for his dangerous rhetoric. e. jean carroll was back on the stand today, first under cross-examination by trump s attorney, then under redirect examination by her attorney. team trump suggested that carroll actually benef from her accusation. abc news reports the defense suggested that carroll craved attention, took on trump to revive her flagging career, and relish the verdict in an earlier trial known as carroll 2. it established trump was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. did the verctn your opinion provide you with bigger status in new york? itvide me with you have continued to publicize every lawsuit you had had agait president trump. yes, carroll responded, because wanted people to know that a woman can speak up and win a trial. i wanted people to know. i m 80. i don t want to be quiet. it s not right to make a woman be quiet. it s gone on for too long. during redirect, carroll countered that despite all the notary tie s gned, she wants nothing more than t
than that. it s not. it so much deeper than that that. it s not. it so much deeper than that. and it can t be fixed with than that. and it can t be fixed with one than that. and it can t be fixed with one person. two years of president biden leadership have not in any president biden leadership have not in any way president biden leadership have not in any way normalised or bridged the -ap in any way normalised or bridged the gap that in any way normalised or bridged the gap that we see between americans on one side gap that we see between americans on one side of gap that we see between americans on one side of the aisle and the other. ifear one side of the aisle and the other. i fear that one side of the aisle and the other. i fear that the 2024 election is going i fear that the 2024 election is going to i fear that the 2024 election is going to be unprecedentedly dramatic. something we haven t seen realty dramatic. something we haven t seen realty since
neil: are you ready for this? one week till iowa and the heat is on. ron desantis and nikki haley duking it out in the hawkeye state. donald trump continueses to hold a commanding lead there. team trump is ramping up its attacks on haley. that has some folks wondering what has him nervous. desantis supporters chip roy here to say don t count out my candidate, ron desantis. get ready. your world starts right now. i m neil cavuto. and let s get to it. we ve got aishah hasnie in des moines, iowa where things are heating up despite an arctic blast. at least it s not just constant blizzard conditions like it was for you earlier. how are things there now? i like that music. we re going need that to get us through the next couple days. it s going to drop to one degree by the time we hit caucus night. that will be a problem possibly the weather to make sure some of these folks get out there and caucus for ordinary candidates. today the weather was a problem. a lot of folks had
tonight on a special holiday edition of the reidout the next trump administration, if there is one, will be more extreme and have fewer guardrails than anything we saw in the first trump administration. donald trump is not hiding his iron fisted authoritarian plans, believe him. my conversation with abc news correspondent jonathan karl on his very revealing new book. also tonight as one source said to me, his arrogance destroyed him. tucker s arrogance destroyed him. one producer on the show said to me, we were burning too bright. we knew it wasn t going to last, and it didn t. brian stelter joins me on his book about fox, network of lies. if you think the worst was over when tucker was fired, think again. plus hitler thought that lynching, what he called popular justice in the united states, was another important thing for the nazis to study in terms of how these things can be look good on paper but still work out in practice the way they wanted them to
be departed. if he has to leave, he might not survive. i m victor blackwell. let s start the show . what caused the civil war it s not a trick question. any response that does not mention slavery is a wrong answer. and asking you rather what you want me to say about slavery, that s the wrong follow-up. this week republican presidential candidate nikki haley fumbled on all three points. it created a striking moment the at a campaign town hall new hampshire. watch this. i think the cause of the civil war was basically how government was going to run. the freedoms and what people could and couldn t do. i think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are. i will always standby the fact that i think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of of the people. it was never meant to be all things to all people. in the year 2023, it s astonishing to me that you answered that question without mentioning the word slavery.