other candidates. and that is the argument i m hearing from nontrump alternatives. the polls are wrong, just wait and see. i was talking to the influential evangelical leader here in iowa who has endorsed ron desantis. and that is what he was arguing, that the polls are wrong, ron desantis is going to have a really strong showing. and we re just all going to wait and see in a week. what about the journal article pointing to the new cnn poll that shows seven point spread now only between trump and nikki haley in new hampshire. what about that? she has more leeway to not do as well as desantis needs to do in ohio, right? given how she is surging at least in the polls in new hampshire. and remember ron desantis previously said he plans to win iowa. so you talk to his opponents, they have noted that that is the bar for ron desantis. and again, when i talked to bob last night, he said no, the bar is the polling. and so as long as he does better than the polling, that is his
misconduct and refusal tone tors the law. but also that the process is completed promptly and accountability is achieved swiftly. now, to your earlier point, conservative scholars and legal experts have said and argued that just not agreeing with an administration s policies is not enough for impeachment. but that hasn t diswaded house republicans who will be laying out their case over the course of multiple hearings against the secretary. i ll also note the administration has been preparing for this, they knew that house republicans upon taking the house would do exactly this. so senior communication legal advisers, aides at the white house have been in regular communication with the homeland security officials and the secretary himself to lay out a strategy on all of this. priscilla alvarez, thank you. and so just a few hours away from the republican cnn debate in iowa tonight. how coming in second in the caucuses on monday could propel nikki haley or ron desantis.
answer the tough questions and defend her failed record. is it not an interesting contrast though, sharpness of the attacks and what you are laying out, versus what wherd from one of the governor s supporters? take a listen. i ve articulated all the differences time and time again on the campaign trail. i don t know that he is going to be able to pull this off unless he goes after trump. he s going after nikki haley quite a bit in ads. what do you think about that? that is fine, but nikki haley isn t the leader. donald trump is. it is one voter, there have been a couple not necessarily representative of everybody in iowa, but what is your response to that? i think ron desantis is the only candidate in this race that has taken the gloves off and directly challenged donald
absolute even if ordering a political rival assassinated. and the u.s. repels one of the larn hgest attacks yet in t red sea and as we get new information about the cancer fight of the defense secretary. this hour starts now. good morning. so glad usyou re with us. it is the final republican debate before the iowa caucuses. and it is tonight for the first time nikki haley and ron desantis will go head to head alone just the two of them on stage in des moines. and this is their last chance, probably the biggest chance to close a huge gap with donald trump and change the dynamics of this race with only five days left until iowa voters pick their nominee. hail sli going into the debate with a surge of momentum after she cut trump s big lead in new hampshire to single digits. and we start with eva mckend. what is on the line tonight for
so expectations are high. expectations are high. so when governor sununu says a strong second would be a threshold for nikki haley, what does strong second mean? desantis and haley both poll below 20% in iowa. so i think it is about exceexceeding expect saation expectations. because after iowa, it is new hampshire. and of course would you can in a and hart came in second place. so you don t is to finish first. butcan in a and hart came in second place. so you don t is to finish first. but if haley can overcome the deficits, she s only down by seven points, so the question for ron desantis, if he can t win in iowa, where can he win.