iowa last night. he is, effectively, and incumbent. the incumbent president barely can get 50% of his own base voters? i don t know. i think that s a huge opportunity for america saying, let s move forward with something new. kristen holmes is in atkinson, new hampshire. we are waiting on donald trump to speak. what do we expect to hear following his big victory in iowa? reporter: we are likely to hear him attacking nikki haley. we ve talked a lot about the fact that nikki haley keeps saying this is a two person race, despite the fact she came in third in iowa, but when it comes to new hampshire, donald trump s team does see this as a two person race. it s not the entire primary, but this state, in particular. florida governor ron desantis does not have a ground game here, but trumps advisers have been watching closely as nikki haley s poll numbers have risen. this is a completely different electorate here, and they are aware of that, so expect new attacks on the former
why now and where will it lead? we ll speak to the national security council s john kirby about all of that straight ahead. plus, just three days away now, the final stretch for republican candidate in iowa. how they re hoping to get people to the caucuses with even a foot of snow potentially arriving. and it s not just in iowa, that snow is coming down hard across the midwest and the great lakes. we ll have a full forecast of what to expect there and across the country. hello on this friday, it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin with that breaking news, what could turn into a major escalation of the conflict in the middle east. the united states and the uk launching strikes against houthi targets in yemen hitting airports, military bases and weapons facilities. these strikes in response to weeks of attacks by the militants on commercial ships in the red sea, and now the houthis vowing to retaliate saying those involved will, quote, p
alarm us, but because they are happening incrementally and because they re happening repeatedly, because trump shocks our system, day after day after day, they become normalized. there is one area of our national politics that probably more than anything else is boiling hot, while also terribly, terribly normal. this is the final battle, with you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. we will expel the warmongers from our government. we will drive out the globalists, we will cast out the common areas, marxists, fascists, we will throw off the sikh political class that hits our country. we will route the fake news media and we will liberate america from these villains, once and for all. this is the final battle, america has to be liberated from villains. former president trump, now candidate trump, posted that video, just a few hours ago. trump claimed that he believes political violence is never acceptable, but rather than actually denouncing political violence, t
haley and desantis did go after each other with haley presenting herself as the candidate of the future. we need a leader that is not looking at four years and eight years. we need a president that is looking at 20 and 30 years. good news, the frontrunner is looking at 30 years. 20 with good behavior. [ applause ] ah-ha. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is friday, january 12th. willie, so much to talk about today. let s see, front page of the papers, daily news, we will not be speaking. not sure where morning joe paper of record is today. i guess because ms. bumiller is here, out of respect, they gave us the new york times. new york times, of course, talking about the missile strike against the houthis. washington post, also, we have the strike as the lead. on the other side, trump s trial. wall street journal, inflation ticking up. yeah, willie, nothing in there also about all the coaches that just sort of yesterday was the harvest, my
direct action, president biden says the strikes were defensive, meant as a deterrent. the houthis are vowing to not back down and experts in the region believe them. is this the moment israel s war officially expanded into a regional war. if so, who else might get dragged in. turkish president erdogan slapped the u.s. and the uk for what he called a disproportionate use of force and so did iraq, warning such strikes don t deter but rather expand the scope of the war. like hamas and hezbollah, the houthis are backed by iran to which the white house issued another warning this morning. here was nfc s john kirby. we re not looking for conflict with iran, and there s no reason to escalate beyond what happened over the last few days by the houthis, they are the ones who have been escalating. we re not looking for conflict with iran. that said, we know that iran supports the houthis, we know that they supply them with the missiles and drones, the same things they have been using