colder. i will have the details shortly. good morning. it s six o clock on 6 january. our main story: the metropolitan police has confirmed it s investigating potential fraud offences, in relation to the wrongful prosecution of hundreds of sub postmasters by the post office. around 700 people were blamed for accounting mistakes caused by faulty it software, which made it look like money was missing. some were wrongfully imprisoned, in a scandal which was dramatised on itv. our reporter vincent mcaviney has more. mr bates vs the post office has brought to light a story for years those in power wouldn t believe. for the post office branch managers across the country over two decades, it s been a nightmare they couldn t escape. i haven t got that money. and i don t know where it s gone. noel tomas, a former sub postmaster in anglesey, was one of those wrongly sent to prison in 2006. this week has offered some catharsis after years of torment. the rest of the country knows how th
congress for failing to pass a spending bill. ainsley: peter doocy is live with the latest, hi, peter. peter: his face was so red, like he was embarrassed or likely at some point forgot to put on sun screen. the first policy he was asked about in the new year was immigration. [indiscernible] president biden: they have to give me the money i need to protect the border. peter: he plans to reopen four points of entry, two in texas, one in california and one in arizona. cbp has been overwhelmed by the 302,000 migrants showing up in december. the white house wants supreme court to allow feds to take down the razor wire set up by texas governor abbott. today republicans will show up at the border today. speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden s proposed funding to hire agents and invest? cutting-edge technology that is to stop people from flowing into the country. jim jordan is part of the delegation. he changed what was working, no more building the wall
a man whose father and grandfather that were killed in a bombing in gaza can t communicate from ckhan yunis because of a blackout. we have new details in the hunt for the hamas leader. putin speaking out for the first time about reports he has a body double, taking it on, as a series of questions flashes across a screen during putin s annual press conference. why are so many people in russia poor? who is behind the scathing questions? she may be the only republican woman in the presidential race, but are women voters buying what nikki haley is selling? that s our special story. so let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news, a blackout. gaza s communications network nonexistent. as of tonight, there is a near total blackout in gaza. no way to get a message in or out. just before the show, we tried to speak with a palestinian man who was in gaza. now, when we first heard from him this morning, he was able to share with us so
Tell it yourself. Im michael smerconish. The Crisis Manager wrote a whole book called truth to tell on how to handle a public crisis. Davis advice the exact opposite of the approach of the Biden White House to date around the discovery of the classified documents in its possession. They didnt tell it early. They waited nearly two months. They didnt tell it all, in fact, a Statement Released on monday, and the president s words on tuesday, were almost dishonest by omission. And as for tell it yourself, instead of the president telling the full story it has fallen to karine jeanpierre. Saying he takes it seriously doesnt make it so. It seems like a series of unforced errors turning what might be a benign situation into something that will surely be the focus of the Subpoena Power Republicans now possess after winning the house. Here is how we got here. On november 2, Biden Lawyers discovered classified documents in an office the former Vice President used in washington, d. C. , associate