fewer than five hours out from the cnn republican presidential debate and nikki haley and ron desantis facing off five days before iowa voters set the race, is this a fight for second place? else on capitol hill when hunter biden shows up unexpectedly crashing a hearing holding him in contempt of congress. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee and spitting in her face. we can hear from hunter biden. you should have the courtesy and don t act like nimrods. hunter biden abruptly walked out. a judge says not so fast on donald trump taking the stand. welcome to the lead, i am pamela brown, jake tapper is out, he will moderate the republican presidential debate with dana bash between ron desantis and nikki haley, the two candidates searching for a breakthrough that could position them to become the one and only viable challenger to donald trump who is the favorite to win his search straight republican nomination. nikki haley trails d
today on inside politics, hunter in the house. the president s son making a surprise appearance on capitol hill to watch a house committee meeting called to hold him in contempt of congress. chaos, shall we say, ensued. plus, it s debate night in des moines. get ready for nikki haley and ron desantis to go head to head for the first time live on cnn. the stakes incredibly high with just five days left for the top trump alternatives to chip away at his massive lead. and demanding answers. multiple investigations are under way after the pentagon waited weeks to reveal the defense secretary was battling cancer. why was even president biden kept in the dark until yesterday? i m manu raju in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. first up, capitol hill meets reality tv. a wild scene as house republicans were starting to move toward punishing hunter biden for refusing to sit for a closed door deposition when the president s son showed up. hunter b
as the weather system unleashes fury on the northeast. this is after spawning deadly tornadoes in the south. tennessee was hit especially too hard. thousands are assessing the devastating damage just weeks before christmas. we have been on the ground and we have seen firsthand neighbors helping neighbors. we ve heard stories of combat medics getting out with bags to help people in the middle of the night in the tornado. i ve never been so proud to be mayor as i am right now. a hard time there. all of that plus a vote expected this week in the house to move forward on a baseless impeachment inquiry of the president. i think it s easy to sort of sit and laugh and chuckle at this bungling exercised by house republicans trying to impeach the president based on nothing. there is something more sinister at play here. this impeachment is political retribution. it is political revenge on behalf of president trump. coming up, i m going to speak to judiciary committee member
hello america, i m mark levin this is life, liberty and levin. on sunday. with our great friend senator ted cruz, how are you. great. mark: how is your reelection race going, you have a tough one. we have a very tough fight, i m running for reelection in 2024, and chuck schumer made clear i m his number one target in country, last time i ran in 2018, they out spend me 3-1. they flooded cash into texas. they more than doubled democrat turn out in texas. and i ended up winning by barely 3 points, 2. 6%. and so, my likely opponent is a very liberal democrat congressman, has voted 100% with nancy pelosi. he is hard left. but she raising money like raze he is raising money like crazy, faster than beto o rourke did 6 years ago. so, we ll face over 100 million dollars coming in against us. and the challenge, it is simple. if you are a left wing partisan, after donald trump, there is no body in the country you want to beat more than me, these guys and in new york, and c
weather forecast very important here in politics, it is going to be below zero, perhaps 15 below monday. that s why a strong ground game is essential. yes, indeed. i suspect we will be hearing about those iowa-new hampshire comments tonight, i m going to guess take that wild guess. jeff zeleny, thank you so much. as we said, trump is skipping tonight s debate in iowa. tomorrow he will be back in a courtroom. unlike his appearance in washington, a court may hear directly from the former president. we have more. elena, what do you know? reporter: well, we are learning that not only is donald trump planning to be in court for his new york civil fraud trial tomorrow, but his team is also making preparations for him to potentially speak during the closing arguments. now here s where things currently stand according to the great reporting from our colleagues donald trump s team and the judge in the case have been having discussions about whether or not donald trump would be able to