will: t the 7:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends weekend on january 20th. this video is graphic and captures a shocking moment a new york city driver intentionally plows into nypd officer. pete: after claudine gay s disastrous capitol hill testimony. harvard is developing anti-semitism task forces. rachel: cowboys cheerleaders claiming that packers players were mocking them during their playoff game last sunday. we re going to break down the standoff in the pop culture roundup in the next hour. fox first weekend starts right now. pete: you ve heard those lyrics and not many bikinis in that and snowy, cold morning and i didn t catch the town name. will: troy. rachel: troy. pete: good morning, troy, ohio. stay warm. it s cold all over the place. rachel: even in tennessee. pete: like zero and got down in the teens during the day and snow every r. rachel: that s why you left minnesota. pete: 100% right. will: what is it in minnesota? negative 30. pete: negative 15 with feet of s
taxpayers. moving into the impact this could have an education as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. the 2024 front runners are off to very different starts. president biden started to negotiate crucial aid money for our allies, earlier today donald trump was almost kicked out of a new york city courtroom after he complained loudly to his lawyers during testimony from e. jean carroll. the trial, of course, will decide damages, if any, in carroll s defamation case against donald trump. in a separate trial last, year a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. the judge warned trump to stay quiet and threatened to kick him out. trump responded by saying, i would love that. the judge said, quote, i know you would, because you just can t control yourself. the trial is set to resume tomorrow. after leaving the courthouse, trump was back on the campaign trail in new hampshire earlier this evening. nikki
today and threw in his support for donald trump. here s donald trump talking about desantis s endorsement. i d like to take the time to congratulate ron desantis and, of course, a really terrific person. ay as you know he left the campaign trail at 3:00 p.m. today. in doing so he was very gracious and endorsed me, so i appreciate it. gracious. weia don t hear that word a lot from donald trump, but he s trying to get everybody to support him. now the race is narrow, head-to-head between trump and haley. trump leads with independents. haley is 19 points behind trump overall. what b comes next? and how close are we in another head-to-head race between donald trumphe and joe biden. joining me now are my guesti gu hanging with me. our resident floridian, former republican congressman david jolly anwho s going to welcome n desantis home with a big banner, we hear, he s back with us as well. let me start with you. you ve done a fair amount of reporting on the republican primary.
new hampshire. on what could only be described as a wild day for the 2024 presidential campaign. what once was a pretty clap only a couple of months ago, is now down to a two-person race, as of today. after florida governor ron desantis dropped out and endorsed donald trump, immediately basically, just hours ago. now this was a rocky road for desantis from the very beginning, i think it is fair to say. because remember back in the spring, when he kicked off his campaign with a glitchy quid twitter live screen. we all remember that. it turns out things never really went up from there. i know it may be hard to picture, especially tonight, before he entered the race, desantis was thought of as the next great hope of the republican party. he was the biggest story of the 2022 election on the republican side, and he was thought of as donald trump s biggest threat. but for messaging, for messaging mistakes to money issues, his campaign quickly, and i mean quite quickly, fell apart
in his own state, but he suspended his campaign for president today, and threw his support behind former president donald trump. and here is trump at a rally earlier tonight, talking about desantis endorsement. i d like to take time to congratulate ron desantis. and of course, a really terrific person. but as you know, he left the campaign trail today at three pm, and in so doing, he was very gracious, and he endorsed me. so i appreciate it. gracious, we don t get that word a lot from donald trump, but he is trying to get everybody to support him. so now the race is narrow, a head to head between trump and nikki haley. haley leads trump among independents, a crucial block here in new hampshire, where there are more undecided voters than republicans or democrats. but she is 19 points behind trump overall. so, what comes next, and how close are we to another head to head presidential race between donald trump and joe biden? joining me now, nbc news correspondents dasha bu