oldie but a goodie. thrill your friends with your knowledge of english grammar. tomorrow, donald trump returns to "the factor." miss megyn is next. please remember, the spin stops here because we're looking out for you. breaking tonight, just 48 hours before the final presidential debate before the iowa caucuses take place, and six days before those votes are cast, republican presidential front runner donald trump now says he will skip the fox news google debate. welcome, to the kelly file, everyone. i'm megyn kelly. carl cameron spoke directly to team trump afterwards. we'll go to him in a moment. but first, this controversy dates back to august 6th, and the very first republican debate co-moderated by yours truly. mr. trump took issue with this question that i posed to him.

>> mr. trump, one of the things people love about you is you speak your mind and you don't use a politician's filter. however, that is not without its downsides, in particular when it comes to women. you have called women you don't like fat pigs, dogs, slobs, and disgusting animals. your twitter account -- >> only rosie o'donnell. [ laughter ] . >> no, it wasn't. your twitter account -- [ applause ] >> thank you. >> for the record, it was well beyond rosie o'donnell. >> yes, i'm sure it was. >> your twitter account has several disparages comments about women's looks. you once told an somebody on the apprentice they would look good on their knees. how will you answer to hillary

clinton that you are part of the war on women? >> in the months since, mr. trump has repeatedly brought up that exchange as evidence of alleged bias on my part. i maintain it was a tough but fair question and we agreed to disagree. this past weekend, mr. trump resumed his complaints about yours truly arguing that roger ailes should ban me from the debate this thursday. fox news announced back in august that bret baier, chris wallace and i would be the moderators of this next debate. mr. trump's complaints continued through the week, ultimately resulting in a video today he posted to instagram, hit thing issue again. fox news responded and we'll get to all of that in a moment. as the front-runner, he was scheduled to be front and center thursday night when fox news hosts the republican debate in iowa. now he says he will not show. we have a powerful political lineup to discuss the debate and the iowa caucuses just six days

away, including brit hume, tony perkens is here to break news tonight with his presidential endorsement, which the top front-runners were both seeking. former new york city mayor rudy giuliani joins us, along with filmmaker michael moore, the only time that we have ever seen him. but we begin tonight in des moines, with carl cameron and the news on mr. trump. carl? >> reporter: it is unprecedented for a front running candidate in either party to suggest they will be a no-show at a debate four days before the nation's first of the caucuses, is something no one could have imagined prior to donald trump's candidacy. he held a news conference today in iowa before a rally, and mr. trump gathered the press where the audience was waiting, and he initially suggested that he might not appear in the debate.

but first, let's listen to what he said to the news conference initially. >> most likely i won't be doing the debate. see, the point is, with me, they're dealing with somebody that is a little bit different. they can't toy with me like they toy with everybody else. so let them have their debate and let's see how they do with the ratings. >> reporter: so it sounded like he was clear that he wasn't going to go but it wasn't a sealed deal. within a matter of moments, mr. trump's senior staff, his campaign manager told me that the boss, in their words, had made the decision and it was final, he will not be participating in the fox debate two nights from now. and they have spread it out throughout the rest of the press. i suppose it's possible he could change his mind, leaving it to the staffers to say it was a definitive no. because what mr. trump said is he was still probably not going to come. but he's been issuing statements

pushing himself further away from thursday night. >> carl, what does this mean for the other candidates? >> there is the opportunity for them to debate without facing trump's insults. and for ted cruz and marco rubio in particular, that presents a big opportunity. mr. cruz is essentially in a virtually tied race against trump at the top of the polls here in iowa, and cruz has been in quite a fight with donald trump and today he has issued a challenge to debate mr. trump head-to-head without moderators, and begun to criticize trump for being afraid to show up. watch. >> i think anyone running for president of the united states owes it to the people of iowa to have the humility to come in front of you, to make the case

to answer the hard questions, to look you in the eyes. this is a job interview. the president of the united states works for each and every one of you. >> reporter: there will be a lot more commentary from the rest of the field that's not donald trump thursday night and as ted cruz said, probably a lot of allegations that donald trump didn't have the guts to show up. >> trump's campaign just announced moments ago he will not be participating in the fox news debate and will instead host an event in iowa to raise money for veterans and wounded warriors, et cetera. carl, thank you. how did we arrive here? earlier today, donald trump posted this video. >> megyn kelly's really biased against me. she knows that, i know that, everybody knows that. do you really think she could be fair at a debate?

>> he also posted a twitter poll asking his followers if he should even participate in the debate. he had already been told by fox news that i would. fox news later today released this tongue in cheek statement that read -- >> further, fox news chairman, roger ailes said, megyn kelly is an excellent journalist and the entire network stands behind her. he will absolutely be on the debate stage thursday night. and just now he announced he will not. brit, your thoughts? >> well, i think this is partly about you, that's pretty clear. trump's never gotten over that first question you asked him,

which to me at least, and i think to me and any other journalist, was a fair question. i think it's partly about the news cycle. certainly this -- this is all anybody is talking about tonight. the twitter verse lit up like you wouldn't believe and i guess it's partly about the fact that he may feel now that he's caught up and past ted cruz, who was leading him in iowa, and that he can afford now to skip this debate and not give cruz a chance to take him on in a way that's not risky to trump. i think he may feel he's in a position where it's not worth taking the chance. it will be very interesting to see how he responds to the cruz challenge to a one on one debate, because cruz will be campaigning on that now for the next several days, accusing trump of being unwilling to face the voters. remember this, megan. in 1980, ronald reagan was going

into that season the presumptive front-runner, but he skipped iowa. and george h.w. bush won the caucuses. there was a debate in iowa, and reagan skipped that. reagan recovered in new hampshire, but it was an interesting moment. voters in iowa, i think, take the caucuses seriously. they expect the candidates to face them. and while trump has campaigned in iowa, it will be interesting to see how people respond to his refusal to participate in the iowa debate. that's the purpose of having it when it was scheduled. so that will be interesting to see. >> what's interesting here is trump is not used to not controlling things as the chief executive of a large organization. but the truth is, he doesn't get to control the media. and while he's made his position clear about me, after that first

debate, roger ailes made his position clear, too. you know, when trump started it up again this past saturday and resumed it again and again and again, he was told repeatedly our debate team is settled and then came that instagram video he put out today followed by the company statements. >> megyn, news organizations need to the greatest extent possible events like this and their coverage generally to be neutral in their approach. so if a news organization sets the terms of the debate, makes them public, set forth who will be doing the questioning, people can accept or not accept. trump appears has decided he would not accept. he's free to do but what he's not free to do is for him to, in some way dictate the terms of the debate. and i don't know why he thought it was possible to do that. remember, he had an earlier

debate where he was demanding -- the cnn debate he was demanding donations to be made, they weren't and he showed up any way. it looks to me this time he won't show up. >> you know, the company released it in august that the same debate team that hosted the first debate would host this debate. and then there was an official press release in december. nothing's changed. but as which got closer to it, his tune changed. and he resumed the rally to try to change the debate team as settled by this company. >> make no mistake about it, megyn, this act by trump will not hurt him a bit among his hard core followers. as far as they're concerned, he could take off all his clothes and run down broadway tomorrow and they would say look, it shows he's not politically correct. this won't move the needle with them at all. my only question would be,

whether this is a smart move with regard to the voters in iowa, who may, serious people that they are, look at this and expecting to see him in the debate and perhaps those who were undecided, and there's some number of those, were hoping to get a better sense of him and the other candidates, and if he doesn't show up, i don't know how well this is going to go down with them. impossible to say. >> brit, great to see you. >> thanks, megyn. >> i'll be there. brett's already there. i think wallace is coming today. but the debate will go on with or without mr. trump. there is a trump rally about to begin, as any news happens there. we'll bring it to you. plus, more big news brea the republican race. tonight, as tony perkins, a man whose endorsement has been sought, in particular by the two front-runners in iowa, joins us to announce who he will endorse just 48 hours ahead of the big debate. then rudy giuliani is here

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why is it that i'm leading ted cruz with the evangelicals and why is it that here i'm leading him and leading him big nationwide? because he's really a nasty person. people don't like him. senators don't like him. the people he works with don't like him. we can all be rebels. i'm a little bit of a rebel. but you have to be able to get along with people. when you say, why am i doing bet we are the evangelicals with ted cruz? because they like me better than ted cruz. >> that was donald trump in iowa just a few hours ago touting his credentials among evangelical christians, after receiving an endorsement from jerry falwell, jr. but senator ted cruz is presenting some stiff competition. as a new poll suggests, mr. cruz is winning among white evangelical voters. you can see the numbers, 39% for cruz. 27% with trump in iowa.

tonight, with just 48 hours to go until the debate, comes an endorsement that could be critical to this republican nomination. joining me now, tony perkins, president of the family research council and author of "no fear." tony, good to see you. so they all wanted you. you are an influential man in conservative circles. so who are you endorsing? >> well, megyn, as i promised, i would let your viewers know first. this is a personal endorsement, not from any of the nonprofit organizations that i lead. after looking at these candidates, talking with them, and i have many friends in this race, but i believe the one best positioned, best prepared to lead this nation forward pulling it out of the tail spain that this president has put us in, i believe is ted cruz. he is a -- he's smart. he's bold. much like you, he's not afraid to upset people to do the right thing. he's not worried about making

everybody happy. if you're making everybody happy, you're not doing the right thing. i've worked closely with ted in the senate. this is not about -- this is about his standing on conservative principles, about his standing on the constitution. that's why i support him. he's a bold leader and the kind of leader we need right now. >> why not trump? i know he courted you, as well. and many evangelicals really love him. it's -- just because you're evangelical doesn't mean you go with the most conservative candidate necessarily. >> well, look, evangelicals are pretty complex. we're not single issue voters. there's 90 million evangelicals in this country. donald trump, there are things about him that are attractive. i find him interesting. i would consider him, at least we've laid a foundation for a friendship. i'm not going to say anything negative about donald trump. i want to talk about -- >> what i'm trying to get at,

what did it for you? >> because i know him, i have watched ted cruz in the senate. i've seen him stand up against his colleagues and take the criticism, and he's doing what he said he was going to do when he ran for office. >> donald trump said he didn't get along with anybody, nobody likes him. >> if everybody gets along with you in this city, you're in trouble. that means you're not doing anything worthwhile. look, all i can say is, he has done exactly what he said he was going to do, when he ran for the united states senate. i supported him when he was an underdog against some friends. i believe he was the right guy for the right time to come to the senate and shake things up. i believe he's the right guy to lead this country forward. i trust ted to do what needs to be done to make our families safe again, to give our country a reputation that has standing

among the nations. >> let me ask you this. donald trump says he can get deals done, and that he has a proven history of it. he says ted cruz cannot because he's an alienating force in the senate. >> leadership is not all about making deals but standing on principle, about respecting the constitution. no one understands the constitution like ted cruz. he's argued before the supreme court nine times. he's written 60 briefs for the supreme court. the next president will nominate two to three supreme court justices. i believe ted will be the best one to select a conservative or a constitutionalist before the court. i'm concerned about where some of the other candidates would come from when it comes to the court, which, as you know, megyn, is very unfortunately, very important to the direction of the country. >> the court is huge, and ted cruz, he clerked for chief justice rehnquist.

imagine clerking for him and then returning to appoint justices. tony, great to see you. >> thank you, megyn. good to be with you. i'll see you in iowa. >> oh, good. i'll be there, too. tony perkins just told us why he's backing ted cruz. up next, rudy giuliani tells us why he's backing donald trump over the texas senator. plus, in a kelly file exclusive. controversial filmmaker michael moore on the 2016 race. president obama's legacy. and his thoughts on this week's gop debate. this is sheldon whose long day setting up the news starts with minor arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day. back to the news.

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they're going to tell us that tremendous sentiment which he has, the biggest crowds, do the numbers on the polls convert to votes without necessarily having the ground game that some of these other guys have? if they do, then he is a very serious candidate and possibly -- >> that was former new york city mayor and former republican presidential candidate rudy giuliani, one of several establishment republicans. there he is, warming up to donald trump. as the republican race resembles more and more like -- it looks more and more like a showdown between donald trump and ted cruz. rudy giuliani telling "the washington post" saying -- if it came down to trump or kruz, i would vote for trump. what did it for you? >> the difference between the two of them, donald is the more practical guy. i have to tell you, he's a

personal friend. four of the candidates are personal friends. i love them all, hard to pick. i don't know who i'm going to endorse, but between trump and cruz, cruz is too right wing and rigid. he will give away the northeast, gone. >> in the general in >> absolutely. maryland, up to maine, gone. california up to washington, oregon, gone. >> who can trump get that cruz can't get in the general? >> i'll give you one person i just had dinner with, the head of the correction workers union in new york, norman seabrook. african-american, enormously well respected. he said to me tonight, i'm endorsing donald trump, because he can get jobs. donald trump can do what ronald reagan did. he can reach over and get reagan democrats. he can also get african-americans, believe it or not, latinos, because he's

knocked hard by the long connection with the republican party that we all have. blacks have this feeling about the republican party that we're anti-black, anti-hispanic. we're not. but they have that feeling. he doesn't carry that burden with him. he could reach over and he could be an enormously powerful general election candidate. >> why do you say he'll get latinos? if you look at the polling -- >> you know what he's right about? when he finally gets to them, what they care about, jobs, can they work, can they lift the economy? can they create growth? can he reach out the way ronald reagan was able to reach out to the union workers, who were all democrats but they voted for him because they felt he could increase their wages. i believe he's making a mistake in not showing up in the debate. >> you do? >> he should be in that debate. >> why? >> first of all, i think he's

going to do really well. his debating performances, from the debate you had through getting better and better. his answer to cruz on that statement cruz made about new york, i thought was close to eloquent. it lifted to him to like presidential levels. so if i were donald, and i'm not, and he makes up his own mind, i would participate in the debate. i think he'll win it, and i don't know why he's not doing it. >> what do you make about the -- there are tough questions in a presidential contest. >> you've got to deal with it. i've been the front-runner for a long time. every debate i went into, i prepared for and i knew i was going to get asked the trick, tough questions. chris matthews once asked me what's the difference between shia and sunni. >> you gave him a long lesson. >> i did. i went back to the 6th century.

george stephanopoulos asked me of all the things i did wrong in my life, including my marriages, what do i feel worst about. i said to george, i would rather confess that to your father, a priest, than to you. you have got to be ready for that. if you're the front-runner, they're all coming after you. right now, donald's the front-runner. and i love chris christie. jeb bush i consider a close, personal friend. i was the second person to endorse rubio when he ran for senator and he was 27 points behind. he would make a great president. and donald's been my friend for 25 years. this is very tough for me. every one of these people are close friends. but you know the guy that comes out of this that i respect most? your boss, roger ailes. he was my first political consultant. he taught me how to stop being a lawyer and become a politician.

and that man is a genius and he's a man who understands loyalty. >> that's right. and he has his employee's backs. >> and i love him. >> what we learned here tonight is rudy giuliani is going to have a cabinet position in the next administration. [ laughter ] great to see you, sir. a pleasure. >> i didn't get in one thing, you did not ask an unfair thing. >> thank you. i appreciate that. we did not plan that. >> i would have answered that question. >> thank you very much. coming up, governor chris christie is here. he'll join us tonight on the breaking news about the fox news debate and a new poll reveals many voters in iowa still have not made up their minds. that's next on what that means. plus, for the first time in more than five years, controversial filmmaker michael the lion's den. fox news channel. and "the kelly file" to talk

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>> nothing? >> nothing. >> that was a clip from the new documentary "where to invade next," from controversial filmmaker and political activist michael moore. he travels through europe to highlight what he believes is america's shortfalls and he's been make progress vvocative ste this for decades. in 2003, he won an oscar for "bowling for columbine," an attack on america's love for guns. now he's back, lead progress tests over a water crisis in his hometown of flint, michigan. the city is under a federal state of emergency after toxic lead levels were discovered in the drinking water. here now, michael moore. great to see you. thank you for coming. >> thank you for having me, and on this day, too. what does this feel like for you? because you don't want to be the story, you're the journalist. >> i get to ask the questions. >> no, i feel bad for you.

what is he afraid of? i'm sitting here, i'm not afraid. donald, come sit beside me. i'll hold your hand. she's fine. >> stop that. let's talk about the money. >> no, plugging the money is not why i'm here. >> is it in iowa, is that where it will be made next is >> no, be there are people there. >> first, i want to talk politics. i'm figuring you for a bern, baby, bern kind of guy. >> i went up to burlington and did a rally for him. you're not feeling bad right now. i thought i was going to be like, hey, i'll take you out to dinner afterwards. >> would you stop! >> we can talk, you can emote.

just get it out. you just didn't deserve to be treated this way. >> i'm fine. >> in all seriousness, let me say this partly to answer your question. you have done something that jeb bush, chris christie, rubio, cruz, none of them have been able to do, which is to essentially brain him, make him run. >> can we move on from the trump situation? >> everybody has tried to do this for months and you did it. okay, i'm sorry. >> this is why o'reilly never had him back. >> he didn't have me back because i won the debate. bill, any time i'm here. >> this is why i ask you about hillary versus bernie. to be honest, i don't know that much about you. i've heard of a couple of your movies. >> i'm an eagle scout. >> you didn't like hillary clinton back in 2008 saying that the way she was running you

found disgusting, and really found barack obama to be the more decent person. now 7 1/2 years later, how do you feel? about both of them? >> well, first of all, i like hillary, and back in the '90s, my first book i had a chapter called "my forbidden love for hillary." basically i made the case for why she's a good person. >> why were yo calling her disgusting? >> some of the things she said about obama were a little low. >> what about barack obama? he was beloved. you really thought he was the messenger. >> i voted for him twice. >> hope and change, going to bring us together. then you said, years into it, he's only going to be remembered for being the first black president. >> i wrote to him and i said, you've got to do some of the things we elected you to do,

because it's not going to be enough in the history books to say the big claim to fame is you were the first african-american president. that's an important thing, but we need now to do some other things for us and before your term ends. >> what is the biggest disappointment in your view? >> i don't know if disappointment is the word. i wish we had a single payer health care system, not obamacare, something for everybody. >> he couldn't get that through. >> he had two years where he had the house and the senate, and he decided to play nice and get along and thought the republicans were going to get along with him and they had no intention. >> what else? >> guantanamo bay should be closed by now. >> he tried. you're tough. >> look, i'm -- you know, he exists in that office to serve the people of this country, including people who voted for him and who didn't vote for him. but i'm glad we've had him for these eight years. >> anybody on the gop side you

could get behind? >> i would get behind all of them and push them somewhere. no, on the gop side, my grandfather was the head of the republican party in the town i grew up in. but back then, a conservative meant that you conserved your money, you had family values, you had -- you conserved the earth, the air, the water, god's gifts to us. that's what republicans believed back then. and those days seem to be gone. i know it's hard for republicans who have those feelings, and they have nowhere to go right now. >> let's talk about the movie. the suggestion is, this is another indictment of america. this is what ticks people off about michael moore. they think you hate america. >> i don't get that, because one of the great things about being an american in this country is the ability to criticize what's going on and make it better. all my films, i tell people, if you watch one of my films, you

may not agree with me politically, but you'll know i love this country, i have a heart, and you will laugh at least half a dozen times. >> we're getting that feeling just from this interview. >> no need to watch the movie. we could just go another 90 minutes, you and i. >> is it a war thing? you're say bring to invade next. you want us to move to slovakia? >> no, we have to stay here. >> we have all these wonderful things here, like the bill of rights. sthz is the best country to live in. what i want to do is aspire to be better. we've helped these european countries since world war ii. they have done some great things, in terms of helping their people. paid maternity leaves, school lunches. >> you can take that up with michelle obama. >> you did not eat a lot of

those school lunches. >> yes, i did. he really is like dr. phil. >> if you can give me some tips afterwards -- >> you just sold a lot of books. >> all right, we've got to go. >> thank you. and before i leave, roger ailes, rupert murdoch, to get elected president in this country, you have to come on this network. donald trump today said i'm not playing ball with this network. that's historic, and it will be interesting to see where the real power is. trump thinks he doesn't need fox news. i think fox news probably has something else to sayn't that. it will be interesting to see where do the powers that be go with this? you've made this happen. >> stop that! >> you've caused a crisis. >> i've got to go. >> you asked a great question,

by the way. the war on women. >> now you're really ruining my rep. >> god bless you, megyn kelly. governor chris christie will react to that -- no, he is going to react to the debate news in moments. plus, with just days to go till the vote in iowa, guy benson talks about new evidence that suggests iowa voters could still be changing their mind. stay tuned. ♪ there it is... this is where i met your grandpa. right under this tree. ♪ (man) some things are worth holding onto. they're hugging the tree. (man) that's why we got a subaru. or was it that tree? (man) the twenty-sixteen subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru.

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we are just 48 hours now away from the fox news google primetime gop debate. has there been any news about that? while the lineups are officially set, some new polls suggest that this is truly anyone's game. as nearly 1 in 4 iowa voters say they could still change their minds before monday's caucuses. mark teisen is here along with guy benson. good to see you both. mark, are you starting to like michael moore at all, are you feeling something there? >> boy, that was quite something. i can't believe that i -- i actually agreed with michael moore, because he said it's a big mistake for donald trump to come to this debate. >> let me challenge you now. why wouldn't this be good for him, because he can just say, you know what? i don't bow to anybody, and i

wanted kelly off that debate team, they said no. i didn't get any way, i'm done. >> three reasons. one, he's run a very smart campaign till now. this is his first major misstep because he looks like a big baby. his whole premise of his campaign is that he's tougher than all the other candidates out there, democrats and republicans alike. a few months ago when bernie sanders had black lives provoster push him off the stage, he said how can bernie sanders fight isis if he can't handle the protesters. running from a fight is not a new york value. second of all, he's not running against you, he's running against ted cruz and he's going to leave the debate stage to ted cruz before an iowa caucus where 40% of the voters haven't made up their minds yet. he could lose because of this. iowa voters could be insulted by this. so this is a big mistake on his part if he doesn't show up. if he does this and ends up

showing up, he's dominated the news and done what he does so well. if he doesn't show up, first big mistake of his campaign. go ahead, >> i'm going to lend my voice to the chorus and said of course, donald trump should put on his big boy trousers and show up. you're a journalist, he's running for the presidency. these dramatic historyonics are exhausting and silly. although it is like a democrat to refuse to debate on fox news. so i agree with mark, this is a strategic error in the scheme of things for trump, although brit hume said this early, it won't hurt him with his hard-core supporters. but as you say, there are a lot of people who are going to turn out in the caucuses on february 1 that are just starting to tune in and to have donald trump cede the whole stage is not a good look. >> it's strength if you love

him. >> it's not strength. i would dispute that. i don't think it knows any sort of strength. strength is showing up in the face of something that frustrates you, opposed to running you opposed to running away. >> he says he's ticked off. saying now he was ticked off by the fox news statement released after his -- >> okay, sure. >> who benefits? who benefits the most if he doesn't show, mark? >> ted cruz without a doubt. i mean, look. he is just pulled ahead of ted cruz by 2 points. that's statistically tied. and so ted cruz is going to go out on the stage and think he is not going to attack donald trump? >> he's going to get more time that's for sure. >> more time and donald trump won't be there to defend. >> do you agree, guy? >> i was going to say everyone on the stage has more opportunity to talk and advance the mess and without trump there.

ted cruz is biggest beneficiary of that because as mark noted it's very close race. trump has the momentum in iowa. overtaken donald trump recently and now cruz wide lane to come back and regain some of that. >> got to leave it at that. we have chris christie right after this break. [ cough ] no matter what nasty cold symptoms you get, alka seltzer plus liquid gels rush liquid fast relief to your tough cold symptoms. and they outsell mucinex liquid gels 2 to 1. alka seltzer plus liquid gels.

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microphone. i put my views out for the american people. that's what you do and learn when you're a governor. you're going to get crises, national disasters. you have the show up. that's what i did and what everybody should do. >> what do you make of the way trump handled the media thus far? >> well, listen. i think, you know, the media's been handled by him. and i think, you know, folks have allowed him to do things that no other candidate's ever been allowed to do in american presidential history. if he doesn't show up on thursday night, listen. that's donald's choice. >> how do you think it affects what you do? >> give us more time to talk and that's good for me and the other people on the stage because he doesn't want to be there, that's okay with me. the american people should wonder, you know, if you're not willing to show up when everything isn't going your way

and exactly the way you want to, that's not way the job as governor goes, i have to fight through it and show up for work and battle every day. that's what i'm going to do in the debate come thursday and sent to the undercard debate and battled back. america wants a fighter who shows up. >> governor christie, we look forward to seeing you in iowa. >> see you in iowa. i'm showing up, by the way. >> we, too. we'll see you there, as well, i hope. 48 hours, from right now. we'll be right back.

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final gop debate before the iowa caucus the thursday at 9:00 p.m. here on fox news. bret, chris and i will be there for you asking tough but fair questions. not everyone is showing up. we hope you will. good night. and welcome to iowa and this is a fox news alert. 2016 republican presidential front-runner donald trump now says he will not participate in thursday's fox news channel gop debate. now, senator ted cruz is now slamming donald trump for the move. he'll be with us in a few moments and going on the campaign trail today with senator marco rubio and dr. ben carson, also former governor huckabee is here and joining us live here in des moines, iowa, breaking news on the republican debate, campaign carl cameron. never a dull moment, carl. >> reporter: extraordinary events for a very out of the ordinary candidate. donald trump called