the whole campaign and not have to answer tough questions, well, then we may be in danger of seeing a democrat sweep in 2024. steve: all right. good morning, everybody. it s 6:00 here in new york city and we start this wednesday morning with the race for the white house. the republican presidential primary heating up with former president donald trump expected to arrive in iowa today. ainsley: yeah. that s right. his visit to the hawkeye state comes just a day after florida s governor ron desantis kicked off his great american comeback tour. brian: right. here we go. lucas tomlinson joins us now to set the table. lucas? good morning, steve, ainsley and brian. first visit to iowa as a presidential candidate. florida governor ron desantis vowed to fix the border once and for all. i m frustrated on things like the border because i have been listening to these politicians talk about securing the border for years and years and years. i could tell you if i m president, th
department arrested jack douglas , d shera, believe that he s the one who leaked that trove of secret documents online was a deliberate criminal act, the number of categories of information involved here and the timeliness is hugely concerning. i don t want an abortion. don t have won. florida governor ron desantis signing one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country. beating heart is how our society defines the presence of life. how many more women will get hurt. in the meantime, the meantime, matters here. we value life from conception to the casket is going to be a reckoning. members hope you don t get caught up in it. san francisco police arrested a man in connection with the murder of the founder of the mobile payment service. cash app. mr lee was murdered by somebody that he knew. this is a case with the man that lost his life that deserves justice. the former president, testifying under oath for nearly seven hours, is part of a civil lawsuit led by new york
working on military intelligence systems, which gillian turner was saying is essentially i.t. he s essentially working on technology. he s not involved at a high level with this kind of information. but apparently he found a way to get it, which is the world that we live in today. jack teixeira, 21-year-old. he changed his phone number in recent days. the attorney general calling this a deliberate criminal act moments ago in a very brief statement. we waited for a while for him to come out. he made a brief statement and said we ll tell you more when we can. mike pence is with us with his reaction to that developing story. bret baier joins us and sean duffy are here on set with us in new york. first to chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin with the very latest as she has been uncovering new information on this all throughout the day, every hour. hi, jennifer. hi, martha. we came out of a pentagon briefing. here s brigadier general pat ryder on the arrest.
political armageddon for joe biden. 69% say the economy is bad. 65% say biden is slow to react when issues arise and over half say the man is simply incompetent. biden also getting slammed over the baby formula shortage. the president trying to do a victory lap after flying in supplies from europe. but the formula reportedly will not be going to store shelves. it will instead go to hospitals, doctors and other facilities. president biden is facing all kinds of problems, but as usual, the democrats are running cover. we re moving from the strongest economic recovery in modern history to what can be a period of more stable and resilient growth. president biden has been very decisive in his leadership, beginning with the american rescue plan. we rescued the economy. put shots in arms and money in pockets. kids back to school. laid the foundation for a robust economic recovery. you know, by any metric, with the exception of inflation, this country has moved forward under hi
godlike personality that has grown around him, that is not seen as invincible any more. russia has faced repeated rounds of western sanctions, but its economy has continued to grow thanks to help from china. it means the mood at russia s equivalent of davos welcome to newsnight. our political panel tonight philip collins, who was tony blair s speech writer and worked alongside sir keir starmer on his 2021 conference speech, and mercy muroki, who is a former policy adviser to the conservative s kemi badenoch. today has been very much about the fall out from last night s tv debate when mr sunak claimed housesholds would be paying £2,000 more in tax if labour win. we questioned energy secretary clare coutinho on newsnight last night straight after the itv debate. clare coutinho, where did you get this £2,000 figure from? because it is not an impartial independent figure, is it, it is your own tory special advisers who have added this up and come up with the sums? no, no, n