bill: you have to do something might be the quote of the day. passing the buck on the border. president biden blaming congress as he fights to tear down an emergency barrier in the state of texas. good morning, everybody. can we still say happy new year? i do believe we can. dana: we can. bill: i m bill hemmer live in new york and we ll figure out how we do this all over again right now. good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. i wish president biden s new year s resolution was not try make news while the helicopters blades are whirring. it is driving me up a wall. making significant news in a way and you can t hear it. this is what he said. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene in a dispute with texas. the white house wants permission to cut down 30 miles of razor wire used to block migrants from crossing. this after a record month where agents intercepted more than 300,000 people. bill: 300,000. speaker mike
one of the explanations for this could be a sunni radical group that recently did something like this at an iran police station. we don t know who is responsible but we know it s a very significant event in iran today. bill: the four-year mark of the day that soleimani was taken out upon landing in baghdad. we re watching this back in america we talk about flu season. it s ramping up as people return from the holidays. cases are spiking in most parts of the country especially in the sun belt. why is that? from atlanta, jonathan serrie might give us an answer. good morning, sir. hi, bill. flu had become an after thought during the height of the pandemic. flu seasons are a fact of life once again. according to the latest cdc estimates more than 7 million people have become sick with flu this season here in the u.s.
worried we re going to bumble into something. you ve focused on this topic quite a bit. what are the warning signs here, and what in your view should be the administration s next step? i think there are warning signs. i think when they start trying to make a connection between al qaeda which is a sunni radical group and iran, which is a radical shia country, and they re not citing any specific evidence, that smasks iraq. that was the argument that dick cheney and others used that somehow that they were sheltering al qaeda people in iraq and that somehow justified the iraq war. when you have that kind of repeat, you know, history doesn t repeat it just rhymes, that s a rhyme. another one is they are beginning to cite the original authorization for use of force as perhaps a justification or the legal means by which they would move in. i think the problem is is that we ve been entirely incoherent. on one hand, there s a group within the administration and perhaps the president on one ha