we have one week to go. a seven-day sprint of the primary season. a portland area backyard, the missing piece ripped from a packed airliner in mid-flight. we have ignition. mission to the moon, the first lunar launch in decades blasts off with the real aim might be mars. that mars mission september a high for us on this monday. hi, even. good day to our viewers. it s monday, january 8th. let s get into it. it s 5:00 a.m. in washington. 4:00 in iowa, where social security just a week before the first votes are cast in the presidential race. republican candidates blanketed iowa over the weekend urging voters to caught cuss for them next month when temperatures are forecast to be in the single digits. got to love iowa. the candidates emphasized iowa s influence on the nomination process and the vital importance of turnout. donald trump continues to dominate polling in iowa, so overwhelmingly that the other candidates struggled to escape talking about him and put the focu
welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing this important news day with us. target trump, the former president s legal team gets official notice he could face charges in the federal investigation over classified documents. this is an unprecedented legal and political moment as one piece of the special counsel investigation nears its end just as trump s 2024 comeback bid gears up. plus new cnn reporting on a critical building block of the case. a career government expert interviewed by prosecutors detailed exactly what trump knew and was told about the classification rules. and the political impact of trump being named a target, the former president rolls out a familiar playbook, where he s a victim and lies are plentiful. his 2024 rivals now must decide what to say. this as mike pence s cautious choice. if that is something that investigators see as possible, even enough potentially to indict the former president, do you think that
Remiended voters of the january 6th legacy and the stakes. you ll see the president today in charleston, south carolina, paying respects to a church. so he s talking about things like violence, radicalists and what he sees as donald trump s role in foemting those issues. trying to sew doubt both about the validity of a future election in november and also sort of precountering those arguments, that s what you re seeing. it s giving a permission structure to republicans who may want to vote for trump or undecided. it s democrat who tried to
Terms of potential storm surge. this is above normally dry ground. as we zoom into the big bend of florida, this area has the potential to see up to 15 feet of storm surge. we have all seen this story play out before. we are remiended of what happend roughly a year ago in forte myes there. you can see why, it s so shallow in this part of the world. the intercoastal standing 5 to 10 feet above sea level. so if you re talking 12 feet of inundation, the potential of the water up and over these areas is certainly a possibility. where we re located and also into tampa bay, 4 to 7 feet. that will still cause problems across the immediate coastline. derek, we will be talking very frequently as this storm
In a minute. the case you re trying to build against trump, we focus all the time former chief of staff is a grand jury witness, former spokesman, but if it you re building a case, sometimes it s the less glamorous witness who is can do the nuts and bolts. he knew the rules. he was remiended of the rules. absolutely. and that s what they have been doing. they are building that kind of foundation as to his mind settle. and the point is you can tell so much not only from the intensity, but the kinds of questions. if you re focusing on mind set, there s personal exposure here. if you re focusing on factual questions who are packed the boxes, you re look ing all the s there a problem with the way this stuff gets transmitted and preserved, not did somebody commit a crime. we showed the officials. these are not nobodies. these are senior people, two of them are lawyers.