good evening. welcome to los angeles.e cri m trace gallagher intro bret baier. the crisis at the southern border now spreading beyond major cities. we will look at hohow businesses are impacted by the record surge, plus, whatever happened to the w russian military contractor, the wegner group?on anald bret baier explains what additional infrastructure of tha u.s. may need to meet the biden administration s electric vehiclt,e goals. but first. breaking tonight, president joe biden prepares to win over voters after what many say was a tough year. the president is on a family vacation in the caribbean amid the expanding conflict in the middle east, the war in ukrainet and as the crisis at the bordere swells to record numbers, theses challenges remain flash points in 2024.vo as a new fox poll shows how voters think this year has gone. just 24% think 2023 was a good year, while that number has steadily risen since 2020, stilo 13 percentage points lower than in 2019. fromluca
and why would you at all free. ednesd happy wednesday, everybody. oh, yeah. ayybody, yeato critics still wal at dave chappelle, the legendarelley comedian just released a new netflix special. and you know what that means wha once again, it s time to get. mad at jokes. true critics in the media are bluer in the face than a choking smir ink. wer now, you remember back in 2021, the usual suspects were ououtraged that chappelle dared to joke about transgender people in his act. trans people were aghast at thee professional comedian who makes fun of everybodys , made fun of them, which seemed strange. not making fun of you seems the opposite of inclusion. still, netflix employees staged a walkout. walkouthey demanded content wars to protect their precious when really they re the onesed o who should come with a contentn warning and have it tattooed on their foreheads that reads handle with care where you in other words they acted just like the censors they claim conservatives are.
mr. wolf blitzer in the situation room. i ll see you tomorrow. happening now, republican presidential candidates ron desantis and nikki haley are preparing to take questions from iowa voters live here on cnn. we re setting the stage for our back-to-back town halls with donald trump s top gop rivals. i ll speak with chris christie this hour. also tonight, newly released documents reveal that they spent millions of various trump-owned property while he was president. we re following the money trail. isis is now claiming responsibility for a pair of deadly explosion. how this attack could impact wartime tensions in the middle east. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. behind me are live pictures in des moines as they will soon appear in back-to-tack town hall events. let s go to kristin holmes, live from sioux city in iowa. with the caucuses only is 1 days away, what are we hearing from the c
thanks to sandra smith for her hard work yesterday. to alexa mcadams in manchester, new hampshire, on this announcement and more to come i guess. alexis. it s a crowded field all ready. and chris christie is officially throwing his hat into the presidential race, just about 3e paperwork to enter the white house for the second time. but chris christie says he has what he takes what it takes to help the debate stage. and we had what they saw it about this. to take a lesson. i m not a fan, but i would like to hear what he has to say? i think that everybody has to figure out what they are doing and put forward and go from there. so in just a few hours, the former new jersey governor expected to launch his campaign on stage at a town hall in the new hampshire institute of politics. spending more time in new hampshire recently and are all that didn t go so well. he came in 6th in state s primary and dropped out the race and later endorsed trump. they are not really buddie
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