the senate message to tech ceos today. you have blood on your hands. the lead starts right now. the heads of facebook, tiktok and other social media companies tumble today with bipartisan criticism on capitol hill over what the companies are and are not doing to protect your kids. what led mark zuckerberg to stand up in the hearing and apologize. that is coming up. a pennsylvania man accused of decapitating his father then posting a political rent online. why was the horrifying video left up online for hours? we are expecting a major ruling at any moment from a judge that could come and will have serious repercussions for donald trump and his future. welcome to the lead with jake tapper . big tech ceos face blistering questions about what they are and are not doing to protect kids and teens. the u.s. senate judiciary committee hearing today focused on the leaders of tiktok, meta, which owns facebook and instagram, x, lee forman onus twitter, snap, which owns snapchat an
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jrwith, jesse wattes and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this, is the five dramatic showdown over security at the r reaching a breaking point. right now, texas is telling the biden administrations tellio to come and take it. today is the deadline the white house gave the governor,e greg, on allowing federal agents access to shelby park in eagle so they can remove the razor wire there. th to let the feds in and hasitio a coalition of 25 red state governors on its side. ofg could now be headed back to court, and texas is confident it will win. t but the white house says abbot is breaking the law by playingot gameuse as as. shy we will not shy away from n calling out what we seepoli. as political games from as political games from safe. it does not protect our communities. and that s who he cares about. and that s who he cares about. that st,e people of texas.t,e people of what we re seeing from governor abbott, you heardtexase s
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and i aced it. i think it was 35, 30 questions. and let me tell you, they always show you the first one, like a giraffe, a tiger, or this. a whale. which one is the whale? donald trump is again bragging about acing the dementia test. while claiming that presidents should have full immunity for any crimes they might want to commit. former u.s. attorney general eric holder joins me on that. and on a big victory in louisiana, where a new legislative map with two majority black districts is advancing in the state legislature. plus, with a border deal on the table, which senate republicans say is a great deal, trump s maga caucus in the house is saying no. because they want to continue to stoke fear ahead of the fall election. but we begin tonight with donald trump. the leading candidate for the republican presidential nomination telling americans very clearly that he should be able to murder and jail anyone he wants to, and no one should be able to stop him. not a single pe