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on this hour of ayman, how devastating arent cool has put a michigan city on high alert. that there of dearborn is here to tell you what his city is really like and why he decided to snubbed a presidential visit. also tonight, a look at the first 100 days of speaker johnson as he now battles the senate on sending aid to israel and new reporting on the speakers ties with a group that justifies difficult slavery. no impact the confusion of the states nominating process. i am a myth m...

on this hour of ayman, how a devastating article has put michigan city on high alert. the mayor is here to tell you what his city is really like, and why he decided to snub a presidential visit. also tonight, a look at the first hundred days of speaker johnson as he battles the senate on sending aid to israel. new reporting on the speakers ties to a group that justifies biblical slavery. next stop, nevada. ahead of caucus day, we unpack the confusion around the states presidential nomi...

investigator of the january six committee, on the growing fears about how donald trump will use the military if hes reelected. then well talk about election ranks with minnesota governor tim walz. at three eastern, nikki free, democratic chair on the new tweets and abortion rights in that state. good morning to you from nbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. were going to begin with the final countdown to the iowa caucuses, just one day to, go...

quote, the financial statements are perfect. the banks got all their money. the banks are happy as can be. the money is irrelevant. its a small number. im an innocent man persecuted by someone running for office. this state is vicious. and it takes away all my rightings. this is no fraud. its a fraud on me. i did nothing wrong, he said. perhaps unsurprisingly, judge engoron interrupted asking chris kise to control your client, before calling the whole thing off and breaking for lunch. ...

>> bret: lets all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. ♪ >> bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, im bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this weeks candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. well have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major ...

I would say, you know, it definitely can effect caucus turnout. weather is the number one issue when it comes to turning out people to the polls. especially for older iowans who may have more troubles getting there. its an in person event so you have to physically be there. i would say, you know, from some of the analysts that have i have spoken to, one of the things is that for former president donald trump, if his supporters believe that he has enough people caucusing for him, they may decide ...

Expectations if i was sanders. >> dana: let me show you this caucus turnout from 2016. in 2016, there were more than 15% of both democrats and republicans that turned out for these caucuses with 3500 republicans than democrats showing up. now this time obviously president trump will be the candidate and when you think about the turnout here and what peter was reporting on, you can join virtually -- sort of getting with the swing of things in the modern age. how do you think thats gonna go? >> it...

I do think, and perry said numbers accurately, a quarter of the turnout being mormon is going to matter if thats what it is, if theyll have the same enthusiasm when an actual mormon matter if that is what it is, if they have the same enthusiasm. that could be a huge percentage of the caucus turnout. they will get out there and vote and many are going to vote for marco rubio. >> when i was las vegas for the debate they talk about caucus being organizational test. it could be about national moment...

The need for comprehensive immigration reform. >> right. >> and siding with the 11 million folks who needed a pathway. now theyve taken a 180 and are on the opposite side of that and siding with donald trump. its interesting to see their own evolution and we dont know where theyll end up by the time 2016 comes. >> "the wall street journal" reports that trump is set to meet with a group of evangelicals later this month, but a spokeswoman for mr. trumps presidential campaign said the event isnt af...

Mean for the state? particularly moment dumb leading up to tuesday. right? >> no question about it. it is the last contest and it matters. caucuses by definition by which delegates are not alotted whether it was iowa or any of the caucus states taking place thus far. tends to be necessary and third step in the process. what ultimately happens is the grass-roots gets to have precinct votes for the caucus preferences than that goes to the county and they validate it or have a convention or meeting...