first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa, with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s feegtsing for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off? candidate governor ron desantis joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucusgoers and candidates brave subzero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. i worry about that. wear layers. mthey can throw a blizzard a us, and we ll have a fight. who will have the advantage in turnout? plus, rough waters. an escalation in the middle east to now a key senator is the to press joe biden on the u.s. role there. is biden s stance widening the rift on the left? the united states is deeply complicit. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello. i m jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the single most consequential days in this year s calendar, t
breaking news, new reporting on the trump attorney who wanted to try to settle with the justice department and keep his client from facing charges. the catch, his client. also tonight, cnn gets frontline access to ukrainian special forces on the hunt for russian commanders to corner and kill. and later, a father is speaking out about nearly losing his children and their remarkable, simply remarkable story of surviving 40 days in the colombian jungle. we begin with the new reporting on what you might call the exit ramp not taken by the former president, one that might have kept him off his current road to trial in the documents case. quote, one of donald trump s new attorneys proposed an idea in the fall of 2022. the former president s team could try to arrange a settlement with the justice department. he joins us on the telephone now. josh, walk us through this reporting. one of the president s attorneys wanted to turn down the temperature, went to the former president
republic bank and chosen jpmorgan chase to divide most of its assets. the third major bank to fail in two months. a u.s. navy ship has taken more than 100 u.s. citizens away from the violence in sudan, but many more still awaiting to be rescued. thousands of american airlines pilots threaten a strike, could impact your summer travel? we are here to demand management comes to the table. the company builds schedules that are on flyable. speak of the so-called forever chemicals contaminating drinking water and fish. if we are finding pfas here come you go to any river start most of the eye states are going to find similar levels. nonretired air force colonel kim campbell face that decision 20 years ago in the cockpit of her a-10 over baghdad to. hearing all the guys in the radio, welcome home i knew that i had made it. i had survived. norah: good evening to our viewers in the west, thank you for joining us as we start a new week together, we want to begin ton
connected to a criminal organization nor would they share the number of people that they believe were involved. more now from rosa flores across the border in brownsville, texas. reporter: two of four missing americans are back in the yupd and receiving medical treatment after being kidnapped in mexico after what a u.s. official tells cnn was a case of mistaken identity. two were found dead and one of the survivors is severely injured with a bullet wound to his leg. according to u.s. and mexican officials. in the party of four, latavia mcgee and eric williams were killed. shaeed woodard and zindell brown were killed. and we extend our condolences to the families. reporter: they crossed the border into mexico for mcxwee to obtain a medical procedure. and they drove a white van and got lost while trying to locate the medical clinic where they were headed. before they were able to locate the clinic, disturbing video shows the aftermath of the kidnapping as heavily armed me
a tragic end after a mother s trip to mexico with friends to get a medical procedure. now two in the group are dead. two others found alive. how the group got lost and ended up in the hands of armed criminals. plus i m taking over this plane. taking over this plane, he says. terrifying moments on a cross-country flight when a man threatens to hijack the plane. the video as freaked out p passengers tried to react. plus, cnn s upclose look at how the chinese will go to control its country s messaging. welcome to the lead. and we start today with our world lead and new details in tin vest game into those four americans kidnapped in mexico last week. local officials say one person has been detained after two of the u.s. citizens were found d dead. the two others are thankfully alive, though one is severely injured, according to a u.s. official, and those two have returned to the united states for medical treatment and observation. family members say that the four were