it is 11:00 a.m. eastern, 8:00 a.m. pacific. i m jose diaz-balart. right now, president biden fights back. how dare he raise that? it wasn t any of their damn business. the president forcefully responding to the accusations of memory loss in the special counsel report that found no criminal charges were warranted for his handling of classified documents. new reporting today on why the memory details were included in the report. at the supreme court, the justices gear up to potentially hear another case involving former president donald trump. on capitol hill tonight, the senate is due to consider the stripped down bill providing aid to israel and ukraine, but its future is still uncertain, even without the bipartisan border provisions. overseas, israel steps up its assault on the city of rafah in southern gaza. president biden says the response in gaza has been, quote, over the top. we begin this morning with president biden s response to a report on his handling of c
see you in vegas. dana: good to have you back. no charges after a bombshell report finds president biden willfully retained and disclosed classified material. even worse politically it indicates biden s mental state is in decline using blistering words to describe his aptitude, important memory and diminished faculties. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. we start back there. bill: happy friday. a long one, huh? bill hemmer, good morning. special counsel report blowing open the national debate about the president s age. special counsel hur recommending against criminal charges in part because a jury might view biden as an elderly man with a poor memory, end quote. dana: even in the mainstream media the reaction has been harsh. they are no longer to ignore the age-old question is biden too old to be on the 2024 ticket? atlantic with a harsh headline. biden s age is now unavoidable. he looks like he is turning into a statue of joe biden. the im
into the official record what so many democratic voters have been complaining about publicly, and so many movers and shakers have been worried about privately. the president is not as sharp as he used to be. but the question for them is how is that worse than the alternative. another senior citizen who has serious memory and confusion problems and also facing 91 criminal counts for trying to overturn an election, hiding and endangering extremely sensitive national secrets, including information about our nuclear arsenal. a man found liable for fraud, defamation, and sexual assault, let me repeat that. a man who a jury found sexually assaulted a woman. listen, i get it if you want to tune out and talk about super bowl snacks. nachos sound great, especially if you add crab on top. as americans, we don t have the luxury of tuning out. there s too much at stake. join me as we try to understand the playing field. monica alba, nbc news justice and intelligence correspondent ken dil
single sentence that favors or even slightly sympathizes with donald trump s argument for presidential immunity. instead, the d.c. appeals court stands up trump s defenses only to knock them down one by one. the judges reached back through history citing case law from the early 1800s along with founders themselves on how they envisioned the power and limitations of the presidency. the court concludes quote, for the purposes of h criminal case, former president trump has become citizen trump with all of the defenses of any other criminal defendant. on trump s argument that the separation of powers doctrine bars judicial review of executive actions, the court cited presidents nixon and truman, both of whom were found to have exceeded their authority by the supreme court. nixon on trying to shield his tapes and truman on trying to seize steel mills. they also cited an 1882 supreme court ruling that said officers of the government can be sued pulling directly from the decision, q
take action on supplemental national security legislation that finally meet those challenges head on. that was minority leader mitch mcconnell publicly supporting the senate bipartisan border deal yesterday, but just hours later the republican leader would change his message in a private meeting of his senate colleagues and the fate of the bill now very much in doubt. meanwhile, the gop led house is moving forward with its efforts to impeach the homeland security secretary. we ll go through the partisan politics playing out on capitol hill. plus, donald trump is dismissing nikki haley and issuing a challenge straight to president joe biden. we ll explain that just ahead. good morning and welcome to way too early on this tuesday, february 6th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day us. and we begin this morning on capitol hill. and in a striking turn of events senate republicans now appear poised to block the bipartisan border bill they themselves asked for an