[national anthem] will: well, good morning and and welcome to fox & friends on this sunday morning. there s your beautiful national anthem welcoming you in once again. will cain, pete hegseth, carley shimkus with you this morning. good morning. carley: how are you feeling after yesterday s cold plunge? a little shaky in the beginning and then you started to feel great towards the end, right, will? will: the shakiness was the anticipation. [laughter] you know, i told pete this, it was all abstract was the problem. like i ve been in a 60-degree something ocean before, and that s really cold, you know? so this was 45. that sounded like we were going to be turning to ice cubes. well, we kind of were. pete: it was cold. my wife asked me, why didn t you say anything? and, like, i think i was using all of my brain power just to control hi body. [laughter] i mean, i said a few things but nothing real coherent [laughter] or of any depth. carley: i can t believe you guys di
its closing arguments in donald trump s civil fraud trial after a dramatic scene in which the former president himself addressed the court. the judge had only allowed trump to speak on the condition that he focus on the facts but the president quickly veered into other territory claiming he is an innocent man being persecuted d the judge telling defense counsel please control your client. th former president has already been found liable for inflating properties to get loan deals. the judge will attempt to issue his ruling by the end of the month. yasmin vossoughian is reporting for us outside the courtroom in new york. vaughn hillyard is urbandale, iowa, also with us, renato, former federal prosecutor. somebody might argue at least in terms of drama donald trump s a tough act to follow. reporter: yeah, i think that person would likely win that argument. nonetheless, i think lee tee james has a lot in store. she is not likely to offer closing arguments to other attorneys.
colbert. good evening, reverend sharpton. always good to see. i ve been keeping abreast of your activities this week, and want to applaud you for your protest with respect to the pushback that we are facing around d.c. and i efforts across the country. but i do have a quick question for you. for a policy measure, what s it gonna take for us to actually move the needle and finally keep dni from having the attacks that it s currently facing? i think we must make cities, municipalities, states and others, say that the a.i. must be enacted if people are gonna get state city contracts are funds. these businessmen, when we picketed on thursday, i ll do business in the public space. they cannot do public space business with taxpayer dollars if they re not trying to make it an equal place for all. so we need to have politicians putting legislation and policy in place to protect dei. well, that protection doesn t start without any pressure. and so with that, reverend sharpton, t
second ahead of ron desantis, and for her given the expectations and given how frugal and careful she s been with the resources that she simply did not have at a time when ron desantis had so much more, finishing second here would give her some a different kind of momentum heading into new hampshire where polls show her very close, and it would effectively knock desantis out of the race as a factor. as you know in these early states, winning is everything. we know trump is going or we at least think donald trump is going to win big here in iowa, and there s a real competition for second. that s been very evident in how desantis has been treating haley, where haley has the luxury of saying, i got past desantis in iowa, now i can focus on trump. and the question is, dasha is showing us those pictures there, will that never back down ground game deliver a surprise for ron desantis that over performs the
headquarters in west des moines where all of these volunteers and folks are phone banking right now trying to make sure that those caucus goers are going to get out there and go. we know that the temperatures are not going to be kind on monday night. they re trying to get those precinct captains recruited. they already have more than 1,600 for the more than 1,600 precincts. those are folks in local communities that know their neighbors, going to get grandma and grandpa out through the ice and snow and the cold, and this is probably the closest, according to some of the operatives i talked to here, the closest that a republican campaign has come to replicating obama s operation that is so storied in politics. but this is also why if desantis doesn t have a strong showing, it could be a problem. they have knocked on more than a million doors in iowa, they have gotten the right endorsements, poured a ton of money into this. it s going to be hard to argue liability going forward, chris.