including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
this is it, the official kickoff for the 2024 battle for the white house, and one state has the first shot at shaping the race. it s decision time in the bitter cold heartland. iowa has a huge, huge role to play here. this starts here. there is no way iowa is voting against trump. the first votes in a presidential contest that is testing american democracy in extraordinary ways. are you ready? will the former president and unprecedented legal peril get one step closer to a white house comeback? 2024 is our final battle. it s iowa s choice. tonight, after months of anticipation, the republican race gets real. donald trump aiming to drive home his dominance over his gop rivals. we got to be sure that we put this thing away. ron desantis and nikki haley. our best days are yet to come. engaging in a heated showdown to be the top alternative to trump. nikki haley is running on her donors issues. i m the only one running on your issues. he is going to
with less than six weeks until the iowa caucuses four republican hopefuls not named trump try to set themselves apart. good evening from new york. hello from the spin room here on the campus of the university of alabama in tuscaloosa. site of the debate, 2024. it is wrapping up. chris christie, ron desantis, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy once again the former president did not take part. nikki haley, who has been rising lately as a contender in some polls and in the eyes of some campaign watchers and certainly in the eyes of some big donors came in for she had a lot of criticism heading towards her tonight from desantis and ramaswamy. no doubt that. i know you will be speaking with some of the debaters tonight. look forward to that. pamela brown is checking the facts. gary has his focus group of voters in iowa. and our political panel here. first, a moment from the debate stage. a clash between chris christie a vivek ramaswamy with nikki haley it in the middle. you
Court. Denise Valdez testimony described the days leading up the murder. And how the crime may have happened over a trailer. The iteam was the only camera in courtroom Vanessa Murphy is here with more. Vanessa Murphy a few things really stood out a key witness admitting hes a drug user and had used drugs before arriving in court today. A description of a warning note sent to the grandmother days before she killed. And the victims boyfriend describing hearing gunshots and finding his girlfriend shot on eisenman as he appears for his preliminary hearing. Meaning the judge will decide if the case against him moves forward after this process. Its continued to tomorrow. He is accused of killing 47 year old ladonna metais on july 3rd. Today that key witness i mentioned earlier told the court how he sold eisenmans trailer to metais and her boyfriend without eisenmans permission and he was furious over it. And threatening note demanding 7thousand dollars for the trailer. A few days later metai
Spreading a false rumor that marco rubio had disparaged the bible. Sot ted cruz we will conduct this campaign with the very highest standards of integrity but rubio is focused on trump who is leading in nevada by 26 points. His apparent unstoppable rise has the republican establishment rallying around rubio. Sot marco rubio 22 50 21 donald has a base of support but the majority of our party doesnt want him as our nominee the democratic contenders were on opposite sides of the country. In front of more than 8 thousand people at the university of massachusetts amherst, Bernie Sanders again hit Hillary Clinton on her wall street connection. Sot Bernie Sanders we do not represent corporate america. We dont want their money speaking of money, clinton spent the day fundraising in la. She was in the middle of scandal. The set. Sitting next to leading man tony goldwyn who plays the fictional president on the hit abc show. Clinton has a Comfortable Lead against sanders in south carolina. As the