good evening. welcome to los angeles.e cri m trace gallagher intro bret baier. the crisis at the southern border now spreading beyond major cities. we will look at hohow businesses are impacted by the record surge, plus, whatever happened to the w russian military contractor, the wegner group?on anald bret baier explains what additional infrastructure of tha u.s. may need to meet the biden administration s electric vehiclt,e goals. but first. breaking tonight, president joe biden prepares to win over voters after what many say was a tough year. the president is on a family vacation in the caribbean amid the expanding conflict in the middle east, the war in ukrainet and as the crisis at the bordere swells to record numbers, theses challenges remain flash points in 2024.vo as a new fox poll shows how voters think this year has gone. just 24% think 2023 was a good year, while that number has steadily risen since 2020, stilo 13 percentage points lower than in 2019. fromluca
the ground and into the water, josh shapiro, the governor of pennsylvania, held a press conferences about it. shapiro announced that authorities had decided to set thoso announ e chemicals on fire. goo and that was a very good thing.e no one should be unduly alarmed . the burning ohemicaf theslse chemicals, shapiro said, had gone, quote,e, as planned. whil, officials on the scene, meanwhile, declared the burn dquote, perfect.ohio a gr mike dewine, the governor f ohio, agreed with all of this. the people in charge, the railroads, engineers and the state official engineesd overseeing them had everythinger under control. so two days later,tw evacuation orders for residents were officially lifted, both in east palestine over the border in pennsylvania. iorders were link subsequent days, a lot of people have wondered out loud, was it really a wisewondered den to light thousands of gallons of vinyl chloride on fire, releasing a world war one era bioweapon into the air over
us here on the beat. the reidout with joy reid starts now tonight on the reidout beginning with the radical left george soros backed prosecutor alvin bag of new york he s maybe one of a dozen or more across the country that get elected on an idealogical agenda, usually from funding from people like george soros. the hypocrisy and extra loud dog whistling by republicans what the means when they call alvin bragg and others soros-backed also, the state of confusion republicans have created for american women and what the fight over abortion pills is really about complete federal control over women s reproductive health. plus, we re learning a lot of very interesting things about cameron sexton, the tennessee house speaker who subjected his state to national ridicule over the expulsion of two young black legislat legislators, including reporting he might not even live in the district he represents we begin tonight with the current state of chaos and confusio
fast. but there sa to jusn t one if with a ton o of outstandinghese questions. how do these records just all of a sudden become found? why the six year gap between biden leaving office as vp and azmera in this miraculous discovery? about four days we ve been hearing about this nameless personal attorney to joe biden, well who dutifully turned over the documents. bob., today, we finally have a name, bob bauer. fois is is a revelationa re thy might gloss over, but it sons. significant for a couple of reasons. number one , he served as whiteh house counsel under barackou obama. he is also married to biden s senior adviser, anita dunn. so why is the white house keeping questions from going to him, given that the justice department cited the personal counsel as having made this initial outreach to nationalnatl archives and that has been in touch with the justice department? is that the person who thesebe r questions should be directed? why the white house counsel,e whatever th