skate in. the rest of us have to go home because eugene has upstage us all. congratulations of the further review. you re all separately great friends of mine and i love that this has come together so beautifully. we will be watching tomorrow and every weekend. congratulations and i will see while later. thank you. have a good night, ali. good morning to all of. u.s. saturday the 13th. i m ali velshi. we are two days away now from the iowa republican caucuses. the first in the nation khamenei to contest that kicks off the 2024 election season. caucuses, as you may know, originally from that old school political tradition that demands that participants physically attend the meeting in order to participate. caucus goers have to sign in, they report to the respective precincts on monday night. beginning at seven pm, local time, representatives for each candidate to brief speeches in each case caucus candidate for choice in a secret ballot. there s no early voting, ther
speeches in each precinct before the caucus goers vote for their candidate of choice. in a secret ballot. no early voting. no absentee voting. no veil in voting in this instance. the process can take a little while, but this, year could be the coldest iowa caucus ever. current forecast for monday night include record sub-zero temperatures, which, of course, could affect turnout. at this point, a force of nature might be the only thing that could prevent donald trump from winning the state. the latest poll of iowa conducted by suffolk university earlier this month shows the former president leading the pack with 54% of likely republican caucus goers saying they plan to support him. his closest rival, nikki haley, is 34 points behind. a 20%. if these numbers hold, trump has the opportunity to smash the record for the largest margin of victory in iowa gop history for a non incumbents. that s a record currently held by bob dole, who won the 1988 caucuses by 13 points. over pat ro
when we get this done can you go out there and bring it home? tomorrow night we caucus and win the primary and we win the general. bill: the stage is set. first votes in the 2024 election will be tallied hours from now. tonight in iowa voters get their first verdict on the republican presidential field when they go to caucus. we ve waited a long time for this one, right? it s finally here. w welcome to a frigid iowa. i m bill hemmer. great to kick it off with you. all right. let s go. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. it s cold outside, warm inside. the iowans are saying what are you complaining about? we ll be fine. if they re not worried maybe we shouldn t be worried for voter turnout. the coldest in history, frigid weather and a wild card that could maybe have a major impact on turnout. the candidates will make their final pitches today across the state to deliver last-minute bids to win over voters. all pockets of the hawkeye state could hold
politicsnation, tonight s lead, compromise in congress. we start tonight with breaking news out of washington, house and senate negotiations have hammered out a spending deal, just 12 days before another shutdown deadline. house speaker, mike johnson, is laying out the details in a letter to his republican colleagues. more than one and a half trillion dollar plan includes nearly 900 billion for defense and more than 700 billion for other programs. meanwhile, in less than 24 hours, president biden will hold his second campaign event of 2024 in the state that made his 2020 nomination and presidency possible. hill returned to the historic in charleston, the scene of a racially motivated mass shooting nine years ago that left nine black worshippers dead. coming up, we ll talk to the pastor, the reverend eric manning, about how his congregation has healed and what president biden s return means for charleston s black community. the president spent his weekend, the th
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi