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this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. >> it's decision time in the bitter cold heartland. >> iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. >> this starts here. >> there is no way iowa is voting against trump. >> the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. >> are you ready? >> will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? >> 2024 is our final battle. >> it's iowa's choice. tonight, after mo...

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 p...

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 polit...

piece of stripe gum. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. see you tomorrow. happening now, breaking news. closing arguments just wrapped up in donald trump's new york civil fraud trial. the former president taking his campaign to the courtroom, launching into a rambling speech before being cut off by the judge who urged trump's attorneys to control their client. plus, we're now in the final stretch before iowa decides with the first in the nation caucuses just four days away. nikki haley and ron desantis trying to capitalize on last night's heated cnn debate and c...

>> i'm actually al gore while i'm asleep also. >> what are you dreaming of, the white house? >> that was my college tour with al gore at lehman college back in 2002. college tours have been a feature on "hardball" since the show first aired on msnbc back in '99. let's take a look. >> welcome. we're at memorial auditorium here at stanford university. from george mason university in virginia. live from chapman university in southern california. live from the university of albany. live from the citadel. from fordham university in the bronx, new york. live from the university of denver. the univer...