that issue. donald trump has said that pro-life protections even at the state level are a, quote, terrible thing. and he said that in relation to bills like what iowa did, the heartbeat bill. this is a guy who was at the march for life in january 2020 and he said all life was a gift from god. he said the unborn was made in the image of god. he said that there should be protections. that is what he was saying when he was president at the march for life. now he is saying it is a terrible, terrible thing. so how do you reconcile those two views? did he flip-flop, did he not believe it at the time? so my sense of this having covered iowa over the years is if there is an argument that might resonate, trump obviously extraordinarily popular with caucusgoers, but this is an issue that the voters care a lot about. what do you make of desantis way of talking about this? it was interesting. he leaned into the argument that donald trump is a flip-flopper,
it s difficult change your strategy this close to an election. ted cruz changed three different times. it s not effective. we want people who are authentic. there s a lot of questions about who is this ron desantis. is he going to be the one that s fighting mickey mouse or the one fighting for the american people and doing what he says he s going to do. nikki haley made a much better argument because she s consistent with what she s always been. even if it she had to address some issues she s had in the past. she s been consistent on being ahead of joe biden in a general election matchup over and over and is over again. part of the reason for that is her ability to at least sound a little more appealing to swing voters maybe. she s always been polished. there are areas where trump and republican this is general have been struggle ing with suburban women, college educated
american troops and ships in the red sea. secretary of state antony blinken is making his 40s trip to the region since the october 7 attack on israel. let s bring in analyst david sanger. he is white house and national correspondent for the new york times. great to have you. good morning, kasie. great to be here. in the past five days alone, u.s. targeted and killed a pro iran militia commander, isis claimed responsibility for the deadly attack in iran, and israel killed a senior hamas leader in beirut. and u.s. helicopters sank three houthi rebel boats in the red sea after they came under fire. this is a lot. can you help us understand just how much of a tinderbox this is and what is the concerns? it is a big teninderbox.
voters. she s both of those things she comes a across that way. and she is ready. she certainly has the credentials. she does it with a light touch. she talks about her foreign policy experience. she s checked all the boxes. she s done all the right things. she is painting a a picture of a new republican party, which is something that doesn t get talked about enough. that s one thing that ron desantis doesn t come anywhere near. i think we also lose sight of how historic it is to have a wm at this tier of the primary. she grew up as an immigrant family in a small southern town and making a case where her mother said she want want os to unite us and not divide us. it s revolutionary. something she got into last night. we have a lot more to get to. stick with us. next wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, jake tapper and dana
if there s a danger to democracy, it s important to call that out rather than run wag from that fact. you need to call it what it is. for a presidential campaign launch, it s going to do a number of things for the president. it s what he believes. secondly, it does help to unite the country. because we are united around the constitution. and he s going to sort of talk about the rule of law and the constitution and what defending it means. that s what valley forge was about. those are the messages we re going to hear today. it s also while it might inflame some hard core trump supporters to hear that their guy was part of an insurrection, there are a lot of independents out there. and joe biden is going to be talking to them. the polls have shown they broke towards biden when it came to questions of what was january 6th about. and by the way, another thing he gets to do and will do today,