back with me are cornell belcher, kimberly atkins stohr, and george conway. where to go? going to go to my. right cornell, who won the week? >> hunter biden won the league. >> pardon? >> he went into the lion's den. house of republicans has been calling him out, calling him out, so he called out their bs and showed up at their committee hearing. you know what happened? they lost their minds. they were not prepared for him to show up. and actually sit there and be ready to take their questions, because they don't want an open, fair conversation with hunter biden. he won the week when he showed up. >> that's fair. that's a good answer. that's a quality answer. kimberly, how do you beat that? who want to wake? >> very relatedly, i think the gentlelady from texas congresswoman jasmine crockett won the week. when she, during that hearing, school is not only republicans about what right privileges and is not, and gave a constitutional lesson that any law school would have been proud. that was a better lesson than i got when i went to law school in kamala class. she really deliv

well cornell belcher has been around the block, and then sun.he was in obama pollster, not too shabby. vanity fair says he's the post who got it right, as recently as the 2022 midterms, where a lot of people got it wrong. and we appreciate both of you. welcome, how y'all doing? >> good, how are you? >> good how you doing cornell? >> i'm doing well. -- on the show, tonight is popping. >> you said it, you said it. you know, i always give home court advantage, we've got to talk before, but i am so thrilled for your beat debut. cornell -- 's you've been here before, he can go for first cornell, what's on your fall back list? >> well, republicans calling out hunter biden for white privilege. and you may recall this yesterday, when the representative from south carolina -- hunter biden now, for being sort of encapsulating white privilege. i find this, it's the hypocrisy really, for me ari, that the republicans who by the way, when you look at what their position is, pulling back equity and inclusion programs, going after affirmative action, trying to

that will put you first, not himself first. >> we're back with my all-star panel, brandon but, cornell belcherernor desantis exactly one week ago talking about you have to kiss this ring and all that. and what did he do today, he kissed that ring. cornell, all eyes are on nikki haley, she's been pulling slightly ahead of trump with independent voters in new hampshire's, you see there on the screen [inaudible] anyway, we're getting closer. she's closer, she hasn't overtaken them. she's closer with independent voters. what would it take for her to widen the gap and win the state? >> it's tough, look, what she's counting on, desantis said this, she's counting on republicans to help or get a republican nomination. that's a very difficult thing to do, in the end, you have to be able to win the basin heart of the republican party. in new hampshire, i love seeing new hampshire, independents plays a huge role in the primaries as well as the general election. she needs independents to over-index, she needs a larger share of that electorate in new hampshire be independents. she needs independents to be

joining me now is democratic pollster and strategist cornell belcher. cornell, what do you think about haley's performance, her message, and what the entrance polling in the results last night in the polling in new hampshire tells us about her viability? >> chris, you are a political nerd, like i am, so you might remember this, i know i thought of our viewers will. do you remember joe momentum? he came in like third or fourth, they said he had joementum. i kind of feel like she is pulling on joementum here. chris, she had an opportunity to actually make a two person race, because i've been saying on msnbc, air nbc's air for two weeks now that desantis went all in iowa. no one spent more money from the campaign, the packed side, no one made a bigger mess in iowa than he did. and if she could have beaten him in iowa, if she could have in fact pushed him to third place and had a solid second place finish in iowa, i think she would've killed him off. but she failed to kill him off. so i feel it was a real strategic missed opportunity on their part to make it

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cornell belcher and rick tyler, appreciate your analysis and insights.nto the new hampshire electorate coming up. >>> back to our other breaking news story this morning. donald trump was in a new york courtroom to testify in the e. jean carroll defamation trial. as we reported, court was postponed just really minutes ago due to covid precautions. you can see carroll there leaving court a few moments ago. msnbc's lisa rubin was in the courtroom. she's joining us now. lisa, talk to us about where we landed here and what it was like inside that courtroom as this discussion and kind of lobbing around all these what-ifs. what if trump testifies? what if we test positive for covid, as that wednesday floating around? >> reporter: anna, i will tell you this morning privately i said to the crew here that the only thing i could predict was that something wildly unpredictable would happen. indeed, it did. there were indicators that donald trump was prepared to testify today. not only did he come in person, but his defense lawyers in the hush money case that manhatt

joining me now, democratic pollster and strategist cornell belcher.polling in the results last night in the polling in new hampshire tells us about her viability? >> you a political nerd like i am, so you might remember this. do you remember joe momentum? he came in like third or fourth and said he had real john momentum. it kind of feels as if she has posed a gentle momentum here. she had an opportunity to make a two person race. i have been saying on msnbc's air and msnbc's air for two weeks now that desantis was all in an iowa, and no one spent more time on campaign of the pack sigh and no one put more investment in iowa than he did is. and he she could've, if she could have beaten him in iowa, pushed into third place and had a solid second place finish in iowa, i think she would have killed him off. she failed to kill him off. i think it was a real strategic missed opportunity on their part to make it a two person race. that said, i know people keep saying well, when it becomes a two person race or when the field narrows down, they can reach trump

that's actually cornell belcher had done a research study on racial that had been funded you know by uber and and and so part of what we is okay that seems pretty cynical but then you look all the comments that emerged that like flooded the inboxes of council people. in 2012 when kind of debates over regulation really you know erupted and like a good of those are about i can't get a to go here i can't they won't pick me up and uber does pick up right and so you part of the chapter is it is a complicated one because it's both, you know pointing to the sort of cynicism that, you know, uber deploys, but also the real experiences of people, you know, in hailing while black right that it is an issue and uber this very narrow solution. right. but it's one that only took into consideration consumer, not one that took into a broader, we argue, is a broader vision of racial that would think about the majority black workforce that you know is being exploited from the policymaker standpoint. can you a little bit more about how uber appeal to them as a sort of readymade to these problems, the wa

joining me now is cornell belcher, democratic strategist, pollster, and msnbc political analyst. thank you for being here. and i don't go if you're a taylor swift fan, but i know you know elections. to me, the kind of last pin that could fall for republicans among, you know, white voters, it's young voters. that's the group that is trending away from them. is that the reason for their fear, young white women turning away from them? >> i'm going to prove i'm a taylor swift fan and say they need to shake it off, joy. shake it off. >> i don't know any taylor swift songs. i literally have to say i accept that whatever you said is going to make her fan base super happy. >> it's a pretty popular taylor swift song. that said, what you hit on is the trail line that is most problematic for republicans. they are increasingly losing younger white voters in the suburbs. if you add education, higher education, the higher education, the younger, these white voters are, the more they're rejecting republicans. but look, it is about the issues. in the end, they shouldn't be mad at taylor swift an

cornell belcher, my thanks to you as well.mestic news in the courtrooms. now we have breaking news out of the northeast. the united states and uk launching new air strikes, these are against military positions against the iran-backed houthis yemen. it's retaliation for what have been a consistent string of attacks on shipping vessels in the red sea, coming down the pike over saudi arabia's border, and this has been a big issue, the u.n. security council weighing in, teeing up a final warning. it appears they're past the warning stamg. we have a very special guest to make sense of this story. david roth cough served in the clinton administration. he hosts deep state radio. this is not a pure surprise, david, in that as i mentioned the u.n. security council and other measures had made public warnings that there could be these strikes. tonight, breaking news, the strikes are happening. explain to us how we got here. >> well, the houthis since the beginning of the conflict between israel and gaza have been harassing ship traffic i

. >> cornell belcher, we talked a lot about what this news means legally.what ways it changes the contours of this presidential race. >> first, thanks for asking me what it means politically because i'd be completely lost. politically, i'm not sure. we are in uncharted waters. i usually try to look back at history and historical data to give answers for what's happening or what's going to happen. we are in uncharted waters here. i don't know what the political consequences are. there is some data that subjects if donald trump is, in fact, indicted, you know, less moderate voters will be inclined to vote for him. but you still have, regardless of the indictments, regardless of the legal cases, you still have a core of the republican party who's going to stick with him. he said it himself. i could shoot someone and not lose any support. in all the polling data, it seems that seems to be true. the question is does this make him stronger in the republican primaries than before, and does it make it even harder fer his republican primary opponents to hit him and

jen palmieri, tim miller, jim messina and cornell belcher, thank you for spending some time with us thisrest of the night. but there's a lot to get into in the prosecutions of donald trump. new developments in both the mar-a-lago case and fulton county. we'll have those right after a short break. we'll have those ria short break. choosing a treatment for your chronic migraine - 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more - can be overwhelming. so, ask your doctor about botox®. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine before they even start. it's the #1 prescribed branded chronic migraine treatment. so far, more than 5 million botox® treatments have been given to over eight hundred and fifty thousand chronic migraine patients. effects of botox® may spread hours to weeks after injection causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away, as difficulty swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. side effects may include allergic reactions, neck and injection site pain, fatigue, and he

your beat debut, i hope you come back, cornell belcher, i thanks to you as. well thanks for watching the beat weekend, and be sure to join us weekdays at six pm eastern. for the beat on msnbc. for the beat on msnbc. good evening, and welcome to politicsnation. tonight's lead, kingmakers. the 2024 presidential primary season opens and roughly 4 to 8 hours when iowa holds its republican caucuses. the remaining contenders are brave and the snow and cold to make their final pitches this weekend. ironically the voted will take place of martin luther king day. so many of the gop candidates have to split a questionable commitment to the ideals of democracy and equality that the great late civil rights leader fought and died for. reverend kings spirit fills tonight's show and we are joined by his eldest son and namesake, his daughter-in-law arndrea and his granddaughter yolanda. they'll have plenty to say about the state of dr. king's dream. and a moment when racial tensions and the threat of political violence seem more real than perhaps any time since the height of

joins me now editor and chief in law fair and senior fellow at the brookings institution and cornell belchermocratic pollster and strategist and msnbc political analyst. thank you both for being here. ben, thank you for being here in person. donald trump, his attempts to stay in power depend on a reading of the 14th amendment that excludes only one officer from the oath that he took and accountability to it, that would be the president of the united states. does that make sense to you? >> so it certainly doesn't make logical sense. there is a nontrivial legal argument that it's what the constitution says. i think it's not the better legal argument on that point. but there is an argument to be made. as a logical matter, it makes no sense at all. >> right. >> the drafters of the 14th amendment were concerned to keep confederate actors, soldiers and politicians out of power in the new regime. and it would have been very odd for them to exclude jefferson davis. >> right. >> from that or to say that, say robert e. lee or some confederate private could run for president of the united states. that

back with me are cornell belcher, and then -- and george conway.ut of the political assassination phase of this hideous video game that we are tracked, in apparently. and i can't believe that i've now talked about political assassinations twice in one bloody week. >> well that is part of the case that needs to be made about donald trump. we say okay well, democracy held during the first trump administration. it was, in part, because there were at least some guardrails in place. like, there were blinds that even bill barr wouldn't cross, right. well now, he is totally surrounded by people like roger stone, people who will not be a guardrail, people like his attorneys. and that is what is so incredibly jurist about this. another term is not just him hypothesizing about -- on fifth avenue. that was sort of like everyone's like oh, he's joking. no, another term is him full of grievance. he has said what he wants to do, he wants to purge the federal government of anybody except those who are loyal to him. he wants to use and weaponize the doj. we know w

former ohio republican governor john kasich and cornell belcher, democratic strategist and pollster.political analysts. it's never good when you say this is how i aced a cognitive test remembering six things and you mention five. but you know what it's like to be on the campaign trail. give us some insight into the kind of endurance test these men are facing over the next nine months. are they up to it? >> you know, it's not going to be like it was back when i was running because it's going to be kind of a rose garden strategy for both guys. i don't think you're going to see joe biden at all these whistle stops. i think you'll see donald trump doing selective rallies. i don't think it's going to be like what we've seen before. my view is that both of them have to figure out how to, number one, motivate their base, and secondly, how they begin to think about how they're going to get independent voters. i listed three things here for biden. one is, what are you going to do on the border? he should be down there complaining that trump is trying to block a deal. maybe he didn't have it a

cornell belcher, kimberly atkins stohr, and george conway. think you will. you all won the week just by being here in a fabulous color scheme. that's tonight's read out. i all in with chris hayes starts now. >> tonight on all in. -- >> hello, iowa. >> three days until the first republican votes in 2024, and the coldest forecast in caucus history. >> you're all here in the middle of a blizzard. >> the elements are -- all break whatever i need to. >> i don't even know what negative 15 is. >>> tonight, the defendant in the over hurled election trial takes a break from the courtroom to head to the iowa caucuses. >>> then, -- >> every day, mike johnson gets closer and closer to this deal, brings me closer and closer to vacating the chair. >> brand-new house speaker already on the outs of the maga caucus, as democrats demand an accounting of the trump presidency. >>> you don't care about the principle that our governmental leaders should not be on the tape from foreign governments. that's outrageous. >> congressman jamie raskin joins me tonight, plus -- >> i was h

cornell belcher.mes," national political correspondent lisa lear, professor in department of politics here in new hampshire, christopher gal galiari. you've watched about these, written about new hampshire primaries and politics. what this year feels the same what feels different? >> what feels different, it seems to be happening in a slower gear. fewer candidates, fewer events. we didn't have debates in the last week. trump has only been here, commuting from his trials to give rallies in the evenings and on the weekends. haley seemed to be going slowly last week. there's less of the electricity in the air that you're used to feeling the weekend before primary day. >> it's interesting, lisa, nikki haley's coalition, it feels like it's a combination. there are democrats voting for her in the primary. what does a good coalition look like for her here? >> what she really needs is a courage in independent voters or undeclared to turn out to the polls and cast ballots. i think what you're identifying is re