i m proud to have done it. they wanted to get it back, right? there be no question. we celebrate. that yeah? we didn t. we did something that was a miracle. when i walked onto the stage today, a gentleman in the back, probably works for fox, nice guy, said, sir, that like to thank. you i said, for what? he said, you save 2 million lives in the last three years. you ve saved 2 million lives. i said, thank you very much. i know exactly what you meant. 2 million lives. no one has done more in that regard than me. that is perhaps the most important emission from donald trump last night. again, breaking, about being the one to eliminate a constitutional right for women s health care that has stood for over 50 years. here is donald trump s problem. he goes into, i would call it softball a softball event. i ve never seen one a fawning. i m not sure why they had to host their? you know, they could ve just had one to sit there and smile and say, you are great. ask them the s
now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? still not enough. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your morni
ambassador nikki haley in second place for the first time in iowa. the suffolk university survey, trump still leads the race with 54% of support. second place, 34 points back is nikki haley. at 20%, she s followed by florida governor ron desantis whose focus most of his campaign on iowa. 41 points behind donald trump. the bulk of the poll was conducted before former new jersey governor chris christie left the race on wednesday, the kristie hasn t really played and i was not much of an impact there. entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy, they both are in single digits in court in the latest survey. let s bring in nbc news national analyst john highland who is in iowa for us this morning. john, what s going on on the ground three days out? well, first of all, notably absent here in iowa, you, willie. joe mika. none of you guys are here, and
covering it. but this early poll has to feel good for trump and disturbing for desantis. ainsley: that s right. so trump is he has this dominant lead there in iowa, 54%, according to the suffolk university survey. look at nikki haley. she is beating ron desantis by 7 points now. she is at 20%. desantis at 13. and ramaswamy at 6. if chris christie was still in the race he was getting 2% when this poll was conducted. steve: here s the thing. you know, given the fact that suddenly there is this x factor of the blizzard, so, for the most part the candidates have canceled all of their bus tours today and they can t fly around, and bit early cold temperatures. i was talking to my cousin marty yesterday in spencer, iowa. he said you know we are going to get a foot of snow. going to be a possibility that people won t venture out on monday night because it s dangerous. speaking of ron desantis. we have the crazy video. yesterday he was in ames and he
life. to the fullest. 12 days until voters cast their ballots except for those voting early, and new evidence the president is casting a long shadow over these midterms. new usa today suffolk university survey finds 43% of registered voters say they ll be casting their congressional ballots to show their opposition to trump. 30% say they will be voting to show their support for the president. our national political correspondent steve kornacki is at the big board with us tonight. steve, i have a feeling a lot of numbers are on the move this week. yeah, this is we ll give you what may be the single biggest variable to keep in mind over the final 12 days of this midterm campaign. you put it up right there, it s the president s approval rating. let s put this in some perspective. in early september, if you average together all the approval rating polls that were