history. you can fill in the crisp cold air as we speak. i remember as a kid watching a guy nobody knew by the name of jimmy carter with this very state. not realizing at the time he had actually technically place a second to uncommitted but it was good enough to launch a white house career. that was then. think of all of the election since and the expectations that did not pan out. barack obama was not supposed to win in this lily white state but he did. and all of the others who are expected to do very well and did not. the last three republican winners in the iowa caucuses never went on to actually win the nomination or the white house. that is the thing about original expectations. they don t always pan out. that s it make the caucus date so unpredictable. history has a way of humbling you. many say iowa could do it again. even if it doesn t we will keep you waiting and wondering, and nailbiting. that is iowa. [cheering] like a big day coming up. i think too much going to
contentious hearing inside tennessee s capitol building is underway right now as republican state lawmakers into expel three democrats over their protest for gun control. inside the chamber and expulsion vote is set to happen very soon. also right now , violence is erupting in the middle east. dozens of rockets fired into israel from lebanon. lebanon claims israel is firing back but israel denying that relies in jerusalem and in paris , scenes of outrage cars getting smashed bottle of paintballs flying protesters clashed with police, these breaking stories and more all coming in right now to cnn news senate. these are live pictures from inch by the chamber there in tennessee of lawmakers prepare for a big vote right now. potentially historic legislative session has begun in the statehouse as lawmakers prepare to vote on a resolution to expel three democratic state representatives. all three are accused of breaking house rules while calling for stricter gun control measures al
and in the air. a humanitarian crisis getting worse by the hour. also following breaking news out of florida. chaos after a shooting at a halloween event. at least two people are now dead, one of them a teenager. we are getting some troubling information about warning signs missed involving the main mass shooter. we are also following major political news this hour. the fallout from the biggest drop out so far from the 2024 presidential race, former vice president mike pence finding out that refusing to overturn an election is an unforgivable sin in today s republican party. plus, as house speaker mike johnson gets ready to get to work this week, we are taking a special look at some of the extreme views he holds on the 2020 election, abortion, lgbtq rights, and more. views even those who voted for him may not have fully realized. all that plus fans around the world in mourning today after the death of friends star matthew perry. oh, come on. don t be mad. we both said somet
desantis or haley, he is still putting up numbers. and perhaps chipping away a little bit at some of donald trump s potential supporters here in iowa. i think his team also wanted to send a message there. neil: will see what that message will be and whether it reverberates. ladies want to thank you both in the meantime just a reminder harris of faulkner s going to take a look at the caucuses at 10:00 p.m. eastern time or special guest book without republicans that are joni ernst and governor kim reynolds as we continue to look at the key players and how they are assessing all of this. we often talk about this the weather and how plays out but in this state it is a crucial indicator. we have never have an indicator like it. are people going to stay at home because it s just so cold? after three days at home with your family think you might be ready to get out and caucus. [laughter] you might be done. [laughter]
crowds to build from there, and you know, they re coming from different places. but in the background infusion centers and the miami p.d. intelligence division in the 34 towns there and the fbi writ wider for the nation, they re all scanning in social media, in human sources, confidential informants to say is there someone planning something? because we ve been down this road before just after the search warrant in mar-a-lago, a man with a semiautomatic rifle opened fire on an fbi office. so you re looking for those tells. and all those wheels are turning. i think, josh, something we need to pay attention to and you focus on this a lot is sort of what this means for national security, even though these documents eventually got back to the government, although we don t know about the iran document from the bedminster audio recording. no one seems to be able to locate that. there s still a lot of potential national harm here. it does, it reverberates.