presidential election. the first american election with a front-runner indicted for conspiring to steal the last one. dividing his time between the campaign trail and the courtroom. i think he s got a lot going on. i think the d.c. circuit will rule against him. in the frigid cold. the coldest in modern history. temperatures so low, they bring new meaning to the term negative campaigning. republicans in iowa will make their choice. donald trump is a threat to democracy. tonight, special election coverage, with joy reid, chris hayes, alex wagner, ari melber, jen psaki, lawrence o donnell, stephanie ruhle, plus campaign experts and steve kornacki with results and analysis at the big board. once every four years the big one. msnbc s special coverage of the iowa republican caucus, the start of the 2024 presidential election, is right now. and here we go. ready or not. time to stop worrying about it. time to start actually doing it. good evening. i m rachel mad
the virus latest strain powers a covid comeback. reporter: i m danya bacchus in los angeles where new restrictions could trigger a requirement to mask up. all-star spotlight. the wnba s biggest names gather while brittney griner s detention in russia takes centre court. and later, the stones still rolling after 60 years. the band this week marking the anniversary of their first performance. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thanks for joining us on this sunday. we begin tonight with new developments from that january 6th committee investigating the capitol attack and what many have called an attack on american democracy. so far, the committee has held six hearings. and this week, we could see the final two. the back-to-back hearings will focus on white nationalist groups and what former president donald trump was doing as he capitol was under siege. today we re learning new information following friday s c
affidavit could compromise the ongoing criminal investigation. it s been eight days since that unprecedented fbi action and we know that doj filter teams have combed through at least some of the contents retrieved from trump s home. we know this because doj returned trump s passports, three of them, in fact, that were found among the materials that were taken away by the fbi. we ve been tracking all of this for the past week. katelyn, what can we expect to happen at this hearing on thursday that has been called by that florida judge? reporter: alex, this hearing is going to be all about secrecy, and especially the arguments that the justice department is going to make to keep secret this very important document that backed up that search of mar-a-lago last monday. remember, that document, it s an afte affidavit. it s only been seen by the judge so far outside of prosecutors and investigators. and it s a narrative that would detail everything that has happened in this invest
Calling on a judge to stop donald trump from continuing to claim fbi agents were involved in a plot to assassinate him during his search of his maralago home during the classified documents investigation. Trump made a suggestion in a Campaign Fundraising email and has been repeated by conservative media outlets. Late friday, smith filed a notion in judge Eileen Tenants court saying, those statements create a grossly misleading impression about the intentions and conduct of federal Law Enforcement agents falsely suggesting that they were complicit in a plot to assassinate him smith added that the false statements expose sba agents, some of whom will be witnesses at the trial, to threats of harassment. We have reporters covering all of the developments for you. We will begin with julie sirkin on capitol hill. Julie, welcome. The prosecutors request is different from a gag order, but what exactly are they asking of the judge . Reporter this is a first, let me just say, alex, in this case
cyprus and luxembourg six each. remember, they don t sit according to nationality, they sit within broad international groupings. there are seven groupings in all the left, the greens, the socialists & democrats, renew europe. renew europe is the liberals. then comes the biggest group of them all the centre right european people s party, to the right of them the european conservatives and reformists, and then on the hard right, the identity and democracy group, in which marine le pen s meps will sit. so, let me show you the first projection issued in the last half an hour. you will see there the big gainers are definitely the hard right. it is only an early projection, this, but the losers on this chart very much the losers on this chart very much the greens and the liberals, which include emmanuel macron s renaissance party. neck, when you look at that chart, what do you see and what are the implications of it? i what do you see and what are the implications of it? what