begins right after this. less than eight hours left on that u.s. policy used to turn away migrants at the border. what s going to happen after midnight? the lead starts right now. crisis at the border and it s about to get worse. cnn rides along as migrants climb on top of a train. others crawling through barbed wire trying desperately to get into the united states. what s gonna happen when that key title 42 immigration policy runs out at 11:59 this evening? well, top biden administration official is here and we will seek answers. also, trump s 2024 campaign playbook seems to be a repeat of falsehoods and decency from 2020. how not only democrats such as president biden and also republicans today are expressions revulsion at things that he said at the cnn town hall. plus, 18 years after disappearing, today movement towards justice in the tragic vanishing and murder of natalee holloway. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with a huge story in our world
reporting on what authorities now say happened at the robb elementary school. they re saying what they knew about survivors were still inside as they waited and waited and waited for orders to storm the classroom with an active shooter and wounded children still inside. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we are now less than two hours away from the first televised select hearing on january 6th. proceedings like this don t come along very often. the incident that sparked these particular hearings has never happened before in this country s history and we don t yet know what their impact will be. we do know that some of what we will see and hear and learn tonight and in sessions to come will be for the very first time. in a moment i ll talk to committee member adam schiff, but first, cnn s ryan nobles on the committee s work so far. it has been just over 17 months since rioters vio
those words shouldn t even compute, they shouldn t fit in the same sentence. a hate crime at a grocery store. this time it was buffalo residents in a predominantly black neighborhood who were just trying to take care of their families when a white gunman opened fire on saturday killing ten people and injuring three others. all of the evidence so far suggests this young man, this suspect, just 18 years old, was poisoned by laws and bs from online message boards. now police members of the media are going through his so-called manifesto, full of hateful memes and ideas and some of the same messages shared by the christchurch mosque killer. yes, it s the great replacement theory rearing its ugly head again, white replacement nonsense that convinces isolated men on the internet that a cabal is replacing whites with people of color. the same conspiracy theory you hear primetime on fox news. it s important no, it s essential to map the media environment that preys on white fear. t
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Thing this country needs i m talking about members of the committee. we don t need to hear about the members of the committee. politicians are not going to address the issues here. witnesses, evidence, tapes, video, that s what will change peoples opinion if anything, certainly not anything democrat and republican members said. let casey weigh in on this, do you expect, casey, the committee will succeed in connecting the dots for the american public? i think it s the central challenge here. i think one other challenge, too, will be projecting this into the future. there are a lot of people who feel they ve heard enough of this and made up their minds about it, but if the committee can convince people to be continued to worried about it i think they ll accomplish the mission they set out for. dent, cain, dubin, all of you, thanks very much and we ll be right back. and proactive alerts on market evevents. that s decision tech.