primaries, you may have heard. i m ari melber, and right now for an msnbc special candidate slash defendant trump recorded on this unprecedented class of american politics. law, and how voters may is as a candidate who might and in the exulted oval office or a small prison cell. it will depend on the and other cases. we have special guests to help break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve of the primaries begin tomorrow. some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be advantageous for democrats. the notion that somehow all of the stuff that is swirling around and it s good to be a positive in
record-low temperatures as they get ready to make their choice in the first nominating contest of 2024. chaos follows him. you can t just terminate the constitution. former president donald trump lead his rivals even as he makes some of his closing arguments from outside a courtroom. it s a witch hunt in the truest sense of the word. who will emerge as trump s biggest challenger. steve kornacki has the results of our final poll, and chuck todd will offer a guide on what to watch on caucus night. plus, smoke signals. chris christie exits the gop race, warning nikki haley will get smoked, but will he consider his own independent third party run? i am going to make sure that in no way do i enable donald trump to ever be president of the united states again. and striking back. the u.s. launches air strikes in yemen as tensions rise in the middle east. these strikes were very deliberate, very focused. while the pentagon s top official remains hospitalized and u
des moines, iowa. this is the story this hour. former president trump just held a news conference in new york city. the closing arguments on the other side of this equation are still underway in this fraud trial. the former president saying again today that he s innocent. he s done nothing wrong. watch. so they have no case. it s a shame that a thing like this is able to happen. businesses leave new york. martha: hunter biden on the other coast of the country, we re waiting for his arrival in court in los angeles on tax charges. one day after causing chaos on capitol hill when he showed up unexpectedly at his contempt of congress hearing as if he was open to testifying and speaking at the hearing except when he didn t like the way things were going, he stormed out. matt whitaker is standing by here in iowa where he s born and raised in iowa. let s go to nate foy, our correspondent covering the trump trials and he s in new york city on the latest developments in that today
temperatures to hold campaign events ahead of tomorrow s pivotal iowa caucuses. team coverage this evening, foxbusiness radio trouble is here with more on subzero temperatures and wind chills, i will congressman ashley is here to promote tomorrow s congresses the first, bill melugin with the latest from the campaign trail. good evening. tomorrow night i once from all across the tri-state are going to get up into bone chilling temperatures and pleading inside school gyms, churches, community centers where they will talk with neighbors and make the choice for president so let s talk about the latest bull, this is highly respected des moines register poll that came out last night and shows donald trump still bargained away front runner could begin at 48% but nikki haley is moved into a strong second-place at 20%. ron desantis at third, 16%. vivek ramaswamy at 8%. today donald trump held rallies where you reacted to the poll results. i don t have the same vast wealth trum
world. and welcome to this special edition of hannity countdown to iowa. ecial edn of hay the 2024 presidential election that will kick off in exactlym toni one week from tonight. we should have full results fromghhoull the republican iowt next monday, but don t expect anexpect ay from democrats withy complicated mail in voting system and the reshuffling of the democratic party s primary calendar . we won t get an official tally m for months now. of coursonths.e, barring a majop and fall, biden will almost certainly be thethe bi democratic nominee. the big question tonight, why joe biden has been a terrible president. his approval numbers show it. his show it. t doesn his cabinet doesn t even bother to keep him in the loop on major issueto keep n ths. no one even bothered to tell you a president joe biden and his secretary of defense was actually incapacitated in icu for several days. i m just wondering out loud well, what if we had a national emergency or some internati