trace: martha, bret, thank you. good evening, i m trace gallagher. it s midnight on the east coast, 9:00 here in los angeles, 11:00 p.m. in iowa, and this is america s late news, fox news @ night. there is breaking news tonight, the vote is in and former president trump took a commanding and historic lead in the iowa caucuses tonight, winning by the largest margin ever in that state. he told fox news he is honored and invigorated by the results. meantime, also huge news, ron desantis now projected to win the iowa silver. meantime, coming in second place is desantis with nikki haley just a few points behind, and as you can see, vivek ramaswamy, who came in fourth, has now suspended his campaign and is endorsing donald trump. we have analysis throughout the hour from steve hilton, aaron. nay, and many more. but we begin with team fox coverage. the legal trouble and what to expect in the lead up to super tuesday. but first, to the senior national correspondent rich edson, li
it knows. it saythe s unmanned drone was harassed and damaged by two russian fighter jets ove over w international waters.. it s all we have. we s all we have. we re going have to take re e their word for it. everybody else seems to be. lierybody else seems to be. lindsey graham didn t ask many penetrating questions. no, he moved immediately, seized the opportunity to demanthat thed the pentagon k the russian air force.here he here he is . what we should hold them accountable and say that if you t nearever get near another upsa flying in international watersl. your airplane would be shot down.ld what would ronald reagan do right now? ronalhe would he would startn e shooting russian planes down if they were threateninreg our assets. what would ronald reagan do? good quewould ronald reagan do? oh, good. senator graham. ronald r. senator graham. question. senator graham, ronald reagan s two term presidency was notablen for the fact that he did not declare war on the russian
hopefully. and the base,eived, the questionnaires we received, other people will take other che soon and save us from this lunacy. in the meantime, colonel douglas macgregor join s us to assess what we re seeing. doug , thank you so much for coming. one of the very few people we trust, you ve been honest sincet the very beginning and tak se a lot of a lot of abuse for it. where ddoo you think this conflict stands tonight? well, the ukrainians are being crushed. e evewan the washington pos to the new york times are now finally beginning to print the trut truthh. their casualties are horrific.ty we ve effectively seenn the russians destroy three separate armies built by th the russians destroy three separate armies built by the ukrainians and everyoneag is beginning to wonder what s really happening. russly happening. this war was not starteda by russia. did russia beggebeggedd us not . and drag ukraine into nato . we ignored russia and russiae gn made it very clear that they
atlantic alliance, he failed. we will not let eight krats and would-be dictators we re here with our panel. we have so much to discuss. susan glasser, i want to start with you. you were the washington bureau chief for t the washington pos. you have a lot of experience there. watching what vladimir putin is doing right now, moving his targets to the western part which basically means closer to the nato alliance, what does that tell you? the thing that s really concerning is that vladimir putin has one mode when backed into a corner, and that s escalation. remember, this is a leader who has repeatedly used military force throughout the course of his career and believers he s succeeded by doing so. he came to power by launching a war in chechnya. he s invaded georgia before, invaded ukraine before. he believes he can still su
i want to ask you about your piece in the washington post has been how the president is a gold mine for performing intelligence agencies. basically, you talk about his 32.7 million twitter followers and without much obvious meditation, you say the president s unfiltered thoughts are available night and day broadcasting 33.7 followers without much obvious mediation without diplomats or strategy. how do you think the adversary is using the president s source feed? i think it s easy for them to engage what what s bothering him and what s keeping hip up at night in addition to how he can be manipulated. planning events while they are hosting the president they could easily use the media at a