The state of the Union Address is tonight. All eyes are on the president of the United States under enormous pressure to address an enormous number of items that weve been getting in to all day on this fine network what is at stake for him from maybe the most influential player, leon panetta. If you think about it, his Advisory Role in so many capacities to bill clinton, it was a certain speech that he gave in the middle of the hole Monica Lewinsky scandal that changed his fortuning maybe forever. What a democrat can learn from another popular democrat that looked like he was in deep trouble and turned it around with one big speech. That was then. Well get into it. First, peter doocy at the white house. What were in store for, peter . What we think is in store is a president that is going to step up to the Microphone Tonight and basically say that republicans are a party that are jeopardizing reproductive rights. The radical extreme bills that were seeing on abortion, on ivf, youll hea
collides with a japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway at haneda airport. local reports say five crew members on the coast guard plane are dead, but that all 379 passengers and crew on the japanese airlines flight got out safely before that plane was engulfed in flames. we are monitoring that but first we re seeing death on the migrants, which nobody talks about. we re seeing the fentanyl at record numbers. the drugs, illicit drugs come across the terrorist are coming to our country. and then you see the economic impact that we re seeing the border crisis bleeding into 2024. and a record number of crossings is creating a political nightmare for the white house. good morning. i m dana perino. bill is off today. but good morning to you, bret. good morning. happy new year. i m bret baier and this is america s newsroom authorities stopped more than 300,000 migrants trying to cross the southern border just last month 300,000. that is an all time record. it is reigniting calls
chokehold after witnesses say that neely was out of control throwing garbage and threatening other writers. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg is investigating what happened after the city s medical examiner ruled the death as a homicide. police confirm that the homeless man had more than 40 prior arrests and reportedly had an active warrant out for felony assault. the marine, taken into custody after the incident, but was later let go without any charges at this time. lawmakers lashing out against the marine. a.o.c. calling hum a murderer. jamal describing it as a public execution. and another saying the death was a lynching. but the mayor eric adams thinks these comments are out of line. i don t think that s very responsible at the time where we re still investigating the situation. let s let the d.a. conduct his investigation with the law enforcement officials to really interfere with that is not the right thing to do. and i m going to be responsible and allow them to do their j
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. report on the new york grand jury probe of trump and the losses piling up in several criminal investigations. mike pence losing his bid to duck testifying in a new ruling while a new admission is upsending the stolen documents case. we ll bet to that later while the heat continues in new york. the d.a. brought in a a pro trump tabloid for months before the election. its headlines hyping a win. another trump ally cooperating with investigators, and this one s getting immunity for doing so. that friend, david pecker is the ceo of the national enquirer s parent company, american media. national enquirer hit president trump s secrets in a safe. you agreed to provide information about michael cohen, the president and the criminal investigation into campaign finance violations. this is a big case. this is absolutely whether the twice impeached president likes it or not, the work of manhattan district attorney alvin bragg
while they were flipping pages over at the one in wilmington. after the fbi spent 13 hours at that house on friday and found yet another batch of classified documents. some of them dating all the way back to his time in the senate which ended 15 years ago. republicans have lost all patients today. house oversight chairman james comer will formally request records from the secret service now after that agency said it would share the list of visitors to biden s wilmington home. comber and house intelligence chairman mike turner shared their frustration over the scandal. what s amazing about all of this is it takes us to the question of why were these documents here when now we learn some of these go back to his senate time and clearly he has become a serial classified document holder. edge took the president at his word when the first set of documents were found at the biden center for diplomacy that he just inadvertently misplaced those documents, but now this has gone fro