former president trump set to go to iowa a week from monday. a few days will also be desantis. assigned the campaign remains underway. former president making it clear he still sees himself as the best chance for republicans going forward. it's interesting he didn't take direct hotshots and potential competition people like desantis and he said he talked about the former house speaker paul ryan and mitch mcconnell. he talked about biden quite a bit but it felt like this was more fire against the republican establishment as well as democrat in the white house right now. it's likely to be a losing primary battle ahead. jon: meredith at the cpac conference in meredith wisconsin. i want to bring in washington times opinion editor and fox news contributor, charlie hurt you hurt the former president and his speech, anything surprise you?