exactly one hour away from the first major test of the 2024 g.o.p. primary season. the iowa caucuses. now, more than 1600 caucuses across 99 counties, you can believe it or not. i have been covering to iowa for years covering these caucuses. this year isn t just the coldest, but also has the most riding on it. i will explain what is really at stake in moments. but, first, we have reporters at the headquarters of all the major candidates. first to trump s right here in des moines where fox news senior national correspondent rich edson is standing by. rich? rich: you know, laura, it s cold it s icy. some of the roads are impassable. they have talked to the weather all day long here. we talked to the candidates how that plays into the campaign. they say look, all the campaigns are dealing with this. one campaign aid said, look, we have the most dedicated campaign base in the history of american politics. we re not worried about our folks showing up. speaking of showing up, for
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your very busy news day with us. call it a biden racy can you. the federal government swoops in to pay back depositors after a bank goes under. he promises 2023 will not look like 2008. the bottom line is this. americans can rest assured our banking system is safe, our deposits are safe. plus mike pence says president trump was reckless on january 6th. a big question now, whether pence repeats it when he s with gop voters in iowa, new hampshire and beyond. and president biden green lights a giant oil project in alaska. progressives are mad again. the drilling project suggests an early move to the middle with an eye on 2024. up first for us, though, a pair of bank failures and a white house emergency plan the president says will protect the economy but not at your expense. president biden speaking this morning before u.s. financial markets opened for trading and before most banks o
russian-backed forces in ukraine. in his first television interview, along with his fiancee right here on outfront. and a nasa spacecraft crashing into an asteroid. you are going to see it here live. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. up in flames. ukraine taking out crucial russian artillery as it pushes russian forces further back into retreat. this is video from ukraine s military. the air assault taking out russian vehicles including a tank. we re getting graphic video of ukraine s counter-offensive. we re told that this video we re showing you now is from eastern ukraine. you can see the road here absolutely littered with burnt out tanks and bodies of what appear to be russian soldiers. ukraine s punishing pushback costing putin at home, possibly threatening the one thing he cares about most, his power. the outrage over his decision to summon at least, at least 300,000 more troops to fight is now turning to violence inside russia. let me show you th
good evening, thank you for joining us. we ll be here with cnn s chief dana bash, citing tonight s third republican presidential debate. that is just wrapped up. anderson, i m gonna be speaking tonight with some of the candidates who just finished here on the debate stage minus, of course, the former president. the faraway front runner who has not attended any of these debates. he s competing instead and an event nearby. just five candidates this time, in a few moments, we ll hear what voters in iowa watch from cnn s gary tuchman made of what they saw. two candidates, florida governor ron desantis and former u. n. ambassador nikki haley with the two closest in the polls for the president. so many eyes were on them, including this exchange they got into with over china. then we will go in and all formal trade relations with china, base they start murdering americans for fentanyl. something they s have yet to say they will do. then we modernize our military. when