bret baier had a chance to interview donald trump last night, and you ll see that exclusive shortly on mediabuzz. just two days from the new hampshire primary which which the media say could be nikki haley s last chance to stop donald trump, but after trump s land are slide win in monday s iowa caucuses with just over half the vote, a journalistic counterspin is emerging. ah, what s the big deal? it wasn t that great a win. an incumbent pulling a 51 in iowa caucuses, not exactly great. 30 of the party, it doesn t feel like voters feel like if he s convicted, they don t want to support him. yes, he won in iowa, but he really won with much smaller turnout. and enthusiasm is the way that trump wins. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party who is strapped to the republican loser, seven-time loser e. donald trump won the caucuses by historic margins, sorry, joe scarborough. despite being far out
the coverage. the new yorker cover with donald trump portray thed as a metal-wearing, goose-stepping nazi e soldier. trump continues to dominate the coverage as he did by doing an iowa town hall with fox news overshadowing at the same hour the ron desantis-nikki haley slug fest on cnn. and the former president generated wall the wall coverage by showing up in washington on his claim of immunity for actions in office; namely, challenging the last election. trump s presence in that courtroom which took him off the campaign trail just days before the iowa caucuses underscored the vindictiveness of the lawfare if being waged against him. why s he in court instead of campaigning? because donald trump being in court is the greatest bully pulpit for him where he can plaw fake. howard: trump wasn t required to be in court then or on thursday when he denounced the judge in his new york civil fraud trial, but he drew attention from his rivals whose iowa events are being buried by s
bigger story? i think what makes it bigger is that the day that we all found out was the same day the president found out. howard: yeah. even though his, you know, secretary of defense spoke to the president that saturday, the day after lloyd austin sent out a memo saying, look, i take responsibility for not letting people know, i pledge to do better, then he has a call with the president and doesn t say, hey, mr. president, i have prostate cancer. so that is a little bit concerning. howard: what has been the reaction at the white house where president biden, as you alluded to, didn t know for days? the defense secretary, of course, is part of the nuclear chain of command and the drip, drip, drip of disclosure is how badly this was botched? i think it s going over worse at the pentagon because you have two people who are really in charge of managing secretary of defense, and one of those people, the chief of staff, it s her responsibility to notify the white house, national secur
general randy george, and his top ukraine policy expert. that s all he had. so in order to stay in touch they modified his communications package we are told and the pentagon press secretary john kirby hinted at how significant it was. he said, and i quote, at no time was secretary austin unable to execute his authorities in the chain of command. we are specifically told that included the nuclear chain of command. had there been that kind of crisis, austin to have exercised his authorities to advise president biden and even to verify that the president, if he gave such an order, it was coming from him. he could verify all of this classified information. of course, none of that happened, it all went smoothly, but consider this, he gets on a train at the polish border, trains all the way into kyiv, has a three-hour meeting, has to