john: we are awaiting the first white house briefing of 2024 as president biden begins the new year blaming congress for the chaos happening at our southern border. and while the white house takes to the podium, house republicans are in texas in what is expected to be the largest congressional delegation to visit the border. welcome back, hope you had a great holiday. sandra: good to be back with you. house speaker mike johnson and more than 50 republicans will be in eagle pass, where they have been sidelined by failed policies. instead of the president pivoting on those policies, his team is setting up a potential showdown in the courts. john: biden administration asking the supreme court to allow border agents to get rid of nearly 30 miles of razor wire that the state of texas used to prevent migrant crossings. it comes after more than 300,000 migrants crossed illegally in december. marking the highest single month ever recorded. bill melugin has been covering it sinc
first there is this. going to throw it as far as his arm can take it. well short. the kansas city chiefs have won super bowl lvii! bill: stunning finish to this game. the league wins again. super bowl lvii, kansas city chiefs defeat the philadelphia eagles in what turned out to be an absolute stunner of a game here in glendale, arizona. good morning. split show today for the next two days, in fact. i m bill hemmer. hello partner back in new york. dana: i have know it s early there. we re glad you are here and went to the game. i m dana perino. this is america s newsroom. that must have been amazing to see at the end because it was so close. i almost went to bed but then it was tied. i can t go to bed. i have to stay up. i m glad i did. bill: can t afford to miss it, right? i know your favorite commercial. we ll show it later in the broadcast. dana, two moments i want to take our audience to last night. a lot of people talking about two things. interference call towa
to the committee s probe and it s the first conviction of anyone for the defying the committee. they guilty verdicts are now putting the spotlight on others who have to find the committee subpoenas, including secret service agents who have lawyered up with private counsel. as the probe into the text messages. which are potential evidence turned into a criminal inquiry. all of that is making a blockbuster week for the january six committee. it used a second primetime hearing to show it excruciating detail that trump consistently and repeatedly resisted pleas to condemn that maga mob that was the filing the capitol. the mob was accomplishing president trump s purpose, so of course he did not intervene. here is what will be clear by the end of the hearing, president trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home. he chose not to act. joining me, now charles clemente union at msnbc legal analyst and civil rights att
this week the house select committee investigating january 6th wrapped up its summer series of hearings with the season finale of sorts. in a primetime event, they presented devastating evidence detailing the hours donald trump spent refusing to act as a angry mob tried to stop the certification of the 2020 election by force. even when it was clear the insurrection would not achieve its aims, did the commander-in-chief collin s meg army to step down? no. even a dalia later, never before seen outtakes show the president was unwilling to admit that the election was over. the bombshell hearings left me with plenty of questions. will the former president or anyone else in a position of authority ever be held accountable? will congress have the courage to strengthen the election system that trump and his allies sought to undermine. and we ll be hearing sway voters as they head to the polls in the midterm elections? we ve got a great lineup to talk about it, including minnesota s s
defined by the defeat of this man, incumbent congressman peter meyer. one of the ten house republicans who voted to impeach trump. and the victory of this woman, tudor dixon, former actress and conservative media figure and now a republican nominee for michigan governor, who scored the last-minute backing of the former president. meanwhile, in arizona, nbc has just projected the republican nominee for attorney general will be abraham hamaday, who was endorsed by trump. trump s pick for arizona secretary of state, mark fincham also sailed for victory, as did his pick for the senate, blake masters who will face democrat mark kelly in november. and arizona s republican house speaker, rusty bowers, who was a star witness for the january 6th committee, lost his state senate race to his trump-backed opponent. but the most closely watched race there is still too close to call. the showdown between trump-backed election denier, kerri lake, and karen taylor robeson. our team is cove