state, and gave us the first tangible look at where republican voters stand right now. and tonight, iowa republicans delivered a resounding victory to donald trump, nothing hugely surprising there. but we re gonna still talk about what that means. with me here at the table, all-star panel, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and as i always like to say, my old boss, david plouffe. and the host of the weekend on msnbc, michael steele, simone sanders townsend, and alicia menendez. everybody is working very hard over the last couple of days. nbc news can project that donald trump will exceed 50% tonight. we can also project that florida governor desantis will finish second, which is a bit surprising coming into tonight. we will bring you any updated numbers as soon as we get them, and we will stay closer to the decision desk, and of course, the one and only, steve kornacki. the field has also one candidate smaller tonight, vivek ramaswamy announced he was dro
it s one a. m. here in new york, midnight in iowa, and a very first test of the 2024 republican primary season is now complete. joining me now at the top of this hour, former obama campaign manager, msnbc political analyst, and my former boss david plouffe, former rnc chairman and co-host of the weekend, michael steele, former communications director for jeb bush 2016 campaign, and now writer at large for the bulwark tim miller, and former communications director for president obama jennifer palmieri. now, tonight in iowa, nbc news projected that donald trump won the caucuses with more than 50% of the vote. his numbers really cement the four-time indicted candidate status as the front-runner. we already knew this. but in the republican field, the race for second place, it had a bit more drama with nikki haley and florida governor ron desantis locked in a dead heat for most of the night. but as awkward as he may be at times, and he is awkward, desantis did put in the w
We have breaking news out of oakland this morning, one person has died in a house fire. Now, firefighters responded to an alarm around midnight at 103rd avenue and 4th streets. Smoke was coming from the second story of the home when they arrived. One person was taken out of the house and pronounced dead at the scene. Right now the cause is under investigation. A sunnydale man is facing two counts of vehicular manslaughter and dui after hitting a car with four women inside. They had just left a late night holy thursday mass off Great America parkway in santa clara. Abc 7 News Reporter katy mar sul lo tells us the victims included a mother and daughter. Reporter jeff says his 92yearold grandmother angela was devoted to her religion, angela, two of her daughter and niece were out going church to church for the stations of the cross, an easter tradition. They were leaving our lady of peace around 8 30. They say a 36 of drunk and speeding. He hit the women head on. Hes charged with felony d
Update islington profile. I doubt anybody will hire him after this. Thanks regina yes. Lou good evening. Im lou dobbs. It has been just over 36 hours since radical islamic terrorists seized this natural gas complex in the eastern algerian desert gas fields. The house Syrian Government sent in its military to stop those terrorists tried to transport their hostages from the plant run by bp and the terrorists held dozens of algerian, asian, european, and american hostages. The government at this hour is reporting a special forces have completed their operation to free the hostages held by the terrorist group linked to al qaeda. There has been almost no independent reporting on the ground of what has occurred, the reported number of hostages ranging as high as 41. The number of american hostages as many as seven. The white house and state department confirming only the presence of some american citizens among the hostages, obviously relying principally on the algerian government for most o
Children safe. We believe that every parent ought to be able to be comfortable knowing that their children are safe and if that requires armed security, its as good for the working man as it is for the president. Joining me from washington is nbc news capital hill correspondent kelly odonnell. Linds yay graham, his im confident that there will be bipartisan opposition and then roy blunt says that this is the president trying to curbs the rights of middle class americans. Reporter certainly we dont expect anything coming from the republicanled house so the pressure really falls on the senate democrats. And what we expect is that when they come back next week, of course we have got the inauguration and then senior aides tell us they plan to meet with the democrats within the senate to talk about the president s proposals and to try to figure out what is their best plan of action. And what im hearing is what they may consider is should they take all of the ideas the president put forward