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First: Trump wins in South Carolina, but Nikki Haley vows to stay in the running, while Trumps team shifts to focus on the general election campaign by painting a dark vision of President Biden’s America. Plus: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks out in a press conference as we move into a third year of the Russia-Ukraine war putting pressure on House Speaker Mike Johnson. And: Matt Gaet...

First: Two years after Dobbs, an Alabama court decision careens into the campaign trail Why the IVF ruling has Republicans searching for a response.  Plus: Ukraine's fight for survival against Russia enters year three with a significant battlefield loss coupled with fears of losing the financial support of its American allies.  And: Senator Elizabeth Warren joins the show live to talk about the IV...

First: The president tries to address his biggest political vulnerability, the crisis at the southern border, saying he's looking at new executive actions that could restrict asylum claims.  Plus: Nikki Haley answers a reproductive rights question with a riddle as she tries to straddle the fence on whether frozen embryos are people.  And: New Hampshire's governor and Haley supporter Chris Sununu j...

First: The Justice Department pulls back the curtain on a Russian operation to peddle false information about the Bidens and the informant they used to do it.  Plus: Alexey Navalny paid with his life for an enduring political protest against a dictator. Now, Donald Trump is using Navalny's name and story not to shame Putin but to shine his own reputation.  And: Wannabe future Trump officials build...

First: As today show begins, Nikki Haley is about to take the stage in South Carolina for what her campaign is billing as a major speech, promising to stay in the race even if she loses her home state.  Plus: New CNN reporting reveals the president's orders to his senior-most campaign staff: Ramp up how much they're spotlighting "crazy stuff that comes out of Donald Trump's mouth."  And: Former De...

First: President Biden pins the blame on Republicans for the fall of a Ukrainian city, while Donald Trump tries to make himself a martyr after the suspicious death of a Kremlin critic.  Plus: Joe Biden is facing a new call to step aside as a prominent columnist says he's a great president but shouldn't run again.  And: Brand new CNN reporting on why so many top Republicans are deciding not to run...

First: Trump is ordered to pay up. New details of his plans for a second term emerge as this unprecedented race takes shape.    Plus: World (dis)order. Trump and Republicans threaten to upend alliances and the stakes couldn’t be higher. And: Reality check. After a week of missteps, GOP lawmakers leave town. With a shutdown looming, what next?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices...

As today's show begins, President Biden is preparing to speak on the reported death of one of Vladimir Putin's top critics, Alexey Navalny. Vice President Kamala Harris has already been making the case that Russia is responsible.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: Democrats may be humming "New York, New York" after they picked up a key House seat.  Plus: Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan tells Dana Bash why he's running for Senate.  And: Could a judge's ruling effectively end Donald Trump's business empire?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: The special election to replace Republican congressman George Santos is on. We look at what this race means for a House that's nearly evenly divided and the tea leaves to be reading ahead of November.  Plus: An election denier and his daughter-in-law. That's who Donald Trump wants to lead the Republican National Committee, showing the all-but-certain nominee is tightening his vice and calli...

First: Donald Trump and his lawyers are behind closed doors right now meeting with the judge in his classified documents case. This, as the GOP frontrunner faces criticism on both sides of the Atlantic for threatening to throw NATO allies to the wolves.  Plus: RFK Jr. is apologizing to his estranged relatives for a Super Bowl spot that copied a famous 1960 campaign ad from his uncle, even though i...

First: The panel discusses the comments from the special counsel report and how they will affect Biden’s 2024 presidential re-election campaign.   Plus: Trumps campaign is not setting off as smoothly as he would like as he is called out for making controversial comments around not defending NATO allies and encouraging Russia to “do whatever they want” as well as negative comments questioning Gover...

First: Those eight words in the special counsel's scathing report about Joe Biden's handling of classified documents set off a five-alarm political fire inside the White House and sent the president himself into a fury.   Plus: Nikki Haley's trolling Donald Trump like never before and seems to be having some fun doing it.  And: This year's Super Bowl ads won't all be about drinking beer and buying...

First: Dysfunction, humiliation, and inability to govern. That's the most charitable way to describe congressional Republicans right now after a stunning series of mindboggling defeats. And minutes from now, the GOP will almost certainly torpedo the most conservative border bill before them in decades.  Plus: Nikki Haley loses Nevada's nonbinding primary even though she was the only candidate on t...

As today's show begins, we're expecting President Biden to speak about the bipartisan border bill that's on the brink of collapse. The bill includes a host of tough new border policies that the president says he'd sign, but Republicans are ready to torpedo it after Donald Trump came out against it. Dana speaks with the with the Republican who negotiated that deal.  But first: Donald Trump suffers...

First: We reveal the results of a new CNN poll about how voters feel about Donald Trump's multiple legal battles as the former president's delay tactics appear to be working on several criminal cases. Plus: Senate leaders unveiled the most substantial bipartisan border bill in decades. Now the Republican who helped make the deal is calling out his Republican colleagues for trying to torpedo it eve...

First, any moment now the leaders in the Senate are expected to release the final text of a long awaited bipartisan deal to address the crisis of the southern border. Despite remaining unknown, the deal has exposed massive fractures in the Republican party on an issue that Donald Trump wants to campaign on. Biden has endorsed the deal while Trump has tried to tank it before reading it himself. The...

First: President Biden travels to Dover Delaware to attend the transfer of three US soldiers killed last weekend and to meet with their families as their loved ones' remains are returned to US soil.  Plus: The first employment report of 2024 is out and it is much stronger than anybody expected. This as new exclusive CNN polling shows that voters are giving President Biden slightly more credit for...

First: President Biden is on his way to a must-win state trying to lock down key voting blocks that could give him an edge in that tight battleground.  Plus: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin admits it was wrong to keep his surgery for prostate cancer and subsequent hospitalization private.  And: The district attorney leading the Georgia election case against Trump is refusing to step down amid alleg...

Zuckerberg apologizes  In today's episode, social media CEOs are grilled during a contentious Senate committee meeting, prompting Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to apologize to parents in the audience who blame their children's exploitation - and even suicide - on Facebook. According to one GOP senator, "You have blood on your hands."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

First: President Biden announced he's decided how the US will respond to a deadly attack on American troops in Jordan, as fears grow that retaliating against Iranian forces could further ignite a region already on fire.  Plus: XI Jinping gave Joe Biden his word that China will not meddle in the 2024 election. We bring you exclusive, new reporting on their high-stakes conversation.  And: We explore...

First: A region reeling from war is ready for President Biden's next move as he promises to retaliate against those responsible for a drone attack that killed three US soldiers.  Plus: Donald Trump is pushing Republicans to abandon a bipartisan bill that they have been working on for months and deny President Biden an election-year win.  And: Nikki Haley tries to taunt Trump into debating her whil...

First, new details of the delicate border deal which Trump has immediately tried to kill, despite not even seeing the text. The major deal was just secured between President Joe Biden and a bipartisan group of Senators aimed at securing the southern border with Mexico. Next, Trump was at his Las Vegas rally yesterday, where Nikki Haley's attacks on his mental acuity have clearly gotten under his s...

First: As today's show begins we're about to find out how much Donald Trump will have to pay after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. It is now all up to the jury. We will have live updates from inside the courtroom.  Plus: President Biden dispatches his CIA director to help negotiate a deal to Israeli hostages kidnapped during Hamas' brutal October 7th attack.  And: The state of...

First: Donald Trump wants Nikki Haley out of the Republican race for president and is threatening to blacklist her donors. But the former South Carolina governor says she's not going anywhere.  Plus: Trump is back in the courtroom as a jury weighs how much he must pay in damages after being found liable for defamation and sexual abuse. Will he take the stand?  And: Still pushing Bidenomics, the pr...