ron desantis trail trump by some 24 points, according to the latest new york times sienna pole is making the claim that he rather than trump is best placed to win the general election. with me as the candidate, you re going to have somebody that will beat biden. reporter: the former president will head to iowa saturday, but says he won t take part in the fair side chats with the iowa governor that candidates traditionally take part in. trump has been feuding with republican governor kim reynolds but she was staying studiously stoic today. well, that s his choice. i would love to have the opportunity to interview him. reporter: and we still don t know trace whether trump will choose to take the stage at the first gop presidential primary debate on august 23rdrd. fox is hosing it. bret baier and martha maccallum. form president says he will tell them and the rest of us next week freyss. trace: jonathan hunt live for us. heritage foundation senior fellow jonathan isaacs.
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illegal immigrants known as dreamers. that stands for the deferred action of childhood arrival program set up under president obama. on the presidential campaign trail trump called it on constitutional promised ended the first day of office. seven months later, things have gone complicated. daca has given work permits to nearly 800,000 immigrants who came here as children. some republicans are urging the president not to completely rescind the program including how it could damage the gop. i don t think you should do that. i believe in something congress has to fix. these are kids who know no other country, who are brought here by their parents and don t know another home. i do believe there needs to be a legislative solution. congress has failed to pass immigration reform under the past two presidents and current
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praises of survivors who have shown remarkable strength in the face of this disaster. as tough as this was, it s been a wonderful thing. even for the country to watch in the world to watch most apparently, the governor of the relationship with the governor mayor has been fantastic. were signing a lot of documents now. molly: we have team coverage on this. adam is in the fox weather center following the path of another hurricane. steve harrigan has the latest on the cleanup efforts. we ll begin with peter who is following the president s trip. what kind of help and hope was the president able to give concerned evacuees? at one point while the president was handing out hotdogs and a man came to him