america s foreign policy in the hands of president biden is proving to be deadly. iran s paid for and trained terrorists are hitting our military men and women at will. look at the map. is biden even up to the job of protecting americans in the middle east and even at home? we ll get into that later in the hour. three of our u.s. service members were killed over the weekend. 34 were injured. u.s. officials identifying the terrorists. they are iran-backed, of course, all eyes on our commander-in-chief and his administration. do they know what to do? why was nothing done before it came to this point? i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. just a few minutes ago, we saw for the first time since he was in the hospital, the nation s defense secretary lloyd austin at the pentagon. first day back in the office after two weeks in the hospital and recovering. he said he was able to work from home. and his first public appearance since the fatal attack on our troops.
race this week. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. great to have you with me. bill: i m bill melugin. at this time president biden set to start actively holding campaign events. voters who put him in office will have resumed paying their student loans, which he promised to eliminate. but for now there is little sign of biden out on the campaign trail following a series of stumbles, trips and falls in public and that has some democrats defending the president s health and his age. i think that joe biden rightly says that he has grown very wise in his many decades in public office and i respect that. so i think that he deserves to be judged by the results of his administration and what he has gotten done in terms of a bipartisan infrastructure law, the inflation reduction act. lowering prescription drug prices. that s what should matter. jack dorsey who started twitter now says on twitter open the democrat primaries a
castro in for alicia menendez. as we get to the our immigration talks come to the wire as homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas meets with bipartisan senators, the clock is ticking on a deal. and progress is slow. while we are not denying crucial aid for our allies, gop lawmakers spend their time on bogus impeachment schemes. california congressman, robert garcia, and what happens next. also tonight, paying the price, how this week, multimillion dollar ruling against rudy giuliani could have ramifications beyond his bank account. and how might home states attorney general is doubling down on extremism after surviving a recent impeachment. this is american voices. we are just over one week from christmas. most lawmakers have already gone home for the holidays. earlier today, a few, along with homeland security chief, alejandro mayorkas, had a rare weekend session to try to hammer out some kind of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they have not r
over a weekend session to try and hammer out some sort of deal on immigration before the end of the year. while they haven t reached a deal, several have cited, quote, unrest. anything to say about the negotiation? yes, we made progress, things are good. we are here, tomorrow it is all good. we know senate negotiators will be on the hill next week trying to work on the immigration side of the deal. so president biden s foreign aid package could pass. when republicans are holding aid to ukraine, israel, and other u.s. allies hostage to president biden agrees to short-circuit our nation silent system, comes as no surprise after all, today s micah dominated gop caucus zealously embraces donald trump s extreme anti immigrant agenda. republicans are proposing reads like a stephen miller wish list. a return of title 42, the expulsion of migrants without allowing the asylum, toughening the stand for granting asylum, bringing back wide scale migrated attention, and limiting exe
we are coming on the air with a hot mess yet again at airports all across the country with southwest canceling thousands more flights even today after all the winter weather that smoked the u.s. over the weekend. we ll talk about what these grounded flights means for those travelers who want to get home and getter that luggage home. officials are trying to get buffalo back up and running after it was hit with more than three feet of snow. overseas the vatican announcing a turn for the worse for former pope benedict. we re live from home with the latest on the liter s condition. uncertainty at the southern border after the supreme court decision leaving title 42 in place. what it means for the thousands of migrants hoping to cross into the u.s. to seek asylum. we have a lot to get to. i m hallie jackson in washington. i want to bring in nya charles at los angeles international airport, marissa para in buffalo, new york, and meteorologist michelle grossman joining us, too.