good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it s kasie hunt. it s thursday, 5:00 a.m. here in washington. it s 4:00 a a.m. in iowa. there are now four days until the caucuses. hours ago, ron desantis and nikki haley went head to head on the cnn debate stage in the fight for number two. both deploying the pants on fire strategy. you have said it again. stop lying. she said she never said it. you re lying. it doesn t change the fact that ron is lying because ron is losing. you lie a the lot. hnikki haley gives him a run fo his money. you get the point. they both also took some time to go after the no-show, far away republican front runner, donald trump. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day. i think president trump will have to answer for it. he sat in the white house and tweeted law and order. but he did nothing to ensure law and order. as your president, i will never let our city burn. at that very moment, trumps wa
That debate between nikki haley and ron desantis was them just completely unleashed in their attacks against each other. i think it maybe easy to lose sight of of the word liar has been used so much in the last frankly sips the trump presidency. it didn t used to be something that people threw around terribly had cavalierly, but ron desantis andhill hale used that about each other. do you think they did any favors to themselves in actually trying to take on the guy who was leading the race? let me say desantis lies, somebody who has built websites, including this platform, it s pretty good they had that up and ready for her. the back and forth of i thought a two-person setting with jake and dana moderating, it would be
Iowa caucuses. the state will hold the first in the nation event with voters coming together in settings to express their preferences in the republican candidate. those candidates have been hitting iowa hard, even donald trump could be seen as an insurmountable double-digit lead over his closest competitors. he says losing iowa does not mean he s out of the race according to ron desantis. this is a long process. we re doing really well in iowa. i kind of like being underestimated. i hope people say that. we re going to do well in iowa. but we re also going to be competing in all these other states. the former president took an uncharacteristic jab at nikki haley. right now, she s having the most momentum, but she says she s not taking the bait. ron desantis andhill hale and the rest of of the pack never do what it takes to secure the
Poppy is off today. we are focused on politics with a very good reason. nikki haley and ron desantis sharpening their attacks in iowa. in back to back town halls, ron desantis andhill hale made the case to voters that trump becoming the presidential nominee would spell defeat for republicans in november. the democrats want trump to be the candidate. they are going to talk about all the legal stuff, january 6th, that will be what the election will be about. chaos follows him. we can t have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos. we won t survive it. now today trump is set to return to the campaign trail with two rallies in iowa after a holiday break. cnn s jeff zeleny is in des moines with the highlights froms last night s dualing town halls. and time is of the essence here for both ron desantis and nikki