it is the eve of the iowa caucus, the start of the presidential primaries, you may have heard. and i m ari melber, with you right now for an msnbc special, a candidate slash defendant trump, reporting on his own clash of american politics, law, and how voters may assess the candidate, whose ear could end in the exalted oval office, or a small prison cell. that will depend on the outcome of several criminal trials, plus other cases. and the next person to track, and break it all down for you tonight on caucus eve, as the primaries begin tomorrow, some of trump s rivals are now invoking trump s legal problems as a general election problem for the ex president. obviously, the distractions of everything that s going on with all of these legal issues has been a huge thing for him. you re going to have criminal trials, you re going to have a lot of focus on things like january 6th by the media. and i think that ends up focusing the election on things that are going to be adva
bret baier had a chance to interview donald trump last night, and you ll see that exclusive shortly on mediabuzz. just two days from the new hampshire primary which which the media say could be nikki haley s last chance to stop donald trump, but after trump s land are slide win in monday s iowa caucuses with just over half the vote, a journalistic counterspin is emerging. ah, what s the big deal? it wasn t that great a win. an incumbent pulling a 51 in iowa caucuses, not exactly great. 30 of the party, it doesn t feel like voters feel like if he s convicted, they don t want to support him. yes, he won in iowa, but he really won with much smaller turnout. and enthusiasm is the way that trump wins. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party who is strapped to the republican loser, seven-time loser e. donald trump won the caucuses by historic margins, sorry, joe scarborough. despite being far out
where he ll finally experience consequences for some of his actions. next week, tuesday, marks the beginning of the second e. jean carroll defamation trial. news on that later on. but first things first, developments ahead of closing arguments. tomorrow in new york s $250 million civil fraud lawsuit. the judge revealed he would not allow donald trump to deliver part of those closing arguments himself as he had requested. the reasoning, neither trump nor his attorneys ever got back to the judge agreeing to preconditions. in truth, it is hard to imagine what trump wanted more, an opportunity to put himself at the center of proceedings to deliver his message in his own way, or an opportunity like this, to complain, whine about being silenced, despite the fact his own team failed to respond to the judge on time. remember, in both cases, e. jean carroll s defamation and new york s civil fraud, trump s guilt has already been determined. these decisions will only settle the punish.
welcome to fox & friends on this saturday morning. look at that beautiful sunrise. i have a sunrise on my phone. pete: sure do. on the background of your phone just like that. it s the state of florida. will: this is morning of appreciation for the northeast. i start the 6:00 a.m. hour complimenting vermont. that is a beautiful sunrise in new jersey. pete: monmouth county and the beaches with the stretch of beach is going to be gorgeous. look out and almost always see the new york city skyline in the distance. i assume that was one of the carolinas when i saw it but it s new jersey. pete: see the weeds or whatever it is. like endangered bird that lives there they ve lost like 80% of the beach because the environmentalists are protecting it for this bird. that no one ever sees. anyway, it s a new jersey thing. will: maybe they ll start seeing it. let s bring you to the debate pete and i were having before coming on air. they were giving me a hard time about the fact i
everybody, it is wednesday, january 3rd, 2024. and we start this second hour of fox & friends with a developing story. that man right there, new jersey s long time senator robert menendez is back in the spotlight following new corruption allegations. ainsley: the embattled democrat is now facing even more bribery charges. this time for allegedly helping the qatari government in exchange for lavish gifts. lawrence: this is unbelievable. peter doocy is live from the white house with more on this. hey, peter. peter: the word was allegedly out all around the world. if you want the u.s. senator to say something nice about your country just buy him something expensive. that s what the united states government is alleging now that there are these text messages showing the following. it s pretty extraordinary. bob menendez gets a text from a businessman with ties to the qatari government that says how about one of these? and it s photos of two watches ranging from $9,900