today on inside politics a cold campaign reality. blizzard conditions in iowa mean chaos for republican candidates trying to reach every voter they can. the crucial question, how much will the dangerous weather impact turnout on caucus night? plus, firing back. president biden ordered airstrikes against iran-backed rebels who have been firing at commercial ships, fuelling fears that the middle east could be on the edge of an all-out war. and, i don t hate her. that s the faint praise some iowa republicans are giving nikki haley. we will hear what some voters are really thinking in a brand-new focus group. i m dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we start in iowa, which is under a blizzard warning today. it is freezing there. now, i m sure you re thinking, duh, it is january. obviously it is cold in iowa, but this is different. it is brutally cold. historically cold. so cold that iowans are being told not to even take a step outside, and it
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the global supply chain issues have more or less been resolved. relative to the major corridor. yeah, it is. and they don t want that sort of spillover effect hitting the u.s. for right now the white house is saying, not quite yet. let s talk about the trump of it all, the former president, candidate for president, again put the following on his social media platform. so let me get this straight. we re dropping bombs all over the middle east, again where i defeated isis let s put a pin in that and come back to that in a second and our secretary of defense who just went missing for five days is running the war from his laptop in a hospital room. the second part of that is an area where the president has a legitimate problem, which is the whole where did lloyd austin go and the fact that he was ill and everybody wishes him well, but this disconnect in terms of communication. the first part about it is just such a reminder that it used to
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targets. according to u.s. officials, more than 100 precision-guided munitions were used as part of the strike, the u.s. trying to go after the houthi s ability to attack international shipping lanes in the red sea. you see that there, one of the world s most critical waterways. we have seen the u.s., according to central command we have seen the houthis, i should say, carry out 27 attacks on international shipping forcing vessels to avoid the strait right there, the u.s. trying to make it safe. first, there was a defensive coalition to try to safeguard the waterways. this after repeated warning to the houthis is a strike to try to degrade their ability to target international shipping. shortly after the strike president biden released a statement explaining the rational behind these. he said, these targeted strikes are a clear message that the united states and our partners will not tolerate attacks on our personnel or allow hostile actors to imperil freedom of navigation in one of
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is coming. they just don t know when it is coming. is it going to be after iowa? is it going to be after more republican candidates drop out? until then, that is why we are seeing such a ramping up of the biden campaign going after trump explicitly on all of the issues we ve seen them talk about whether january 6th, the democracy issues, the economic issues. they re doing the framing of this is what you would get if it were trump and not biden sort of preemptively and trying to remind voters, yeah, this is what the trump white house looked like for the first four years. this is what the trump white house could look like if there were an additional four years. such great reporting. everybody check it out on cnn.com, the biden campaign trying to persuade the persuadable voters that this is likely to happen. thank you all. appreciate it. up next,t, we arare goining to k to i iowa whwhere polls show mo than 5 50% of f republicanans a backing dodonald trumpmp. so do hihis rivavals still h
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