we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
congress for failing to pass a spending bill. ainsley: peter doocy is live with the latest, hi, peter. peter: his face was so red, like he was embarrassed or likely at some point forgot to put on sun screen. the first policy he was asked about in the new year was immigration. [indiscernible] president biden: they have to give me the money i need to protect the border. peter: he plans to reopen four points of entry, two in texas, one in california and one in arizona. cbp has been overwhelmed by the 302,000 migrants showing up in december. the white house wants supreme court to allow feds to take down the razor wire set up by texas governor abbott. today republicans will show up at the border today. speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden s proposed funding to hire agents and invest? cutting-edge technology that is to stop people from flowing into the country. jim jordan is part of the delegation. he changed what was working, no more building the wall
happening now, colorado s top election official joins us live just hours before donald trump is expected to appeal decisions banning him from the ballot in that state and also in maine. also this hour, breaking news out of japan, multiple deaths now confirmed after a powerful 7.5 earthquake. dramatic pictures from the disaster zone are coming in to cnn. in the midst of war, a potentially divisive ruling by israel s high court, striking down a key part of the netanyahu government s controversial judicial overhaul plan. what will it mean for israel as it s already em broimed in conflict and crisis. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is offer today. i m brianna keilar. this is a situation room special report. we begin this hour with former president trump s unprecedented legal fight against his removal from primary ballots in colorado and maine. the formal appeals expected tomorrow. let s go right to cnn s senior justice departmen
Of bring you a round up of course bring you a round up of course bring you a round up of News Headlines, but we of the News Headlines, but we might to out of it to might have to dip out of it to hear from the Prime Minister about how he is going to tackle what he is britains sick what he calls is britains sick note culture. What is your experience record . Number of experience of record . Number of people work. The people are now off work. The number of people has shot up, shot up since the pandemic. Number of people has shot up, shot up since the pandemic. What shot up since the pandemic. What is your experience . Do let us know. Before all that, heres your News Headlines with sam francis. News headlines with sam francis. Ben and pip, thank you very much. Well, as we just heard there, rishi sunak is speaking in central london. Were going to take you there live now to hear more from him as he sets out his welfare reform plan, overcome whatever barriers they might face to living an inde
Someone just got shot. Reporter that charismatic kid, dead on the floor. It was terrible. I think i screamed for hours. Reporter what had happened in that garage that night . It was just like the last person that would come to my mind. Reporter a neighbor protecting his home, or preparing a trap . Makes the statement, its show time. Its show time . Exactly. Reporter a teenager, a father, a murder. No one would be the same. We were all like taken aback. Im lester holt, and this is dateline. Heres Josh Mankiewicz with deadly exchange. Reporter its a dilemma that confronts every teenager. How to simultaneously fit in with your friends and rebel against everyone else. That twostep is made a little easier by the knowledge, maybe the certainty, that youre going to live forever. Kids do dumb stuff all the time. Reporter and so sneaking out of the house in the dead of night to meet other teenagers to drink, party or just hang out, well, thats nothing new. Usually teens sneak back home safely.