this country to a great american comeback. bill: closing argument. florida governor ron desantis in fox town hall in des moines vying for a strong finish on monday. the make or break caucus is five days away. trump is on tonight at 9:00 eastern. wave big two hours. i m bill hemmer. dana: i feel like the audience is great. moderators are very good and candidates themselves high energy and lots of interest in this. governor desantis discounted polls that show him losing to former president trump. he also cautioned against nominating trump for a third time saying he thinks the president has too much baggage. donald trump is the nominee if election is going to be about legal issues, a referendum on a lot of these issues that are not going to put us in a position to hold biden accountable. either way, it lets the democrats off the hook. i think this election needs to be a referendum on their failed policies and we need to offer a positive vision to turn this country around.
[national anthem] joey: good morning. this is memorial day, this is fox & friends, a special edition this morning. i m joey jones. in honor of memorial day and fleet week quantico marine corps band performs the star-spangled banner. i m joint today by kayleigh mcenany and todd piro. we are so happy to be here on this memorial day. i want to thank tunnel 2 towers upon the flags they put out on fox square. i hosted over the weekends we had amazing navy band both days. kayleigh: i watched. unbelievable. it gave me chills. joey: to see those dress bylaws. you know the president s own marine corps band in the white house it. feels surreal to say that. kayleigh: such an honor. what an honor to sit here with you today. as we honor all of those who have served. what an honor to sit by you. joey: honor to be here to represent the men and women that i served with. today, more than any other day on the calendar. i heard a lot about this cause gets a month. this cause get
a whole lot of bipartisanship is needed to get this deal done. house financial services committee member ways and just moments from now. first, let s go to chad program on capitol hill. good evening. hinging on two things. the persuasive powers of president biden and house speaker kevin mccarthy. trying to gen up his site geared at reminding the gop his side only controls the house. i think this agreement frames all of that. it does not get everything everybody wanted. that is divided government. it is not 100% what everybody wants. when you look, the country will be stronger. this will be transformational where congress will vote to spend more money this year than we spent last year. some gop members incinerated the speaker on twitter calling the delay deterred sandwich. he also accused the speaker a fake. opposing fake mandates for people to receive benefits. i think that it is really unfortunate that the president open the door to this. not just the progressives,
welcome to cnn this morning. it is sunday, december 17th. i m amara walker. i m omar jimenez in for victor blackwell. look, we are looking at a lot of things, watching a lot of things. namely, the biden campaign are accusing donald trump of parroting adolf hitler after the former president made disturbing comments about immigrants at a rally. senators are working on big immigration changes as they try to reach a deal on ukraine funding. severe weather impacted millions at the start of last-minute christmas shopping and holiday travel. and in israel the idf facing scrutiny after soldiers accidentally killed israeli hostages in gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu acknowledges international pressure but adds, we are in a war for our existence. and could not just rocks, but hot rocks that glow brighter than the sun be the key to helping us end our dependence on fossil fuels? we will look at the new innovative way to address the climate crisis ahead on cnn this morn
announcement. the twitter meltdown during ron desantis much-anticipated run for president. and on day one, the florida governor attacks donald trump. i don t know what happened to donald trump, but he has a different guy today than when he was running in 2015. norah: the shocking story of an 11-year-old boy shot bylit wrist officers officers are tied to a domestic call at his home. hisast words were, why did they shoot me? what did i do? norah: traveling for the holiday weekend? we will have the weather and travel forecast. 3.3 million people are expected to fly, surpassing pre-pandemic levels. it is a 13-foot great white shark. they are thriving off east coast right now, and we will explain why. norah: and we go person to person with olympian mikaela shiffrin. how she turns struggles into success. to be here, now, it s pretty surreal. norah: good evening, and thank you so much for joining us on this thursday night. we begin tonight wi