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♪ ♪ ♪ welcome to the beach weekend. im ari melber. lets get right into the headlines. >> in the political world, is adjusting swiftly to the republican results out of iowa, which showed trump in the league. as we were covering that night with rachel. but half of that red electorate open to alternatives. the top two alternatives, which are two individuals separated by just under 3000 votes in iowa, are squaring off, there are high stakes in new hampshire. this is the more moderate...

administrations voice on the world stage. at the time he called her a proven deal maker and touted her joining his team. now shes the one candidate posing possible peril for trump and hes arguing shes so liberal no republican should pick her. >> we have an opportunity to get this right. >> i dont know that shes a democrat, but shes close. >> i trust you. i trust every single one of you. you know how to do this. you know iowa starts it. you know you correct it. >> shes far too close for...

it is the eve of the iowa caucus, the start of the presidential primaries, you may have heard. and im ari melber, with you right now for an msnbc special, a candidate slash defendant trump, reporting on his own -- clash of american politics, law, and how voters may assess the candidate, whose ear could end in the exalted oval office, or a small prison cell. that will depend on the outcome of several criminal trials, plus other cases. and -- the next person to track, and break it all do...

primaries, you may have heard. im ari melber, and right now for an msnbc special candidate slash defendant trump recorded on this unprecedented class of american politics. law, and how voters may is as a candidate who might and in the exulted oval office or a small prison cell. it will depend on the -- and other cases. we have special guests to help break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve of the primaries begin tomorrow. some of trumps rivals are now invoking trumps legal probl...

our special breaking news coverage on msnbc as donald j trump is likely facing his most serious legal challenge yet. today, we learned much more about the very serious federal criminal charges in involving his handling of top secret u.s. documents. today, special counsel jack smith released an indictment laying out the evidence against trump. nbcs laura jarrett has the details. >> new details on the stubborn move up the speed -- of a former president, also the leading republican challe...

its 4:00 in new york on a monday. an empire built on lies. that is how one veteran prosecutor describes the twice impeached disgraced ex-presidents family business. the trump organization. it is the linchpin of the image of a successful businessman that donald trump sold to his voters for years. but those are the words of mark pomerantz. youre going the hear a lot about him in the coming days. he is a former prosecutor for the manhattan district attorneys office, a man who spent a year...

Were candy and nuts, wed all have a Merry Christmas but this is what we have. And the intermediates and think about the republican party is, if you are in fact going to put partisanship as your central Organizing Principle. If Reflexive Partisanship is the most important thing i would argue that you need to go back and read george washingtons farewell address. You need to read the founders that otherwise, they love, they love the founders when they can move it around to agree with them. Its very...

To in the next nine or ten months or so, is replacing Reflexive Partisanship like my team, right or wrong with reflective partisanship. Partisanship is fine, weve been partisan you know, jefferson said we have been dividing themselves into parties since rome. That is okay. In fact, the constitution would not work without them as it turns out. Only voting because of a partisan label is in fact, i believe, undermining of the spirit of the constitution. The spirit of declaration of independence. I ...

Dont think theres a lot of people are confused. I just personally think they are wrong. They probably think that i am both. It is totally fair. I dont think that and again, i know youve had conversations. I live in tennessee, and so when i say i have conservative friends, it is redundant. They just have a different view. They have a different view of the things that and i dont think it comes from a place of malice. I really dont. I do think it comes from a place of reflexive partisanship. One of...

That the battles of -- were even more ferocious than the battles of vietnam. remember, world war ii started in europe in 1939. the united states did not get into world war ii, despite the mythology, until 1941, two years later. and we did not declare war on germany -- so, germany declared war on us. germany -- there was not a reading of the news of pearl harbor and then say, okay, we are declaring war on germany. it took several days. theres an old saying misattributed to churchill, that you can...