as soon as possible. the launch prompted neighbours south korea and japan to briefly issue then rescind alerts to millions of residents. japan has condemned pyongyang s actions. south korea correspondentjean mckenzie has more from seoul. there was panic and confusion in seoul this morning as we awoke to the sound of this air raid siren which is extremely rare. and messages from loudspeakers telling people to prepare for an evacuation, only to be told 20 minutes later it was a mistake. north korea did fire a missile this morning. it was believed to be carrying a spy satellite. but we now know it was a failure and the rocket exploded in midair and crashed into the sea. this will be a big disappointment for the north korean leader kim jong un. he has been working to give north korea its first ever spy satellite and he announced this week he was planning the launch. a spy satellite would give north korea a strategic advantage to allow it to monitor its enemies from the sky, s
to try to knock trump out of the race are counter productive. they backfire. as you know he feeds on grievance just like a fire feeds on oxygen. and this is going to end up as a grievance that helps him. did colorado just hand donald trump a political gift by barring him from the ballot? why some say the effort to rue the former president could actually help his campaign. plus how president biden is responding. this as nbc news has learned the colorado supreme court justices who ruled in the case are now facing a flood of threats after their historic decision. also ahead, we ll bring you the latest out of the israel-hamas war as israel defense forces uncover hamas extensive tunnel network in gaza city. and the blunt warning from chinese president xi jinping to president biden about beijing s intentions with taiwan. all right, good morning. welcome to way too early on this thursday, december 21st. i am not jonathan lemire. i m sam stein in for jonathan lemire. now, th
meanwhile, ukraine has denied responsibility. moscow s regional governor said, several drones had been shot down outside the city, and also pinned responsibility for the attack, on ukraine. this was vladimir putin in the last little while. asa as a response, the kyiv regime took as a response, the kyiv regime took a different path of frightening russia, fighting the citizens of russia, fighting the citizens of russia initiating residential buildings. of course, this is a clear sign of terrorist activity. firstly, i want to say that the rest make moscow air defences of work satisfactory although there s still some to do. we encountered the same in syria. it is just overcoming the airbase in moscow in the metropolis are incomparable. in general, it s clear what needs to be done to seal the air defence of the capital and we will do it. but i m not so worried about this as about the attempts to evoke a response from russia. after all, everything is designed for this purpose. they
beyond a breaking point. the finger pointing is over. it s always somebody else s faults. the first step to getting out of a hole is stop digging. the border crisis exploding. migrants flooding into the u.s. at a staggering rate draining resources and morale. instead of spending the holidays at home with their families, border patrol agents will face scenes like this. processing those entering the country illegally with no slowdown in sight. good morning and welcome to america s newsroom i m bret baier. bill and dana have much needed time off. good morning, gillian. gillian: i m gillian turner in washington. u.s. border patrol is vastly outnumbered with 200 would be illegal migrants to each single agent on the ground there. southern border governors say it is not at all clear president biden has seen what is happening on his watch. take a listen. has president biden seen photos and videos of people going into the country. has he seen photos and videos of it actually h
emily: unending tidal wave of border entries with no sign of slowing down. stunning images like the ones on the screen now speak to record-breaking pace of migrants entering the united states everyday. but the white houses this is not unusual. this is outnumbered, i m emily compagno, joining me today carley shimkus, lisa boothe and fox news contributor janette nesheiwat and ranking member and host of the doug collins podcast, doug collins. cbp sources revealing to fox news there have been over 214,000 migrant encounters so far this month, including 11,000 in the last 24 hours. the speaker of the house johnson is urging biden administration to take immediate action to curb the crisis, warning that the southern border of our nation is being overrun and u.s. customings and border protect is at a breaking point. take immediate action available under immigration laws to stem the record of tie of illegal immigration. he s calling on the biden administration to use executive a