Possibly only president ial debate. Hours away from that moment that could make or break either campaign. Welcome to a new hour of americas newsroom, im dana perino. Bill good morning to you, right . Im bill hemmer. The day is here finally, right . Tonights debate giving the candidates their best shot yet now to make the case for leading the country over the next four years talking directly to the american people. Tens of millions who will watch tonight. Only eight weeks now before election day. Only days ahead of some early voting in these states. Their Battleground States, too. Both candidates hoping to move the needle for those small number of undecideds in the key battlegrounds where the race for the White House remains a tossup. Dana for harris especially this moment is very important. It will be one of the few times this Election Cycle she has answered questions. Kellyanne conway on what that means for tonight. There is no unplowed ground left for Donald Trump. We have seen and h
beyond a breaking point. the finger pointing is over. it s always somebody else s faults. the first step to getting out of a hole is stop digging. the border crisis exploding. migrants flooding into the u.s. at a staggering rate draining resources and morale. instead of spending the holidays at home with their families, border patrol agents will face scenes like this. processing those entering the country illegally with no slowdown in sight. good morning and welcome to america s newsroom i m bret baier. bill and dana have much needed time off. good morning, gillian. gillian: i m gillian turner in washington. u.s. border patrol is vastly outnumbered with 200 would be illegal migrants to each single agent on the ground there. southern border governors say it is not at all clear president biden has seen what is happening on his watch. take a listen. has president biden seen photos and videos of people going into the country. has he seen photos and videos of it actually h
harris. julie: the floodgates are woad open at the southern border. the speaker of house demanding president biden to take executive action on the crisis. the images we see every day are just simply stunning. i m julie banderas in for harris today. thanks for joining us. president biden spoke directly with mexico s president yesterday sending secretary of state antony blinken and secretary of homeland mayorkas there in the next few days. border patrol sources reporting a record number of migrant encounters, 200,000 so far this month alone. an average of about 10,000 a day. those are just the ones we know about. monday alone that number topping 12,000. border patrol agents outmanned by a 200 to one ratio even. wives of agents speaking out on the hardships suffered by those on the front lines. he is infuriated and heartbroken. he has loved his career up until this administration. and we have literally watched our border be handed over. it has become too much. it is overwhel
valuable forest land. sunday s scene fiery and dangerous riders doused construction equipment in alcohol and set it on fire and also threw bricks, molotov cocktails and fireworks at cops. police say those arrested used a peaceful demonstration during a music festty call at the site as cover for the violence that followed. in america we re you a loaded to peacefully demonstrate. this was not a peaceful demonstration. this was a coordinated attack. this was an insurrection. i hope that the courts will deal harshly with these domestic terrorists. julie: here are the 20 people, most of them young and most not even from georgia. all but two of them, in fact, from out of state. tennessee, new york, massachusetts, even as far as canada and france. charles watson has more from atlanta for us. hey, charles. good morning, julie. we expect most if not all of the protestors charged with domestic terrorism for their alleged roles in that attack on police to make first appearances in
in the faulkner focus. it will be a kwik trip as you know to new york city from where he is in florida. facing charges related to the stormy daniels hush money case. he is set to be at the courthouse tomorrow in manhattan at 11:00 a.m. his arraignment begins at 2:15 eastern. it may take as few as 15 minutes. after that trump will head back to mar-a-lago and planning a speech tomorrow night. however we re learning the judge could take an extraordinary step of imposing a gag order on the former president and 2024 contender. trump s legal team is considering adding a first amendment attorney to fight that if they try to put a gag order on him. they will be ready to fight that if necessary. many republicans continue to attack the indictment. one democrat who voted to impeach trump has his own concerns. i think people need to ask themselves the fundamental question. if this were anyone but trump would this d.a. even take up this case? it feels obvious to a lot of us that it is