arctic blast paralyzed iowa. we have record cold weather, snowfall, record everything. nobody can forecast what the turnout is going to be. are we in for an iowa surprise? plus, mike in the middle. this place is a joke. republ republican threaten to shut down the government. we ve wasted an entire week. if he doesn t show up, i guess we ll just have to wrap it up without him and assume that these were bribes. plus, replacing george santos. people are concerned about safety, about the economy. how much are biden and trump shaping races where they re not on the ballot? inside politics reporting from inside the corridor of power starts now. good morning. i m manu raju. it is finally here. after months of rallies, handshakes and photo ones, the presidential candidates will face off tomorrow in the first contest of 2024. the stage has been set in the hawk eye state and now the political world is reacting to a major new poll from the des moines register and nbc ne
trafficking ring. hunter biden s team pushed back about that. said they don t have any evidence to support any of that, but we re hearing that perhaps they may delay things. may not happen this week. yeah, yeah. what we just heard from comer and jim jordan seems like the argument that hunter biden s team, well, you issued these subpoenas way before the house actually legally validated this investigation. you should issue new subpoenas. the chairmen are now saying we will do that. we will see if this vote this weeks gets canceled. there s a number of things that have to develop. it s not going to resolve the issue. hunter biden doesn t want to testify behind closed doors. and that s not going to be resolved. it could delay for some time, but as you heard from james comer there, he s ready to move ahead and assume the worst even if you don t really know if the worst is true. coming up, how are biden and trump impacting critical races
they re organizing baby sitting at caucus sites for people. so this is going to be really interesting to see how it plays out. as you mentioned, haley has been depending on a different kind of campaign and she s been targeting in these last days, some of the areas that marco rubio did incredibly well in. the question, whether there be an upset. we ll see. it s a big margin for these two candidates to overcome. both of you, thank you so much for joining us. stay warm out there. up next, with less than a week possible to shutdown, house republicans cannot contain their anger. plus, my exclusive new interview with a man leading the biden impeachment inquiry. what he says they ll do if hunter biden does not testify.
i caught one the chairman of the house oversight committee, james comer. i talked to him about the allegation the republicans are trying to make. they re trying to prove there s some sort of quid pro quo, that joe biden was engaged in a bribery scheme. hunter biden himself has refused to testify behind closed doors, to be deposed, and as a result, they may hold him in contempt. we ll see if that happens. comber told me that if hunter biden does not show up, they re just going to assume those bribery charges are real. if hunter doesn t show up and testify, how much harder will that make your investigation, to pin anything on the president? s well, i mean, if he doesn t show up, then you know, i guess we ll just have to wrap it up without him and assume that these were bribes from foreign countries. assume that what the bank said was true. he was money laundering. he was involved in a human