conflict. all of that of course on the line tonight and of course this saturday morning where will is right now.w. thanank you all l for being g w and thanksks to will. it s time now for ac 360. tonight, which candidate benefits when the roads to the white house freezes over. we re live in iowa where blizzard conditions and subzero temperatures threaten to be a decisive factor in monday s caucuses. also a night after the u.s. and british air strikes on houthi targets in yemen a new message from a top houthi leader. and later cnn s donee o sullivan investigating how skeptical officials can face backlash from conspiracy theorists. thank you for joining us. we begin with iowa three days from the caucuses and the state is being hammered by winter weather. this is video of the capital des moines where the temperature is now 9 degrees. the wind chill is minus 13, and a blizzard warning is in effect. cnn s jeff zeleny is there for us tonight. jeff, i don t know how we conv
an ideal candidate to replace her. to maybe some candidates in cochise your critics water saying this is an election skeptic. denier. denier. some people would view that as a disqualification. correct. there s people in cochise who raprobably saying this is our guy, he knows what s up, he knows the election been s stolen. so when you got there some people were probably happy to see you coming. yes. reporter: but then something happened he never expected. you weren t extreme enough. they found out from the beginning that i was going to follow the laws and procedures. reporter: and they weren t happy about that? some were not. your actions, sir, are not that of a conservative. if i had the authority i d fire you. reporter: at public meetings in cochise county some voters who believed conspiracy theories about the election decided bob
directly people being attacked. reporter: republican bill gates is on the board of supervisors for arizona s largest county. how concerned are you about the fact there are election conspiracy theorists now becoming election officials? i m very concerned about that. we re seeing that in some small counties. we are only as strong as our weakest link. it s very sad because we need experienced election workers. reporter: fortunately for bob, he returned to his old election job in a different arizona county where he says he is no longer being harassed. as for the election conspiracy theories he shared in 2020 do you regret sharing those facebook posts? yes. the 2020 chapter should be closed and we should move forward. we have to believe the process of the certifications in each state of the secretaries of state. reporter: so you think voters should trust the 2024 election? even if trump loses?
is that doubt there. he s pushing out different things about vote counts and things like that. still someone really grappling with that. i do encourage viewers to go onto cnn.com. my colleagues have an article that dives in a lot deeper to just how misinformation perhaps has influenced how this person views the integrity of american elections. it s fascinating to hear. next allegations of an affair between fulton county d.a. fani willis and the man she picked as the lead prosecutor in the georgia election subversion case against the former president. accusations the lead prosecutor spent money he made on the case to take her on lavish vacations. anand now the e judge in thehe has set a hehearing on i it t a. detatails ahead.d.
join the millions of people taking back their privacy by downloading duckduckgo on all your devices today. last month we brought you a report about the rising number of profanity related death threats left on voice mails for public officials. messages that threaten lynchings and other forms of violence. they re just a few examples of an increasingly toxic environment facing officials around the country as well as election workers. well, tonight donee o sullivan reports what happened today one arizona election official that once believed the maga land conspiracy theories but then discovered it wasn t extreme enough. you should be in jail, you should be killed, you should be fired to just people screaming into the phone. i mean just and 24/7. lisa was the director of elections in arizona s cochees