we begin this hour with the urgent and dangerous situations that are unfolding today as we begin this new year here on the southern border and in the middle east. a memorial for kassam soleimani is the scene where hundreds are dead and over a hundred injuries that as hezbollah warns that they have their finger on the trigger following the killing of a senior hamas leader in beirut. pete hegseth and trey yingst are standing by with more. first, there are dozens of house republicans, you have seen them in the moments, getting off the buses. they re at the southern border right now. fox has confirmed that next week the much-discussed impeachment hearing for alejandro mayorkas who is in charge of our border with the homeland security under his watch, that hearing for his impeachment will get underway. moments ago, karine jean-pierre blamed republicans for the record surge every day, every month is a new record in the numbers of people that cross our border. we re about to hear fr
killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. we re going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. good morning, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you this morning. we re going to begin in iran in the city of care monowhere just within the last couple of hours two explosions killed 100 people and injured nearly 150 people at the memorial site for ha sam soleimani. he was the head of the revolutionary guard corps. i want to bring in ali arouzi in tehran to talk more about this. this morning iran saying more than 100 people were killed in these blasts. what do we know? reporter: yeah, i mean, this just broke a few hours ago, yasmin, as you said. w
i m dana perino. bill: i hope you had a good weekend. quite relaxing. bill hemmer, good morning. the biden campaign getting off to a slow public roll-out and republicans are busy courting support coast to coast focusing on important primary states. desantis telling voters why he wants to send biden back to the basement in delaware. you have to recognize our country is in decline right now. i don t think decline is inevitable and i m running for president to reverse that decline and to put us on a path to american renewal. we can do it and we ll get it done. i know it can be done because we did it in florida. dana: bret baier joining us in a moment. first rich edson live in washington. you have an update. good morning, rich. good morning. republicans are courting primary voters across the country. governor desantis campaigned in oklahoma where he picked up the governor s endorsement. his first from a sitting governor. we have an opportunity to get a big coalition tog
also on the programme. the latest developments in the middle east. including the funeral of a hamas deputy leader in lebanon. thousands of people were there. prince andrew and bill clinton are named in files relating to sex offenderjeffrey epstein. we ll look at what we ve learnt. and ai terrorism, stethescopes and keyboard keys. all in our weekly look at artificial intelligence ai. decoded is coming up. plenty of elections around the world this year. now know a bit more about what could be happening here in the uk. rishi sunak says the general election is likely to happen in the second half of this year . he didn t rule out it happening earlier but says his working assumption is later this year. opposition labour party leader keir starmer says sunak is squatting in downing street for months on end . here s our political editor chris mason reports. can i welcome to you this morning, rishi sunak, the prime minister? mansfield in nottinghamshire a town the conservatives
it, thank you, guys. good, good evening, martha maccallum and these are the breaking stories that we will touch on all throughout today. general pat ryder is in the briefing room as we speak as iraq condemns the united states for taking out the leader of a iran-backed militant group adding fuel to a very volatile situation in the middle east. we did carry out that retaliation that you see on the right-hand side of your screen. he is answering questions about that and we will monitor that as dancing more will join me with reactions to the escalations that we are seeing all across the region and where the united states goes next. first, back here at home become a very serious blame game is going on over our border at the white house and pointing fingers at each other as the migrants shatters record after record after record, watch. [indistinct] under president biden from america s lead out to illegal immigrants, smugglers and cartels. he is responsible for the great threat