lets you pay off your high-rate debt. and you can save $500 a month. nobody takes care of veterans like newday usa. john: pentagon press secretary pat ryder will give an update the first time on camera since lloyd austin s secretive hospital stay. both sides of the aisle demanding to know how was president biden in the dark for days before learning a top cabinet member landed in the icu. sixth in line to the presidency, he is, hello, john roberts in washington. a jam packed first hour. here we go again. sandra: good to be with you, sandra smith in new york. breaking in the last hour, this incident, now forcing the white house to launch a review of protocols for cabinet secretaries, if you can believe that. secretary austin is still in recovery, we are told in walter reed, and the pentagon is not offering any information about that elective procedure that originally sent him into the hospital but ultimately landed him in the icu. john: even the deputy defense secretary d
john: we are awaiting the first white house briefing of 2024 as president biden begins the new year blaming congress for the chaos happening at our southern border. and while the white house takes to the podium, house republicans are in texas in what is expected to be the largest congressional delegation to visit the border. welcome back, hope you had a great holiday. sandra: good to be back with you. house speaker mike johnson and more than 50 republicans will be in eagle pass, where they have been sidelined by failed policies. instead of the president pivoting on those policies, his team is setting up a potential showdown in the courts. john: biden administration asking the supreme court to allow border agents to get rid of nearly 30 miles of razor wire that the state of texas used to prevent migrant crossings. it comes after more than 300,000 migrants crossed illegally in december. marking the highest single month ever recorded. bill melugin has been covering it sinc
the most revly traveled countries in the country. a tanker truck erupted between an i-95 overpass and spread to the lanes above that. high heat caused them to buckle and melt and eventually cause sections to crash to the ground. bill: a mess and still is. crews got the fire under control in an hour. the damage was done. the governor of p.a. set to issue a disaster declaration later today. one car remains trapped beneath that collapsed roadway. listen to this driver earlier today. watched it unfold and described what he saw. hit a bump, again not unusual because it s philadelphia and that section is under construction. after coming back knowing what i knew at that time, that the highway collapsed, you see there on the video i hit a bump that was essentially the road getting ready to collapse. bill: we are on the ground in philadelphia. how are they looking today? bill, good morning to you. we re not far from the scene of the collapse. look at the charred southbound lan
i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
the party s first black presidential nominee. he has already made history as the first african-american elected to both is the house and senate. he promises voters the american dream is still real. i believe that america can do for anyone what she has done for me. restore hope, create opportunities and protect the america relive. creating opportunities and protecting america. to me you focus on financial literature in education and making sure the american dream is alive and well for the next generation of americans. to me it s about winning over americans to my brand of conse conservatism. dana: ron desantis is expected to announce that could be a grueling battle with president trump. bill: senator scott is about to make his announcement. good morning, mark. good morning. senator tim scott will launch his campaign from charleston southern university here in the gymnasium in two hours. he won t be in the state very long. he is heading to iowa and new hampshire, the