[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: closing our nation s anthem out with a beautiful with shot of a rainbow. we ve got a snow-covered house with a very stealthy flying american flag. rachel: how wig is the flag thae yours are bigger. pete: the flag on our property? it s bigger. rachel: yours is like used car lot pete: that s what we re going for. [laughter] are car dealership sized flag. not quite that big. good morning, by the way. thanks for your photos will: do you take it up or down? pete: no, i keep it lit. i can t take it up and down, but i keep it lit. i think that s e what you have to do, you make sure it s lit. which we do. and i try to tribe some of those photos for you because don t forget, guys, when we re talking on tv, there are also people listening on siriusxm radio like my wife right now driving from florida to nashville through alabama. do what you can this morning to be descriptive with your words rachel: hi, jen.
we are going to crush crooked joe biden. martha: tonight former president trump will address the issues. securing the border. getting rid of woke ideology. they are not after me, they are after you. no confusion. let let leading rivals unleash attacks. he is running on a lot of things he promised in 2016. chaos follows him. we can t be a country in disarray. path to crowning republican nominee starts here. i am going to be there. we are first in the nation because of me. we are america first again. [music] [ cheers and applaucheers welcome to des moines iowa, the last of three special town halls this week, days before the first in the nation iowa caucuses. i m bret baier and we are here in des moines. as we look outside it s cold it s brisk it s snowy but we are warm inside with a lot of questions from iowans. i m martha maccallum. we are with iowa voters some decided some undecided. some have been here more than one night. they look forward to questioni
the destruction of our sovereignty that could make leaders of the democratic party care. as is often the case with my extreme maga republican colleague sprayed they have a fictional argument about what s happening at the border. and than actually do nothing to solve the real problem. fictional? does he think the video is made up? people sitting under the ground camped under reflective blankets . the line of people. the environmental disaster that is left behind at the border? that s all made up, congressman? what a fraud. the scenario that he is paintin here, that somehow this is all fantasy, we see that he and his fellow democrats just don t car about what s happening to this country, the country they are t be serving. the department of health and human services announced that the migrant child died while in custody. my jeanette that hand fund unde trump. if you years ago, this would have spawned a million hashtags followed by tearful trips to th border appeared today it
west and winter storms out east. and now, rite aid and how the drugstore is being accused of fueling the opioid epidemic. this is what we are watchingt that hour. thank you for being here, i m kate bolduan, and we are beginning with the turmoil, the fallout, and the wild ride that has already been this week since the abrupt collapse of silicon valley bank. and the federal reserve is looking at the oversight of the bank and what went wrong and who missed what. the regional banks are bounce back after confidence of the institutions were shaken yesterday. this is how the stocks are performing right now. that is not all that is shaking up the economic picture this morning. we got the latest read of inflation. the government reporting that inflation fell for the eighth straight month in february. matt egan and john solomon joining us u no. matt egan to you, what are we seeing? we are seeing that the pressure is easing here, and the fact that the regional bank shares fell, an