first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa, with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
william la jeunesse is in tijuana, mexico to assess the conditions there jacqui heinrich at the white house with the latest from the biden administration. but we begin with correspondent bill melugin in brownsville, texas again tonight. good evening, bill. bret, good evening to you. cbp sources tell me in the last three days in a row, border patrol has made at least 10,000 migrant apprehensions. those are the highest daily totals ever recorded. fox is also told in the coming days we can expect to see the largest wave of mass releases the u.s. has ever seen. back to in the mexican border city of reynosa thousands of haitians have gathered ahead of title 42 s expiration at midnight. the change in policy means for the first time in over three years, border patrol will lose the ability to quickly expel migrants back to mexico in an already historic border crisis is expected to get worse. here in brownsville, evidence of that crisis is on full display. images from a fox dron
revolution live from new york. holding the first hearing on the origins of covid. millions dead trails of dollars wrapped up in so much pain and suffering i don t know how many times i have to say this in media understand the point wuhan china is where the crime took credit for 25 china of course hold them accountable for letting the virus cover-up that the central question we must face is what leaked from the wuhan had in my was that there? the first to ask inevitably it can comes to the conclusion. that it s not the china virus if anything it is the fauci virus. establishing that is not a political or personal vendetta but doing all we can to make sure again and again. it is the us government not just the chinese regime. was causal for the pandemic and to be clear with those rogue elements to broke the rules put in place by the obama and trump administration and commissioned the reckless gain of function research which is still the only tool with the origin of the former h
dumped nearly two feet of show. you re encouraging your supporters to brave the elements. but the national weather service said travel of any kind is very hazardous. well, iowa is doing a great job of clearing the roads. we ve been doing events we did events all day yesterday. we were traveling around. obviously, we want people to be safe, but we will be there to help people, if they need. we ve already arranged rides for a lot of folks. this is just something that s important. people want to be a part of this process, and what i ve said is, you re probably never going to have an opportunity to have your vote count more and pack more of a punch than in this iowa caucus. last time in 2016, i think there were 186,000 people that participated. a lot of people thought even before the weather there may be less this time. now with the weather, it could be significantly less. so we re telling our supporters that you go out and bring