the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
we ll speak with him in just a little bit. we will be asking him about this new development, the israeli military just confirming that it mistakingly killed three israel hostages. two of them you can see on the screen, this is a developing story. there apieces to be increasing daylight between the united states and israel on the future of the middle east. watch this. i have and will continue to state president biden and the united states commitment to preserving space for peace. there s still a chance for a two-state solution? it s about time that the israel power time failed and we need to build a new one. let s begin live in jerusalem with nate foy. hi, nate. hi, martha. just hours after national security adviser jake sullivan left israel, the idf made that heart breaking announcement where we learned in the confusion of war israeli soldiers accidentally killed three israeli hostages believing that they were hamas terrorists. this happened in the northern gas stri
republicans refusing to crack down. aid for ukraine and israel. as i said, if we believe something is important, we should stay in get the job done. the house heads home for the holidays but the senate sticks around to try to reach a deal on the supplemental spending request. republicans dug in on border security as custom and border protection officers are worn to look out for the explosive devices. the department sending its homeland security secretary to the help. taking the president himself telling the cabinet and staff to get this done. we will discuss the state of negotiations with the republican senator of texas and california democratic congressman. then, hunter biden makes a brief appearance at the capital. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack. here is my answer, i am here. skips out on his subpoena. we will ask our legal panel what options are weighing as the president son faces another indictment. and, one month until t
republicans refusing to crack down. aid for ukraine and israel. as i said, if we believe something is important, we should stay in get the job done. the house heads home for the holidays but the senate sticks around to try to reach a deal on the supplemental spending request. republicans dug in on border security as custom and border protection officers are worn to look out for the explosive devices. the department sending its homeland security secretary to the help. taking the president himself telling the cabinet and staff to get this done. we will discuss the state of negotiations with the republican senator of texas and california democratic congressman. then, hunter biden makes a brief appearance at the capital. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack. here is my answer, i am here. skips out on his subpoena. we will ask our legal panel what options are weighing as the president son faces another indictment. and, one month until t
have hit a snag over cuts to discretionary spending and the setback is dashing hopes of a potential deal by the weekend. john: meanwhile, president biden is backing a joint effort with allies to train ukrainian pilots to fly f-16s. lindsey graham on what that could mean for the war in ukraine and we ll ask him about the impact of the stalled debt talks. sandra: chad pergram is live on capitol hill, and peter doocy is on the ground in japan with the president. is the u.s. sending jets or just training the pilots? what are we hearing here? for now, it s training in europe. and the training over the coming months, coalition of countries participating in the effort will decide when to actually provide jets, how many we will provide and who will provide them, it does represent a softening of president biden s positioning softening, earlier this year could be summarized with just one word. he said no, that seems to be possibly changing on the ground here in hiroshima, presi