Im bret baier. As students attended colleges across the northeast returned to classes antiisrael protesters are also making their presence known. We will take you there. A former top aid to new York Governor Kathy Hochul is accused of spying on behalf of the chinese government. Well explain. And after the Labor Day holiday, we are now in the final sprint to Election Day, 63 days until Election Day 2024. The countdown is on. But, first breaking tonight, middle East Policy is the focus of domestic Politics Tonight after the deaths of six hostages including a young american at the hands of hamas. President Joe Biden says israeli prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not doing enough to secure a Hostage Deal with hamas as critics say the Bidenharris Administration is not doing enough to hold hamas accountable. Biden officials insist the deal is still possible. But the president the president himself has avoided questions on israel since calling on the country to do more to release more than
laconia to portsmouth, asking voters if they want something new in this small slice of america, where making your decision is a point of pride. it is hard to predict what will happen in any given election. or is it? i changed my vote this morning and went, instead of voting for haley, i voted for trump. why? i think the election, the primary s over. i think that you know, mr. trump s going to be our next candidate. trump or haley? trump. yeah. considering haley? yes, i was. this morning. how did you make up your mind? really just i like when trump was already kind of in there. he has the experience and just kind of having second guesses about nikki. so what would another general election with donald trump as the nominee look like? if that happens, well, exactly like this, according to donald trump. how do you bring nikki haley voters, some who voted for you in 2020. how do you bring them back? they re all going to vote for me again, everybody. i m no
trumpers. are we really going to say we re okay having our options two 80-year-olds that run for president? i m not being disrespectful. i m saying we need somebody with eight years. they can t do that. donald trump and nikki haley each making their final pitches to voters in new hampshire before the first primary in the race for the republican nomination. that is tonight. we ll have more from both candidates straight ahead. meanwhile, on capitol hill there are signs that a bipartisan deal on border security and foreign aid is now headed in the right direction. we ll go through those new developments. plus a proposal that could bring temporary peace to gaza. we ll have that latest on that offer from israel. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, january 23rd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. the day of the new hampshire primary. and donald trump made his final pitch to new hampshire voters last night in the city of luconia.
neil: well, this is it, the first in the nation if primary, and it s in new hampshire. 22 delegates at stake. i want you to think of that for just a second. it takes 1215 delegates to secure the republican nomination. at this rate and if he were to win this state, donald trump might have, well, about 30, 35 dell grates delegates. that s a long way to 1215. but the interesting aspect of this primary and this entire race is the belief that if donald trump does well here, he s all but wrapped up the nomination. for the next two hours, we re going to look at the risk and the reward of that kind of strategy and we remind you that sometimes coming in second here isn t the end of the world. in 1992 that honor went to one bill clinton who was called the comeback kid after scoring a silver again in new hampshire. new hampshire will surprise you. it has a long history of doing just that. a lot of comebacks have been scored here. ronald reagan, after losing iowa in 1980, and then of
caucus. if you do better than expected you re off to the races, however, if you do worse than expected, it could be the end of the race. i m thinking back at a time in 1968 when lyndon johnson actually won the new hampshire primary, but barely so. a fella named eugene mccarthy had almost taken the state outright and changed everything. not too long after that, lyndon johnson, the president of the united states, who was expected to run for reelection, did not and all because he won a state by far less than most thought. that was then, hard to say what happens now. all right, it s all about the perception, isn t it? welcome back to cavuto live, we re in new hampshire where we re three days out and voters will get their say finally and not prompter readers, in the first of the nation primary. a lot of the republican candidates certainly, this is the last minute rush, if you will, before the big day. now, you heard from ron desantis a short time ago and we ll be talking to nikki