It is absolutely stunning. We just got thumped. I mean, i know that everybody got a lot of snow and this was a big storm, but i feel like somebody played a joke on me. Yeah. This is an insane amount of snow. I will pack some of it into cooler and send it to you. Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off which to me is are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. Its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charg
Rachel, you had Jim Rutenberg on talking about that New York Times article which is just amazing, and by the way, must be said, beautifully written. I think it may be the best written yeah. Of the trump investigative pieces. Andrew weissmann is going to join us on the same subject to pick up where you left off, which for me is, are there new crimes in this reporting that were looking at . Yeah. The times uses the very gentle word, extralegal. Does that mean illegal . Andrew weissmann is going to take us through it and tell us what he sees in that reporting. Excellent. And its really well timed. Tomorrow were going to see the response from the president s defense team, such as it is, to the Impeachment Charges and the Impeachment Charges are about him inciting an insurrection against the u. S. Government. And what rutenberg and his colleagues just filled in is a lot of the details about how they knew exactly what they were setting up. How they organized it and how it was a coordinated t
we thank you for your support. you helped us get a ticket punched out of the hawkeye state. thank you, iowa. we re going to continue on. we re going to make you proud, and we re off to new hampshire. the republican presidential candidates saying good-bye to iowa after the first nominating contest of 2024. we ll have complete coverage of the caucuses, which were completely dominated by donald trump. and how the results could impact the first primary in the race happening next week in new hampshire. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 16th, the morning after the iowa caucuses. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. and as expected, donald trump easily won the iowa republican caucuses last night. the nbc news decision desk projecting him as the winner just 35 minutes after caucusing began. trump ended up 51% of the vote, winning 98 of the state s 99 counties despite visiting only 15 of them. this career s republican ca
welcome to inside politics live from iowa. here we go. the first vote of the 2024 presidential election are tonight. after months of rallying, tens of millions in campaign ads, voters will finally have their say. and in the last few hours, candidates are scrambling to reach as many of those voters as possible. you have to get it done quickly. we have to set the stage. think of the fact that you might be making history in this moment. we are the nation s best days actually still be ahead of us. here in iowa, you have the ability to change the trajectory of american politics. tonight will come down to the one word we use each and every election day turnout. who can get the most voters out. the record-breaking cold weather here in iowa will make that even harder than ever before. take a look at the scene outside right now. subzero temperatures, dangerous conditions complicating travel to the caucus sites. 1,657 separate caucus sites across the state. it is a crucia
starts right now. martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum. live in des moines, iowa. this is the story. we re just hours away from our third big event of this week. tonight we will speak with former president donald trump as he heads in to caucus week, monday night, very important night for him. he will take the stage here this evening with me and with bret baier. that will happen at 9:00 p.m. eastern, 8:00 p.m. here in iowa. we have a lot more ahead on tonight s town hall as we prep and get ready for all of that. we re looking forward to it. first though, a shocker on capitol hill this morning. hunter biden showed up at a hearing, no one was expecting him. it was his contempt of congress hearing that was getting underway after he defied a subpoena from house republicans to testify behind closed doors. that s the general procedure before you do a public hearing. so here s how that went over both sides of the aisle. watch. you re the epitome of whi