state, and gave us the first tangible look at where republican voters stand right now. and tonight, iowa republicans delivered a resounding victory to donald trump, nothing hugely surprising there. but we re gonna still talk about what that means. with me here at the table, all-star panel, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and as i always like to say, my old boss, david plouffe. and the host of the weekend on msnbc, michael steele, simone sanders townsend, and alicia menendez. everybody is working very hard over the last couple of days. nbc news can project that donald trump will exceed 50% tonight. we can also project that florida governor desantis will finish second, which is a bit surprising coming into tonight. we will bring you any updated numbers as soon as we get them, and we will stay closer to the decision desk, and of course, the one and only, steve kornacki. the field has also one candidate smaller tonight, vivek ramaswamy announced he was dro
it s one a. m. here in new york, midnight in iowa, and a very first test of the 2024 republican primary season is now complete. joining me now at the top of this hour, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and my former boss david plouffe, former rnc chairman and co-host of the weekend, michael steele, former communications director for jeb bush 2016 campaign, and now writer at large for the bulwark tim miller, and former communications director for president obama jennifer palmieri. now, tonight in iowa, nbc news projected that donald trump won the caucuses with more than 50% of the vote. his numbers really cement the four-time indicted candidate status as the front-runner. we already knew this. but in the republican field, the race for second place, it had a bit more drama with nikki haley and florida governor ron desantis locked in a dead heat for most of the night. but as awkward as he may be at times, and he is awkward, desantis did put in the w
the police are very much out in force and many areas around the university are still cordoned off by police were advising people to stay away. at a press conference, please confirm the shooter was a student at the universities faculty of arts at charles university where the incident happened. it is near a very famous tourist site, the 14th century bridge at the heart of historic prague, just a stone s throw away from the town square and very popular tourist but is the christmas markets in the christmas season where it really sees the number of tourists increasing and people in the programme on a holiday and also speaking to a couple who were in prague on their honeymoon who said were told by police to get away as quickly as possible. when the event happened, the building they warn people around the area to stay away. and they been reissuing people that is not in danger and it s not connected to international terrorism in any way and the president does express to shock and sen
sorry about that. we ve got so many people here, that i think we are kind of melting the servers. answering messages begin coming in over the station s teletype. ron desanctimonious needs a personally transplant, and those are not yet available. killed at $14 million, the station emboies the last word in radio transmission. let s see. crashing, huh? wow. ah. okay, you have to give a hat tip to dan and the gang for putting that together. good job. well. that was awkward. welcome to morning joe. that was our producers putting together their view of his failure to launch, ron desantis. on twitter. we can obviously talk about this an awful lot. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is thursday, may 25th. willie, the thing is, we re in the age of twitter. we re in the age of social media. everybody is going to freak out at that exact moment, and they certainly did. there was a meltdown over the meltdown. it was bad. i mean, it was bad on so
kev kev quite a date here in the nation s capitol. good evening, trace. breaking tonight, investors in silicon valley bank have already taken legal action to recoup their losses after, of course, the bank collapsed on friday despite the class-action lawsuit and a volatile day on wall street. as you pointed out, the president wants americans to believe our financial institutions are, in fact, secure, while also being careful to not use the banking b word. bail out. no losses will be born by the taxpayers. instead, the money will come from the fees that banks pay into the deposit insurance fund. reporter: while the fdic insures bank deposits to a quarter of a million dollars, nine of 10 depositors of xeb had more than that amount in the bank. still, the administration says they ll be covered. nothing to worry about. that also includes customers of new york-based signature bank which also collapsed over the weekend. the third largest bank failure in american history. signatu