Everyone, and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im jessica dean in for Fredricka Whitfield and americans now have a clearer view of what the 2024 Race For The White House will look like this weekend. President biden and former President Trump traded sharp jabs at dueling rallies in the battleground state of georgia, which holds its primaries on tuesday. Biden won georgia in 2020 by about 12,000 votes. And the state will once again be key to winning the white house in november, trump used his rally to mark biden, State Of The Union speech tonight to go, we all heard truckee joes angry, dark, hatefilled rant of his state of the Union Address wasnt it didnt it bring us together emerging border, bring the country together . Im going to bring it together. Its not an age thing. Its a competence thing he didnt White House Reporter Priscilla Alvarez is joining us now and priscilla, you were at bidens rally on saturday in georgia what is his message now as this General Election gets
going to happen. dana: that s true. jesse: what did he say? bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight. blame game over the southern border intensifies as the migrant surges. the biden administration is pointing financingsers at republicans saying the g.o.p. is are rejecting throtion add more agents. this comes as democrats call on the white house to do more. as homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas faces a republican-led impeachment effort over dereliction of duty we will speak with secretary mayorkas live in moments. bill melugin is in eagle pass, texas again with the latest on the ground and we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. jacqui: good evening to you, bret. right now the white house and the house are not talking. even as a bipartisan group in the senate tries to work out a border policy reform deal they hope could also pass the lower chamber and unlock funding. and right now
collins starts now. anderson, thanks so much. good evening, and thanks for joining me. about last night, the 70 minutes i spent on stage in new hampshire with former president donald trump was a major inflection point in the republican party s search for its nominee and potentially the starting line for america s next presidential race. it s important to remember that he is right now the gop front-runner, a race that he is running, as noted, while being criminally indicted, found civilly liable, and under investigation for everything from his handling of classified documents to his wiz empire. also notable the republican reaction on capitol hill today to someone who could easily once again become their party s nominee. are you worried the party s leading presidential candidate of course. that s why i don t intend to support him for the republican nomination. last night provided a clearer view of where trump stands on the key issues that america is grappling with rig
vladimir putin illegally annexes four regions. there s no checks on mr. putin. can the west keep him under control? plus the road to 2018, virginia becomes a battleground for one of the most competitive house races in the country. you look across the spectrum, the number is 218. i spent time in a district that could prove decisive. hello, i m dana bash in washington where the state of our union is picking up the pieces after a devastating storm. the numbers and images are staggering. at least 67 are dead in florida, four in north carolina, more than 850,000 still in the dark this morning. hundreds of thousands now essentially refugees days after hurricane ian swept ashore and swept away life as many know it. already more than a thousand civilians have been rescued and evacuated according to the governor s office. we re getting a clearer view of ian s map-altering impact. entire stretches of florida s coastline are gone. once sprawling community like sanibel island
category 4 storm this week, and we continue to follow ian as it moves into north carolina after making landfall as a hurricane there. it is now moving inland as a post-tropical cyclone, posing all sorts of problems for that part of the country. even though it s been downgraded, officials warn it still threatens the area with herb rain and flooding. in south carolina the storm flooded homes and vehicles along the shoreline, and as high winds pushed the storm surge even higher, two piers, one in pawleys island and another in north myrtle beach you see here partially collapsing. officials are now warning residents to avoid leaving their homes and to steer clear of floodwaters that could pose hidden dangers. the obvious one of the water itself, can isolate people, drown people, but it can also hide downed power lines, obstacles in the water, even contaminants in the water. the waters themselves are the most dangerous. ian slam med into southwest florida as a severe cate