iowa countdown. with a week to go, gop candidates barnstorm iowa. there is a new day in america. without chaos. i m running for your issues. pretend we re one point down. and battle for democracy. facing political head winds, president biden hits the campaign trail with an allout focus on donald trump. democracy is on the ballot. as trump tried to flip the script. joe biden is a threat to democracy. will the strategy work. mike pence will join me from tel aviv, israel. and then congressman james clyburn. plus health scare. lloyd austin facing criticism for waiting days to tell the president and the public he s in the intensive care unit. how serious was his illness and why was it kept secret? hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is once again just shaking our heads. we re eight days from the iowa caucus, one day past the january 6 attack on the capitol and donald trump is dominating the political conversation in the only way he
that is a good thing. they are running, i think, campaigns evolve, as they do, in re-election, where you have the third year, they re focused on closing out the third year and segue into the fourth year where it is all about the campaign. they have a good campaign that they re building in wilmington. they have a strong structure in the white house. they ve spent a lot building up state parties. i m not super worried about the infrastructure or their planning that they re doing. i think that is all moving in the right direction. and i also think once it is 100% clear that it is donald trump who is the nominee, and as clyburn mentioned this, he s the nominee and then biden the nominee, i think these polls will look differently. so amanda, it is just not folks like brad would don t think that the message from biden is a good one. it is republicans who are possibly more like carpenter republicans, mitt romney an example. he said, quote, i think the
threat to democracy pitch is a bust. january 6 will be four years old by the election. people have processed it one way or another. biden needs fresh material rather than kicking a dead political horse. that is from new york times. that is an amanda car penter republican. i think i m a more of a liz cheney than a mitt mitt repu than a mitt romney republican. it is significant. it is significant that someone like mitt romney is saying that. and h and he engaged in there are people trying to put the hard tough issues away that usually come from a place of good faith. i think they re making the wrong call. campaigns usually have traditional issues. economy, president s age and immigration. so many people want to go back to that world because it is safe
heather: is being held without bail in murder charges. a car penter arrested for flying drone. emergency crews force today land all aircraft and called when he started circling a plane that was fighting the blaze. police say that he posted those drone views on his website leading, of course, to his arrest. it is illegal be the way to drone interfere with emergency crew, that makes sense. todd: another attempt of latest launch after calling it quits seconds last night. ten, nine we ve had an abort and the countdown sequence. heather: the launch called off due to apparent glitch in the