situation, a key event is happening this evening. what do you expect to hear from the candidates tonight? reporter: we have a few thousand iowa republican activists who are here to see their field of candidates with the exception of the front runner, donald trump. you mentioned his legal woes. that has become part of the campaign. at least for a night, this will be a trump-free evening in the sense that he will not be here. his rivals will be. when you talk to some republican voters here, some of his supporters are very much with him, of course. we know that his core base is strong. but several are saying that they are willing to turn the page, in fact, interested in turning the page. and the candidates are now trying to seize upon that. there is a sense of urgency among many of his rivals. particularly ron desantis. he s been trying to hit all 99 counties across iowa. he s up to 56 counties. he was campaigning in the western part of the state before coming here to des moin
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m in washington. we begin this hour with news that the florida republican party has scrapped its own loyalty oath requiring candidates to pledge support for the party s eventual nominee. it is a promise donald trump has flatly refused to make all along. it is seen as a major defeat for trump s closest rival in his own state, florida governor ron desantis, and a big win for donald trump. meanwhile, as trump s legal woes consider to pile up, the judge has been asked to place a limited gag order on trump. they want to continue to block his ability to make continuing attacks in the federal case. trump still leads the republican pac by more than 40 percentage points in the lowest cnn polls. jeff, we re about four months from the iowa caucuses. you re at a key event tonight in des moines. what do you think we ll hear tonight? reporter: jim, the rest of the republican rivals will be gathered here on stage one by one reaching out to evangelical v
hi, happy eclipse day. were you prepping so much you got to see it? i went to the roof. did you see it? i laid down with the glasses and we work with words but words fail when you think about the whole universe. it s very cool. you don t realize what a marvel it is until you put the glasses on. that s amazing. you get the hype. yeah. it was remarkable. there we are, nice thing everyone might unify four. have a great show. welcome to the beat. we will get to the eclipse and other fun stuff after the course of the hour together. we begin with warning signs for donald trump. the campaign faces headwinds now into key metrics. money and the votes they will need together. for finances, donald trump a wide margin. this is a big part of politics. you know that from the news in primaries but sometimes all the personality and hijinks and other things overshadow just the wrong way this works. biden now pulling and 90 million last month, trump only doing two thirds of tha
Some force left. not really a full pullout. not the political promise trump had. but the negotiations seemed to be messier than ever. they are all these reports that pompeo and bolton are not talking to the inner agency. republicans have very split on this. all the national security leaders in the party don t want to pull out the way the party does. they are not ready for talks to proceed. when you look at these three sweets altogether. you re a student of the president, the way he operates. how much of you is in disbelief. he brings it as something happen planned. there is a whiff of is this real. was this actually in the works. . i m in disbelief at this point that i could still be thrown into disbelief by anything that he does. this was one of those moments where you do step back and say, oh, my, go, this is a thing. this were isn t the president tweeting a cat video. which he did last night.
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