general election matchup between biden and trump, and we re going to have some clips of that interview to play for you momentarily, but first i m going to send it up to you in new york, ayman. it to away, my friend. you re going to give us a big preview and the latest on the 2024 presidential race and the sper spective down there in south carolina. we do want to start with the front-runner in new york. the republican primary was once again in a new york courtroom. this afternoon trump took the stand in the damages case brought by writer e. jean carroll. the former president has already been found liable of sexual abuse and defamation by a civil jury. trump today testified for only three minutes, but in those three minutes, believe it or not, the judge had to tell the jury multiple times to disregard trump s out of order testimony. at the same time trump was taking the stand, there was a split screen, a jarring split screen. president biden was hitting the campaign trail at
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
donald trump called it an invasion. with less than two weeks left until the iowa caucuses, today trump and desantis published dueling op-eds in the des moines register. both cast immigration as the most pressing problem facing our country. both candidates promised that they and they alone can fix it. now, what both trump and desantis are advancing in these op-eds are neither actual fixes to our country s border issues, nor are they actual immigration policy, but they are the sort of plans you can tell people you have, and they are articulating them to the public. they want to let fewer brown people in. they want immigration to be as painful as possible. none of that addresses the root cause of migration and the actual problems with our immigration system, which are real. but it is a plan, and it is a plan around which republicans are largely unified. this is video from last friday of migrants including children and adults carrying children, attempting to cross a river at the
forces or any kind of coalition forces to actually target? i mean do we know much about the the military capabilities of of the houthis? the houthis are one of the strongest non-state actors in the middle east. potentially, one of the strongest non-state actors in the world. sort of like a hezbollah and lebanon. that s not the lebanese government, but they are incredibly powerful. the houthis are not the internationally recognized government of yemen, and yet they are very powerful. the u.s. tried to tailor today s strikes and yesterday s strikes to go after the sorts of weapons they use to target shipping in the red sea and in the gulf of oden. it was directed at that. it was not an attempt to go after houthi leadership or other facilities. there are certain targets left, and i ll answer from another sper spective as well. the saudis waged a yearlong battual the houthis, so there certainly is a vast amount of capabilities the houthis have.
double down in this fight for our democracy. you re totally right some of these folks who are discertified with the biden administration do have the most to lose, and in fact would not necessarily be served by a trump administration, particularly people who are frustrated about this administration s handling of israel and hamas. i m not sure how they think it would be better under a trump administration, but it s a real issue. you re telling me you ve got to go out and talk to these people. but what will you actually say? if someone says to you 23,000 people are dead in gaza funded by american weaponry and given american support, some people are calling it it looks like a genocide. what s your answer? what would you say to them? i would say joe bide wakes up every day thinking about this issue and joe biden has approached this issue not from a political one but from the sper spective as commander in chief and from the outset of this