[applause] good evening and welcome to iowa, where in just 34 days, caucus goers here will cast the very first votes of the 2024 presidential race. we are live at grand view university and des moines for cnn s town hall, with florida governor ron desantis. i am jake tapper. and right now, the presidential hopefuls are furiously campaigning to win over republicans here in iowa, it s a state that can make or break presidential candidates. governor desantis has visited all 99 of iowa s counties, and he won the endorsement of the state s popular governor, kim reynolds. but, he is facing steep competition from his rivals including the republican front runner, former president donald trump. tonight s event is about the voters. governor desantis will have the opportunity to answer questions directly from the iowans in this room, on the issues that will help them determine who wins the republican nomination. i will have some questions of my own, but this is not an interview, th
with less than six weeks until the iowa caucuses four republican hopefuls not named trump try to set themselves apart. good evening from new york. hello from the spin room here on the campus of the university of alabama in tuscaloosa. site of the debate, 2024. it is wrapping up. chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy once again the former president did not take part. nikki haley, who has been rising lately as a contender in some polls and in the eyes of some campaign watchers and certainly in the eyes of some big donors came in for she had a lot of criticism heading towards her tonight from desantis and ramaswamy. no doubt that. i know you will be speaking with some of the debaters tonight. look forward to that. pamela brown is checking the facts. gary has his focus group of voters in iowa. and our political panel here. first, a moment from the debate stage. a clash between chris christie a vivek ramaswamy with nikki haley it in the middle. you
12 hours from now, a long hope for a truce will take effect in the israel-hamas war. it is scheduled to last for only four days, but in that time, hamas has promised to release 50 hostages and israel is going to release 150 palestinian prisoners and allow more aid into gaza. the deal was negotiated by the kingdom of qatar, and the spokesman is hopeful that with this deal hostilities will stop. we are hoping that we don t see any delays, and we have reached a point now where everything is in place, and we are ready to go on the ground, so we are hopeful that as i told you by 7:00 a.m. tomorrow, everything will stop. the first hostages are set to go free 4:00 p.m. local time tomorrow, and that is 9:00 a.m. eastern, and that is going to include 13 women and children. and the government has notified their families. becky anderson is in doha, and can you walk us through the outlines of the deal? yeah. here is what we do know. at midnight eastern time, which is 7:00 in the mo
marking in spectacular fashion the birthday of king charles. he is 75 today. the first of the slits is happening right now, this is what we are watching at green park next to buckingham palace in central london salutes. this is the king s troop royal horse artillery that have been given the honour. it is a working day for the monarch today. there are other things on his schedule today. he will officially launch the coronation food project with queen camilla to bridge the gap between food waste and food need. he will also visit surplus food distribution centre outside london and later on today, he will host a buckingham palace reception highlighting the work of the nurses and midwives over the decade as part of the nhs 75 celebrations as well. one thing that has been widely reported that was broken on the bbc is we are expecting the king to be wish to happy birthday by the duke of sussex at some point today. to be wished happy birthday. we think harry will call his fathe
i thought the debate was terrible. trump ex-manning on lies and continues and biden didn t show well. did anybody last night watch a thing called a debate? but remember the biggest problem for our country is not joe biden s personal decline, it s that joe biden s policies are causing america s decline. i think biden is good on the issues and i think he s had a hard time communicating them. the former president did a great job of responding and not reacting to the a lot of people want him to bow out. neil: is it time for joe to go? hard to say but after a wobbly debate. more indeed are saying it and they re urging president bide ton leave the race. new york times editorializing the right thing for aging president to do. the great lady just the latest and clearly not the last as a condo line of left leaning newspapers and columnists urging joe to go and deputies to do something and fast. thing is joe ain t going but, man, are people around him talking and wait till yo