hello. thanks for joining me. i m paula reed in for fredericka whitfield. we begin this hour with the race for the white house. this weekend marked the unofficial start to the caucus season. on saturday eight gop presidential hopefuls gathered in des moines, iowa. the event gave the candidates a chance to introduce themselves to iowa voters. the expanding gop field is expected to get even more crowded this week. as three more candidates, including former vice president mike pence and former trump ally-turned critic chris christie are posed to officially join the race. the current front runner, former president donald trump chose to skip the iowa gathering, giving his challenges plenty of opportunities to make their pitches and take their shots at the former president. the republican presidential race picks up more steam tonight as cnn hosts a town hall with gop candidate nikki haley in iowa. cnn s jeff zeleny is in des moines for us. jeff, what is your takeaway from this week
developments in the attack on paul pelosi, the husband of the speaker of the house, as we re coming on the air. pros cures just finaling two federal charges against filing two federal charges against the suspect, including attempted kidnapping. we have new details about what the suspect planned to do if he had found speaker pelosi inside the lome. we ve got those disturbing new details coming in. also, this hour, new strategies and new names heading into the campaign trail, a big name democrat, now adding arizona to the calendar for a last-minute rally to push candidates across the finish line. we re live with that, as republicans plan to kick off a rally any minute. in georgia, new rallies, on the powerhouse race, one not so close and another couldn t be any closer. our team covering all of this, standing by. plus, former president trump is asking the supreme court, what he is asking the supreme court to do today and the new reporting coming from the white house team o
performance, if you think about it. but like sam bankman-fried, it looked like a scam. so the tens of billions you re sending, is not charity, zelensky explained, this money, zelensky said, is, quote, an investment. ooh, an investment. what exactly are the terms of this 77. now that we re talking finance? when do we get our dividend checks? zelensky didn t specify that, but at one point in the speech he provided a-point. are the tens of billions of dollars you re sending me with no audit and no concrete proof of what i m actually doing with it, will all that money be enough, zelensky asked rhetorically. answer? not really. not really. he-he-he. more pitches for more investments in ukraine is the return. give me more money so i can demand more money. that s what zelensky promised us last night. under certain circumstances that might actually be fine, if nothing else zelensky is quite an audacious young entrepreneur with the kind of pluck and fast talking shamelessness where yo
team coverage today. adam klotz is in the studio tracking the storm and bringing the christmas forecast. let s start with jackie ibanez reporting on the devastating conditions. multiple families will be spending the holiday without loved ones, five people from oklahoma have died, including a 16-year-old boy. the storm is impacting nearly every state in the lower 48, mother nature unleashing fury during the busiest time of the year, leaving many with nowhere to sleep, except the floor of the airport terminal. im00 not optimistic, if it was a cancelled flight, it is not good. i got to go back down here, rebook or refund. we were anticipating the flight was going to get cancelled and rebooked on southwest and rebooked twice on united this afternoon. i contemplated driving in case flights got cancelled. 12,000 flight delays and cancellations for millions, six states are sounding the alarm calling for a state of emergency. accumulating heavy snowfall and temperatures p
575,000. waiting for the administration to release the latest numbers. he doesn t understand what s going on at the border. he s never been to the border. $1.7 trillion spending bill. on his way to the house. the senate approved the measure and raced to get it pushed through. before christmas, that s not the right way to run the government. after one neighbor thought she saw some lewd behavior. collect, please. it was this cousin eddie-inspired mannequin. santa claus is coming to town santa claus is coming to town you better watch out will: good morning. welcome to fox & friends on this third and final hour of the day before christmas eve. as carley described it. christmas eve to christmas eve. carley: yeah, christmas eve eve. if you have one of those chalkboards, you only have one more day the scratch off. you know what i m talking about? brian: and we will walk by a couple of gifts that would have worked for christmas. he thinks he can ge