join us monday, january 15th, at 4:00 p.m. eastern for cnn s coverage of the iowa caucuses. anderson cooper and kaitlan collins will pick it up now with more on the debate. see you tomorrow. you are looking, the debate stage at drake university in des moines, iowa. tonight s cnn republican debate, the last one more monday s caucuses. one of two contenders, florida governor ron desantis. anderson, he and nikki haley, the south carolina governor, were one-on-one for the first time on the debate stage. they were more focused on each other than their competitor, donald trump, who was holding a rival town hall just a few miles away. they did not put the same fire on him as they did on each other. the two pulling no punches from the beginning of the debate when it came to questioning the other s sincerity and honesty. nikki haley is running. we don t need another mealy mouth politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear to try to get your vote and get into
wallace. ever since charged were handed down against donald trump, the ex president has seen returning to the white house as his best defense. no one is more aware of this than jack smith. jack smith asked the supreme court to rule on donald trump s bid to have the charges ruled out because the alleged crimes took place while he was president. this is not new. judge tanya chutkan rejected that claim and trump appealed. jack smith is asking the supreme court to leap frog the appeals court and settle the matter once and for all. the special counsel s move setting up the first, but maybe not the last time, the supreme courtla a role in the united states versus donald trump. prosecutors say, quote, this caserents a fundamental question at the heart ofur democracy. whether a fmer president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed ile in office or is constitutionally protect from federal prosecution when he s been impeached by the house, but not convicte
How to handle it. if he cannot handle the financial parts of the campaign, how will he handle the economy when it comes to the white house? he has been demeaning me, over, and over, telling lies, desantis lies. com, because he thinks it makes him look bigger. in the one basic thing, as you ve campaigned for president, you re invisible in new hampshire, invisible in south carolina, you re in fifth place, you have $150 million, you dropped in the polls and iowa, so why should we think that you can manage, or do anything in this country? governor desantis? this is a great window into leadership. she s focused on a lot of political process stuff, things that no voter cares about. she couldn t tell you why she failed to deliver school choice to people after she promised it. she says, somehow, that is indicative of me? no, leadership is producing results. we produced results in florida. we did universal
Got to be credible about how you re going to be a nominee of a party that really is focused on working people and small business. and less on the big corporations that may be the old guard republican party. her criticism of you is a lot of donors you were cradling her for used to be yours. that s untrue. she s got a founder of linkedin, liberal democrat. she has got blackrock ceo. we took money out of blackrock from a pension. she s bragged about being there with larry. think he s so, those people were never in my camp. she s got a lot of people who are i think more liberal donors. and the question is why? i think that look of it is because they re never trumpers. that s what i find it if she won says she won t be the vp her other criticism of you is that you essentially have not run a good campaign. you have wasted time here is the thing. that s all process stuff. she s citing an organization that an outgrowth of even control. people in iowa, they don t have
You have to be credible, how are you going to be a nominee of a party that s focused on working people and small business. unless on the big corporations than the old guard republican party. her view is a lot of the donors used to be your donors. she has the founder of linkedin. black rock ceo. we kneecaped them. we moved black rock out of our pension. those people were never in my camp. she has a lot of people that are more liberal donors. a lot of it because they are never trumpers. i find it odd she won t say he won t be the v.p. her other criticism of you is you have not run a good campaign. you ve wasted tons of money. that s all process stuff. she is citing an organization