exactly one hour away from the first major test of the 2024 g.o.p. primary season. the iowa caucuses. now, more than 1600 caucuses across 99 counties, you can believe it or not. i have been covering to iowa for years covering these caucuses. this year isn t just the coldest, but also has the most riding on it. i will explain what is really at stake in moments. but, first, we have reporters at the headquarters of all the major candidates. first to trump s right here in des moines where fox news senior national correspondent rich edson is standing by. rich? rich: you know, laura, it s cold it s icy. some of the roads are impassable. they have talked to the weather all day long here. we talked to the candidates how that plays into the campaign. they say look, all the campaigns are dealing with this. one campaign aid said, look, we have the most dedicated campaign base in the history of american politics. we re not worried about our folks showing up. speaking of showing up, for
biden s campaign gears up for a trump nomination. then, the state of the race for second place, ron desantis shifting focus to south carolina, while nikki haley faces a make-or-break moment in new hampshire. and moms for liberty pushing their agenda in the classroom, all at the expense of taxpayers. we ll get into the impact this could have an education as the 11th hour gets underway on this wednesday night. good evening once again. i m stephanie ruhle. the 2024 front runners are off to very different starts. president biden started to negotiate crucial aid money for our allies, earlier today donald trump was almost kicked out of a new york city courtroom after he complained loudly to his lawyers during testimony from e. jean carroll. the trial, of course, will decide damages, if any, in carroll s defamation case against donald trump. in a separate trial last, year a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. the judge warned trump to stay quiet and threaten
[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] pete: closing our nation s anthem out with a beautiful with shot of a rainbow. we ve got a snow-covered house with a very stealthy flying american flag. rachel: how wig is the flag thae yours are bigger. pete: the flag on our property? it s bigger. rachel: yours is like used car lot pete: that s what we re going for. [laughter] are car dealership sized flag. not quite that big. good morning, by the way. thanks for your photos will: do you take it up or down? pete: no, i keep it lit. i can t take it up and down, but i keep it lit. i think that s e what you have to do, you make sure it s lit. which we do. and i try to tribe some of those photos for you because don t forget, guys, when we re talking on tv, there are also people listening on siriusxm radio like my wife right now driving from florida to nashville through alabama. do what you can this morning to be descriptive with your words rachel: hi, jen.
donald trump is the winner of the republican iowa caucuses by landslide. the former president 20 delegates closer to clenching the republican nomination. ron desantis inches past nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy susopinioneds his campaign, endorsing trump after finishing a distant fourth. we ll make america great again. iowa, we love you. go out and buy larger tractors and more land, don t worry about it. this is the first, the big night is going to be in november, when we take back our country and truly make our country great again. we have our marching orders. our marching orders are to do all we can to preserve what george washington called sacred fire of liberty, same fire that burned in philadelphia in 1776 when our founding fathers signed declaration of independence. punditting analyze from every angle, we get that. when you look at how we are doing in new hampshire, in south carolina and beyond. [cheering] i can safely say tonight iowa made this republican prima
not excited about that, but that is only the similarity that me and the other guy. half david plouffe, palmieri, they can both. that is all for all in tonight. good evening, alex, where are you? did you say, where am i? yeah, you re not here. it s not the dark cone of last night. lastyou know what it, is it s dp kornacki and the big board. all the board is there. i m here, come visit. i m isa. all right. thank, you my friend. and thank you to you at home for joining me this hour. donald trump handling winning the iowa caucus last night, was not that much of a surprise. but this, this was. i don t know if you know, but they did polls tonight on the election of 2020, do you believe that it was on us or not, 80% 82% said it was not. now, before we go on further here, i should clarify that much like the size of his inauguration crowd or is square footage in his new york city apartment, donald trump is inflating the numbers again. the real number is 66%. nbc