votes will be tallied in a few hours in iowa. caucus goers and gop hopefuls will have to brave what could be coldest temperatures in decades. wind chill expected minus 30 or below through wednesday with 40 delegates up for grabs, every vote counts. i m harris faulkner here with emily compagno and kayleigh mcenany and editor in chief of t the federalist mollie hemingway and fox news contributor jason chaffetz. great to see you both. donald trump seeing his dominant lead grow and could break records. nikki haley making a final push in race for second place with governor ron desantis. aishah hasnie is live for us from a haley campaign event in pella, iowa event. you are right. nikki haley is trying to close the gap with former president trump. she was at another event in des moines earlier this morning. her message has been clear this is a two-person race and she s coming after trump. i would take donald trump over joe biden any day of the week, i ll make sure we don t hav
that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is
steve: thank you, carley and todd. good morning everybody, it s tuesday january 9th, 2024. come up this morning on fox & friends. president donald trump is in washington at this hour. three judges later today will hear arguments on whether he has presidential immunity in the federal election interference case that has been brought against him by the federal government. we got a live report in 25 seconds. ainsley: steve, we have a fox & friends exclusive. lawrence is down at our southern border. is he getting a firsthand look at the migrant crisis on the ground there and in the water of the rio grand river. brian: we haven t solved that crisis yet. plus, three s company. job interviews are apparently getting a little bit more crowded. yeah, i m sorry, who s this gentleman sitting behind you? hello, miss lady. miss lady? employers say i want to watch the rest of the movie. employers say gen z job seekers are bringing their mom and dad to job interviews. ains
steve: live from new york, this is the 8:00 hour on wednesday, january 10, final hour of fox and friends. white house reviewing cabinet protocol after defense secretary lloyd austin s secret hospitalization turns out president biden learned of austin s prostate cancer diagnosis yesterday, five days after the white house knew he was in the hospital much push for transparency ahead. ainsley: scomb new york city high school students forced to stay home and learn remotely today because migrants are in the high school and students are working remotely today. todd: unbelievable. journalist who works in new york city earns less to live in ohio and travel to ohio than living in manhattan. i commuted to d.c. this morning and i won t tell you how much it cost me. i will tell you this, last hour of fox and friends starts and your morning will continue if you continue to watch friends. ainsley: a fox weather alert. dead conditions from coast to coast. in the southeast fiv
the chain of command it was broken. why was it broken an how was that allowed to happen? he told everybody he was homeworking. he wasn t in the hospital. how did this happen? why did they think it wasn t important that the president of the united states or anybody else was informed? out of office. defense secretary lloyd austin leaving his bosses in the dark about a hospital stay at the worst possible time. all this happening while iranian backed militias hit u.s. forces overseas in syria and iraq. a mystery on our hands not solved yet. i m bill hemmer. hope you had a grand weekend. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it is baffling and the more i hear the more questions i ve had. we ll get to all of those. the strange saga engulfing the biden administration in controversy raising questions about who exactly is at the helm of the pentagon with so much at stake. bill: secretary austin went in for electrictive surgery before chris