for a fund raising push. and it was the state where he bagged it. so what s next for ron desantis after his distant second place finish in iowa? what he just told nbc news. our reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin in new york where a jury was just seated moments ago in the e. jean carroll trial. msnbc s lisa rubin just stepped out court. give us your headlines. reporter: we just finished with the selection of a jury of nine people. one of the things that struck me about the jurors selected is how nonspecific they were about their media consumption. the judge has a battery of routine questions he asked of perspective jurors and the last one was where do you get your news from. what i saw today suggests to me that all the people assembled from the courtroom, irrespective of their political bias, they all wanted to be here because when they were asked where do you get your news from, most said i m news agnostic or i get it from the internet. i see
yo your body, but this is the latest from here. i ll send it back to you, jake. bill, thank you so much. now to west new york, new jersey, that s the name of the city, west new york. maria, tell us what the air is like where you are. reporter: yeah, it has been very, very bad throughout the day. things have improved in the last hour, but like the governor of new jersey said in your show earlier, it gets really bad depending on where you are. i want to show you what it looks like. we are really west of new york. that is midtown manhattan across the hudson river right now. you can kind of make out the buildings at this point. earlier today, you couldn t see anything. it was so dense and thick with smoke that it was completely white. it also got very dark hours earlier, to the point where the street lights, as bill weir said, turned on here. the authorities in new jersey are recommending that people stay indoors, that they limit their outdoor active tis. and here in this p
close to two dozen people who have testified before the grand jury. these are agents who are presumably on the ground, close at hand at mar-a-lago, and had our first hand eyewitnesss to what was going on behind the scenes during the days when the trump team was negotiating with the justice department. they may have a lot to contribute about what they saw and heard during those critical months. tom, thanks so much. as mike pence makes his bid for the white house, i ll talk to two men who know him well. one led his fund-raising push, another ran against him. and pope francis has a surprise surgery. what that might say about the health of the pontiff? stay with us. how to grow delicious herbs: step one: use miracle-gro potting mix.
they are like, let s keep this going for as long as we possibly can. that said, democrats are super good at reminding people they are very good at registering new voters. it swamps republicans if republicans don t focus on it. it is something that republicans, they expect people to go out and vote because it is their civil duty. democrats go out there and they have the infrastructure to sign up new voters. it s going to be a major race. kennedy: they are shaking the tree hoping the peaches fall. dana: they are going to have the 17 candidates that the republicans had. kennedy: that s what a lot of democrats fear. they don t want that. what is the president capitalizing on with the fund-raising push? jesse: small donors. he is getting a lot of money from small donors, because that surprises people because everybody thinks the republican party is the rich, elite. booker, i think he is a lightweight. warren, controversies are going to dog her and i don t think
state of texas have an anti-gun, big government, pro amnesty, liberal democrat represented. now, i don t think those are the values of texans. reporter: republicans who have seen him campaign in the reddest parts of the state like tim o hare, a republican party chairman in tarrant county, aren t nervous. i know democrats like to think they got a chance and they do this every two years. beto is going to lose. the same song, different dance. reporter: beto o rourke knows making punk rock mainstream in texas isn t easy. but he ll head out on the road again, hoping to make it happen. now, despite the recent fund-raising push, ted cruz does have about a million more dollars of cash on hand than beto o rourke as they both head into the primary. they re both expected to win here tonight, setting up the general election race back later this year. we reached out to senator ted