i m aishah hasnie. and they ll feast on a big banquet of barbecue. the main hall where the candidates will be speaking later today, but the g.o.p. presidential front runner donald trump not expected. rich edson joining us on the ground in des moines with a special guest. hi, rich. hey, good afternoon, aishah. the barbecue is coming a little later today. we ve got some speeches coming up and that includes senator tim scott who recently declared he would be running for president. senator, thank you for joining us this afternoon. it s a crowded stage, a crowded field. how do you break through? easily, the optimistic positive message when i take it on the road, people are starving for optimism as long as it s anchored in conservativism and you have backbone. and i have both and that s good news for the american people and the campaign trail. you ve talked about the positive message and explicit about it. what do you think of the tone from some of the other candidates so f
reconnaissance plane. during a security summit overseas, defense secretary lloyd austin saying the u.s. will not be bullied. we have late reporting from washington. the race for 2024 heating up. most top republican candidates minus donald trump descend on iowa, mingling with voters, trying to stand out as more gop hopefuls prepare to announce a run. rachel scott in des moines. the president signs the debt ceiling deal two days before the country could have faced its first of a kind default. what it means for the average american, and why the u.s. credit rating could still be downgraded. elizabeth schulze at the white house. the search for answers in two serious building collapses. what witnesses say about the connecticut structure that caved in sending workers 30 feet into the basement. and the newly uncovered 911 call in iowa describing a bulging wall the day before the collapse. a weekend washout for millions. remnants of a tropical system bring torrential rains to florida,
fairgrounds. we ll have speeches and behind us the former vice-president of the united states. mike pence is the only one riding in the event with senator joni ernst. pence is going to announce he s running for president in iowa next week according to sources familiar with the matter. a number of different bikes and got a couple of supporters here talking to us. they re going to be several, several candidates speaking later today at the iowa fairgrounds. you ll have florida governor ron desantis, former u.n. ambassador nikki haley, others like and we ve got all the bikes lined up with senators ernst who will be riding and pence walked up and switched out for a leather vest. they ll move on from here, a day of barbecue and speeches up there. this has been a pretty busy week and several candidates have been here and desantis kicked off his campaign here. former president donald trump was here, held a rally and had that town hall with sean hannity and they ve been going at each
but if you have lived through the last three or four years in this country should appreciate just how fragile our freedoms really are. our founding fathers understood this and benjamin franklin walked out of the constitutional convention he was asked on the street what have you given us a republic or monarchy? he said a republic if you can keep it. you can have the best constitution in the world you can have the best declaration of independence they do not run on autopilot. they require citizens in each generation to answer the call when freedom is under attack. so we are called upon to carry the torch of what george washington called the sacred fire of liberty. we are called upon to stand firm for the truth. we are called upon to be resolute in defense of the enduring american principles that mark us as a free society. here s what i can tell you i will do. if you support me and i earn the nomination to be the republican candidate, set your clock to january 20, 2025 at high n
like desantis, haley, pence, scott, for this fund-raiser. the bulk of the g.o.p. field will be here. before they come to the iowa fairgrounds, some campaigning to do across the country. you are going to see a lot of us in south carolina. florida governor ron desantis hits his third early voting state of the week, south carolina after campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. don t let anyone tell you they can do this in 24 hours or six months or anything like that. this is going to be trench warfare. ron desantis is responding to former president donald trump was arguing could break the country in six months. desantis says that the republican president would need to go consecutive terms to rein in government. trump wrapped his two day iowa trip with a town hall in des moines and responded to reports that federal prosecutors have the reporting of the present acknowledging that he had a classified document about about iran war plans. everything i did was right. the