congress for failing to pass a spending bill. ainsley: peter doocy is live with the latest, hi, peter. peter: his face was so red, like he was embarrassed or likely at some point forgot to put on sun screen. the first policy he was asked about in the new year was immigration. [indiscernible] president biden: they have to give me the money i need to protect the border. peter: he plans to reopen four points of entry, two in texas, one in california and one in arizona. cbp has been overwhelmed by the 302,000 migrants showing up in december. the white house wants supreme court to allow feds to take down the razor wire set up by texas governor abbott. today republicans will show up at the border today. speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden s proposed funding to hire agents and invest? cutting-edge technology that is to stop people from flowing into the country. jim jordan is part of the delegation. he changed what was working, no more building the wall
troubles, as you know, he s already been indicted by the manhattan district attorney alvin bragg in the hush money case, and there are still pending investigations in georgia, and in washington d.c., related to his effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential elections. so it s possible that trump could be the defendant in multiple criminal trials, as republicans head to the polls to vote in the primaries. and in a new interview with political yesterday, trump vowed to stay in the race even if he s convicted of a crime, telling the reporter, quote, i will never leave. now, that s not at all surprising, he s previously vowed to continue campaigning for the republican nomination if he were indicted, a threshold that we ve already crossed twice now. and although few republicans have come out to denounce him and call former trump out of the race, the maturity of the party has come to his defense and criticize the justice system instead. yesterday, just two days after h
breaking news on this holiday weekend. special counsel jack smith delivers a newfound, an urgent an appeals court to dismiss former president trump s immunity claims. ahead, what that means for the case and when we could get ruling. plus, nikki haley s campaign playing cleanup after she botched a simple question about the civil war. what her answer says about the state of the gop and its base. also ahead, a look at how the polls have shifted over the course of 2023 and what that means for 2024. and why an extreme immigration law in texas is drawing the attention of the justice department. this is american voices. we begin this hour in iowa, where several gop presidential candidates are spending the weekend in hopes of dismantling donald trump s hold over the republican party. that includes former south carolina governor nikki haley. but as she works to capture momentum from a surge in the polls, her campaign is also cleaning up her recent comments about the civi
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
of the busiest travel days with new year s eve just two days away. rob marciano with the forecast. police on high alert for new year s eve. ramping up security in times square for what it calls a heightened and dynamic risk environment, deploying thus of officers for an expected crowd of 1 million people. one day after being banned from the ballot president trump fighting another legal battle. our jonathan karl with three former staffers and their warning about a second trump-term pair reporter: the skies over ukraine were set ablaze after russia unleashed its largest attack since the start of their full-scale invasion. civilians sent running for their lives. at least 31 people killed and the u.s. shooting down a drone and a ballistic missile fired by iranian-backed militant tas. a urgent manhunt for a hurting her own children. and the new report from the cdc, high levels of respiratory illnesses, including flu covid and this is world news tonight with david muir. g