julie: we re on the homestretch, folks. the kickoff for the republican presidential nominating calendar, the iowa caucuses just three days away. eyes are on the candidates but also on the weather there. another major snowstorm is expected today. polar vortex expected to bring insanely freezing temps on caucus day. the contenders are looking to sway voters there way and convince them to even show up. i m julie banderas in for harris today. let s get into it. a new poll of likely iowa caucus goers showing former nikki haley pulling ahead in a battle for second before chris christie left the race. former president trump meantime standing at 54% support. haley at 20. desantis 13. vivek ramaswamy and chris christie with six and 2% respectively when the poll asked who voters preferred with chrissy out of the race, his two points going right into the haley column. a wall street journal piece with the headline haley/desantis food fight validates trump debate. they hammer each oth
may 11th is the date that marks the end of the crisis officially. the crisis status that we have been in since january 2020. one thing that is not ending, though, the spending. president biden showing no signs of slowing down when it comes to hand-outs. his student loan relief measure looking more expensive than initially thought. new analysis that shows biden s newly proposed income driven repayment plan will cost you taxpayers, get this, more than $360 billion in the next decade. that s on top of the almost $4 hundred 70 billion in direct loan forgiveness. it all makes for a possible escalation in the battle between the white house and republican lawmakers who say the spending must stop. we finally reached that point in time where enough is enough. 18 trillion in debt when i got here. a little over four years ago. now 31 trillion. it has gotten to a point where if you don t start exercising a little bit of discipline like everyone else does in this country, all other enti
the scourge of human trafficking is one of the biggest crises of our time. 25 million around the world are being pushed into firelessed labor or sex trade against their will. generating $150 billion every year. a lot of that activity taking place right here at home in the u.s. we see human trafficking across all 50 states and really it can happen in any of the 50 states. last year in 2021 the national trafficking hotline had over 50,000 calls into the hotline and more than 16,000 of those were likely survivors of human trafficking. bill: eric shawn is on this story more on how it can happen and what is being done to put an end to it. good morning. good morning. one of the heartbreaking tolls of the migrant crisis is human trafficking. the product moved by those cartels are people. trafficking for labor or commercial sex work is a booming business in the southern border. the feds say trafficking has been lucrative for the mexican base trans national criminal organization
now as hunter biden was supposed to be sitting right now behind closed doors for a deposition on the hill. but this morning again he said he will speak only to lawmakers if he can do so publicly. welcome to the faulkner focus , everybody. good morning, i m martha maccallum in for harris. republicans said they wanted to talk to hunter biden closed doors. they would hold him in contempt if he didn t show up. he did show up on his own terms. he stood before the cameras on the senate side of the building, lots of attention this morning, and then he got back in a car and left capitol hill. watch this. in the depths of my addiction i was extremely irresponsible with my finances. but to suggest that is grounds for an impeachment inquiry is beyond the absurd. it is shameless. there is no evidence to support the allegations that my father was financially involved in my business because it did not happen. martha: there is a lot there and we ll dig it into today. the house will vot
family s issues. julie: the former president in their sights. what do you say to the former president about he says you betrayed him and sold him out because you promised him you would never run against him? i will tell you when i said i would never run against him we hadn t had the debacle in afghanistan, we hadn t had inflation go through the roof and we didn t lose the mid-terms by ridiculous numbers. donald trump promised record deportations. he deported less than barack obama did in his first four years. i think donald trump sang attacking pro-lifeers the way he has, that snow going to be we weaponizeed by the political left. grady, you don t need to tell us it is cold there. i can tell. it is. it s not the kind of weather that candidates wanted in the days leading up to these caucuses. we re under a blizzard warning right now in west des moines and some of the candidates events