this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
Thousands of unwilling undocumented immigrants redirected his states latest d. C. Busloads from Union Station to the naval observatory, which happens to be the residence of Vice President harris. That the migrants were not forced to get on these buses and planes, they were apparently asked and consented and that they were fed did not stop critics from calling the stunt inh inhumane. You might say did they know where they were going . Did they did where they were going when they first came into the country . As to the question of whether these relocations are fair, this year an estimated record 2 million undocumented migrants will cross the border seeking asylum. To date texas has sent 11,000 immigrants all of them will to new york, d. C. And chicago and arizona has sent 1800 plus to new york, new jersey and interestingly to florida. Desantis point is that its easy to declare yourself a Sanctuary State or city when youre thousands of miles from the border. U a but if you talk the talk,
thousands of unwilling undocumented immigrants redirected his state s latest d.c. busloads from union station to the naval observatory, which happens to be the residence of vice president harris. that the migrants were not forced to get on these buses and planes, they were apparently asked and consented and that they were fed did not stop critics from calling the stunt inh inhumane. you might say did they know where they were going? did they did where they were going when they first came into the country? as to the question of whether these relocations are fair, this year an estimated record 2 million undocumented migrants will cross the border seeking asylum. to date texas has sent 11,000 immigrants all of them will to new york, d.c. and chicago and arizona has sent 1800 plus to new york, new jersey and interestingly to florida. desantis point is that it s easy to declare yourself a sanctuary state or city when you re thousands of miles from the border. u a but if you talk
president biden welcomes barack and michelle obama back for the unveiling of their official white house portraits. i want to thank sharon sprung for capturing everything i love about michele, her grace, her intelligence and the fact that she s fine. we miss them. we begin tonight with steve bannon, the former white house chief strategist who is back in the news, usually for two reasons such as attempting to dismantle the west or as in this case trouble with the law. two years ago bannon was dragged off a billionaire s luxury yacht in handcuffs charged with defrauding donors as part of a fund-raising scam purportedly aimed at funding trump s border wall that mexico was supposed to pay for. now bon none lined his pockets $1 million in waldo nations. after trump pardoned bannon for milking his own supporters the manhattan s district attorney office opened its own investigation and that s because presidential pardons, well, they only apply to federal charges and cannot prohib
investigation as the testimony, of course, of them, themselves, as well, giving evidence about the coordination of trump s plans leading up to and on the day of the riot, about who spoke to the president that day, who also was in the when things were happening and what the president may have told them. maybe communications about what exactly was happening inside of the white house over those nearly 187 minutes. well over three hours. filling in the gaps. gaps between when donald trump told his supporters to go to the capitol and when he tweeted a video to the rioters telling them that he loved them and to go home. now, we know that s the very focus of thursday s primetime hearing and we have someone tonight who knows the people who were in the white house with then-president trump during those three hours and he knows them quite well. trump s former active chief of staff nick mulvaney, he knows matthew pottinger, one of trump s deputy national security advisors scheduled to t