Okay. America, its biden versus trump again, but will 2024 look anything like 2020 . The lead starts right now the time has now come to suspend my campaign nikki haley exits and clears the way for a biden trump rematch. The president is making a play for her voters while donald trump is racking up some new gop endorsements, including a big one from Senate Minority leader Mitch Mcconnell who hasnt even talked to trump in more than a year. And the chances of a thirdparty candidate jumping into this race. This hour, ill speak with the chiefs for no labels plus facing the hard truths about the Fentanyl Crisis when states Change Of Heart after becoming the first in the nation to decriminalize possession of certain alleles this of drugs and welcome to the lead. Im abby phillip in for jake tapper today, we start with our 2020 24 lead. The rematch is officially set. Joe biden and donald trump are almost guaranteed to be their partys nominees for president. After nikki haley officially dropped
me save you some breath. if you re going to ask about this, i am not addressing [inaudible] i know you do. more than i d like you to have. i am not going to address this issue from this podium. i m just not going to do it. [inaudible conversations] thanks, guys. have a great weekend. maria: oh, yeah, no response from the white house to the damning message from hunter biden to the to a chinese executive demanding he keep his, quote, commitment or face retaliation from the big guy. then-vice president joe e biden. and, quote, everybody he knows. coming up, chairman jim jordan on why fbi never followed up on the potential corruption in plain sight. oversight committee members byron donalds and south carolina congresswoman nancy mace on what comes next in their investigation of the biden family influence peddling. all of this as communist china ramps up aggression with plans for a military training and spy center in cuba, 100 # miles away from the florida coast, amidst a we
in africa and sub-saharan africa and its ability to generate wealth. how can we sustain that? does he still have access to that? what does it give him in russia? it s a really good question. does his use outweigh his threat to the russian president? molly mchugh, thank you, my friend. we have a lot more coming up, everybody. you re watching msnbc. our second hour starts right now. a, hey, everybody. welcome back. i am yasmin vossoughian. if you are just joining us, welcome. it s fantastic to see you. if you are sticking with us, we are thankful for that. we are continuing our coverage this hour with more fallout from the wagner group rebellion against russia. a deal was brokered between yevgeny prigozhin and the kremlin. it stopped mercenary troops in their tracks, averting an armed confrontation. so has the temperature come down in moscow today. how has this impacted putin s grip on power? i m going to ask in just a moment. meanwhile, back in this country, we have results
red sea as the risk to u.s. troops grows by the day. the u.s. navy helicopters destroy three iranian-backed houthi boats after they attacked yet another shipping vessel sunday. this marks the latest of roughly two dozen houthi attacks on international shipping since november. the u.s. navy because the ongoing assaults reckless, but says there are no signs of them slowing down. happy new year, and welcome to a special edition of fox news live. i m rich edson in new york. and i m anita vogel in los angeles. happy new year to you. the white house says the u.s. was acting in self-defense when it fired upon those houthi-operated boats. they say it s an all out effort aimed at preventing a wider war, that critics warn it is not the time to be on defense. this idea that we are just going to play defense, waste all our missiles, which is the benefit of the chinese and iranians, let the houthis fire at will not stop without any consequence, that s got to and now. anita: retire
he is 80. polling shows 65% of voters believe he s too old to effectively serve another four years and renewing scrutiny around the dnc not holding primary debates with jack dorsey tweeting this. open the democrat primaries and debates. this isn t fair to anyone. let s bring in our panel. joe concha, columnist at the mess messenger. juan williams and lee carter. welcome to you all. joe, to you first. it seems like the media says the gop is pouncing on joe biden s fall. let s play a little montage and get your response. okay. his age is an issue here. the republicans immediately jumped on this. they blasted it all over social media. givening voters concerns, this is not an image that his critics are pouncing on. this is not pouncing, this is relevant to this campaign. poll after poll shows that people are concerned about joe biden s age. as you said, other polls showing 2/3s of voters saying that they don t believe he has the physical or mental fitness or the the job