john: we are awaiting the first white house briefing of 2024 as president biden begins the new year blaming congress for the chaos happening at our southern border. and while the white house takes to the podium, house republicans are in texas in what is expected to be the largest congressional delegation to visit the border. welcome back, hope you had a great holiday. sandra: good to be back with you. house speaker mike johnson and more than 50 republicans will be in eagle pass, where they have been sidelined by failed policies. instead of the president pivoting on those policies, his team is setting up a potential showdown in the courts. john: biden administration asking the supreme court to allow border agents to get rid of nearly 30 miles of razor wire that the state of texas used to prevent migrant crossings. it comes after more than 300,000 migrants crossed illegally in december. marking the highest single month ever recorded. bill melugin has been covering it sinc
going to happen. dana: that s true. jesse: what did he say? bret: good evening. i m bret baier, breaking tonight. blame game over the southern border intensifies as the migrant surges. the biden administration is pointing financingsers at republicans saying the g.o.p. is are rejecting throtion add more agents. this comes as democrats call on the white house to do more. as homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas faces a republican-led impeachment effort over dereliction of duty we will speak with secretary mayorkas live in moments. bill melugin is in eagle pass, texas again with the latest on the ground and we begin with white house correspondent jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. jacqui: good evening to you, bret. right now the white house and the house are not talking. even as a bipartisan group in the senate tries to work out a border policy reform deal they hope could also pass the lower chamber and unlock funding. and right now
john: america s crime crisis hits a compton, california bakery. dozens of looters ransacking the building by driving a kia through the locked front doors. sandra: taking food, lottery ticket, not even the meat scale was left behind. rubin ramirez, what happened in his community and message to people at home. claims this cbp is allowing or encouraging mass release of migrants is just false. surprise you to hear the sources say currently they are releasing more than 70% of the migrants crossing every day? it would not surprise me at all. i know the data. we are at a time of the year where we are seeing more at the border and it s not unusual. the numbers are historic. the numbers are extraordinarily large. please, please, please let me in. i love you, joe biden. thank you for everything, joe biden. john: mixed messaging out of the administration over the border crisis and pressure growing from both sides of the aisle for president biden to do something to se
bill: you have to do something might be the quote of the day. passing the buck on the border. president biden blaming congress as he fights to tear down an emergency barrier in the state of texas. good morning, everybody. can we still say happy new year? i do believe we can. dana: we can. bill: i m bill hemmer live in new york and we ll figure out how we do this all over again right now. good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. i wish president biden s new year s resolution was not try make news while the helicopters blades are whirring. it is driving me up a wall. making significant news in a way and you can t hear it. this is what he said. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene in a dispute with texas. the white house wants permission to cut down 30 miles of razor wire used to block migrants from crossing. this after a record month where agents intercepted more than 300,000 people. bill: 300,000. speaker mike
good evening. this is america s late news. breaking tonight the u.s. supreme court has now decided to review the colorado decision banning former president trump from the state ballot. the court has also scheduled oral arguments for february 8 in what could be the high court s biggest political decision since bush v. gore 23 years ago. in the meantime president biden began his 2024 campaign push but instead of running on his own record it appears biden is choosing to villainize former president trump. even some democrats are saying biden is being hypocritical when it comes to democracy but first senior national correspondent dev is life in d.c. with what former president trump is is saying. a very interesting rally to watch. on the heels of joe biden s campaign launch, as you know, punctuated by ominous warnings of what a second trump presidency just might entail, former president obviously responding today. holding a pair of rallies ahead of the iowa caucuses. mr. tr