this is the first because the big night is going to be in november when we take back our country. >> a huge victory for donald trump in the first contest of the 2024 presidential election. >> number 2 ron desantis and then just behind that, nikki haley. >> the top tier of candidates did not go after him on his greatest vulnerabilities. >> despite of all of that, we've got our ticket punched out of iowa. >> they really see south carolina as the next target. do they have enough money to continue going forward? >> underestimate me because that's always fun. >> she's on to new hampshire. >> potential opportunity for nikki haley, it's easier said than done. it's not a race for second. it a's race for relevancy. >> donald trump's grasp of the republican party is as firm as it's ever been. >> there may be three tickets out of iowa, but donald trump's is first class and nikki haley's

and ron desantis's are in steering. >> good tuesday morning, everyone. it's the top of the hour. i'm phil mattingly with poppy harlow in new york. the race for the white house heading to new hampshire. that's where our kasie hunt is. donald trump overnight dominating the iowa caucuses. it was a historic landslide for a republican caucus cementing his clear status as the gop front runner as we head into the new hampshire primary. it's an astonishing political comeback for an ex-president who left the white house in disgrace, is currently facing dozens of criminal charges and potential prison time. ron desantis edged out nikki haley for a distant second place finish. in his victory speech, trump acted as if the race is almost do done. >> i want to congratulate ron

and nikki for having a good time together. we're all having a good time together, and i think they both actually did very well. >> cnn's entrance polling is showing trump's popularity is enormous, in spite of his legal problems. 65% of caucus goers say trump is still fit for the presidency even if he's convicted of a crime. our political analysts standing by to break down how big trump's victory was. let's start with kylie atwood live in des moines. good morning to you, he wanted to be dominant and he certainly was, trump i mean. >> that's right, poppy. topping more than 50% of the vote here in iowa for trump. it was a commanding and historic win. >> an overwhelming victory for donald trump.

>> we want to thank the great people of iowa. >> the former president winning the iowa caucuses by a considerable margin solidifying his status as the front runner of the 2024 republican presidential nomination. speaking from his iowa headquarters, trump gave a rare message of unity. >> this is time now for everybody, our country to come together. we want to come together whether it's republican or democrat or liberal or conservative. >> florida governor ron desantis narrowly beat out nikki haley for second place. >> in spite of all of that that they threw at us, everyone against us, we've got our ticket punched out of iowa. >> a desantis senior campaign official says he will stay in the race. >> people want to have hope for this country's future, and that's what we represent. we represent a chance to reverse the madness that we've sneen in this country. >> despite placing third, nikki

haley predicts that this race will come down to her and trump. based on recent positive polling out of new hampshire. >> when you look at how we're doing in new hampshire, in south carolina, and beyond, i can safely say tonight iowa made this republican primary a two-person race. >> haley is continuing her message that the gop needs a new generation of leadership. >> 70% of americans don't want another trump/biden rematch. >> and entrepreneur vivek ramaswamy suspending his campaign for president after placing a disappointing fourth. he called trump to offer his endors endorsement. >> we're going to do our part now going forward to make sure that america first lives on. to make sure that donald trump is successful as the next president of the united states. >> entrance polling providing

insights into how trump locked in his victory. two-thirds of caucus goers believe that biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election, despite no evidence of widespread voter fraud, and nearly half of caucus goers say they identify with trump's maga movement. >> we have an invasion of millions and millions of people that are coming into our country. we can't have that. we can't have that. it's not sustainable as a country. it's horrible. >> now, all three candidates will end up in new hampshire today. nikki haley went there late last night. ron desantis is stopping in south carolina before going to new hampshire, and trump for whom the courthouse has become a central piece of his campaign, he is going to new york. he's going to be there for the e. jean carroll civil damages trial, and then he's headed to new hampshire after that with the new hampshire primary a week from today. poppy, phil. >> poppy atwood from des moines.

we go to manchester. i think you ran into nikki haley on your way to new hampshire. what's she feeling coming out of the caucuses? >> reporter: yeah, phil, you know, i would say the mood was grimly determined, if you will. it was not cheerful or kind of -- it wasn't something that gave you the sense that they felt like they had definitely won but rather they had to continue to like rise and grind because if they'd come in second place, i think it would have been a significantly different narrative here. the expectations for her in iowa really changed there in the last weekend. i felt that. i was at one of her final events in iowa and you could tell her staff was under a ton of pressure. they were very protective of her. they seemed as though they were worried about a mistake derailing things at the last second. you can kind of really tell how a campaign is feeling by those sorts -- that sort of posture.

and at the end of the day, i think there was some disappointment in the results here. that doesn't mean they don't have a chance again here in new hampshire. they absolutely do. it's just not the kind of role that at this point has a lot of people that i'm talking to thinking that it is really possible to dent -- put a significant dent in donald trump's inevitability. >> grimly determined. it's like on a saturday morning when i have 17 kids' sporting events. that's how i approach things. kasie hunt, we'll get back to you. lee carter is with us, our senior political analyst and anchor, john avalon, and jamal simmons. thank you. >> good morning. >> all the beyond the cross. why did trump get such a huge thing? >> republican voters are looking for a fighter. 82% of voters who voted for

donald trump voted for him because he was a fighter. he had such a strong ground game. when you heard his caucus advocates out there talking about what it was about him, they were talking about he cares about people like us. he's going to fight for us. that's the message that carried him right to victory here. desantis and haley i think really struggled to get a message that was about the people. when you hear what people said about haley, a lot of people said, well, she's a next generation leader about her. when you hear what people said about desantis, he did a good job in florida. it's about him. trump has made it about the people. as much as a lot of people don't understand how donald trump -- you're laughing. >> i am. >> donald trump makes it about everybody else. it's what people feel. that's what we're seeing in the polls. the polls were pretty much right. they said exactly where donald trump was going to land. but desantis overperformed the polls. >> the organization for desantis definitely mattered. nikki haley frankly under

performed. the latest des moines register poll had her in second. her claim that this is a two-person race rings a little hollow this morning. >> it almost made it tougher for her. >> here's where you saw the comparative lack of enthusiasm. big win for donald trump. functionally the incumbent in this race, so i think that's important. he is the incumbent spiritually of the republican party. the other thing that's striking to me is taking a big step back, 110,000 people voted in a state of almost 3.2 million. and $120 million spent. a thousand dollars a vote. that is a very expensive investment for a very small percentage of the iowa electorate, but a big win for donald trump nonetheless. >> we've been talking about the message from nikki haley coming out c out, which is heading into new hampshire and framing this as a you don't want that rematch. take a listen. >> trump and biden both lack a vision for our country's future

because both are consumed by the past, by investigations, by vend vendettas. by grievances. our campaign is the last best hope of stopping the trump/biden nightmare. >> the thing that sticks out know on that is one, poll after poll seems to say people don't want the rematch. they have a chance to do something about it. they didn't in iowa. will they in new hampshire? >> in new hampshire you may see people who feel like, oh, my gosh, donald trump is really coming. we've got to figure something out. trump is like a walking, talking middle finger, right? so people are thinking about -- people think about him like, oh, this guy is the way we get back at the elites. the way we get back at the people in charge leaving the rest of us behind while they continue to make more summon and divide the spoils amongst themselves. he does have i think what we were talking about earlier from the polls. he does have this persona. haley has got to figure out how

she converts in new hampshire. i think the des moines register poll last weekend that put her in second place is what kind of dampened all this enthese usias today. >> she is in striking distance in our, you know, poll in new hampshire of trump, about seven points. did his huge win in iowa make that even harder for her in new hampshire? but also after that poll, christie's out, you know, and that poll showed that a lot of his voters go to her. >> every person i talked to in iowa yesterday or leading up to this all went to the same question. does donald trump get over 50 or not? if donald trump is at 49.9, i think we have a very different conversation now. and all that is about the expectations. >> he's not, he's at 51. >> so donald trump is certainly. he's always been the alpha dog. he's in the driver's seat and it's a very fast car right now. nikki haley has to do what she said she was going to do in new hampshire. new hampshire corrects what iowa does.

she has a very small window it to do that, and ron desantis, if you've not won any counties in iowa where you campaigned the hardest, you put all your hopes in, you have to justify why you're going to stay in this race at this point. >> you were waving and laughing. >> no, no, no, no, i'm just -- look, i think, you know, nikki haley narrowly won johnson county, coralville, iowa city, i do think, you know, ron desantis got his ticket punched. he came in second as he said. but he hasn't really spent any time in new hampshire. he's going to try to move on to south carolina. that's going to be a tough sell. he could probably hit donald trump on some of the points of contrast about lockdowns and covid policy where his record might contrast well with trump. didn't really do that. i think what's significant is when we start getting too much of the expectations game and the horse race politics, yes, that's how we judge things. if you look at donald trump's cleared 50%. but that's a matter of like a thousand, 2,000 votes. just like it's around 2,000 votes that separate haley and desantis.

we want to put that in real term perspective rather than surfing off the narrative and having it be determinative. >> at the end of the day, ron desantis and nikki haley have made it all about them and not about the american people, and they're going to have to translate their value to themselves. h hillary clinton made the same mistake. >> donald trump it is all about him, it's his world view but people project it's about them. >> huge respect, i will never see donald trump the same again after calling him a talking middle finger, which is now going to stick with me forever, which i give you a lot of credit for. stick around. tonight ron desantis makes his case and takes questions directly from new hampshire voters. our own wolf blitzer will moderate a cnn town hall. we're going to dig into the numbers from yesterday zeroing in on where the candidates did well, what it could mean for new hampshire. fresh off his big win in iowa, trump will be back in court today, a jury is set to determine how much he will pay

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and i think they both actually did very well. i really do. i think they both did very well. >> that was donald trump last night, seemed to praise his republican rivals, maybe give them a hard time for the good time together line. the good time together helped donald trump to a smashing victory, more than 30 points. 51%, ron desantis in second, nikki haley in third. if you look at the map right here, what you see is a sea of red, with the exception of one small county. that means donald trump dominated county by county winning 98 of 99 counties. the question is if you compare it to 2016, how did he do? we'll flip back to 2016. he lost in 2016 to ted cruz. ted cruz had major wins throughout counties particularly among evangelicals in the northern part of the state. where did he underperform compared to 2016? nowhere. every single county in 2016 donald trump did better this time around. where did he win by more than

10% compared to the people he was running against? everywhere but two counties. he dominated 97 of the 99 counties. what about those two counties. one of them is ames, a college educated place. donald trump winning that county, lost it in 2016. this i another college town, iowa city here in johnson county, the university of iowa is here. nikki haley won this county by one vote. let's pull back a little bit and give some context why donald trump won. there were two areas people were playing close attention to whether ron desantis would have a pathway forward or whether nikki haley would have a pathway forward. the first is suburban voters. if you want to take a look at the 13 counties that cnn identifies as suburbs, donald trump winning 12 of those 13 counties. what happened in 2016, donald trump lost ten of those 13 counties. the light red is marco rubio. the yellow is ted cruz.

that was supposed to be where nikki haley was supposed to make a big run. she won by one vote, lost every other one of those counties. donald trump cleaned up. when you look at the northwest part of the state back in 2016. this is evangelical country. this is where ted cruz dominated and where donald trump did very, very poorly. take a look perhaps at sioux county right here where donald trump not even in the top three, how did that turn out in 2024? donald trump winning by 14 points over ron desantis. this was an area desantis and his team spent a lot of time working on. a lot of visits. a lot of ground operations. donald trump swinging in a major way. the evangelicals in 2016 not totally sold on donald trump this time around. there's not a question anymore. evangelicals 53% went to donald trump, 27% to ron desantis. the reality is this, whether it's conservatives or moderates, suburbs, rural, donald trump at least when it comes to iowa is dominant in the republican party, at least in these caucuses. >> he really is, phil, thank you so much for that.

our team is back, what is so remarkable, doug, is the resurrection of donald trump since january 6th. the fact that you had even the people closest to him saying this is going to be your legacy. we know that, by the way, from what they said to jack smith in this investigation unless you change this. he didn't. he stuck by the lie and look at this domination. >> i think he oewes a lot of people thank you cards, kevin mccarthy. every time donald trump has been indicted we've seen ron desantis and nikki haley and other republicans running except for basically chris christie not only failing to go after donald trump, they use the same rhetoric. it's a two-tiered system of justice, the system is rigged. we see donald trump get indicted. eight, ten days later, we see polling that shows his numbers haven't moved, it's because his rivals didn't give voters a place to go. they're not going to go

anywhere. that part of it should be surprising. it's part of the weird new abnormal, if you will, of our politics. >> we can stick on iowa and new hampshire, but if you're looking at the entrance polls, one of which says 65% of those who voted will support him even if he's convicted of a crime, that's fine in a republican primary. that doesn't actually surprise me. it might surprise some people. that leaves 30 plus %. if 30% of your party doesn't support you in a general election, you're dead in the water. do you think that goes through? >> i think it's a big problem. i also was really surprised to see how many people who identify as independents voted for donald trump in iowa. i think there's a huge number of people that are going to turn out for donald trump even if this happens. now, this is if he's convicted of a crime. this is a big projection. i'm not sure, if you can't get 31% of your party, you're going to have a problem. i'm not sure those 31% are going to vote for joe biden.

the big question is if they're not going to vote for donald trump is are they going to vote for a third-party or stay at home? i'm not sure they're going to say biden's the answer now. >> in the 100,000 folks who voted last night in the iowa caucus, what you see is around two-thirds believe donald trump's election lies, right? and that's roughly also the same number of folks who will vote for him if he's convicted. there's a hardcore of support. it's two-thirds of one of america's major political parties. one-third is still pumping the brakes and saying they're concerned. that could be devastating in a general election if you play it out forward. and i just think that, you know, that number we kind of gloss over it, we've gotten used to it. two-thirds of the iowa caucus voters believe donald trump's election lies that biden didn't legitimately win. that should be incredibly troubling to anyone in a democracy where we depend on using common facts to come to common solutions. >> late tweet from the

president, president biden. >> the actual president. >> wanted to clarify. >> looks like donald trump won iowa. goes on to talk about it's me versus the extreme. this comes at a moment where there is real concern within the democratic party among people closest to president biden about his campaign and if it is taking the right approach and if the right people are at campaign headquarters doing what they need to do right now in this moment. that converging with donald trump's huge win in iowa, concerning to someone who worked for him? >> no, actually, i think we may have a ricochet effect that will help president biden, which is this. recently there was a ugov poll, 45% of democrat who did not believe donald trump was going to be the nominee. a bunch of democrats are going to sober up, at which point you may start to see some of that lag in president biden's numbers start to come home. they realize this is the fight

that we're in, and we've got to go ahead and get with our guy. >> can i ask you back to john's point, i think this is interesting. it's a hell of a risk to take. >> it's all a risk, my friend. the point you're making, i'm still struck when i watch chris sununu asked by wolf blitzer, if donald trump is your nominee, will you vote for him. and kim reynolds who endorsed ro ron desantis, who has secret twitter account, she said yes, absolutely. if that's the case, everybody comes home for him. >> ron desantis said last week that, you know, if you're the worst republican in the party but you kiss the ring, donald trump likes you. >> did you start the stop clock right then? >> we know it's coming for desantis sooner rather than later. for some people they've done it in advance. they sent the signal eventually i will kiss the ring. that doesn't help the candidates they're campaigning for.

chris sununu. >> there's another major factor, independent voters are not a monolith. there are some independent voters who are too conservative in their minds for the republican party or too liberal for the democratic party. in new hampshire you see the classic, centrist independent voter. they can participate and we'll see whether they show up for nikki haley in numbers that sort of mccain-esque. the growth of trump between '16 and '24 not surprising. he's effectively the incumbent. mccain wiped the floor with bush after a big win in 2000 because of those independents. i'm not saying nikki haley can capture that magic again. >> mccain wiped the floor with him. he did not become the nominee. >> correct. >> jamal, doug, john lee, thank you. and today at noon, speaking of chris sununu, nikki haley, watch dana bash's show "inside politics." she's going to sit down with nikki haley and sununu, and you'll see that live here in a couple of hours. 80 million people right now are under winter weather alerts

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from new york to baltimore, live pictures right now of snow falling up and down the eastern seaboard. some cities will see about an inch or more of snow today for the first time in almost two years for here in new york, even some southern states getting hit with arctic air and snow. more than 120 million people are feeling those bitterly cold temperatures across the country this morning. the windchill in some places could be 45 degrees below zero. meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. it is balmy compared to that here in new york, but a beautiful snowy morning i woke up to. >> that's right. i will say as far as the temperatures are concerned, we will get a brief reprieve. the emphasis is on brief from those temperatures. now, we can take a look again, you still got that arctic air surging across the central portion of the u.s. we've also got that cold front that is bringing areas of snow to the mid-atlantic and the northeast. as far as the temperatures are

concerned, we start to see it retreat on wednesday. tomorrow a lot of folks really starting to see those temperatures get a little bit warmer. it's going to be brief. by the time we get back to the weekend another round of arctic air begins to spread into everyone for the eastern half of the country. enjoy that brief reprieve tomorrow. in the short-term, however, we're still focused on all of the snow that's falling across portions of the mid-atlantic and the northeast. you still have winter weather alerts stretching from louisiana all the way up into maine. the southern focus there is the concern for some ice, but up north, the main concern here is just snow. you've got it falling across places like new york, boston, har hartford, even around providence, rhode island. here's a look at the forecast. you can see most of that line begins to push back out, once we get later on this evening. so folks starting to try out. once we get through the last portion of the afternoon commute later on today into northeast. the real question is how much snow does new york end up with. if we can end up getting at least an inch of that, it will break our streak. we're currently sitting at 701

days without an inch of snow in new york. they are likely to break that streak. some other cities already have including philadelphia. so far they've picked up an inch and a half. their streak was 715 days. washington, d.c., had gone all the way up to 728 days. so far they've picked up about 1.8 so far up to this point. >> allison chinchar, thank you. hamas releasing video of three hostages in israel now accusing the terror organization of psychological torture. what we know about the he ostag straight ahead. the u.s. blasting iran for its missile strikes in iraq and syria. iranians say they were targeting a spy base. we're going to have new details ahead.

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strikes in northern iraq. kurdish officials say at least four people are confedead in thy of rabil. iran's firing missiles at terror groups saying they were involved in the bombings of ka similar soleimani. the u.s. is condemning iran's strikes calling them reckless and imprecise and undermining stability in the region. israel this morning is accusing hamas of carrying out psychological torture after the terrorist group release d a series of videos showing three hostages they are still holding in gaza. the video, the last video appears to show two of the hostages dead. cnn is not airing or publishing these hamas videos. you are looking at images of the two hostages, these images are from before the october 7th attack. this morning the israel defense force has identified the third hostage.

our jeremy diamond joins us live in tel aviv. they put out that video and said you will find out their fate the following day and now this development. what more are we hearing from israel after hamas has released this latest video? >> yeah, the israeli military is saying that this is psychological torture. the weaponization of social media and the latest of it is hamas is grasping at straws as it is suffering losses insides gaza strip. what is clear is hamas has not deployed this kind of tactic before. they released two hvideos that have beenst -- that was teasing out are they alive, have they been injured? before ultimately releasing the video that claims that the israeli military strikes resulted in the deaths of two of these other hostages.

the israeli military for its part says that it was not responsible for their deaths, and in fact, they are not confirming that these two hostages who do appear in this video at the end of the video appearing to show their dead bodies, the israeli military saying they have grave concerns for their fate. but obviously this is torment regardless of how you look at it for the families of these hostages, and who are now wondering about the fate of their loved ones. >> jeremy, the defense minister says the intensive phase of the idf fighting in northern gaza is coming to an end. how significant is this? does this mean something specific about what's next here? >> reporter: it's really significant because obviously this doesn't come in a vacuum. as you know, phil, the u.s. government has been pressuring israel to transition to a lower intensity phase of fighting out of concern for civilian life in the gaza strip, and growing international pressure on the israeli government, and now for about a week or so, we've been

hearing from some israeli military officials there has been this transition underway to lower intensity phase of operations. the defense minister is the senior most official to confirm that that change is actually happening on the ground, and he's also articulating it in the clearest terms possible. he says israel has concluded its intensive ground operations in northern gaza and also significantly saying that he believes that that change, that transition will also soon happen in southern gaza in the khan yunis area, the second largest city in the gaza strip. he says that israeli forces are now focused on crushing what he calls pockets of resistance in northern gaza. but at the same time, we are also seeing evidence on the ground of this transition in israeli ground operations. an entire division of troops, thousands of israeli soldiers overnight withdrawing from key areas in northern and central gaza as well. the clearest indication yet that

israel is actually following through on what the united states has been pressuring it to do for weeks now. now, the question of course is what will happen after that? because israeli officials have repeatedly told me even though they can ramp down the intensity of operations that also means that they can ramp it back up as necessary. we know that in southern gaza, they are certainly still trying to go after and capture or kill hamas leaders who they believe are hidden underground. phil, poppy. >> jeremy diamond, so appreciate your reporting in tel aviv this morning. today the republican presidential race headed to new hampshire. we're going to speak to the chair of the state's republican party about what he expects to see exactly one week from today. also, how the biden team is framing trump's big win in iowa, what it could tell us about the general election. that's ahead.

as we head to new hampshire, i have one more thing to say, underestimate me because that's always fun. i love you, iowa, but we're on to new hampshire! >> nikki haley framing her third place iowa finish as more evidence of her momentum heading into the new hampshire primary, and she's wasting no time hitting the ground here. today she is set to hold a rally with one of her top surrogates, if not her top surrogate here, the state's governor chris su sununu. and unlike iowa, the polling suggests haley might not have a shot just at second place but potentially of beating trump one week from today. joining us is the chair of the new hampshire republican party. good morning, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> what is different about new hampshire that someone like nikki haley has a shot to win, and do you think that still holds after trump pushed 50%, was over 50% in iowa?

>> sure, so new hampshire voters break late, and so we don't know from the polling what's going to happen next week, and the only poll that matters is next tuesday, so nikki haley does have a very good chance to win here. it's absolutely possible she could win here. governor desantis could also do very well here. we just have a very independent minded electorate, and they're not going to look at iowa and make a decision based on that. they're going to make it based on how they feel about the candidates. >> what is it about republicans here that means trump is having more trouble getting over 50%. we've seen him dominate nationally. what's different about new hampshire? >> i think in new hampshire people pay attention earlier than a lot of other states because we do have the first primary. we have a very high turnout. a very well-educated electorate, and we get to see all the candidates. we get to see nikki haley, ron desantis, and all of them are great republicans, and so it's really no surprise that the electorate's split because

they're all very good candidates, and the number one goal is to beat joe biden. i think that's weighing heavily on people as well. >> one of the features of the new hampshire primary, i personally love it. i i tthink there are some republicans who think it's a bug. undeclared voters get to decide to be a republican for a day if they want to and vote in the primary. how much of a factor, especially if nikki haley does very well, will she owe independent voters and perhaps democrats her win here if that happens? >> yeah, so unlike iowa, democrats can't vote in the republican primary. only republicans or undeclared voters. undeclared voters are about 40% of our electorate. so it's the plurality. whoever wins here, you really have to appeal to a broad spectrum of people and republicans, so you've got to appeal to both moderate and conservative republicans, and that bodes well for a general election because you're more palatable to the entire electorate. so i think it's good for us.

it's good for the party. and the democrats are drawing their people to vote in their primary also because joe biden has a write-in against dean phillips, and so, you know, all the democrats aren't just going to flock to the republican primary. they're not. they're going to vote in their primary because they could embarrass president biden by him losing here. >> certainly i've spoken to some people who are a little nervous about how the nikki haley effect could impact the write-in campaign forwide biden that you mentioned. one of the themes for donald trump's frankly the years since he left office has been the idea of a rigged election. he suggested before iowa voted that perhaps things might not be right, something might be amiss. we have not heard a word of that since he won with the commanding lead that he did. if he were to lose here or, you know, have a much more narrow margin, i don't think it's out of the realm of possibility that we could hear the former president say there was voter fraud or that the new hampshire election was rigged. are you confident in the integrity of the new hampshire

primary process? >> i'm very, very confident. we have paper ballots, and so everybody votes with a paper ballot. you have to physically fill in the oval. we have some machines that are optical scanners that read those ovals, but we keep the paper ballots for over a year so that we can do hand recounts as necessary. we don't have any mail-in ball ballots. we don't have early voting, so we have the very traditional paper ballots, election day. very few exceptions for absentee ballots. i've been personally part of over 30 hand recounts, none of them had any problems at all. we had the one incident in windom where they were folded incorrectly, the ballots were folded on the oval so there's a shadow, but that's a well-known problem. they used the wrong folding machines. so it was human error. i have absolutely no concern whatsoever with the election fraud here. isolated cases perhaps, onesie

twosies. >> no worries. >> absolutely not. >> are you prepared for a legal challenge from the former president? >> no, we don't anticipate that at all. we're using the exact same procedures we used in the last two elections where president trump won in new hampshire, and so i don't see any concern there whatsoever. >> i guess we will see. nikki haley at this point within striking distance, we'll see if that iowa -- what kind of momentum she carried from iowa. chris egger, chairman of the new hampshire republican party, thank you very much for being with us. phil, poppy. >> fascinating conversation, thank you. it was a huge night in politics. it was also a tv's biggest night, succession and "the bear" taking home the big wins. it was also a night filled with television. we'll break down some of the big moments in case you missed them next.

a lot of the country in the cold yesterday, it was a good night to bundle up on the couch with the iowa caucuses, the nfl playoffs and the prime time emmys. the award show was delayed four months due to hollywood's twin actors and writers' strikes. it was a night of near sweeps with succession, the bear dominating the categories. >> this is a show about a family, but it's also about when partisan politics get -- partisan news coverage gets intertwined with divisive right wing politics, and after four seasons of satire, as i

understand it, that's a problem we have now fixed. [ laughter ] >> yeah, i just want to thank restaurants as a whole, hospitality as a whole. [ cheers and applause ] >> what a moment, other notable winners include last week tonight with john oliver, rupaul's drag race, and quinta brunson from abbott elementary who became the first black woman to win best actress in a comedy series in more than 40 years. >> i am so happy to be able to live my dream and act out comedy, and i say it every time. i just love comedy so much. >> and although he wasn't there in person, elton john jowon an egot.

your aspiration is to watch "the bear." my only goal this week, month, and year is to ensure you're able to accomplish that. >> so you're taking my children then? i can't turn it on in front of them. >> they're talking to me in my ear right now. >> when you go to bed at the same time as your children, there is no time to enjoy things like "the bear". >> we'll figure it out. >> thank you for baby-sitting. >> "cnn this morning" continues right now. good tuesday morning, even, i'm phil mattingly, poppy harlow in new york. kasie hunt is in new hampshire, it's heading there after donald trump seize add landslide victory in the iowa caucuses making it clear he still has an iron grip on the republican party. trump dominated the competition, logging 51% of the vote at last count. ron desantis edged out nikki haley for a distant second place. now, trump swept 98 of the 99 counties in iowa, all except for one where haley is currently leading by a single