registered republicans. do you know that trump only received a little over 56,000 votes? and iowa, iowa is lily white. it s unrepresentative of the country at large. we re a diverse nation of over 335 million, a small number of iowa voters should not determine our destiny. and besides, the iowa field was still too crowded. when nikki haley finally got him one-on-one in new hampshire, she was able to keep it close and received about 43% of the vote. and worse for trump the independents in new hampshire supported haley in huge numbers showing that trump could never win a general election, so why should haley drop out? candidates only drop out when they run out of money and nikki has the money. she s raised 2.6 million since the new hampshire primary, and the super pac backing haley raised 50.1 million in the last signature months, that s about 5 million more than the pac backing trump. and don t forget. he s four times indicted, anything can happen. after all, just yesterday a
she goes around the edges, it wasn t the right president at the right time. that doesn t seem to be a response to him or insulting her. personally worse than that mike, she is not responding to new hampshire voters you know a hell of a lot more you reported on new hampshire primaries candidates, who are supposed to be surging dealt council debates, and refused to answer bogus questions you know joe, of all the primaries that we ve ever held whatever president you re talking about, new hampshire is still is always will be, fun. fun for the candidates. fun for the media, fun for the people. you can sum up the magic of the new hampshire primary, with one story. the late great, mo running for president, he s on the ballot with several of the democrats, the year with 76. he walks into a barbershop, he s shaking hands, a fellow says to him, he who says i would like your phone. the fellow says to him, i m thinking about it, i ve only met you twice. that is the way new hamp
that s why they re sending all these democrats in to run. it s crazy. it is not personal for me. i have no you know, people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i don t care about that. i think politics is too personal, and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with different approaches about talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire, while ron desantis has his sights on haley s home state. we ll have more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest on the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. we ll go through yesterday s meeting at the white house between president biden and speaker mike johnson. also ahead, another concerning escalation in the middle east as pakistan launches a retaliatory strike inside iran. good morning. welcome to morning joe.
ruling against rudy giuliani, a sum that will bankrupt the former mayor of new york city. his attorney said it is basically a death penalty for him, an economic death penalty. plus an update from capitol hill on foreign aid negotiations, the package which would provide critical funding for ukraine. it s been held up by republican demands for stricter immigration policies. but it looks like there s progress there. might be some. we ll get analysis on the biden administration s push to get israel to scale back its war in gaza, what s going on there. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. former state department official, elise jordan. politics nation reverend al sharpton. and presidential chair at vanderbilt university, historian jon meacham is with us. so let s get to it. at a rally on saturday, donald trump again used the language of 20th century authoritarians while separately praising this country s
the white house pushing israel to adjust rules of engagement after the idea of accidentally killing three hostages the idf. new gripping accounts from hostages formerly held by hamas, their horror while in a captivity including dodging airstrikes from israeli forces, plus in america targeted again, more than 200 eight bomb threats and swat calls, swatting calls in one week alone. what law enforcement sources are telling cnn about what is being done to track down those responsible. as donald trump claims immigrants are poisoning the blood of america, cnn s underthings trumps defense of a man convicted in election interference crimes once best known on twitter for racism, anti-semitism, homophobia and worse. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start, top biden administrators suggesting israel needs to change its approach, more than 10 weeks into the war. u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin met with his counterpart and israeli prime ministers benjamin netanyahu d