but it s far from clear the measure can pass either chamber. the u.s. carrying out strikes on iranian-backed groups in syria and iraq as the white house warns it s just the beginning. and california face ing the threat of historic deadly mud slides from a risky weather event. this is a live look at lax. delays and cancellations already piling up. check your flights. stay off the freeways. we ll have much more. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m kasie hunt. it s monday, february 5th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in washington. we now know the details of the long awaited border deal and foreign aid package that senators have been negotiating for months. the $118 billion package would give the president powers to significantly restrict illegal migrant crossings and curb asylum at the border. that would break with decades long protocols. the deal includes more than $20 billion for border security, roughly there are 60 billion for ukraine and $
after seeding the fourth of july jamaica to his rivals. donald trump is back in action. this january we re going to win the iowa caucus. does absence makes voters hearts go fonder. and the b word and the boot. after a controversial attack on a fellow member, the freedom caucus votes to oust marjorie taylor greene. they re proving to the country they re destructionist. but no to no labels as the prospect of a third party candidate gets more real by the day. totally understand the frustrations that lead to this kind of discussion. i may have to be choice c. hello an welcome to inside politics sunday , i m abby phillip. the countdown is on. in just 190 days republican voters will cast their very first votes of the 2020 presidential race in the all important iowa caucus now set for january 15th. and it was in the hawkeye state with donald trump finally returned to the campaign trail on friday to rally the state s critical farming community. but his focus was clear. h
readout on the florida governor s standing in the 2024 race and the uphill fight to catch donald trump. new reporting this hour on why he said what he said. plus, mike pence is doing it today, tim scott is doing it, so is ron desantis and francis suarez, but donald trump is not. most are walking in parades, but not the former president. he s giving more evidence he s running a very different kind of campaign. no labels says they want to give voters a third-party alternative, but some critics wonder if what they really want is to deny joe biden the presidency. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start today with that old saying, honesty is the best policy. at first blush, that might seem like what an operative for the ron desantis super pac is doing, stating the obvious, that things in the desantis campaign are not going so well. listen to steve cortes and his assessment of how his candidate is doing. look, right now in national polling
she brought charges against trump and 18 others in georgia. now fani willis has some serious questions of her own to answer. tonight on laura coates live. the election subversion case against trump in georgia is a sprawling one. it involves more than a dozen co-defendants, some of trump s closest allies and sweeping racketeering charges otherwise known as rico. you ve all heard people talk about it. now a new let s call it a wrinkle for a second could make this case a whole lot messier. it relates to fulton county district attorney fani willis, the special prosecutor, nathan wade, she brought in and whether there s some big conflict of interest that would affect the underlying charges. wade s estranged wife is alleging willis had an affair with her husband and she says she s got receipts to back it up. now there are new records released in the divorce proceedings, including copies of credit card statements that show wade purchased airline tickets for himself and for willis,
made progress, but just how much is an open question with dramatic consequences for geopolitics. plus, reckless. a security threat, a consummate narcissist, two former trump officials warn another trump presidency would endanger the country, but only some of his gop rivals showed they re willing to confront him head on. a debate from affair over race on this juneteenth holiday. the first black president and only black republican in the u.s. senate disagree on how much progress america has really made on race. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, the american secretary of state takes a big trip and a big risk. today, antony blinken stood shoulder to shoulder with china s xi jinping. that handshake, 35-minute meeting was even possible, sends a signal that china and the u.s. are serious about taking the teeth out of tough talk these past few months. listen to the u.s. secretary of state as he strikes a realistic, but generally posit