The Iowa caucuses are just around the corner and the Republican front runner is setting a pattern for the year moving between the campaign trail.

We're winning tremendously here.

And the courthouse.

I don't know that we're going to get a fair ruling.

This is a sham.

As Trump manages a flood of personal legal challenges,

the current president is dealing with the rest of the world,

struggling to thwart Iran's ambitions and

Russia's and China's as well. Everything we've done diplomatically and

militarily has been designed to to keep the tensions down.

Next.

This is Washington Week with the Atlantic.

Good evening and welcome to Washington week. We're going to range far and wide

tonight from courtrooms in DC in New York to Iowa caucus halls and rebel

camps in Yemen.

Joining me to make sense of the world.

Josh Gerstein is the senior legal affairs reporter

at Politico.

Steve Innskeep is the host of NPR's Morning Edition

and the author of Differ We Must,

How Lincoln succeeded in a divided America.

Nicole Killian is the congressional correspondent for CBS News.

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