. today on inside politics, a courtroom stunt. donald trump is stepping away from the trail and choosing to sit inside a new york city court right now. the reason is pretty simple. he thinks it s the best place to boost his campaign. plus, four days left. nikki haley and ron desantis are crisscrossing iowa after facing off in our heated cnn debate. they were quick to fire off attacks on each other, but did they spend enough time taking on the far and away front-runner? and hunter biden is heading to a los angeles courtroom today to be arraigned on federal tax charges, as the white house worries his legal troubles could lead to more political troubles for his father. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we begin in new york where closing arguments are under way in donald trump s civil fraud trial, with hundreds of millions of dollars and the future of the trump organization on the line. the former president is inside the courtroom right now
today on inside politics a cold campaign reality. blizzard conditions in iowa mean chaos for republican candidates trying to reach every voter they can. the crucial question, how much will the dangerous weather impact turnout on caucus night? plus, firing back. president biden ordered airstrikes against iran-backed rebels who have been firing at commercial ships, fuelling fears that the middle east could be on the edge of an all-out war. and, i don t hate her. that s the faint praise some iowa republicans are giving nikki haley. we will hear what some voters are really thinking in a brand-new focus group. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in iowa, which is under a blizzard warning today. it is freezing there. now, i m sure you re thinking, duh, it is january. obviously it is cold in iowa, but this is different. it is brutally cold. historically cold. so cold that iowans are being told not to even take a step outside, and it
an extreme movement of america, the maga republicans led by a defeated president is trying to steal history now. they re trying to steal an election. now they re trying to steal history. we have an economy that s so fragile, and when there s a crash i hope it s going to be during this next 12 months. trump is expected to attend as a three-judge appeals court panel decides if he can be charged with election interference. and i feel that as a president you have to have immunity, very simple. the question is who s afraid of nikki haley. the answer is donald trump. that election trump lost it, biden won that election. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day, and i think president trump will have to answer for it. and that brings us to today, thursday, january 11th where donald trump is expected in a courtroom yet again. this time in a last ditch effort to save his business empire from the fallout of fraud. meanwhile, his two top republican rivals bat
been such an oversized figure and issue in the race has in some ways prevented these candidates, even this late in the campaign cycle, from really getting out to voters, like painting a clear picture of this is what i am about and this is what my candidacy is about in the way that we saw like chris christie be the anti-trump guy. i think we saw that really vividly at the cnn town hall that you moderated, where at the end of it if some voter who hasn t been really tuned in but watched that debate, did they come away with it, with a very clear picture of what nikki haley s candidacy is about or did they come away thinking, okay, she is the candidate who was talking about the desantislies.com website over and over again. the thing i find fascinating about the super pac ad is, look, there s no way anybody in this race beats trump unless ultimately all of the voters have reservations about trump coalesce behind them. there s an ad that humiliates
donald trump and she wasn t able to do that until the end of the debate when there were helpful questions that brought the two of them out a little bit. we tried at the beginning on donald trump, but they weren t going there because they did seem so determined to take one another down. and you just have to look at the url, the website she mentioned like more than a dozen times. let s just give you an example. you can go to desantislies.com and look at all those. go to desantislies.com. desantislies.com. and the enterprise. go to desantislies.com and you ll see it. it s documented on desantislies.com. go to desantislies.com and you can find out for yourself. it is desantislies.com? i think it might be. it is something we remember. listen, i think nikki haley is a very good debater.