test for republican candidates to begin a march toward the gop nomination for the white house. you re in the faulkner focus. the action starts at 7:00 p.m. central. 8:00 p.m. eastern. iowans will gather in community centers, churches and school auditoriums. 1600 locations across the state. top republican candidates with event after event today crisscrossing the state in the lead-up to tonight and some have been to all 99 counties, vivek ramaswamy went twice 99 times two. going by recent polling former president donald trump could come away with a record breaking victory. former u.n. ambassador nikki haley is hoping all the recent attention plays out for her today. florida governor ron desantis is in a battle with her for second place now. it s not over, of course. there is that line about the fat lady singing. it is not over until it s over. the candidates with last-minute jabs over the weekend. we re already moving up in the polls. everybody else is moving down. we see t
this, i don t know what the gunman s problem was, his motive, but it country mental health that killed these people. it was an automatic rifle with bullets. i m a gun owner, i have guns. former police officer, army officer, but these ar-15s, they have to get off the streets or this is going to keep happening. condolences and prayers won t bring these people back. we need action at the federal and state level for better gun control. i m saying that as somebody who loves guns. what texas is doing in a big-time way, we are working to address that anger and violence by going to its root cause, which is addressing the mental health problems behind it. we know that texas had been lagging in addressing mental health for years, and that s why, over the past three sessions, we ve added almost $25 billion to address mental health. we re in the waning days of a session right now where we will be adding even more funding. yeah. it s just really, right now, there are law enforceme
down. it is now falling from the sky. bill: that was an incredible moment only seen live on this channel from over the weekend. american f22 shooting down the chinese spy craft off the carolina coast. the air ship dead in the water. political fallout has just begun. hope you had a great weekend. monday, bill hemmer. nice to see you. dana: a good catch-up already. we ll fill you in as we go along. i m dana perino and america s newsroom. remarkable over the weekend. president biden s decision to shoot down the spy flight drawing a heated response from china. beijing saying it is an overreaction and threatening to retaliation. they insist it was a machine used to track the wets. the pentagon says that s not true. the unmanned aircraft came from mainland china. first defected january 28th over alaska. made its way through canada crossing into northern idaho on the 31st when the white house says the president was first briefed on it and gave the order to shoot it down when
Days. By the time his backup person, his deputy secretary, Kathleen Hicks was told. She was vacationing in Puerto Rico and that was not until he went back in the hospital. So there was some time before she was even told of the situation and in not much detail. His chief of staff, were told, was caught up in some sort of communications, i dont know what they are calling it. He had the flu is what we learned about that person. The secretary of defense is going home from Walter Reed today. Another new low in approval for President Biden is fueling more concerns about his reelection bid. The latest Abc News Survey has him at 33 approval. Ouch. The lowest for an incumbent in more than a decade. Even the liberal media are asking can he turn things around . Thats historically low. Low for him, low for an
35 past the hour. a live look at the white house as the sun has yet to come up over washington. two weeks after he officially announced his re-election campaign, polling shows president joe biden s approval rating has hit a new low. in the latest washington post /abc news survey, 37% of registered voters say they approve of the president s job performance. his lowest figure for that poll since returning to office. but there are also some troubling numbers for biden s most likely opponent in the 2024 general election, donald trump. in the survey, more than half of all voters say trump should face criminal charges for his alleged efforts to overturn the 2020 election. his role in the january 6th insurrection and for his alleged mishandling of classified documents after leaving the white house. despite this, the survey shows