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cases may not proceed to trial before the general election in november. meanwhile, the former president continued his unimpeded march towards becoming the republican party's presidential nominee for a third time. yesterday, he cruised to victory in the states that held nominating contests in, idaho, missouri and michigan. let only know trump decidedly win in each of those, races he is projected to receive every single delegate that was a for grabs yesterday. that is just the beginning. march madness is about to kick into gear this, week and i'm not talking about college sports because i never talk about college sports. this is set to be a jam-packed month as the primary season reaches its peak, while at the same time trump's legal cases approach some key inflection points. today, the district of columbia is holding its republican primary and north dakota will hold its contest to morrow. then, two days from, now super tuesday, 16 states plus the territory of american samoa will held democratic and or republican nominating contest

on tuesday. trump is widely expected to dominate in every single republican, race no surprises there. there aren't enough delegates up for grabs on super tuesday to allow him to officially clinch the nomination. still, it is likely that he will end the night within striking distance of doing so, and he will likely have to wait one more week to close out the republican primary. georgia, hawaii, mississippi, and washington will hold contests on march 12th, and barring something unexpected, they may have enough delegates to push trump over the threshold. so he is going to be the republican nominee by the end of the month. yet, some doubt continues to hang over trump's campaign as we continue to wait for the supreme court to issue its ruling or guarding the former president eligibility to even be on the ballot. that is a decision that can come at anytime. during a hearing last month, a majority of the justices appeared skeptical or hesitant at best about the efforts out of colorado challenging trump's ability to hold public office

ever again based on a reading of the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. it appears likely that trump will probably be allowed to remain on the ballot, but we don't know exactly how the justices will rule, or what kind of implications it might have on both the primary and trump's legal cases. speaking of which, the federal election interference trial in d.c. was supposed to child -- the decision against his ridiculous absolute presidential immunity claim. a supreme court hearing on that claim has just been added to trump's calendar for april, but even though that trial has been delayed, the first ever criminal trial of a former president is set to start in a few weeks. it was one year ago this month when manhattan district attorney alvin bragg became the first prosecutor to indict trump, and beginning on march 25th, bragg will be the first to bring his case to court

against the former president. trump's former personal attorney michael cohen and the adult film star stormy daniels or among the witnesses expected to testify about how trump tried to conceal the effort to pay off daniels to keep quiet about their affair which trump denies took place. meanwhile, in georgia, we will soon learn fulton county district attorney fani willis will be allowed to proceed with her election interference case against trump. allegations of an improper relationship between willis and nathan wade, special prosecutor she appointed have derailed in the case for the last couple of months. hearings have recently been held about those allegations, and after closing arguments are given, judge scott mcafee says he intends to rule on the matter in the next two weeks. march comes in like a lion, but is not going like -- this year. trump's trial in new york will likely last through much of the, spring with a primary race expected to wrap up in the next couple weeks, expect biden and trump too soon make a bigger pivot towards the general

election as well. joining me, now molly jong- fast, she is a special correspondent for vanity fair host of the fast politics podcast as well as jennifer rubin an opinion writer for the washington post. host of the podcast jen rubin's green room and author of the book resistance, how women save democracy from donald trump. they are both msnbc political analyst. good morning to both of you. thank you for being here. let me start with you, the primaries for all intents and purposes and the campaigns are shifting the attention, the general election, you are hearing this more and more from donald trump, definitely spent much more time speaking about nikki haley, joe, biden mostly and the democrats. you just published a piece for the washington post this morning, titled for ways biden can make inroads with anti trump republicans. talk to me about those. >> well there are -- they are not enough to win her the nomination but there are millions of republicans out there who supported nikki haley and understood her message that

trump is dangerous and he is a crack, pot and we saw more into that this weekend when his speech was filled with these -- really these mental and verbal -- but nevertheless there are millions of republicans on appeal to them and he doesn't have to be really become a republican he just has to stress issues which really has residents with those people. he had a crime, he had a gathering at the white house last week with officials, crime is way down. he cannot make an issue of border security republicans with the -- on a border security deal. you certainly can stress both ivf and abortion with republican women are very concerned about. and finally, i think it is the all-purpose chaos, this -- chaotic now, and he promises a complete disruption of our

alliances, our government, democracy and i think those four things are biden's biggest opportunity to make inroads with independents, and republican-leaning voters. >> molly, let's switch to the other side of the equation because this will be a close election most likely, so one can achieve things by hitting -- moderately leading republicans which he has to shore up progressives as well. that is a tall order because you are reaching out in two directions at the same, time and -- >> i think that will be tougher, and they are coming, and i think biden has done things he has overturned he but bernie sanders in budget, so he has done things for progressives. progressives have been very good soldiers for biden, not for -- so i think he is going to need to have a -- moment when it comes to a lot of the middle east, you have to come back for those voters.

i think look, my sense is that in michigan, people want to like him. they want to come back to him. the choice is trump who wants to -- ideological basis, and i do think -- is a beneficiary of that. this campaign is very reactive, they listened to journalists, they listen to pundits, they listen. they attack there -- they are careful. they know what are the stakes. so i do think they will do the things they need to do, and we have seen this, again i think that biden is running into 91 criminal in criminal accounts, that is insane. it never lived in a time like, this and -- that is a huge -- >> and the idea that if the idea is convicted of anything, or the trial moves forward,

whether he's convicted or, not at the concept of these jars is that people will actually appear on a daily basis on the news to be reading about the actual indictments you can read on your own, but in the -- all of our issues about whether it is reliable or not, the polling trends indicate that should trump be convicted there are voters who will move towards joe biden, and we are talking about percentage points that are within the margin of error, but fundamentally do you think that will, happen do you think a conviction of donald trump in any of these cases actually influences either undecided or moderate or you know, voter republicans who lean against trump? >> there are a large padre of republican voters who literally could shift someone on fifth avenue and they will still vote for him. that is not everyone. i think biden has to make an argument, not only is this guy, quick but this guy is running

literally to destroy the democratic process. he is running so that he can spare himself the verdict of the american people, and juries. he is -- so you can put him himself or job these cases. he is running so that he can do whatever he wants, that is his immunity argument. you can do whatever he wants. he can send steel sticks to kill joe biden, he can assassinate his political opponents, he could not members of the senate, apparently he can do anything he wants and that is what he is running on. it is a very dangerous platform. it is not simply, i cannot believe i'm, saying this simply that he is not -- would be a convicted criminal, but running to be above the law. that is something so -- for this system, so dangerous that i would hope that voters of good will turn out and by the, way that is at the best way to have a democrats come out, once they see that and they are reminded of the capacity of this individual of criminality

below this individual, they will come home. by the way, i think biden needs to be a bit, tougher let's start calling trump what he is which is an adjudicated rapist, an adjudicated liar. that was the result of the e. jean carroll verdict, and i think the language has to get sharper, i have to remind voters including progressives just what donald trump is going on about. >> i think this is an important point, it is not even close. i can fully understand why some progressives in the issue is gaza, the climate, and middle east violence, and i totally get why some people think enough hasn't been done, some decisions are not great. that is not the deal. a transaction is not about whether joe biden has done everything you want him to do, it is about what jim just said, it is about what your alternative is. about what every single issue donald trump is worse off. >> i also think it is -- joe

biden has tried to cancel student, at the supreme court overturned that. so what they have done is they have quietly canceled different student debt programs. so a lot of people are getting their cancellation of student debt, and that is a very cool. they have done a lot of work to try and get around this, very conservative court and he's worth realizing this court is really committed to trying to -- federalist ideals in place. but i would say also, trump is a -- he has a real primary problem. nikki haley could work really hard to consolidate the base, and nikki haley is still getting 30, 40%. those are voters that he needs to win. >> better numbers than anybody who has pursued essentially an incumbent which is how you have to think about him has received. >> think about the ways trump has tried to lock down the process in 1 million different ways, including removing the rnc chair.

so i do think it is worth seeing, there is a lot of discontent in this republican party. it is not the trump 2016 or he is sweeping in and this -- >> winning all the delegates at the moment, but that is an interesting play. let's talk about that for a second, nikki haley, people who said the other night, i am upping my support of nikki haley to keep this thing alive. well this thing is a candidacy that many people support her say a second choice if she is not a republican candidate, their second choice is joe biden. so on the margins, is nikki haley living to fight another day, good for joe biden? >> absolutely. absolutely. that is why many never republicans are cheering her on, that is why democrats are -- they say listen, she is making the argument to republican audience is, what you and i and molly have been writing and saying for months, trump is unbalanced, he is dangerous, he is in the pocket of vladimir putin, and it is

going to have to resonate with, everybody it just has to resonate with some voters. if the defection read from donald trump is a 5%, that is huge. 5% of republicans who voted for him in 2020 said, that is huge. it is a game of -- and not of -- i think it is so long as the argument, she is doing good for the democracy. i will say, today, she reiterated that she was not necessarily bound by that pledge to support, and i think it is very important that after tuesday she not turn around and do what all of these spineless little warms who were -- and i think if she hopes that and tells people that they cannot support this, guy he is dangerous, that will be powerful. >> and if she can get through this entire thing win or lose without saying that she endorses donald trump nikki haley may have a future in

presidential politics in this country. thanks to both of. you amazing starting the show with you. a special correspondent for vanity fair and host of the fast politics podcast, jennifer rubin is an opinion writer for the washington post and author of the book resistance how employment saved democracy from donald trump. coming up, nothing less than a marketing underline and -- impossible to ignore joe biden's enthusiasm problem, the -- join me later this hour to talk about the democratic protest, about what is at stake in the, fall and what the biden campaign should do about it. plus, we continue our pledge to -- donald trump targeted in his attempt to overturn the last election or brings us this week to colorado where we find a sea of chaos and infighting and familiar characters from the election denier constituency. i will be joined for that conversation by former -- and mccain aide -- and new reporting indicates there is optimism we could be on the precipice of for the new cease- fire deal in the middle east with high level talks taking place right now in cairo. the latest on that next.

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>> all returning to the middle east, there are fast moving developments on a potential new cease-fire deal on the israel gaza war. a senior hamas official tells nbc news that right now a high- level hamas delegation is in cairo for negotiations with an egyptian officials -- have relations with hamas and involvement in relations. israel was also set to be -- high-level dedication to cairo for today, stocks however an israeli official told nbc news this morning that is not the case. official adds that they are increasingly optimistic a deal can be reached by the start of ramadan on march 10th. this new deal is based on a framework negotiation and pace present late february which calls for a six-week cease- fire, and the release of some of the remaining hostages. israel agreed to most of that

proposal according to u.s. and israeli officials, hamas has not yet provided a formal response. another israeli official told and we see news that hamas has not provided a list of which hostages would remain alive, and say that that is quote, a key issue that remains unresolved. an egyptian government official told and pc news that it is part of the potential deal, israel may get to allow the entry of 500 humanitarian checks allowing aid and fuel into gaza. joining me now from -- nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley. matt, you have been covering the story since the beginning. you reported extensively from the region in your journalistic history. how optimistic are you that a new cease-fire deal might be in place by the beginning of ramadan on march 10th? >> well, thank you for saying that. i think -- satisfying answer, i'm not optimistic. i don't really know. the fact is you mentioned, they are optimistic, but at the same time they are not sending a

delegation to cairo. this, because they're waiting for the deal to move, forward and they are waiting to hear from hamas which has a deadline as of today according to news agencies that they need to release a list of the number of hostages who are still alive. basically the israelis are demanding to know what they are negotiating, whether or not these hostages are dead bodies, or whether or not they are moving people who should be free. that is a major issue, because it is attacks on the israeli attacks on the gaza strip have been going on for months now. according to the israelis and hamas, several hostages have been killed, many of them in israeli attacks. so i don't know about optimism, because the fact, is ali, you and i have talked about this on several occasions, it looked as though a deal was getting, close we are still not seeing a deal. this time, it is a little bit different. there is a deadline out, the israelis have said they want to finish this by march 10th which is around the time that ramadan gets that holy month of islam thoughtless or 40 days. they have been -- bill could last for warranty to ration of

the holy month of ramadan during which time they are hoping the israelis and palestinians switch hostages and prisoners. but complicating, things there are -- both sides for hamas the -- architect of this october 7th attacks -- that started the six, rather he isn't really in communication with some of the senior leadership in hamas. he's hiding in the gaza strip, not last time seniors -- he said according to the wall street journal, nick is a need to russia, cease-fire or hamas is still fighting. on the other side, on the israeli, side the former defense minister of israel, he is a major rival for benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, he is going to be heading on his own to washington where he's going to meet meeting with u.s. vice president kamala harris, and other senior washington leaders. he is doing this without the approval of joe biden, and without the approval bunch minister yahoo, and apparently this is made the israeli prime minister furious.

so even as we are seeing these negotiations going forward, even as we are hearing optimism expressed from both sides, we are seeing a lot of divisions of leadership on both, but even as everyone is rushing to try to complete this deal by some sort of deadline preferably in a week. so, yes there is optimism, there's lots of people saying they're, optimistic but we have been here before,, early and ios as a and that. well >> on the last point, the former leader of the head of the armed forces there is part of the war cabinet, not somebody who agrees with netanyahu on many things, but on the war, cabinet some say to community, some say there are adult in the room, and netanyahu does not get away with everything he wants to do. there seems to be an engineering, the idea that -- is meeting with senior american officials, not with the approval of netanyahu seems to me a message from america to netanyahu, if you're not reasonable with, us we will see other options. >> yes, this is part of it. the fact is biden has been

scalding netanyahu over the past several months. it has increased over the past month or two. originally, on the onset october 7th, it looks as though biden was giving carte blanche to netanyahu saying he can retaliate however he once again supposed, indians since then as the body toll has increased in the gaza strip, we have been seeing biden increasingly, publicly scolding netanyahu and our understanding from various reporting is that he is doing so even more harshly behind the scenes. the fact is there is no consideration for a permanent cease-fire that -- negotiation deal. that is what hamas wants. that is what huge parts of the world have been demanding, for including a lot of international advocacy, groups aid organizations, so at the same time even if this deal does go, through it would really only represent a temporary pause, but again there are all of these difficulties in leadership on both sides, and this could really factor the negotiation process. >> thanks as always for your

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boost. the 2000 presidential election between george w. bush and al gore is considered one of the closest elections in american history. it all came down to the state of florida. on election, night at the returns had bush ahead by such a small margin that state law required a recount. this triggered a monthlong series of legal battles which ended in a highly controversial bush v. gore supreme court decision. when the recount was stopped, the florida state secretary of state certified that bush had won the state by just 537

votes, that is a margin of 0.009%. that election, the entire election was decided by 537 votes. but as -- of the washington post points, out historically, elections are decided not only by those who cast votes, but also by those who don't. so there is a case to be made that in the 5 million floridians who were eligible to vote in florida in a 2000 elections but chose not to are really the ones who tipped the scale. there are many reasons why eligible voters stay home on election day, it could be that they just can't be bothered, that their vote at least in their statement matter anyway, or maybe they can't make it to a ballot box because of work or transportation, illness, or any of reasons valid. voting access remains an issue. maybe they are just missing not spark, liking the enthusiasm for either candidate. that in my books isn't valid.

someone is going to win that election, and it is your responsibility and marcus to carry your weight, and part of that weight is casting an informant vote. sometimes, very enthusiastic, very informed americans abstain from voting in protest to make a point. a protest vote is a vote cast to demonstrate dissatisfaction with a pool of candidates where the current political system at large typically a protest voter might cast their ballot for uncommitted. none of the name shown, or no, preference other times they will cast a ballot for a candidate with a minimal chance of, winning or they will write in the name of someone who is not even running. or, they just won't vote at all. casting a protest voting begins the shoe in nominee in a primary is nothing new. it is often an important and useful tool. it shows that you do care about democracy. doing that in a enchanters election is a dangerous.

and in 20 2024, it could be existentially dangerous. this year's danger different. this year you have a binary choice because -- the expressway to autocracy. when the road splits into on the right side, you have a candidate who incited an insurrection at the u.s. capital to remain in power after having lost the electoral vote who is a vowed to exact revenge on his political enemies, who's accused of having illegally taken and stolen sensitive classified government documents in a bathroom, who was found liable for fraud, and for sexually abusing a woman. on that same right side, you have a candidate who faces 91 felony charges across four different criminal trials, one which pledged to weaponize the justice department and local police departments to launch mass deportations, to ban migrants from certain muslim countries, to abandon climate initiatives, to roll back protections for the lgbtq+

community, to make abortion restrictions, the law of the entire land, not just in some states. down that same road on the left side, and we see a candidate who has done none of that. he is not a candidate without his flaws. he is not a candidate who is unworthy of your valid criticisms for decisions he has made and policies he has enacted. new can and should be angry with how he's handled certain issues. i certainly am. but refusing your vote is not the answer. a protest vote is not the answer. voting for the other guy is not the answer. casting an uncommitted ballot can be imported in a primary. it is a canary in the coal, mine a stark warning to the candidate that all is not well. a message i sincerely hope this candidate hears. i applaud the people who took their democratic obligation

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president biden won michigan's democratic primary on tuesday as expected, but he faced the biggest electoral protest of his campaign so far. no keep in mind, he is the sitting president, -- 81% of the, vote notably 100,000 people, 13% of democratic primary voters went out and cast ballots for -- and the uncommitted protest vote was largely in reaction to the biden administration's handling of the war in gaza. in dearborn michigan which is majority arab american, three in four voters were selected

uncommitted, 75%. it is worth noting that a few, things first protest votes in primaries have it along historical precedent, and they don't always translate to general election results. when barack obama ran for reelection, 10% of michigan democrats chose biden uncommitted in the primary. but a woman still comfortably won the state in the general election. however, michigan is one of those states that will decide the election. and joe biden only beat trump by 150,000 votes in the state in 2020. with a polarized electorate, either party has to guarantee maximum turnout among their bases before they even think about winning the white house. so the president has got some work to do. joining me now, peter is the editor at large of -- msnbc political analyst and the author of the crisis of zionism. and -- the host of the -- show on sirius xm and a daily color

here at msnbc. good to see you, thank you for being with us. you were talking to me in the, break you state your hearing from people about this michigan turnout vote, there are people including -- who encourage people to vote uncommitted. that was not an encouragement to vote against joe biden in the favor of donald trump in the election, but wasn't encouragement to go out there and make your point known. >> exactly, and i think some of my fellow democrats are missing the issue, the leaders of the movement, they say this is not an anti biden movement. in fact, these people are the ones who help elect joe biden, knocking on the door, is raising, money and they try to change the policy towards gaza, they are sending a message, regarding biden or, favor we are telling you what you need to, do change your path in, gaza and your path and, humanity stop standing up and supporting netanyahu left and right. so it really wasn't a feud. the message now for the future so he can ultimately win michigan. that is what the organizers are

saying. i think it is, great i -- all concerned about trump. no one is more anti trump than we are muslim community, i can assure you of that. but this is the message about something that is very personal, not -- people have friends and family, we have lost in gaza, and the battle continues to grow from yesterday to today to tomorrow. >> so, peter, if it were that well politically calculated, that would be one thing. but you would be hearing from people who are not saying i'm just going to send a message to the biden administration. now they are saying i'm not going to vote for biden in the coming election. it is not just -- absent muslims, it is a progressives, it is young people, it is some black people, it is some jewish people. >> so, how do you see this going forward? none of those groups, while their concerns are valid, we think that the world is better under donald trump. >> right, i would encourage those people to vote for joe biden in the general election as -- but there is a limit to

how much, how far you can get by hectoring people. the front is that america makes it hard to vote, we did not have -- most companies do not have voting days on election, this or a weekend, often in america after stand for hours in line. so you have to motivate people, devoted not just, vote by the fact that of campaigns -- not going door to door, phone, banking enthusiasm, joe biden now cannot go on a college campus and to a rally because people are going to protest about gaza. that is his base. you can't go to a black church. this is a big problem. so yes, you can say to folks, listen, at the end of the day you need to vote for joe biden. but biden has to do his part. their campaign has to listen to their base voters. i think they have played the politics of this as if it is a decade, or two decades ago. things have changed inside the democratic party, and he has to listen to that change. >> what -- when you see, can one be enthusiastic about their

support in november in defense of democracy against our descent into autocracy, despite the fact human ever be able to bring yourself to really like joe biden because of his policies? can you do those things? can you knock on doors? can you raise money? for a guy you may not be that into, because the other option is really bad? >> much of is an extension threat to the people, i see this as -- as you get closer to november, that will be the argument to certain people in swing states, look, i -- and gaza, who knows what -- it is not rhetoric, it is pelosi, change and things may have changed dramatically, it won't bring back any of the 30,000 who, killed him to those who are women and children, but maybe then you can motivate people. right now it is about cease- fire, president biden needs to have a fierce urgency now and he wants a cease-fire, stop vetoing u.n. resolution and calls for a cease-fire like we did last week. the 15 countries you have security council, we are the only one who vote no.

we are alone now. we have isolated ourselves from our allies. this is wrong. -- two weeks ago on the floor said there are textbook war crimes going on, the hands of the administration, we should not be backing the cell. we should stop -- a cease-fire as the number one demand right now, stopping the aid to netanyahu, at least without conditions to military aid. i think accountability for netanyahu and hamas. both committed war crimes. both should be tried at the hague and prosecuted and put in jail. jail. it is one that joe biden has been called upon to walk. he's gonna have to make some decisions. let's take a quick break, they're staying with me. we are continuing after this. that's great. i know, i've bee telling everyone. baby: liberty. oh! baby: liberty. how many people did you tell? only pay for what you need. jingle: ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ baby: ♪ liberty. ♪ ava: i was just feeling sick.

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up to joe biden. what does joe biden have to do now? >> joe biden has to use the leverage that america has. i mean, the policy has been bizarre. please, please, we would like you to not prosecute this war, we'd like you to stop fighting, as if the united states has no leverage, right? these are our weapons. in fact, we're probably providing the weapons in violation of u.s. law. u.s. law says you cannot provide weapons to countries that are creating grave human rights abuses or countries that are impeding the delivery of u.s. humanitarian assistance. both of these things are almost certainly happening right now. so, he needs to make netanyahu make some hard decisions. israel wants to prosecute this war, it has to face the consequences that it's not gonna get re-supplied from the u.s. and it will face consequences under an international institution as hamas will as well. biden has to make netanyahu and these really people make that choice. netanyahu's whole political career has been based on --

they can maintain permanent oppression of palestinians and i will never undermine their relationship with the big brother, the united states. biden needs to show that's not true anymore. >> the u.s. defense industry, the u.s. defense forces has released images of these air drops that started yesterday morning, balloons, pilots landing 66,000 meals or something like this. wild story that we are airdropping food into a place that doesn't have food because of an army that is doing stuff, paid for us and supplied by us. there is zero reason america would need to airdrop food into gaza. there are ways we can actually influence the situation so food gets directly to gazans. >> absolutely, netanyahu is preventing the united states of america from helping the people of gaza is palestinian, christians, and muslims, 2 million, 80% displaced. it is heartbreaking. i like that were dropping

supplies. it sends a strong message as opposed to netanyahu administration dropping american supplied bombs. we provided them was 2000 pound bombs, according to cnn satellite imagery, the drop over 502,000 pound bombs in one of the most densely populated areas. 2000 pound bomb, kills people 1000 feet away. you want to kill hamas, you say they're here, it kills everyone in the apartment building across, to the left, to the right. netanyahu did that because the palestinian people, of the christians and muslims who lived there, they are not human beings in his eyes. that's why you do that. that's why he doesn't let us give it to the people because they don't care. some of them want to get rid of palestinians. the administration, netanyahu, ben-gvir, talking about volunteering transfer, that's ethnic cleansing. i'm glad, i think it's an important point that president biden did more with the aid. we should do a lot more he should call of netanyahu saying, we're doing this because he, our ally, won't let us help the people of gaza. >> peter, biden keeps talking about the fact that we're

moments away from a cease-fire. every day he gets asked, every day he pushes back, makes me feel like he has the state of the union next thursday, they're gonna be hostage families there. i think he wants to be able to say something to pivot this conversation. i don't know at the something looks like because while there are still hostages, while the world understands that hamas is perpetrated one of the worst horrors that israel's ever seen on october 7th, we don't want justice for them looks like, what does he do? for the moment, lots and lots of innocent palestinians are facing justice for something they didn't do. >> right, getting the hostages back is desperately important, right? those people are suffering unimaginable horrors, right? it was a terrible war crime for hamas to take those people, right? what i think sometimes is missed in the discourse is the fight for a cease-fire and the fight for those release of hostages is the same fight. israel has not been getting hostages back through war except a couple of them.

the only thing that gives us the chance of getting as many of those hostages back alive is a cease-fire and diplomacy. the truth is, the israeli government is divided on this. there is some of the israeli government who would like to prioritize the hostages, there's many others in the israeli government that don't want to prioritize the hostages that are frankly hostile to these hostage families because for them, the only thing that matters is prosecuting this war. biden has to make the israeli government make that choice in favor of saving the hostages through a cease-fire. >> guys, thank you. much more to talk about. we'll come back to you again. dean and peter. peter beinart is -- msnbc political analyst and the author of the important book, the crisis of -- on sirius xm and msnbc daily columnist. don't go anywhere. we have more after the break. all parts working in sync to move your business forward. with a streamlined shipping network.

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>> all right, coming up another hour of velshi, a different kind of march madness is about to ascend was super tuesday, the state of the union, and the first ever criminal trial of a former president all on the schedule for this month. plus, an array of unscheduled wildcards, including pending rulings from the supreme court that could ultimately decide how resilient our democracy really is. plus, the second installment of our series, looking at the state of the state republican parties and all the places donald trump targeted when he attempted to overturn the last election. today finds us in colorado amid a scene of chaos and fighting,

starting some familiar faces from 2020. an alarming new report from the center for justice shows a growing racial gap in voter participation in america that can be traced directly back to the gutting of the voting rights act ten years ago. president and ceo michael waldman and civil rights attorney charles coleman will join me to break down the findings of the study which examined nearly a billion voter files and what it meant for a democracy that's already on the brink. another hour of velshi begins right now. good morning, i'm ali velshi. march madness is upon us. i'm not talking about college basketball, this month we'll see the first ever criminal trial of a former president. also this month that same former president is on track to win enough delegates to clinch the republican presidential nomination for a third time. yesterday he cruised to victory in the three states that held

nominating contests, idaho, missouri, and michigan. he is projected to receive every single delegate that was up for grabs. plus, super tuesday is just two days from now. 16tates plus the territory of american samoa will hold democratic and or republican nominating contests on tuesday. there aren't enough delegates up for grabs on super tuesday to allow trump to officially clinch the nomination. he'll probably only have to wait one more week to close out the republican primary. four states will hold contests on march 12th. barring something unexpected, they may have enough delegates to push trump over the threshold. so, he's gonna be the republican nominee by the end of the month. some doubt continues to hangover trump's campaign. as we continue to wait for the supreme court issued its ruling regarding the former presidents eligibility to even be on the ballot, that's a decision that could come at anytime. during a hearing last month, the majority of the justices appeared skeptical or hesitant at best about the effort out of cora