apparently another room and he found her, brought her back and she was that it was violent, she alleges in the civil complaint, remember this is monetary damages, this is not a criminal case, but axl rose, his attorney released a statement and we want to say simply put, this incident never happened. though is it doesn t deny the possibility of a fan photo taken in passing, mr. rose has no recollection of ever meeting or speaking to the plaintiff and has never heard about these fictional allegations prior to today. and she also is famous, she was penthouse pet of the year in 1983 and wrote a book in 2014. keep us posted. thank you. giin the next few hours an announcement when the truce will begin. surprise delay in the agreement no hostages to be released before friday. and pause won t go ahead. the war continues until all our goals are achieved. and officials are still hopeful that the deal will happen. nobody doing any touchdown dancing here. still work to be d
them names, mixing it up, maybe there s an opportunity to begin converting the popularity into support. it s an open question whether they can do it. they at least may have the seeds of something there, and one thing that s interesting to disclose on this, we also ask folks in iowa, who s your second choice? we showed you the first choice, who s your second choice, and again, we see, it s just a scattering. there s no consensus, clear second choice among voters. desantis is the top second choice, that s only with 20%. scott getting 15%. i think the reality is any of these non-trump candidates, if they re going to make a run at him in iowa, they ve got to consolidate the non-trump vote. if you re a desantis, you got to find a way to basically bring in the scott, the haley vote. if you re scott, you got to bring in desantis. they got to find a way, those candidates, a competition among themselves to emerge as the primary alternative to trump. again, open question if one of them can do it
have made them very unpopular with republican voters and may be imposing serious ceilings in terms of their ability to attract support. note worry about, look at the top end, the most popular republican in iowa, according to our poll, it s not trump. it s actually a point higher is ron desantis. desantis is down 23 points. he s very popular with iowa republicans. tim scott, 9% overall support, but look at this, 59% favorable, 17% up favorable. even nikki haley, about a 2-1 ratio there, favorable to unfavorable. it tells you that potentially if you re one of these candidates, if you re desantis, scott and haley, you ve got broad goodwill among iowans. you ve got maybe the potential to grow support in iowa. and maybe wednesday without trump there on the stage calling
interest. it is still august, the first debate is wednesday of this week. could ron desantis turn things around or will someone else, like vivek ramaswamy or chris christie get a boost. what we know is that there will be a void to be filled. donald trump is not going to be there. instead, he s opting for a sit-down with tucker carlson on the app formerly known as twitter. that interview has already been taped. will it outdraw the debate? donald trump has done this before, after all, skipping a fox news debate ahead of the iowa caucus in january of 2016. he did not win iowa in 2016. but you can t argue that absence ultimately hurt him. after all, he won the general election. will that be true again? we ve got reporting on the decision making from inside the trump campaign and the contingencies from fox news. joining us now is nbc news national political correspondent steve kornacki. nbc news correspondent, vaughn hillyard is going to join us in just a moment from des moines, and new yo
now totally different atmosphere. trump with nearly 50%, 47% among evangelicals, desantis all the way back at 20. this was a weak group for trump in 2016. now it is one of the biggest sources of strength for him in iowa. now, if trump is going to be caught in iowa, if one of these candidates is going to make it a real race with trump in iowa, i have looked to this screen for some clues. this is favorable, unfavorable numbers, basically, you know, how popular or unpopular each candidate is, and two things jump out at this. first of all, who are the least popular candidates, the ones who have an unfavorable, higher than favorable, it s will hurd, asa hutchinson, chris christie, it s mike pence. what do they all have in common? they have offered the most direct head on attacks against donald trump. christie, for instance, has made that the center piece of his campaign, just shredding donald trump. in each case, that seemed to