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we have updates in the other special counsel's investigation. jack smith issuing more subpoenas in the january 6th investigation. this time, focusing on arizona. so let's get to it. joining me now is nbc news investigative correspondent, tom winter and nbc news justice reporter, ryan reilly. let's start with the top. walt nauta, finally getting a lawyer. finally pleading not guilty. walk us through what happened. >> it was a short hearing. the big news is he did get this lawyer, and essentially one of the reasons i think it's more difficult to find someone is because, you know, donal...

new york city in court for the first day of the damages trials in e. jean carroll's case against him. ♪ ♪ this morning all eyes are on new hampshire now after iowa casts the first ballots in the race for the 2024 republican presidential nomination. former president donald trump cruised to victory in the iowa caucuses winning by nearly 30%. >> and you can see ron desantis came in a distance second, narrowly edging out former u.n. ambassador, nikki haley. and then vivek ramaswamy came in fourth and dropped out of the race. >> and asa hutchison just announced he was dropping out o...

[inaudible] >> why do you ask such dumb question? >> jesse: it's actually great question. it's a question every single reporter should be asking. because, before we even knew joe biden was the big guy, before we even had the laptop a ukrainian businessman told an fbi informant that he bribed the big guy 5 million bucks. he used the phrase the big guy when joe was v.p., years before the nickname went public. and tonight we are learning the big guy was throwing his weight around. this alleged $5 million bribe wasn't so much of a bribe. it was more of a shakedown by the big guy, joe bid...

stretched for five years. and the source told the fbi about these conversations in june 2020. that's right as joe biden was wrapping up the democrat nomination. the burisma executive told the fbi's confidential source that burisma had to pay the biden administration for help getting rid of the ukrainian prosecutor who was investigating burisma for corruption. quote: 5 million for one biden, 5 million for the other biden, the burisma executive told the confidential human source. now, people who have seen the document tell us that the $5 million payments were a kind of retainer agreeme...

the critical meeting between president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. was any progress made ahead of the deadline? a judge has entered not guilty pleas on behalf of the man accused of stabbing four idaho college students to death. >> you expect the prosecution to seek the death penalty. >> i do. i do. explore new details about the 8-year-old migrant who died in u.s. custody. as cities like new york struggle to shelter asylum-seekers. >> those folks that created this mess over the responsibility to pay for this mess. ♪ ♪ >> norah: senator tim scott has officially launched...