candidates ready to take it on. we can t wait for that one. south carolina senator tim scott is here. former texas congressman will hurd is here. one is a lock for the debate. the other is getting close. guess who else is stopping by? none other than the chairman of the president s council of economic advisers. republicans might be pounding inflation these days, but jared burnstein has a question for them. what inflation? what a show. it begins right now. welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. so glad to have you. get ready for a lot of this. yeah, even in the case of iowa, we re still a half a year away from all of this, all of these boxes, so little time to get to that. to rich edson on why you would never know this thing is still half a year away. rich? neil, feels like caucus time. it s about 50 degrees warmer now. several of the republican presidential candidates are in iowa over the next few days. florida governor ron desantis is scheduled to campaign across seven iowa
today on inside politics, a jury of the former president s peers. it is jury selection day in georgia. soon, whoever is picked will make a historic decision whether to charge donald trump with trying to sabotage the 2020 election results in georgia. and a deal for one ally, a diss from another. turkey relents and says yes to letting swede sboon the natun i alliance but ukraine with the big demand for respect and entering nato now and not later. plus, bad blood, donald trump said he has problems with iowa s governor. and another deep cut, we just learned that the front-runner will skip the headline event for iowa gop voters. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. and we start with grand jury selection in georgia. that panel is expected to consider charges against donald trump and his republican allies for trying to overturn the state s 2020 election. fulton county district attorney fani willis launched the investigation in 2021, shortly
today inside politics, the gop finds votes to come out on top. republicans pass a crucial bill that assures the u.s. is ready to fight wars, and they did it after putting a deliberate conservative stamp on it. jared kushner under oath, new report ing reveals that prosecutors ask the former president s son-in-law, did donald trump believe his own election lies. and iowa decides in six months. the countdown to the caucuses is on as donald trump decides to play hooky and skip a big summit. his bet, who needs iowa when you have mike tyson. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, kevin mccarthy can keeps the republican family mostly together to win a culture war battle. last hour, the house did its job and cleared a must-pass defense bill. the final vote tally was 219-210. if that seems really tight for a bill that sets military policy, it is. the sennarrow margin is thanks a very heated back and forth over controversial add-ones to the
happening now, president biden is on his way back to the united states after a final round of talks with allies here in europe. he s touting the nato summit as a success and declaring that vladimir putin and i m quoting him now, already has lost the war in ukraine. also tonight, defense secretary lloyd austin tells me he has no doubt ukraine will join nato after the war ends. stand by for all of my exclusive one-on-one interview with secretary austin here in lithuania. the pentagon chief also telling me that gop senator tommy tuberville s hold on u.s. military promotions is a national security issue. and breaking news we re following right now. donald trump s son-in-law and former adviser jared kushner has testified before the federal grand jury investigating 2020 election interference. our correspondents are working the story. they re getting new information this hour. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer in vilnius, lithuani
segment on the infamous chinese spy balloon. gillian: well, attorney general merrick garland has made a significant decision now about the investigation into president biden s son. house republicans are pressuring garland to make multiple people involved in the investigation available for transcribed interviews. so far, garland is not giving in. david spunt joins us from the justice department tonight hi, david. hi, gillian, good evening. we are waiting to hear what that decision is from the attorney general. i m told a decision has been made. there are still some discussions going on and a response is being worked on. perhaps we are waiting for that to get over to capitol hill before we can actually see a copy of that written response to a request for the attorney general to make roughly a dozen people connected to the hunter biden probe available for transcribed interviews. house judiciary chairman jim jordan oversight chair james comer and ways and means chair jason