doing this to donald trump. we should know whether or not anyone watching things he has anything to do with engaging in insurrection. that is not a legal fact beyond this colorado case. he has not been charged with that by the special counsel member, jack smith. he found that he was acquitted. he knew he was impeached for this. governor ron desantis, is on the campaign trail. he suggested that president joe biden, could be removed from the ballot in florida. take a listen. >> this is just going to be -for-tat. it is not going to end well. i'm actually looking at this in florida now. could we make a credible case that president joe biden, because of the invasion of 8 million, is off the ballot. i don't think that is the right way to do it. >> ron desantis, looking into this right now in florida, whether or not president joe biden, could be taken off the ballot, because of the problem at the border. your reaction? >> the whole of the republican party right now is looking by the politics of revenge. the punitive mi

donald trump not among their targets. with just four days until the iowa caucuses trump's chief rivals seemed to stick with one consistent theme. >> i've said it again, ron. stop lying. >> she said she never said it. of course, you're lying. >> ron's lying because ron's losing. >> i thought he lied a lot. nikki haley gives him a run for his money. >> with that behind them, haley and desantis are headed back out on the campaign trail in iowa while donald trump, the frontrunner, is back in the courtroom. >> joining us now former lieutenant governor of georgia, geoff duncan and matt lewis. i want to get your reaction to what you saw last night. u y thinking what about last night, matt? >> thinking, man, i can't believe it, but i miss vivek ramaswamy. >> stop. >> i never thought i would say that. >> you wrote about this today. why? >> look, i was hoping that if we narrowed down the field and got rid of these hangers on we could have a really serious, substantive debate between what we could consider to be trump's two main riva

_ try and support anyone but donald trump. ell look like it if really good data for dell look like it it don't — really good data for dell look like it if don't have any impact to but potentially, those crossover democratic voters may be able to do it anticipated victory but a number of those _ it anticipated victory but a number of those people are expected to support— of those people are expected to support nikki haley and is the expectation that in general election and who— expectation that in general election and who she may be able to win over to increase _ and who she may be able to win over to increase her voting margins. but the dilemma here is nikki haley as a campaign— the dilemma here is nikki haley as a campaign predicated on hard truths which _ campaign predicated on hard truths which is _ campaign predicated on hard truths which is doing everything she can't look the _ which is doing everything she can't look the tight rope and not offend donald _ look the tight rope and not offend donald trump voters. her stilett

this is donald trump- — suddenly... this is donald trump- if _ suddenly... this is donald trump.antis in a race like this, i think nikki haley could go to south carolina and say, i am the combat candidate, but everybody knows donald trump, and when donald trump wins in south carolina, that is a loss that i don't think nikki haley wants to take for the longevity of her political career. and i will argue, you look at polling early on in this race, the only candidate would have come close to donald trump is ron desantis, but ron desantis 's team made a fatal error. they decided instead of running a campaign that got him elected by 20 plus points of the i am the governing governor of florida, he decided to go to the right of donald trump and unfortunately now that he goes back to florida he is going back to florida he is going back to florida he is going back to a much different state where republicans who used to fear him now loathe him, and that... that is all him and his team's fault. d0 that. .. that is all him and his team's fault.— team's fault. do you think within the _ team's

carroll, whether they also apply to donald trump. the ex-president was back in the courtroom for his attorney's osing arguments. habba's closing got off to a rough start with the judge - kaplan objecting twice. she claimed the reason trump continued to deny the assault after being found liable is because it was, quote, the truth. the second came when she said carroll's account had more holes than swiss cheese which prompted his warning. habba did not stop there and continues to imply carroll was lying, once again from nbc news, the judge replied that the fact that mr. trump sexually assaulted ms. carroll is established. habba pushed back. the judge represent prix mabdzed her saying you will not quarrel with me. she downplayed the torrent of threats she received pointing to the six threats shown to the jury during the trial. habba said, that's me on a good day and president trump. that earned her an immediate rebuke from the judge. they had the last word. shawn crowley taking a shot at team trump saying i will follow the rules of this

like, would donald trump break 50% in iowa? he did. would any of his rivals drop out? one did. and is a trump/biden match looking more likely today? it is. president biden's team watching all of this very closely. the president saying this about trump's iowa win. it's clear donald trump is the official front-runner. we need to work even harder now. that from president biden. and here was donald trump. >> people in our country are great. they're all great. we love iowa, but they're all great. they only want to see one thing. they want our country to come back. they're embarrassed by what's going on. our country is laughed at. all over the world, they're laughing at us, and they want our country to come back. they want america, you know, they want us to be great again. it's a very simple -- maga. make america great again. >> that was last night. donald trump, nikki haley, ron desantis all have events scheduled here in new hampshire. vivek ramaswamy might be here, but he won't be campaigning for himself. he suspended his campaign after a disappointing fourth place finish in iowa, a

so let's go straight to donald trump. as the final result in the new hampshire primary was closer than some expected -- >> supposed to be like a 20-point blowout according to tracking polls. >> i think trump was mad but then nikki haley came out pretty early in the night and said that she was marching on with her campaign and trump delivered a venomous victory speech after learning that haley planned to stay in the race, despite her loss to trump. his wild appearance coming amid another day of angry binge posts on social media. >> not well. >> who the hell was the imposter that went up on the stage before and like claimed a victory? she did very poorly. we won new hampshire three times now. three. three. we win it every time. we win the primary, we win the generals. this is not your typical victory speech, but let's not have somebody take a victory when she had a very bad night. i find in life you can't let people get away with bull [ bleep ]. you can't do that. when i watched her in a fancy dress, probably wasn't so fancy

donald trump is a little bit uncouth. opponents within the primary have not attacked him with strength. that has allowed this to fester and congeal, to gain more power. i think he has positioned himself as the outer alpha within the party. that explains why it is working in the republican primary. the general election would be a different animal. >> alpha is another word for strongmen. donald trump set it at this rally. it would be nice to have strongmen leaders. we are through a lot of things. this is the title of your book. tell us why that is appealing to him. also, what that means as it compares to other leaders in countries like hungary. >> donald trump, has been conditioning americans and educating americans to want that kind of leadership. what he is doing, by talking about her being a bad cop, bad apple, or anything else, he's asking them to accept anything that he would do. he's most interested in talking about it a lot. he's talking about avoiding jail. all strongmen are corrupt. through authoritarianism. the ex

his votes are up for grabs, is that good news for donald trump? >> yeah, he owns those. you can't out-trump trump and trump dominates the ballot. vivek ramaswamy's votes definitely gr to trump no doubt. >> carley: bring in dr. ben carson. good morning, thank you for joining us. great to see you. you have been here before. you did the iowa caucus in 2016 and that year donald trump did not win. this year he did by historic margins. what is your reaction to last night's results? >> people had a chance to get to know donald trump. in 2016 evangelicals were skeptical of him and this time they are on the bandwagon. they saw what he did and appointments he made and saws the fact he attended march for life. he is a known quantity and our country is in position where almost anybody who is watching is concerned. and they know that they have somebody who can do something about it as opposed to somebody who might be able to do something about it. people have flooded to his side. >> carley: trump won almost every demographic last night by double digit margin including evangelical vote

and supporting donald trump. >> i called donald trump. e my full endorsement for the presidency. >> ramaswamy vowed to support him if he was convicted of felonies. two days before the iowa caucuses, trump's campaign turned on him. calling him a fraud and telling voters to reject him at the caucuses. next, president biden responds to donald trump's win in iowa. a big hint of the strategy for the general election. >>> donald trump gives new meaning to a clear and convincing win. iowa giflt wraps the former president his first election win of the 2024 campaign season. now the race was every while the real voting was still going on you're watching hour 12 of special coverage here on cnn for the iowa caucuses it is a marathon for us and for the candidates. >> donald trump last night channelled the beatles asking the rest of the party toment colt together. his belief is that the entire race at this point is over. his rivals should not pass go. and the republican party should simply skip to prepare for the general election. >> i really think this

donald trump, a week from tomorrow— that donald trump, a week from tomorrow night, _ that donald trumpow night, can declare the primary over _ tomorrow night, can declare the primary overand _ tomorrow night, can declare the primary over and the _ tomorrow night, can declare the primary over and the general. primary over and the general election— primary over and the general election on _ primary over and the general election on. do _ primary over and the general election on.— primary over and the general election on. , ., ., ., election on. do you agree with that or can you — election on. do you agree with that or can you make — election on. do you agree with that or can you make an _ election on. do you agree with that or can you make an argument - election on. do you agree with that or can you make an argument for. or can you make an argument for nikki haley gathered momentum and of iowa and going through new hampshire and perhaps then gaining some ground in south carolina? i and perhaps then gaining some ground in south carolina?— in south carolina? i think that the onl wa in south

big winner, obviously, donald trump here. know, all the way to the afternoon yesterday, the trump campaign had been a little nervous over the course of the last few days leading spot caucuses. you know, they set expectations. they were going to clear 50%. late polling showed them not making the expectations. they started worrying about the weather. first-time caucus-goers, they were trying to get them out there. the attack on vivek ramaswamy was a sign they were worried they couldn't get over 50%, a key indicator for them. they obviously got that done last night and surpassed their own expectations in some way internally. if they win, it's donald trump. the big loss is anyone hoping to stop donald trump from being the nominee. we were fixated on this, who is going to win second place? particularly, there was a chance if nikki haley won second clearly, desantis would have had to drop out. she would have had trump one-on-one, which everyone understands, like, if there is a way to beat trump, it is to get him one-on-one. now, we'

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donald trump is, — started speaking, saying donald trump is, i am started speaking, saying donald trumpfrontrunner. interestingly, avenues newsom also sent— interestingly, avenues newsom also sent one _ interestingly, avenues newsom also sent one hour. _ interestingly, avenues newsom also sent one hour. i— interestingly, avenues newsom also sent one hour.— also sent one hour. i have that e-mail from — also sent one hour. i have that e-mail from the _ also sent one hour. i have that e-mail from the biden - e—mail from the biden administration, e—mailfrom the biden administration, campaign by the same he is the frontrunner for the 24 same he is the frontrunner for the 2a presidential nomination. we need to work even harder now. we can expect violent acts, endless lies and massive spending. this will be an important thing for the biden administration, willing to focus squarely on donald trump. as i have been, this entire time. i think if they were looking at a general election campaign against nikki haley, early polling would tell them to be very worried. more worried than the race against

tell her donald trump.nk i know how to do it. that's what i keep thinking about, it keep trying to figure out what adjustments we should make, small and large. you have seen a couple of those adjustments in this segment. for example, i didn't rate we need the sexist, hateful nickname donald trump uses for nikki haley in that statement of his. and on this program, starting sometime last year, i decided to never allow donald trump to have the full screen of your television and your home. never. you will never be confronted with nothing but donald trump on your television screen during this hour. he will get, when it's important for us to hear what he has to say directly, from him on video, at most half of your television screen. this is one of the ways i try to reduce the television effect of the lunacy and poison he spews. and it is done deliberately only for donald trump. i do this only for donald trump on the screen as a way of using the visual vocabulary television to say, don't listen to this meant that

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walk us through these new attacks by donald trump. >> reporter: it is clear that donald trump use newpshire as a two-person race and that is why he is ramping up attacks on nikki haley. part of this is using tactics, racist dog whistles we have seen him use before. one social media post he wrote, he is attacking her and using her birth name. this is after he amplified a false narrative on social media that she could not be president because she was born to indian immigrants who were not u.s. citizens at the time of her birth. she was born in south carolina and she is a u.s. citizen. this may seem familiar because this is the same tactic he used on barack obama. he emphasized barack obama's middle name was hussein, and he was the primary backer or conspiracy theorist on that birther theory that president obama could not be president because he was not born in the united states. not just of these attacks we are seeing but also the former president talking about nikki haley. last night, he accused her of trying to get democrats to infiltrate the gop primary. only republicans and independ

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. 03 desantis. 07 donald trump. 07 donald trump. 07 donald trump. 03 desantis. 07 donald trump.re we still in sync? >> number 4 is three, number 6 six and 21%. >> okay. >> okay. >> 07 donald trump. 03 desantis. 06 ramsawamy. >> john king, interpret what's going on here, 03, 07, those are precincts. are those individual precincts. >> precinct within some of these counts you come to a big site, different precincts break off their different rooms and do their investigate and all the ballots have been put in a bag and the precinct captain is counting the votes. you see representatives at the table keeping count. important to note especially after listening to the disappointing entrance polls, people from each of the campaigns will watch this, watch the count, to make sure it's done right. if anybody sees something they are asking questions. you recount if they have to. >> there are representatives from each campaign at the table. >> right at the table. everyone is watching this transparently as the reporters are allowed to watch. this is trans parent democracy at work. one of the re

to $1000 prepaid card with qualifying internet. >>> we're back live from new hampshire, where donald trump and nikki haley are battling for the nomination after the exit today of ron desantis. the florida governor's quick endorsement of trump came after weeks of desantis taking him on directly. listen to an example of that. >> how many people that served in his administration are lining up to endorse him this time around or be willing to come here and knock on doors in subfreezing temperatures? not very many. he's running a campaign about putting himself and his issues first. that's what he cares about. you can be the most worthless republican in america, but if you kiss the ring, he'll say you're wonderful. those promises were not fulfilled. he did not deliver on those. donald trump, i guess, has phoned in it and just going to be hanging out down in mar-a-lago. i'm sure it's probably 75 degrees there. the problem is he didn't drain it. the bureaucracy got worse. the weaponization got worse. he put a lot of these people in place. >> and tonight ron desantis is backing donald trump. joining

so is that how i voted. >> donald trump? >> yes. >> i like trump.h edges on his personality, but i like his policies. >> i was a trump supporter for many years and now a haleyen if a. i think it is time for a change. >> what do you like about nikki haley? >> several things. one thing, she's not donald trump. >> nikki haley, did you ever give her any thought of potentially giving her your vote? >> no, because i very storongly feel trump should be the president. >> i like her but i'm going with the popular vote. >> so you think donald trump can beat joe biden? >> yes. >> i think trump has great policy, but i think a lot of chaos follows him and i think biden just hasn't done what needed to do to unite the country. so i think nikki is the best chance. >> can i ask why? >> my conscience won't allow me to vote for a drcriminal. >> who did you vote for? >> donald trump. >> and why did you feel he was the one is this. >> because my life was a lot -- i think everybody's life was a lot easier, better, economically, everything. >> and i feel that his policies

he would not directly attack donald trump. though he did seem to be finding a way to spin how he's going to play that distant second place victory in iowa, telling us that he notes that there were roughly half of those voters who wanted someone other than donald trump. he also took aim at nikki haley refusing to debate him in new hampshire. >> dianne, thank you so much for that. one republican candidate last night was willing to acknowledge he does not have a path to the nomination. vivek ramaswamy ended his campaign after finishing fourth and quickly backed the winner. >> earlier tonight i called donald trump to tell him that i congratulated him on his victory and now going forward, he will have my full endorsement for the presidency. and i think we're going to do the right thing for this country. >> this morning, former arkansas governor asa hutchinson ended his campaign which was focused around opposition to trump. no word yet on if he will be endorsing someone else. i want to bring in two political reporters to talk about

does that benefit donald trump going into new hampshire? >> no. ramaswamy was never a serious candidate. he trafficked in conspiracy theories, he kissed up to putin, he tried to kiss up to trump. then donald trump blasted him in the run-up to iowa and he had to out of the race with his tail between his legs. the people who were attracted to him were the same people who would be attracted to donald trump, so that small amount of people were going to vote for donald trump anyway. he did not have any longevity in this campaign and to quote chris christie, he was the biggest blowhard in america, and i'm relieved we no longer have to listen to him on the campaign trail. >> i hope we can do this some more as the race takes shape. we will be focusing on hampshire next week. the other side of the break, we will talk about another damaging night for the conservatives, two deputy chairmen resigning over the rwanda plan. where does t narrator: funding for this presentation of this program is provided by... narror: financial services firm, raymond james. man:

are you talking about donald trump right there? i am specifically talking about donald trump.ur lead candidate for the nomination and he has already been found by a jury to be guilty of sexual abuse, he has been found in a civil case to have committed financial fraud. these are not good starting for a candidate for the republican nomination. and then he faces four criminal charges. and so we do not know what this next year is proceed like, but there's all kinds of warning signs that he is a candidate that's fraught with challenges. but people have adjusted to that, they believe in his message of grievance, and that is a powerful short—term message, but it is not a long—term message of hope that our country needs so that's the warning i sound. president biden, from a political standpoint, has taken us the wrong direction. he is not as conservative as i would like. we need to win this race but we have a candidate for president that has got a lot of issues to deal with this coming year. donald trump, with that support you mention, he has a double—digit lead currently in new hamps

support donald trump. half don't. so nikki haley now that she's really only the opponent left has a chance to consolidate the anti-trump vote but the non-trump vote. the last thing that donald trump has ever wanted was this to turn into a two-man race. it's at a time when he's not been able to breakaway and hitting 60 or 70% or the margins that suggest he's the run-away favorite of the whole base. the worry is that nikki haley has all of these up theed raising advantages, she's heading into her home state and she's consolidating that non-trump vote that she will give him more of a run for his money if other spoilers had stayed in. >> neil: i'm wondering -- i want to show you examples of this where the age issue, which could be a predominant one for donald trump and joe biden, assuming that they are each party's nominee. how it plays out. obviously republicans are fond of stringing together these images of joe biden. >> people have said, the blood of liberty. excuse my. the tree of liberty is water of the blood of patri

to make sure that donald trump is successful as the next president of the united states. >> entrance polling providing insights into how trump locked in his victory. two-thirds of caucus goers believe that biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and nearly half of caucus goers say they identify with trump's maga movement. >> we have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. we can't have that. we can't have that. it's not sustainable as a country. it's horrible. >> now, all three candidates will end up in new hampshire today. nikki haley went there late last night. ron desantis is stopping in south carolina before going to new hampshire, and trump for whom the courthouse has become a central piece of his campaign, he is going to new york. he's going to be there for the e. jean carroll civil damages trial, and then he's headed to new hampshire after that with the new hampshire primary a week from today. poppy, phil. >> poppy atwood from des moines. we go to manchester. i think you ran into n

it is now even more clear what gop voters want -- donald trump. here in new hampshire, they delivered a double-digit historic victory for the former president. trump won more votes than any candidate in any new hampshire primary ever. in an electorate of republicans and independents, he won bigley, as he might say, old voters, young voters, men, women, voters of color, you name it. making it all but certain trump will be the gop presidential nominee for the third time in a row. >> we had one hell of a night tonight. when you win iowa and you win new hampshire, they've never had a loss. we're way up on everybody. we're way up on biden. we have an opportunity to do something so amazing. >> last night's results have some warning signs for republicans in their battle ahead. i'm dana bash live from mary ann's diner in amherst, new hampshire. let's go behind the headlines and "inside politics." donald trump seem to be on a glide path to the republican nomination. every day more party leaders are calling him the presumptive nominee, but nikki haley says s

that's donald trump. that's the evangelical relationship with donald trump in a nutshell. - [margaret] award-winning political reporter tim alberta set out to unravel this enigma. alberta is the son of a preacher who grew up in the evangelical church. - i grew up, this was my family, this church. - [margaret] in his latest best-seller, "the kingdom, the power, and the glory," he traces how trump has transformed the christian right. - we're going to protect christianity. - [margaret] so could any other candidate eclipse ump's hold on the evangelical base of the gop? and what would a second trump presidency fueled by christian nationalism mean for our country? - i have every expectation that things are going to get ugly in the united states of america. - [margaret] what does journalist tim alberta say now? - [narrator] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by: robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, th

donald trump's attorneys have indicated that donald trump might testify in his own defense in that case. there are many reasons why most experienced attorneys have expected donald trump to never take the witness stand in any of the cases against him, the single most important reason is it does seem impossible for a pathological liar like donald trump to testify under oath without committing perjury. another reason to keep donald trump of a witness stand in the e. jean carroll case is that when he was forced to testify in the deposition in the case, claiming that he did not know who e. jean carroll was, when he was shown this photograph of e. jean carroll, he thought it was his own second wife, marla maples, who is 20 years younger than e. jean carroll. >> you have in front of you a black and white photograph that's marked as djt 23. >> i don't even know the woman. let's say it's marla. >> you say marla is in this photo? >> that's marla, yeah. that's my wife. >> which woman are you pointing to? >> here. >> the person you just pointed to is e. jean carroll. >> donald trump was triply wron

donald trump, donald trump, donald trump.ki haley will win them back, i have proven that. >> reporter: that is on electability argument, responding to the former president, who last night in new hampshire sent a vote for nikki haley is a boat to joe biden. she is trying to make that electability argument and pushing back against some of the false television ads on social security, the border, and much more, jake. >> jeff, a few weeks ago she had real momentum in new hampshire. what are you hearing from voters in new hampshire? >> reporter: 40% of the electorate, undeclared, the central part of her campaign strategy. at the town halls and rallies she has been having, many republicans, former donald trump supporters, very interested in supporting her. here is a conversation with susan rice in rochester last night. >> i like nikki haley. i am a staunch republican and have been my entire life. i think it is time to have a woman as president. i like her foreign-policy, i like the fact that she has a good understanding of our south

rules don't apply to donald trump. he gets to do whatever he wants and uses massive powerful platform to keep moving her life. he even believes he gets to testify under oath and live once again. objection, overruled. ladies and gentlemen, this isn't a campaign rally. it's not a pressed event. this is a court of law. and it's ms. carroll's life. donald trump sexually assaulted her. he defamed her. he keeps defaming her. he is not the victim. this is her life. help her take it back. make him stop. make him pay enough so that he will stop. thank you. the winning team discussed the case with rachel tonight. >> if your lawyers told you that there was another case and that you should go back and get more money out of him and zoom again, would you do it? >> absolutely, absolutely. i am more than willing to do it again. because we achieved so much in a seven-day trial. we did what people thought was impossible. we beat donald trump. >> leading off our discussion tonight is andrew weissmann, former fbi general counsel and forme

donald trump won't be able to continue. pt when your argument is i'm, you know, i'm the trump alternative and donald trump is still viable, it doesn't really work because donald trump is a viable nominee and, you know, general election opponent to joe biden. the polls are close enough that trump is definitely still in it. the going after trump needed to happen many, many months ago. right now i think if you look at desantis and nikki haley, nikki haley figures so far she could hold this path until new hampshire. she can maybe make a decision if she really gets some crazy great momentum, but ron desantis is also looking at 2028, so they made their calculated decisions. >> susan del percio, vaughn hillyard, ali vitali, thank you all so much. >>> and up next, digging deeper into the complex web of legal troubles donald trump is stuck in, especially when you add in the potential ripple effects from today's closing arguments. you're watching "chris jansing reports" only on msnbc. hi mom. that's the value of ownership. life, diabe

today, donald trump and joe biden are making a serious pivot towards a general election. says she is still in the race after trump's double digit win in new hampshire last night. haley is already looking ahead to south carolina's primary, that is one month away. it's haley's home turf, she was born and raised there and served as governor for six years. tonight in charleston, she went after donald trump and challenged him to a good old fashioned debate. >> bring it donald, show me what you got. the political elites in the state and around the country have said that we just need to let donald trump have this. listen, we've only had two states that have voted, we have 48 more that deserve to vote. so we are not going to sit there and just give up. >>. . . >>,. . thank you everybody, thank you. >> reporter: he's making history in only republican in a competitive primary to ever win both iowa and new hampshire. still, at his rally not a celebration but a condemnation after former u. n. ambassador nikki haley pledged to stay in this race. >> this is not your typical victory spee

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this is not the donald trump weaponization of doj. ferent ways of looking at this. but dame trump is going to use these opportunities for free publicity. where we are all focused on how this argument went. we're going to be focused on two days from now the civil case in manhattan, where he has been already found liable for fraud. he said he's going to go to that. so we will hear more there. next week the e. jean carroll case. all of this is free press for him to say, look, i am the unluckiest man in the world who has been victimized by all of these people and all of these jurors and all these prosecutors and all these judges are against me. so i think the challenge for the prosecutors is going to be, how do you counter that without constantly being on the courthouse steps with a counter narrative, and how do you defuse that? >> trump made a weird statement today about the civil case, saying that he wants to speak or might speak in the closing argument. and most jurisdictions that i'm familiar with, it's either or. you're either represe

donald trump and nikki haley.ember a primary contest where it was down to two candidates this early. that's usually around super tuesday. >> exactly, in fact, there's never been a nonincumbent republican who has won both iowa and new hampshire. he will be the first nonincumbent republican, he was once president, to win both of those early contests. now, to your point, it was a splintered field. donald trump was able to benefit tromit. now it's a one on one race. donald trump is still dominant. even in the one-on-one, and we'll see what the results are. nikki haley has to make an argument for why she deserves to continue to be funded in large dollars and has momentum to move forward in this race. >> guess what, after new hampshire comes south carolina. we know nevada comes next, and the virgin islands. >> they're doing a caucus and a primary. the primary has no delegates. >> the point i was going to get to is if the next big contest is south carolina, and the polls show trump ahead in south carolina, she may be at

haley wins them 59% to donald trump's 39%. ollege degree make up a smaller share, 52% of the electorate today in new hampshire and trump wins them by a big margin, 66% to haley's 32%. so, again, we're seeing donald trump win these slightly larger groups by bigger margins than haley is winning the groups. >> all right, interesting stuff. david chalian, thanks so much. >> jake, as we go through the latest numbers we have because the polls have now closed kate baldwin was talking about polling sites that closed and what are you hearing from the haley campaign? >> so for the last hour we have to start by saying there is an expectations game here, and they want to set that up. but they've been telling me for the last hour they think she's doing better than expected. what does that mean? the latest polls showed her behind trump by double digits. so if these numbers hold and it is still very early and we're just talking about a small number, but if it is within single digits, what they're saying to me is that's a win for them. but win

we also ask, what are your feelings if donald trump is the nominee among each set of supporters. course, 89% of trump supporters would be very enthusiastic if trump is the nominee. but 23% of hailey supporters would be dissatisfied if trump is the nominee. 61% of hailey supporters would be downright angry if trump is the nominee. that's 84% that would be dissatisfied or angry. that would need some healing in the party, if, indeed, he is the nominee. and we also asked the most important issue, border immigration. probably not surprising to you is the top issue to you. 29% of republican primary voters say so. 22% say democracy and constitution. and by the way, nikki haley's winning these voters. they're coming at it more from the sort of left perspective than the right perspective on this issue of democracy and const constitution, if there is a left and right to those issues. then you can add economy, debt. and economy still resonates. >> that democracy number is surprising. it's not just the republicans who are on the ballot on tuesday in new hampshire. joe biden is not formally o

donald trump has nevada wired. he is getting those delegates. >> the republican governor there who is a trump supporter. donald trump is the republican establishment. >> then in south carolina, all the republican establishment is with trump. let's see if haley can use that to her advantage. she's right when she came on the scene in south carolina, she was running against an establishment that wanted no part of her. she had fights with republicans in the legislature. let's see if she can bring that juice up. their argument is it's an open primary. there's no party registration in south carolina. 20% to 25% of the people over the past primary say they are independents. yes, it's a possibility. it's a more conservative -- >> that's where john mccain's ins ins insurgent campaign went to die. >> go to michigan. they think donald trump won the 2020 election more than donald trump. >> let's go to david with more exit poll information about who was voting today in new hampshire and what issues were foremost on their mind. >

i've had disagreements with donald trump such as the coronavirus pandemic and his elevation of anthony fauci, trump is superior to the current incumbent joe biden. that is clear. i signed a pledge to support the republican nominee, and i will honor that pledge. he has my endorsement because we can't go back to the old republican guard of yesteryear, a repackaged formed of warmed over corporatism that nikki haley represents. the days putting americans last, of cow towing to woke operations and ideology are over. i thank all of our passionate supporters who stood by us through it all and we had people to volunteer to come to iowa in the middle of a blizzard to knock on doors and make phone calls touched on dearly, no candidate had more thrown at him and no candidate had as many committed staff. i want to thank my wife and madison and amy. >> casey has gone far and beyond for our campaign and cause, she's not only a grit eat wife mother she's a great american that our kids will inherit. our kids have done a lot on the trail from playing on the fields in iowa to making their first snow man

donald trump versus alternative. donald trump versus -- versus ted cruz. it never got to that point. there is this idea that if in fact all the support consolidated around one alternative, somehow donald trump would be knocked off the pedal still as a nominee. to problems with that. number one, there is coalescing around donald trump. not only doug burgum endorsing donald trump, but tim scott, ron desantis not endorsing the trump alternative. the hard reality is that over the course of the last three years, there has continued to be evidence that republican electorate want but trump or either the trump backed candidate. last year, i covered so many primaries between trump-backed candidates and other challengers. whether it be kari lake, the primary race, or doug mastriano in pennsylvania, tim michaels in wisconsin, dickson in michigan, every one of those trump-backed candidates came out unsuccessful because the republican primary electorate wanted in the maga candidates. that is a reality that now on tuesday we are all going to watch play out in realtime.

today, a jury ordered donald trump to pay writer e. jean carroll $83.3 million, approximately one trump park avenue, for defaming her. breaking that number down a little bit more, the jury awarded e. jean carroll $18.3 million to compensate her for the harm trump's lies caused her. they awarded her another $65 million in punitive damages to, well, punish donald trump, to deter him from defaming e. jean carroll ever again. we will have more on that in just a moment. a nine member jury took just two hours and 45 minutes to reach its verdict after hearing final arguments from trump, and carroll's lawyers. mr. trump himself spent the final day of the trial causing disruption. and when ms. carroll's lawyers were given closing arguments, he stood up and walked out of the room, at which point the judge interrupted ms. carroll's lawyers and order that the official record reflect donald trump's abrupt exit. at one point the judge had to caution trump's attorney, elena habba, that she was on the verge of spending some time in lock-up for her own

donald trump will be there. it is just -- he knows how good this is for him, i guess he's lucky new hampshire is pretty close to new york so he can go to new york and then come back here for a rally tonight. >> and this is the campaign. we used to say it was a split screen. this is the campaign. and you can really mark the time line of the last year when republican base really started rallying behind him was the time of the alvin bragg indictment and then even more so after the fulton county case and on and on. so you really saw republicans rallying in support of him because he portrayed himself as the victim and to allowed him to change the narrative. ron desantis says that as well. he says the indictments were the biggest reason he had issues. he had other reasons that we can talk about later. >> and i think it was march 20th, 2023, if jack smith's cases had come first and alvin bragg's had come after, do you see what i'm saying, do you think that would have made a difference? because there was polling a coupl

the appeals court opinion against donald trump says mr. former president and current candidate for the presidency, and there is a strong public interest in what he has to say. but mr. trump is also an indicted criminal defendant, and he must stand trial in a courtroom under the same procedures that govern all other criminal defendants, that is what the rule of law means. joining our discussion is the former federal prosecutor, and host of the justice matters podcast. also barbara mcquade is with us, a former u.s. attorney and law professor at the university of michigan law school, she is co-host of the podcast hashtag sisters in law and author of the upcoming book attack from within, how disinformation is sabotaging america. they're both msnbc legal analyst. glenn kirschner, this is the federal courthouse you hang out in, more than any of the rest of us, i have a feeling you are not surprised about the unanimous 11 judge rejection of donald trump's attempt to get to them. >> not surprised, lawrence, though it would not have shocked me if o

he's ready to take the case to donald trump. bsorbing so much of the daily news, absorbing so much of the attention. the biden team is going to have to do what they have been doing. i think they've gotten very good coverage in the last week of these two campaign events, made news, and you already saw om morning consult this week, the first weekly track of this year, the first real world weekly track, that biden went up two points. i think as he starts engaging our electorate, wandering parts are gonna come home. it's important for all of us that joe biden made it clear that he's going to engage trump frontally and that the campaign is turned on. let's get going, i think everyone is ready to get going. >> the essential campaign question that ronald reagan framed who got him elected was, are you better off than you were four years ago? and he presumed that the answer was no, but for joe biden, are you better off than you were four years ago, the answer to that is unanimously yes. what is that going to mean? >> the three basic point

about donald trump being a danger to democracy. said about trump and democracy on friday followed by in the truth sandwich file when donald trump lied about what joe biden said. >> trump -- it's not part of his past. it was promising in the future. not only willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power -- >> did you see him stuttering through the whole thing. he's a threat to democracy -- he weaponizes government, and he says i'm a threat to democracy. he's a threat to the mall -- [laughter] couldn't read the word. he's a threat to democracy. you know what they do? they take me saying that, you like that? and they say, trump couldn't say the word democracy. >> trump's assault on democracy isn't just a part of his past. it's what his promising in the future. she is willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power. >> it turns out they can both pronounce democracy. no, the price will not say that donald trump cannot pronounce democracy, or what the press should say is that donald trump lied about joe biden not bein

among conservatives, 71% to 17% donald trump wallops haley there. haley's problem is they're only likely three in ten. >> those numbers are stark. they are complete opposite from one another when it comes to haley and trump and moderates and conservatives. >> what do voters think about the three candidates? >> if you look at their overall popularity, favorability. donald trump's favorability, 56% of likely republican primary voters. 36% unfavorable. that's a net plus 20. i mean, look how much better he is seen by this electorate than haley who's at 36% fav, 40 unfav, minus 4 and desantis lower than that. enthusiasm for donald trump if he's the nominee, 46% of likely republican primary voters would be enthusiastic. only 25% say that of haley. 76% say that of desantis. what are your feelings if donald trump is the nominee among each set of supporters. 89% of trump supporters would be very enthusiastic if trump is the nominee. dana, look here. 23% of haley supporters would be dissatisfied if trump is the nominee. 61% of haley supporters would be downrig

we saw the | educational divide the donald trump's — educational divide the donald trump's challengesees. the irony of all this manifested in iowa is a of a billionaire who has become the tribune — billionaire who has become the tribune of— billionaire who has become the tribune of white working—class americans. i would agree with the comments — americans. i would agree with the comments about ron desantis, he survived _ comments about ron desantis, he survived for at least a little bit. i survived for at least a little bit. i wouldn't — survived for at least a little bit. i wouldn't be as bullish on nikki haley. — i wouldn't be as bullish on nikki haley, the difficulties she is trying — haley, the difficulties she is trying run a conservative traditional republican and a party that is_ traditional republican and a party that is not— traditional republican and a party that is not the traditional republican party any more. it is a donald _ republican party any more. it is a donald trump political party that owes _ donald trump political party that owes a _ donald trump political party

this is "cnn news central." >>> already this morning, donald trump arrived in federal court and donald trump left his next stop. everyone was waiting to see if trump would take the stand today in his defamation trial, but then court was adjourned. so now he'll leave the courtroom campaign to head to the actual campaign trail in the final hours there before polls open in new hampshire. nikki haley is out talking to voters already this morning and as we have just heard, is taking it to donald trump. here she was moments ago. >> when you hear trump speak, what's he talking about? grievances, the past, he's talking about vendettas, today he's in court. biden is talking about investigations. neither one of them is talking about the future. >> we have live team coverage for you this hour. crist tennessee holmes is in new hampshire. court was cancelled a short time ago. what more are you learning about what happened? >> reporter: there was a delayed start to court. once the judge got on the bench, he informed everyone that a juror told the judge he wasn't feeling well. the judge said the juro