crisis fester and illegal immigrants tip cities into chaos. i m harris falkier and you are in the faulkner focus. the story has been making national headlines for two weeks. in new york city a gang of men caught on tape who crossed the border at some point, don t know all the details of that yet. we do know they are not american citizens. suspected of brutally attacking two nypd officers. most were out on the streets again within hours of being arrested per a judge, no bail required. some of them hit the road. went all the way to arizona. immigration, customs and enforcement arrested four men in phoenix. the agency telling fox news some of the gang they rounded up were not connected to the attack. the new york post reports nypd arrested another man seen in the video of the times square attack. there are seven others they re trying to get. and we re told by officials in new york they are among the most violent in this tape. so they think they got one of them but they didn
not fighting fighting. i m dana perino, this is america s newsroom. you have to wonder if you can t win the first date can you win the second one and then biden didn t. so politics abounding today. this happens today in iowa. the road to the white house goes straight through that wonderful state and why florida governor ron desantis went there for his campaign kickoff. bill: he addressed voters in a church last night. the bureaucracy is so en cran muched i think we can bring george washington back and i don t think he could fix it in one single four-year term. we must restore sanity to our nation. we can t have every major institution in our country going on ideological joy rides. we have to be guided by reality, by facts, and by our enduring principles. we in the state of florida held the line when freedom hung in the balance. dana: the hawkeye state turning into a campaign hub for republicans in hope of catapulting to the top of an increasingly crowded field. rich e
welcome to the beat. i m ari melber. we have new tapes. in a beat exclusive we have new audio tapes of congressman george santos, arraigned today for that indictment. they are the santos tapes and they re coming up shortly. later i want to tell you we also have my special report on clarence thomas problem with law and precedent. we ll get to that breakdown and these tapes. our top story right now is the santos indictment itself. this is the most controversial new lawmaker in congress, now indicted for breaking laws. prosecutors say his lies became crimes, to put it simply, and today, for his part, the congressman vowing to fight the case while echoing a maga witch-hunt defense. now, i m going to have to go and fight to defend myself. the reality is is it s a witch-hunt. i m going to fight my battle. i m going to deliver. i m going to fight the witch-hunt. i m going take care of clearing my name. i will prove myself innocent. he pled not guilty and is now out on bon
traversed the nation before our military shot it down. after china said it is still thinking about arming russia in its war on ukraine. the list is so long. i m harris faulkner. the action against china fully on display. a china select committee held its first hearing in prime time yesterday. just because this congress is divided we cannot afford to waste the next two years. our policy over the next ten years will set the stage for the next 100. we can now allow the ccp to prevail. earlier yesterday democrats called for accountability. democrats calling for it from both china and the biden administration. there is a considerable dispute as to whether covid came from a wet market or came from the lab. the reason for this dispute is that china was absolutely opaque. they failed to cooperate. they failed to come clean. state department has done almost nothing to tell the world how china s responsible not maybe for the virus but certainly for their failure to cooperate afte
i want to start on december 14th, 2022. a day we should not particularly remember. it was supposed to be a boring day for state electors across the country as they officially cast their presidential votes. as we know very well, that was not the case in seven states, including the state of georgia. democratic party electors met right up there in the senate chambers. they are official. they are certified. they voted for joe biden. but georgia republicans, they met exactly the same time behind those closed doors. they are not official, not certified. they chose donald trump they say to keep his lawsuit alive. even as they were meeting for the first time in 28 years select a democratic president and vice president, a floor below georgia republicans were convening their own meeting to select their own electors who voted for donald trump. the 16 take trump electors from georgia meeting in the state capitol fraudulently, that scheme in addition to catching the attention of the d