america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. elevated threats to the homeland coming as a record number of people on the terror watch list were caught at the southern border last year. more than the previous six years combined. the white house yesterday dodging a question about the risk of foreign terrorists taking advantage of weak border security. is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? i couldn t possibly answer that question, peter. all i can do is tell you that we have remained vigilant to that potential threat. dana: all this as we say a disturbing rise of anti-semitism of college campuses and cities across the u.s. police arresting an ivy league student for making violent threats against jewish students at cornell university. bret: senator josh hawley ahead. rich edson on similar
that is our show for tonight. a special edition of donald trump witness to history starts right now. after 22 witnesses and 16 days of testimony, donald trump has become the first-ever american president to be convicted of a crime. this trial will go down in history, but without cameras in the courtroom, americans never got to see the evidence for themselves. they did not get to see trump s isa close and his mouth go slack while he sat slumped at the defense table. they did not get to hear stormy daniels salacious testimony firsthand. they do not get to watch the judge cleared the courtroom seemingly in anger as he butted heads with a truculent witness. instead, americans had to rely on word from the few reporters who were in the room. reporter: that was something. donald trump was crying from the oval office. even todd lynch said he was writing checks from the white house. in terms of the vibe in the room, what you have heard about it being kind of a courtroom is re