from the start of the 2024 primary season which kicks off on january 15th with the first in the nation gop caucuses in iowa. january is going to be a busy month. in addition to iowa, new hampshire is also going to hold its primary. there are three republican debates currently scheduled to take place during that month. on top of all of that, donald trump s civil fraud trial in new york will come to a close just as e. jean carroll s second lawsuit against him gets going. trump s criminal trials are not going to begin until later in the year. according to politico, his campaign is already confronting the scheduling nightmare ahead of them as trump s legal obligations clash with his political ambitions. trump s team plans to front load his schedule in 2024 and get him out on the campaign trail frequently early in the year in anticipation that his numerous legal cases could disrupt their plans later on. it is a trump s criminal proceedings, the first of a prosecution of an ameri
expected to give the former president his toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor ron desantis getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. trump used it to pummel the republican field, including marco rubio and jeb bush who he turned into a campaign punching bag. in a moment, randi kaye looks into whether desantis will do better. first, the political waters he is about to jump into. in one way they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval now stands at 40%. new polling out late today shows this. with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that poll shows 34% approve of the way the president is handling the economy. desantis enters a large and growing field. five more are known to be weighing a run, including pence and sununu and chris christie and youngkin. it s the large field that some experts say will favor the former preside
good evening. tomorrow, the man who many expected to give the former president s toughest primary challenge of 2024 makes it official. florida s governor, ron desantis, getting into the race, taking on his fellow floridian, launching the campaign in a streaming event with elon musk on twitter. his opponent s former favorite megaphone. which he used in 2016, of course, to pummel the rest of the republican field, including former florida senator, marco rubio, and floor jeb bush, who you turn first into a verbal punching bag, then a campaign punchline, and finally, a political footnote. in a moment randi kaye looks ahead to whether governor desantis will do any better against those kind of tactics. first, the kind of political waters he is about to jump into. in one way, they may appear promising for a republican candidate. the current president s job approval, now stands at 40%. a new cnn polling out late today. and with the debt ceiling crisis coming to a head, that same p
outside in brooklyn. school is still in session. prompting parents to keep their kids home. bill: nate foye is live in brooklyn. what are you hearing there? good morning. good morning. you can see parents are protesting at ps172 for a second straight day. after a pta meeting last night, many parents are holding a no-show protest holding kids home from school until this policy is reversed. this comes after yesterday where the pta co-president tells me 30% of the school was absent. 142 kids did not show up to school. i m joined now by rosie. she is a concerned grandmother. you have a grandson that goes to the school. you were at the pta meeting last night. what happened at that meeting? many questions were asked by the parents. we didn t get no concrete answers at all. we don t have no information. the mayor s office had a representative at that meeting. what did he say about your concern? most of the time he said he didn t know. he was not sure. no answers at all.
their hamas captors. the office of the prime minister says there are 129 hostages still being held by hamas in gaza. 21 hostages have died. a source tells cnn that the head of israel s intelligence agency is expected to meet with qatar s prime minister to discuss getting hostages released. today families of the remaining hostages held a rally in tel aviv demanding their safe return. cnn s alex marquardt was there. alex, prime minister benjamin netanyahu just spoke about the hostages. what did he say? and fred, that rally took place here on what has become known as hostages square right next to where the defense min cit ministry is based. we just heard from prime minister netanyahu who said all of israel is in mourning for the deaths of these hostages. he spoke specifically about the three who were killed yesterday by israeli soldiers saying we were so close to embracing them, but unfortunately we cannot turn back time. he went on to make the argument that it is military pre