$115 million in iowa alone on. abdullah them have been negative against desantis from nikki have people in trump people. desantis has been on the airwaves with negative ads about haley, as well. the super pac seven spending quite a bit here. that is not going to change over the next 11 days. boris and breonna? we look forward to hearing from both of them. steve guitar, no thank you very much. another friendly reminder, governor round status and nikki haley will take questions directly from voters and back-to-back events night. the cnn presidential town halls, moderated by kaitlan collins in erin burnett, live nine eastern right here on cnn. as trump s rivals going offense in iowa, the former presidents launching a new legal offensive. he is asking in federal judge in his election subversion case to hold special counsel jack smith in contempt. it cases on hold pending appeals. trump s defense lawyers argued that smith has violated up caused by submitting more filings. cnn chief lega
in 11 days, we will eventually know they are come of the first contest in the 2024 republican primary campaign, the iowa caucuses. former president trump maintaining a senior in late in the hawkeye state. recent polls show a significant majority of. report counteroffensives and nikki haley are working very hard, trying to trim on that margin. tonight they will take center stage at a pair of cnn town hall, taking questions stray from iowa caucus goers, making their pitches face to face. let s go there live now a cnn steve bitterest. eve, haley and desantis really laying into one another with just days left in the race, more so than attacking front-runner, donald trump. break down the thinking here for these two campaigns. boris and bring on of the thinking is there are 11 days until the first republicans are gonna weigh in on this nominating fight. we still do not have a clear
there have been over 115 hacks by these iran-backed proxy militias across iraq and syria against u.s. and coalition forces. just as october 17th it over the last two months or so. these attacks have shown no signs of abating. just last week the u.s. retaliated against an iran-backed strike that heard u.s. service members and left one in critical condition. the u.s. now, of course, continuing to say that they are going to keep weighing these positions strikes. keep retaliate-ing and trying to deter these groups from launching additional attacks in the future. so far the threats and retaliations have not worked. we will see if there is further escalation. natasha bertrand, thank you for the report. still ahead on cnn news central, 11 days and counting until the iowa caucuses. we are now just hours away from back to back town halls with governor, ron desantis inductee haley. more on the battle for second place. plus, can former president trump be disqualified from running for presiden
alternative to donald trump. there are still persuadable people at this point. the hope is by going at each other they might be other get enough support documentary will that they are that alternative. you are going to hear from some of those undecided and persuadable republican tonight. they will have a chance to directly ask ron desantis in the key haley some of their concerns. for haley and desantis, there are competing goals out of tonight. and out of iowa, in general. rhonda santa test data lot of his campaign on getting strong outcome here. nikki haley has put a lot more effort into new hampshire. doesn t necessarily need a big result next monday in iowa. in fact, she said the quiet part out loud at a new hampshire town hall yesterday. take a listen to what she said. we have an opportunity to get this right. i know we will get it right. i trust you. i trust every single one of you. you know how to do this.