which is more cruel and unusual? one of the most influential appellate courts erupted in public disagreement over one of the most difficult issues of our time, homelessness. having recently decided matters of affirmative action, student loans and adoption, on top of last year s rulings concerning abortion, guns, religion and climate change, scotus might soon have the final word here, too. at issue, ordinances in grants pass, oregon, which would impose fines on homeless people for encampment on public property. a trial court was faced with this issue, whether cities can impose criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter. it held the ordinances were unconstitutional and constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the eighth amendment. the matter came before the powerful ninth circuit court, which has jurisdiction for much of the western united states and all of california. the ninth circuit
bill: you have to do something might be the quote of the day. passing the buck on the border. president biden blaming congress as he fights to tear down an emergency barrier in the state of texas. good morning, everybody. can we still say happy new year? i do believe we can. dana: we can. bill: i m bill hemmer live in new york and we ll figure out how we do this all over again right now. good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. i wish president biden s new year s resolution was not try make news while the helicopters blades are whirring. it is driving me up a wall. making significant news in a way and you can t hear it. this is what he said. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene in a dispute with texas. the white house wants permission to cut down 30 miles of razor wire used to block migrants from crossing. this after a record month where agents intercepted more than 300,000 people. bill: 300,000. speaker mike
defy physics. was the 2020 election a miracle? honestly we don t know and don t expect an answer tonight. let s move into immediate questions, like weird things shooting in the sky over the united states and canada that nobody can positively identify these things. should we be worried about these things? what about the infrastructure, that the biden administration has shown strange contempt for, possibly because they were built by the white construction workers that mayor pete dislikes so much. our critical infrastructure appears to be falling apart. is that a problem? or can we in the brand-new transhumannist future our leaders envision feed ourselves with mckenzie consultants alone? if we can, how do they taste? you may be wondering all of this, or maybe none of it, because you have no clue what we re talking about because the media hasn t told you about it. a press corps that ignores a mushroom cloud over ohio will ignore pretty much anything. in case you re not up-
and with me now, cnn legal analyst, elliott williams, a former deputy assistant attorney general, and elliott, this is a friday night news dump, no question about it. no question. we know them well this this town. the justice department will not charge scavino, not charge mark meadows. they are charging peter navarro. how do you sort this out? you got to look at every case differently, jim, and set aside navarro and steve bannon who s also been charged. number one, the jobs each of these individuals held was different. steve bannon wasn t even a white house aide at the time of the conduct in question. right? number two, the nature of their behavior. there s at least the factual question as to whether meadows and scavino complied at least in part with the committee to a point that it just would have been hard to charge them with a crime. as a justice department, you want to be able to make the decision of do we think we could win this in front of a jury. it s just a cl
by investigators today, jake, lasted 40 to 60 minutes, from the moment he was engaged with the officer outside the school to the moment that a border patrol agent shot and killed ramos inside the school building, that that took almost an hour. so you can imagine what a horrific scene that was inside that school for the dozens of children and teachers that were inside. yeah, there s a lot of questions about that timeline. but ed, we just heard from the shooter s grandfather, i understand. yes, we were out in the neighborhood where investigators and fbi agents have been combing the neighborhood around where ramos grandparents live. the grandmother is still in a san antonio hospital. we understand she s 66 years old, still in critical condition. she was able to she was shot in the face, we re told, and was able to walk across the street and get a neighbor to call for help. that s how she was airlifted to a hospital in san antonio. but that woman is still hanging on to lif