>> and finally, with a few seconds left, "succession" quite a sendoff and got well deserved awards last night. >> absolutely. this is like the gift that keeps on giving for hbo. they would love it if they could just keep getting up -- >> all right. matthew is frozen on us. we will get him back. we've got, as he said, we've got the emmys coming up next week. matthew bellamy, thank you so much. thank you all for watching "morning joe" today. much breaking news throughout the day. stay with us this morning. ana cabrera picks up the coverage right now. right now on "ana cabrera reports," get ready, one week and counting until the iowa caucuses and the official start of the 2024 campaign. can any republican catch up with

donald trump? from the xain trail to the courtroom, the former president set to make two court appearances in two cases this week. more on tomorrow's consequential hearing in washington and the end of his civil fraud trial in new york. also ahead, scare in the air. where investigators just found the part that ripped suddenly and violently off an alaskan airlines plane in mid flight. controversy at the pentagon. why did the defense secretary leave the white house in the dark about being admitted to the icu? ♪♪ hello, and thank you so much for joining us. it is 10:00 eastern. i'm ana cabrera reporting from new york. as we come on the air, we're officially one week out from the first big political contest of the 2024 campaign season. republicans blitzing iowa, giving their last big pitch with seven days and counting until the caucuses. >> you've got the future of

america first standing right here. >> anybody saying somehow, like, we're only doing -- that's just a flat-out lie. you have to be built for the long haul. >> keep getting used to this face. i'm not stopping. i'm going to fight for you until the very end. >> pretend you're one point, okay, you're one point down! you have to get out and you have to vote, vote, vote. >> okay. we've got team coverage across iowa. ali vitali in sioux city, dash yeah burns in indianola and vaughn hillyard in illinois. vaughn, what is donald trump's message to voters just ahead of the iowa caucuses? >> reporter: ana, on january 6th he made several references to the third anniversary of the january 6th capitol hill attack, in which he called the defendants hostages. of course, for donald trump throughout the course of his candidacy, he's not run away from the attacks of that day or

the conspiracy theories, but instead has tried to use them to propel support and solidarity around him, his supporters and his candidacy. i want to let you hear from donald trump this weekend. >> you know what they ought to do? they ought to release the j. 6th hostages. they've suffered enough. they out to release them. i call them hostages. some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. release the j. 6th hostages, joe. release them, joe. you can do it real easy, joe. >> reporter: to be clear, a majority of the january 6th defendants have actually pleaded guilty. as for donald trump, he has a light 1ked yule in the week ahead. over the course of the last month, ana, he's only spent five days here, compared to 12 for

nikki haley, 13 for ron desantis. he won't be back into the state of iowa until -- >> he's going to be back in the courtroom a lot this week. ally, let's talk about nikki haley. she's faced recent criticism for comments she's made regarding the civil war, also saying new hampshire corrects the iowa vote. what's her strategy this week and what would success look like for her campaign in iowa? >> reporter: look, certainly not the kind of thing you want to lead with to iowa voters, saying that the state that comes after them corrects the decision they made. haley explained that away over the weekend saying she's kidding, all the states rib each other. nament, nikki haley saying people better get ready to see her face all the time. yes, she's campaigning in the hawkeye state, but snow is taking a toll here. you look around me, technically this was an event that was supposed to start in the last few minutes. it's empty. you've got empty chair ares,

stuff packed up in the corner. the only way you would know that nikki haley was supposed to be here, they canceled the event a few minutes ago because the snow is really coming down out there. for nikki haley, the goal remains the same, even if the weather is changing around her, it's be able to provide herself a springboard into new hampshire from the hawkeye state. vaughn and i are typically under the impression after covering so many of these iowa caucuses, that there's three tickets out of iowa. in theory, it should work that way. it's so rare to see the dynamics of the race be what they are right now, with the front-runner so far out ahead and consistently retaining that lead. it's going to be entering to see if the second and third ticket will get any bounce out of the iowa state. >> and who will they be. dasha, ron desantis' decision is to go all in on iowa. he's not in iowa today. why? >> reporter: ana, first, i'm at a ramaswamy event.

you can see the signature truth behind me. his wife is holding a solo event today. they're splitting up events. as ali said, the weather taking a toll on some of the travel. he's completed a double grassley, meaning visited all 99 counties in iowa twice which is pretty remarkable. it is florida governor ron desantis who has poured the most resources, put the most eggs in the iowa basket of any of the candidates. he's not in the state today because he is still the governor of florida. he has to give his state of the state address tomorrow. so he's preparing for some florida business right now. but he has gotten the endorsement of florida governor kim reynolds, endorsement of evangelical leader bob vander flat. he has moved a ton of staff to iowa. he's moved all his money into iowa. that could be a problem for the florida governor.

why? because if he doesn't have a strong showing here after all of that, ana, that's going to be a serious problem. it's going to be very difficult to argue guyability going forward if he doesn't have a strong showing after putting so much effort into the state. >> all right. dasha burns, vaughn hillyard, ali vitali, thank you for your reporting. let's bring in tim miller, writer at large for the bulwark and democratic pollster imandi. we have new reporting on truck's approach to the iowa caucuses, choosing not to campaign with the usual fervor, instead spending most of his time at his mar-a-lago club and leaning on campaign surrogates to do his final bidding in the state. trump has a 30-point lead or so in recent nbc news/"des moines register" polling. his approach doesn't seem to be hurting him. >> it's a rather low-energy

campaign strategy, to borrow a phrase from donald trump. i think it is working, and what he's doing is as he's done so many times in the republican party, he's upending conventioned wisdom about what a republican candidate should or must do. in iowa there's a sense -- iowans like to say they like to kick the tires of the candidates. they need to see them personally. you want to see candidate effort, that that kind of grassroots style campaigning is really important there. it might turn out next week to demonstrate that that's not the case, because donald trump hasn't done any of that. donald trump is not kissing babies and shaking hands. he's not going on the pizza ranch tour, doing the double grassley like vivek ramaswamy is. it doesn't seem to matter the way he's dominating the party. all evidence is showing that he's not being hurt by the

lackadaisical campaign, at least not among core republican voters. >> one of trump's campaign officials say it's like comparing a corvette to a rickshaw, comparing trump to the other candidates and the reason his strategy can be different in how he reaches voters. fenan, trump was in iowa this weekend and used the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack to tell the crowd that he likes to refer to the rioters who are in prison who have been convicted as hostages. i want to play something republican congresswoman elise stefanik said about the upcoming 2024 reekes. >> will you only commit to certify the results -- >> if they are constitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the constitution, not going through state legislatures when it comes to changing -- >> can't help but wonder if

history can repeat itself. how concerned are you with this message as we start the campaign season in earnest? >> this is the most important issue. they're saying they're openly disentanging themselves from their oath to preserve and protect the constitution as donald trump announces without equivocation that he's going on full-on dictator. trump also had a very interesting comment last week where he said eventually all of them will bend the knee, all of them meaning republicans in the republican orbit today will eventually have to come bend the knee and kiss the ring. that's exactly what he's trying to do with this iowa caucus. keep in mind he didn't win iowa in 2016. so the expectation for trump is any victory is going to be seen as a statement. the polling, as you indicated, shows he's up down digits which would also be a historic win in iowa if that were to happen. is there reason for concern that

a wanna be dictator who is open to saying so is likely to be the republican nominee for president some time in the next 45 days? absolutely there is. >> tim, over the weekend, nearly every republican candidate decided to opt out of iowa's minority focus presidential forum, causing organizers to cancel the event. what message is that sending? are republicans not trying to broaden the voter pool? >> ana, i don't know if you've been to many iowa caucus events, but they've pretty white. it's a white bread audience. that's going to be true in new hampshire as well on the republican side of the aisle. this is a party that made a decision way back in 2016 that the path to victory is by running up huge margins among white voters, particularly white working class voters and they don't need to try to expand the demographic footprint of the party.

so i think, as they're deciding what to do with their time, donald trump clearly hanging out at mar-a-lago, being a deejay is more important to him than trying to work with these community groups that reach out to non-white voters. >> ferdinand, let's turn to the other side of the aisle, president joe biden delivering remarks at the mother emanuel ame church in washington t. "washington post" and axios are reporting even former president obama himself have warned about biden complacency and obama pushed biden to moving his political operation outside of and beyond his white house advisers. do you understand the concern here? what should president biden be doing differently? >> i think president obama's concerns should be taken seriously. of course, he has shown that he has won re-election for president, understanding the stakes. i think what president obama is saying is what everybody else that is paying attention to what

is going on is recognizing, which is that democracy is on the ballot in 2024. if joe biden, god forbid, loses the election, we will be sacrificing the american experiment of representative democracy and the end of it and turning it over to someone who has said on multiple occasions he's gong to be a dictator. the good news is president biden's campaign has opened up the year with a full-throated case that that is what is going to be on the ballot. ana, as long as those are the terms of the debate, biden makes the case that you're either voting to continue democracy by voting for biden and the democrats or voting to end it and probably going to full-on fascism with trump. i think he can't lose that election. it gets bogged down on policy issues and simple issues, that's going to be a mistake. you can't deal with those policy issues without continuing a representative democracy. biden did that in wilmington last week. i suspect he will continue.

that's going to be a very dangerous footing for the trump campaign. polling shows americans like democracy, they don't like dictatorship, and that's what trust represents. >> fernand and tim, thank you very much. tune in at 2:00 eastern when katy tur hosts special coverage one week out from the iowa caucuses. while most of the candidates will be laser focused on the campaign trail, former president trump tomorrow plans to appear in person before the d.c. appeals court, hearing arguments on his presidential i'm community claims. trump also plans to attend the closing arguments in the trump org civil fraud trial. that's thursday in new york. his team is already preparing for the supreme court arguments next month over whether colorado can kick him off the state's ballot. for more on all of this, i want to bring in former federal prosecutors kristy greenberg. let's take a listen to donald trump at a rally in iowa this

weekend talking about the colorado decision before the supreme court. >> the supreme court there is taking the case from colorado. all i want is fair. i fought really hard to get three very, very good people in there, great people, very smart people. i just hope they're going to be fair. because the other side plays the ref. >> does it sound like he's trying to put his thumb on the scale here and influence the justices? >> absolutely. he's essentially not saying i hope they'll be fair. he's saying i hope they'll be biased in my favor, essentially that they were bought and paid for. he's the one that got them on the bench, and, therefore, it's a quid pro quo. his own lawyer, alina habba said something along those lines, where they said, we can kaunt on kavanaugh, he's our guy. we can count on him. that's not how it works. i think with the colorado supreme court decision on

appeal, i do think donald trump is going to succeed there. it's just i do think that conservative majority will find this is too drastic a step for them to take and the law is not crystal clear on this issue. it's unprecedented. it's never come up before in terms of a president being engaged in an veshgs. on something else, like the question of immunity which after it goes to the d.c. court of appeals, i expect it will go to the supreme court. i think that's a clear looser for donald trump. i don't think the conservative majority will find he was absolutely immune from federal criminal prosecution. >> it sounds like the supreme court can have a big role in how this election proceeds with donald trump as the front-runner in the republican primary. the issue they're taking up with the colorado 14th amendment decision by the state supreme court there is one that could have bearing on a whole bunch of other states, given there have been multiple challenges. i thit it's more than a dozen states now, to trump being on

the ballot. what are the specific issues you think could give the supreme court pause where you see them siding with trump? >> so, it's interesting. there are more than 60 lawsuits going on right now. i do think when the supreme court takes up this issue for colorado, they're not going to want to litigate all these different lawsuits. i think they're going to have a narrow holding in that they're going to address the particular question of whether or not this candidate engaged in an insurrection, but i also think they're going to want a holding that's broad enough that it's not going to just deal with colorado, that it's going to at least provide information in that decision that is going to pause these other lawsuits as well. what kinds of issues could that be? i think one of the dissents in colorado focused on whether trump got due process. in colorado in their electoral code, you had to have a five-day hearing immediate li once the challenge was brought. within 48 hours after that there

needed to be a decision. both of those requirements of the colorado electoral code were violated here. there were various delays that took place. one of the things that the colorado justice said in dissent is that's because the colorado state code wasn't really able to deal with this kind of complex constitutional issue. that may be a way for the supreme court to get around this, to basically say these state electoral codes are here to deal with things like age, whether or not somebody was born in the united states, not complex constitutional issues that takes weeks, months, years to deal with. >> it's all complex when it comes to things with trump and when it comes to the law and the constitution. as we look ahead to the hearing tomorrow dealing with presidential immunity claims, one of the arguments we're hearing from trump's team is, at least in part, that he can't be tried in a court of law because already impeached and then acquitted in the senate for allegations related to january

6th. so i want to play what we heard from some senators like mitch mcconnell in 2021, addressing that very issue. watch this. >> president trump is still liable for everything he did while he was in office as an ordinary citizen unless the statute of limitations has run, still liable for everything he did while he was in office. he didn't get away with anything yet. we have a criminal justice system in this country. we have civil litigation. and former presidents are not immune from being accountable by either one. >> so is trump still criminally liable here even though he was acquitted by the senate? >> words i never thought i'd say, but senator mcconnell is correct. he's right. the fact he was acquitted on

impeachment charges is completely separate from the criminal justice system. a grand jury hee -- evidence was presented before a grand jury and they found probable cause that donald trump engaged in the crimes that he's charged with. then it has to go to a jury who will have to find him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt in order for him to be convicted. two separate situation stems. one doesn't have anything to do with the other. >> no double jeopardy that could apply? >> no, there's not. that's a complete loser of an argument. where parts of an alaska airlines plane was just found as investigators look into friday's dramatic air scare and whether it's a wider problem for one type of boeing plane. secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital this morning. why the pentagon waited days to tell the white house about his medical condition. later, the civil corruption case against the man who led the nra for decades. that kicks off today.

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-- meanwhile, boeing 737 max 9 planes remain grounded for now. nbc's tom costello is following all of this. the big question is how did this happen? >> that's the bottom line alaska just took ownership on this back in november. the cockpit voice recorder, that's been recorded over.

why did that happen? that's only on a two-hour loop. if you don't immediately stop that recording, it will keep recording and record in a loop and essentially erase everything that was already on it. that's not good. the flight data recorder is intact. they're going to be looking at that. they've already interviewed the crew. keep in mind this crew performed heroics in a terrible situation, a rapid explosive decompression as the plane was flying from portland, oregon, down to california. >> reporter: this morning a critical discovery after that very close call in the skies. >> i'm excited to announce that we found the door plug. >> reporter: the ntsb saying a teacher in portland contacted investigators after he found the missing piece, a door plug, in his back yard, two days after the decompression explosion at 16,000 feet which twisted and bent nearby seats and suck the headrests and cushions out of the 737 max 9.

>> alaska, seattle, alaska. >> reporter: one teenager boy had his shirt pulled off of him. a sock was found stuck in the plane's frame. one flight attendant suffered a knee injury. the ntsb chief said if it had happened at a cruising altitude, it could have been deadly. passengers pulled out of the hole. >> there could have been some significant consequences for the passengers that were seated in that area of the plug and throughout the cabin really. >> reporter: as cold wind ripped through the cabin, the force of the explosion pulled the cockpit door open, slamming it against the lavatory. passengers described terror on board. >> there was a big boom or a mini explosion in the rear of the plane. >> my focus on that moment was just breathe into the oxygen mask and trust that the flight crew will do everything they can

to keep us safe. >> reporter: it happened behind the plane's left wing where a hole is cut for an optional emergency exit. alaska airlines didn't need it, so the door was mruld and sealed leaving an ordinary window. investigators will look at whether that plug was properly bolted in place during manufacturing. meanwhile, the faa has grounded 171 max 9s in the u.s., forcing alaska and united airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. investigators are also looking into why it is that several of the pilots that flew the plane before that incident on friday, those pilots crews reported a warning light of the pressurization problem in the plane. alaska says it was still trying to get to the bottom of it. it had said that plane would not be allowed to fly over water while they were working on it. could not fly to hawaii. that is raising concerns of why was that plane in the sky and

does boeing have a bigger, broader problem with the max 9. >> and are we safe to fly? are there other issues? tom costello, thank you. thank goodness no one was seriously hurt. joining us is nbc aviation analyst captain john cox. let's start with how this could have happened. how do you make sense of it? >> i think the first thing they're looking at is the system that holds that door in place is fairly robust. did it function as it should of what made that door capable of leaving the airplane. this type of door has been in use for something over 15 years, without any problems. so is it something that was unique just to this airplane? they're going to look at the hardware that holds this plug in place. there are four retaining bolts. were they properly installed? is there evidence they were

subjected to unusual forces? those are the kinds of questions that investigators are going to ask. that will explain the why it happened, and then the next step, of course, is to look and to see what do we need to do to prevent it from happening again. >> how secure and safe are our flights moving forward. if somebody is going to the airport to get on a plane, if it's not one of these types of planes, given they're grounded for inspection before going back into the air, can we trust that there isn't some random problem with another plane that's out there? >> we can. if you look, for example, at last year, 2023, we flew 35 million flights without a single commercial jet fatality, the lowest accident rate -- there were two accidents. they were both turbo props in remote parts of the world. otherwise, 2023 was one of the

safest years in aviation history, since 1903. so the system itself proves itself on a daily basis to be safe. it's the safest form of transportation. we unfortunately occasionally experience an event like the alaska 737 max, and we investigate it, we get to the bottom of it. we take steps to improve it so it does not happen again. as far as safe, i'm flying tomorrow. >> okay. so you're able to get back on a plane. the faa has grounded 171 planes, again, as an extra precaution to do the due diligence. what kind of ripple effect could that have? >> it's certainly going to affect the schedule at alaska and united. they will do everything they can to compensate for it. losing this number of airplanes will certainly impact some flights. i know tom costello made mention earlier about the number of

flight cancellations. if you're going to the airport, check with your airline. make sure everything is running on schedule. >> thank you so much, captain john cox. i appreciate you. up next on "ana cabrera reports," growing fallout over defense secretary lloyd austin's hospitalization. why id took days for the pentagon to tell the white house and even his deputy, and the new calls for transparency. plus, secretary of state blinken set to touch down in israel today as nbc learns talks with hamas have broken down. an update from that region next. . you can build new bone with evenity®. ask your doctor if you can do more than just slowing down bone loss with evenity®. want stronger bones? then build new bone; evenity® can help in just 12 months. evenity® is proven to reduce spine fracture risk by 73%. evenity® can increase risk of heart attack, stroke,

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experiencing severe pain from an elective medical procedure he t the end of december. a day later he transferred key responsibilities to his deputy. she and the white house didn't find out mefs the hospital until two days after that. in a statement this weekend, secretary austin said he could have done a better job ensuring the public was appropriately informed. just moments ago at least one member of house leadership calling on austin to resign. congresswoman elise stefanik calling his actions a, quote, dangerous dereliction of duty. joining us is nbc's pentagon correspondent courtney kube and nbc white house correspondent monica alba. courtney, if the white house and top officials don't know who is in charge, especially considering everything happening in street and ukraine, that's the concern here, right? >> exactly. the secretary of defense, a cabinet member in the chain of command for many military issues, all military issues in this country, not just that they

didn't know he was innocent charge, but they didn't know that he may have been very ill. as you said in that intro, he was in that intensive care unit for at least part of his stay. as far as we know, he's still in the hospital now. he had this elective procedure on december 22nd that required an overnight stay at walter reed. we still don't know what that was. we do know about a week later he was experiencing extreme, severe pain and was taken to the hospital. that was a week ago, ana. he remains there. still more questions than answers, including why is it that deputy secretary of defense kathleen hicks was notified she would have to assume some of his duties? why that is critical is two days later on thursday, when she was notified he was in the hospital, he started making plans to come back to d.c. it indicates some of the potential urgency that she felt she needed to return to d.c. why wasn't she told 48 hours

earlier and why wasn't the white house informed? we did learn last night in fact austin's chief of staff, kelly maxman was ill during this week, and defense officials say that may have led to delay to not notifying the white house. the reality is, with all we hear about redundancy and chain of command, why didn't someone else notify the white house that secretary austin was not only in the hospital, but in icu. >> monica, secretary austin spoke to president biden saturday night. what more do we know? >> reporter: it was described as a warm conversation in which the president wished secretary austin a speedy recovery, looks forward to him being back at the defense department. notably i'm being told, ana, that right now president biden has no current plans to fire the defense secretary. that's a question, as you pointed out in the intro, that's been ralzed by some lawmakers and others who really have a lot

of puzzling queries about how this all unfolded and how this could happen without the kind of kblt and transparency that president biden pledged to bring back to the white house when he was elected, in terms of the way that government should function and in terms of competency. as of this moment, we understand the president has full confidence in lloyd austin, that he again continues to fully decide to work with him and wants to continue to see that in the weeks and months ahead. but what is unclear here still is this complete picture of where the communication rakedown was and some of these other details that are still just completely outstanding. so we know, for instance, that the president, when he did speak to secretary austin, they obviously left things on a fairly good note. we'll see if they speak in the days ahead as secretary austin is still in the hospital and as the white house press core, the pentagon press corps will continue to press for more

information about how something like this could happen with national security at stake and so much happening around the world. >> there really is still so much we don't know. monica alba and courtney kube, thank you for bringing us the latest. in our next hour i'll speak with former cia director brennan about this and much more. meanwhile, america's secretary of state remains in the middle east on a week-long diplomatic tour. secretary of state antony blinken is set to meet with the saudi crown prince and is expected to touch down in tel aviv later this afternoon. it comes as nbc news has learned that talks of further hostage releases have been halted following the assassination of hamas leader in beirut. joining us from tel aviv, nbc foreign correspondent josh lederman. let's start with blinken's goals in his meetings as he heads back to israel later this afternoon. >> reporter: a big focus of his stop in qatar was to get the

hostage negotiations back on track. the qatari prime minister told him that has become much more difficult following the assassination of the senior hamas leader in beirut. here in israel, secretary blinken will also be pushing the israelis to try to lower palestinian casualties and move to a new lower intensity phase of this war. i want you to hear from retired major general yair golan. take a look. >> the israeli government says it will completely eliminate hamas. is that possible? >> no. this is irresponsible thing to say. we can eliminate the military capabilities of hamas, and this is a reasonable goal for this war, and we should achieve that. but we cannot eliminate hamas entirely. hamas was chosen by the people in the gaza strip to be their

sovereign entity. >> reporter: ana, just to put this in perspective, the israeli military says they have now killed or captured about 9,000 hamas militants since this war started. that is less than a third of the roughly 30,000 hamas fighters that israel believes that hamas had to begin with. so the job is not nearly done, but just as blinken is preparing to come here in the coming hours, the israeli military told "the new york times" today that they, in fact, have moved to that lower intensity phase of the war. they say that will involve fewer ground troops as well as fewer air strikes. ana. >> josh lederman in tel aviv, thank you. turning to a moment of hope amidst tragedy in japan. an elderly woman in her 90s was rescued after being trapped for more than 120 hours after that massive earthquake in japan last week. she was found responsive in the rubble of a collapsed house

following the powerful 7.6 quake. according to the japanese government at least 168 people were killed in the quake and dozens are still missing. up next on "ana cabrera reports," congress reaches a $1.6 trillion deal to fund the government, but is there enough time to get all the eyes dotted and the ts crossed before a shutdown this month? plus, he can resign but he can't hide. former nra leader wayne lapierre denying he used funds to pay for a lavish lifestyle. what more we can learn as his civil fraud trial kicks off today. as his civil fraud trial kicks off today. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ ( ♪ ♪ ) start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand.

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we're back with breaking news from capitol hill. house republicans on the judiciary and oversight committees officially recommending this morning that the household the president's son hunter biden in contempt of congress. this recommendation comes after hunter biden defied a subpoena for a closed-door interview last month. hunter biden said he would only answer questions in a public setting. the committees will now mark up that contempt recommendation before it goes to a full house vote. congress is one step closer to avoiding a government shutdown this month. house speaker mike johnson and senate majity leader chuck schumer say they've reached a top-line deal on how much the government will spend next year. it's progress but still just the first step towards getting a

full agreement in place, and the clock is ticking. nbc's julie tsirkin has the details on capitol hill. julie, what's in this deal? and what has to happen to avoid a shutdown in just 11 days? >> reporter: essentially the appropriators will have to write all 1 bills, will have to allocate these funds. the top-line number on your screen there, just under $1.6 trillion, agree on where to separate it, how to divide it up, write the bills in time for the house and senate to pass it, all ahead of the january 19th deadline. that's not a lot of time obviously. the clock is ticking. it is significant that mike johnson, the republican speaker and democratic leader came to this agreement to get this figured out which is this top line number. there are concessions that johnson got out of this process, but not enough, perhaps, to make some of the hard right members to support and vote for this deal. that's one of the things he's dealing with right now. we heard, for exam, from the house freedom caucus who went on on twitter recently, on x

rather, saying this is a bad deal, it's terrible in terms of moving forward. we'll see if they can get there ahead of the deadline, ana. certainly the clock is sticking. we also have a date for the state of the union. what can you tell us? >> a little later than the january and february date, but it will be past those two deadlines, one january 19th, the other february 2nd, of when the government could potentially shut down. it will also be two days after super tuesday, so president biden will presumably be the nominee of his party when he comes to address congress. speaker johnson, of course, inviting him. this will be the speak's first state of the union since he got the gavel. he'll be sitting behind the president. you'll remember last year's state of the union the president being heckled by some, including marjorie taylor greene. certainly the president will expect some of that again. but that is happening just about

two months from now. >> that's right. march 7th. thank you very much, julie tsirkin. i will speak to virginia congresswoman abigail spanberger in the next hour about the spending deal and many other issues facing congress. opening statements start this morning in the civil fraud trial against longtime nra ceo wayne lapierre and two other leaders from that organization. they're all facing allegations that they violated non-profit laws and misused millions in nra funds for their own personal use. lapierre who has led this organization for 30 years resigned from the nra on friday at the end of jury selection. let's bring in nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dilanian. ken, what all does this lawsuit allege? >> reporter: good morning, ana. the nra is obviously a powerful lobbying group. it's also a tax-exempt non-profit corporation. that means it has to follow the

law which requires it to spend money reasonably. what the new york attorney general is saying here is that the nra leadership was corrupt and was,n fact, using nra resources as their personal piggy bank to fund lavish lifestyles including expensive travel, private security, clothing. for example, she's accusing wayne lapierre of taking eight private jet trips for he and his family to the bahamas in the span of three years that cost the group a half million dollars. there's also evidence that he spent $40,000 on a single shopping trip to the zain yeah boutique in beverly hills. the attorney general says that's corruption, improper. she wants the money back. >> what does this mean potentially for the organization's future? >> well, this lawsuit and the resulting internal battles have already been hugely impactful on the nra. it really has hurt the organization as a lobbying

entity. membership roles are down, fund-raising is down. it's not the powerful potent group that it once was. obviously with mr. lapierre's resignation, that further cements the fact that the nra is in decline. interestingly, ana, the decline of nra has not changed the politics of gun control in the united states. the second amendment activists and their republican allies in congress still have made it impossible to pass meaningful gun control changes, and that hasn't changed despite the decline of the nra. >> and despite the increase in shootings that we are covering constantly here. ken dilanian, thank you so much for that. up next on "ana cabrera reports," awards season is officially here. did your favorite movie or actor take home a golden globe?

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human way to healthcare. welcome back, the stars are out in force for the golden globe, the first major red carpet event since the writer and actor's strikes ended. >> hey there, last night was a celebration hollywood has been waiting for. it was just as fabulous as you'd imagine. there were historic firsts, a pair of new awards, and all the star power we could handle. brie larson told us she had to catch her breath after meeting j.lo. it was a girls' night for the cast of barbie, and oppenheimer ruled the night. >> oppenheimer! >> oppenheimer blasting the golden globes competition

leading the night with five wins including best picture drama, best director, best actor, and best supporting actor for robert downey jr. >> to my fellow nominees, let's not pretend this is a compliment. this is a first time, this is more of a most improved player thing. >> reporter: the stars shined for the first major awards show since the actors and writers strikes shut down hollywood. >> i'm so glad we all got to be here. >> reporter: joe coy poking fun of taylor swift who did not seem amused. >> the big difference between the golden globes and the nfl, on the golden globes we have fewer camera shots of taylor swift, i swear. >> the globes' refresh brought new categories like the award for cinematic and box office achievement, which was boxed up by barbie. >> thank you so much to the golden globes for creating an

award that celebrates movie fans. >> reporter: succession's final season dominated the tv categories winning four globes including the show's third for best drama. >> "succession." >> ali wong became the first asian woman to win best actress in a limited series for "beef". >> while "the bear" was the best tv movie or comedy with jeremy allen white taking home acting globes. the most emotional moment of the night came with lily gladstone's win, making her the first indigenous person to ever win a globe. >> this is for every little res kid, urban kid, native kid out there, who has a dream, who is seeing themselves represented. >> to see oprah in purple and margot robbie in pink, those bets were as easy to place as oppenheimen sweeping. poor things took home the prize

for best picture, musical, and comedy and emma stone won her second career globe for her role in it. it is just the beginning of the fun and glamour of awards season. oscar nominations will be announced in two weeks. >> kaylee hartung, thanks. got my list. there's a lot on that list i haven't seen just yet. up next on "ana cabrera reports," one week from the iowa caucuses. where the race stands, i'll talk with abigail spanberger about a republican house leader who won't commit to certifying the 2024 election results. stay right there. 24 election re. stay right there

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