on msnbc, the tsunami warning in japan after a series of powerful earthquakes erupted off the country s coast. fires breaking out, collapsed homes, tremors felt even in the capital city of tokyo. we ll have a live report with the latest in israel, a barrage of rockets fired toward tel aviv with prime minister netanyahu saying the war is expected to go on for many more months. what that will look like. the rising tensions in the region after a u.s. helicopter sunk three houthi rebel ships. just two weeks left before the caucuses. candidates barnstorming the states. who will come out on top. happy new year to you, it is 10:00 a.m., i m frances rivera reporting from new york city. we begin with the breaking news out of japan. overnight a series of strong earthquakes in the sea of japan prompting a tsunami warning among the nation s western and coastal regions. one quake reaching a magnitude of 7.6 grounding commercial flights and halting rail services for the affected
molly: president biden is offering up some new year s optimism. and he climbs we are now in the best position to lead the world. the president left out a few important details. namely the ongoing crisis at our southern border, the wave of crime that is sweeping through big cities and a lagging economic agenda. welcome to a special edition of fox news live. i m molly line. mike: i m mike emanuel. president biden s economic agenda has been a key talking point during his reelection campaign. lingering inflation and high costs have kept his message from resonating with american voters. the president into the economy during his new year s message last night. buys my hope is that everyone has a healthy, happy, and safe new year. i hope they understand that we are in a better position than any country in the world. and we are coming back and it is about time. people are in a position to make a living now and they have created a lot of jobs. and i guess i just feel good that th
nation is facing the most serious internal attacks on the frontal and institutional structures that define a democracy. since the pulitzer s were introduced a century ago. precisely to counteract problematic, authoritarian tendencies throughout the society. that warning was followed by the announcement of that year s pulitzer prize for national reporting which went to the washington post in new york times for quote, relentlessly reporting coverage in the public interest on russian interference in the 2016 election. and it s connections to the trump campaign, the president elect s transition team, and his eventual administration. that choice naturally drew the ire of then president donald trump, who did not stop complaining about the decision, even after he left the white house. it actually lead the pulitzer boards to open two separate independent investigations into the awarding of those prizes. this week, the pulitzer board announced the results of those investigations,
didn t know last week, at the beginning of last week, but these two words don t appear in almost all of the coverage of what is happening at the secret service. the two words are, james marie. james murray is the person who donald trump appointed director of the secret service, when donald trump knew he was going to need the secret service for a lot more then protecting him from death threats. when donald trump made james murray head of the secret service, donald trump knew he was going to need the secret service to help him hold on to the presidency. we will be talking about other things in this hour, you will hear from stacey amen, when she joins us, about the ban on abortion in georgia. which went into effect today. you will hear what happened in the steve bannon trial today. one federal prosecutors confidently rested their case after presenting just to technical witnesses, and you will see and hear, the mother of the mass murderer in uvalde texas, who was confronted by ot
Good day. Im Garrett Haake in washington. Andrea is on assignment. We begin with new tragedy in gaga. Seven members of the World Central Kitchen have been killed, including one american. The aide workers were leaving a Food Warehouse when their Armored Vehicles were hit in an israeli air strike. The u. S. Based charity halted operations and is returning aid back to cyprus. The victims include a dual u. S. Canadian citizen as well as british, polish and palestinian citizenship. The founder of World Central Kitchen is heartbroken, calling the victims angels, insisting the Israeli Government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing, it needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid and killing civilians and aide workers and stop using food as a weapon. Benjamin netanyahu said, unfortunately in the last day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in gaza strip. This happens in wartime. We are looking into it. The organization was the first to bring desper