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from iowa. nikki haley and ron desantis head to head. this is the final push before the first votes which are in iowa. jake tapper and dana bash moderate tonight at 9:00. and i'll be back with anderson for a special hour of "ac 360" starting now. we are now just about an hour away from the final republican primary debate before the iowa caucuses next monday. if you're just joining us, i'm coming to you along with erin burnett from new york from the campus of drake university in des moines. ron desantis and nikki haley squaring off tonight. cnn's dana bash and jake tapper are modera...

the charges here are of the utmost gravity." it's just one, just one trump-related case before the supreme court right now. we're going to start with cnn legal analyst kari cordero and cnn supreme court analyst joan bis biscoupic. what do you make of this request from jack smith? >> he wants to reiterate as strongly as possible as the justices are considering it at this very moment the importance of the case, why delay would hurt the situation, hurt the public interest. not so much hurt the government's case as hurt the public's interest. he says nothing short of democracy is at stak...

>> just moments ago, donald trump returned to a new york courtroom in his civil fraud case, describing the trial as corrupt. insisting he did nothing wrong. now, the defense called an expert witness and things got testy. we've got details when we take you live outside the courthouse in moments. as u.s. aid to israel remains stalled on capitol hill. today marks two months in the israel hamas war. we'll be speaking to a spokesman for an update on the fighting. the presidents of harvard, mit and the university of pennsylvania facing streetny and calls to resign after their hill test...

Haley and desantis. sending an email blast after chris christie dropped out of the race tonight, arguing that christie pulling out is actually bad for haley. okay. obviously everyone perceives it to to be good for her. their argument is christie voters are not conservative republicans. they're mostly crossover votes. so their email reads in party "christie's withdrawal will only pull nikki haley further to the left. seriously, chris christie has very serious negatives and should be a liability to nikki haley." back to our panel. i will say alyssa. i guess by trump's argument, i guess it's a go...

Nikki haley has to be careful when she is on the stage. you talked about these really evangelical and more religious voters here, those are not the voters in new hampshire. they're more educated. they're less religious. going after a lot of disaffected democrats or unaffiliated voters. she can't say anything in this iowa campaign that is going the get their screwed up in new hampshire. >> here is the thing. christie gets out tonight two hours before the last debate before the first votes. and those first votes are in iowa. but now you've got new hampshire voters tonight. i'm going bet a lot --...