Frontrunner. Ron desantis, tim scott in contention. You have five others in the conversation and the rest are on the outside looking in. Dana former president is dominating on endorsements and racked up more than 80. The rest of the field is splitting a dozen between them. Bill ron desantis has billed himself as the one candidate best equipped. They side with the former President Trump. Dana the first debate giving candidates a chance to turn the tide. This is what voters want to hear. We have to fix the border. This Migrant Situation is insane. If somebody doesnt address and really fix the situation i think were really seeing a lot of america in decline. Were so divided right now. The person that can communicate that message to say im going to lift everybody. We need a stable economy, immigration is a big issue, put our veterans first. Common sense policy. A president with strong business sense to be able to negligent for america. Dana josh holmes has analysis. We begin with Alexis Mc
likely averts time behind bars and gives hunter probation instead. he may have to pay a fine. some in the media defending the president s son while attacking republicans in the process. republicans have been trying to stir up conspiracy theories left and right. one after another have been disproven. i suspect we will have lots of howling from the g.o.p. house republicans are going to keep this up. they ve decided to go all in on this as a way to keep the republican base enthusiastic. these are criminal charges. republicans will call them a slap on the wrist. you re already hearing a lot of shouting. oh, sweetheart deal. oh this, oh that. this is not a sweetheart deal. it s a good deal and i think it s a good deal for hunter biden. dana: hunter s lawyer calling this matter resolved and taking responsibility for these mistakes but the d.o.j. an hour later said the investigation is still ongoing and the republicans are vowing to plow ahead on investigations into th
hit the campaign trail in iowa today. getting brand new reporting on the former president s strategy there and how it might play nationwide. and we have wild pictures out of iceland, just look at this, when a volcano began erupting overnight. it would be beautiful if it wasn t so destructive and dangerous. an update on what is happening there now. and new law in texas making it a state crime to enter illegally from mexico. the details after the increase in crossing at the attorney border. i m sara sidner with kate bolduan. john is off. this is news central. and today, it is all about iowa. nearly all of the 2024 republican presidential candidates will be in the state. and ready to rumble. they have no time to lose. less than a month until the caucuses. and that is translating into more face time with caucusgoers. more money going to ads, more money going to bolster every campaign s ground game to get iowans to turn out and caucus on january 15th. and this morning cnn ha
joe biden s d.o.j. when i could to control of his investigation, i immediately saw it was outside the norm of what i experienced in the past. there was multiple steps that were slow walk at the direction of the department of justice. had you ever encountered that before? i have not. deviations each and every time it seemed to always benefit the subject. it just got to where the switch was turned on and i couldn t silence my conscience anymore. being slow walk, it s taken five years for the irs to look in to hunter s potential tax crimes in the shady income he earned overseas while pops was peep. the first-hand account of prefrontal treatment days of the ag saying under oath. we will commit the investigation will examine the public corruption aspect and not simply scapegoat? hunter biden as an individual? i can t comment about the investigation of glidden to say matters involving hunter biden are in the purview of u.s. attorney in delaware. not restricted in the in
casual warning about a looming a nuclear holocaust. now, last night during a closed door fundraiserr top with other top democrats, biden claimed that this is the firstdi time we have, quote, faced since kennedy and the cuban missile crisis. and thenow, because, accordingo joe , vladimir putin is notvladm irjoking when he talks about the use of nuclear weapons orwen biological weapons or chemical weapons. now, apparently, there is nothing joe going to dot it about it, but he did do this. the administration, they are buying three hundred million dollars worth of anti radiatio$n and drugs. well, that s r not reassuring. that s joe s big plan in the event that putin usesr weap? nuclear weapons. that s it. no one in the white house has articulated a strategy to deter vladimir putin or work on any diplomatic solution. now, the war in ukraine has no end in sight. and now it appears that joe biden is only bracing fort e the worst. get ready. i guess it s line up. get your radiation