Host begins right now. E msnb host begins right now. Good evening. Welcome to tonight Special Coverage. Im Rachel Maddow here at the msnbc mothership with my colleagues joy reid and Lawrence Odonnell and jen psaki and ari melber. I friends chris hayes and alex wagner and Stephanie Ruhle or are gonna be joining us later. Its going to be fun. Were less than a week out from the republican president ial caucuses in iowa. Theast eye or a public can debate is underway tonight with oddly a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five republican president ial candidates. Taking part in that debate. If you can, right now, name all five remaining republican president ial candidates at the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. And ill say you need to get out more. Two are debating tonight. Nikki haley and ron desantis. Also tonight, two miles away from that iowa debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate, who, of cours
tonight s special coverage. i m rachel maddow here at the and messam busy mothership with my colleagues joy, read and lawrence o donnell, and gems, aki and all remember. great to have you all. here our friends chris hayes and stephanie ruhle will be joining us later. it is going to be fun. we are less than a week out from the republican presidential caucuses in iowa, last i when public debate is underway tonight with oddly, a sort of random selection of two of the remaining five people for presidential candidates taking part in that debate. if you can, right now, name all five remaining republican presidential candidates off the top of your head without looking anything up, congratulations. also two of them are debating, tonight nikki haley and ron desantis. also tonight, two miles away from that final hour debate, fox news conducted a live town hall with the front running republican candidate who of course has refused to participate in any debates at all of this year, but
carley: the battle is officially on, all three republican presidential candidate hitting the airwaves to bash each other four days out from first contest of the presidential primary season. we have chaos now, look today with hunter biden going into congress and just sitting down and the bedlam caused. today you have chaos. no drama, no whining, getting results and getting them done. i don t think president trump is right president to go forward. i appreciate what president trump did. be honest, he said he would build a wall and did not do that. he said he would drain the swamp, he did not deliver that. carley: you are watching fo fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. brooke singman will break down major moments starting with the former president s town hall last night. brooke. brooke: former president trump took part in the town hall in iowa and took aim at president biden and his opponents. watch this. look at joe biden, bedlam. a man who
policy! find out if you re sitting on a goldmine. call coventry direct today at the number on your screen, or visit coventrydirect.com. ainsley: it is the 8:00 a.m. of fox and friends on the east coast, it is 8:00 a.m. with 40 seconds, today s date is thursday, january 11. steve: 2024. it is the end of era for new england patriots, the team is going to part ways with long-time coach bill belichick after 24 seasons. lawrence: wow. plus former president donald trump taking on top issues last night during fox news exclusive town hall in iowa. and chris christie back on his good side, heopted out of the race. he said this about nikki haley on a hot mic. she will get smoked, you and i both know it, she is not up to this. lawrence: governor nikki haley joins us live to respond. todd: and are you struggling to keep up with new year s resolution? celebrity fitness trainer jillian michaels is here and pumped up. final hour of fox and friends unless dana perino and bill
on the taxpayer dollar. carley: id ask you a big question with 30 seconds remaining i m sorry to do it. thank you so much for doing it. fox & friends starts right now. steve: thank you very much, carley, it is #:00 a.m. here on the east coast on this thursday, january 11th and this is fox & friends. carley: that s right. coming up former president donald trump taking on the top issues last night during the fox news exclusive town hall in iowa. is chris christie back on his good side now that the former new jersey governor has dropped out of the race and said this about nikki haley on a hot mic. she is going to get smoked. you and i both know it. she is not up to this. i have already started to like christie better. [laughter] [cheers] plus, another scare in the air. a flight makes an emergency landing after an open door warning lights up less than a week after the alaska airline mid door panel blowout. brian: i m going to take the train. plus, hunter bid