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crisis fester and illegal immigrants tip cities into chaos. i m harris falkier and you are in the faulkner focus. the story has been making national headlines for two weeks. in new york city a gang of men caught on tape who crossed the border at some point, don t know all the details of that yet. we do know they are not american citizens. suspected of brutally attacking two nypd officers. most were out on the streets again within hours of being arrested per a judge, no bail required. some of them hit the road. went all the way to arizona. immigration, customs and enforcement arrested four men in phoenix. the agency telling fox news some of the gang they rounded up were not connected to the attack. the new york post reports nypd arrested another man seen in the video of the times square attack. there are seven others they re trying to get. and we re told by officials in new york they are among the most violent in this tape. so they think they got one of them but they ....
ukraine and israel. republicans are blocking the bill until they get concessions on border security and immigration. we will get the latest from the hill, plus 2023 was the hottest year in 125,000 years. it seems like a good time to convene a nearly 200 world leaders and thousands of representatives of global industry to work on climate change. i am going to be joined by the legendary bill mckibben to talk about what actually gotten at this year s massive u.n. climate conference. another hour of velshi begins now. ence another hour of velshi begin now. reporter: good, morning it s not a december 17th. i m ali velshi. we are now less than one month away from the start of the 2024 primary season, which kicks off on january 15th. with the first-in-the-nation gop caucuses in iowa. january is going to be a busy month, in addition to iowa, new hampshire will also hold its primary, plus there are three republican debates currently scheduled to take place during the month, an ....
he s leading us to a depression. trump asked supporters on wednesday to name one thing that has gotten better under biden and, i don t know, there s a lot, i can think of a lot, but i think maybe number one is we re drinking less bleach. good morning, welcome to morning joe, it is friday, december 15th. senate majority leader chuck schumer is calling the bluff, he has hopes of hammering out a deal on foreign aid which includes critical funder for ukraine. also ahead, how the biden campaign is trying to capitalize on the impeachment inquiry into the president. plus, rudy giuliani s defense team takes a very odd strategy in closing arguments in his defamation case. i will tell you about their pitch to the jurors. with us this morning we have columnist and associate editor for the washington post david ignatius, member of the new york times editorial board mara gay, host of the podcast unbrand with donny deutsch, and the co-founder of punchbowl news don bresn ....
to desecrating the quran and insulting the prophet muhammad in 2021. rights groups report that iran has put more than 200 prisoners to death since the beginning of the year. and in a further crackdown on high profile figures iran has charged two well known actresses with violating its strict dress codes for women. the president of iran, ebrahim raisi, has ordered an inquiry into the widespread protests seen here triggered by the death in custody of a young woman, mahsa amini, last september. taraneh stone from bbc persian joined me earlier in studio. this wasn t related to a protest per se, but it s causing a lot of concern about the high number of executions that we re hearing here and there in the news lately. we have heard in the news about many executions, especially the execution of minorities. and they re raising concerns over the imminent execution of some minorities, like arab minorities. now, we know that iran is notorious for executions, for death penalties. ....
parents of one of the wounded who say their son is just not the same. and u.s. president joe biden promises to keep battling inflation as prices for everyday items continue to spiral upwards. there is a growing sense of urgency among some members of congress ahead of monday s second hearing on the january 6th investigation. the select committee has planned six more hearings this month to present its preliminary findings. they say their investigation paints a damning portrait of then president trump as the central figure behind that failed coup. one committee member previewed what s to come. well, we re going to go methodically through each of the major problem areas with the former president. for example, examining his claims of fraud. that was important because it was false. we know that he was told that it was false. and yet he continued to stir up the american people with false narratives. now the former president donald trump firing back after the panel used h ....