besides the nine innocent souls who lost their lives in bible study. the best of us. now, what she did do is demonstrate leadership at a critical time in the state, in the immediate aftermath of the walter scott shooting, which a lot of people don t remember or they paper over. same summer. no question. they passed a significant body cam bill in south carolina. what she did was she gave a lot of her colleagues and policymakers in the state, who had never acted over the course of time on this issue of removing the flag from the statehouse grounds she gave them cover to do so, and that s leadership. and leadership is oftentimes brought about and defined by it s also calling it s calling a thing a thing, and that s my only point. go ahead. you ve been itching. go ahead. and i don t think she s hesitated to call it racism.
nikki haley sometimes is perceiv perceived as trying to have it both ways. did you get clarity on where she stands on issues. on a few. some of the stuff she said, i loved. the russia answer, the clear-eyed defense of what we re doing there and what we have to win, also a clear-eyed bashing of evil dictators in the world. i loved the covid stuff. i thought she had clear honesty on entitlement reform. she had a clear and strong defense on women and girls who she believes and a lot of republicans believe are under attack from trans activists right now. i did not love her assailing of the debt limit deal. she attacked it and turned around and said, we ought to be getting rid of the irs agents, which the covid deal does. so, that s an example of that s what a politician would do, uninformed recitation of talking points. i didn t hear her go after biden as much as i would have wanted as a conservative. i would have gone after desantis
war could take a very long time, and there s a lot of things they still want to get from the u.s. and from allies, talking about f-16s for instance but one of the things volodymyr zelenskyy was talking about as well was more air defenses. so they are looking very closely at what the candidates are saying, certainly will be looking very closely tonight as well, kaitlan. you really see the span of the republican field, especially today when vivek ramaswamy, he said he believed ukraine would have to make major concessions to have that end. fred pleitgen live from kyiv, thank you. up next, the gop field is about to grow and get even more crowded. one of those candidates promises that he will go directly after donald trump. we ll talk about who that is right after this. topped with a four-cheese crisp. try all six ultimate steakburger combos served with fries and a drink, starting at $9. download the app and earn double rewards on steakburgers for a limited time.
but she just didn t see the opening until later on. and she goes after trump and desantis on entitlement reform. but for her to really hold her powder back on trump and give a real knockout punch to desantis in his war on disney using taxpayer dollars, that goes to show clearly what her strategy is. and looking at this and speaking with a lot of iowa voters, they want to resonate in some part of what she said with the life issue, given that she is pro-life. and her argument that she made to jake in terms of, don t hold my feet to the fire on a six week or seven or eight week abortion ban if you re not going the hold the democrats feet to the fire. in terms of long-term abortion. i know he followed up with a clarification of questions that biden has been asked. but the pro life community in iowa does want to see, if you re going to ask us on this end, you need to ask the democrats on the other end. i think the second amendment is a huge issue for iowa voters. i think a lot of people wi
here. in term of style and tone and the way she held herself, she did extraordinarily well. if we re comparing it to the town hall of the former president from last week, we re talking about quite a different tone. a high energy event tonight versus a low energy event a high energy event tonight versus a low energy event the other night. let s not forget she checks a number of conservative boxes. she talked a lot about the fiscal issues that we talked about, both the republicans and democrats are responsible for out of control spending, for debts and deficits in washington. and those are important conversations that need to be had and things she . some of the things i hope she continues to talk about are the accomplishments she had as governor, the accomplishments she had as ambassador. i think she ll continue to do that because as you saw tonight and as people have seen in the more than two dozen events that she s done in iowa, she s good,