99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year s republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that s about 14% of the state s registered republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big loser. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party, who is strapped with a republican loser, a seven-time loser. the problem for republicans is they started in iowa. this is just a perennial problem for the gop. it really, willie, is a problem that the democrats fixed, but you go back and look. who won in 2008? mike huckabee.
the fact that the decision on tanks must be taken. standoff on military aid, u.s. and nato allies push germany to provide key tanks to ukraine. we re live in london on the diplomatic stalemate. and blow to republicans as the justice department signaled it won t hand over documents they demanded. how it impacts the biden and trump investigations. plus anti-abortion activists rally in washington, d.c. for the march for life demonstration. protestors say even though roe was overturned, there work isn t done. despite intense negotiations among the west s most senior defense officials, determine any still won t agree to send its coveted leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine and they won t even allow other countries who have them to supply them about on paper it appears ideally suited for ukraine plus thousands are already deployed to more than a dozen nearby european countries, so getting some into ukraine would be relatively easy. poland for example is eager to give some of
May contain scenes of violence and profanity. Members have decided that its in the Public Interest to show such scenes and we plan to broadcast the hearings without editing, in that same spirit of full public disclosure. So please be warned that some viewers may find some of the content offensive or distressing. As for what we can expect the panel of seven democrats and two republicans has said it plans to look into Donald Trumps mindset during his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. According to committee aides, this will include new Video Evidence from some witnesses that weve already heard from, and some who have not yet been seen by the public. But were told theyll be no live witnesses. The panel is expeced to release a final report, but its been vague about when that will be. Almost certainly it will be after next months mid term elections, which will decide which Party Controls congress. 0ver the summer, several witnesses told the committee how donald trump and his allies put
the fbi stopped him, he said, and seized his phone. we were stopped to go through a hardee s in mankato where i was born in mankato, minnesota and cars pulled up in front of us, to the side of us and behind us and i said, uh, they are either bad guys or the fbi. well, they turned south. they were the fbi. there you have it. he s talking about what he went through and gives you a little bit of a clue into how law enforcement works. they know where he is, they choose a place where they think they can make the best possible contact and they take what they need to that they ve had lawfully approved. he s a conspiracy theorist and had a front row seat in the trump white house. he says the feds there as you heard took the phone. this comes after they seized the phones of other trump aides including one who admitted to the fraudulent elector plot. seven have had their phones seeded. this is an interesting addition because it is mostly political leaders or lawyers who have what y
overthrow results trump was losing or lost. he was publicly associated with extremist groups ahead of the 6th and what you see today, when on the 6th he was sidelined from his hopes to speak on that same stage as donald trump, well, the anger kicks in, he s a human being, and he sounds like he s trying to process and absorb that in front of other people. you can interpret that however you will, whatever he thought others would think in the room, as well as the cameras rolling, something that s part of donald trump and roger stone pseudo reality show for their whole adult lives. he was rejected, he was upset, and he sort of retreated to his hotel room, after having worked so much behind the scenes for what he then had previously called independent action. and then when he saw the capitol insurrection unfold on tv, well, this is where the mood did appear to change and he wanted out, packing his bags, and leaving d.c. so independent action is required. the final decision as to who the