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arguments used by donald trump to fend off the cases popping up cross the country challenging his place in the 2024 ballot. it is an existential threat to the one thing that donald trump sees as the way out of all his legal problems, winning the presidency. a brand-new brief to the supreme court alongside other prominent lawyers like george conway, michael luttig calls for the justices to take the 14th amendment very literally. they say, quote, because section 3 emerged from the hall...

the move also comes as janet yellen met with the chinese ambassador ahead of her visit to china this week. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellin is heading to beijing and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds two top economies deteriorated earlier this year. her goal is to study the relationship but she has her work cut out for her. ahead of her visit beijing said it was imposing export controls on two rare metals es...

beijing. china has slapped export controls on two rare metals used in the manufacture of semiconductors. the move by the chinese ministry of commerce targets the metals gallium and germanium. china is a major producer of both. from august, exports of these metals will require a licence. michelle fleury has more. us treasury secretary janet yellen is headed to berlin, and hers is the second trip by a cabinet official to china since ties between the worlds two top economies deteriorated ...

Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of rand...

america. they spend millions of dollars in iowa trying to sell what they were selling in florida, this entire woke agenda. they are causing attacks on the lgbtq community. i make it clear that if governor desantis went across florida with this agenda, it will not work. i knew floridians would want to rejected. they rejected donald trump and theyre going to do it again. they rejected ron desantis. i know that this was going to happen. i will tell you this, people are not buying what the...

host begins right now. e msnb host begins right now. >> >> good evening. welcome to tonight special coverage. im rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and lawrence odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. i friends chris hayes and alex wagner and stephanie ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. its going to be fun. were less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa. theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddl...

♪ ♪ . happening now. theres majora breaking news out there for the republican presidential nomination. a source now tells cnn that chris christie is dropping out of the race. we are standing by to hear directly from him live this hour in new hampshire. we will bring that to you as soon as it begins and all this comes as the final republican debate before the iowa caucuses are now just a few hours away right here on cnn. nikki haley and ron desantis preparing to face off tonight ...

>> good evening from new york, and the end of yet another day. good evening from washington, anderson, and yesterday was yet another first. courtesy of the first president ever to be impeached twice. the first ever to be found liable after leaving office for sexual abuse, and the first president ever to face state felony charges. today, donald trump -- i have a new, one donald trump while speaking in the first ever to be arraigned in federal court on felony charges. >> 37, in all i kno...

today donald trump also -- those are three. i have a new one. donald trump also became the first ever to be arrested and arraigned in federal court also on felony charges. >> 37 in all, and i want to put them on the screen. they include 31 counts of willful retention of national defense information, three of withholding or concealing documents in a federal investigation, plus false statements and conspiracy to obstruct justice. were showing them because for all the spectacle this is wh...

strategy. were going to bring you brand new reporting from inside the campaign. im dana bash. lets go behind the headlines and "inside politics." we start today with breaking news on who qualified for cnns iowa debate next week. last before the caucuses. the deadline to meet the polling threshold just passed, and our political director david chalian joins me now. david, who made the cut? >> as you noted, the deadline just passed and actually the window of qualification started way ba...