announce their participation. one of them former vice president mike pence submitted his government forms today. correspondent mark meredith is on the story tonight. good evening, mark. bret, good evening, like you said, it s getting bigger by the day. the three men jumping into the race this week are all former prominent trump supporters. clear candidates feel more comfortable taking on the frontrunner. the question remains will republicans want an alternative next year. hello, iowa. former vice president mike pence is challenging donald trump for the demonstration. today pence filed his paperwork with the fec and will formally roll out his campaign in iowa on wednesday. republican primary voters are going to look at the field, think very deeply about who can best carry our message and carry majorities to victory. pence will face considerable competition including from south carolina senator tim scott who tonight is generating considerable buzz after appearing on
about. alexandria hoff joins us. it was virginia, maryland, people in d.c. what the heck was that noise. yeah, there was a bit of panic. you saw it social media on social media. people captured it on their home cameras in the d.c. area there can be reason to be concerned when you hear something like this. let me say, this is a story that would have been heart breaking all the same had this this plane simply and quietly crashed in central virginia. pilot list flight thousands on the ground they heard that boom and knew something had gone wrong. [explosion] some say that it shook their home. according to norad the sound came after f-16 jetsy scrambled and authorized to travel at super sonic speeds. intercept a private aircraft began to breach the airspace around 3:20 p.m. the pilot of the cessna unresponsive crashing before 4:00 p.m. in central virginia according to state police. now here is fox news jon scott also a licensed pilot speaking to the plane s unusual flight pa
hello, everybody. welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. a busy day in the republican race for president. in the next two hours, two new candidates as the field grows to ten. that s ankeney, iowa, where mike pence will announce his candidacy for the republican normination next hour. and in fargo, north dakota, the first lady is about to introduce the government nor. he, too, will enter the republican race for president. that will bring the field to ten. we believe these are likely the final two entries in the crowded republican field. we have reporters to bringout latest. let s start in iowa where mike pence will make it official next hour. what are we going to see? reporter: you re going to see in about an hour this official in-person rally for mike pence. this is the kickoff for his iowa campaign, where his campaign says they have to lean all in. this is where they will make their mark or be allowed to continue. and they plan on try too good that by go
all this is a democratic national committee is facing pressure to open up the primaries and hold debates and we are on top of all of it. i m sandra smith infer neil cavuto, we have fox team coverage in washington and three more republicans ready for launch. of jacqui heinrich in the white house where pressure is mounting on the president to begin debate. the field of republican candidates is growing fast today, former vice president mike pence made it official he s good to be challenging his old running mate former president trump for the revoke a nomination, he will officially unveil the campaign on wednesday he files paperwork today and will be delivering remarks in iowa, the former vp is expected to campaign heavily on his faith, his record and policies he fought for during the trump administration. i m very confident that whatever things look like right now, that republican primary voters are going to look at the field and think very deeply about who can best carry ou