battle ahead could take many more months. plus, just hours from now secretary of state antony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are set to meet with mexican president just as thousands of central american migrants make their way to the united states southern border. we ll break down what this means and the key issues up for discussion. and also ahead the detroit pistons made nba history but for all the wrong reasons. the record they just broke that has everyone talking. good morning and welcome to way too early on this wednesday, december 27th. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for starting your day with us. we get right to the news and the israeli military has expanded its ground offensive into urban refugee camps in central gaza. the idf is also focusing on southern gaza s largest city as part of its stated mission to destroy hamas. officials say progress has been made in the north and that troops will continue to, quote, preserve and intensify t
to serve a second term as president. age be . t unfortunately, they can t keep him off every stage. yesterday, wterdaye saw him fall lectim to what could have only been a maga sympathizing sandbag at the air forcee watc academy. as we watch the thh e image ofnh our forty sixth president laid stond, wee stage, stunne couldn t help but wonder, is joe biden really as sharp as he asserts is of course, no one can answer for joe bidenhiml as clear and concisely as joe himself. please clarify specifically,h have you taken a cognitiveow. i haven t taken a test.: no whi y the would i take a test? come on , man.n, that s like saying you before wiu got in this program, you take a test wherein you re taking cocaine or not. what do you think? so one oddly placedoddly refe reference to cocaine in an interview. big deal . in least it gets around. well, here. ] okay, well, maybe he s losts some motor function. i mean, that happens with age and injuries. nothing to be ashamed of.es. a
plus, israel is barring refugee camps as part of new efforts to find hostages. the head of the idf insists the war will go on for months but some critics think that will not be enough time to wipe out hamas. and jack smith calling on the d.c. court to do something that sounds almost unthinkable. stop donald trump from injecting politics into his election interference trial. we re going to start with secretary of state blinken. all right. we re going to start with blinken and dhs secretary set to meet with mexico s president as we speak. the two countries grappling with what the u.s. is calling quote unprecedented levels of migration as well as security challenges on both sides of the southern border. now, these discussions taking on even more urgency as a massive new caravan of roughly 8,000 mie migrants or more are making their way to the united states. the u.s. is already struggling to deal with a record number of migrants. nearly 50,000 arriving last week alone, overwhel
new york state attorney general s office is this investigation into the cramped family real estate business continues to, we ve got all the details in a live republic of the white house visit go back tonight for claiming that you and july economic report shows the opposite impression to critics pointing out it s actually still at near record high labels and very far from the tribeca nancy mace quiz and live in a bit. is begin with all the fired from the fbi and the doj on the mar-a-lago raid front. kevin corke has the latest from washington. attorney general merrick garland continues to ignore calls for more transparency following the raid over at mar-a-lago. sources telling fox news denied that his position is no on camera remarks and no written statements explaining the unprecedented decision to search the home of former president trump a move that s frankly been decried by critics as politically motivated and far, far outside the bounds of legal necessity. critics have a
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