this is donald trump being donald trump. >> s.e., you see donald trump in the stage craft complaining there weren't microphones in front of him so he could speak to reporters. the broader view of -- you have trump back in a courtroom, also in front of a courtroom making a campaign speech. you have another republican who dropped out of the race and you have the debate that you and i discussed happening last night. put it altogether. what does today mean for donald trump's campaign? >> well, let's be clear. there is no campaign without the court. he has made this, these legal issues, all the charges, the indictments the center piece of his campaign. he doesn't want to be talking about policy. he doesn't want to talk about how he would solve problems. he has no interest in that. he didn't solve problems when he was there in the first place. it's why he didn't show up at last night's debate. it's why he doesn't want to be held accountable and go on real news networks. it's why he has fox news town halls where no one's going to push back on him. he's not running to govern. he's running for

let's listen. >> trump. desantis. trump. trump. haley. trump. trump. trump. trump. trump. trump.esantis. haley. trump. >> if you have been keeping track, this is not an official tally because we have to make sure that the number of people registered equals or the number of ballots is not greater or less than the number of people. so hold on. >> what you just heard there was important. especially at a time when so many people have been told to doubt the integrity of elections. there you have, i don't know her name, a wonderful republican official saying we're going to count the votes. you just heard us do it live, but that's not official because now we're going to double check the count. this is what happens everywhere, in democratic precincts, in republican precincts all across america on election night. whether they're using a hand ballot and counting it before your very eyes, do the arithmetic we learned in grammar school or if they're using machines. they can also check the machines as well. this as someone who has done this for 40 years, is the saddest part of our democracy t

meaning biden and trump. a candidate who could run circles around the dinosaurs from the last two administrations, backwards and in heels. so better than to unpack this than two kmups experts. josh rogers is with new hampshire public radio and jack heap of the good morning new hampshire radio sew on the pulse on n.h. good morning to both of you. as we're about to speak, haley is taking the stage in dairy, new hampshire. a busy day as she had all weekend. but i do want to talk to you, jack, first about trump. he won the new hampshire primary in 2016 and up by 11 in our pollm and you talk to voters all of the time on the ground there. is there any difference now versus 2016 and the depth of trump support? >> not in the depth. i have a buddy that equatize his support to the goalpost, here we are in nfl playoff weekend. it doesn't move. i think he still has, even this last time, he hasn't lost the trump voters here in new hampshire and if we're doing this interview on friday, i don't know what josh thinks, it rea

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

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donald trump. don't take my word for it. look at the polling. i beat joe biden by double digits. donald trump is losing or within the margin of error with joe biden. now, last night donald trump did win by a 11 points. it was a smaller margin than some of that tracking that we saw in the week leading up to it. 11 points is 11 points. it's a double-digit win in new hampshire. donald trump got that. if you look inside the number he can't win an independent voter. he dominates the republican party. 85% of the people who voted for him came out and said joe biden did not win the election. his propaganda, his lies have taken hold with that segment of the electorate. but the guy cannot win in independent voter. that's what you're going to hear for a month. if nikki haley does stay in and said she would, we have ever reason to believe her, she has a month to run in her home state where there aren't a lot of independents going to show up. it's going to be a heavily republican electorate down there. it's a t

independents and never trump republicans and never trump democrats.e more people that fall into that category of never trumpers in new hampshire than in iowa. that's why you see her polling closer to donald trump, and that's why one of the reasons you see ron desantis falling away in third. we have not seen exactly what nikki haley is going to do to try and hammer donald trump, and what a lot of candidates have found and this is why she is hesitant is, because when you go after him, he goes after you harder. >> is there a path going forward to each of the camps, desantis and haley, if they consistently are coming in second or third, and sometimes, 10, 20, 30, 40 points behind trump? is there any path forward for any candidate anywhere? >> josÉ, i lost the audio. what i will do is answer the question i want to answer instead of the one you threw to me. >> enlighten us. >> i was going to talk about the two candidates coming out, and trump had a big win in iowa and is still the frontrunner, and he will try as he can to put nikki haley away in new hampshi

crowd: fight for trump! fight for trump! fight for trump! jake tapper: but nobody could change trump's mind, and as he, family anand aides s arrived at t the rall, his chief of staff mark meadows was keeping the president's hopes alive. subject: prior to mr. trump taking the stage that morning, he was under the impression by mr. meadows that it was still possible. jake tapper: at the rally, the president had a more immediate familiar concern-- crowd size. cassidy hutchinson: we were in the offstage announce area tent behind the stage. he was very concerned about the shot. sasara murray: o or the pipictures that t were share, he wanted to make sure that the rally space was full. and so he's being told it's not that people e are waiting g tot through these mags, through these metal detectors, people don't want to go through them because they have weapons with them. jake tapper: during the hearings, the select committee showed a secret service report that, "some members of the crowd are wearing ballistic helmets body armor and carrying radio eq

you have the house the members like trump. in the senate they're not fans of trump. they do not want him to be the nominee again. you can almost hear the frustration of their voice to realize, all of a sudden this guy they don't like much, there's a few that do but a lot of them don't -- >> especially the top republican in the senate, mitch mcconnell, who -- go ahead. >> their strategy of not doing anything about trump turns out remarkably not to have worked. so now they are left with the consequences of it. but i think trump may have killed the deal but it was already on the sick bed. we shouldn't forget there are a lot of substantive concerns. the republicans, most concerned about immigration on the hill, were the ones saying this is inadequate. more than that they think the president already has the authority he needs, he just doesn't have the will. if the that's your view, you're probably less concerned about changing the law athan changing the president. >> isn't any compromised legislation inadequate? by definition you have to come together and you're not going

and so the title defendant trump will be the longest held title of donald trump's life. tonight we will consider the status of the most important cases defendant trump is facing, including the most important constitutional questions that defendant trump has raised, which one appeals court judge framed as, can the president of the united states be criminally prosecuted for ordering seal team six to assassinate his political opponents? donald trump's lawyer said no. the president cannot be prosecuted for assassinating his political opponents unless he has already been convicted of the same charge in a senate impeachment trial. the most constitutionally important civil case the donald trump is currently litigating is he's appeal tonight in state supreme court asking to overturn the colorado supreme court's decision to ban donald trump for the presidential ballot. we will consider those cases tonight through the lens of law professor andrew weissmann's legal scholarship as well as the wisdom of three pulitzer prize-winning historians who are experts on the clauses of the con

where is donald trump?hone what the speaker of the house saying don't goodness deal. >> because he wants to run on it! >> because he wants to run on it. and when i said emigration is their top issue, who do they turn? to the guy who doesn't want the book is a great measure. he continues, despite not being the elected official, despite congress not having to listen to, him if he continues to own so many of these issues in a way that is the fun in the republican party. when i talk to folks, he continues to just throw much bait that leader of this republican party and he never stopped. >> the immigration issue, i've only been here for four days, but it obviously popped and the exit polls. it was and haley's stump speech, trump's stump speech. explain that to us. we are very far from the mexican border right now. we are close to that northern border, which have a talks about. what's going on here? >> this is been a cultural issue. not just its own pocket. it's a cultural issue and it has been for a very long ti

staff went -- when desantis was candidate for governor in 2018 he needed trump's support, and trump's endorsement proved big for him in getting him the nomination in florida. after that he was in a tight race for the general election and trump loaned him a bunch of top political advisers and operatives in florida to help get him over the finish line. he had a pretty nasty break-up with that group of people and a lot of those people are now working for donald trump including susie weils, when she had a very interesting tweet. it was two words. bye-bye. >> and what you described, the history of the two better explained perhaps why he was so reticent and careful about how, ron desantis, i'm talking about how he criticized donald trump. i mean, i guess it was a rather prickly matter. he benefited from donald trump and now a competitor, but only wanted to go so far, it seems, steve. >> absolutely and that was something that they were struggling with internally throughout. there were people who wanted him to come out of the gate throwing hay makers at trump and responding to the attacks tha

, they never touched trump.all the negativity about why they should be the next candidate for the republicans was not about they should defeat trump, they were defeating biden . to a large extent, he ceded them the playing ground, allowed them to continue the distortion of the economy, the ideas of the border -- all of those things became the headlines and nothing about what he had accomplished, who he was, even the conversation about abortion. now it is the third rail for republicans. they basically did not have another voice. by deciding to go to south carolina, it was a yawn. it is assumed he is going to win. he doesn't gain anything was south carolina but he would have gained something by having another -- another message coming out of iowa, new hampshire, as are focusing on with the choice would be in 2024 for president. it was a stupid political mistake. it doesn't mean we should always be first, but not in 2024 with trump running for president again. this is a threat to democracy, an invitation to fascism

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

trump still with a solid lead. i spoke with haley this afternoon, and you're going to hear that interview in just a moment. but first, not long after ron desantis suspended his campaign, trump spoke to supporters at a rally here in new hampshire, rochester, new hampshire. cnn's alayna treene was at that event just a short time ago and is in rochester, new hampshire, still. a alayna what happened at that event. >> reporter: donald trump just left the stage about 20 minutes ago, i'd say. i mean, look. i mean, what a difference a few hours make, right? donald trump's rhetoric tonight about ron desantis is a complete 180 from the type of language we've become accustomed to over the past year. i've gone to many of donald trump's rallies, and he's always used very sharp language to attack ron desantis. and really a major shift ever since desantis endorsed donald trump tonight. now, i can tell you that according to my conversations with donald trump's campaign, it's still unclear whether or not they're really going to emb

donald trump or joe biden. but is there anything in the numbers that you are seeing so, far that you are going to be paying close attention to, come july and august? >> yeah obviously, pending. we will see who the republican nominee is. i mean, we've got these polls now. and i think again, you see it a little bit here, with haley doing well with independents, doing well, there are some self identified democrats were gonna be voting here in these iowa caucuses. it's probably not a surprise, when you do trial -- of haley versus biden, she does better in the general election right now than donald trump does. although again call back to a very distant republican primary here. but back in 2000, the last candidate to have numbers anything like donald trump's on the eve of the iowa caucuses, for public and caucuses, was george w. bush in 2000. trump just broke his records for the final share in the final poll, and the biggest lead in the final poll. and george w. bush was running worse than his main challenger, john m

nikki haley can never out cruel donald trump. she can't. she cannot beat donald trump. she will try to walk back the best she can but it will not matter. she is a fearful politician and she's never going to win the republican primary. >> joe walsh, thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. we will have to see. this is what she said this morning. we will have to see how she deals with it. >>> and "the lead" with jake tapper starts now. >>> what are governor nikki haley and ron desantis's plans to derail the trumps trained? "the lead" starts right now. >>> after a blowout in iowa, next stop, new hampshire as donald trump pushes his competitors to drop out. ron desantis in nikki haley make their next move is vowing to stay in the fight. were going inside the campaign to learn their battle plans and defiance on display and for sale. we will take you to a store in trump country that has trump memorabilia that really has to be seen to be believed. >>> the new round of strikes on the iranian backed. seizes iranian made weapons on their way to arm. >>> welcome to "

trump's g.o.p.al making it clear she is far from throwing in the towel. >> at one point in this campaign there were 14 of us running. and we were at 2% in the polls. well, i'm a fighter. [cheers and applause] and i'm scrappy. and now we are the last ones standing next to donald trump. [cheers and applause] >> mike: hello. i'm mike emanuel. gillian, great to be working with you. >> gillian: and i'm gillian turner in washington. continuing special coverage, the first in the nation presidential primary. nikki haley, donald trump duked it out in today's showdown, but in the end you might have noticed it was not even close despite putting a lot of time and money on the line in new hampshire. the former u.n. ambassador did not crack donald trump's command of the republican party. >> mike: he can now boast being the first republican candidate to win open races in iowa and new hampshire since 1976, by posting easy wins in both easy states, planting the factions firmly behind him, despite battling a litany o

trump.aling to a lot of the same voters and trying to make yourself the trump alternative, except these are not voters looking for a trump alternative. they were talking to the same kinds of voters. >> yeah, as you said, he hit all 99 counties in iowa, and had that disappointing result. i suppose there's some wisdom, if you can find any in all of this, in getting out before the new hampshire primary. you don't want to take a beating in the new hampshire primary, finish a distant third and stumble into south carolina, and who knows what happens after that. i suppose the writing was on the wall. >> no doubt. he was sort of not part of the new hampshire conversation. he had faded so substantially, because he pulled himself off the air largely in new hampshire. he wasn't even in the final weeks when they put everything into iowa. you're right, he would have been very much a third distant -- we had a poll out this morning, it showed him with 6% support in new hampshire. he was a nonfactor, so how

trump never did that. trump has $7 trillion. that's inflation. inflation comes from over spending and over printing money in washington. biden made it ten times worse, no question, but as a republican, he did fulfill on the nation a lot of us sent him to washington -- >> up with final question as you've been describing, new hampshire is a little bit different. a lot different when it comes to the demographics. independents can vote here, for example. it's different from all the other contests going forward. are you confident that even if you do well here you'll have the staying power particularly in a republican electorate that voted the way it did for donald trump so overwhelmingly? >> are you talking about south carolina? >> let's start with south carolina. >> yeah. what i can tell you is, this is -- south carolina is the state that elected the first female minority governor in history. i know, south carolina knows what i did. we turned that state around and they're very grateful. south carolinians are tough. they want you to earn it and fight

so how did donald trump do it? everywhere you see red is a county that donald trump won. you might think donald trump is dominant in the republican party. it lacked like it was going to look like this. this is why this is a surprise. this is why the trump team feels like they hit exactly the type of place they needed to be. flash back to 2016. everywhere you see yellow, those are counties that donald trump lost. let's go back to 2024. all of them except for one, donald trump won think about the overperformance where he did better than he did in 2016. trump outperforming 2016 literally all 99 counties he did better than in 2016. here's maybe a different way to put this. where did trump underperform in 2016. that would be none. that's 10% higher than anybody else in the actual primary. every county except for two. and it's a college town. and in johnson county, nikki haley won by all of 1 vote. that's not a sweeping victory based on my math. not a math guy, but pretty confident in that. how did he do it? two things we were watching coming into this caucus experience. one wa

donald trump is responsible. don't need a question to him. i don't need a debate from him. i don't need a clear statement from him. the facts are the facts. he is responsible, and abortion will be on the ballot in 2024. >> and i hear you on that. i'm just going off the fact that 44% of caucus goers who do not support a federal abortion ban supported donald trump. he won on that issue. so clearly, the facts are the facts. but somehow, they're not being communicated to certain sections of the american electorate. >> let's remember, those caucusgoers are republican caucus goers who showed up in iowa in the middle of freezing weather to say no matter what i'm going to get there, and a big hunk of them said i'm going to support donald trump no matter what. i do not think this means he can pull the wool over the eyes of the rest of america, of the people who are out on the streets marching over abortion, of the people who showed up in kansas and the people who showed up in michigan, the people who said you give us a ch

trump, we're moving on to the future. >> so, you won't vote for donald trump? >> if he's the nominee, if we have to go for the weakest candidate, i'll vote for the republican candidate because that's how bad biden is. we're talking primary here. >> what about the consequences? you painted this picture of how damning he would be foreign policy, the dorder, fiscal policy, how bad he would be for our economic outlook again. >> but look at what biden's done. look at how bad this administration is. put it this way, biden is so -- trump had no electability six months ago. biden has become so bad that now he actually could squeak out a win. that's how bad joe biden is is that america would take all that chaos potentially over joe biden. >> look, on a policy front, apples to apples, i can understand the argument you're makingn a policy front for trump over biden. the difference, as we all know, is that there's never been a president in history who has tried to hold on to power and participated actively in a violent act at the capitol to hold on to power. that peaceful

>> not really. >> trump. >> trump. >> trump! >> trump. >> all the way, trump! >> were you considering nikki haley? >> never. >> we've seen her a couple of times. >> never. >> i want someone who's going to fight for our country. we need him. he's a divine intervention from god. >> how far will that maga movement around donald trump take the former president of the united states? it could very well take him to the republican nomination and a big win here in new hampshire, but those were independent voters that said nikki haley who came here to register. we've heard some frustration among republicans who said this is a republican primary and that independents should not have a major influence. that is really the only concern that they have of any potential nikki haley prowess in the closing hours of which we wait for the final results. >> independents are the largest voting block in new hampshire. they can vote in both the republican and the democratic primary and the granite staters say that part of what makes this state great is that because so many of them are

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

chris is against trump. ni nikki is a darling of the never trump. she is not answering about the v.p. nod. what's wrong with saying, no, i would not say that. the fact she has not done that is part of the reason chris had been staying in. that's part of the reason he had the choice words. >> do you think she would agree to be vice president? >> i do. why wouldn't you just say, i would not. i said i would not. why not just say that? she will not give a yes or no answer. if she says yes, she loses support from the people that don't like trump. if she says no, that closes her ability on the ticket. >> you said you would not serve as vice president? >> no. i can do more for florida in the country serving as president, rather my last two years. but i can do more for florida than being vice president. a bucket of warm something not good for tv. it's not a job you do anything in. and the only reason i'm in office is to accomplish things for folks. it has no appeal to me. i said i would not do it. not just for trump, for anybody. >> a second choice for chri

giuliani and president trump.alse and also deeply disturbing. >> tape earlier in the day of ruby freeman and shaye freeman moss and one other gentleman quite obviously, surreptitiously, passing around usb ports as if they're vials of heroin or cocaine. >> he sounded a lot more despera. quite frankly, he seemed more unhinged. he made some overtly racist comments. >> they look like they're passing out dope, not just ballots. it is quite clear they are stealing votes. they're still walking around georgia, lying. they should have been, they should have been, they should have been questioned already. their places of work, their homes should've been searched for evidence of ballots, evidence of usb ports, for evidence of voter fraud. >> narrator: but there was no evidence that they were passing usb drives. >> in one of the videos we just watched, mr. giuliani accused you and your mother of passing some sort of usb drive to each other. what was your mom actually handing you on that video? >> a ginger mint. >> passing alo

outtrump trump. be more trump than trump. be younger or different. desantis tried that. that. buried alive. only one theeory left. get him one-on-one with another republican. if she can't, this thing is over. >> what seems to be clear from the numbers, there are independents and democratic leaning independents who migrated over to this primary because they wanted to make the one-two statement about trump and that is not a replicable model. she's going to have to start doing well among republicans. after these four, these races become winner take all. it's not like you can get 45% and 45% your way to the nomination. >> but these exit polls spell disaster for donald trump in a general election even against joe biden. >> we're closing in on the end of voting in most of new hampshire. the first significant round of results coming up. our correspondents are in position to bring you the big reveal of the winner. new hampshire's choice and there's much more ahead. you may know adam schiff's work to protect the rule of law, or to build affordable housing, or write california's p

of anti-trump voters, anti-trump forces, anti-trump messages, republican voters who like donald trump, and they are still the vast majority of the republican party, they tend to turn on that candidate. ask chris christie. he left the race with poisonous numbers with republican voters. ask mike pence, asa hutchinson. they're the only three candidates who had upside down numbers in terms of favorability with republican voters this past year. it had everything to do with being identified with the antagonism toward trump. if haley pulls off new hampshire, it is a difficult needle to thread. the lesson of the trump era is, when you're seen as the face of the non-republicans and the trump-resistant crowd, republicans turn on you and they turn on you hard. in fact, we're seeing in south carolina after new hampshire, haley is polling much worse in her home state of south carolina than in new hampshire. >> let's look at the entrance poll numbers i mentioned from nbc news, what they say about the electorate, at least in iowa. a majority of republican voters last night, well above 60%, believe t

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. >> as you and john were talking about, two critical issues, the economy and immigration. they rated that above all else. 36% said that was their top issue, the most important issue to their vote. amo they split

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

nikki haley -- trump still ahead. >> trump still ahead, desantis really now all in on iowa. not doing quite as well in new hampshire as he is in iowa? >> i think this will sort of give you the answer right here. moderate chair of the gop primary electorate, this is the group that -- it is the group that nikki haley does best with. in new hampshire, moderates make up 36% of the electorate, that is higher than national. look at iowa, they only make up 17% of the electorate. so the fact is, nikki haley is putting a lot of -- she knows the electorate in new hampshire is far from -- them in iowa, and it is far less friendly to donald trump. >> okay, so the sequence of this context matter because of momentum. so, trump being far ahead in iowa, what is the significance of that for the trajectory of this race? >> what is the significance, let's take a little look through history. 45% or greater in iowa, he won the democratic primary in 1984, george w. bush republican won the republican primary and caucuses in 2000, i go on the democratic side, hillary clinton the same deal in 2016.

ring trump loves you but if you don't he will attack you and now with ron desantis endorsing trump hekissing the rain essentially and trump has changed his tune from mocking him to calling him terrific and gracious, how will trump likely reward ron desantis, could he embrace them and use them as a surrogate? >> i think he will try that, for ron desantis it is clear that he was to keep his options open for the future. he doesn't want to be stuck with the loser label. getting out early allows them to diststance himself and embracin trump allows it to be part of the mamaga victory lease for th dominationon. ideologically they are close together, it makes sense for him, till between legs, support donald trump. >> certainly if you look at the numbers, it seems that we are in for another trump invited match-up, something most voters have made clear they don't want to see happen again, how do you think this will likely go? >> these will be two of the least popular residential candidates on record. 2 very senior people, and one candidate, a lot of in popularity, donald trump and one who is ve

most of them are going to trump. ron desantis was seen as trump without the baggage.lly interesting and i think is spot on. he said nikki haley is trying to win a republican primary without republican votes. even in a place like new hampshire where she's trying to get independents to enter the primary because they can actually do that, and others to cross over, she still has to win at some point the majority of hard core conservative republican voters against donald trump. she's shown very little ability to do that. if you look at the data across these states, he is well positioned to win. >> okay. cornell belcher and rick tyler, appreciate your analysis and insights. we're going to dig deeper into 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. s

>> president trump, president trump!reporter: what about the process who are experiencing, the big concern that the election, they might try to steal it again in 2024? >> well, i will watch very closely. i very much appreciate that question, it's very important. more important than most people would understand. we have to make sure we have honest, fair elections, and strong borders. if we don't have strong borders or elections, we don't have a country. see what's going on at the border? there's never been anything like it, on the border. millions and millions of people are pouring into our country, illegally. many come from prisons, they come from jails, there are terrorists. no one's ever seen. by the way, i saw a port this morning, they are coming in from mental institutions all over the world. and that makes sense. why would someone running a country that cost money, why would they -- don't bring them into our country. mental institutions, jails, prisons, they are coming into our country and a lot of terrorists coming

donald trump.he really is consolidating the anti-trump vote that is out there and you wonder, if this is starting to affect this. desantis still very popular. haley, 48-46, favorable, unfavorable. she's become polarizing. a month ago, her favorable was 60, her unfavorable, 31, soaring up for her. candidates who get associated, we've seen this with christie and we've seen this with pence with anti-trump voters and pro-trump republicans tend to turn on them. is that maybe what we're seeing happen here with haley supporters and how about this for a number two? again, among haley supporters. they don't like trump in general. who would you vote for? biden or trump and this is nikki haley supporters in iowa, 43% say they'd be with biden, the democrat. more than half, 23% say they'd be with donald trump. that speaks to the coalition that hail seems to be putting together and the bottom line question was asked at the start of the campaign, candidate, all of the legal woes and the trials going on here, aski

he was one of the first to endorsed trump, and now trump is backing j.d. vance's preferred candidate in ohio. that is how he uses endorsements to affect politics across the republican party. >> politico's congressional bureau chief, thank you. next we are in iowa where marjorie taylor greene of georgia was stumping for former president trump. here is a bit of her interaction with caucus-goers and the press, including questions on a local school shooting. ♪ >> all right, iowa. i am so excited to be here, it is like starting the primary election with the super bowl, which i think is really wild. in georgia, we just go and vote in a primary, but you guys have this caucus system. i had to learn all about it. so i can understand what you go through. i'm a competitive person, so i think it is pretty awesome. i am counting on you guys to turn out big for president trump. [cheers] and i never get tired of winning, and i think we need some more. america is losing now. none of us like it. it has been a shocking experience the past few years, ever since the biden adm

trump, the better?ey won both thanks, lawrence. >> okay. >> i think that's what they are telling us tonight. and was very interesting that they put out that statement that said donald trump is going to be the nominee. i think the campaign has been operating in the white house has been operating since the election started on january 5th. that was the valley forge speech, so they are operating at general election speed. you see that even just there getting pretty troll like in what they're saying about donald trump on the campaign's x account. you see them -- and i think they feel like they're getting some traction, they're getting some traction in the economic, good economic news, starting to take hold, and they're getting some traction on really training their fire on trump. and i think they are telling us don't take your eye off the ball. he is going to be the nominee. but it's also true that has -- just in the last two weeks, we've learned a lot of valuable information from both the iowa caucus and pr

and donald trump. he was in charge of the social media. he was deputy chief of staff. his office was right next to the oval office. nobody was closer to him other than ivanka in the trump white house. it provides this vivid description to investigators of what he witnessed because he was also one of the few people who was with trump for the entirety of january 6th. the time when he went to dinner later in the day, he was with trump. and he describes trump arms folded, holding on the tv, watching the riot play out on fox news as scavino and self is going in and pleading with him to do something, to put out some kind of a message, to call the attack resolve. and as the others, meadows, ivanka, white house lawyers, they're doing the same. and he says to the investigators, he is nonresponsive. he is angry, not even looking at them, looking at the tv. angry but saying they are angry on my behalf. the people attacking that capital are angry on my behalf. >> he wasn't angry about the vience. he was angry that

who is head of the trump organization? donald trump.f you want to know what he did, you have a judge who has found that he committed fraud, we are about to find out the monetary component of that. in a few weeks. and we have a jury that found that he sexually assaulted e. jean carroll, we are going to have trial to on that. and then obviously, we have four separate grand jury investigations, indictments that have come up. and as you note, that means that four separate grand jury found that there was probable cause. so it is not like there is no evidence that has already been determined. now obviously, there will be a criminal trial, and he will map his defenses. but to date, it's not like we have heard really the defenses from him. we have just heard label was about a witch hunt, they gerrymandered this, he's a victim. but it will be interesting to see whether the electorate actually cares. so we will have this divergence between the legal world, and the political world. and to see whether they overlap, whether people actually uphold th

trump. the former florida governor says that he is only running a campaign that is not a basement campaign, he pretty clearly said without qualifications, that's a vote for donald trump in the republican primary is a vote for the democrats in the white house in november. >> if donald trump was the nominee, the election will revolve around all his issues, his trials, perhaps convictions if he goes to trial. if he loses their in things like january six. we're gonna lose if that's a decision that voters are making based on that. we do not want it to be a referendum on those issues. >> tonight, he's making his play to campaign yet another day. earlier, vivek ramaswamy completed his campaign circle of life by abandoning his own presidential aspirations to assume the role that it looked like he was made to play there. campaign surrogate for donald trump. while on a different network tonight, senator ted cruz endorsed the man, abby, who once called his wife ugly. talked about his father. aiding in

we're waiting to see donald trump leave trump tower and head down here.re waiting to see if the reporters can get into the courthouse and into the courtroom because as kara says, it's delayed by about an hour now from what it usually is. i want to bring in former u.s. assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, elie honig, who is our cnn senior analyst, also karen freeman, a prosecutor for the manhattan district attorney's office. elie, i do want to start with you here. as we said, as we have been talking about, donald trump has been told he cannot deliver closing arguments. any chance they could walk in this courtroom behind me and donald trump's attorneys can say, you know what, we agree to your terms. can donald trump speak now? >> i don't think that's likely at all. here's why. the judge and donald trump's team, we have now learned, have been in a back and forth over the last several days and weeks negotiating this. and the deadline the judge gave donald trump to accept the terms has already passed. i think if they try to pull a surprise

-- another trump tr trump/biden nightmare. let's watch this. >> the two most disliked politicians in america, trump and biden. both are consumed by chaos, negativity, and grievances of the past. the better choice for a better america? nikki haley. >> i have a different style and approach. i'll fix our economy, close our border, and strengthen the cause of freedom. we need a ynew generation of conservative leader to get it done. i'm nikki haley, and i approve this message. >> what is she leaning into here as it relates to iowa? do you think it could be effective? >> it could work. she's been slowly, but surely reaching this point where she makes a more explicit message against donald trump, and here she's kind of trying to be -- tread the middle, and there's been so much about her campaign is trying not to offend, bring people together and saying biden and trump are two of a kind. is that a way for her to become a crossover candidate who can build a coalition here? >> yeah. i mean, is this the -- as direction she's taking on do

trump did.in 2016. look at cedar rapids. look at linn county. this is pretty much what we saw statewide, donald trump doing a little bit weaker then marco rubio doing a little bit better. but -- doing quite well. let's flip forward to 2024, look at what we saw here. an easy win for donald trump, crushing nikki haley, crushing ron desantis, another way we could look at this laura. take a look. here, we're gonna go elmer gonna look at the suburban areas. what do we see here. look at a time, red, red, red, red, right, and that little spot of gold there. look at the rural areas what do we say? it is all red. it is a dominating win for donald trump. he won in the suburban areas, he won in the auroral areas, he even wine, if we were to look at the most urban area, even in polk county, des moines, he won even here. he won everywhere. >> any idea, why that one yellow spot went to haley? anything about that area? >> why did that one yellow spot go to nikki haley? well, you know, noting, a lot of universi

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 votes. second place ron desantis 18%, despite fact he got end

but it was trump being trump. guess what? got kicked off of twitter after january 6th, although elon musk has invited him back. there has not been a trump tweet news cycle since then. and he is even more unhinged and odious online now than he was back then. because he made himself his own knockoff of twitter, where he gets the both best both worlds. he can blow off steam, showing off what an absolute i'm into the bones sociopath years. and no one outside his most die hard supporters will ever see it. it's perfect. this stuff is really like, really unhinged. it's stuff that, again, if you are seeing it all the time with a person in your life you would be worried about them. you wouldn't want them to be like, hanging out with you or being around your family or, like, in your workplace. it would provoke deep distress if any person you knew was doing this. just last night, spent hours on something of a truth social, lashing out in all caps imposed after post, like in a sort of maniacal fashion that is deeply upstanding and settli

donald trump is saying what he's in new york so is donald trump.s peers in terms of where he comes in, where he was raised, that have found this in two court cases. the other thing that i think was very interesting to me is that as a new yorker myself, donald trump's brand which got him from where he got to in terms of being a tv star and all, was he was this mega businessman, he was this great developer. all of that is at risk now of him losing because he may have to liquidate those properties he has left. and ordered to even meet the bond, less known if it's ruled against him that he has to pay these verdicts out. so donald trump, whether he will be president or not, he has to be thinking about whether he's going to be donald trump, the brand may be gone, the bond may bust him. i think that that's important. another part of being a new yorker is i can't remember other than this trial where you hid the names of the jury even from each other other than mob trials. i mean, this guy, the former president of the united states, and they're afraid for a

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