cold, the heat is on in iowa where candidates are making their final pitches before caucus-goers head out in what will be the coldest voting day in iowa caucus history. and the wicked weather not just hitting iowa, it s slamming the upper midwest as we speak heading east. it s already knocked out power for more than a quarter million americans and delayed thousands of flights. more on that storm coming up. but first, to the candidates far from hunkering down. and in the case of one vivek ramaswamy, picking up a surprising late endorsement. he s here to tell us all about it. and that run-in he had at a campaign event. and our hawkeye state-palooza doesn t end there. former governor terry branstad on why he s not endorsing, well, anyone. and iowa s longest serving senator, chuck grassley, on why he isn t either, at least not yet. bundle up. cavuto live is starting now. neil: welcome, everybody. i m neil cavuto. it is remarkable, i am not snowing you, it is uncanny how remar
thinks things will shake out. we start with a dramatic move that could have huge implications for the fraught relationship between the u.s. and china. the biden administration pulling the plug on secretary of state blinken s planned chip to china, just hours after the pentagon revealed it had detected a chinese surveillance balloon over montana. so right now the video, this video was taken in billings, montana, on thursday, although it s not clear if this is the balloon in question. obviously there s the balloon. that was secretary blinken who was supposed to leave tomorrow. that s now on hold. the u.s. has decided to monitor the balloon instead of shooting it down, even though it s apparently still gathering intelligence as we speak. a decision not sitting well some republicans. this is the fist time in my lifetime i ve ever seen anything like this, and it s very disturbing to know that it s still up there in the air near our military installations. the time is now, let
independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don t fear us. our allies don t know if they can can t on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future. on the future of our country. that will take years, if not decades and centuries to get out of and that falls on our kids and g
keep their blue check marks. brook has the latest. hollywood unsubscribing, celebrities running from the social media platform. the space ex billionaire took to the site to remind users of his new position saying quote my title is chief at which time right there in the on no idea who the ceo is. it comes as several celebrities make statements announcing their department. singer sarah saying well it s been fun twitter i m out see you on other platforms peeps. sorry this one s just not for me. and sean today rimes the creator of gray s a nate my saying not hanging around for what elon has. maverick says he looks forward to running a platform for wide range of beliefs that can debated in healthy ways without resorting to violence. watch this. now that elon musk runs twitter, do you trust him? no, i do not. i just don t think people should be making money off of passing on this stuff that s a bunch of lies i. but podcast host joe rogen is praising the move saying policies
governor of the bank of england, mervyn king. does economic orthodoxy need rethinking? mervyn, lord king, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. pleasure to be on your show. it s great to have you here. as we look around the world, we see heightened global tension, uncertainty, conflict in so many different arenas. does that mean that for you, there are many reasons to be fearful about the impacts of geopolitics on the global economy? yes is the simple answer. i think we thought about the russian invasion of ukraine, we thought that was a contained conflict. now we see in the middle east, the more you fight, if this extends beyond gaza to major areas of conflict, makes it much more likely that a third will occur. who knows? the chinese blockade of taiwan, perhaps. all of this is going to put enormous strain on the ability of the united states in particular, but also of europe, to provide the financial support, or support in terms of military equipment, to enable ukraine to resist ru