from washington tonight. they keep trying to stop trump and keep failing. late tonight minnesota supreme court dismissed a lawsuit that would have kept the former president off the ballot totally under the 14th amendment. it will not work. what is next in their bag of dirty tricks to try to stop this guy? well, we ll discuss it later. first, what happened and what s next? focus of tonight s angle. republicans were disappointed last night, big weed and big abortion won in ohio. gop lost dream of taking control of the state house and democrat in kentucky, andy beshear, he won. democrats are leaping to the conclusion that biden emerges as superman. it was a significant victory for democrats and couldn t come at a better time as there is tremendous anxiety about president biden bid for reelection. coalitions are strong. boom, once again joe biden is underestimated. laura: wait, listening to that crowd, you would think biden was out there week after week campaigning, ohio,
the former president himself is set to testify on monday of next week followed for now by ivanka trump next wednesday. she appealed the judge s decision requiring her to testify. see if that schedule holds. bill: we ll see where it leads today. thank you. dana: house republicans are about to hold a news briefing one week after electing mike johnson as the new house speaker. right now they re ready to vote on a stand alone emergency aid package for israel and then they plan to hold a vote on a bill that pairs u.s. border security with fresh aid for ukraine. we ll monitor what they have to say and bring you the news as it happens. biden administration is under intense pressure to confront hamas one day after f.b.i. director christopher wray warned about mounting terror threats on u.s. soil. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: nice to be back with you. good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. the justice department considering
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massive $1.9 trillion bill. amanda, catch us up to speed on the latest border crisis. reporter: the department of homeland security has instructed fema to begin to get involved with the unaccompanied migrant children coming over the southern border and trying to mitigate and shelter and move them into other facilities to help the influx we re seeing. to note the data points we have so far, about 3200 unaccompanied children being held at cvb facilities it comes as a 28% increase. this is all coming both with the biden administration trying to tackle the immigration issue but it s taking notice here among lawmakers within capitol hill. keep in mind, the influx we re seeing of this of the migrant children coming through across the border is due in part to a couple of factors including devastation from hurricanes in the last year as well as the covid pandemic impacting where the communities are as well as looking forward to anticipating more relaxed border protection and en