new data released by the department of homeland security shows a surge in the last fiscal year. according to the numbers released on friday, total apprehensions across the country jumped by 67,000 to more than 530,000 all told in a little goal illegal immigrants apprehended. most recently we saw the same type of spike in 2014. surges mostly coming from central american countries. while the administration argues many of these migrants are fleeing ongoing high crime and violence, migrants tell him and other officers. they are saying we are coming over before the other administration comes. it won t be that easy to come across. the report says sanctuary cities are significantly impacting the removal of
was ready to do whatever it could to help bring this attacker to justice. benjamin hall in london. suicide bombers carried out deadly attacks in iraq today. at least 36 people were killed at a market in baghdad when a truck loaded with explosives detonated they are. isis claimed responsibility. two other attacks were launched by suicide bombers outside of police stations. at least seven officers were killed in the two attacks. in the coming weeks, the uss george h.w. bush will be back in the middle east, helping in the fight against isis. the aircraft carrier was delayed for six months for technical reasons but now the ships crew says it s ready to go. pentagon producer spent time on deck and files this report. half of the navies f-18 hornets can get off the ground. they are losing valuable
they want firm evidence. the president-elect is meeting with intel officials and insist there s more to this story. chief intelligence correspondent joins us. there is a debate within the intelligence community over how much information should be declassified. in intelligence source says there s more information about russian involvement in the election hacks and what was released by the fbi and homeland security. the concern is exposing sources, methods, as well as collections of foreign allies. once the report is made final and the president-elect s brief, i think we will have a better idea of what to make of the situation. the hacker s intent and motivation were not fully addressed in the joint analysis report last week, proving that amir putin s alleged role are
branches of government. treasury, dhs, fbi, white house presenting their accusations to underpin obama s throwing out 35 russian diplomats. what was missing from all of those statements, the word wikileaks. it s very strange. sean hannity s interview with juliana stage, the head of wikileaks, airs tomorrow. misses the back-and-forth between the intelligence community and the president-elect. we are hearing that we there will be a final report likely in coming days. hearing from the president-elect on new year s eve that he plans to possibly say something as well. let s bring in our panel. mollie hemingway. mara liasson, national political correspondent. and charles krauthammer. okay you hear julian assage and
you hear what affairs are saying privately. there s a call for more hard evidence. last week president obama put out the report and i think a lot of people were hoping there would be more specific spirit turned out to be kind of paltry, vague. didn t provide a lot of detail that skeptics were hoping for. that comes from cyber security experts, people who aren t big fans of donald trump. jeffrey carr said it added nothing to the conversation about the extent of russia s meddling. took a listing that a private company had put out of groups that are thought had ties to russia and grouped that under russian intelligence services without providing corroboration or substantiation. a lot of people are worried that the manner in which this information has been shared makes it seem like it s a domestic political operation than foreign policy that russia is a threat.