Next week hi everyone, thanks for joining me. Im omar jimenez in for fredricka whitfield. We got a lot to get to today. Were going to start with Breaking News. The us has begun airdropping desperately needed humanitarian aid into gaza gaza three c130 hercules cargo planes dropped a total of 66 bundles today, they included mainly food, but no water or medical supplies President Biden pledged the aid friday at the white house paid flowing to gaza is nowhere nearly enough. Now its nowhere nearly enough and its allies are on the line and childrens lives are on the line, and we wont stand by and but until we get more aid in, i wont stand why we wont let up and were not going to pull out pull out every stop we can get more assistance cnns Priscilla Alvarez is in washington and Paula Hancocks is in abu dhabi in the United Arab Emirates, which has also been airdropping aid into gaza. But i wanna start with you, priscilla, what more are we learning about this . A drop in how it came together .
that s it for us, have a great weekend. the source with kaitlan collins starts now. tonight straight from the source, donald trump and his gop rivals now canceling almost all of their in-person events in iowa. less than 70 hours out before the critical first vote in the nation. the extreme weather and sub zero temps up ending their plans. plus new u.s. strikes against iranian backed militants in yemen tonight hours after president biden said he delivered a message to iran that the barrage of strikes last night. the question now is escalation inevitable? and complications of the trump case in georgia. allegations of the improper relationship between the fulton county district attorney and her lead prosecutor. a judge is now looking into the matter. i m kaitlan collins and this is the source. we are now down to the crucial final three days before the first vote in the nation. right now the republican front runner will be off the trails and on the phones instead just like
scheduled rallies this weekend in iowa out of an abundance of caution amid the severe weather advisories. instead they re going to hold virtual ones. trump, who i should note spent two days in court this week. hundreds of miles away from iowa. he was instead in washington and here in new york. he says he thinks the extreme weather in iowa could be good for him. they have the worst weather in recorded history, but maybe that s good because our people are more committed than anybody else, so maybe it is actually a good thing for us. reporter: despite the optimism, we re told there is some concern inside trump tonight and how those sub zero temperatures could disrupt their plans to take the caucuses by storm on monday. a senior trump campaign adviser telling cnn, the weather issue may take away the intensity, but a win is a win and no one has ever won iowa by more than 12 points, so that s our goal. maybe a bit of expectation
business of poll monitoring. citing a senior trump campaign adviser, the a.p. reports, quote, the new rules will allow the rnc to use its multimillion-dollar budget to handle those tasks and coordinate with other republican groups on election day. this news comes on the heels of new reports across the country of republican-backed efforts to purge voter rolls ahead of the 2020 presidential election. last week in wisconsin a county judge sided with a conservative legal group in a lawsuit that will remove more than 200,000 voters from that state s voter rolls. the same week in georgia the state s republican secretary of state purged more than 300,000 voters from that state s voter rolls. democrats for their part are doing everything they can to push back against these republican efforts. in wisconsin the state democratic party plans to use the open records law to find the names of everyone who s been purged and then work to
for the next 35 years. however, that agreement expired in late 2017, and a federal court chose not to resign it. and that opened the way for this startling headline. trump advisoer, expect more aggressive poll watching. they have a plan for getting back into the business of poll monitoring. citing a senior trump campaign adviser, the a.p. reports, quote, the new rules will allow the rnc to use its multimillion-dollar budget to handle those tasks and coordinate with other republican groups on election day. this news comes on the heels of new reports across the country of republican-backed effort to say purge voter rolls ahead of the 2020 presidential election. last week in wisconsin a county judge sided with a conservative legal group in a lawsuit that will remove more than 200,000 voters from that state s voter rolls. the same week in georgia the