friends brian: starts now. monday, january 15th, the iowa caucuses, we re watching on pins and needles. ainsley: gop will have to go out and brave the goldest weather in decades. break the weather and go save america. join with me and caucus, i promise our best days are yet to come. we will not stop until we get this job done. go out and caucus for me, i ll fight for you for next eight years as president of the united states. ainsley: fox and friends is live from new york and iowa and mornings are better with friends. brian: get dressed. steve: here in iowa and live from the fox news headquarters this week take a look thchl is place called the river center. it is largely a wedding venue and special events. this is big room we ll be using tonight for our special coverage. you can see we have the crews bring things from new york, set pieces and stuff like that. long-time stage manager big v is here. you ready for tonight? absolutely. steve: good. he will
Friends brian starts now. Monday, january 15th, the iowa caucuses, were watching on pins and needles. Ainsley gop will have to go out and brave the goldest weather in decades. Break the weather and go save america. Join with me and caucus, i promise our best days are yet to come. We will not stop until we get this job done. Go out and caucus for me, ill fight for you for next eight years as president of the united states. Ainsley Fox And Friends is live from New York and iowa and mornings are better with friends. Brian get dressed
Goldest moments and to get the latest on the red carpet stars and standouts check us out on the entertainment page on cnn.com. the following is a cnn special report. beyonce always goes big. from a secret album sensation beyonce dropped an incredible album. to the worldwide stage. there s nobody else that sing it like she is. there s nobody else who s giving the energy she s giving on stage. it s been a path to superstardom that started with a shy little girl. beyonce was really a quiet kid, kind of to herself. whose father launched her
Businesses start to spend money on capital and equipment and that usually is a precursor for jobs. so i think we re seeing slow but steady improvement now. that s good news. that is good. let s talk about california, the goldest state which has been anything but golden these last few years. the unemployment rate has dropped below august 2009. the job rate is down to 11.9%. is this, jim, a good indicator as to how well the rest of the country is doing? it s good news because california obviously it s one of our biggest economies. they ve lost a lot of businesses to other states. to states like tennessee and here in texas that have lower tax rates. if they re starting to add jobs back that s a good sign for the rest of the economy. the challenge, alex, is that the overall economy is starting to slow down a little bit. we ve seen leading economic indicators start to turn back down. we ve seen manufacturing start to slow down a little bit.
Washington. they want to know who he s going to put in place in these major positions. not a lot of them think that he necessarily has all of the answers or all of the ideas. but they do have a faith in him that he s going to be able to choose the leaders for the appropriate positions. and when you ask him how they know that a lot of them cite the apprentice. which is interesting because the apprentice is a reality show. but they were able to get some sense from him in that show rightly or wrongly that he is a good leader. but i don t expect to see him doing that. i think trump is a big showman. i think he s huge. i think he likes to do things on a grand scale and he likes to be the biggest, the best, the goldest, if you will. so i don t expect to see him doing any small intimate things. i expect him to be doing these big events for the foreseeable future. at least as long as it is working. if he starts to dip in the polls