their final stops in iowa, talking policy and connecting with voters. but the candidates are also targeting each other. donald trump and ron desantis seem to be pivoting attacks toward someone who appears to be climbing in the polls. sandra: and that someone is nikki haley. she s been barnstorming through iowa today, and she will take a stop right there and join us live in moments. first, though, we have fox team coverage for you. lucas tomlinson is live in pennsylvania ahead of president biden s first campaign speech of the year and mark meredith will kick us off from the latest on the gop campaign. mark, is it all coming down to iowa? what do we know? certainly seems that is the case. good afternoon to you. former president trump is going to be crisscrossing iowa over the next 24 hours, holding multiple rallies trying to shore up his lead and trump is clearly focused on the first content ten days out, launching a new attack ad against president biden. under biden your
there s no way around it, that s just the best one. believe me, i ve tried it every which way, and it really doesn t get better than pete butt. but this would have never happened under my administration. people are saying i made the trains less safe. not true, okay? not true. i did a lot for trains. i made them bigger, faster, less safe perhaps, but yeah, perhaps you did. perhaps. saturday night live s take on donald trump s recent trip to east palestine, ohio. meanwhile, president joe biden says he doesn t have plans to visit the town devastated by the train disaster, and we ll have his comments on why. plus, the first lady seems to have given away the president s plans for 2024. we ll play for you what she said. also ahead, a weekend of deadly russian strikes in ukraine brings more attention to the debate over supplying ukrainian forces with fighter jets. and a new report from the department of energy on the origins of covid. good morning. welcome to morn
it looks like it will run dry within the next ten years. that would automatically cut benefits from 23% for every single american who needs those programs. medicare funding is vanishing even faster. the timing of all of this of trying to figure out what to do comes during a fierce battle that s happening in the nation s capital over spending. the debt growing precipitously. the stand-off between republican lawmakers and white house over raising the borrowing limits. democrats want to spend, spend, spend. republicans want to slash and save. speaker mccarthy says we had better find a way to check off the spending fast. i want to look the president in the eye and tell me there is not $1 of wasteful spending in government? who believes that? the american public doesn t believe that. our whole government is designed to have compromise, let s find common ground and let s eliminate the wasteful spending to protect the hard-working taxpayers and protect the future of america.
but what i think it s led to is sort of a paralysis by analysis situation at the biden national security council. i think we have to be willing to escalate a little bit more in order to sort of tamp down a lot of these forces that feel like they can take shots with impunity with the united states. john: like obama s line in the sand, he said this is a red line, don t cross it, and assad said watch. obama did not do anything. michael: and not just a black mark for the obama presidency and national security policy, it was a black mark for the united states, a black eye for all of us. looks like the united states will not live up to obligations. john: iran does not seem to be afraid of him at all, ok, so what we have done, we took out some rebels in syria, killed a number of them, we took out some
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