ron desantis dropped out a couple hours after last week s program after canceling interviews with me and other sunday shows. and then pundits pressing nikki haley why she was still running in new hampshire? look at the media saying oh, this is donald trump s to have. look at the political class all coalescing saying everybody needs to get out. howard: if they wanted the republican race over this minute. msnbc looking at exit polls kept talking up haley s chances. fantastic news for nikki haley s campaign in terms of her chances that night. howard: it took 13 minutes after the polls closed for fox and nbc followed by cnn to declare donald trump the winner. on iowa caucus night rachel maddow boasted msnbc would not air one word of a trump s victory speech because there was cost to us as news organization for unairing true things. msnbc flopped after critics like me called this blatant censorship. we ll see how it goes. this is decision one we consider to be open-ended liv
begin this hour with the 202 race for the white house as republicans tussle over the future of the gop. president biden lays the groundwork for potential reelection campaign. tomorrow, donald trump heads t iowa as he works to cement his hold over the republican primary voters jones visited come just thre days after his latest nemesis, former governor ron desantis for me, it it is in the firs of the nation state on friday. well desantis has yet to announce an official white house run. he appointed to th administration in florida as the, quote, blueprint for th rest of the nation we ll talk about that later in the show meanwhile trump s vice president, mike pence, i calling on his former boss for ten or a sixth that happened in washingto just last night. pence said trump was wrong whe he asked pence to overturn the 2020 election. thank trump put people ad risk the fallout of january six jus a series of legal woes for the president overshadowing th upcoming gop primary battle. t
iowa as he works to cement his hold over republican primary voters trump s comes just after his lates nemesis, florida governor ro desantis make stops in the first caucus state on friday desantis has yet to announce a official white house run but h pointed to his administratio in florida as a quote, blueprint for the rest of th nation we will talk about tha blueprint later in the show. meantime, trump s vice president mike pence is callin out his former boss for januar 6th. at a dinner in washington just last night, pence said trump was wrong when he asked penc to overturn the 2020 election, so that trump is just part of a series o legal wars with the former president, overshadowing the upcoming gop primary battle. tomorrow afternoon trump s former lawyer michael cohe will testify before a gran jury in new york the investigation over alleged hush money play to adult fil star stormy daniels before the 2016 election. should be just around th corner and this morning, chu
the magic wall. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight, trump s lawyers talking. cnn confirming that the fbi interviewed two of trump s former lawyers. the former white house counsel pat cipollone and deputy patrick philbin. they are the two most senior trump officials to be interviewed in the criminal investigation of trump s handling of classified information. this is a significant development. obviously cipollone and philbin know a lot. they were trump s point men for dealing with the national archives. investigators, of course, asked questions about how 15 boxes of teeshls ended up at mar-a-lago even after, even after they said they returned everything. team trump did. according to the new york times philbin had been working to return all the documents since the national archives realized any of them were missing. it was trump, though, who resisted. several advisers telling the times that trump would say, quote, it s not theirs, it s min
dropping is the price of gasoline. national average hitting $4.40. some states approaching $6 a gallon. dana: that s having a big impact on american families. average household will spend an extra $5,000 this year on gas and groceries alone. bill: stock market dow coming off four straight days of losses amid concerns the federal rate hikes will trigger a recession later this year. dana: yet the president insisting this is not his fault. he is instead pointing the finger at republicans and what he calls their ultramaga tax plan. the architect of that plan calling the attacks a disingenuous attempt to distract. there is nothing that the president said that is in there. what i said is let s get people back to work so they have skin in the game. he was supposed to give his ideas on inflation yesterday. what was the ideas? everybody s else s fault but his. bill: larry kudlow is on deck. first to the white house, edward lawrence has the numbers and reaction there. hotte