern history of elections it i
everyone agrees. this after a group of asian-american students filed a complaint against harvard and the university of north carolina chapel hill alleging that they failed to employ employee race neutral admissions practices. the majority opinion delivered by chief justice john roberts said that any student, quote, must be treated based on his or her experiences as an individual, not on the basis of race. highlighting the importance of this case in a rare move. justices clarence thomas and sonya sotomayor also read their opinions from the bench. now with justice thomas declaring, quote, at all forms discrimination based on race including so-called affirmative action are prohibited under the constitution. now harvard did in fact released a statement following the decision acknowledging that the court ruled their admissions policies did not comply with the 14th amendment, the equal protection clause in the constitution and the civil rights act. harvard is not actually totally b
[playing national anthem] [playing national anthem] [playing national anthem] [playing national anthem] if you are in new zealand, happy new year to you. as you are waking up somewhere around the globe throughout this program, someone is partying their face-off because it is 2024 already. you are looking at the future right there. rachel: we are going to party with everyone celebrated the new year around the globe every hour. nonstop party all day. it s two and a half men it past the new year, we are celebrating, we have noisemakers and hats. all where the guns had. the great late jimmy buffett said it s 5:00 o clock somewhere. right now it is new year s somewhere. pete: here we are straight to new year s all day long. rachel: can i bring this back into the kids. i love it. pete: get more for her we need lots more. joey: that s what i m talking about. pete: the street already blocked here in new york. rachel: it was hard to get to new york. rachel: i almost pree
wind at their backs. i m john berman, brianna is off, cnn chief white house correspondent kaitlan collins here this morning. wind at their backs, we will see come november, i guess. a little. they re hoping wind at their back this morning. what democrats are looking at the reason they might feel this way is based on the results of special elections here in new york. cnn projects that democrat pat ryan will win the battleground 19th district, a district that joe biden narrowly carried in 2020 but republicans felt very good heading into this special. they were hoping they could flip this. abortion rights became the central issue in this race, democrats made it so, much more on this in just a moment. also in new york congressman jerry nadler easily defeated he is a powerful committee chair he easily defeated powerful committee chair carolyn maloney in a bitter race that really got to the redirstrictin struggles the democrats had in new york. in florida democratic congr