the world. a i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. four weeks from today, we ll be waking up to results from the iowa caucus, so this is crunch time in the land of cornfields and presidential politics. donald trump holding a rally there tonight while nikki haley is going on offense. i ve done well over 120 something, 140 town halls. and i never talk about my opponents. but today i am. the former u.n. ambassador and south carolina governor is sharpening attacks against her opponents calling out donald trump last night for his persistent praise of dictators. also the haley campaign and super pac both releasing new tv ads knocking ron desantis and president biden. i ll just say it, biden is too old and congress is the most exclusive nursing home in america. in a world consumed by chaos, ron desantis is another disaster. the desantis campaign, a dumpster fire. his style always trying to outtrump trump. phony and failing. a weaker nominee than trump. armed with those new ads
classified. i don t know what the timing is. that s it. i just don t know the timing. all i know, i m allowed to have the documents. once you have a subpoena, you have to turn them over. i know this. i don t even know that, because i have the right to have those documents. i don t really know that. all right. once again, donald trump seeming to confess on the air. how fun it must be to be his attorneys in all these cases against him. we ll have much more on that straight ahead. plus, we ll get expert legal analysis on the new federal charges for hunter biden. also ahead, house speaker kevin mccarthy dares the far right members of his party to try to take the gavel away from him. and breaking news, a historic strike is under way this morning. for the first time ever, the united autoworkers are taking on detroit s big three at the same time. we ll go through the union s demands and how the automake automakers are responding. a lot to get to on this friday morning.
through the diversity immigrant visa program which covers immigrants from countries with low rates of immigration. france has lifted their state of emergency officially for the first time in nearly two years. speaking in paris today the prime minister trying to assure tourists that the country will enjoy a good level of security thanks to their new cover counterterrorism laws. in iran vladimir was therefore a one-day trip. president putin said moscow will oppose any unilateral change to the agreement. president trump has refused to recertify video. an update on the appointment for the next fed chair. president trump has been said to pick jerome howell powell as the next leader of the u.s. federal bank. that is according to the wall street journal. bloomberg technology is next. emily: i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg technology. coming up facebook third-quarter numbers tried expectations with the fallout from the tech industry. bloomberg has the numbers and mark