we re passing each other all the time. it is great to be with my good friend, dana this morning. president biden insisting he told the truth, denying he lied when asked about his previous statements claiming he never had discussions with hunter about lucrative business arrangements overseas despite the fact they were traveling together on a number of these trips. karl rove saying if the president is telling the truth he should have said something to hunter to get him to stop. this was all in public. when hunter biden joined the burisma board it stunk. and the vice president of the united states, his father, was in charge of encouraging the ukrainian government to crack down on corruption and his own son was participating with a corrupt company in a corrupt act. he should have had a conversation with him about it and said what in the heck do you think you are doing? get off that board and stop trying to make money off my name. dana: david spunt standing by at the justice d
it is 8:00 p.m. in new york, 7:00 in iowa for the caucuses where have just been called to order. the 2024 election is officially underway. after a prayer and the pledge of allegiance iowa caucus goers from all 99 counties will hear from representatives of each campaign. ones each representative is heard, you write your preferred candidates name on a piece of paper, put it in a basket and the whole basket is counted in front of everybody. this is about as basic as it gets and that s a good thing. no machines. no harvesting. no drop boxes. those results will come trickling in in any second. we will know the winner tonight. imagine that. early reports indicate that donald trump is performing incredibly well. so sit back and watch because this is actually fun. would you leave your house at night when his 20 below zero, drive across the frozen tundra to politic inside a high school gymnasium? thousands of americans in iowa are. these are the diehards. they ve got a final peptalk t
the community in smoke and forced families to evacuate. bill: fears of an explosion had crews conducting a controlled burn of toxic chemicals. officials gave folks the okay to return home. dana: the governor insists it is safe to breathe the air and drink the water but people who live there say it feels anything but safe and voiced their concerns last night. [inaudible]. i don t know what to do other than to provide you assurance for don t lie. i understand. we re doing all that can be done to look for the source of potential bill: representatives from norfolk southern, the company that operates the train that went through town in early february. they were scheduled to be there last night but they pulled out at the last minute we re told citing fears that residents could become violent toward the company. dana: it made people angry that they said that about them when they just wanted to ask questions. pete buttigieg was not there. they re wondering why he is
intentional. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the break news. stocks plunge. the dow closing down more than 1100 points today. that is the biggest loss since 2020, at the height of coronavirus, when there was so much uncertainty, no vaccine. the numbers were surging of the dead. this is the biggest drop since then. sit because the nation, one of the biggest retailers in the country, target, said it is getting crushed by inflation, which is hurting the entire country. the ceo saying costs have been rising much faster than retail prices. it was just yesterday that walmart stocks suffered its worst day since 1987. same reason, surging costs. the ceo telling investors, bottom line results were unexpected and reflect ton usual environment. u.s. inflation levels, particularly in food and fuel created more pressure. that pressure is hurting americans. it is outpacing any wage increases, and it is doing so everywhere. and the economy is the n
Whatever you want. Lets see if black Hawk County appears. Do you see that . Black Hawk County is the university of northern iowa. Its got a decent population. County population of 4 of the entire state. Ranks 5 out of 99. That is something to watch throughout the evening. A bit of a sample. Just in the time we were talking Johnson County went from blue to Orange And Orange is nikki haley. A race that we will watch throughout the night. It is no pottawatomie county, but is up there. Not as good as punxsutawney. Thats a close call. We will check back with you soon. Thank you so much. You mentioned nikki haley. She is speaking live in clive, iowa. Eighth graders are proficient in reading. Only 27 of 8th graders are proficient in math. We cant be okay with that. Im the daughter of legal immigrants who came here 50