this country to a great american comeback. bill: closing argument. florida governor ron desantis in fox town hall in des moines vying for a strong finish on monday. the make or break caucus is five days away. trump is on tonight at 9:00 eastern. wave big two hours. i m bill hemmer. dana: i feel like the audience is great. moderators are very good and candidates themselves high energy and lots of interest in this. governor desantis discounted polls that show him losing to former president trump. he also cautioned against nominating trump for a third time saying he thinks the president has too much baggage. donald trump is the nominee if election is going to be about legal issues, a referendum on a lot of these issues that are not going to put us in a position to hold biden accountable. either way, it lets the democrats off the hook. i think this election needs to be a referendum on their failed policies and we need to offer a positive vision to turn this country around.
sell to think about. for years prior. rick sanitarium in 2012 before iowa at 3%. he won the iowa caucus. got all the momentum going into new hampshire headed for nevada and south carolina. 30% after new hampshire. it can make a difference. josh holmes with me. good morning to you. i guess you could say that second place isn t defined as second place, josh? i think that s right, bill. you have to remember, iowa is typically either a springboard for a quicksand for a candidate coming in and going out. generally speaking the number of candidates that compete in the iowa caucus don t make it to new hampshire and beyond because of that winnowing process. so much of this campaign in particular because of donald trump s commanding lead and the fact that iowa has not been particularly suspenseful in terms of who will ultimately win it is about winnowing the field
because they re afraid to pass it in two pieces because if they pass 1.5 trillion without infrastructure and american people don t support that. they need to republicans to reject bipartisanship and blame them and ram through their package and negotiate with their own side. bill: the essential question in the country. we ll follow it along with you. nice to see you, sir, marc thiessen. thanks. dana: it was a rough week for cnn with anchor chris cuomo under continuing fire for advising his brother, governor andrew cuomo on sexual harassment charges and it parted ways with rick sanitarium and another person. good morning howie kurtz. bill: you might call it a terrible no good very bad week for cnn which over the weekend dumped contributor rick santorum. one of the view conservative voices by saying there was very
and things never get better and it s always good to be surprised about that. so, you know, we re going to have to wait and see and the story of this storm is far from over. we ll talk to some people who have some particularly harrowing tales to tell as evidence of what so many on that island are going to deal with. we ll be talking about your coverage and then i m going to bring in rick sanitarium because we have natural disasters and man made disasters and the idea of what would have made a difference in this particular shooting in texas. there is a solution and a change we can make. we re going to debate that with the good senator tonight. what you said is so important to keep in mind, as bad as the images are that we re seeing, we re only seeing snapshots of it and those snapshots, we re
after chris christie and sarah palin announced they weren t running it seems like republicans are trying hard to keep people excited. take a look at this promo for tomorrow s debate. eight presidential hopefuls will go head to head. rick sanitarium santorum! hot as an oven mitt romney. jon huntsman. rick the corn dog perry. michele i ll be backman. herman cain we ll make it rain. and ron paul. there will be slandering, arguing, and some of the most exciting political conversing you ve ever seen. it is what gives me the experience to put together a plan to help restructure the basis. tune in to the gop. tuesday night at dartmouth college. you got to do what you got to do. welcome back to morning joe.