and some late breaking criticism of donald trump. let s cut taxes on the middle class, and simplify those brackets. donald trump is running for his issues, haley is running on the donors issues, i am running on your issues. ron doesn t defeat biden, trump s head to head with biden. monday matters. your voice matters. i trust you. i think there s two america first candidates in this race, donald trump and myself. donald trump was president for four years, he did not make a dent in the administrative state. i know why you are excited, no more commercials after four days. haley, referring to the multi multi million dollar onslaught of ads that s been greeting islands. she made a joke, desantis has become a joke. don t believe a thing nikki haley says. ron desantis, losing and lying. haley even opposed trump s wall. haley disparages the caucuses and insults iowa. now, the intense wrangling between those two candidates reflects a bet about this republican
you are watching the beat with ari melber. we re covering this conclusion of donald trump fraud trial. there he was in court, the second time he s been in the courtroom this week, instead of campaigning in iowa. it s a telling sign of how personal this all is to trump, as you can see him there. he basically has opted out of the traditional campaign activities. he was not required to attend, but that s what it looked like in the courtroom today. we also heard from the attorney general who has been on something of a streak here. she already won the fraud finding portion of this. now they re fighting over potentially penalties. the judge also gave donald trump a chance to speak today, but required he had to comments only on facts and law if he did so. trump didn t stick to that, went into a ran, speaking for about five minutes, arguing this is wrong and a fraud, and he actually tried to attack the judge in the courtroom, making a reference to his own agenda. that was about eno
trump happen preso thes to be the leadingndb candidate to get the gop nomination and be on top inen s the primaries when it s all said and done, making him joe biden primars and main oppo. is that the man that s goingide, to be charging the president, the foreign press, the united states? statis that the justice departme that he controls? yes, the justice department der s specifically accusing trump of violating the espionage act. congress passed the espionage act right around a few years before world one. again the law was meant to target spies who might turn against unit warti states during wartime. now, joe biden s justice department is trying to argue that whichreally trump is a spy, whe is really absurd. now, the president said as much he a over the weekend.fi he addressed the indictment against him in public forst tir the first time. the baseless indictment of bye biden depar administration s weaponized department of injustictme will o down as among the most horrific
came out late here on a friday on the deadline, granting a petition to hear this controversial, sweeping colorado case which, according to the state of colorado s courts, has tried to disqualify donald trump from being on that state s primary ballot. this is a big deal. here s what it means. donald trump currently will remain on that primary ballot because the supreme court will be reviewing that decision. and that ballot is being certified today. this is the friday night news because it s news on friday night, friday night was the deadline if you re wondering why this broke so late in the week. the supreme court has already decided, through this grant of serb 84ry, that they will hear oral arguments february 8th on this case. the nation s highest court is stepping in to hear a big election-related case in this 2024 race where, yes, people may be girding for, bracing for, a biden/trump rematch. what the supreme court is doing tonight, what it would argue it feels it has to do
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