battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
potentially coming in days. they attack medication that for 20 years the fda ruled as being safe. se restrictions on abortion. that s where i do believe in commonsense restrictions on abortion that s where america is at as republican presidential hopefuls continue to struggle with the abortion issue post-roe. i would literally sign the most conservative pro-life legislation that they can get through congress. even if it was six weeks. i m not going to talk about six or five or seven or ten. and the gun debate, after more mass shootings in tennessee and kentucky - oh, my god, there s an active shoot are there! the nra holds its annual meeting and republicans pledge support. with me at 1600 pennsylvania avenue no one will lay a finger on your firearms can the two parties find common ground on issues that have divided the nation for decades? my guests, tammy baldwin of wisconsin and bill cassidy of louisiana. also, rising tensions. israel is facing
washington tomorrow, he will be under the microscope as republicans take control of the house. brian style who sits on the house financial services committee is here on how the gop plan to hold the bidenom icadministration accountable for its economic agenda. house republicans are prepared to investigate the close relationship between big tech it the federal government. here is maria with the soon to be chairman of the house intelligence committee turnersman mike o subpoena twitter filesesome are you going to subpoena this information so that you have this in your purvie are you going to subpoena this information so you have this in your purview to go through and are you going to subpoena the? players who were doing this. we ar e definitely pursuingd, the department of justice and also the fbi. that january 6 committee has s establishehod some great legal precedent. a difficult time trying toents prevent those documents. i think that it will show a very troubling pattern. w
coffin at st. giles cathedral. if you ll be five times that of winston churchill that s extraordinary a, and b, how do you have the guts to cut off the line at a certain time? there are those who still want to file past. dana: yeah. bill: there we get a shot of westminster, a beautiful day in london, big ben. there you go. duncan, we re reaching the moment in 10 minutes or so we ll reach westminster hall and duncan has been a great guest of ours all week. he has really helped us along way and helped dana and me learn a lot about the traditions and customs of the british people, would you not agree? dana: wonderful. all of our guests have been terrific. duncan, they are making the final passage to westminster. yes. in fact, literally where i m sitting on the balcony of your fox news headquarters here in london now as it is, we ve seen the coffin just go past. so thank you for this opportunity. that s an incredible sight even though it s a long way off you almost feel t
he s actually done. so there s never any upside in letting joe biden speak injo public. d but unfortunately for the white house, sometimes you don t have a choice. disasters happenn ha. and when they do, the public expect somebody to pretend to be president. the american economy a is currently a disaster. therefore, joe biden had to h talk. so his aides dutifully let him out to the podium today to say something edifying about it. what happened next has got to be one of the weirdest presidential briefings ever conducted. new economic numbers show has declined for two quarters in a row. that s the definition of a recession. we re in a recession. that s why joe biden had tofi hold the briefingng. and yet biden never once mentioned those numbers, not a single time other than that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? it was completely bizarre. instead, biden simply announced that there is no recession in the united states no matter what you may have noticed aboutt your own country. i