noon pacific, good to be with you. i m jose diaz-balart in for katy tur. today, the department of justice released a long awaited report on the police response to the mass shooting at robb elementary in uvalde, texas. it was almost two years ago in may of 2022 when a mass murderer took the lives of 19 children and two teachers, and despite officers arriving on the scene just three minutes after the shooter gained entry to the school, it took 77 minutes for law enforcement to confront the lone gunman. the report is scathing. calling the response to the shooting a failure. noting that despite evidence that wounded children were in the classroom, the officers did not engage with the shooter. they didn t treat the perpetrator as an active threat, and those decisions among others may have cost lives. families were briefed before the report was made public. i spoke to kimberly whose daughter lexi died that day and asked her what she wants to see come from this report. account is
capacity or nearly out of room. they don t have the federal support they need to be able to have resources to help them integrate successfully into their new lives. dana: u.s. mayors begging for the migrant crisis before their meeting at the white house. members of president biden s cabinet sit down with a delegation from mexico. both meetings are looking at the growing border disaster. i m dana perino. good to have you here. bill: it s friday. dana: do you know the mayors are defending biden, though? bill: on this, yeah. they were, anyway. dana: yeah. they are the ones going to the white house. bill: it s friday, be in new hampshire this weekend. u.s. mayors looking for federal aid with a record number of migrants flooding into the country. impact is being felt in cities and towns across the country. you have lawmakers in washington seeking a border deal with the biden white house but some major sticking points remain. how do they get there? do they get there?
welcome to the lead. how about this for question of the day? fani willis, what are you thinking? exactly parks trisha murphy. murphy is a top opinion writer for the atlanta journal constitution asking that of district attorney fani willis who has yesterday to deny that she has a special relationship with a special prosecutor she hired, the stunning scandal revealed in legal briefs in georgia. donald trump was at the first hearing today since the allegations were revealed. plus inside the iowa caucuses, exactly how does this very american, very bizarre process work and why does iowa opt for this versus the more popular and easy primary process where voters just line up and vote in the polls? leading this hour, what could be a worsening global crisis for president biden, iranian-backed houthi militants warning of retaliation against the u.s. and its allies for strikes against houthis in yemen last night. the white house insists these were self-defense strikes intended to
don t want to be herbert hoover. oh, okay. donald trump hopes millions of americans lose their money from their 401(k)s and retirement savings within the next 12 months so he doesn t look bad. [ laughter ] we have a lot to get to this morning, including a key hearing today for trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. we re going to have expert legal analysis on that in just a moment. plus, the very latest on two major developments in the middle east. israel says it has killed a hezbollah commander in southern lebanon. it comes as the israeli military says it is shifting to a more targeted campaign inside gaza. retired four star navy admiral james stavridis will join us with more insight on both of those stories. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 9th. with us, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington
good evening, sounds like it s time to check the latest rules on right in ballots for the new hampshire primary. bring a pan, if you are a democrat. back in 68, when the new hampshire primary became a giant event because jean mccarthy went up there and challenged the sitting president, lyndon johnson, the sensation was, mccarthy won. he got more than 40% of the vote. but lyndon johnson won, and his name was not on the ballot. it needed to be written in. so who knows. who knows. lisa murkowski will tell you, are right in ballot is fine by her. so, alex, before you go, i m a little concerned. i have governor gretchen whitmer booked for the show tonight, but that was done before i read jennifer palmieri s vanity fair profile of her. have you read this? i saw it, i got an alert about it, i m a big fan of jennifer. great. but when you get, i don t know, 50 words in it says, and this is jennifer palmieri s reporting, so it s real, it s true, she says, whitmer does not