right now. good day. i m chris jansing live at m headquarters in new york city. nearly 24 hours after president biden vowed to strike back, we re waiting for his critical decision. how will be u.s. retaliate for the attack that killed three u.s. soldiers and wounded dozens more in the middle east? what s it going to take to get them to back down but not trigger a bigger war in the process. he s not president and not in congress. how is it possible that donald trump could pull the rug out from under a border deal that both parties say they want and that the country desperately needs? it s the race the american people have been dreading. the two oldest candidates in u.s. history duking it out in what may be the longest presidential campaign we ve ever seen. what it s going to take for them and us to make it to election day. we begin with the deadly attack on american troops in the middle east, opening a new potentially explosive chapter in the israel-hamas war. president
donald trump defies legal advice one-on-one. the former president with a live speech. he also made a big admission about the classified document at the center of the classified indictment. plus, mike pence says he cannot defend trump s conduct while nickki haley is trying to get the answer just right. and dangles a potential pardon. and the house speaker breaks a floor freeze by hard-liners, establishment replicans will run out of what to give away. i m dana bash, let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. up first, donald trump celebrates his 77th birthday at his golf club. look at the front pages of major papers, usa today, the wall street journal, the washington post, every head line flashes in big bold face type. the indictment is the political story of the moment. trump followed his federal court appearance with a defiant speech, to his team, the politics are clear and winning. but what is also clear, mr. trump is not helping his lawyers every time he
removed 89 policies from two previous administrations. bill: congressional correspondent watching that starts us off and sets the table on capitol hill for this. good morning. good morning to you both. we won t actually see or hear from secretary alejandro mayorkas, we are expecting this hearing to be pretty fiery especially between democrats and republicans as pretty much every lawmaker knows where these hearings are going. we will hear and see from chad wolf, of course, the former acting d.h.s. secretary under former president trump. he s expected to compare and contrast president biden s border policies with that of former president trump saying that this is really just a crisis by design. now, there has been a lot of impeachment talk in these hallways as of late and last week, represent clay higgins actually became the latest republican to introduce articles of impeachment against mayorkas. but it s pretty unclear. you have some republicans out there who are not convi
Tell it yourself. Im michael smerconish. The Crisis Manager wrote a whole book called truth to tell on how to handle a public crisis. Davis advice the exact opposite of the approach of the Biden White House to date around the discovery of the classified documents in its possession. They didnt tell it early. They waited nearly two months. They didnt tell it all, in fact, a Statement Released on monday, and the president s words on tuesday, were almost dishonest by omission. And as for tell it yourself, instead of the president telling the full story it has fallen to karine jeanpierre. Saying he takes it seriously doesnt make it so. It seems like a series of unforced errors turning what might be a benign situation into something that will surely be the focus of the Subpoena Power Republicans now possess after winning the house. Here is how we got here. On november 2, Biden Lawyers discovered classified documents in an office the former Vice President used in washington, d. C. , associate
tell it yourself. i m michael smerconish. the crisis manager wrote a whole book called truth to tell on how to handle a public crisis. davis advice the exact opposite of the approach of the biden white house to date around the discovery of the classified documents in its possession. they didn t tell it early. they waited nearly two months. they didn t tell it all, in fact, a statement released on monday, and the president s words on tuesday, were almost dishonest by omission. and as for tell it yourself, instead of the president telling the full story it has fallen to karine jean-pierre. saying he takes it seriously doesn t make it so. it seems like a series of unforced errors turning what might be a benign situation into something that will surely be the focus of the subpoena power republicans now possess after winning the house. here is how we got here. on november 2, biden lawyers discovered classified documents in an office the former vice president used in washington,