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right nonow early start, the crisis on the border and president biden. will it lead to any solutions. capital buildings stormed by supporters of the ousted president who had challenged election results. and what could be better than the bills winning for number 3, damar hamlin himself expecting to get out of the hospital. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m christine romans. good monday morning to you. president biden spoke with border patrol officers, he visited a migrant center in el paso. the president did not see or meet with any migrants. cnn s jasmine wright for us this morning from washington. jasmine, republicans have been criticizing the president for not coming to see the migrant crisis until now. reporter: yeah, christine. it s unclear whether the president is going to end that criticism because of what you just said, because he did not see any migrants while on the ground for several hours. we did see him ta
released. we will have the key takeaways and how the facts compare with a largely fictitious claims from of the former president. then, we will kevin mccarthy be speaker of the house in 2023? the republican body entering the new year divided. pressure to expel a freshman member over his lies, and clinging onto loyalties to a certain florida resident. and new concerns of tripledemic illnesses, with covid hospitalizations on the rise again, as the year ends, as a special early edition of the 11th hour gets underway this friday night. good evening, i m mehdi hassan in for stephanie ruhle. how much did you pay in federal taxes in 2020? i bet you paid a fair bit of your income. i know i did. we now know the former president of the united states, a self proclaimed billionaire, played zero dollars in federal income taxes in 2020. in fact, donald j trump claimed a refund of more than $5 million. that is part of what we learned this morning from the house ways and means committee, whi
this sunday, classified controversy. attorney general merrick garland appoints a special counsel to investigate president biden s handling of classified documents. extraordinary circumstances here require the appointment of a special counsel for this matter. just months after a special counsel was appointed to investigate donald trump, the biden administration revealed classified documents were discovered in the president s private office, and even in his private garage. my corvette is in a locked garage. it s not like it s sitting on the street. they re both facing criminal investigations. i ll talk to rod rosenstein, the former trump attorney general. plus house with that reset. i think congress has to investigate this. after a rocky week, house republicans unite around biden s trouble, and launch their very first investigation on the biden documents, just as the white house struggles to answer new questions about the timeline of disclosure. they suppre