good deal. see you later. j good evening. i m bret baier we are coming to you live from frigid iowa. for the 2024 presidential cycle. thousands of iowans gathering in homes, schools, churches to make their voices heard in meetings known as caucuses. they are doing this in spite of incredibly cold temperatures, hostile weather conditions throughout the state. we have fox team coverage. some of them are out there, including the latest information from our fox voter analysis just in. bill melugin is at the ron desantis headquarters in west des moines. asha has my is at the des moines headquarters nikki haley. we begin with senior national correspondent rich edson at the bales of operations for former president donald trump. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. former trump says locked in tonight and campaign has every precinct in the state covered. is he going to visit one of those caucus sites tonight before coming here to watch party in des moines. trump, for mont
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Beginning. yes, it s sort of ironic. i do have a children s book ou .t about about work ethic and about never giving up. and i think the pictur up ane of thatt real really is donald trump. this is a guy who fromly the day he came down the escalator in trump tower and announced he was running for president ofd the united states as a republican, has had everythingstates had against hi. turn he has been fought against. and yet look at hihe s been four four years in office how much he got accomplished. hoe that look at sincee he decided to run for t president again, how they have gone after him, weaponizing the justice system n against a political opponent. this is communistical opt at ale of these tactics. and yet there he is, not just takinsecsg it and not justt saying, oh, i ll be the one. he s still fighting. he i si wills still fighting fos country. and he said it today, in his word sais, remarks the best.. this isn t about him. he said, it s not about me.ic this is about amer
Well. Lay of the land, maybe some sort of expectation its a blank slate, okay . Sometime in the 8 00 eastern hour, the colors will start popping in. And we are going to see red or orange or blue or green, depending on who does the best here tonight in iowa. Bret, back to you. Bret yeah. Its going to be fascinating. County by county, precinct by precinct. Bill, thanks. If you elect knee in this caucus today, ill be the one who defeats Joe Biden and we will get our country back on track. Nikki haley is running for the donors issues. Im running for your issues. As soon as i take the oath of office i will terminate every open border policy. Ron desanctimonious and Nikki Haley will never secure our border and never come close to it. If you want somebody who is actually going to get in there and fight the corruption. Then vote for the one candidate who is speaking the truth to you
Then the new york times found perhaps they were misappropriating funds, millions of dollars, private jets, millions of dollars of salaries to certain people. so it s because of this nbc said no more and a bunch of celebrities boycotting it, too. the bigger question for me is kristen stewart, will smith, big actors that are nominated in the major categories, are they going to tweet about their wins or put out statements like in years past and be excited about it or will it be like you said as if it never happened? how will we find out about the winners? hfpa will be tweeting the winners as they happen. so lucky me, i ll be the one watching the twitter feed tonight writing about who wins. okay? so yeah, it s a bit of a mess. will we see the globes come back like they used to be? i don t know. definitely not next year i don t think. you don t think so. all right. it sounds like there are changes