maccallum had a town hall with donald trump where a lot of people were impressed with his command of the stage and the issues. he sort of reminded everyone that he s still, you know, that guy, right? he hasn t missed a step, at least that s what it looked like to me and many other people. take a look at joe biden this week in pennsylvania. just the opposite of that kind of performance. watch. my name s joe biden [inaudible] [laughter] [inaudible conversations] this is morgan sherman and sam [inaudible] they re our team members here. will: yeah. i pete: it s the look in the eye, it s the emptynd behind the eyes. will: yeah, i mean, honestly, that is so damning. that is so bad that i almost want to reel back the other way
ukraine. that s when you make your move, you know? this is like sharks sensing blood in the water. and if they think the united states is weak and distracted, that s when they make their move. rachel: yeah. and overextended. all great points. pete: kt, thank you very much for joining us. appreciate it. thank you. pete: all right. from the red sea and the suez canal to iowa because that, it will be the center of the political universe if two in two nights when the caucuses kick off there. as rick has been reporting all morning long, the weather s going sideways. it s going to be really, really cold even for iowa with snowstorms, and that means donald trump s canceled a few events, nikki haley s moved all of her events online, desantis events postponed. that doesn t mean they re still not making their final pitches to voters. here s a portion of what some of the candidates have been saying about caucusing on monday night. watch. i know caucus is going to be cold. i know it s going
but you re there with everybody hearing these speeches. by the way, quick plug, fox nation s going to be there actually in iowa city at the rachel: you re embedded. pete: we re going to be inside if the caucus, myself, tom bevan, charlie hurt and a couple of iowa act cysts just to give you an on the ground feel realtime, check us out just two days away. the polls have been real static with donald trump ahead, and something very dramatic would have to happen for that to change, but pay attention to if haley and desantis swap places, if haley s second and desantis is third, that s really bad for desantis will: because he s skipping new hampshire. pete: which means he would have two straight losses, and vivek has to overperform to get a little bit of momentum. it all still might be a whole bunch of nothing because if donald trump gets over 50% rachel: so last week our own bret baier and martha
permitting, obviously, the roads are dicey, but i think i packed every single turtleneck i own. iowans are hearty people, and if most importantly, they re united in firing joe biden this year. rachel: i think about some of the most reliable voters are elderly voters. also if you have an ev car [laughter] not a good idea in these kind of temperatures either. yeah, or i think it s probably going to impact it. but what are you hearing on the ground? if i mean, who, who do you think, i mean, the polls show donald trump is the clear winner. do you expect any surprises? if that s the we question will asked to some iowa voters. they said no. what do you say? i think most people are firmly in their camps. that said, my campaign team was at an event earlier this week where they had a family of independent voters who was planning to change their voter registration and come out and caucus on monday and change it to republican. so i think there are still some people out there listening to thes
1988. george w. bush had 10%, bob dole had 12.8%. donald trump s lead right now in iowa is 34 if percentage points over nikki haley. rachel: yeah. you ve got to be really enthusiastic to want to leave the house in those kinds of temperatures and and weather conditions. and that is a huge fact if to have. a lot of people don t really understand the whole caucus system. pete, you re going to be there. you ve also been part of a caucus before. pete: it s a lot more intimate finish first of all, there s no mail-in, no absentee, you have to be there in person. so who s there is all that matters, so it s why organization so so important. the one caucus i was part of, and they ve changed the iowa process, you would identify who you were voting for, and you might negotiate and try to if one candidate s out, you go to another candidate. my if understanding in the iowa caucuses is you really just go into ab auditorium, hear a few speech, cast your vote, the winner uploaded into the system and