first votes. a key poll shows donald trump far ahead in iowa. with just hours before the kickoff to the 2024 primary race. one candidate jumped in with sky high expectations, now he s fighting for his political life. now is our time. will his iowa focus pay off. candidate governor ron desesant joins me next. and tundra on the trail. caucus-goers brave sub-zero temperatures in the coldest iowa contest ever. wear layers. i worry about that. they could throw a blizzard at us and we ll fight. reporter: david axelrod and larry hogan weighs in and our panel of experts is here to discuss into and rough waters. and a key senator is said to press president biden over the u.s. role. is biden s stance widening the left. bernie sanders joins me exclusively. hello, i m jake tapper in washington where the state of the union is frozen. tomorrow is one of the most single consequenceal days. the iowa caucus where donald trump is hoping voters will help imsew up the primary
and we have a huge number of people that have committed to caucus and we expect that these are the people that turn out. so there a lot of excitement on ground. we re in this for the long haul. we understand that you have to win a majority of the delegates. and our folks will turn out. and anyone that tells you that they could model exactly who is going to turn out in the broader electorate, it is an unknowable. but with our folks, their committed and will be there and we ll have a good night. so no matter what happened, your result tomorrow night, you re in the race, you re on to new hampshire and south carolina and on to nevada? in fact, we have the day after we re going to do a town hall in cnn in new hampshire and do some event in south carolina and we ll get to nevada at sp point. i m participating in the caucus against donald trump and nikki haley is not and she can t win
the night of the shooting because it wasn t just about the moment when kyle rittenhouse fired his weapon, it was always about the lead up to that and the events that were going on. and really the video painted such a picture. such a chaos, such a scary scene in some ways for some of the jurors. they didn t amazing job bringing the jurors back from that night. they re from the community and they remember it and that is something that they did very, very well and clearly the jurors here believed it. and they understood it and so they clearly now have made their decision and so it is an acquittal on all counts. we do think we ll be hearing from one of the defense attorneys at sp point. he would talk to the media. prosecutors, we don t expect to hear from them but we do expect to hear from the defense team and that should happen hopefully sometime later tonight. it is also possible we ll hear from some of the jurors, the judge there at the end gave them basically permission or
0 18-year-old man. and we ve also seen protesters. but not a lot. a number of people who are there with signs, who were perhaps hoping for a different outcome here. but the jurors, they looked at the law, they looked at jury instructions, they reviewed several pieces of evidence as they were deliberating over the course of four days, 25 hours. not guilty on all charges. the end of the kyle rittenhouse trial. the news continues right now with alisyn camerota. hello, everyone, i m alisyn camerota. welcome to newsroom. victor is off. we do have breaking news. minutes ago a jury acquitted kyle rittenhouse on all counts. rittenhouse was 17 years old when he fatally shot two men and wounded a third with an ar-15 style rifle that he brought to racial justice protests in august of 2020. he was charged with homicide and reckless endangerment. he could have gotten a life sentence but will walk free today. rittenhouse took the stand during trial, testifying that he acted in self-defense. the