hello everyone i m jimmy failla along with alicia and welcome to the big weekend show okay the big story tonight. the count down is on to the iowa caucus we re nine days away from the official start of the 2024 election season. and all of the republican hopefuls are putting on their boxing gloves fox news correspondent bill is in des moines tonight. gop candidates make their final push in the state of iowa with days left to go. today also happens to be the three year anniversary of the january 6th capitol riot that s something president biden highlighted in a campaign speech he made yesterday. he went after former president trump called him a threat to democracy and today president trump shot back at biden a the a campaign speech right here in iowa. take a listen. this beautiful child this young man how old is he, three? i would vote for him of because he s more intelligent. look, kid is three years old. [applause] he s got better judgment. in the meenl time ron des
but at least they have, like, i don t know it s nicer there generally. what a day. thank you, my friend. and thanks to you at home for joining us this evening. tonight we have new reporting which confirms something that up to this point we d only suspected. former president donald trump is officially a target of the criminal investigation of alleged mishandling of documents at mar-a-lago. that news reported first today by the guardian. multiple outlets are now reporting federal prosecutors notified trump in a letter that he is the target. now, nbc news has not independently verified those reports, but donald trump is the person who allegedly took those classified documents from the white house and then refused to comply with the justice department s order to return them. so if anyone in this case is going to be targeted for potential criminal charges, it is probably donald trump. for his part trump today posted a caps lock-heavy statement arguing being the target of an invest
[applause] can i get an amen i ll tell you the truth. elon musk tweeting great statement by tim scott few hours ago scott responded this is our mission elon musk will save you a seat on monday. that s when senator scott is set to formally announce his bid. former president trump s team using the announcement about scott to hit florida governor ron desantis calling it a path to second place his campaign relesioning a statement that reads, quote, ron desantis failed shadow campaign has opened the floodgates for career politicians looking to see an opportunity to raise profile head of the 2028 race and tim scott aggressive media purchase doesn t need to cap desantis but scott sees same thing as youngkin kristy and others the path to second place is wide open. they smell ron desantis blood in the water and no longer see him as an obstacle kellyanne conway straight to you is this the race to second place? it looks that way and trump is ahead in primarily polls comfortly over
e. great am take a look. i m running to lead a greatt wih american comeback. we know the country is on ouree the wrong track. we see il tonir t with our eyes. we feel it in our bones. what i will do is help restore normalcy to our communities, integrit y to our institutionsd to and sanity to our society. we nee ad to win again as republicans. we got to dispense with this culture of losin losing.g. and if you nominate me, i pledge to you that on januarye 20th, 2020 five at high noon,t that i ll be the guyn on the west side of the capitol with the left hand on the bible and the right hand in the air, taking the oath of officey now? as the forty seventh president of the unitei thindcor states . why now?goin i think it sg in because the country is going in the wrong direction.four yea we have another four years of the biden administration. i think some of the damage. is going to be irreversible. allrn right.or here on that was governor desantis right here on fox just moments r
we may not get there in one year or even in one term. america, i have never been more hopeful that i am tonight, that we will get there. 50 years later his party has gone from hope to nope. as an nope, they don t want biden. the deterioration of our economy, well, we ve talked about this affect nausea. so was his own physical deterioration. let s compare biden from 15 years ago to now. these are extraordinary times. this is an extraordinary election. the american people are ready. i am ready. barack is ready.this is his time. this is our time. this is america s time. we ve been in iraq and around it s really very dull when after all these years in public life are known for 2 things. ray-ban sunglasses and chocolate chip ice cream. x wow. what a 51 percent of his own voters do not want him to run again according to the new nbc survey that just came out. at least 3 quarters of all surveyed want biden to step aside totally. now, his approval is down to 36 percent among you