republicans, who are demanding attorney general merrick garland appoint special counsel to investigate the biden family s foreign business dealings. allegations of joe biden taking vibes during his time as vice president is at the center. chuck grassley claims a burisma executive paid biden and his son 5 million each, not directly, remember that nebulous web of entities at the center of this. the executive has voicemails to prove it. the foreign national who allegedly bribed joe and hunter allegedly has audio recordings of conservations with them. 17 such recordings. the recordings were kept as sort of insurance policy for the foreign national in case he got in a tight spot. kayleigh: the white house dismissing the allegations. karine jean-pierre was quick to deflect pressing questions at yesterday s briefing. is the white house aware of recordings of the president speaking to burisma. the president spoke about this at thursday press conference and i will quote him sa
sources, the grand jury has voted to invite daniel penney, the marine veteran will now face trial for the choke hold death of jordan neely, 30-year-old homeless mentally ill man that witnesses say was threatening passengers aboard the new york city subway last month. we don t know the exact charges that he is being indicted on y yet, but he was facing a second-degree manslaughter charge. this grand jury had been hearing evidence and witness testimony on this case since may 31st. they weren t considering whether penney was guilty or not guilty, but rather whether there was enough legally sufficient evidence and reasonable cause to believe that a crime had been committed here. the bar for indictment is low, he only needed 12 of the 23 grand jurors to vote yes to indict, and they have, there will now be a trial. the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg said they believe there was enough evidence. witness interviews, photos, videos, in this case, to prove that penny recklessly
on msnbc, the tsunami warning in japan after a series of powerful earthquakes erupted off the country s coast. fires breaking out, collapsed homes, tremors felt even in the capital city of tokyo. we ll have a live report with the latest in israel, a barrage of rockets fired toward tel aviv with prime minister netanyahu saying the war is expected to go on for many more months. what that will look like. the rising tensions in the region after a u.s. helicopter sunk three houthi rebel ships. just two weeks left before the caucuses. candidates barnstorming the states. who will come out on top. happy new year to you, it is 10:00 a.m., i m frances rivera reporting from new york city. we begin with the breaking news out of japan. overnight a series of strong earthquakes in the sea of japan prompting a tsunami warning among the nation s western and coastal regions. one quake reaching a magnitude of 7.6 grounding commercial flights and halting rail services for the affected
new year s celebration across america are well underway pretty good evening i am bryan llenas and for jon scott and this is a box report. annette new york city nypd is hard at worst beefing up for the ball drop celebration. hundreds of thousands of people from around the world are expected to gather in times square tomorrow night. that may include pro- palestinian demonstrators who could try to spoil the celebration for everyone else. cb cotton is live in times square with more on security preparations or tomorrow night. good evening brian. nypd certainly wants to reassure partygoers there are no credible threats to the celebrations here in times square. the crowd continues to grow by the hour the party is not even begun. security includes k-9 units, drones, surveillance robots thousands of uniformed officers. but also a big number of undercover ones you see the rehearsal happening around me. nypd says it is prepared as you mention for pro- palestinian rallies to pop up.
to meet with the mexican president. will a new plan emerge to stop the unprecedented number of illegal border crossings. plus a new survey shows voters associate donald trump with words like revenge and dictatorship. and the gop front runner seems to be bragging about it. it s time to say good-bye to 2023. we have a countdown of tbiggest political stories of the year. i m phil mattingly. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. at this hour, secretary of state antony blinken and the secretary of homeland security are meeting with the mexican president about the crisis along the southern border. the goal, convince him to action to stop migrants before they reach u.s. territory. cnn s priscilla alvarez leads us off from the white house today. what does the administration hope to get out of this trip from a policy perspective? reporter: simply put, they want help to drive down the number of border crossings. that officials have been seeing creep up over the l