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bob dole won by 12 1/2 points in 1988, all right? you see the numbers there? democrats were well above 50%. republicans were well below 50%. the poll from last month mid-december fox business. this is where we have donald trump at 52% easily dwarfing the number of ron desantis as 18% and nikki haley at 16%. when you are watching monday night a big story whether or not trump gets above or below 50%. see how it goes. steven law senate leadership fund president and phillip, a former hillary clinton advisor. haley seems to be making a move. is it significant enough for monday? >> two things increasingly obvious. one is that donald trump has continued to have a commanding lead in the polls. he has got a great base and effectively and incumbent and
breakout moment with republicans in wisconsin. >> first of all, it's very hot here. it will hit 99. the problem with eight candidates on the stage is they have 12 1/2 minutes to have the breakout moment. donald trump is not there. so i will be watching to see how effective chris christie is, who is the -- i think the ultimate political performance artist. obviously, i will be watching ron desantis. is he going to be able to be human? is he going to be able to be funny, effective? is he going to be able to turn his campaign around? i think that would be the biggest surprise of the night if he was. i think there's going to be a lot of shots aimed at vivek. he has been rising. for someone like nikki haley, it's a risk-free way of using her stilettos to go after somebody who is not part of the maga cult of personality. i think that you are going to see a lot of shots thrown at an
sexual assault charges after more than 12 hours of deliberation. nbc's ali arouzi is live with the latest. as always, good to talk to you. what more do we know about the verdict and spacey's plans now that he has been acquitted? >> reporter: it was a month long trial, yasmin, and after that month of the prosecution and the defense presenting their case, the jury took 12 1/2 hours to come to their decision, and they found him not guilty on nine charges of varying sexual assault. some of the charges more minor. some of them very serious. kevin spacey steps in the glass dock in the courtroom, and he stood there and listened to nine not guilty verdicts being read out in front of him. he became very emotional. he started crying. he nodded towards the jury as a sort of a thank you for exonerating him. he hugged his manager, his legal team, and then he came out to the waiting press.
selma is live in london. so walk us through how the jury reached this decision? >> reporter: well not easily. as you mentioned, it took several days, 12 1/2 hours. in fact, they were required to come to a unanimous decision but when it was clear to the judge that that wasn't going to take place, he lowered the bar. he said a majority decision 10 out of 12 was enough and then the jury was able to make a decision in under an hour but it shows you one or two people were holding out. look, there youout this trial, kevin spacey has maintained his innocence. this is for him a day of victory. but these were very serious charges brought against kevin spacey by four men dating back to the early 2000s, in 2010, that means some incidents are nearly two decades old. and the prosecution tried in this case to paint a picture of a kevin spacey who took
in three of 11 killings on new york's long island, how authorities used dna from a pizza crust to identify the suspect. also, could soon be three people charged with classified documents case? maggie haberman joins us live. the heat, what is behind it, where it's worse, and the places that could soon set all- time record. good evening, thanks for joining us. 12 1/2 years ago the bodies of four people were found over several days buried near a remote beach on new york's long island. all four women murdered, wrapped in burlap. they were eventually identified as melissa bartholomew, megan waterman, maureen brainard- barnes and amber lynn castillo they were not the only ones. in the year that followed, investigators would uncover seven more sets of human remains across two long island counties. there were few clues, the case went cold. no arrests were made until now. tonight, the remarkable story of how authorities came first to suspect and then build a six count murder case against a 59-
had the resources in this instance, as well as the fbi. so we were physically surveilling him. and then we have ways of electronically surveilling people, which i won't get into. so we were, the combination of the two, we were gathering evidence, we felt comfortable but then we got to the point where the interest in gathering evidence didn't override our concern for public safety, given his activities. >> reporter: how much, in the 12 1/2 years, there has obviously been a lot of technological advances and changes in dna, how much did the technological changes in that timeframe have been instrumental and help? >> i think the thing that is really extraordinary about the case is the fbi, the cast agent , he did a phenomenal job. he really, back in 2012, he set
federal prison. a man named daniel rodriguez was sentenced to 12 1/2 years yesterday. he shouted, trump won, as he was sentenced according to multiple witnesses in the courtroom. rodriguez acknowledged attacking and seeing officer fanone before his sentencing but did not apologize. he insisted he believed a civil war was breaking out and he bleed guilty earlier this year to a host of charges including inflicting bodily injury to officers using a dangerous or deadly weapon. rodriguez also bragged about his crimes including his attack on officer fanone in an online chat room writing, quote, tase the "f" out of the blue. >> i mean i'll say it and i think it's been clear by the
of the people in the crowd while i was getting tazed they were stripping my gear off. at one point people started chanting "kill him with his own gun." >> reporter: fanone said he had a heart attack during that encounter. and today the federal judge overseeing the case rendered a sentence of 12 1/2 years in prison, one of the longest so far in connection with january 6th. calling rodriguez a one-man army of hate. two other men who helped attack fanone have been sentenced to over seven years in prison. rodriguez is one of more than 300 rioters charged with attacking law enforcement on january 6th. and among 1,000 arrested overall. fanone who testified and appeared in so many congressional hearings about january 6th was in court today to witness the sentencing. like i said, whit, he'll never forget. >> pierre thomas, thank you. next tonight, the supreme court's ethical practices in the spotlight again tonight. "propublica" is reporting that justice samuel alito flew to an alaskan fishing trip back in 2008 on a plane owned by a
that americans can't do this no matter what their political ideology and, you know, belief in what conspiracy theory, they can't storm the u.s. capitol. danny rodriguez was sentenced to 12 1/2 years. a bit shy of what prosecutors wanted. they want the 14 sentences. after the sentence was imposed according to mike fanone and multiple others in the room, actually when he was being led back this individual declared that trump had won, in fact, yelling that as he was being headed out of courtroom to spend the next decade behind bars by the u.s. marshals. he's sort of going down still believing the lies about the 2020 election as millions of americans do, and that's a message that i think the judge here really wanted to get home is that no matter your believes, you cannot do what this individual did on january 6th. >> ryan reilly thank you for that. meantime, there's been a violent attack in the occupied west bank, this time involving
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