harris: welcome to bedford, new hampshire. i m in the middle of a primary. 20 hours ago florida governor ron desantis dropped out. the two-person race between former president trump and ambassador nikki haley is getting pretty fierce. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the political ads are hitting local television here like a storm. it is the eve of the first primary. just a week ago the nomination season kicked off with the iowa caucuses. desantis took a shot at haley as he exited the race yesterday calling her the old republican guard and then desantis endorsed trump. and again, i said it was getting interesting and hot. it is also getting very personal. here in new hampshire nikki haley has made an unholy alliance with rhino, never trumpers. i voted for donald trump twice. i agree with a lot of his policies. i was proud to serve america in his administration. but rightly or wrongly, chaos follows him. if you want a losing candidate who puts a
you re live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening tonight on the eve of the iowa caucuses, donald trump is delivering his closing arguments with a heavy dose of insult, mockery and more lies including hateful remarks about immigrants, making strange comments about jimmy carter, insisting a president has and words about the city he hopes to call home in 2025. we re taking in murderers and drug lords. we re taking in people that are very, very sick. with diseases that will be spread all over our nation. we re doing the wrong thing for our country. it s going to be very hard to recover from that, but we re going to start on day one from deportation. i always say jimmy carter is the happiest man alive and it s good because he s somewhat elderly, what. my wife went to the funeral of roslyn. beautiful funeral. you can t be worrying about something when you re doing the right thing but if it doesn t work out, you re going to end up in prison. they ind
i get it. i know it s going to be cold. but think about this. you get to set the direction for the country. the first contest of the 2024 republican presidential nomination happens tonight in iowa, but voters will have to face dangerously cold temperatures to cast their ballots. meanwhile on capitol hill, its appears congress has a deal to keep the government funded until march despite threats from far right republicans in the house. and also ahead, we ll bring you the latest from the middle east following another u.s.-led air strike on houthi targets in yemen. good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, january 15th. martin luther king day and also iowa caucus day. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day and week with us. we will begin this morning in iowa. the caucuses there tonight will be the first nominating contest of the very consequential 2024 presidential campaign. but turnout in iowa could be a real issue because it will be an ab
Payback against hamas is starting now. Three weeks after the deadliest day for the jewish people since the holocaust. The difficulties of urban warfare, as much of gosnell plunges into darkness with phone lines and internet cut. The concern tonight about civilians. More targeted attacks on u. S. Forces in the middle east. After american f16s launched a retaliatory strike on iranian backed facilities in syria. Tonights other top story, the urgent search for the suspect in the deadly maine shooting. What we are learning about the investigation. The manhunt here intensifies. Behind me, you can see a staging area with armored vehicles. They are planning on sending divers into the water. While this is looking like a major focus today with a lot of people we have a lot of irons in the fire. Norah we honor the victims. Our interview with the family of a man who died a hero. My husband went into the kitchen and grabbed a Butcher Knife and went after him. Saved the patrons that were in his esta
immune from prosecution for things that happened while he was in office, and secondly, whether he essentially is barred from being tried in this case because of double jeopardy, because he was obviously impeached by the congress, but he was not convicted. that is one of the central questions that jack smith and his team is now asking. the filing says in part of that principle, is that a zenith here, whereas here a grand jury has accused a former president of committing federal crimes to subvert the peaceful transfer of power to his lawfully elected successor. nothing could be more vital to our democracy than a president who abuses the electoral system to remain in office, is held accountable for criminal conduct. jake, this is obviously now the goal here is to try to expedite this. they re asking for the court to do this, to get the briefs going by december 18th. the goal is to try to get this going before that march trial date comes near. evan, special counsel jack smi