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the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you're just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11'd commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn't either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. >> he's been attack...

i understand it. in fact, trump made the republican party the party of working americans in a way that probably hasn't been true for almost 100 years. >> yeah, because in 100 years, there hasn't been a politician who said, i'm going to make this for third graders to understand what i'm talking about. talking on that level? that was newt gingrich encouraging ron desantis to get on the level of third graders. i'm not joking. you know, kind of like donald trump does. wonder what he means. >> this is a tough hurricane. one of the wettest we've ever seen from the standpoint of water. rare...

good. >> i will take that into my new year. mark, appreciate it, my friend. thank you. >> take care. and "cnn this morning" continues right now. good morning. welcome to "cnn this morning." 8:00 a.m. on the east coast. republican candidates crisscrossing iowa. nikki haley, ron desantis and donald trump all holding events in the hawkeye state today and they aren't holding back against each other. defense secretary lloyd austin condemning recent attacks on commercial ships in the red sea by iranian backed u.s. forces. we will dig into what the plans look like ahead. a woman in ...

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the gloves are truly off in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson t pay little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantie former president openly throwing hay makers. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that. and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn't either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. >> he's been attacking me by moving left. so, this is a different guy than 2015, 2016. 2...

6th criminals in an effort to stay in sync with voters. and the house speaker sounding positive as the outline of a debt deal emerges. it looks a lot like a traditional give-and-take. rumblings on the right do raise a question whether speaker mccarthy can make a deal and keep his job. and some new and critical reporting about the special counsel's classified documents investigation. among the revelations in "the washington post" today trump employees move boxes of papers one day before investigators arrive at mar-a-lago and that trump himself produced a dress rehearsal of moving sens...