well, thank you for joining us today, the lead with jake tapper starts right now. donald trump, nikki haley, new hampshire, tomorrow, the lead starts right now. can you hear that sound? [ cheering ] that is the sound of a 2 person race. and then there were 2, nikki haley hanging on as the lone candidate taking on donald trump, facing a uphill battle going into tomorrow s primary, and john king with his all over the map series, asking trump loyalists why they are so eager to vote for him again. nearly a year since a freight train crashed at palestine, ohio, how people feel about promises to make sure they re not living amongst a dangerous toxic site. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper, the 2024 lead, the final hours before the first of the nation primary, new hampshire voters, going to the polls, setting it for the november presidential election, only 2 major republican candidates left, nikki haley is making her last minute pitch in five campaign events, trying
candidate doug burgum joins us live after former president donald trump says that burgum could play an important role in a second trump administration. there s a few reasons why he might make a good v.p. pick. we ll talk to him in moments. stick around for that. first, no labels seeks to give voters another ticket to choose from if the matchup is once again trump v. biden. not surprisingly, they re riling up both parties with this effort. now they re asking the doj for an investigation to what they say is extortion and racketeering to keep them off of the ballot. the alleged conspiracy to stop no labels is a brazen voter suppression effort based on the evidence that we have submitted to the united states department of justice. martha: this will get interesting. that is no labels national co chair benjamin chavis. he will join us in just a moment. stay with us for that. first to mark meredith with the back story on this from washington. hi, mark. that is quite a back sto
now. have a good day. steve: hello, everyone, 6:00 a.m. in new york city. you are watching fox & friends first for this wednesday, january 17th. welcome aboard. ainsley: from campaign foe to friend. vivek ramaswamy at a trump new hampshire rally. could a cabinet position or even the veep job be in his future? lawrence: pushes for are to be thrown out. prosecutors say cocaine was brian: house floor? ainsley: i thought he said he didn t do drugs? i wonder what happened to the white house cocaine have we looked into that. white house climate caesar snaps. john kerry confronted over climate hypocrisy. why do you think you are more important. your carbon footprint doesn t matter but everybody else around the world. nobody ever suggested that nobody ever suggested that don t make up stupid questions. being here suggests that. stupid question. brian: why is it a stupid question and telling everybody else to stop using oil and gas. fox & friends starts r
iowa caucuses and instead of being in iowa, the front-runner, donald trump was in court. using the civil fraud case to grandstand before the judge sent him fresh off the cnn debate and income i haley and ron desantis debated in iowa as he tries to sway any possible votes their way. joining us now republican presidential candidate asa hutchinson, the former governor of arkansas. thanks for joining us. i want to get your response to something donald trump just said outside the courtroom in his civil fraud trial against him. take a listen. my legal issues, every one of them, every one, civil and the criminal ones are all set up by joe biden, crooked joe biden. this is something that s never happened in this country. even the civil ones, this civil and they re set up by biden. every single, just about case that i m involved in they re doing it for election interference. obviously, there is zero evidence that president biden had anything to do with the civil suits or the prose
and election night victory? plus, dangerous defense. donald trump says a lot, we know, but nothing quite like what we heard this week to a federal judge. re-upping a frankly murderous claim from his 2016 campaign. and in his first and only tv interview with western media al jazeera s gaza bureau chief wael al dahdouh tonight on his mission to keep reporting despite losing his wife, sons, daughter, and grant some two and israeli airstrike. and he s got something to say president to joe biden. i m ayman mohyeldin, let s do it. t minus 48 hours. exactly two days from now, at seven pm on monday evening, iowa caucus goers will make their voices heard in the first in the nation gop primary contest. they re going to do it amid possibly life-threatening blizzard conditions, with temperatures in areas across the state expected to be up to single digit negatives, a chill the state has not expressed and at least four tickets. nevertheless, finally, after months of debate and polls