and we begin this morning with breaking news on capitol hill. where a major defense bill has been turned into a debate over social issues. overnight, the republican-led house passed a series of amendments to nearly $900 billion defense policy bill. the amendments include overturning the pentagon s abortion policy, banning transgender health services for military personnel and other things. meanwhile, republican senator tommy tuberville continues to hold up military promotions over the pentagon s abortion policy, which defense secretary lloyd austin warned was a national security issue. this is a national security issue, it is a readiness issue, and we shouldn t kid ourselves. i think any member of the senate armed services committee knows that. joining us from capitol hill is ali vitali. also with us is brandon buck, an msnbc political analyst. ali, what is happening with the vote at this hour? reporter: yeah, i believe, jose, the vote is not yet closed, but that the nd
sacrifice you made for the country. her smile is contagious, she was always laughing about everything, even though her time was short on earth, she lived her life to the fullest. sergeant kennedy sanders and her family are in our thoughts. ac 360 start right now. tonight on 360 with a vote expected this evening on impeaching a cabinet secretary over the border crisis, republican lawmakers step up their campaign against proposed senate legislation said to be the toughest in decades also senate republicans we just leare debating whether to shelve it entirely. breaking news, the former president s $50 million legal bill last year, you may be surprised to learn who s actually picking up the tab. later everything we are learning about israel s daring raid using, to kill militants at a west bank hospital. we begin with the breaking news and the most important issue to voters right now according to recent polling. the issue is immigration and border security and we just le
massive caravan fuelling. all mayors agree on one thing. the federal government needs to stop dithering. coming up, we ll hear from a texas republican, tony gonzalez, who says there s one simple thing we can be doing right now. welcome, i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto. this is your world. the congressman coming up. first to nate foy on the growing crisis. nate? a caravan with an estimated 8,000 migrants is making its way to our southern border right now. sanctuary city mayors are again asking president joe biden to do more to help them. states across the entire country deal with this crisis. texas governor greg abbott continues bussing and now flying migrants to sanctuary cities. only a fraction of what texas and other border states deal with. take a look at this. the southern border is on pace for the most migrant encounters ever in a single month with 250,000 so far in december alone. that includes over 35,000 during the four-day christmas weekend. now new york c
hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your day with us. a major dam destroyed in ukraine. there are mass evacuations and plenty of blame as russia and ukraine point fingers at the oh. trouble for trump as one lane of the special counsel investigation nears its end. jack smith attended a meeting with the legal team and a bizarre plot twist. cnn learned it led to a flood of suspicion from prosecutors. and chris christie makes his 2024 entrance. the former governor is also a trump friend turned trump critic who sees himself as the best republican hope of derailing the former the president s comeback bid. we begin with a major development in ukraine. a major dam was destroyed overnight. the collapse of the dam on the river prompting evacuations and fears of large-scale devastation. new video shows the surging waters leading to massive flooding and fears now of a potential environmental di disaster. you can see water creepin
independents think in the middle. if you read the article that came with this, it said democrats were almost split on whether they think that the state of the union and the state of the country is in really a good solid ground right now. when you see 60% of people agree that the country is not doing well, that is bad, dangerous. the people that did respond pointed to extremism on both ends, democrat and republican. that is where the independent number is so high and that will be tricky for democrats and republicans, really. todd: i take a look from the 30,000 foot view and ask the question, what about our union is strong right now? our enemies don t fear us. our allies don t know if they can can t on us. when it comes to money, we are all worried about inflation and day-to-day paying bills, we are digging ourselves a debt hole on the global future. on the future of our country. that will take years, if not decades and centuries to get out of and that falls on our kids and g