reopen a key stretch of the border prompting calls for president biden to seize control of the texas national guard. where is this going to go, huh? what will give? back live in new york city today i m bill hemmer. hello at home and hello partner. it s been a minute. dana: here we are back in business and glad to be here. i m dana perino, this is america s newsroom. the border stand-off is escalating. a sours tells fox news more than 96,000 this fiscal year, 800 per day. like a new york subway stopping at every stop every couple minutes, 800 people get off the subway. think about that. everywhere in the city. governor abbott calls it a dereliction of duty. senator cruz goes a step further. joe biden deliberately systematically broke the border and opened it up. illegal aliens look for border patrol agents, affirmatively turn themselves in. the agents ask them where do you want to go? he want to be in new york, chicago, dallas. what happens? joe biden and his administr
is a u.s. president above the law? the lead starts right now. donald trump s day in court, as his legal team argues by the former president cannot be prosecuted, even if his actions were criminal. site i have skepticism from the judges will not decide how this case proceeds. six days before the crucial contest in iowa. a new cnn poll from another key primary state, chose a candidate gaining ground on the gop front runner. the defense secretary, treated for prostate cancer. the pentagon has been pressed on his hospital status. or the president didn t know one of his top cabinet members was in the hospital, and couldn t do his job. welcome to the lead. on pamela brown, in for jake tapper. getting ready for tomorrow s cnn republican presidential debate. we start today with our law and justice lead. donald trump, in a federal courtroom. lawyers say that he should be immune from facing charges for any alleged crimes that he committed while in office. the three appeals court
don t want to be herbert hoover. oh, okay. donald trump hopes millions of americans lose their money from their 401(k)s and retirement savings within the next 12 months so he doesn t look bad. [ laughter ] we have a lot to get to this morning, including a key hearing today for trump s claim of presidential immunity in the federal election interference case. we re going to have expert legal analysis on that in just a moment. plus, the very latest on two major developments in the middle east. israel says it has killed a hezbollah commander in southern lebanon. it comes as the israeli military says it is shifting to a more targeted campaign inside gaza. retired four star navy admiral james stavridis will join us with more insight on both of those stories. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 9th. with us, we have former aide to the george w. bush white house and state departments, elise jordan. pulitzer prize winning columnist at the washington
with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jr., jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city, this is the five. president trump back in court as his chief rival cranks up the heat looking to go after him harder. a d.c. appeals court taking up former president trump s claims of immunity from prosecution in the january 6th case. the former president in court, despite not being required to be there, as lawyers and judges way his fate, trumpet slamming what he says is an unfair prose prosecution. i think it s very unfair when a political opponent is prosecuted by the doj, by biden s doj. i think they feel this is the way they will try to win. they feel that as a president, you have to have immunity. as trumpet battles it out in court, team biden thinks it is a political opportunity. the president s campaign leaders have reportedly been meeting with numbers of the media to demand harsher coverage of his rival, donald trump, according to the report of the camp
president xi of china he controls 1.4 billion people ruthlessly, ruthlessly, no games, right? they said is president xi of china a brilliant man? i said, yes, he is. he s a brilliant man. the next day, trump says president xi is brilliant. yeah, i did. they want me to say, no, he s not a very smart guy, he just runs 1.4 billion people with an iron fist. that s crazy. that s donald trump s latest praise of a dictator. trump spent the weekend in iowa giving a series of outrageous speeches where he made fun of an american war hero, downplayed the january 6th insurrection, and demanded the release of his supporters who attacked the capitol. meanwhile in washington, senate and house leaders have a deal on a spending bill, but it essentially has the same terms of an agreement that led to the removal of former speaker kevin mccarthy, fueling speculation on whether congress, now that the top line s in place, will be able to avert a partial government shutdown in less than two wee