we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
bill: you have to do something might be the quote of the day. passing the buck on the border. president biden blaming congress as he fights to tear down an emergency barrier in the state of texas. good morning, everybody. can we still say happy new year? i do believe we can. dana: we can. bill: i m bill hemmer live in new york and we ll figure out how we do this all over again right now. good morning. dana: i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. i wish president biden s new year s resolution was not try make news while the helicopters blades are whirring. it is driving me up a wall. making significant news in a way and you can t hear it. this is what he said. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene in a dispute with texas. the white house wants permission to cut down 30 miles of razor wire used to block migrants from crossing. this after a record month where agents intercepted more than 300,000 people. bill: 300,000. speaker mike
dana: i m dana perino with joe jeanine pirro, jessica tarlov, jesse watters, and greg gutfeld. 5:00 in new york city, and this is the five. embattled harvard president claudine gai resigning is the most powerful school leader in the country. 50 allegations of plagiarism s, and that shortest presidency and the university s history: six months. gay not mentioning either of the scandals in a statement, but seems to imply that racism was a factor in her ouster. she said it was frightening to be suggested to personal attacks and threats fueled by racial animus. it started when she cannot answer this question in front of congress. the answer is yes that calling for the of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? it depends on the context. it does not. the answer is yes. this is why you should resign. dana: congresswoman elise stefanik s says it s only the beginning. we have seen a failure of leadership from claudine gay, and a failure of academic integr
perino and jessica jesse waters and greg gutfeld this is 5:00 in new york city and this is the five. throwing fallout over the newly released jeffrey epstein documents shocking high profile names are being revealed from alist hollywood selects to tight tans of century even former u.s. presidents that s just the start a second batch could be release at any moment we ll keep an eye on that. one name that appears 50 times in the documents is former bill clinton, one of epstein accusers joanna testifying that the pedophile told her that clinton likes them young referring to girls. the lawyer for the victims telling jesse that the documents raised new questions about the former president. victim reported being on a helicopter with him and with maxwell. and there s another statement that she made that clinton was on the island which is very different than what we had heard previously. we were hearing that he wupght on the island again hard to say who to believe o.c. but he was
killed in lebanon. why the strike is sparking new fears that the war could spill into the wider region. and breaking news out of iran. more than 100 people killed in explosions commemorating an iranian general killed by a u.s. drone strike back in 2020. children amongst the dead and nearly 150 injured. we re going to have the very latest in just a moment as well. good morning, everybody, it s 10:00 a.m. in the east. i m yasmin vossoughian in for ana cabrera. good to see you this morning. we re going to begin in iran in the city of care monowhere just within the last couple of hours two explosions killed 100 people and injured nearly 150 people at the memorial site for ha sam soleimani. he was the head of the revolutionary guard corps. i want to bring in ali arouzi in tehran to talk more about this. this morning iran saying more than 100 people were killed in these blasts. what do we know? reporter: yeah, i mean, this just broke a few hours ago, yasmin, as you said. w