neil: well, may not look like but the heat is on in iowa. the presidential candidates are making a mad dash to the finish line. six days to go as a fierce winter storm is cancelling events today. but not much could keep caucus goers today. the only thing weather related that could affect turnout is a really bad ice storm that would prevent people from driving there. we have 1,657 precinct sites. nobody has to travel a long ways to get to those caucuses. minus 6 degrees, that s a walk in the park for us. neil: so he hopes. so forget the freeze and focus on the money. nikki haley and her supporters betting big as she surges in new hampshire. busy day. your world now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. so fast and furious that six days to go to iowa and polls tightening and people wondering, is all of that money being put to good use by nikki haley? still too early to tell for sure. grady trimble following it in a snowy des moines. grady? neil, the candidates are braving the we
the country, including a former president, was the subject of a hearing today in a federal courthouse in washington, d.c. attorneys for donald trump and federal prosecutors argued over trump s claim that the federal election case against him should be dismissed because everything he did in the postelection period was in his official capacity as president. the three-judge panel that is hearing the case appeared spectacle of that claim. the ex-president and jack smith were in the courtroom today. trump has been claiming that president joe biden has been forcing him to appear in court, which is not true, he did have no obligation to appear at today s hearing. trump s attorney argued that allowing the prosecution of donald trump would, quote, open a pandora s box, but the judge has pushed back on that and many of the arguments he was making. trump s lawyer also argued that the president could only be prosecuted if he was impeached and convicted by the senate first, no matter what
plus, clock ticking. the economic impact we are already seeing as the president and house speaker try to avoid a historic default with just days to go. and former president trump set to appear via video today in the manhattan hush money probe. but is he already facing more trouble in another case? this is a fake story and you don t want to give it credibility. one thing you i have no idea who the hell she s a whack job. e. jean carroll seeking more damages after those comments made during a town hall. ahead, the legal peril piling up for trump. we re going to begin with the breaking news in washington. a driver is under arrest and a nazi flag seized after a u-haul truck crashed into the white house security barriers. a law enforcement official tells nbc news that the suspect made threatening statements about the white house. joining us now, nbc s ryan nobles and jim cavanaugh, retired atf special agent in charge. ryan, what exactly happened, what are you learn
that florida governor ron desantis will challenge donald trump for the republican presidential nomination. it comes on a day the company he has targeted, disney, decided to hit him with a billion dollar blow. i ll have more on what disney just announced shortly. but on desantis run, sources are telling cnn he ll be filing the paperwork next week. he had a call late today with donors and supporters, and a new york times reporter listened in. i m going to read a quote from that new york times story which begins with something desantis said on the call. you basically have three people credible in this whole thing, mr. desantis said on the call, organized by the superpac supporting him, biden, trump and me. of the two, two have a chance to be elected, biden and me. the times said he is basing that on swing state data which he describes as not great for the former president, quote, and probably insurmountable because people aren t going to change their view of him. which is
ceiling from 7,000 miles away, despite almost no tangible signs of significant progress and the president heading to japan, no one in washington or on wall street seems to be panicking, at least not yet. and significant concerns that the man in charge of protecting the country was apparently left without protection of his own. what we just learned about the late night intrusion at the home of national security adviser jake sullivan, one that his own secret service detail didn t know about until after the sullivan himself found the man wandering around inside. we start with abortion access for millions of women being decided in realtime today. the fate of the so-called abortion pill heads back to court just one hour from now. in north carolina the republicans voted unanimously to override the governor s veto and shrink the window for abortions from 20 weeks to 12. same story in nebraska where the new ban was folded into a bill on transgender care for minors. it s expected