house playing out in key battleground states as the two leading contenders for the republican nomination hit the campaign trail. hello to you. hello, john. happy friday eve. anita vogel in for sandra smith. former president donald trump meeting with faith leaders in des moines, iowa as he b barnstorms the state before he joins sean hannity tonight on fox news. florida governor ron desantis makes a two-day, five-town blitz across the state before campaigning in new hampshire. john: the field for the gop primary will grow more crowded. mike pence, chris christie, and doug bergham will show their hats into the ring next week. rich edson is live in urbandale, iowa, the former president taking aim at desantis today, and desantis saying you know, that s not the way to go about this. it s been back and forth and intensifying, certainly after ron desantis got into the race. we have seen that since the former president has been in iowa, he arrived last night. came here to the we
fine line as he ramps up his campaign. here is the conundrum for ron desantis. on the one hand you have to attack trump to beat trump. on the other hand you have to attract trump s voters to win. how do you do that? if anything, i think the diehard trumpers, millions in the republican primaries, they are going to they are punishing desantis for his new attacks on trump. politics is about the art of what you can t see not what you can. and i think trump has a tremendous advantage right now. harris: very busy weekend of campaigning ahead. seven big-name g.o.p. candidates in the race and they are about to get company next week. former vice president mike pence and chris christie and doug burr gum will announce their bid for the white house. rich edson is in iowa where former president trump is set to speak shortly. again, we ll bring you that live. rich. good morning, harris, you know the security is here, the supporters are here, the media is here. just waiting on presi
you say you re for a secure border this is all happening under the biden administration. and the policies that charlie crist supports. it s only when they go to d.c., new york, or, of course, martha s vineyard then all of a sudden they say, you know why? because we have ee leets in this country that want to impose policies on you but they don t want to suffer the same consequences you may have to in your community. just a couple of the jabs exchanged last night by the two candidates for governor of florida. we ll have much more from this debate straight ahead. plus, the latest from eastern europe. there are growing fears that putin is planning a new type of attack as a justification for escalating the war in ukraine. and career going live in london. a new presume minister will make history amid economic crisis in the united kingdom. good morning. welcome to way too early on this tuesday, october 25th. we re two weeks from the mid terms. i m jonathan lamire. new poll
Welcome to prime time weekend, lets get right to the weeks top stories. With less than two weeks to go before he makes history by becoming the first expresident of these United States to ever stand trial on criminal charges, donald trump is turning to a tactic straight out of a mobsters playbook. The expresident , going after the daughter of the new york judge, judge merchan, who is overseeing the criminal hush money case. In typical trump fashion, his attacks have been filled with foaming at the mouth rage and bluster, and conspiracy theories with a dash of disinformation for good measure. The expresident accusing the judges daughter of sharing a photo of donald trump behind bars on social media. Court officials quickly knocked that down, but trump hasnt stopped going after the judges daughter. He has posted about her at least four times since tuesday morning. Trumps attacks began one day after judge merchan imposed a gag order on donald trump, prohibiting him from lashing out against
6 00 p. M. On the west coast. It is 4 00 a. M. In gaza where the lights tonight are again are out. Power has been severed from the city as israel continues to besiege hamas in preparation of what will be a full scale Ground Assault that could begin frankly at any moment. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu said this invasion will resignation with israels enemies for generations and itll change the middle east. Now more than 100,000 Israeli Soldiers are now amassing at gazas border. Over 300,000 reservists have been called up in only the last 48 hours. Residents of gaza reportedly received this text massage telling them to flee to egypt immediately, you stay, you die. Now, i can tell you and i can promise you been a long time friend of israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and i can assure you he means everything he says, and he will follow through. Unlike your President Joe Biden who is weak and frail and a cognitive mess, israel happens to have a very strong leader. Now, the days o