dana: i was in his hometown over the break. there is a lot of nadal gear around as there should be. check this out here. what we are experiencing at the southern border is not unique to the southern border or to the united states. dana: dhs secretary mayorkas defending his record at the border as house republicans move to impeach him for allowing the crisis at the southern border to spiral out of control. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: busy day today. bill hemmer. good morning. secretary mayorkas passing the buck and blaming congress, accusing lawmakers of failing to make the necessary changes needed to fix the immigration system calling it broken. national border patrol council president brandon judd last hour saying he puts the blame on mayorkas and president biden for the open border policy of the past three years. what he is not telling people is that these individuals nobody has a right to be released into the united sta
harris: we begin with a fox news alert. a critical day for donald trump inside washington, d.c. courtroom. some of his rivals are on the ground in iowa. the former president is appealing for the all-important immunity in his federal election case. oral arguments just wrapping up in that moments ago. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the former president arrived to the court earlier today. a three-judge panel heard arguments in connection with special counsel jack smith s election interference case. no ruling will be issued from the bench and the court gave no indication when their written opinion would be issued. trump did not testify today but he was there and the u.s. supreme court denied special counsel jack smith s request to leap track the appellate progress to get to the court date in march. the issue could come back to the u.s. supreme court, though. the criminal trial before the district court is on hold until this whole thing is cleared up. i