good evening and welcome to new hampshire, home to the first republican presidential primary of 2024, just one week from today. we are live in new england college for cnn s town hall with republican presidential candidate and florida governor, ron desantis. governor desantis is one of three republicans left standing in the race for the white house. he s here, less than 24 hours after his hard-fought, second place finish in the iowa caucuses. where he merrily edged out former south carolina governor nikki haley but trailed former president donald trump by nearly 30 points. tonight governor desantis will answer questions directly from new hampshire voters on the issues that will help determine who wins the republican nomination and i will ask questions of my own. in the audience are voters who say they plan to participate in the new hampshire republican primary, both registered republicans and undeclared voters who aren t registered with either major party but are still allowed
and i will have some questions of my own. in the audience are voters who say, they plan to participate in new hampshire, republican primary, both registered republicans, and undeclared voters who aren t registered with either major, party but are still allowed to participate in the primary elections. to cast a very wide net from various organizations, and business groups, and conservative advocacy. just of the desantis campaign and governor desantis, and a chance to hear directly from the candidate. now ladies and gentlemen, please welcome governor ron desantis. before you get to folks of the audience, and as you mention, it is a donald trump cruised to victory. what can you do from stopping him from showing another big win here in new hampshire next week? look, i think it was the former president of the united states, he is one of the most famous people who has effer been in environment politics, and still had roughly half the iowa caucus goers. and there is an a
including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
live in des moines. ron desantis is up first, followed by nikki haley. stay with us. ac 360 begins now. tonight on 360, a live report from perry, iowa, scene of the latest school mass shooting. what authorities are saying about how it unfolded, which included their discovery of a makeshift bomb at the scene. that and what a student says tonight about what she went through. also tonight, a new batch of unsealed documents in the jeffrey epstein sex trafficking scandal. what s in them and who. and later, house democrats say they have the former president s number, and knits the millions. what s in the report of how much foreign government money went into trump s pockets during the trump presidency. good evening. thanks for joining us. we begin tonight in iowa, but not for the reason you would expect, not for presidential politics. take a look. these are pictures tonight from perry, iowa, northwest of des moines. a vigil, one of two after a day that began with what is a
Revealing they werent able to reach him for a week. You remember what happened with Alexei Navalny when he went missing and showed up in an even worse penal colony. The whelan Family Saw their brother, their son go missing after learning of physical attacks against him. President biden held a private meeting with Whelans Sister Elizabeth shortly after the Familys Contact was cut off, and this meeting lasted 40 minutes. Paul Whelans Sister Elizabeth joins me now in her first and only Television Interview since that meeting. And elizabeth, first of all, thank you for being with me. Im so glad now that finally im talking to you after youve had a chance to meet with president biden, because i know you have been asking for that meeting and hoping to get that meeting for months. What happened . What did the president tell you . Well, Id Love to share with you the details, but im going to keep it to sort of the surface. The families were uniquely positioned to be able to interact on pauls eff