Confronting donald trump on issue after issue without ever naming the former president. And starting with an impassioned plea to help ukraine defend its country against Vladimir Putin. Bowing down to a russian leader, i think it is outrageous, dangerous and unacceptable. Taking to task donald trump and far right republicans for whitewashing january 6. My predecessor and some of you here seek to bury the truth about january 6. I will not do that. Here is the simple truth. You cant love your country only when you win. Calling out House Republicans telling them to stop Playing Politics on the border and pass the bipartisan bill. We have the simple choice. We can fight about fixing the border or we can fix it. Im ready to fix it. Send me the border bill now. And he delivered a forceful defense of womens Reproductive Freedom, critical Campaign Issue for democrats. Those bragging about overturning roe v. Wade have no clue about the power of women. But they found out when Reproductive Freedom
good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it s kasie hunt. it s thursday, 5:00 a.m. here in washington. it s 4:00 a a.m. in iowa. there are now four days until the caucuses. hours ago, ron desantis and nikki haley went head to head on the cnn debate stage in the fight for number two. both deploying the pants on fire strategy. you have said it again. stop lying. she said she never said it. you re lying. it doesn t change the fact that ron is lying because ron is losing. you lie a the lot. hnikki haley gives him a run fo his money. you get the point. they both also took some time to go after the no-show, far away republican front runner, donald trump. i think what happened on january 6th was a terrible day. i think president trump will have to answer for it. he sat in the white house and tweeted law and order. but he did nothing to ensure law and order. as your president, i will never let our city burn. at that very moment, trumps wa
voluntarily, keyword. but the sound heard round the world this morning is sound that no one was ever intended to hear form er governor chris christie was caught on a hot mic last night right before he started the speech where he dropped out of the presidential race. listen. she s going to get smoked. you and i both know it. she s not up to this. desantis called me. petrifyied. pet are you if ied of what? we don t know because the mic cut off right there. to be clear, she, the one who is going to get smoked, is nikki haley. who now is in the strongest position donald trump in the state of new hampshire. let s bring in political congremmentator and former republican lieutenant governor jeff duncan. also the host of can we please talk mike leon. good morning to both of you. thank you for being here. the amount of political news we
focus that are trying to caucus and swing for her. but there was a lot of personal attacks lobbied last night. it didn t feel like we lost sol of the policy vision and strategy with the personal attacks. haley in particular. and speaking of the former president and how they approached him, you once said on cnn you called and said that donald trump has the moral compass of an ax murder. and my colleagueses dana bash and ge and jake tapper asked about his character. i want to show you how they answered that question. do you believe donald trump has the character to be president again? pz. i m running because i m the guy that s going to be able to engineer a comeback for this country. i appreciated what president trump did, but let s be honest. he saud he was going to build a wall. he did not deliver that.