the combat symptoms and boosts immunity. biovanta really works. it is good to be back with you on this second hour of chris jansing reports. ahead for us, the breaking news in iran. more than 100 killed, after explosions. israel was not behind the attack. growing concerns about american hostages in gaza as israel prepares for many months of war. battle at the border, a whole lot of republicans at the u.s.-mexico line taking aim the president for a growing number of migrant crossings which are slowing down. in the count down to iowa, the ad wars are heating up and it is getting nasty early. the new lines of attack from ron desantis and nikki haley. our nbc news reporters are following all of the latest developments. we begin with those deadly blasts in iran with nbc s teheran bureau chief ally ali arouzi. reporter: wounded 210 others near a cemetery in iran where a ceremony was being held to mark the 2020 death of country s top commander, in a u.s. drone attack. one bl
his fight to remain on colorado s ballot to the supreme court. what his lawyers are arguing and why the former president is now concerned about how the justices may rule. plus, we ll dig into house speaker mike johnson and the 60 other republicans and their visit to the southern border. their new ultimatum, and what they re prepared to do with the government if democrats don t agree to their demands. and also ahead we ll show you the confrontation between governor ron desantis and one of his own supporters who accuses the presidential candidate of going soft on trump. good morning and welcome to way too early on this thursday, january 4th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we begin with this news. former president donald trump s legal team has officially petitioned the supreme court asking it to overturn the colorado ruling that found him ineligible to run for president. last month colorado became the first state to rule that trump engaged in an i
from our cameras and told us to get lost. but we stayed and let the migrants tell us what the democrats don t want you to hear. joe biden inspired them to take this dangerous trip to america. where are you coming from? venezuela. colombia. honduras. what was it like crossing the border? what happened once you crossed? the first border i crossed was from colombia to panama. heavily armed citizens caught us. they kidnapped us for four days. a lot of kids and women were raped. to be honest, it was shocking. it was something i don t wish anybody else to go through. it was very hard. even one of the people coming with us died crossing the border. it was really good. i passed through with political asylum from mexico. we crossed the river, and border patrol was already waiting for us. we were happily welcomed, thanks to biden, the president. are you seeking asylum? yes. we are a group coming from venezuela, running from political persecution. venezuela is very bad
sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
Pushing for a speedy trial,s others are asking to move venue to federal court, in washington d. C. And then thursday, Fulton Countys district attorney, fani willis, faces jim jordans deadline to submit documents about her case to congress. As weve reported, she is now the target in the investigation by their public and lead house judiciary committee. And then on friday, the dea will finally release the Special Grand Jury report. And, while georgia is just one of four pending trials for trump, his campaign for president carries on. That has many people on both sides of the aisle wondering if the 14th amendment can, and should, be used to bar trump from running. Here is what former impeachment manager adam schiff said about that, earlier today. Well you know, the 14th amendment, and Section Three is pretty clear. If you engage in action of insurrection or rebellion against the government, or you give aid and comfort to those who do, you are disqualified from running. It doesnt require fo