a special edition of the ingraham angle from new york city. efforts are underway several states to remove former president donald trump from the ballot. we will get to that in a moment. tonight, vivek ramaswamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heart-warming inspiring story that you have to hear. but, first, william faulkner famously said the past isn t dead, it isn t even past. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessons that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new year. you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage of the moment that we miss the larger trends. this hour we will report breaking news, look at the big stories of the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fun hour. i want to start with the narrative thats sounded all year long and going to be a major theme in the new year. you know the song. this fight for out freedoms is also a fight for our democracy. i wish i could s
crimes, comes as he prepares for a meeting with xi jinping in moscow next week. hello, well come everyone. sandra smith in new york. john, we have made it to friday. john: we have, feels like monday for some reason with all the news happening. john roberts in happening. the icc claims putin is responsible for overseeing the unlawful abduction and deportation of children from ukraine to russia. moscow is calling the move meaningless. sandra: chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon l. what impact will this have in the short-term on vladimir putin? well, sandra, the announcement from the hague international criminal court could have an impact on whether xi of china goes ahead with a meeting with putin. if he does, he will be meeting with an alleged war criminal, now has an arrest warrant issued for the mass abduction of ukrainian children taken to russia and placed infiltration camps. modern day equivalent of the camps during world
activists still protesting outside the homes of supreme court justices despite last week s arrest out of california threatening the life of brett kavanaugh. pelosi has held up legislation and she says the house will vote on it this week. dana: let s go to chad pergram on capitol hill. the charge of the committee today is to document what was going on between the election and january 6th. the committee wants to understand what fueled the riots. i can say right now the president absolutely tried to overthrow the will of the people and he tried to do it initially through misinformation through the department of justice, through pressuring the vice president and on january 6th. he was told repeatedly by people that he trusted. that s why one witness is former trump campaign manager bill stepan. the committee would not say if he appears voluntarily. the committee is probing what the president did or did not do during the riot. this man had the microphone and could speak
On the left side of your screen. Chaos happening inside the White House Biden gave the directive to build a border wall. Just as the news was hitting the nation about miles of border wall going up on the southern border, the White House Press secretary said, this is a quote, walls dont work. And now her boss is saying walls dont work. Who is in charge at the white house . Biden or Karine Jeanpierre . Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. The political pressure became too much to ignore. President biden promised there would not be another foot of border wall built on his watch. Then he caved. After all, walls do work. How do we know . His Vice President Kamala Harris comes from california, a state where there is a wall. Maybe thats why, as bidens border czar, Kamala Harris has never known what to do about the waves of humanity illegally coming into america. Her state has a 15foot tall barrier between san diego and mexico. Part of that barrier goes right through the beach