Bret okay. Good evening. Im bret baier. Startling new numbers showing a dramatic increase in the number of individuals that may be on the Terror Watch List caught trying to enter this country illegally since 2021. The latest figures dont even account for the known gotaways. Those folks that slipped in to the country undetected. This comes amid a serious accusation on Capitol Hill from a Highranking Border Official of interference by the bidenharris administration. The former chief of the San Diego Border Patrol says he was muzzled from discussing concerns about terrorism. Griff jenkins start us off with this. Good evening, griff. Good evening. This is the stuff that keeps the chief of the Border Patrol up at night, the growing threat of a terrorist slipping across our Border. 382 individuals whose names appear on the Terror Watch List were stopped trying to cross the Border from year 2021 to date. This is compared to the 11 individuals apprehended between 2017 and 2020. Stats show a mo
Thanksgiving dinner there. You know plenty of people could fit it s true i gotta say, having been in the mix for so many debates and so many different ways that you have worked, are you actually looking forward to it tomorrow or are you bracing yourself? both. I think i can t stop thinking about the fact that they have never met in person. And there s so many dynamics to i also as a fellow prepper, i admire that about the vice president. But it also means you need to prepare and then be agile, so i just think that will be interesting to watch. Re and how does she deal with the trump s of it all? so both, bracing and also interested. How about you? i mean, i feel like coming out f of the most consequential presidential debate that has everal happened in u. S. History. Every. Playing the odds means this should be a normal one, right? boring maybe. Nothingor about this campaig isbo boring or normal. I don t know. I feel like we re all just sort of ready for everything. Ready for anything.
this is cnn breaking news. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start this hour with breaking news. israel says a new group of hostages has been freed. it includes an american citizen. we saw the red cross convoy leaving gaza and entering egypt. the idf says this group consists of 14 people headed right now to meet up with israeli forces. 48-year-old leat bamin is now the second american released since the start of this pause in the violence between israel and hamas. after we saw 4-year-old abigail edan released earlier this week. let s get right to cnn s oren lieberman who is in save, and cnn s jeremy diamond who is in israel. jeremy, we re learning more about this batch of hostages, including this american dual citizen. tell us more. reporter: that s right. among these ten israeli hostages who have been freed, there are four thai nationals who have also been freed. i want to read you the names that we are getting, including the woman you mentioned, the 48-year-old
and the justice department will not be intimidated. we will continue to do our jobs free from political influence, and we will not back down from defending democracy. attorney general merrick garland facing a republican party hell bent on doing everything it can to push conspiracy theories and attack the rule of law in the wake of donald trump s felony conviction in new york. plus, president biden making bold and controversial moves today on immigration and on his rhetoric towards israel. but we begin tonight with the rule of law. in our democrat, system it is the principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are supposed to be accountable to laws that are publicly promulgated, equally enforced and independently adjudicated. in a perfect world, the idea is to protect the rights of all people in our society. it hasn t always worked out perfectly, to say the least, in this country s long and difficult history, but that is the idea. donald trump and his maga
things are in support of the jewish community. so what is this really about? it s about extending those corporate tax cuts, insuring there isn t president biden s proposed billionaire tax, and making sure deregulation is headed their way. so my last point, miriam addleson, this is all about israel. make no mistake. how does the addleson make all that money? gaming, one of the most highly regulated industries in this country. if you ran one of the biggest gaming operations, wouldn t you love a direct call to the white house to make sure you have no regulations standing in your way? and wouldn t they love to pay for that free pass, and they can. they also own the dallas mavericks. they have money on the table. if you think about it, the point you re making, joe biden has been trying to do something about inflation. number one, over the last four years the justice department and these high rents people are complaining about, over the last four years rents have skyrocketed by over 30%