new hampshire. happening now, breaking news. donald trump just unleashed a tirade against the judge who threatened to throw him out of a courtroom today. stand by for the latest on e. jean carroll s defamation damages trial against trump and why the former president was nearly given the boot. also tonight, trump is escalating his attacks on gop presidential rival nikki haley referring to her birth name and indian hair nage an online ramp. trump returning to his racially charged playbook with the critical new hampshire primary now just six days away. and there s more breaking news. president biden has wrapped up an urgent meeting with top lawmakers. did they find any common ground on the divisive issues of ukraine and border security? i ll ask a key player who was in the room, the house minority leader hakeem jeffries. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. announcer: this is cnn brea
it s always good to see you. happy new year, by the way, it s not too light to say happy new year. it is not, the whole month of january, as far as i am concerned. the whole 2024 will be, you can see it, but my fingers are crossed. from your mouth to my ears, have a good show. and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jack smith s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on
and tonight, donald trump s criminal defense team is renewing its requests for judge tanya chutkan to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt of court. with the election interference case currently on hold while trump s immunity claims get worked out in a federal appeals court, trump s lawyers lot of activity in the case halted, even the routine filing of documents which jacks mitt s team has said is permissible because it does not require the trump team to do anything. the motion to punish a jack smith for something that he is not prohibitive from even doing is yet another example of how donald trump has always referred to live in the world of alternative facts. with that strategy, it s on a collision course with the courtroom reality. that s what we saw this week as the disgraced former presidents that up for just a few minutes, in his own defense and the new york attorney generals civil fraud trial, when trump rambled, dissembled and presented himself as usual, as a
iowa caucuses is donald trump as you see what could be most terribly described as a unique strategy and his closing arguments to voters, with a link with john mccain making more headlines with his plans for a second term. one of his supporters in congress is already safe shave may not certify the 2024 results before a single ballot is cast. what about 2024? what about 2024? we will see if this is illegal and valid election. what we re seeing so far is that s democrats are so desperate they re trying to remove president trump from the ballot. just to be very clear, i don t hear you say committed to certify the election results. will you only commit to certify the results of the president trump once? if former president trump wins? it means that they re constitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional. meanwhile, his challengers are looking for any signs of hope that they could pull off the impossible, and upsets the former president is also facing a busy le
and what? what is that? it could be a number. it could be rsv. it could be a number of other bacterial infections. a typical ammonia, which is what we had a little bit of a spike in different parts of the country, atypical pneumonia s need to be treated with antibiotics. they re called atypical for a reason. get things checked out. your instinct tells you the most about your health. kavita tell, you have been my guidingthis thing when it comes to health for sure. thank you so much, my friend. good to see you. we have a lot more coming up, everybody. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. all right, back to the breaking news out of capitol hill. senate democratic and house leadership are expected to announce a top line of spending deal later on today according to sources familiar with the negotiations. i want to bring in julia gesture from capitol hill and senior msnbc political contributor matt dowd as well. julia, if you will, start us off. take us thro