make. last night we kicked off our town hall series in terms of th election season and the all-important caucus state of iowa, we did it with former president donald j trump, now the president state after the show for a considerable period of time and took a lot of questions from townhome process depends. take a look. and want to talk about issue first because those of the issues that impact people s lives. i want to start with what matters. peace and prosperity in the future of elections in my opinion. we have a border that is out of control, why would they open up the border? do you think this is by design? by the end of this year, joe biden by estimates will of allowed him seven and a half illegal immigrants into this country with no background chec at all. i think there will be 15 million people and these are people coming from prisons, mental institutions, insane asylums, don t use that term place, but there from insane asylums freight i read somethin about three wee
branding of the program. we can go with the more accurate polish version or how about the ukrainian spelling and pronunciation? the polish version probably closer to my roots. i m not the only one with name pronunciation on the brain these days. florida governor ron desantis kicked off his presidential run last week. perhaps the only thing more confusing than trying to launch the campaign was hearing the candidate s last name. come again. the same day he released that video, he appeared on fox news and said this. anybody that s so inclined to help us, i would love to have your support. this was low-hanging fruit for the trump campaign. i m ron desantis. this is governor ron desantis. wishing everyone a merry christmas. who knew the long versus short version of a vowel could cause all this political calamity. the governor seemed unphased when asked what the final word on how to pronounce his name. he said this. this is ridiculous. the way to pronounce my last any
the air quality is slowly getting worse. canada is seeing one of its worst fire seasons on record. thick smoke coated skies as far as south as tennessee. have you ever had to apologize for being a member of the pga. liv golf i recognize people are going to call me a hypocrite but circumstances do change. all right. we begin very familiar place, with the border crisis office of florida governor ron desantis confirming two migrant flights that arrived in sacramento, california. california is now investigating and the state attorney general and the governor there gavin newsom are threatening kidnapping charges. i m sure that will stick. holy cow. peter doocy live at the white house with details. that s a new one. ron desantis kidnapper? that is a new one. we seal how it plays on the campaign trail. but there were all these questions yesterday. about how these migrants wound up in california. officials in florida said they sent them on aircraft. and we have
prompting new retaliation from u.s. forces and new fears that the violence could spread. let s bring in aaron gillcrist who s covering today s diplomatic meetings in washington at the white house and nbc s jay gray who s in tel aviv. jay, starting with you. what is the latest on the ground in israel and gaza as we talk about last hour the war cabinet meeting last night and what may have come from that. day 81 of the war and as intense the u.n. says it has been since the start and as deadly. they are saying the intensity of the battles on the ground as well as the air strikes has ramped up over the last 48 hours. we know that the attacks have been targeting from the air control and command centers according to the idf. they have been working also to identify and target some of the senior hamas leaders saying that one of their air strikes did kill a leader but not saying to this point who that may be. on the ground, they are continuing to try and expose and then eliminate the
all the details for us. hey, peter. peter: good morning. house repub republican have been making big accusations for months about biden family corruption and now they are trying to prove it. they got a tip that the fbi got a tip several years ago alleging a conspiracy where joe biden would get millions of dollars from a foreign national in exchange for making policy decisions that the foreign natural wanted. if this was, in fact, a credible allegation that was made, this was three years ago. that means it s been in the vaults of the fbi for the last 36 months to include a presidential election in which joe biden was the primary candidate for office. and if they took no action on the credible allegation like this, there was not even a preliminary investigation, there should be some major questions about the politic zalings of the fbi. politicization of the fbi. say be the years of experience tracks closely did with what we are seeing into our investigation of the biden