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hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka width and we re watching several developing stories at this hour polls are now open in the critical south carolina republican primary voters there, deciding between former president president donald trump and former south carolina governor nikki haley as the next gop presidential nominee. it s an election being closely monitored around the moral especially in ukraine. today that nation is marking two years since russia s invasion, leaders from several western countries are in key if to reinforce their support as fears grow that crucial us military funding will come to light and new developments in russia, where a spokesperson for late putin, opposition leader alexei navalny s says his body has been turned over to his mother more than a week after he was found dead in a russian in prison right? let s begin in this country with a gop presidential showdown underway right now in south carolina, voters are he ....
age groups. they add that trump ran especially well with conservatives and white evangelicals. in the early voting states, trump has already swept iowa, new hampshire and nevada. he declared his south carolina win in a victory speech just moments after polls closed. an even bigger when the wind than we anticipated. i was just informed we got double the number of votes that have ever been received in the great state of south carolina. there has never been a spirit like this and i want to say i have never seen the republican party is so unified as it is right now. we will be up here on november five now. we will be up here on novemberfive and we now. we will be up here on november five and we will look atjoe biden and we will look atjoe biden and we will look at him right in the eye. he is destroying the country. we are going to say, joe, you are fired! get out, joe, you are fired! the former president s latest victory is pushing the nomination even further out of nikki ....
at this hour, a split screen at the southern border, president biden and former president trump planned dueling visits to texas on the same day as the battle over immigration heats up. shake up at the rnc, ronna mcdaniel makes it official, announcing that she is stepping down. will donald trump get the loyalists he wants for leadership and the money he wants to help pay his legal bills? battleground michigan, why this primary is being watched so closely for big clues in november s election. and ready for rafah, israel s prime minister says idf is invading that key gaza city, even if hostages are released. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with nbc white house correspondent aaron gilchrist on that rare border trip for the president. what more do we know about this trip, and why now? reporter: chris, we were just able to ask the white house secretary about the president s trip to texas. she reiterated it will happen on t ....
it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. at this hour, was he a flight risk after all? an fbi informant charged with lying about the bidens is rearrested. prosecutors claiming he had access to russian operatives and millions of dollars. cracking down on the kremlin, the white house unveils hundreds of new sanctions after the death of alexei navalny. but how much really does vladimir putin care? plus, prosecutors say the rust movie armorer who s charged with the shooting on the set of the movie was sloppy with guns and ammunition on the set. the testimony today from crime scene investigators. and conference or carnival. the wild scenes at cpac from january 6th pinball machines to bedazzled guns and woke water bottles. we re live in bar harbor. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin, though, with nbc s tom winter on the rearrest of the former fbi informant. it s alexander smirnov bac ....
harris: what is it like to chase donald trump? president biden just might know a thing about that. fox news confirms biden will travel now to brownsville, texas on thursday of this week. he is scheduled to meet with border patrol agents that very same day former president trump will be delivering remarks at the border in eagle pass, texas. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. well, this could be the sudden urgency, the reason why biden wbiden has to get their now. two visits in three years on the border disaster at the southern border the nation is watching coverage of another horrible case, this one of a university student, a nursing student, laken riley. charged in her murder, an illegal immigrant with a growing rap sheet allowed to stay in our country. her family made this statement. laken was an amazing overall person. her love for the lord was exemplified in every aspect of her life. she will be missed every day. we promise to honor her life ....