hunter biden on capitol hill, pushing back on house republicans aiming to hold him in contempt of congress and calling him out from the committee room. coming into the oversight committee, spitting in our face, ignoring a congressional subpoena to be deposed, what are you afraid of? you have no balls. five days from the iowa caucuses, with front-runner donald trump going from the courtroom to the campaign trail and back again to potentially speak at his civil fraud trial tomorrow during closing arguments. all as ron desantis and nikki haley go head to head in a gop debate tonight. and our andrea mitchell joining us from tel aviv this hour, with more of her exclusive interview with secretary of state antony blinken. with 90% of gaza s population struggling for food and growing concerns of a broadening conflict. it is 11:00 eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. thank you so much for being here. jose diaz-balart will be up next hour. we begin with breaking news
snow to the mountains of idaho, areas of northern wasatch range will get some of that snow. we take this storm into tomorrow, it will start to push down to the plains. tomorrow is our break day, not a lot of bad dangerous weather out there. as we get through tomorrow evening, storm begins to intensify. thursday night into friday morning, the first severe thunderstorms will start popping up in east texas. we ll have our friends from texarkana to shreveport, back down here to central louisiana at risk. then we ll take the system on friday. friday is the peak day for this storm. that s when it is going to be the strongest with the high winds, the blizzard conditions possible back here through the midwest, and then the severe weather throughout areas of the south and maybe even tornadoes once again. it is kind of the same spots unfortunately we saw yesterday. maybe not the panhandle region, we ll give you a break, the panama city area. central alabama, montgomery here to macon, augusta, ce
them, now the pressure needs to step up to stop putin. hit his economy and cronies, hit more, hit hard, hit now. that was a tweet from the foreign minister. joining me now is the deputy national security adviser in the united states, thank you for being with us. hit more, hit hard, hit now. how do you explain to the ukrainian foreign minister why you are not hitting harder now? well, john, sometimes i wonder if there is almost a blood lust out there for sanctions unto themselves. we did hit hard yesterday. it was only a demonstration effect. we shut down a gas pipeline. we took out two of the major banks in the russian banking system that controlled $80 billion in assets. we cut off russia from western financing in terms of government debt, and we put on notice the oligarchy in russia that no one is safe, and there is a chilling effect now for any oligarch or crony or family members that
jesse: president trump hitting the trail hard yesterday, making his final pitch to voters. but the key is you have to go out there. democrats produce mobs. republicans make jobs. if you want more caravans, if you want more crime, vote democrat. together, we have made extraordinary progress, and we are just getting started. this is the greatest political movement in the history of our country. what you have done. the greatest. jesse: for more of what is going on at the white house, let s go to john roberts. jesse, good afternoon. first of all, look at this beautiful sunset right behind us here right outside of our lab location. isn t that pretty? waiting for the president to get into the election watching evening, which is what he is going to be doing. he has invited friends and
47-42. so we ll have to wait and see if this news, this bombshell which reignited the whole clinton controversy fred, whether that changes the dynamics of this race. both clinton and trump responded to this yesterday. any expectation about today, especially after a hillary clinton pressed james comey to come out with more detail asking for more about the investigation. i think we ll certainly hear from donald trump. he s in colorado today, out in golden, and he s going to make this i imagine part of his stump speech. he hit it hard yesterday. he tweeted this morning saying we have a big day today but nothing could be bigger than yesterday, a clear reference to this e-mail news. the clinton campaign trying to contain this and say we don t even know what these e-mails say. perhaps they re duplicates, perhaps there s no news here. the clinton campaign saying we re confident this will not change what the director said