president of the screen actors guild, fran drescher, will join us in moments. welcome to the lead, i am jake tapper. we re going to start with our law and justice lead and the hunt for a serial killer. any moment, state and federal investigators in long island, new york, will update the public on the first arrest in their dede-long investigation into the gilgo beach murders. this is a case tied to at least ten sets of human remains discovered since 2010 along the shore in suburban long island. earlier this afternoon, a married father of two and a new york city architect named rex huerman was arraigned and pleaded not guilty. he s connected to the serial murders of three women and is the prime suspect in a fourth. those three women were part of a group known to law enforcement as the gilgo four. their bodies were found near each other, wrapped in burlap, discovered within 2010. they were all in their 20s and offered sex services on craigslist. as details emerge showing hum
welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino, good morning. bill: feel good to be friday? no travel this weekend. dana: for some. bill: for work. dana: true. bill: good morning. the biden administration giving the lone star state a friday deadline after the u.s. supreme court ruled that federal border patrol agents could remove razor wire installed by texas. this runs along a stretch of land near the border in eagle pass. the governor tells us on this program yesterday that the battle is far from over. jacque heinrich has the story from the north lawn today. good morning to you. good morning. texas governor greg abbott is citing his constitutional authority to defend against an invasion. he is also saying that the federal government broke its pact with the states to enforce laws on the books. now some democrats are pressuring the biden administration to establish sole federal control of the national guard and push back on this. the white house ha
every body. ha ha ha ha ha. okay.. right. they use their might to spyne on the right. a new report from the houseciar you did theory committee reveals that under the guise of investigating six, the feds duked banks to do a search of transactions for indicatorsja of homegrown violent extremists. problenuary h thm is, according to congressman jim jordan, the treasury department asked the banktremistsed thes to condh using terms like trump and maga in an effort to track gun purchases. they also asked the bank tos to query terms like query terms. query like. yeah, i don t knowd the bank lis pro shops and sporting goods. so in other words, if you so much as bought a jockstrap, then you could have ended up on a federal list of domestic violent extremists. luckily, i did my own takes two of yarn. but domestic violent extremists, that s quite a mouthful right. why don t we just shorten it to what the feds really mean? republicans now, of course, they re using january 6 to justify a
99 counties, despite visiting only 15 of them. florida governor ron desantis came in a distant second, receiving 21% of support in the hawkeye state. 30 points behind trump and just 2 points ahead of former south carolina governor nikki haley. this year s republican caucuses had the lowest turnout since the year 2000, drawing around 108,000 voters. that s about 14% of the state s registered republicans. good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is tuesday, january 16th. how did the results reflect compared to the polls? i think there was a big winner, and i think there was a big loser. the big winner, of course, donald trump. he got over 50% of the vote. the big loser, of course, the republican party, who is strapped with a republican loser, a seven-time loser. the problem for republicans is they started in iowa. this is just a perennial problem for the gop. it really, willie, is a problem that the democrats fixed, but you go back and look. who won in 2008? mike huckabee.
i m proud. a job extremely well done. denver nuggets can finally call themselves nba champions. mvp. being in moment is all i can ever ask for. brian: congratulations to them but now we have this bad news. a are fox news alert. the military revealing 22 american service members were hurt in northeastern syria sunday in what s being described as a helicopter mishap. u.s. central command says the troops are, both, receiving treatment for their injuries and 10 have been evacuated to higher care facilities. cause of the incident is currently under investigation. no enemy fire was involved or reported. u.s. military has kept a force of at least 900 troops in syria, including a number of contractors as part of operation inherent resolve. their noncombat mission is to advise and assist local forces to root out the so-called islamic state. steve: as we get more information we will pass it along to you. in the meantime, 6:02 here in new york city. and another fox new