welcome to the lead. how about this for question of the day? fani willis, what are you thinking? exactly parks trisha murphy. murphy is a top opinion writer for the atlanta journal constitution asking that of district attorney fani willis who has yesterday to deny that she has a special relationship with a special prosecutor she hired, the stunning scandal revealed in legal briefs in georgia. donald trump was at the first hearing today since the allegations were revealed. plus inside the iowa caucuses, exactly how does this very american, very bizarre process work and why does iowa opt for this versus the more popular and easy primary process where voters just line up and vote in the polls? leading this hour, what could be a worsening global crisis for president biden, iranian-backed houthi militants warning of retaliation against the u.s. and its allies for strikes against houthis in yemen last night. the white house insists these were self-defense strikes intended to
coalesund an alternative. i have more on the breaking christie news later tonight. while trump isolding his own fox hall appearance tonight. he watched in person as his lawyer made unlawful claims about why they think a president should have a license to kill the political rivals in america without being prosecuted. so as the headlines range from the start of the primaries to those brazen claims about assassination, right now, we have something special for you. we re beginning in a way with the weather. last year had some of the most extreme weather ever, driven, of course, by climate change. there were heat records broken. catastrophic flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, and then in the winter months, extreme snow events. indeed, there were 28 separate billion-dollar climate disasters breaking the previous record from about three years back. cold weather, as you may know, can be just as overwhelming and dangerous as a fire or a tornado. and nowadays, we have more videos showing
i i m wolf blilitzer in the situation room. erin burnett outfront starts right now. outfront next, trump appeals to the supreme court. the former president asking the nation s highest court to overturn colorado s ruling banning him from the ballot. his legal team says what happened on january 1 was not an inrex. also tonight on the drink of a global war after explosions killmore than 100 people in iran. the president there pointing the fing they are at the united states. is the war in the middle east about to get much bigger? and we are live tonight in iowa as nikki haley and ron desantis face some tough questions about days to go before the caucuses here. who has more momentum? let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. we re live from des moines, iowa, where cnn will host back-to-back town halls tomorrow night days away from the republican caucuses. we ll have much more on that in a moment, but we have breaking news tonight at this hour. former presi
i m dana perino. more on the big name coming up. i m sandra smith. this is america s newsroom. on friday officials are released footage. five officers brutally beating him while he cries for his mom. americans are fed up. dana: the protests over the weekend remained mostly peaceful. demonstrators are urging washington to take up police reform. congress is divided and compromise may be elusive. shame on us if we don t use his tragic death to finally get justice and policing act passed. we need a national conversation about policing in a responsible and humane way. these men and women with badges put them on each day and risk their lives for us, i know that. we also see from these videos horrible conduct by these same officers and unacceptable situations. we have to change this for the better. there has been this attack on law enforcement and you are not getting the best fox team coverage. reaction from geraldo rivera and leo terrell coming up. mark meredith is
thank you, sean hannity. i am laura ingraham and missus the ingraham angle. former university of kentucky swimmer riley gaines was attacked last year. tonight she spoke about how she intends to hold the school accountable. the first, the focus of tonight s angle. when president donald trump speaking at the u.n. warned germany and the rest of europe about becoming reliant upon russian energy, they laughed at him. germany will become totally dependent on russian energy. if it does not immediately change course. we will become dependent on oil in that way. laura: of course when sanctions were put in place, we saw that donald trump was right. and his demands that europe pay for their own defense were slammed by many in europe including the french president emmanuel macron. interest first and who cares about the rest, we wipe out what is most valuable about the nation. the moral values. just as obama years earlier had dismissed the idea of american exceptionalism, he w