that s right. it s an important public service announcement. i encourage everybody to watch at 8:00 and 9:00. this is usually ari s hour. who can do it like ari? i wish you a happy holiday. you made it through two hours of a holiday rock block. did it. i m sorry we re not in the same studio. have a great, restful, well-deserved holiday. enjoy your rock block. i will. thank you all at home for joining me this hour. i m not ari. i m alex wagner. this is the beginning of a two-hour rock block thick with news. we begin here. it s a moment that you are forgiven if you don t remember it or if you missed it at the time. a lot happened on this day. at his speech before the insurrection on january 6, president trump had a lot to say about bias on the supreme court. you know, look, i m not happy with the supreme court. they love to rule against me. the supreme court, they rule against me so much. you know why? because the story is, i haven t spoken to any of them, any o
right now in texas, the manhunt is intensifying for the suspect police say fatally shot five of his neighbors execution style. what we know about the victims including one who was just 9 years old. flood waters are still rising in parts of iowa as residents are using boats to salvage what they can from their underwater homes. we ll take you live to davenport. and on this international workers day, as many as 1 million demonstrators are taking to the streets of france amid president macron s decision to raise the nation s retirement age. we ll take you live to paris. and we begin with breaking news on the state of the u.s. banking system. overnight, federal regulators moved to close down first republic bank and sell its assets to jpmorgan chase. this morning first republic s 84 branches in eight states reopened as branches of jpmorgan chase. this is the third and actually the biggest u.s. bank to fail this year. it s also the second largest bank by assets to fail in u.s.
30 criminal charges over alleged hush money payments. w pe wait to see the indictment. former president is expectedarra to be arraigned next tuesday. sources telling fox heg shot will have his mug shot and fingerprints taken but will not be handcuffed. trump s attorney vowinotg to fight back .w you know, when you stretch o the law to get someone you don t like or is a political opponent in this case, it s ver tevery hard to ey get that law to comean back to its original shape.ally today s proof that you could not actually pick a target and then try and find a crime, even a beo crime. ime. that s not a crime because fac there is no crime here. thd i m telling you, theretsknow is no crime.is i know the facts and the law, g and i really want to see where this is going to go. m aj i don t know. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg is facing major backlash for bringing this case in the first place by being criticized for using untested legal theory c to bring state charges inas a feder
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the lies continue. this time george santos caught making up a story about his mother being in the south tower on 9/11, this as republicans reward him in congress. emergency measures are in place today as the nation is hitting its debt limit. why congress may be playing with fire. a warning to vladimir putin. ukraine s president said his country will take by crimea. will alec baldwin be charged the killing of a shooting onset? we ll discuss. cnn this morning starts now. we begin with yet another apparent lie from george santos, a republican congressman from new york who fabricated just about everything on his resume. he s been caught lying about his late mother. santos long claimed his mother was in the south tower of the world trade center on 9/11 and later died from cancer. new immigration records confirm santos mother was in brazil and never in the u.s. and now a navy veteran from new jersey is accusing santos of stealing $3,000 from a gofundme account. santos de