including the weather right now. it is here. decision day in iowa. good afternoon. i am erin burnett in washington. i am in new york. we want to welcome you to live coverage of the iowa caucuses. we are counting down to the official start of the first contest in the republican presidential race. we want to confuse people. washington, you are in new york. everybody, get ready. the battle for iowa taking place against those record cold temperatures we have been talking about. some places in iowa, the real feel temperature is 35 below zero, which has not stopped the candidates in a contest all about turnout trying to get every single person out they can. these final hours, they have been making one case for the candidacies. we know that this is how we are going to get our country on track. remember, today is the day we make history. i am running on your issues and family issues to turn this country around. here is what is interesting. you did not see trump, right? he
iranian assassination plot in addition to former national security adviser john bolton. stand by for new details on federal charges against an iranian operative. later, i ll have a one-on-one interview with ambassador bolton. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. former president trump departed the new york attorney general s office just a little while ago, after he invoked the fifth amendment in a deposition in the probe of his business dealings. cnn s senior washington correspondent pamela brown is joining us with the late breaking developments. this follows the unprecedented fbi search of trump s florida home. yeah, what a week it has been for the former president, donald trump. he asserted his fifth amendment constitutional right today. he says in part because of the search on his home on monday by the fbi. and tonight, we re learning new details about why the fbi took that extraordinar
letitia james took part in the deposition. cnn political reporter sara murray has more on all these developments. she s got new details on the fbi search of trump s florida home as well. reporter: donald trump wrapping up his appearance after nearly six hours at a new york deposition where he pleaded the fifth. which the former president once said was a move for mobsters. the mob takes the fifth. if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? reporter: today trump changed his tune in a deposition led by letitia james office. part of a three-year civil probe into whether the trump organization misled lenders, insurers and tax authorities by providing false financial statements. for years they ve been going after my company. i once asked if you re innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment, trump said in a statement. now i know the answer to that question. he claimed everyone in his orbit was a target, adding if there was any question in my mind, t
Kylie atwood reporting for us. Erin, back to you. All right. And listening to kylie and john talking about the voters trying to make that calculation, do you vote for haley because it might help in New Hampshire and create Momentum And Sort of a Chess Game that people are playing. But who is doing well where when you look across iowa and you look at that Haleydesantis Battle . Well see the voters shock us. But right now we assume on the data its a race for second place. You go back to the 2016 map. Donald trump came in second in iowa. The rest was history after that. This is the Test Tonight for haley, desantis, anyone else running against donald trump. You prove he is vulnerable . Can you make him competitive . The gold counties is ted cruz. Especially for ron desantis, rural america has become trumps foundation. Can you compete with him among farmers and evangelicals . For Nikki Haley its a test too. Can you come in a strong second or third . She is only getting moderates and indepen
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