we begin this hour with the urgent and dangerous situations that are unfolding today as we begin this new year here on the southern border and in the middle east. a memorial for kassam soleimani is the scene where hundreds are dead and over a hundred injuries that as hezbollah warns that they have their finger on the trigger following the killing of a senior hamas leader in beirut. pete hegseth and trey yingst are standing by with more. first, there are dozens of house republicans, you have seen them in the moments, getting off the buses. they re at the southern border right now. fox has confirmed that next week the much-discussed impeachment hearing for alejandro mayorkas who is in charge of our border with the homeland security under his watch, that hearing for his impeachment will get underway. moments ago, karine jean-pierre blamed republicans for the record surge every day, every month is a new record in the numbers of people that cross our border. we re about to hear fr
the biden administration to shoot down the balloon over the atlantic ocean. the federal aviation administration has issued a ground stop close airspace in north and south carolina until 2:45 p.m. eastern time. the balloon is currently floating over south carolina and moving southeast republican congressman anthony of the homeland security committee standing by with his reaction. but first lucas tomlinson is live at the white house with 30 tables unchecked details. good afternoon mike if you going to shoot down a chinese spy balloon over the atlantic that s exactly how you do it. you close airspace you launched fighters. that appears to be what happened are present biden spoke earlier indicated a decision had been made without offering specifics. [inaudible] earlier this morning on fox former defense secretary chuck said it s unlikely this bible it will make its way home. i do not have the pentagon is going to do with the president ultimately decides but once he gets out
massive intelligence leak at the pentagon as the biden administration scrambles to assess the damage and contain the fallout. hello, and welcome everyone. welcome back to you, bill. bill: thanks for having me, bill melugin in for john roberts. u.s. officials are trying to put the pieces together how secret intelligence documents were leaked online. exposed highly sensitive info, not just on the war in ukraine but also on u.s. spy operations on some of the closest allies. possibly most alarming part of all this, the white house says, they don t know if the leak has been contained. sandra: american officials are attempting to sooth foreign governments and human services that may have been compromised by this unauthorized disclosure, as concern is growing, they will now be hesitant to share critical intelligence in the future. bill: and fox team coverage right now. retired general keith kellogg standing by. but first jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. what are we le
that john eastman continued his hunt for widespread voter fraud even after president biden was inaugurated. hours after president biden s inauguration, mr. eastman emailed rudy giuliani, donald j. trump s personal lawyer propose that they challenge in georgia for two senate seats that were won by democrats. according to the times eastman hoped that by trying to overturn another election and finding fraud in that race he would find proof that the 2020 election was stolen, but as we all know, was there no fraud. the election wasn t stolen and the big lie is still just that, a lie. the times also reports that eastman charged the trump campaign $270,000 and no surprise, given trump s long history of not paying his bills, it looks like trump never paid him. by the time mr. biden became president mr. eastman tried to be paid directly although two people with knowledge of the campaign s finances said he never was. john eastman has been under a lot of scrutiny from the justice depart
olivia troye on confirmation of her worst fears. former impeachment manager joe neguse on why we didn t know this during the impeachment trial. and former dhs secretary jeh jeh johnson on with this means about how close we came to successful coup. then, some surprise arrests of an alleged coup plotter. it intercepted me getting on the plane. they put me in handcuffs. brought me here. and ari melber on what we know about the rest of peter navarro and what it means for the criminal investigation of the president. we had over 100 congressmen and senators on capitol hill ready to implement do you realize you are describing a coup? that s when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. the ex president of the united states, donald trump, created such an acute security threat to his own vice president, mike pence, in pursuit of his attempted coup, that pence s chief of staff warned the secret service on january 5th that he thought that the vp