As always, we are joined by our resident copresenenter michelle gillernew. Michelle is the current mp for fermana south toront. She has served in the Northern Ireland assembly as a former minister for agriculture and Rural Development and chairperson of the Health Committee amongst other things. Michelle has been a shinfian activist since her teams and has been elected almost continuously since 1998. And todays guest is lawrence mcyong. He is a former ira prisoner, author and screenwriter. After serving a life sentence in prison, dr. Lawrence mckung obtained a phd in sociology at queens university, belfast. Hes also cofounder of the belfast Film Festival in the mid1990s. Lawrence mckung, welcome to the show. So lawrence, tell us a bit about your child grown up. Well, i grew up at randlstone, um, which 20. Made from here very mixture religion wise and often his ad that i never see the conflict here is about religion, its been politics, but religion has been used as the empire is used tr
governor greg abbott is refusing to remove razor wire that is stopping migrants from entering the country at shelby park in eagle pass. good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. we have team coverage for you this evening for lucas tomlinson is standing by with more on congressional republicans fight for border frederick new york congresswoman claudia tenney is here with reaction to president biden s promise to secure the border. but first mount for him is live in eagle pass, texas with the ladies in the texas sized fight between governor abbott and the feds. john, texas is not cooperating with the biden administration deadlines to reopen this a park to border patrol agents texas insists this is state land that has the constitutional right to seize this property. the united states in this latest argument says it has the right of access to this property. the state attorney general kenna paxton fired back to the federal government riding in part quote i respect
Good afternoon. I am richard lui in for yasmin. The christmas dozens of Flights Canceled due to weather in the mid let leaving airline scrambling to get Travelers Home for the holidays. A live report on the situation just a moment. And, a brandnew falling by Donald Trumps legal team on the issue of president ial immunity, essentially their clients commute completely immune from prosecution. This sets up a showdown of what the Special Counsel and the hearing set for early january. Breaking news for you as well, the Israeli Military revealing the fate of five hostages whose bodies were found in the tunnels of gaza. We will get the details with that just into. Us with record breaking numbers of migrant the board of this week, some negotiators working the phone lines through the congressional recess to find a deal on immigration. Well also look back at the Culture War Bottles of 2023 when america appeared to be a war with itself. That is coming up, later this hour. We are going to start th
at the united nations security council, wording of a truce is still being discussed, but timelines have come and gone. the hamas run health ministry says 20,000 people have now died since the start of the conflict in gaza. 1,200 israelis died, and 240 hostages were taken, when hamas invaded israel on october 7th. here s our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. in khan younis, drones and shelling are the soundtrack of this war. a new day in gaza brings no escape from the relentless bombardment. for little riyan, the attacks have taken a cruel toll. her uncle now cares for her in a local hospital. when herfamily s home was hit by an israeli strike last month, she lost her parents and her brother and sister. she was crushed and has had a brain haemorrhage. her situation s very difficult, he says. she really needs to be taken abroad for treatment, but so far, we ve not managed to send her out. deep in gaza, israeli troops take on hamas fighters in fierce urban battles. i
hey, everybody. good to see you. i m yasmin vossoughian in for my friend chris jansing live at msnbc headquarters in new york city. right now defense secretary lloyd austin doubling down on u.s. support for israel, insisting the united states will not dictate a timeline or terms for how it goes after hamas. this message, despite the growing fears at the white house and austin s own concerns that israel s bombing campaign will ultimately backfire, creating more terrorists than it kills. what happens now? what are the chances senate negotiators can break a decades-old impasse on immigration in just a couple weeks? the unbelievable amount of political pressure on lawmakers as they try to navigate what one senator calls, quote, the most complicated area of the law in the entire country. some horrific holiday weather making things miserable for millions of americans right now. the storm that soaked the carolinas now slamming new york, boston, even bangor, maine. torrential rai