today on inside politics a cold campaign reality. blizzard conditions in iowa mean chaos for republican candidates trying to reach every voter they can. the crucial question, how much will the dangerous weather impact turnout on caucus night? plus, firing back. president biden ordered airstrikes against iran-backed rebels who have been firing at commercial ships, fuelling fears that the middle east could be on the edge of an all-out war. and, i don t hate her. that s the faint praise some iowa republicans are giving nikki haley. we will hear what some voters are really thinking in a brand-new focus group. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in iowa, which is under a blizzard warning today. it is freezing there. now, i m sure you re thinking, duh, it is january. obviously it is cold in iowa, but this is different. it is brutally cold. historically cold. so cold that iowans are being told not to even take a step outside, and it
administration wanting to avoid protracted entanglements. yes. it sounds good. it is not what the average voting is per seceiving as happening right now. does this avoid a protracted entanglement or are we seeing this happen every two weeks out of the year. take that pin out of the isis remark. everybody wishes they had defeated isis, but we were talking about general soleimani in iran and the fact he was assassinated. when we saw that bombing earlier this month in iran, isis claimed credit for it so isis is alive and well. let s turn to your new reporting, mj, you can find it on cnn.com. we will give you a little bit of it here. you say about the biden campaign and kind of how they re seeing the republican race, they re kind of ready for it to be over so that they can actually make clear, according to your reporting, that to their democratic voters that this is a