the trump/desantis battle evolved into a schoolyard brawl. you don t change your name in the middle of the election. his whole family moved to florida under my governorship. are you kidding me? what is the desantis plan to convince voters he s not just a better nominee but a better president. plus the gop field keeps growing. three more candidates will jump in this week including trump s former vp. republicans have to offer a positive vision grounded in conservative principles. but how many of them will make it to the republican debate stage? and disaster averted. no one got everything wanted but the american people got what they needed. the president said it is proof his brand of politics still works. i know bipartisanship is hard but we could never stop trying. welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. thank you for joining. it is all about iowa, iowa. and yesterday marks the first start of the caucus season with eight presidential hopefuls
house playing out in key battleground states as the two leading contenders for the republican nomination hit the campaign trail. hello to you. hello, john. happy friday eve. anita vogel in for sandra smith. former president donald trump meeting with faith leaders in des moines, iowa as he b barnstorms the state before he joins sean hannity tonight on fox news. florida governor ron desantis makes a two-day, five-town blitz across the state before campaigning in new hampshire. john: the field for the gop primary will grow more crowded. mike pence, chris christie, and doug bergham will show their hats into the ring next week. rich edson is live in urbandale, iowa, the former president taking aim at desantis today, and desantis saying you know, that s not the way to go about this. it s been back and forth and intensifying, certainly after ron desantis got into the race. we have seen that since the former president has been in iowa, he arrived last night. came here to the we
hamas war escalating just days after the u.n. approved a watered down resolution calling for aid to the embattled region as the toll of the war caused christmas celebrations to be canceled in bethlehem. and getting down to the wire in iowa where a gop presidential candidate spent the holiday weekend trying win over voters. did he make any headway? we re going to find out. and if you ve been dreaming of a white christmas, you re probably going to be disappointed. we re going to tell you why most people around the country will just have to keep dreaming. we begin this hour with the growing fight over whether former president trump can claim immunity to election interference charges. trump s legal team filed a brief with a federal appeals court in washington over the weekend asking it to toss out the federal election interference case against him. his lawyers arguing quote this. president trump has absolute immunity from prosecution for his official acts as president. so, they s
there arheree thirty one congressmen. they are ready to blow u up thie entire deal despite being just. days from default. comphis deal fails, fails completely. and that s why thesetely. membe and others will be absolutely opposed to the deal . l and we will do everything ino our power to sto p and end it now. tomorrow s bill is a bunch fake news and fake talking pointsin that will do nothing to rein ino out-of-control federal spending. nofedera republican in good conscience should support this, consciousnot one republican shl vote for this deal . it is a bad deal . not well, not only ours republicans becoming deeply divided on this, but there are even threats to oust mccarthyakb as speaker because of the dealee he mad de with biden. i joining me now is texas congressman chip roy and florida congressma n byronnd donalds. both are members of the freedomo caucus and both are againsth met this deal . welcome to you both, startinglc with you, congressman. ome . and chip roy, w