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In order to seal the border on Lisa Brady, Fox News, the White House just confirming President Trump signed an executive order that, quote, suspends physical entry of aliens engaged in an invasion through the U.S. southern border. This as the Pentagon sends more active duty troops to the border, joining service members already there. White House spokesman Caroline Leavitt just telling Fox News. Welcome news from the American people. He is delivering on the promise
he made to them already. Some of the other immigration-related orders are already being challenged in court. President Trump criticizing President Biden's last-minute preemptive pardons for family members. And January 6th, investigators telling Fox's Sean Hannity he had options before leaving office. I was given the option. They said, sir, would you like to pardon everybody, including yourself? I said, I'm not going to pardon anybody.
We didn't do anything wrong. And we had people that suffered. They're incredible patriots. We had people that suffered. Mentioning former advisors sent to prison for defying congressional subpoenas. This guy went around giving everybody pardons. And you know, the funny thing, maybe the sad thing, is he didn't give himself a pardon. And...
If you look at it, it all had to do with him. That interview airs tonight, 9 Eastern on Fox News Channel. This as Democrats express outrage over President Trump's pardons and other clemency this week for hundreds of Capitol riot defendants. Police in Nashville say a 17-year-old opened fire at a high school cafeteria today. The individual wounded two other students, one of them fatally.
before shooting and killing himself. Police spokesperson Don Aaron says the shooter was already down when school resource officers got to the cafeteria. There's been no word on any possible motive.
The Dow finishing up 130 points at the bell. America's listening to... Hey, I'm Trey Gowdy, host of the Trey Gowdy Podcast. I hope you will join me every Tuesday and Thursday as we navigate life together and hopefully find ourselves a little bit better on the other side. Listen and follow now at foxnewspodcast.com. Fox News.
A federal judge rejects a new trial for former New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez ahead of a sentencing set for next week. U.S. District Judge Sidney Stein's decision keeps Menendez's sentencing on track for next Wednesday. Lawyers for the former senator claimed the jury, while it deliberated, had access to evidence it should not have seen.
Prosecutors admitted back in November that those errors were made, but Judge Stein said there appeared to be no prejudice to the defendants making a new trial unnecessary. Menendez is expected to get up to 15 years in prison for his guilt on 16 corruption counts.
His wife, Nadine, will be tried on similar charges starting February 5th. Grinnell Scott, Fox News. Two businessmen convicted with Menendez are also due for sentencing next week. We're learning now what President Biden wrote to President Trump before leaving the Oval Office. In a customary letter from the outgoing president to his successor, former President Biden told President Trump the American people and people around the world look to the White House for steadiness in the inevitable storms of history.
and says his prayer is the coming years will be a time of prosperity, peace, and grace for the nation. The letter was in an envelope addressed to 47. Former President Biden told President Trump he wishes the best for him and his family in the next four years, concluding, May God bless you and guide you as he has blessed and guided our beloved country since our founding.
At the White House, Jared Halpern, Fox News. Just getting word of new evacuations in Southern California, a new fast-moving wildfire in the mountains north of L.A. It's north of the devastating Eaton and Palisades fires that are burning for a third week. Recapping Wall Street, the Dow up 130 points at the close, the S&P up 37 after hitting new highs during the session, the Nasdaq up 252. I'm Lisa Brady, Fox News.