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from iowa. nikki haley and ron desantis head to head. this is the final push before the first votes which are in iowa. jake tapper and dana bash moderate tonight at 9:00. and i ll be back with anderson for a special hour of ac 360 starting now. we are now just about an hour away from the final republican primary debate before the iowa caucuses next monday. if you re just joining us, i m coming to you along with erin burnett from new york from the campus of drake university in des moines. ron desantis and nikki haley squaring off tonight. cnn s dana bash and jake tapper are moderating. adding to the interest, the unexpected, right, and raising the stakes, the former governor and now former candidate who did not qualify but is so crucial in this race as it moves forward, chris christie. that s right. governor christie stepping out of the race just a short time ago. we re starlgt off this hour with that headline that he made late today, suspending his campaign. her ....
scrambled, and a u.s. f 22 successfully shut it down. it s unclear whether the latest object has anything to do with the chinese by balloon shutdown off the coast of carolina s just last week or the object that was down over alaska on friday. nbc is in washington with the latest. ben, tell us what we know about the jets taken down a short time ago in canada. we do not know really anything more than what you just pointed out, which is this tweet from the canadian prime minister saying that they took down this high altitude object so this is 24 hours since a another high altitude object was taken down off the coast of alaska by a another u.s. fighter jet, another of 22. we still don t have any answers on what that object was other than that it was roughly the size of a small car, and it was not manned. in this case, this was spotted over northern canada, there were u.s. and canadian aircraft tracking it, and the f 22 fighter jet shut it down. what altitude was a? what s ....
and while all eyes have been on manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, as the nation s been watching literally his every move. special counsel, jack smith, appears to have reached a turning point. when it comes to his, investigation surrounding the former president. there are signs of the special counsel now four months into the job may get the testimony of two of the closest people to the former president. at the two people who knew presumably everything when it comes to trump. his attorney, evan corcoran, and his former number two in the white house. mike pence. today, recorder spotted attorneys for trump heading into the d. c. federal courthouse, where the grand jury investigating the mar-a-lago documents case and the january six riots, where they were meeting behind closed doors, one of the special counsel prosecutors investigating january six of the efforts to overturn the 2020 election was also spotted entering the building. you know who else was there? an atto ....
Lies, and that audio tape, Donald Trumps hush money trial, has taken a detour into the seedy underbelly of hollywood the lawyer who played the gobetween between each trumpled effort to buy stormy daniels. Silence gave the jury some critical facts about the pan, the pain process to get this deal done now that lawyer also got a dose of hardball from trumps lawyers now did it poison his credibility with the jury . Well, well find out. Im abby phillip, and youre watching a Special Edition of this slide. And im laura coates in todays day in court and it was filled with unsavory stories to say the least. I mean, the sex and there was plenty of that and not just a rumor, trysts between the former president or a porn star or a playmate. The defense put Keith Davidson life on display for the story and his noir like character arc, ....
on the stand in new york today? so i increasingly feel, and you ll have to let me know at 7:00. i don t have the training to analyze donald trump anymore. i need a psychologist or a psychiatrist. i don t know how much of this was as some of the journalists suggested was performative deflection, and i don t know how much of this is actual holy you know what, they took my toys, right. i think that he cherishes his company more than democracy. i accept the journalism that supports this trial means more to him than some of the federal ones that are to come. i don t have a good enough answer for you about whether it is performance art or an actual meltdown. quickly, i have to ask, we ve got the political lens, and then we ve got the actual legal lens. i m not going to ask about the legal lens. there s tons to talk about that i ll be going over in the next hour. politically, do you think this was a successful strategy for the former president today? i think those are, y ....