new hampshire and defeat crooking joe biden and we re going to make america great again. can you hear that sound? [cheers and applause] that s the sound of a two-person race. [cheers and applause] bill: here we go, election eve in beautiful bedford, new hampshire. just like the painting drew it up. republican field is down to two in this election. the outcome could be a game changer going forward. good morning. hope you had a great weekend. monday and we re live in new hampshire. i m bill hemmer. dana: great to be with you. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. it s wonderful to come back to bedford, new hampshire, a beautiful and wonderful state. they have had a lot of politics here before we arrived. bill: everybody is engaged and what we love to see. dana: the latest poll shows former president trump leading nikki haley by nearly 20 points. the race narrowed to a one-on-one match-up after yesterday s surprise resignation by florida governor ron desantis.
fewer than five hours out from the cnn republican presidential debate and nikki haley and ron desantis facing off five days before iowa voters set the race, is this a fight for second place? else on capitol hill when hunter biden shows up unexpectedly crashing a hearing holding him in contempt of congress. you are the epitome of white privilege, coming into the oversight committee and spitting in her face. we can hear from hunter biden. you should have the courtesy and don t act like nimrods. hunter biden abruptly walked out. a judge says not so fast on donald trump taking the stand. welcome to the lead, i am pamela brown, jake tapper is out, he will moderate the republican presidential debate with dana bash between ron desantis and nikki haley, the two candidates searching for a breakthrough that could position them to become the one and only viable challenger to donald trump who is the favorite to win his search straight republican nomination. nikki haley trails d
music. and flavour of the year indie rock band the last dinner party are named the bbc s sound of 202a. hello, i m ben thompson. welcome to the programme. hezbollah has repeated its warning of a fierce response to the killing of a hamas leader, saleh al arouri, in beirut on tuesday. they say that lebanon will be exposed to more israeli operations if they don t react. it comes as lebanon lodged a complaint with the un about the incident. the complaint says israel used six missiles in the attack that targeted him. tensions are still high in his hometown in the occupied west bank following the killing, as shaimaa khalil reports. the town of al arura in the west bank, saleh al arouri s hometown, is in a state of mourning. but there s also deep fury and rage at his killing. protesters have come out after the friday prayers protesting, chanting his name, chanting for continuation of resistance and condemning the war. saleh al arouri s killing may have taken a significant name off
budget committee. and congressman robert garcia of the oversight committee are here to discuss. courtroom campaign. donald trump is set to appear at two high stakes hearings this week. melissa murray comes by to discuss the possible legal and political implications with the iowa caucuses just eight days away. and hollywood s golden moment. chris witherspoon joining me with his predictions on who the big winners could be at tonight s golden globes. i m jonathan capehart and this is the sunday show. this week, congress, the least productive in decades, finally comes back in session after a holiday break. and man, they have an overflowing to do list with a bleakest prospects of getting any of it doesn t let alone on time. one of the republican-controlled house returns tuesday, it will only have eight working days before the first government shutdown deadline of january 19th. and another for working days for the second deadline on february 2nd. but there appears to
stone cited several trump legal and political advisers who claim that the former president is demanding that they incorporate fringe conspiracies into his legal defense, quote, here s a list of ideas have included inserting that there is evidence that anti trump elements in the fbi framed him and a maga protesters by using undercover agents and to instigate the january 6th riot. and there the left wing anti-fascist played a role in attacking the capitol that day, and that trump s lieutenants have gathered real evidence showing, quote, massive amounts of voter and election fraud, and quote, in 2020, in swing states. and heavily democratic urban areas, as his long basically claimed, and quote. if trump s team as we ve been discussed calling witnesses, like nancy pelosi and other political foes to the stand, in an effort to pay them as the true violence of january six. that new reporting helps explain why just last week, the special counsel jack smith asked the judge overseein