and so he got upset and so he said he d take one and he d challenge me to one and he d beat me. maybe he would, maybe he wouldn t. but what i said is, okay, well, if that s the case, then get on a debate stage and let s go. bring it, donald. show me what you got. nikki haley going after donald trump at the very start of her speech in her home state of south carolina. a real shift from previous rallies. we ll have more from the campaign trail and the new polling from the gop front-runner. plus we ll bring you the latest from capitol hill where there are now serious doubts about the possibility of passing a border bill, which includes urgent funding for ukraine. and also ahead, we ll explain the new action by israeli forces inside gaza that could create even more tension with the biden administration. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 25th. i m jonathan lemire, thanks for starting your day with us. and we begin this morning with the race
30 criminal charges over alleged hush money payments. w pe wait to see the indictment. former president is expectedarra to be arraigned next tuesday. sources telling fox heg shot will have his mug shot and fingerprints taken but will not be handcuffed. trump s attorney vowinotg to fight back .w you know, when you stretch o the law to get someone you don t like or is a political opponent in this case, it s ver tevery hard to ey get that law to comean back to its original shape.ally today s proof that you could not actually pick a target and then try and find a crime, even a beo crime. ime. that s not a crime because fac there is no crime here. thd i m telling you, theretsknow is no crime.is i know the facts and the law, g and i really want to see where this is going to go. m aj i don t know. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg is facing major backlash for bringing this case in the first place by being criticized for using untested legal theory c to bring state charges inas a feder
day. also cops describing black citizens as monkeys, animals, boy. officials calling out police in a overnight u.s. city for racist abuses and practices. tesla under fire. questions about the self-driving feature about another crash. and an investigation into tesla steering wheels on one model, steering wheels that can potentially fall off. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. we start with new heart breaking details about the kidnapping of four americans in mexico. we re learning that the two were immediately shot when gunmen approached their car, she watched them die. the autopsy of the two victims were finished this morning and the remains are expected to be returned to the u.s. soon. today the president of mexico pledged to see the investigation through and get to the bottom of what happened. diane gallagher starts off with more details on where the investigation stands now. feel good to know she s coming home. reporter: the mother of survi survivor latavia mcg
i m bill hemmer. hello at home. dana: i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. mike pompeo has a new book out and did interview saying the next 9/11 could come from mexico. there are so many places not controlled by the government but from the cartels like the taliban was to the afghanistan government. house republicans are holding a news conference yesterday. they said there is a war on our southern border and the cartels are winning. bill: the men you see on the right side of the screen are part of a cartel. one of the leading importers of fentanyl into the u.s. dana: fentanyl overdoses responsible for tens of thousands of death every year and the crisis is getting worse and republicans say the white house is turning a blind eye to it. actually refuse to take any action to meaningfully secure our southern border to stop the surge of illegal immigration and to take on the cartels who are making billions and billions of dollars off of people and the fentanyl and
possible obstruction. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is monday, august 29th. it s pretty much the end of summer. there is new reaction this morning after a heavily redacted copy of the fbi affidavit used to justify the search of former president donald trump s mar-a-lago home was unsealed on friday. the 36-page affidavit removed details of the federal government s efforts to recover classified documents, including top secret information that trump is alleged to have illegal little taken from the white house at the end of his presidency. the affidavit states that in mid-may, fbi agents conducted a preliminary review of the contents of 15 boxes trump returned to the national archives from his florida property in january. quote, identified documents with classification markings in 14 of the 15 boxes. it states that agents found 184 unique documents that had classification markings. 25 documents were marked as top secret. 67 documents were marked as confidential.