Good to be with you. Im katy tur. This morning when nikki haley announced she was dropping ouch the race, a huge swath of voters got thrown back into play. They followed four distinct buckets, the ones who will never vote for donald trump, the ones who grudgingly will vote for donald trump, the ones who are willing to switch over to joe biden and the ones who will throw up their hands and stay home. It is that third category, the ones willing to switch that both sides will now try to win over. What are their issues and what will the candidates do to get them . Joining us now from charleston, south carolina, nbc news correspondent ali vitali, and in west palm beach, florida, covering the Trump Campaign, nbc news correspondent, garrett haake. So ali, you have been talking about the haley voters, what they like, what they dont like. What theyre looking for, this is from voters in utah, gathered yesterday. Thats a really good question. Its probably going to be biden just because its been f
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
the whatsapp messages date back to 2017. what they show is hunter biden writing to a chinese energy official saying i can make $5 million in salary from any law firm in america. if you think it s about money, it s not. the bidens are the best at doing exactly what the chairman wants from this partnership. dana: republicans say the chairman is a chinese oil tycoon and that guy has since gone missing. meanwhile the i.r.s. agent who blew the whistle on the hunter biden tax investigation is talking. he said investigators gave hunter special treatment. bill: the agent is trying to expose corruption. because every taxpayer deserves to be treated fairly and it was my oath of office to make sure that happens. bill: new york post reporter john levine is here but first david spunt at the justice department. good morning. good morning to you both. several key points in this new interview between bret baier and gary shapley, the i.r.s. supervisor special agent who is the whis
flights are stopped there also. bill: air quality alerts for tens of millions of americans. the hardest hit areas as of this hour on your screen. a lot in southeastern pennsylvania. we mentioned philadelphia. they grounded flights there and in new york as well where air quality is down right bad. times square yesterday engulfed in an orange haze. amazing pictures from gotham city. new york seeing its worst air quality in recorded history, wow. dana: here is the current air quality forecast. detroit, pittsburgh, boston, washington in the thick of it. philadelphia declaring a code red. the smoke engulfing cities. bill: yesterday new york city they go from hazy to dispopeian in a matter of hours. we watched it happen. pollution catching even seasoned new yorkers a bit off guard. it seems apocalyptic. could see it rolling from the office window. we were on the 80th floor of our building. you couldn t see anything. i thought the world was burning and i thought someth
i m rich edson in for martha maccallum in new york at fox news head quarter. december shattering another record at the border. a caravan of thousands on the way, since december 1, migrant encounters at the southern border have topped 276,000. more than the population of reno, nevada. the highest monthly total ever. art del cueto is starting by. first to william la jeunesse with the breaking news about the northern border. ice revealed that it arrested an iranian national with ties to terrorism sneaking in to the u.s. near niagara falls two days after being turned away here at the rain bow bridge. he s a legal resident of canada, wanted on assault charges there. ice held him for two months before a release last week. arrests on the northern border increased by 90% last year. for that perspective, 276,000 apprehensions, that is nearly the population of pittsburgh. again, a single month. not a mention of those got-aways. the point is the mexican border is overrun. agents so bu