good deal. see you later. j good evening. i m bret baier we are coming to you live from frigid iowa. for the 2024 presidential cycle. thousands of iowans gathering in homes, schools, churches to make their voices heard in meetings known as caucuses. they are doing this in spite of incredibly cold temperatures, hostile weather conditions throughout the state. we have fox team coverage. some of them are out there, including the latest information from our fox voter analysis just in. bill melugin is at the ron desantis headquarters in west des moines. asha has my is at the des moines headquarters nikki haley. we begin with senior national correspondent rich edson at the bales of operations for former president donald trump. good evening, rich. rich: good evening, bret. former trump says locked in tonight and campaign has every precinct in the state covered. is he going to visit one of those caucus sites tonight before coming here to watch party in des moines. trump, for mont
new york city in the path tonight. rob marciano on this and the record heat. he s tracking it all. new reporting tonight on former president trump s handling of highly classified documents, abc news learning donald trump s lawyers were unable to find the sensitive document trump was allegedly recorded discussing about a potential u.s. attack on iran during the trump years. pierre thomas reporting. also a word coming into night that the cia director, william burns, has made a secret trip to china for the biden administration. martha raddatz standing by with late reporting. the senate passing the debt deal overnight, and president biden a short time ago addressing this from the oval office, on the bipartisan nature of the agreement, arguing neither side got everything they wanted. mary bruce in washington. also, major news on the economy tonight, the u.s. adding 339,000 new jobs last month, nearly doubling predictions. the stock market soaring today on the news. in california,
giddy up. the producers were right, that is quite some video. thank you for being with us thank you for being with me, you can sleep in tomorrow. yay. at 9:00 cnn news central starts right now. arrested for threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on a president. a man crashes a u-haul into gates right outside the white house. new details this morning, including video that seems to show a flag with a swastika and we just learned the man s identity. back in court, evan gershkovich has now been wrongfully detained in russia for nearly eight weeks. his case today is back in front of a judge. what s in question today and what it means for his freedom. this is cnn news central. a man is under arrest this morning for crashing a u-haul into barriers right in front of the white house and we are getting chilling new details about what he appeared to have with him. officials say at about 10:00 p.m. the truck drove into security barriers on the north side of lafay
the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the