Former President Trump holding dueling rallies in georgia today ahead of the peach state primary on tuesday. Biden touting a Strong Economy in his administration ice agenda following his state of the union address. Welcome to fox news live. Im griff jenkins, one more hour, lets go. Iewsh irish im aishah hasnie. Trump is making his picks for the new head of the rnc. Mark meredith is live in atlanta now9 with the very latest. Hi, mark. Reporter aishah is, good afternoon to you. The Bidenharris Campaign sayses it is ready to spend big to win over undecided voters, laurenuping a new 30 million, 6 if week ad campaign and we, of course, will expect to see the president out here later on today. Thisll be the second Battleground State Stop that biden has made this week alone. He was in pennsylvania on friday, and he delivered a message to supporters insisting voters or will believe there is a stark contrast at the polls come this november if. Folks, our freedoms really are on the ballot this n
friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
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
thinking about it. pierre thomas with late reporting. in russia tonight, panic following vladimir putin s plan to call up 300,000 reservists to fight in ukraine. tonight, flights out of moscow booked for several days out. russian authorities detaining protesters, some of those protesters now drafted to fight. tom soufi burridge in ukraine tonight. the protests in iran tonight. martha raddatz with the scenes unfodding in iran. here in this country, the midair scare. a united airlines flight taking off from newark, circling over the atlantic for nearly two hours after sparks are seen shooting from the plane. debris falling from the sky. you will hear air traffic control alerting the cockpit. b meantime, the chaotic scene onboard an american airlines flight. the passenger accused of punching a flight attendant. tonight, alex jones, who said the sandy hook shooting was a hoax, that parents of the children who died were actors. he was in court today, and what happened. t
the jury room, we ll hear from two jurors, revealing that jury was split down the middle, 6-6 at first, on whether to convict. deliberating for just three hours. president biden on his son tonight. what the president is saying. terry moran standing by at the courthouse. dan abrams here on what hunter biden could now face at sentencing. tonight, from new york city to philadelphia to los angeles, eight migrants who crossed into the u.s. illegally detained with suspected ties to isis. what we re learning. that dramatic scene. the rush hour chase through atlanta, crossing through two counties. police chasing a hijacked bus. the secret recordings of supreme court justices. justice samuel alito and chief justice john roberts, as well as the recording of justice alito s wife. what the audio reveals tonight, and the woman who recorded the conversations now defending herself. the storms the flash flood threat. up to 20 inches of rain in florida, and this record heat spreading