hour gets underway on this monday night. good evening, once again, i m stephanie ruhle, live as msnbc headquarters right here in new york city. it is exactly one week until the caucuses. the first major nominating contest of the 2024 campaign. it will be a critical test for the twice impeached, four times indicted former president donald j trump and his fight to go for our republican front runner to the official nominee. over the next several days, he will bring his campaign to the courthouse. tomorrow, he will be a hearing on his claim of presidential immunity and on thursday, closing arguments in a civil fraud trial. meanwhile, president joe biden s super charging his attacks against donald trump, trying to fire up the democratic base. today, president biden focused on shoring up support among black voters. he gave a speech from the pulpit of charleston, south carolina. a church there were a right precipices shot and killed nine people back in 2015. the president drew a dir
defeated confederates couldn t accept the verdict of the war. they had lost. so they say they embrace what s known as the lost cause, a self-serving lie the civil war was not about slavery but about state s rights and they call that a noble cause. that was a lie, a lie that had not just a law lie but it had terrible consequences. it wrought on jim crow. president biden yesterday in south carolina condemning white supremacy at the site of a deadly race related mass shooting back in 2015. the president s campaign creating a clear contrast between the words and actions of his potential opponent in 2024. speaking of the former president, we ll get expert legal analysis on a key hearing today for president trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. also ahead what investigators are learning about that alaska airlines flight that had a section of the plane break loose while mid-flight. good morning and welcome to way too early on this
after that scary incident at 16,000 feet. there was moments of am i going to make it? norah: the door panel found by investigators as we learned about warning lights in the cockpit. breaking news. a hotel expulsion box downtown fort worth. after a weekend snowstorm, more dangerous weather is sweeping the middle of the country, bringing blizzard warnings and tornado threats. new questions tied about defense secretary lloyd austin s secret hospitalization. by the public and the president weren t notified. the historic launch, why the first one later in over 50 years is in jeopardy. speaker space expiration is very risky business. hopefully they cannot just get it to the moon but actually landed on the surface. norah: good evening. i m norah o donnell. thank you for being with us on this monday night. want to begin tonight with a major new development after the terrifying blowout in the sky. we learned just a short time ago about troubling new safety concerns and inst
our business correspondent in new york, is erin delmore. if you re in the crypto world or curious about getting into it, then a spot bitcoin etf has been on your radar. it allows people to bet on bitcoin s gains and losses, even if they do not own bitcoin themselves. us regulators are widely expected to approve the new exchange traded funds this week. so, when a tweet was posted from the sec gov account, saying essentially that, it was noteworthy. it was also wrong. the sec and its chair, gary gensler, quickly posted on x that the sec account was compromised and the regulator had not yet approved the listing in trading of spot bitcoin exchange traded products. the erroneous tweet also included graphic with a quote from chair gensler, a second tweet that also said $ btc . bitcoin s ticker symbol was also posted but was then almost immediately deleted. for bitcoin s value, a bit of a ride. the cryptocurrency climbed to nearly $48,000 on the false news and fell back down to $45
angeles and this is america s late news, fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the ntsb is now holding a briefing at this hour right now about the alaska airlines incident that broke on this show on friday night. we will bring you updates from the ntsb as soon as the briefing starts and we will dip into it live if there is any relevant or new information. meantime, it s crunch time in iowa with the gop presidential candidates campaigning into the night using every minute to make their final appeals to voters. as the iowa caucuses now just one week away, and there is so much on the line that even the front runner, former president trump, leading by 30, is now urging his supporters to get out and vote and ron desantis and nikki haley are banking on an upset victory. aishah hasnie is live for us on the trail in des moines iowa with the very latest on the pre caucus run-up. issue a, good evening. reporter: good evening to you, trace, we are live here from a very snowy and wi