mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are preparing to take questions from iowa voters live here on cnn. we re setting the stage for our back-to-back town halls with donald trump s top gop rivals. i ll speak with chris christie this hour. also tonight, newly released documents reveal that they spent millions of various trump-owned property while he was president. we re following the money trail. isis is now claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly explosion. how this attack could impact wartime tensions in the middle east. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. behind me are live pictures in des moines as they will soon appear in back-to-tack town hall events. let s go to kristin holmes, live from sioux city in iowa. with the caucuses only is 1 days away, what are we hearing from the c
well, what i want to do is make sure we re using u.s. taxpayer money to support an ally, as in israel, which is one of our closest allies, that we do so in a way that make sure u.s. interests are protected and our ally s interested are connected. i do have deep concerns about prime minister netanyahu s approach. it s netanyahu and the war council that have decided to approach this in a certain way. we know how to fight terrorism. we have learned some really hard lessons over the last 20-plus years, and some of those lessons that i learned is this. you just can t cut the head off the snake. if you treat this as a snack and do what you call decapitation operations, you can t just cut off the head of the snake. they re more like hydras. you cut one head off, and it sprouts three more.
new threat, experts say, are classic kim. designed to show a command presence. but they also reveal a dictator rattled by the relationship between the u.s. and south korea. a statement released shortly before the photos rails against the u.s. and south korea for their joint military exercises planned for next month calling them suicidal. along with what north korea calls the introduction of ultramodern weapons by south korea, that s likely a reference to south korea s recent purchase of f-35 jets from the u.s. this is a stealth plane that can often go undetected by radar which experts say strikes at a particular fear of kim jong-un s. north korea believes that it will allow south korea to conduct decapitation operations that takes out the north korean leadership and can do so covertly without giving north korea a chance to conduct a retaliatory second strike. while experts say north korea s latest missiles launches
five-minute walk. horrible attack, 20 people killed. now we have seven times that number, perhaps eight times that number killed here in the span of just one year. it is a big deal as we know and popping up in a number of countries. we get to the u.s. strategy. you have what can be an unfortunate timing saying that friday morning isis is contained. i spoke to the white house, again, today. he did say to be fair. he was talking about in iraq and syria it is contained they stop their advances there. and it is true, you have those kurdish forces moving to sinjar recently. but the fact is, it s only contained except in the areas it s not con inthatted, right? it s not contained in lebanon and so on. and the white house said to me, listen, we ll have good days and bad days. but when you compare those two. yes, two successful decapitation operations. but in the last week, you had three very deadly isis attacks beyond their borders. but in the least to refer to what happened here. well,