jesse: no. you were booked. bret: thank you. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. we are come to you tonight live from bedford, new hampshire where citizens here and throughout the state have been voting all day long in the first of the nation primary election of the 2024 presidential cycle. former president donald trump had coming in to this day a commanding lead in the polls while on the democratic side president biden is not even on the ballot here. we will go over what we re learning from our fox news voter analysis, the early version in just a few minutes. but we have fox team coverage. bryan llenas in concord, new hampshire is following the nikki haley campaign. correspondent alexis mcadams starts us off from nashville with team trump. gogood evening, alexis. we did have a chance to catch up with the president here on the ground in new hampshire. he feels good going into primary night and feels like he has a lot of support here in the granite state. i asked him
ron desantis dropped out a couple hours after last week s program after canceling interviews with me and other sunday shows. and then pundits pressing nikki haley why she was still running in new hampshire? look at the media saying oh, this is donald trump s to have. look at the political class all coalescing saying everybody needs to get out. howard: if they wanted the republican race over this minute. msnbc looking at exit polls kept talking up haley s chances. fantastic news for nikki haley s campaign in terms of her chances that night. howard: it took 13 minutes after the polls closed for fox and nbc followed by cnn to declare donald trump the winner. on iowa caucus night rachel maddow boasted msnbc would not air one word of a trump s victory speech because there was cost to us as news organization for unairing true things. msnbc flopped after critics like me called this blatant censorship. we ll see how it goes. this is decision one we consider to be open-ended liv
second trump presidency. the first clips of that will roll out this hour on the lead. and leading this hour, nikki haley has a bit more momentum with ron desantis now out of the race. but are desantis voters willing to back her? or are they going to side with the gop front runner? chris sununu will join us this hour. first we start with kristin holmes in new hampshire where trump is expected to speak tonight. kilie atwood is in salem, new hampshire. a big three days for donald trump. he picked up the endorsements of former competitors, tim scott, ron desantis. what is the trump campaign s message? has trump spoken to desantis since danys dropped out of the race yesterday? yes. that s what we ve been hearing from senior advisers all day. they want the message to be that republicans are coalescing around donald trump. that s what you ll see tonight, when tim scott, vivek ramaswamy take the stage with donald trump. republicans are joining together. these were my opponents. n
when you win iowa and you win new hampshire, they ve never had a loss. we are not going to be the first, i can tell you. mike: for president trump tightens his grip on the republican nomination, a solid victory in new hampshire s primary bolstering the likelihood of a rematch between president biden later this year. but mr. trump s g.o.p. rival making it clear she is far from throwing in the towel. at one point in this campaign there were 14 of us running. and we were at 2% in the polls. well, i m a fighter. [cheers and applause] and i m scrappy. and now we are the last ones standing next to donald trump. [cheers and applause] mike: hello. i m mike emanuel. gillian, great to be working with you. gillian: and i m gillian turner in washington. continuing special coverage, the first in the nation presidential primary. nikki haley, donald trump duked it out in today s showdown, but in the end you might have noticed it was not even close despite putting a lot of time and
morning. i needed somebody to pull me up. judge jeanine: did they have to pull you by your legs? bret: they did. see you, good night. good evening. i m bret baier, 800 a day. that s the number of known got-aways at the southern border as texas officials and the biden administration continue to babletion battle over the border crisis. this comes as washington lawmakers try to reach a deal on dealing with the influx of migrants coming across the border. we have fox team coverage tonight. chad pergram on capitol hill as congressional republicans really turn on each other over the immigration legislation. but we begin with correspondent dana marie nickel with the latest. good evening, dana marie. we have new numbers from the southern border shows a stunning number of migrants slipping through border patrol on a daily basis. border patrol sources tell fox news there s been nearly 100,000 got-aways at the border so far this fiscal year. that s an average of 800 migrants p