campaign that the governor will be traveling to south carolina right after the iowa caucuses instead of going to new hampshire, which is tradition. apparently he wants to target nikki haley in her home state and send a message that he is serious about beating her there. he will have a campaign event in greenville, south carolina and then he will travel up to new hampshire. bret? bret: that is interesting. as far as logistics. aishah hasnie, thanks. democrats are not caucusing this election cycle in iowa. but there is speculation. one democrat may pose a challenge to president biden. west virginia democratic senator joe manchin. he may be exploring a third party bid. correspondent mark meredith has details tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening to you. senator joe manchin certainly appears to be testing the waters for a third party presidential bid. tonight the group no labels, which is tease ago unity ticket is actively to get itself registered in dozens of states.
g.o.p. rivals. former president trump kind of swinging for the fences. towards him as he is in the big lead take a listen. donald trump was president for four years. he did not make a dent in the administrative state. he did not make a dent in draining the swamp. that s just the reality. the only way we get out of this if reelect a new conservative leader can t do that with biden or trump. if you think they will let donald j. trump get anywhere near that white house again, i m just going to ask you bret: well, you know, it is something in the closing days, the latest poll is the suffolk poll i put up the rcp earlier. there is movement here, it is still, byron it, is the former president s. it doesn t you know, it depends on who shows up. it depends on who gets out to the caucuses. but there is a big lead here. this lead just appears to be
when the time comes. one analogy that we have used sometimes is we are effectively building a launching pad. if we offer our ballot line to the unity ticket they got to build the rocket ship to take themselves. not everyone is thrilled with the idea of no labels jumping in. former house speaker nancy pelosi blasted group back in november suggesting they could jeopardize president biden s re-election chances. no labels says they will announce their plan publicly by about mid march. bret? bret: okay, mark, thank you. stocks are mixed today as earnings season begins. the dow lost 118. the s&p 500 gained 4. the nasdaq was up 3. for the week the dow gained a third of a percentage point. the s&p 500 finished ahead almost two. the nasdaq 3. the state of texas takes over federal property in an effort to deal with the border crisis. we will have a live report from the border. first, here what happens some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 29 in buffalo as
bret: speaking of the message of deterrence, harold, the biden administration has been making that message, the president has been making that message about the middle east for a long time. take a listen. any country, any organization, anyone thinking of taking advantage of the situation, i have one word. don t. any state or non-state trying to take advantage of this tack israel, don t. anyone thinking about trying to take advantage of this atrocity, to try to widen the conflict or to spill more blood, we have just one word. don t. bret: but, harold, they did. first off, thanks for having me on and happy friday. i think by ron touches on and remarks by the president and some of his deputies. demonstrate two things. one, we want to ensure that we
i m bret baier. we are just a weekend away from the first voting in the 2024 presidential election cycle. we will check in on iowa ahead of monday s caucuses. and we ll speak with iowa senator joni ernst. plus, how iran s so-called ghost armada is helping skirt sanctions as americans endure a tax from iranian taxies. and plenty of complaining from congress after uneventful briefing on ufos. but, first, breaking tonight, president biden says iran backed houthi rebels are terrorists. this goes against current u.s. policy changed by the biden administration. the houthis have already responded to yesterday s airstrikes against facilities in yemen with new attacks today. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight life from the north lawn. good evening, peter. peter: good evening, bret. pentagon officials believe there will be some sort of retaliation for last night s strikes. we know the houthi rebels have already launched at least one