republicans refusing to crack down. aid for ukraine and israel. as i said, if we believe something is important, we should stay in get the job done. the house heads home for the holidays but the senate sticks around to try to reach a deal on the supplemental spending request. republicans dug in on border security as custom and border protection officers are worn to look out for the explosive devices. the department sending its homeland security secretary to the help. taking the president himself telling the cabinet and staff to get this done. we will discuss the state of negotiations with the republican senator of texas and california democratic congressman. then, hunter biden makes a brief appearance at the capital. for six years, i have been the target of the unrelenting trump attack. here is my answer, i am here. skips out on his subpoena. we will ask our legal panel what options are weighing as the president son faces another indictment. and, one month until t
independents only 36% want to see biden on the ticket. 58% say they want to see someone else. dana: if that s not enough of a warning sign, the same poll shows biden running six percentage points behind trump. five behind desantis. those kind of numbers have republicans pointing to a big problem for democrats. no president has ever had these kind of numbers and won in a second term. if i am the democratic i would be in a panic. those are dismal numbers, not just bad, they re dismal. it really shows that even democrats don t believe he has what it takes to go to a second term. bill: mark meredith leads a new hour live at the white house with more on this, if there is much reaction. good morning. there is reaction. good morning to you. the next presidential election is still 547 days away. but as you were just talking about with dana the latest polling shows the president has an uphill battle ahead of him including with his own party. the poll took a look at the preside
maybe you don t have the whit to be a median. kamala harris still hasn t realized she doesn t have to take what it takes to be president or vice president or anything else that involves leadership. kamala harris has launched her well, we have lost count, fifth rebrand tour? trying to get america to fall in love with her and make sure biden doesn t kick her off the ticket? you can call this a re-re-rebrand. her first stop was on the stephen colbert show. now, these types of shows are highly choreographed. two or three preinterviewed before show time. kamala knows every question she is going to get asked. all rehearsed. should be a slam dunk for the v.p. it was a disaster. colbert eased into it reminding the audience that kamala shatters. my first guess this evening is the vice president of the united states. she is the first woman, the first black american, the first south asian-american to hold the office please welcome back to the late show vice president kamala harris.
i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. fighter jets have shot down an object in u.s. air space. on friday president biden gave the order to shoot down a high altitude object hovering ten m miles off the coast of alaska. last saturday fighter jets shot down a suspected chinese spy balloon in the atlantic ocean after flying across the entire country. j joining me now to discuss is retired air force lieutenant general, he was the first chief of intelligence, surveillance and he s a fighter pilot with more than 3,000 flying hours. he was the principle attack planner by operation desert storm commander of no-fly operations over iraq in the 90s. these days he s the dean of the mitchell institute for aerospace studies. general, thank you for coming back to the program. so what is norad s responsibility and the framework through which it determines a course of action? well, michael, it s good to see you again 37 it s been quite a week for the commander of north american air defen
money to an adult film actress. alvin bragg pushing the case using a convoluted legal argument. law enforcement source saying another witness is expected to testify before the grand jury tomorrow and they don t expect trump will be arraigned until perhaps next week if at all. violent chaos rising along the southern border as cartels are paying top dollar to smuggle people from around the world into the u.s. including a growing number of chinese nationals. all of this as the cartels continue to push tons and tons of deadly drugs across the border killing hundreds of americans every day. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i m john roberts. good to be with you again. gillian: i m gillian turner. the drug cartels are keeping u.s. border patrol agents very busy these days especially over the weekend. agents seized 111 pounds of meth and 99 pounds of fentanyl. gunmen killed two soldiers in mexico friday. they killed 360,000 people across mexico since 2006. john: no let-up wit