the former president himself is set to testify on monday of next week followed for now by ivanka trump next wednesday. she appealed the judge s decision requiring her to testify. see if that schedule holds. bill: we ll see where it leads today. thank you. dana: house republicans are about to hold a news briefing one week after electing mike johnson as the new house speaker. right now they re ready to vote on a stand alone emergency aid package for israel and then they plan to hold a vote on a bill that pairs u.s. border security with fresh aid for ukraine. we ll monitor what they have to say and bring you the news as it happens. biden administration is under intense pressure to confront hamas one day after f.b.i. director christopher wray warned about mounting terror threats on u.s. soil. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill: nice to be back with you. good morning. i m bill hemmer. good morning at home. the justice department considering
two critical senate hearings are happening now on capitol hill. first up mayokas and f.b.i. director christopher wray are testifying on the threats to america that are now growing. open border will do that. they are pointing to an explosion of anti-semitism we re seeing as well since hamas terrorists tortured, raped, killed, israeli citizens on october 7th. the second hearing defense secretary austin and secretary of state antony blinken also facing questions today for their part on america s response so far to the 25 attacks on u.s. military men and women serving in the middle east. and testimony was just getting underway at that hearing when police had to remove disruptive protestors from the gallery. first it was a woman, just one, and then it was a crowd. stop funding this brutal massacre. israel s genocide is a terrible thing. pray for the children of gaza. cease-fire now. harris: they held up their hands covered in what we assume is fake blood, paint, somethin
Committee tapped one of the bodies top constitutional law scholars and our next guest congressman and long time law professor jamie raskin. there is more than sufficient evidence to refer former president donald j. trump, john eastman and others this statute makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the united states. anyone who incites, assists or engages in insurrection against the united states of america. raskin accusing him of breaking the laws as the committee also prepares to release the rest of the final report supporting that very case tomorrow. congressman raskin is our guest. welcome. thank you for having me. absolutely. when you formally read an issued the referrals on monday, why do you think you had a valid legal case? and i m just curious personally, how did it feel doing it on
Working. this is what we need to do. i don t know if mexico will agree to do this again. they did it under trump. it was working. i m not sure it is going to work under this administration. we have had 2.5 million people cross into this border illegally since the president been inaugurated. title 42 being lifted meaning 500,000 over the next five weeks. my state of texas, we just simply can t absorb this. i mean, i was over in poland, looked at all the ukrainians coming out. you know, it s almost a similar amount, 2.5 million people. although, in that case, they want to go back home. putin invaded ukraine. we have an invasion in my home state right on the border, every day. 2.5 million. sandra: congressman, i will ask you the question i just asked our last guest congressman, have you directly heard from mayorkas, any of his concerns? it is reported that he is speaking privately about that, behind closed doors. has he shared those with you?
Two impeachments ending in acquittal and one insurrection later, our guest congressman adam schiff writes, he s learned that getting to the truth still matters, writing n the crucible of congress i watched the trump presidency reveal the degree to which some of my colleagues valued nothing, so much as their own position in power. but it also introduced me and the country to william taylor, who chose the infantry in vietnam and never stopped serving. and alexander vinman, who braved roadside bombs in iraq and claims of disloyalty at home and fiona hill who brought her intellect and at that time to a country her father loved but never got to see. and marie yovanovich whose parents fled communism and fascism seeing their courage, their selflessness and their