that s a bus in new york city and behind that is trump tower. there we go. former president trump about to depart for closing arguments today in his civil fraud trial. the judge has barred him from speaking in court. he wanted to make his own closing argument. the judge said forget about it. so he has been known to talk to reporters on the way in. we re watching that. no buses or trucks, good morning, i m bill hemmer. dana: just us. that s all you get for right now. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. we had a wild day yesterday. see how this one turns out. the fraud trial culminating as iowa casts the first votes in the presidential election. the former president was there last night for a fox news town hall and tried to assure voters his second term would not be focused on revenge. i m not going to have time for retribution. we ll make the country so successful i won t have time for retribution. our ultimate retribution is success. dana: bill melugin is
we ll bring you updates as soon as they come in. we have someone on the ground there and we re getting information. plus we have breaking news out of baghdad. a u.s. air strike targeting the headquarters of an iran-backed militia killing a high ranking commander. iranian proxies are targeting troops for months. more on the developing story. let s get you to this first. 312 suspects on the terrorist watch list that have been apprehended. we have no idea how many terrorists have come into the country and set up terrorism cells across the nation. dana: the homeland as a hafsh he en for terrorists. mike johnson leading one of the largest delegations coming to the border and exposing how the chaos is endangering americans on u.s. soil. welcome to america s newsroom, i m dana perino. good morning. bill: the morning is busy. bill hemmer. president biden under increasing pressure to get a handle on this matter. instead of pivoting on their policies the administration is passi
ready to fight. they kicked donald trump off the republican primary ballot and the former president says he will fight back. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. colorado s highest court claims donald trump violated the 14th amendment by inciting an insurrection. that decision is unprecedented and it just so happens to fall along party lines. it s the first time section three of the 14th amendment has ever been used to disqualify the presidential candidate. critics and legal analysts point out trump has never been charged or convicted of anything in connection with the january 6th capitol hill riot. trump s campaign with this. democrat party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing dominant lead president trump has amassed in the polls. backlash was fast and furious. it is a strikingly anti-democratic holding. in my view, the court is dead wrong. this court just handed partisans on both sides the ultimate tool to try to shortcut elections. and it
Negotiate with the moderates in iran. whether the events of barbarity or rockets from lebanon to israel. this is what happens when our adversaries don t fear us. the suez canall and other areas is very real. dana: two breaking news stories happening at the same time. if you could stand by there, we also have president trump arriving at court. we want to bring that to you. sometimes he does talk to the media on the way in. also because this judge has said he cannot give the closing statement as he wanted to. bill joining me here if you would like. the judge said no to that. president trump does want to make some comments. i don t know if it will be before or after. i would imagine it might be before. bill: a couple things going on with the trial. the request was put in to delay today s proceeding because melania trump just lost her mom and the former president asked if he could go back to florida
Has been expanded. shutting down the suez canall with only half of the shipping getting through because of the houthis conducting attacks and disrupting commercial shipping which required a multi-national escort force to do that. that seems like a pretty significant expansion of the war. i think we have to face the facts on the ground is what they really are. our timidity and reluctance to be aggressive in confronting them, i think, is leading to more aggression on their part. this is common sense, i think, in dealing with it. certainly iran is a player here, dana. we should be taking them on and not be reluctant about it. the fear is if we hit a capacity that iran owns, then people in the administration are concerned that would lead to a direct confrontation with iran and a war with them. history doesn t support that. iran uses their proxies to avoid direct conflict with the united states. why? because they know full well they would lose their regime if they had direct conflict with t