it, thank you, guys. good, good evening, martha maccallum and these are the breaking stories that we will touch on all throughout today. general pat ryder is in the briefing room as we speak as iraq condemns the united states for taking out the leader of a iran-backed militant group adding fuel to a very volatile situation in the middle east. we did carry out that retaliation that you see on the right-hand side of your screen. he is answering questions about that and we will monitor that as dancing more will join me with reactions to the escalations that we are seeing all across the region and where the united states goes next. first, back here at home become a very serious blame game is going on over our border at the white house and pointing fingers at each other as the migrants shatters record after record after record, watch. [indistinct] under president biden from america s lead out to illegal immigrants, smugglers and cartels. he is responsible for the great threat
unpopular and disaster of a president that he cannot win reelection. he can. it is true he has the most unpopular president in the history of polling going back to world war ii. 76% of americans say he is too old for a second term. he is underwater on every single-issue voters say they care about. and yet to come if you look at the real clear politics average, his statistically tied with donald trump and leads by 2.2% in the rcp average. with a president that is so weak and so vulnerable as joe biden, the republican ought to be crushing it in the polls. and that race will tighten even more between now and election day. so republicans need to decide if you want this election to be a toss-up or a landslide? that is the question that we will be facing in iowa, new hampshire, and these voting is coming up soon. martha: when you look at the factors that you talk about, scott, moments ago, potential shifts that can come in all of this, one of them you mentioned
most that trump is not the nominee. then we have new challenges and some real challenges. martha: gentlemen, thank you very much very much, marc thiessen, scott bolden great to have you and we hope you will come back soon. speaking of the g.o.p. a front runner we are waiting for a response from the supreme court now that president trump has appealed a ruling that kicks him off of the ballot in colorado. the state supreme court disqualified him under the constitution so-called insurrection clause. some think the president has not been accused of or convicted of in any of the 91 charges that he faces. it is a novel move in colorado. let s bring in former assistant attorney andy mccarthy, always good to see you. happy new year to you. we are in 2 2 2024. good to have you with us. what do you make of this. we talked to one of president trump s attorneys yesterday and she said imminent and, indeed, it happened after the program they were appealing to the supreme court. what does the court
and democracy issue here they will follow it up with the economy based on how it is doing and how people are feeling. martha: let s put this map that you referred to, scott, up on the screen. sabato at this stage in the race which is the very beginning of election year, he s got 260 democrat, 235 republican for the electoral college and 43 toss-ups. he says the toss-up category no surprise, smart, george, trump came up short in all of those in 2020. he said it s as possible pennsylvania becomes a toss-up as well. what do you think question rick it will be decided by a few thousand swing voters and a handful of states. it is that simple. the question for primary voters, who can appeal to the swing voters who will decide the election question rick there has been a lot of reporting democrats are panicky that trump can beat biden. i don t think they are worried. there is a perception on the right right now that so was