i m martha maccallum live in des moines, iowa. here s the story today. we are here all week. we re hours away from our first big town hall with one week to go until the first in the nation caucuses to decide the 2024 presidential election. tonight, nikki haley. tomorrow, it s ron desantis and wednesday we ll join with former president donald trump and voters here on the ground in iowa. the former president is way ahead in the polls right now. he s telling his supporters to pretend we re one point down and don t stay home on caucus night. karl rove and former obama adviser robert wolf standing by on the matchup. interesting reports today that say former president obama went to the white house to meet with president biden and expressed his concerns about the campaign and how things are being run from the biden perspective. he warned about the possibility of a second trump victory and said not to underestimate that possibility according to these reports. so we gin with con
i m neil cavuto. glad to have you. i want to thank sandra smith and charles payne filling in. i m happy to be back. let s go to ashley webster on the timing of this announcement and how it is going to be released to the public. ashley? yeah, interesting developments. good afternoon to you, neil. fox news confirming that ron desantis will declare for president tomorrow evening. guess what? he s going to do it on twitter. listen to elon musk saying it. yes, i will be interviewing ron desantis. he has quite an announcement to make. and will be the first time something like this is happening on social media with real time questions and answers, not scripted. yeah, just a little different. the event, by the way, scheduled to take place at 6:00 p.m. eastern time. he s expected to file all the necessary paperwork with the federal election commission as well as that will officially kickoff the desantis campaign for president. musk has said in the past that he likes the governor
washington where things stand with our chad pergram. hi, chad. neil, good afternoon. the house freedom caucus just took a formal position in the debt ceiling debate. it endorses the bill passed by the house in april. the caucus says there should be no further discussion until the senate passes the legislation. the house bill, we passed it. that is the mechanism right now sitting there that there s 11 democrats in the senate and the democratic president of the united states that stand between that bill and it becoming law. it was thought that house speaker kevin mccarthy would lose a good chunk of republicans who could not accept anything less than the house passed bill. the question is can mccarthy get just enough gop members on board and can democrats provide the rest. speaker mccarthy has limited capacity to really negotiate. he s handcuffed and in leg irons from that 15 votes that it took to get them elected. if he is able to negotiate something, once he tries to
administration. todd: brooke singman has more from former president trump. brooke. brooke: republicans want john durham to testify before congress next week after his report found the fbi had no form of collusion with president trump and russia in 2016. now the report reads the doj and fbi failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law. senior fbi personnel displayed lack of analytical rigor toward the information they received, especially information received from politically affiliated persons and entities. john brennan briefed obama, joe biden and other top national security officials about hillary clinton being accused of vilifying donald trump in 2016. russian intelligence analysis alleged clinton stirred up a scandal of donald trump for linking him to putin. the intel community does not know the accuracy of this information or the extent of the analysis is exaggeration or fabrication. i spoke with president trump after durham s report was re
keeping his fellow passengers safe from the attack. the man was acting in a violent matter physically and with worths. ashley: jackie ibanez joins us. jackie: steve razor is giving his side of the incident that left jordan neely dead. none of that is based on the facts. as to race, it is not motivation for danny. he is the one that put himself in danger. to save who? all the people on that train, black people, brown people, white people, it didn t matter to danny. danny put his life at risk to save all those people. jackie: neely s death, protesters are suffered from mental illness. he was on the top 50 list in new york at risk. mr. neely was on the risk list for people of concern. neely had been making threats and threatening passengers when penny threatened to restrain him. he has been charged with second-degree manslaughter and rushing to do so according to jordan neely s attorney. we were told there would be a grand jury presentation and that would take time and