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seven minutes of that activation. and located multiple gunshot victims. still unclear exactly how many are injured. there is no further danger to the public. >> john: we are awaiting an update in iowa, there are multiple gunshot victims after an active shooter was reported at perry high school earlier this morning. no official word of the number of victims and their status, but police can confirm a shooter has been identified and there is no danger remaining to the public. and with that, hello, i'm john roberts in washington. welcome to thursday, sandra. >> sandra: good to be with you, john. this is "america reports". so, here is what we know so far, it all happened before school even began this morning when police received that emergency radio activation. it happened shortly after 7:30. officers say they were responding within seven minutes of that activation locating several gunshot victims at that time. >> john: fbi agents on the scene assisting state and local authorities. still plenty of unanswered

questions in what is a horrific start of the second semester for that school district. >> sandra: fox team coverage begins now. nicole parker was the special agent in charge during the parkland, florida school shooting investigation. >> john: mike tobin is live in chicago. >> we are waiting for some concrete information. very latest we have right now is information through the associated press citing an unnamed law enforcement source saying the gunman indeed is dead and dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. beyond that, there is information there are two additional gunshot victims who were taken to iowa methodist medical center in the state capital of des moines, about 40 miles away. there is some information as well, not confirmed through law enforcement sources that one of the gunshot victims was a school administrator. what we have through the official sources, you heard it through adam, no additional

threat to the public. gunshots at 7:37 a.m. before class started so you did not have many people inside the school itself. it's also alarming that it happened 11 days before the iowa caucuses, politicians like vivek ramaswamy had a campaign event nearby, his first one of the day. that has been canceled, according to ramaswamy, in lieu of prayer and discussion about school shootings and also noted that people in iowa area were not surprised that there was a shooting in the area. they said it was just a matter of time before it happened and to quote ramaswamy with a statement, psychological sickness at the core of our country right now. governor kim reynolds chimed in, and said our hearts are broken by this senseless tragedy. what we are hearing from the witnesses, zander shelly, 15 years old, said he was in the hallway of one of the classrooms, shots rang out, he

ducked inside the classroom, was grazed by bullets, texted his father to say there was a shooting taking place, the father said the most terrifying moments of his life. and rachel was in band, the band was there practicing, heard the shots ring out. the band director instructed the students to run. terrified, they ran. right now we have information of only two gunshot victims being treated and information through an unnamed law enforcement source that the shooter himself is dead. john. >> john: and we are also going to hear from the governor at the next press conference as well, whenever that happens to be. mike tobin with the latest from chicago. thank you. sandra. >> sandra: former fbi special agent nicole parker, she was the special agent in charge of the parkland shooting in florida, and joining us as a fox news

contributor. welcome to you. unfortunate circumstances that we bring you on on yet another school shooting. mike just broke down the details so far and the timing of all of this. this was the very first day back for the students of the second semester following their holiday break. the shooting comes before the iowa caucuses, which kick off the 2024 republican primary season on january 15th. what do you make what we have learned so far with these details? >> i would like to acknowledge i'm grateful and appreciative of the opportunity fox is giving me to serve as a contributor with your network. honor and privilege to come on air with you all over the last several months and i have experienced nothing but the highest level of professionalism, respect, truth and integrity and that's what i believe in and hope to be able to carry that on with your network as well. in regard to the shooting, this is absolutely horrifying and tragic. the students, their first day back. they were on a winter break, we were on vacation and what do you

know, you come back and not even before school has begun another school shooting in the united states of america and this time in iowa. and sandra, you mentioned the timing related to the iowa caucus. at this point, it would be too premature to say there was a direct link in that. it could be a coincidence, planned, but as an fbi investigator, you are looking at the motive of the shooter. they picked this time, this was not a coincidence, the first day back is very relevant to this investigation. and in my experience with school shootings, 90% of those involved in school shootings do have suicidal ideation, we understand the school shooter was found with a self-inflicted gunshot wound, that does not shock me. timing of it right before school began does not shock me. but the day returning from the joyous holiday season to be struck with terror and fear and violence in your school is absolutely horrific and disgusting. >> john: nicole, it's john here, and welcome, by the way from me

as well to fox. great to have you on board. a valuable resource for us. the timing of this, just before 7:30 in the morning before school officially got underway. in the past, including parkland, school shootings have happened when school is in full session to maximize probably in the shooter's minds the number of targets one could hit. is this suggestive of perhaps a dispute that occurred earlier in the morning? >> it could very well be that. without having information about the actual shooter i'm hesitant to state specific information but based on my experience, the timing is definitely significant. the parkland school shooting was later in the day, close to the end of the school day and this is the beginning of the school day. more information will be coming out. but the investigators will focus heavily on the motivation, the ideation, what was the triggering incident that caused this individual to say today is

the day and i'm going to go and shoot individuals out of school. my understanding, could have been the principal involved, that is significant as well, the shooter believes, they could have believed they were the victim of an unfair treatment and that is common as well in school shootings, the shooter is often times, they see themselves as a victim and they want to get back, they want to get revenge. that very well could have been the situation here. but again, let's let law enforcement do their job and see what happens. the other point that's important and relevant unique in this school shooting i heard, is that the dispatchers were aware and had access to the video cameras inside the school on that hallway prior to even arriving on scene. that is extremely critical and crucial for law enforcement to be able to have a leg up prior to entering into that school. >> sandra: wow, that is a really important detail. and it's interesting that you bring that up because my final

question to you, nicole, was can we learn something tying in your experience from the parkland school shooting as well from every one of these instances so that we can learn and improve our school security, minimize these events when they happen and possibly prevent them? >> that would be my hope always. i want to make things better based on the negative experiences and the tragedies. americans, you need to understand any time you see something on the news, there are human beings that are suffering as a result of what you are seeing on your television screen. my hope would be, sandra, that we can create solutions, create, you know, hope and fix this, and everyone has a different solution. everyone looks at it differently. right now i think focusing on the victims, the victims' families, we don't know what the death notifications, if there were deaths in this instance, that will be worked out by law

enforcement but i think there are things that we can do as a community and also when you are aware of someone that's struggling with something, we focus on mental health a lot as well. if you see something, please do say something. it could potentially save lives and my parter words, if you are ever in an active shooting incident, i hope and pray you are not, but if you are, run, hide, fight. and the band director told the band members, run, they ran. zander, the individual in the hallway who ran and fled into the classroom and the teacher closed the door probably, run, hide, fight. it could potentially save your life. >> john: good advice, we expect to hear more in the hours ahead here, including governor kim reynolds. nicole, welcome aboard. >> sandra: thank you, nicole. >> john: any moment now we are expecting to hear from the white house as former president donald trump asks the u.s. supreme court to intervene in efforts by more than a dozen states to kick him off the primary ballot.

historic legal battle comes as president biden is set to kick off the campaign year with a speech in pennsylvania on the eve of the january 6th capitol riot, you can imagine will focus or feature heavily in his speech. biden advisers say he's going to focus on trump and call him a direct threat to democracy. fox team covering now, mary katherine hamm how it's impacting the primary, 11 days away, but peter doocy, and how much will president biden's campaign kick-off focus on the economy or immigration versus trump. >> peter: almost none, we are told the president would rather have the hard launch of the re-elect focus on saving democracy and defeating white supremacy. >> i've made the preservation of american democracy the central issue of my presidency. our children and grandchildren will hold us responsible. >> peter: so they would much rather talk about trump than biden and for what it's worth,

the trump team would rather talk about trump, too, they appeal to the supreme court justices to get back on the ballots in colorado and maine. hoping the justices can set a precedent to prevent other states from using the 14th amendment insurrection clause to boot him from ballots. not to say there are not legal headaches in biden world, impeachment inquiry never went away, and the man who sold hunter biden's art will sit for a deposition in the house and the latest claims that hunter biden never knew who was buying his art so he could not owe them a favor yet. historic list of accomplishments squeezed into three-quarters of a term. >> he's done more in the first three years than presidents have done in the first two terms or their first two term, in their two terms of their presidency, and that is if you think about historic pieces of legislation. that is incredibly important.

>> peter: unusually quiet start to a re-election year to incumbent president, came back very, very late from vacation on tuesday, and nothing on camera yesterday, and nothing on camera today. john. >> john: like a lot of washington decided to take this entire week off. peter doocy, thank you. mary katherine, columnist for "outkick" and first start with donald trump going to the supreme court to appeal the decision in colorado to kick him off of the ballot. hoping to get a favorable ruling from the court on that and by virtue of it, a favorable ruling on maine as well. how do you think this is going to play out and will all of this have more support and not sympathy for the former president. >> i think it has repeatedly every time there is extra judicial attempt to take him out. you can't unpresident, you can impeach him, and convict him or you can beat him. and biden ended up beating him.

yet another attempt to uncandidate him, you really can't do and one thing he has not been charged with is insurrection, what they are using as the basis to take him off the ballot like in colorado, at least there was a court proceeding in colorado. in maine, just one public official which seems like a very bad practice if you are trying to save democracy. >> sandra: great to have you on the program. i want to put up the clear politics average as we discuss the potential for donald trump pending all of that, and the field in the iowa republican, obviously the primary looking at donald trump polling double digits above desantis and haley. 32.7% above desantis. where things stand, look at new hampshire and the republican field as well, you also see a double digit advantage for donald trump there. can you make any predictions for us? everybody is looking at this and saying is anything going to change in the next couple of weeks? >> look, i do think somewhere like iowa -- these margins are

huge, let's not joke about that. but like iowa, the ground game really matters. trump has not been doing the traditional on the trail retail politicking in the way that a desantis has on the ground. i know they hope for an iowa miracle and it's not something that's totally out of the question. in new hampshire, i think nikki haley certainly is in closer striking distance and for instance chris christie wanted to drop out, many of his votes would go to her, and more possible to show vulnerability for donald trump in new hampshire. >> john: if all of christie's went, she would be within 10 of donald trump. a full calculation changing, it happens in new hampshire rather than iowa and if haley performs well, a lot of talk in the republican party the pressure will be on former president trump to take her as his running

mate, perhaps she could help him win. but listen to this "new york post" headline based on something that steve bannon said, big fight to erupt in maga world if trump chooses viper nikki haley as running mate, steve bannon predicts. what do you think? kristi noem said she would take the job in a heartbeat but people push for haley. >> she said let's have that conversation later after we see what happens in new hampshire, but some love lost in the more trump-friendly wing of the party for nikki haley. early on and throughout this process many have thought that desantis is the one more likely to marry trump's skeptical and friendly voters nonetheless a little skeptical in 2024. so i think that it would -- there would be some division when that happened, but perhaps they would address the public about it and perhaps trump could, you know, spend more time

in retail politicking explaining. >> sandra: when you look at the candidates on the trail, how can they differentiate themselves the most in the republican field? >> i think the best approach, for instance, for desantis and something i think he has been doing, to say look, i was in control, i was in power during covid, i did different things, even than donald trump, right, i can do the things that he says he's going to do but didn't do during his first term because i have the power and the intellect and i have a record of having done those things. i've also grown my votes with important sectors of the electorate in florida where i think that donald trump's many many indictments will be radioactive, see it in the numbers. i can win, i can do the things. that to me is the argument and needs to be made more forcefully and probably should have been before now. >> john: we will find out in 11 days whether iowa voters think

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this will mark blinken's fourth trip to the middle east since the october 7th terrorist attacks in israel. the state department adds blinken will visit several arab nations and push for israel to allow more humanitarian aid into gaza as well as for hamas to release the remaining american hostages. >> it's absurd to think new york doesn't have the room for it, new jersey doesn't have the room for it, they think eagle pass or del rio, texas have the room for it? if the biden administration was enforcing the immigration laws passed by congress, mayors of new york, leaders of new jersey, etc., they would not be having these problems. >> john: texas governor greg abbott sounding off about the biden administration, scrap a new law to allow people to arrest people who come across the border illegally. bill melugin is live from the border in eagle pass, texas, yesterday it was barren.

what's it looking like today? >> bill: john, it's barren here again today, pretty cold out here, low on the crossings. but the lawsuit is just the latest effort by the feds trying to stop texas to enforce its own border down here. the feds sued texas to get their water barriers out of the rio grande, they want the razor wire cut, and now suing texas over sb4, the security bill, and arguing it's unconstitutional. a portion of the federal lawsuit, texas cannot run its own immigration system. its effort through sb4 intrude on the federal government's exclusive authority to regulate entry and removal of noncitizens, frustrate proceedings and sb4 is invalid. house republicans here in eagle pass yesterday, including the chairman of the homeland

security committee, mark green, holding the first impeachment inquiry next week on secretary mayorkas and promising texas there is help coming. >> every state and city in this country is a border state but i want to say a special thank you and salute to texas. you have borne the brunt of this and we, me, we will not let you down. accountability is coming. i promise. >> bill: mass illegal crossings continue in lukeville, arizona. video the team shot on the ground yesterday afternoon. more men from all around the world pouring into that lukeville area. large numbers of african men, countries like senegal, guinea, liberia, mali, and others, and ran into a man from guinea on the other side of the border wall, a cut in the wall and he was begging border patrol to please let him through. as he was doing that, he was holding in his hand what appeared to be a new york state i.d. card. take a listen to this.

>> please, please, please, my brother, please, please i'll help you. >> bill: so again, you can see that new york i.d. card in his hand right there. we don't know the context behind whose it is, if it's his, if it's real, if it's fake or why he has it. the guy would not talk to us, he was part of a group of men on the other side of the wall hoping to get through that breach in the border wall. you can see the cut in the steel and the sources, border patrol sources on the ground and at lukeville area, tell us the man did eventually cross illegally into the lukeville area successfully. but pretty bizarre to see a guy from halfway around the world holding a new york state i.d. card in his hand as he was trying to get into the united states. back to you. >> john: how did he get in, a break in the fence or let him through the fence? >> so there are several ways. obviously breaches all along the border wall, he could have come in through another hole or

walked around to the port of entry. port of entry is reopened and border patrol has been gathering some people there. so that lukeville area is like swiss cheese with the border wall. a lot of areas people are coming through, john. >> john: bill, thank you so much. now this. >> we don't have enough room for the migrants, we don't have support services. >> we must close the southern border. we can really take in more migrants coming to chicago. >> sandra: illinois residents say they are fed up with the state's response to this growing migrant crisis and now they are dealing one scheduled migrant drop-offs happening in chicago suburbs. and that's prompting leaders to impose penalties against the bus companies dropping them off. one county is placing a massive sign along the interstate, 55, warning busses to keep on driving. chicago democratic alderman brian hopkins. thank you very much, sir, for joining us. what the heck is happening in that state and how are you

dealing with this? >> part of this is a response to the city attempting to close its own borders to the constant flow of migrant busses and now private charter planes that are landing. you know, it's happening at a time when we are not prepared, when we don't have the resources that we have allocated, social workers, medical staff, the people who are there to try and take these migrants in when they are not working, and a bus pulls up, and hundreds of people disembark from busses, they have nowhere to go. we had a bus driver drop off 60 people at sears tower at about 11:00 at night and he told them, oh, by the way, they are expecting you in the lobby. that was pure fabrication, and he just left them there, pulled away and left them there. these are human beings, and they are being treated like fodder. it's unacceptable. so we tried to get control of that and as a result the bus drivers found out they could not drive into chicago in the off hours, so they were dropping them off in the suburbs, leaving

them at the commuter rail stations and tell them to take a train in in the morning. situation is bad to worse, chaos out there. >> sandra: this brings up so many questions. who are the bus drivers and where are they being given the migrants, who is employing the bus drivers? >> yeah, that's a great question. we are looking at that. because these drivers have commercial driver's licenses and if they are violating any federal laws we have the potential to take action against them. we are taking action against some of the bus companies. we have impounded i think three busses so far since we passed legislation allowing us to do that. that's a drop in the bucket. we probably had over 700 busses that have arrived in the last year since this crisis started. >> sandra: so many important questions, i don't mean to cut you off. you say drop in the bucket. going after the bus drivers. aren't we talking about a massive crisis at the southern border from where these migrants are coming? and what is your message on the

lack of security and the lack of securing the southern border on the part of the federal government? >> yeah, absolutely. the federal government has dropped the ball. i've made that clear, i've said that repeatedly since this crisis started. we as a city, the municipal government of chicago are not equipped to handle this. we have never been equipped to handle this. we are trying to do the best we can. but when this crisis started over a year ago, we went to the federal government immediately and said we can't do this. give us funding, give us support. we went to fema and basically came away empty handed. so, that's the source of my impatience now. we have been asking for assistance from the federal government to help this crisis on the ground and to secure the border in texas and arizona. so far neither has happened. >> sandra: so far, didn't leadership in the city say we are a sanctuary city, all are welcome, wasn't that the message? >> yeah, yes, you are not hearing that from me, you know. i think if we had to vote all

over again on authorization for whether chicago is going to be a sanctuary city, i'm not sure we would be. we tried to put a referendum on the ballot in march coming up to ask the voters, do you want to be a sanctuary city and the mayor and his team blocked that effort. so we don't know if there is political will to continue being a sanctuary city but i will say this. our status as a sanctuary city first was established way back in the 1980s. this is not new. we put this flag in the ground a long time ago, no one at that time had any idea that it would lead to this today. this was completely unpredicted and it's unprecedented. >> sandra: what did people expect to happen? and my final question to you, because we are out of time, but again, we really respect you coming on and appreciate the discussion on this matter, you are not the first democrat alderman from the city to come on outraged with the federal government over their lack of

handling this crisis. i mean, at what point do you look at your party and say this isn't working for me? >> right now, i'm saying that. i'm saying that publicly but i will also say this. this is a bipartisan failure. the border situation was worse in 2020 than it was in 2016, and it's worse now in 2024 than it was when biden got elected. this is a bipartisan failure, blame to go around. >> sandra: no doubt it is a mess. up against a hard break. we would love to have you back on. keep the discussion going. >> john: interesting perspective there. shocking video as a dangerous felon takes flight, leaps over the bench and attacks a judge. the violence and the condition of the judge coming up. >> sandra: is another shoe about to drop in the jeffrey epstein case? kerri kupec urbahn is here on the release of even more court documents. that's next. boys. ♪ when i see all of us out here on this ranch,

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>> sandra: jacqui heinrich is

getting a question in to john kirby in the briefing room. dip in and listen. >> difficult to square anybody having a problem with the iranian people getting food, water, medicine and agriculture problems to survive. and the question what you are getting to, not as if they are sitting around thinking how can we make the lives of the iranian people better. they are not making that choice. what they are doing is investing in missile technology and helping ukraine kill innocent -- i'm sorry, help russia kill innocent ukrainians. it's not like it frees up money they were going to use on food and water but now buy missiles with. they have been focusing -- >> it's exactly what it does. >> i would argue the critics are incorrect. the regime in iran has been doing that consistently over many multiple presidential

administration's, republican and democratic. they mean to have -- they have hegemonic ambitions in the region and destabilizers in the region and investing money into advanced military capabilities to try to push forward that vision. it's not as if they have been prioritizing the iranian people and this money, these funds are designed for the iranian people and for their benefit only. >> one last question. can the administration name a single lawmaker who has called to reduce the number of border patrol agents? >> single lawmaker that has called -- i think karine has talked about this, they voted down proposed legislation that would pepresident's urging increase the number. so just -- just by the sheer numbers in the votes the house republicans have said they don't favor increasing the number of border agents and you heard speaker johnson at the border yesterday they are not

interested in moving forward on the president's national security supplemental, which had $6 billion in there, much of it designed to get us another 1300 border agents. >> the 2000 border patrol agents eliminated, reference to the house dhs appropriations bill which was obviously not taken up by the senate. they had a cr but that very bill, republicans say it would have increased the number of border patrol agents because it was going to eliminate funds for climate change and clean energy programs. the white house even issued a statement at that time saying those cuts to those programs would be, you know, unpalatable to the president. but the picture we are short 2000 at the border when that did not happen. >> when the proposed legislation has additional border agents in it and house republicans take it down, i don't know how you want to take that. >> on ukraine, what options has the white house and administration reviewed --

>> sandra: all right, jacqui heinrich had the ability with multiple questions to press john kirby on the situation, obviously in the middle east, and funding that the democrats have been calling for to secure the border. interesting exchanges there. we are going to continue to monitor john kirby and karine jean-pierre will be up next in the briefing room. john. >> john: standing by for another new batch of documents connected with the jeffrey epstein case, could be released any moment now. first court filings were unsealed as part of a lawsuit against ghislaine maxwell. name of nearly 200 people tied to epstein, including some very high profile. kerri kupec is with us now. a-list of a-lists, including bill clinton, michael jackson, prince andrew, david copperfield, al gore, bill richardson, george lucas, naomi

campbell, kevin spacey, and others. other than prince andrew, no suggestion of any wrongdoing on the part of any of these people. so, what are we really learning here? >> kerri: a better sense how jeffrey epstein did, his egosystem, and interesting to see what else is revealed in the next batch of documents and i wondered if this may give courage or may inspire some of the other victims we don't know about to come forward. this may be a point they say ok, it's been how many years, i have some more information to share. we just don't know. >> john: so prince andrew, there was a new allegation about him. >> kerri: the puppet. >> john: accused of groping, and buckingham palace said it's untrue, they have said that in the past but no response from the documents released last night, maybe because they have thrown prince andrew overboard.

>> kerri: and he has been in such hot water since the beginning, for years hearing about this, and we may learn pieces of information pertaining to prince andrew, unfortunately and terribly, i don't think anyone would be surprised if there was another victim but don't know to your point. >> john: another tidbit about bill clinton, johanna testified epstein told them clinton likes them young, referring to girls. anybody who was around in 1998 would say that that's -- there's perhaps some veracity to that statement, but again, does this lead us down any new roads? >> kerri: no, i don't think it does. and we are learning all of this, thanks to the miami herald, they have been at this for many years. they intervened in the defamation case, one of the victims told what happened, ghislaine called them a liar, miami herald intervened and the reason they intervened, they

wanted public access to the documents that we are seeing now, and the ones revealed over the years. i think it was a miami herald piece that investigative piece that ended up leading to the arrest of jeffrey epstein. so they have been in this from the beginning and i think it's a public service the rest of us can look at the documents and see the horrors that were unfolding with unfortunately a lot of very big names involved. >> john: and discussing earlier, for those of us that remember back to 1984, miami herald blew the lid off the scandal. and interesting spat over two celebrities over the information, aaron rodgers, quarterback for the jets suggested when it came out, jimmy kimmel's name would figure prominently. he's not mentioned in any of the documents, prompting jimmy kimmel to exude on x, dear

a-hole. i've not had any contact with epstein, nor my name on a list that soft brained whackos like you get from reality. we will debate the facts further in court and tagged aaron rodgers on that. clearly emotions run high with this stuff. >> kerri: they do, i understand the curiosity and i think we will american more and more as other documents come out. >> john: and interesting, the circumstances surrounding his death. more to come on that perhaps. kerri, great to see you. more to come in the days and weeks ahead. >> sandra: americans experiencing an affordability crisis. families cutting back on everyday necessities. so why is the president still pushing his bidenomics?

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>> i shouldn't be sent to prison, but it's appropriate for you then, you have to do what you have to do but i figure that if i'm in a better place in my life i'm not doing drugs, i'm not, you know, i'm not committing crimes now. >> three felonies, gross misdemeanors, multiple d.v.s, you have a lot going on, sir. battery on a protected person, robberies. >> redens attorney also wanted no jail time and she disagreed prompting the attack. >> i appreciate that. i think it's time he gets a taste of something else. because i just can't let that history, in accordance with the laws of the state of nevada. [bleep] [bleep] >> so he now faces six additional felonies and seven misdemeanors, a lot more than four years. he was scheduled to appear in court today but refused transport from jail. arraignment on monday, a

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>> john: isis taking credit for two bombings that killed dozens of people in iran yesterday. greg palkot live in london with the latest. greg. >> greg: get right to the striking claim of responsibility for the deadly bombings in iran yesterday. on social media channels, isis, the so-called islamic state group, said its two suicide bombers caused the chaos at a ceremony commemorating an infamous iranian general. at least 84 killed, 300 injured by the bombing. isis once controlled large areas of iraq and syria, has been beaten back, but remains a threat, including to the shi'ite muslim regime in iran. the general was soleimani, operated groups seen as a threat

to the u.s., killed in a drone strike four years ago in baghdad. this as fox news confirms the u.s. staged another drone strike in baghdad killing a top official and one other member of another iran-backed group believed to be responsible for attacks on american personnel. there have been some 120 attacks by iran supported groups mostly against u.s. bases in iraq and syria since mid october. these thought to be response to the u.s. support of israel and the war against hamas. today's strike marks the 8th time the u.s. has reacted. the more things change, the more they stay the same. >> john: greg, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: house republicans getting the firsthand look at the border. packed last week, ghost town yesterday. so, what gives? plus, texas congressman pete sessions was there. he'll tell us exactly what he saw.

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