including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
because i ll never let them silence you. in the end they aren t after me, they re after you. i just happen to be standing in their way. bill: that from iowa. booted from the ballot. the state of colorado ruled he is disqualified from holding office and not on the ballot in that state pending appeal. this was a whopper. it continues today. i m bill hemmer good morning. dana: that s how it will turn out, too. the u.s. supreme court will say it s a whopper and shut it down. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a four-judge majority on the colorado supreme court ruled he is disqualified from appearing on the state s presidential ballot despite charged never being charged or convicted of the events of january 6th. he is vowing to appeal. bill: democrat party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing dominant lead president you trump has in the polls. they have lost faith in the failed biden presidency and doing everything they can to stop the american
you know, generally i think it s a bad idea to go on the stand, and i think it s a particularly bad idea for trump because he lacks self-control, and it would be very difficult to prepare him and keep him testifying in a prudent fashion. that s former attorne general bill barr with some legal advice for donald trump s attorneys. we ll have a live report from outside mar-a-lago as the former president prepares to head to new york today ahead of his historic arraignment. meanwhile, his legal troubles also seem to be a money-maker we veal a look at the campaign cash trump s made since the announcement of the indictment and it all comes as there s another challenger for the 2024 republican nominee, and he s calling on trump to drop out of the race good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, april 3rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us, your week with us, what will be a historic week. and we begin in new york city where donald trump is
sources are telling us that house republicans are on a conference call right now. they re trying to figure out what is the path forward to get a speaker in place. just within the last couple of minutes, we saw kevin mccarthy telling our team on the hill he thinks he will get to the magic number, 218, same game plan, he says. look at that right there. we have new reporting this morning into how he s trying to make this happen. he s been deploying five trusted allies to negotiate with these kind of republican so-called rebels here, trying to figure out what are the concessions that would be needed to peel off the votes for him to get there, even after they ve been negotiating for a matter of weeks now. listen to what one republican defector had to say this morning? it remains to be seen. i want a resolution. i want us to elect a speaker. another wrinkle this morning, you have former president donald trump giving kevin mccarthy his strongest endorsement yet, writing on socia
announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt reporting tonight from buffalo, new york. good evening from buffalo. a still proud but deeply wounded community asking tonight, why us. why a teenager traveled hundreds of miles to this city, to this block, to this grocery store to allegedly seek out black people to kill today we learn the gun attack that killed ten and injured three may not have gone entirely as planned police believe the shooter, pumped up on false and racist conspiracy theories, intended to head down the street and shoot more people. thankfully he was stopped and arrested it came on the same weekend as a mass shooting at a southern california church, an attack on taiwanese church members being investigated tonight as a hate crime that was politically motivated. we ll have more on that in a few moments. let s begin here with the pain, remembrances, and fear in buffalo tonight, buffalo still struggling to come to terms with how someone could turn a s