break it down. as the 11th hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening once again i m stephanie ruhle. donald j trump is now hours away from his first court appearance as a federal criminal defendant. earlier today he traveled from new jersey to south florida ahead of his scheduled arraignment tomorrow on charges of mishandling classified documents and blocking efforts to get them back. the government s hearing 49 -page indictment lays out more than three dozen counts against the former president including what prosecutors say is evidence of where trump kept america s most sensitive national security secrets in a bathroom, a ballroom the storms in mar-a-lago. trump was asked about his upcoming court hearings in a radio interview earlier tonight. the judge is going to ask you tomorrow how you plead are you going to see anything beyond not guilty? are you going to make a statement in court tomorrow? i did nothing wrong, presidential records act it s not even a cri
good evening. this is america s late news. breaking tonight the u.s. supreme court has now decided to review the colorado decision banning former president trump from the state ballot. the court has also scheduled oral arguments for february 8 in what could be the high court s biggest political decision since bush v. gore 23 years ago. in the meantime president biden began his 2024 campaign push but instead of running on his own record it appears biden is choosing to villainize former president trump. even some democrats are saying biden is being hypocritical when it comes to democracy but first senior national correspondent dev is life in d.c. with what former president trump is is saying. a very interesting rally to watch. on the heels of joe biden s campaign launch, as you know, punctuated by ominous warnings of what a second trump presidency just might entail, former president obviously responding today. holding a pair of rallies ahead of the iowa caucuses. mr. tr
stories you re going to remember for the rest of your life. this is the mugshot the world will never forget. mr. trump has been criminally and not four times. i have 91 felony counts. i did everything, they interlock me. kevin mccarthy has finally been sworn in speaker after running on a historic 15th ballot. it s becoming increasingly clear with the speaker of the house already works for. chaos on capitol hill tonight. brought on by the house vote to remove kevin mccarthy. the speaker. congress has a new house speaker tonight. ending threat works off uncertainty. president biden makes an historic top secret trip to ukraine. one year later, kyiv stands. and ukraine stands. democracy stands. america stands with you. president biden and israel. less than a day on the ground but no doubt of the u.s. government commitment backing israel and its four against hamas. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. we re closing in on that and all of 2023. so it is
morning. morning joe starts right now. it s the top of the hour. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 2nd. happy new year, everybody. israel s ground offensive in gaza is entering a new phase. the israeli military has plans to pull back some troops and shift to more localized operations. we re going to go through that development and the escalating tensions in the red sea. plus, a damning, new report on the intelligence failures by the israeli military. new york times investigation found there was no battle plan for a massive hamas invasion that they were warned about. also ahead, a look at the long to-do list for congress in 2024 with several crucial items that were simply not addressed late last year. plus, the supreme court has a tight timeline to rule on what would be one of the most consequential cases involving the presidency. we ll get expert, legal analysis on the issue of removing donald trump from the ballot in two states. are there going
on november 5th, 2024, we re going to stand the up to the corrupt political establishment, we re going to the evict a totally corrupt president named joe biden from the white house. [cheers and applause] and we re going to finish the job that we so successfully started. maria: coming up, the legal merits of this indictment with former acting attorney general matthew whitaker and harvard law professor emeritus alan kerr, wits. plus, trump indicted while the feds sit on a hunter biden investigation now going into its sixth year. former director of national intelligence if john ratcliffe on the two different applications of the law as the ccp continues soft espionage if attacks on america and the biden administration is forced to quietly admit that communist china does, indeed, have a spy base in cuba to surveil america while vehemently denying the wall street journal s report earlier this week. all of this as joe biden swears he s an honest man. i have never once, not one