that looks a lot like the top line spending agreement that the former speaker of the house negotiated. you feel like that s going to get the job done in terms of preventing a shutdown? look. i supported the agreement that speaker mccarthy had negotiated with president biden back in june. i believe obviously as we ve seen the deal between speaker johnson and majority leader chuck shumchumer is in keeping h much of that fiscal responsibility act. i do believe it will help us avert a shutdown. i have always said we must cut spending. we cannot default on our previous debts, and we cannot shut down. that has been my parameters from the start, and i will continue to support that. i want to ask you because you have taken a different tact than some of your republican colleagues have on january 6th. you tweeted over the weekend, and it was something you said at the time. it was a stain on our nation and undermined the peaceful transfer of power and it should never happen again. the former
your conference chair are now referring to those that were arrested and charged with january 6th as hostages. take a listen. they ought to release the j6 hostages. they ve suffered enough. they ought to release them. i call then hostages. some people call them prisoners. i call them hostages. i have concerns about the treatment of january 6th hostages. i have concerns we have a role in congress of oversight over our treatments of prisoners. i m just i m trying to square kind of your position on this, how you view things and hostage is a loaded term and you know what they re doing, and you know they know what they re doing. what do you think about the republican party right now? i ll let my colleague speak for herself, but i have said repeatedly, january 6th was wrong. it never should have happened.
for their farmers. of course, they re going to vote for me. reporter: desantis and haley could not avoid speaking about the front-runner. i think if we re relitigating the past elections, if it s about, you know, donald trump or his legal issues or criminal trials or all that stuff, i think it s going to be a really nasty election. i don t think that puts republicans in a good position to win. he was really good at breaking things. he just wasn t good at fixing them. reporter: trump is looking for a decisive victory in the h hawkeye state after losing the iowa caucus back in 2016. however, iowans are split on who they ll support. i think it s highly likely that trump will come out first. i ll be voting for desantis. i would like to see vivek ramaswamy be in the race as long as he can. trump held the rally in iowa on the third anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack. during which he gave his support for those jailed for their actions that day. they ought to relea
jennifer. thanks to your team and come back as you have more information. thank you, poppy. we re just one week from the iowa caucuses. what the candidates are doing to make their final pitch to voters. three years since the january 6th capitol attack, new reporting shedding a lot of light on donald trump s mindset that day. what several former top trump aides told federal investigators.
lackadaisical campaign, at least not among core republican voters. one of trump s campaign officials say it s like comparing a corvette to a rickshaw, comparing trump to the other candidates and the reason his strategy can be different in how he reaches voters. fenan, trump was in iowa this weekend and used the anniversary of the january 6th capitol attack to tell the crowd that he likes to refer to the rioters who are in prison who have been convicted as hostages. i want to play something republican congresswoman elise stefanik said about the upcoming 2024 reekes. will you only commit to certify the results if they are constitutional. what we saw in 2020 was unconstitutional circumventing of the constitution, not going through state legislatures when it comes to changing can t help but wonder if