neil: are you ready for this? one week till iowa and the heat is on. ron desantis and nikki haley duking it out in the hawkeye state. donald trump continueses to hold a commanding lead there. team trump is ramping up its attacks on haley. that has some folks wondering what has him nervous. desantis supporters chip roy here to say don t count out my candidate, ron desantis. get ready. your world starts right now. i m neil cavuto. and let s get to it. we ve got aishah hasnie in des moines, iowa where things are heating up despite an arctic blast. at least it s not just constant blizzard conditions like it was for you earlier. how are things there now? i like that music. we re going need that to get us through the next couple days. it s going to drop to one degree by the time we hit caucus night. that will be a problem possibly the weather to make sure some of these folks get out there and caucus for ordinary candidates. today the weather was a problem. a lot of folks had
about. alexandria hoff joins us. it was virginia, maryland, people in d.c. what the heck was that noise. yeah, there was a bit of panic. you saw it social media on social media. people captured it on their home cameras in the d.c. area there can be reason to be concerned when you hear something like this. let me say, this is a story that would have been heart breaking all the same had this this plane simply and quietly crashed in central virginia. pilot list flight thousands on the ground they heard that boom and knew something had gone wrong. [explosion] some say that it shook their home. according to norad the sound came after f-16 jetsy scrambled and authorized to travel at super sonic speeds. intercept a private aircraft began to breach the airspace around 3:20 p.m. the pilot of the cessna unresponsive crashing before 4:00 p.m. in central virginia according to state police. now here is fox news jon scott also a licensed pilot speaking to the plane s unusual flight pa
colorado supreme court shakes up the 2024 presidential race. donald trump is ineligible for that state s republican primary ballot. we ll have expert legal analysis on the ruling and what could come next. meanwhile, the former president is doubling down on his disturbing rhetoric about immigrants, using more language that mirrors adolph hitler s speeches to nazi germany. plus, congress leaves washington all without passing a foreign aid bill, leaving critical funding for ukraine until next year. we ll break down the chances they can get a deal done once they return. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 20th. i m ali vitali in for jonathan lemire. in a historic decision the colorado supreme court has ruled donald trump is disqualified from hold office again after determining he engaged in insurrection in january 6, 2021. the 4-3 ruling reverses a lower court decision and effectively keeps the former president off the state s ballot unti
i think we need somebody that can win and get the job done. neil: to be fair, i ve never known a candidate that might be considering a running made position saying yes, i would run for that right now if i could. what did you make of his answer? yeah, it s not surprising. we know ron desantis is trying to knock nikki haley off of the second place perch. it s safe to say at least at the national level and in new hampshire and obviously south carolina nikki haley is running second to donald trump. ron desantis wants to regain that back at the national level and he wants to maintain that second place position in iowa. it s not surprising to me that he would brush that off. we ve heard nikki haley say the same thing that i don t play for second. so these are two candidates that are really trying to remain laser focused on the next couple contests ahead. they don t want to make it seem like they re not in it to win
florida governor ron desantis and former un ambassador nikki haley. polls suggest former president donald trump is firmly in the lead in iowa, where a caucus will happen on the 15th, and in new hampshire which will hold its primary on the 23rd. 0bservers think haley and desantis are in a battle for second place with haley repeatedly facing questions about whether she would be trump s running mate if asked. nbc news correspondent dasha burns put that to her on friday. i have said i don t play for second. i i have said i don t play for second- i have said i don t play for second. . ., second. i have said i m not t in: second. i have said i m not trying to second. i have said i m not trying to be second. i have said i m not trying to be both second. i have said i m not trying to be both present l second. i have said i m not. trying to be both present for anyone. that should be enough. i am running for president. six months from now, i am i am running for president. six months