when the time comes. one analogy that we have used sometimes is we are effectively building a launching pad. if we offer our ballot line to the unity ticket they got to build the rocket ship to take themselves. not everyone is thrilled with the idea of no labels jumping in. former house speaker nancy pelosi blasted group back in november suggesting they could jeopardize president biden s re-election chances. no labels says they will announce their plan publicly by about mid march. bret? bret: okay, mark, thank you. stocks are mixed today as earnings season begins. the dow lost 118. the s&p 500 gained 4. the nasdaq was up 3. for the week the dow gained a third of a percentage point. the s&p 500 finished ahead almost two. the nasdaq 3. the state of texas takes over federal property in an effort to deal with the border crisis. we will have a live report from the border. first, here what happens some of our fox affiliates around the country are covering tonight. fox 29 in buffalo as
look, trump was the right person at the right time, and now we need someone else. and you see that in the ads that she s been putting out, she s been saying we need a new generation of republican leaders, and that would be her. and you know, that s a strategy that is a very fine line between both differentiating herself from trump but also not turning off those trump voters in iowa where trump does very well with evangelicals. she is trying to peel off some of those voters, as well, as well as the moderate suburban voters that she s counting on and those counties that she s been campaigning in. sophia, i want to quickly turn to what we re hearing from the biden campaign or from former president obama who has expressed to some of those around biden high-level folks in the campaign that he s worried about president biden s re-election chances. what does a campaign need do as we re going into the caucuses where all the focus is going to
a cajole against biden in a re-election year. what is the chances they let this go and hope the images of the border flood american television screens and damage the president s re-election chances? it depends who you re talking about. mitch mcconnell, right, who has been one of the foremost, if not the foremost republican proponent for ukraine aid, someone like him wants a deal struck on border security to unlock that foreign aid, to be able to send it overseas, especially as we re approaching the two-year mark of russia s war with ukraine. then sometimes you talk about some of the other conservatives who like to be rabble-rousers and cause problems for the president. everything has a political spin to it since we re officially in the election year. we re two weeks out from the iowa caucuses, so that is definitely a possibility. i don t think you can say blanketly that all republicans are looking to sort of let the border situation carry on, to cause problems for the
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differently. and they believe that the military should be about one thing. lea lethality, protecting the america, and they think that under the biden administration a lot of ancillary programming has been added that has nothing to do with that. my sense is this will all be stripped out in committee, so there ll be a conference committee and we ll see what survives i want to turn to something on the democratic side that emerged this weekend. there s growing angst that third party challenger robert kennedy jr. and marion williamson could hurt president biden s re-election chances. rfk jr., the new york post reports, with video, it s not just their account, spreading some really deranged lies about covid that really walk into anti-semitism and an-aan bigotry. the new york post has tape of kennsaying, quote, covid-19, there s an argument that it is ethnically targeted. d-19 is targeted to attack caucasians and black people.