and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m rahel solomon in for christine romans. wee begin with nikki haley, the 2024 presidential contender breaking with former president trump and florida governor ron desantis on a cnn town hall last night. they differentiated herself from her rivals, sometimes, by name, on a number of points including social security and medicare. and january 6. here s haley on ukraine where trump and desantis have avoided clearly backing the country s fight against russian aggression. listen. this is bigger than ukraine. this is a war about freedom. and it s one we have to win. a win for ukraine is a win for all of us. because tyrants tell us exactly what they re going to do. what we heard, china said they were going to take hong kong, they did it. russia said they were going to invade ukraine, we watched that happen. china says taiwan is next, we better believe them. russia says poland and the ballotics are next, if that happens,
starting with just weeks to go until the start of the 2024 presidential race. gop frontrunner donald trump just scored a major legal victory against special counsel jack smith in that the supreme court issued a one-sentence judgment yesterday bluntly rejecting smith s request to fast track arguments on the former president s immunity case. so what comes next? evan perez breaks it down. reporter: the u.s. supreme court rejected a request by federal prosecutors to skip the appellate court and have the high court decide whether donald trump has immunity from prosecution in the election subversion charges. the decision deals a significant blow to special counsel jack smith s effort to keep a march 4th trial date on track. that s a lot harder now that prosecutors will have to wait several weeks while the d.c. court of appeals weighs the same questions. trump argues he has immunity. he also claims because he was impeached by the house of representatives and acquitted by the senat
based on a fox news poll, the field has catching up to do. how is this race shaking up? let s go to julia manchester, kristen hahn and gop pollster lee carter. lee, start with you. governor desantis getting ready for a week where he will go to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina. they sound familiar. how important is it that he makes traction in those states? it s critical. he s message has to get big traction. it didn t last week. he s got a big job ahead of him. he has in many ways to reset his campaign. the last two months, he s been dropping in the polls. his excuse, he s not finally run yet. this is not official. now he has to make the case that he s the right man for the job. he has to focus on the economy, focus on inflation and stop focusing on the woke wars. that s what hurt himself the last two months and this will be chris call for people hearing him in a different way. julia, that underscores the challenge for governor desantis. the woke wars are probably crit
everyone. thank you for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. a deal to avoid a debt default is about to be revealed. president biden and speaker mccarthy are finalizing an agreement to raise the debt limit. president biden saying this earlier today. i m about to go in and call mccarthy now at 3:00, make sure all the ts are crossed and the is are dotted. i think we re in good shape. house leaders expect the bill to be voted on as soon as wednesday. speaker mccarthy is confident the deal will pass. february 1st i sat down with the president. i said let s work together to be able to raise the debt ceiling but curb the amount of spending, to let mark be able to work again, cut red tape, get some work requirements to help people get back into work. i think this agreement frames all that from limit, save, grow. it doesn t get everything we wanted. we did a conference call with our conference and over 95% were overwhelmingly excited about what they see. they re getting a text
professional and you see with the gesture that players have done for the fans as well. we were hurting but ultimately that was a couple of days ago now and our focus but ultimately that was a couple of days ago now and ourfocus is on thursday and we are going to approach that with the full belief that we can get a positive result. i have to make sure that our players are ready have to make sure that our players are ready for tomorrow. facing a good are ready for tomorrow. facing a good appointment, so it s a good team, good appointment, so it s a good team, good players and we are having a certain team, good players and we are having a certain circumstance and i have to make a certain circumstance and i have to make sure a certain circumstance and i have to make sure that they are focused and have energy and i have on the front foot to have energy and i have on the front foot to go have energy and i have on the front foot to go into battle. the have energy and