bret: let s all have town hall. vivek is going to be on this show little bit later. beers and town hall. thanks, jesse. bret: good evening, welcome to des moines iowa, i m bret baier. five days away from the first in the nation iowa caucuses. tonight at 9:00 p.m., we will hold the third of this week s candidate town hall meetings right here and our guest tonight on this stage former president donald trump. we ll have more on that in just a moment. but, we are following two major stories at this hour. hunter biden makes a surprise appearance at the congressional hearing today up on capitol hill on whether he should be charged with contempt of congress. but we begin with a late afternoon surprise. this one in the 2024 campaign. republican presidential candidate chris christie is suspending his campaign and is dropping out of this race. christie making that announcement just minutes ago. you saw it live on the five. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is here in de
360. the former president stays silent a day after exclusive cnn reporting that he is on tape admitting he kept a classified document about a potential strike on iran. also tonight, how president biden is doing after a tumble on stage while visiting the air force academy. new details on what caused it. later, a conversation with a sherpa guide, who saved a climber barely clinging to life in the so-called death zone on mount everest. good evening. we beginning with a story about the former president caught on tape and admitting to people without the proper security clearance that he kept a classified document, and might even have been waving it around, or waving it around as he spoke. we re going talk right now with kaitlan collins and cnn s alyssa farah griffin, who join me now. earlier today, former president trump was shouted questions about cnn s exclusive reporting, did not answer those questions. what does it say to you? this is the former president who speaks ou
through these early states, we were in iowa, now we re in new hampshire, jake, and what we re seeing emerge is when he s on the stump he s talking indirectly about former president trump. he s never naming him. it s when he gets off the stump and talks to media that we get those more direct hits that he s taking at him. and that seems to be kind of the needle he s trying to thread right now because remember, a lot of these voters he s talking to may have potentially voted, or most likely voted for former president trump in the past. so he has to kind of walk a fine line here. and what we re also seeing is how he is pitching himself to voters. and that s really starting to come into focus. and what we re seeing, the lane they re really carving out for him and that he s carving out for himself is that of a sitting executive. he s not a former anything. he is a sitting governor in florida. and when he talks to voters he s really going through and outlining what he and his team h
later, a conversation with a shirt mckay who saved a climber barely clinging to life on a so-called episode on mount everest. good evening, we begin with a cnn was first out that the justice department has him admitting he kept classified documents about a potential attack on iran. as you will see any moment, he had nothing to say on camera to, cnn he did however weigh in on his social network quoting from the relevant part of a longer rant, quote, the illegally leaked by the doj, fbi, special prosecutor, the document story is a continuation of which all-time. cnn s kaitlan collins joins us who joined me now. earlier today, former president trump was shouted questions about cnn s exclusive reporting did not answer those questions. what does the state of, this is the former president who speaks thought about just everything his remain silent so far? yes, he has commented on the documents as he has done multiple times our town hall. remember after that when he asked i
behind us, end quote. not really. our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer. he s in the situation room, actually he s replaced by alex marquardt today. i ll see you soon. happening now, donald trump brushes off questions about a report you heard first right here on cnn, that is, federal prosecutors now in possession of audiotapes undercutting trump s defense over retaining classified documents. we re also getting reaction from one of the former president s previous attorneys. in the senate the debt ceiling deal could come to a final vote as soon as tonight. even as members of both parties raise serious concerns. majority leader chuck schumer telling senators, they have to stay in session until the bill passes. and russia says that regions near the border with ukraine have suffered dozens of attacks in just the last day. the kremlin condemning international silence over the recent strikes on russian territory. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and