pushing heavy rain and wind into cities that are vulnerable with flooding. after the path wiped out florida s west coast leaving parts of the state swamped, draining vital resources, emergency rooms forced to turn away patients, in the state s costliest hurricane on record. plus, putin makes his land grab official, the biggest annexation and absorb in europe, as protesters here leave their mark vandalizing the russian consulate. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper, hurricane ian making his third landfall in south carolina after previously hitting florida and cuba earlier this week. residents of south carolina are looking southward no doubt at what happened in florida with dread. in the sunshine state, clean up beginning. ian decimated parts of fort myers beach, winds whipping hotels, restaurants, it s a similar scene on sanibel island, homes, hotels, docks, destroyed, littering the beaches with debris. listen to how president biden described the destruction earlier today
and the republican party looks like an embarrassment right now. the 20 that are doing this, they have done a good job. they need to keep talking, and then they need to do what every single successful person does, you take your deal, you take your win, you take your victory lap, and let s move on, and let s get on with business. wow, rare agreement between president biden and republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene. both labeling the mutiny among the house republicans as embarrassing. this morning, there is still no speaker of the house. welcome to morning joe, it s thursday, january 5th. along with joe, willie, and me we have congressional investigations reporter for the washington post , jackie alemany, sam stein, the founder of the bulwark, charlie sykes, and white house bureau chief at politico, jonathan lemire. still no speaker. i feel like what we saw yesterday, and we ll talk about that and show members of congress speaking on the floor but we re beginn
new reporting of yet another child pleading for help. and one of the nba s biggest stars said he takes responsible and now wants to make amended for pushing an anti-semitic film. this is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. i m kate bolduan. five days until the midterms and president biden warning that democracy itself is at stake. in a subppeech just blocks from where the violent mob stormed the capitol, the president told the country we can t take direction for granted any more. make no mistake. democracy is on the ballot for all of us. we must remember that democracy is a covenant. we need to start looking out for each other again. so white house aides tell cnn the president s speech was in part shaped by the alarm that he felt about the violent attack on nancy pelosi s husband. that suspect has another court date tomorrow. today joe biden will be taken his message on the road at a rally in new mexico this evening. and donald trump also ret
laura: don t tell us anymore after that. you never had a desire to have a mustache ever? sean: no, never. you want me to try it? make a bet? laura: yeah, i think you should grow a mustache for charity. sean: when you make a bet you can make that my payment to you. laura: okay. that s really good. sean: and i ll take the cash. laura: that s perfect. and maybe we ll show our crew s mustaches and compare. great show tonight i enjoyed watching it. see you later. i m laura ingraham, this is ingraham angle from washington tonight we have breaking news from journalist chris rufo we re going to bring you in moments. and once again the left is seeking to use the department of justice to target those who speak out. this time against those who oppose radical gender surgeries. those details are just moments away. but first, unnatural disasters. that s the focus of tonight s angle. now, just when you think the regime media couldn t do more to shatter its own credibility, tha
home of haven t kamala harris. here s how harris sees the surge now. two million people crossed the border for the first time ever. you re confident this border is secure. we have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation including ours and our administration. martha: we ll dig into that with florida congressman michael waltz. first, bill melugin live at the border in eagle pass, texas where he s talked about this story in detail for months. bill? martha, good afternoon to you. texas governor greg abbott says those comments from v.p. harris that the border is secure is part of the reason why he sent the migrants to her residence in washington d.c. his troopers are having to deal with this crisis day in and day out. take a look at there video as we were embedded with troopers in uvalde. a man was flying through red lights, pulls off the side of the road and everybody bails out of the vehicle including the illegals. they go running into the brush, some r