i have never laughed alone and that has as much to do with my being here today as anything else i know. >> norman lear, a tv comedy master who kept us glued to the tube whether we agreed with his politics or not. nate foye, fox news. >> bill: genius of a mind. such great creativity. >> dana: a fun trip down memory lane watching the clips from j.j. walker. >> bill: at the hemmer house every night we would watch "good times" until j.j. walker would say i'm kid dynamite. i'm not the character. the other thing that was mandatory viewing was "all in the family." >> dana: dynamite. you have to go a little dynamite. >> bill: he is had a rhyme in it. >> dana: rest in peace to norman

lear. >> no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. >> except for day one. i want to close the border and i want to drill, drill, drill. >> dana: former president donald trump looking ahead to a second term blasting president joe biden and mostly ignoring his republican rivals last night in iowa. i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. kid dynamite. former president trump taking aim at president biden on the economy, energy, foreign policy, border all came up last night. night before the final republican primary debate where he will not be and will not attend. once again, that stage will have four people but without trump as his distant rivals battle it out for second place. alexis mcadams is in alabama for the fallout today.

>> good morning from alabama. where it is a race for second place, right, on that debate stage which we'll get to more on that in the second. the frontrunner donald trump, the former president skipping another debate heading to iowa talking to sean hannity saying he doesn't think president biden will the be the nominee. >> i think he is in bad shape physically. if he took me behind the barn and went like this i believe he would fall over. >> while trump was on stage making comments like that president biden said he is only running for re-election because trump is running. listen. >> would you be running for president if trump wasn't rung? >> i expect so but look, he is running. i have to run. >> would you drop out -- >> no. not now.

>> this comes as nikki haley works to close the gap on ron desantis. she is gaining steam. now democratic mega donor handed over $250,000 to her super pac. hoffman wrote that he is definitely voting for joe biden but hopes that cash will help nikki haley beat donald trump, which is his main goal. desantis has been slamming haley she is not a real conservative blasting her as part of the d.c. swamp here. this week billionaire home depot co-founder just about ready to throw his support behind haley. >> i had a nice meeting with her in my office yesterday. she is a straight shooter, came through loud and clear. >> bill: trump is holding onto the strong lead in iowa. he is popular there. every time on the ground he pulls in a big crowd. last night he made fun of his competitors saying they barely

have anybody that shows up when they speak. listen. >> we had overflow crowds. other candidates have seven people standing on a farm and they are talking and it is a very nice thing to watch especially for me. from the enthusiasm in the polls we'll win by a lot more than we won the last two times. >> the iowa caucus is six weeks away so expect to see lots of activity on the ground from all these candidates in the hawkeye state. trump says he will blitz iowa. ron desantis has hit all 99 counties on that tour saying he is going to win the iowa caucus. >> bill: it will tell us a lot in mid-january. nice to see you in alabama. enjoy the debate later tonight. >> dana: there are still leaves on the trees. you heard what former president trump said to hannity last night

would you be a dictator. only on day one. a tweet from the campaign. trump, i will be a dictator on day one. i mentioned how the media in the last ten days decided this is the new focus they will try to tell everyone that trump will be a dictator and that's why everybody has to be concerned that it is dangerous, etc. he said it with tongue in cheek. he said he would fix on the first day was the border and allow for drilling to start happening. >> bill: that word only was omitted from that. the exact quote here. you are right about that. border security and drill for energy. >> dana: meantime anti-semitism continues to go forward in america. >> it was a petri dish of the bacteria of anti-semitism and hate. when you don't have an administration that wants to halt the growth of that bacteria it multiplies exponentially. >> dana: jewish students sounding the alarm on campus

saying universities aren't doing enough to make them feel safe. the president of m.i.t. defended herself yesterday. >> our dei staff are absolutely charged with making the campus welcoming for all students. we're making sure that our staff who are dedicated to diversity, equity and inclusion are being trained about anti-semitism. >> dana: team fox coverage claudia cowen on the anti--- let's go to molly line in cambridge, massachusetts. >> good morning, dana. the calls for resignations are growing after the presidents of several ivy league institutions appeared on capitol hill failing to flatly say that calling for the genocide of jews was against school rules. here is republican congresswoman stefanik seeking clarity. >> i will give you one more opportunity for the world to see your answer. does calling for the genocide of

jews violate penn's code of conduct when it comes to bullying and harassment, yes or no? >> it can be harassment. >> the answer is yes. and dr. gay, at harvard, does calling for the genocide of jews violate harvard's rules of bullying and harassment. >> it can be depending on the context. >> millionaire big ackman slammed the responses given by the presidents writing the presidents' answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade our elite educational institutions due to failed leadership and said they must all resign in disgrace. the founder of harvard's divinity school student jewish association says president gay has let jewish students down

repeatedly and argues harvard is not a safe place for jewish students anymore. >> it was a softball question of do you condemn the rising rhetoric and violence against jewish students. none of them would condemn it. if gay had a heart she would resign. if the harvard board of trustees had a brain they would fire her. >> the harvard crimson reports that in an email to students harvard president called gay's refusal to draw a line around the threatening anti-semitic speech was profoundly shocking. >> bill: it's also starting in some of the lower schools. anti-israel agenda making its way into the textbooks of elementary school students. claudia cowen is live in california where one school has a divisive teaching plan. what is it all about? >> it's unclear how many teachers in oakland will participate in today's teach-in

but the district superintendent said the event is unsanctioned and blast had the suggested teaching materials as harmful and divisive. school officials are reacting to a video on youtube defending today's so-called gaza to oakland teach-in as a way to promote critical thinking about the war. >> this teach-in about palestine is solidarity and resistance all matched into one action. >> a small contingent of activists in the oakland teachers union is encouraging today's event and a curriculum including a palestinian themed alphabet book with i representing intifada, rising up for what is right. it is typically used to be armed uprising against israel. one points out palestinians had to evacuate when israel began

bombing gaza, no mention of hamas or october 7th massacres. supporters say it offers a counter narrative to lessons that focus solely on israel. pro-israel groups say this approach could traumatize jewish students. >> i'm worried about the jewish students who won't have the oversight to make sure teachers aren't talking about this. >> the district superintendent has ordered teachers to keep their personal beliefs out of the classroom and the head of the oakland school board says the teachers who do decide to participate could be disciplined. bill, maybe even fired. >> bill: story to follow. claudia cowen in california. >> dana: joining us for more a mark levine the host of life, liberty and levin. the university presidents showed why anti-semitism has been allowed to flourish on campuses. it apparently is accepted by the

leadership of these schools. >> you know, dana, we have to look at this to me in a bigger context here. who is it that is fighting full throatedly and united against anti-semitism. which party? the democratic party is the home to every one of these movements and own the teachers unions and owns the colleges and universities. all these anti-seamites are either democrats or going to vote for democrats. we have an immigration policy importing the culture, the hate, the belief systems of foreigners into this country. that's not what immigration is supposed to be about. you are supposed to have allegiance to our country and assimilate. the media have been very ambiguous and confusing about making distinctions between hamas and the palestinians. hamas is palestinian, elected as a terrorist organization of

terrorist palestinians in gaza. i want to make a point if i may. a report that nobody is talking about. the arab world for research and development. hardly a jewish conspiracy, they did a survey of palestinians in gaza and in judea and same area and why you see these groups out there. the results indicate an overwhelming percentage of palestinians support the october 7th massacre, 75%. reject co-existence with israel 85.9%. committed to the restoration of historical palestine as a final solution, 71%. support the creation of a palestinian state from the river to the sea 74.7%. the palestinian positive perception of terror organizations remains high despite their role in carrying out the massacre, disastrous results one more. 76% believe that hamas plays a somewhat to very positive role.

84% believe that palestinian islamic jihad plays a somewhat to very positive role. 80% believe the terror wing plays a somewhat to positive role and 88.6% believe the hamas armed wing plays a some to very positive function. an effort to create the fiction in the american media on cnn, msnbc and white house in democratic party that there is a huge -- what the terrorists are doing and all these organizations are doing and these people, these poor people don't support it. if they could only have their libe liberation. they do support it and you see it in the streets and the hypocritical media. pro-palestinian protests. they are carrying flags about the destruction of the jews, a pro-palestinian or pro-hamas. they can't get the propaganda straight. one other thing if i might.

joe biden blew up the middle east. it is about time we start to focus on this administration. iran was going broke, they were on their back. people were rising up. hamas got no funding out of the u.n., another front group because donald trump cut it off. the palestinian liberation organization founded by arafat, the moderate palestinians, their money was cut off by donald trump. we had five arab/muslim countries reaching out to israel through the united states for peace agreements. saudi arabia was next in line. most of that has been blown up and so when i watch blinken get up there and lecture the israelis about how to treat their enemy i say to myself you have blood on your hands, pal. what about you? what about your responsibility for lighting up the middle east? you sit there, you are still funding iran, you are still funding hamas, you are still funding the plo and you put your

foot on throat of israel and you ask what about the civilians? what about the civilians. you lit up the middle east when you came to office. you reversed every single policy that was in place. peace was breaking out and look at the democrat party, dana. two votes now in a period of a week or so on whether or not they oppose anti-semitism. half of the democrats yesterday voted against that resolution because if you are anti-zionism, they say, can you be anti-semitic. all zionism means is that the jews have a right to their home in israel. the democratic party, media, biden administration can't just pretend these things are happening in the middle east. they have in part caused it. >> bill: here is ron desantis, mark.

a reporter was asking him about comparing islamaphobia, which the administration is pushing now, to anti-semitism. watch. >> biden has responded to the unprecedented spike in anti-semitic fervor around the world and in this country, he has responded by saying that the real problem is islamaphobia. they are not the same things. that's just not what is happening. i don't think these are the same and there is one vein of hate that is predominateing over all others now, anti-semitism. >> bill: that sound bite ran 30 seconds. your best 30 seconds on how you compare the two. >> my best 30 seconds, bill. here is a book by a proofsor, hitler's america friends, the third reich about universities, university students and the 30s and 40s pushing nazi propaganda. another one, the third reich in the ivory tower by professor norwood. conflict on american campuses

with the rise of the third reich. here is a book buried by "the new york times." the holocaust taking place. another one, beyond belief. buried by "the new york times." it is not just them. this has been buried now by using this islamaphobia trip. islamaphobia does exists in the middle east where muslims are slaughtering muslims and palestinians are slaughtering palestinians. you don't have palestinian or other muslim or arab kids in our universities are fearful locking themselves in their door rooms and libraries scared to death about what is going on. you don't have to jews 200 or 300 at a time demanding the elimination of the palestinians, threatening palestinian students. this is a subterfuge. where is chuck schumer? they held a hearing in the house yesterday. why won't they hold one in the

senate. he is jewish. bernie sanders is attacking israel. where the merrick garland, he is jewish? dana perino, you said something the other day that was so important. if these weren't jews and it was another minority, you know this would be treated quite differently. you have cnn, msnbc who completely ignored the live coverage of those four college students when fox was covering it. you are telling me that -- and you have anti-semitism open in the media and democratic party. what were they doing that was so important that they couldn't cover it for 20 minutes? ask yourselves that. >> dana: we had them here and one of them joined us this morning as well. very impressive young people. mark levin. thank you for being on our show. >> bill: nice to see you, mark.

to washington, d.c. here we go as previously mentioned, this is merrick garland. he is explaining why the justice department has filed the first-ever charges under a u.s. war crime statute against four russian affiliated military personnel in what is described as heinous crimes against an american citizen. so drop on in here in d.c. >> he was one of the commanding officers and the others the lower ranking soldiers and co-conspirators. during the abduction we allege those defendants threw the victim to the ground while he was naked. pointed a gun at his head and beat him with their feet, fists and stocks of their guns. we allege they forced him into a building that russia affiliated forces were using as a jail and into a closet that they were using as a jail cell. we allege that as they interrogated him, they tortured him, they beat him again with a

gun. they punched him in his chest and stomach and threatened to shoot him and stripped his clothes and took pictures. one of their conspirators threatened to sexually assault him. and during the interrogation, when the victim's answers did not satisfy the defendants, we allege that the commanding officer threatened the victim with death and asked for his last words. we allege that other conspirators took the victim outside and forced him to the ground, put a gun to the back of his head. the victim believed he was about to be killed. they moved the gun just before pulling the trigger and the bullet went just past his head. after the mock execution, the victim was beaten and interrogated again. at one point told through an interpreter he was, quote, going to sleep. and he was told by one of them that quote, good night. leaving the victim to believe again he was about to be killed.

during his ten days of detained by russia affiliated forces the victim in this case was tortured, threatened with sexual assault and execution, forced to perform man well label and beaten in the head and stomach by the soldiers. again and again he believed he was going to die. these charges against four russia affiliated military personnel are the justice department's first criminal charges under the u.s. war crimes statute. they are also an important step toward accountability for the russian regime's illegal war in ukraine. our work is far from done. i want to recognize the criminal divisions including human rights and special prosecution section and the war crimes accountability team, the u.s. attorney's office for the eastern district of virginia, the f.b.i., and the department of homeland security including homeland security

investigations. they skillful work is what made these historic charges possible. i also want to recognize the incredible courage of our partners in ukraine, specifically our counterparts in ukrainian prosecutor general's office. in the midst of war, ukrainian prosecutors and investigators have risked their lives to pursue justice for the ukrainian people. we are honored to stand alongside them. finally, i want to recognize our partners in the international community and continue to work closely alongside them to gain evidence and build cases so when the time comes, the united states and our partners will be ready to insure accountability for russia's war of aggression. this is an historic day for the justice department that builds along history. the team prosecuting this case is modeled in part on the justice department's decades long effort to identify,

denaturalize and deport nazi war criminals in the united states. the department's office of special investigations brought more than 130 cases against perpetrators of nazi crimes. in the vast majority of those cases the perpetrators were not identified until decades after they committed their horrific crimes. this history should make clear that the justice department and the american people have a long memory. we will not forget the atrocities in ukraine and we will never stop working to bring those responsible to justice. >> bill: there it is. merrick garland a u.s. national in the war with ukraine, they vow these four russians will be brought to justice. how you find and arrest them remains to be seen but we'll follow the story. >> dana: that was happening while there is a lot of pressure on capitol hill to try to approve aid for ukraine. they run out of aid money by the

end of this year. all right. let's bring you this as well. >> my family is originally from germany and survived and know exactly how the holocaust happened. it happened with words. that's how it first started and we're seeing that those words, that violent rhetoric, jewish people are sick and tired of being pushed aside, of being thought of as less than. >> bill: words are weapons in one jewish student at harvard how genocide starts. >> dana: lawmakers today holding a closed door meeting with the mayor of washington as crime spirals out of control in our nation's capital. are there any solutions in sight? >> do you believe the crime levels in d.c. are acceptable right now? do you think more should be done at this point to stop crime? why shouldn't congress step in to deal with the crime levels right now?

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>> bill: we were just watching this and monitoring it. the f.b.i. director chris wray talking about these charges announced against these russian soldiers with allegations against a u.s. national fighting in that war and they allege nothing short of war crimes. so we're watching it and bring you updates when we get more out of washington, d.c. happening now. >> dana: leaders on capitol hill getting ready to crack down on crime in d.c. today. the city's mayor and police chief preparing to answer before congress as homicide rates jump to a 20-year high amongst all the other crimes that griff jenkins will tell us about. he is live in washington with the latest. >> good morning. seconds ago mayor bowser departed the halls in congress with chief smith. she was up here meeting with the oversight committee on the house side for an hour and a half because d.c. has a crime crisis. it is one that the lawmakers here on capitol hill are not immune to. recall if you will, dana,

congressman henry cuellar carjacked a few blocks from where we are and you had representative angie craig violently attacked in the elevator of her apartment building earlier this year. the numbers of what is plaguing the city. you see 253 people killed in the district this year. 32% increase compared to last year. putting d.c.'s homicide rate at the highest in two decades. carjacking look at this. out of control. as of this morning, dana, 925, 77% of those involved guns. only 163 arrests were made on the year. one of those arrests was a 17-year-old who carjacked an f.b.i. agent last week at gun point. now bowser was gagling there. we'll try to turn some of that sound. a little bit of what bowser said on monday about trying to get this under control. take a listen. >> i've been at this for 15 years and i've seen spikes in

crime. and i see our teamwork together trying everything at prevention, at accountability, at opportunity programs. we try it locally. we try it with partnerships with the feds and we will drive it down. >> meanwhile the crime is gripping this city. residents are afraid to go out. businesses are suffering. one pizza shop owner had this to say. listen. >> it is pretty bad because people are afraid to go out. we have seen a reduction in business. usually we would have a steady crowd of customers coming from the suburbs. they aren't doing that anymore in such large numbers as before because people are afraid. >> bowser said she was confident and it was a good, positive meeting she had here. congress has oversight and the mayor has a bill called act now that she said will solve it if the d.c. council will pass it.

>> dana: members are upset for themselves and their staff and citizens. kathy henderson is one of the neighborhood advisory council people is furious and wants better answers. >> bill: the non-stop crowd of migrants. border patrol had to shut down several checkpoints further north in arizona and reassign agents to process thousands of new arrivals. chris clem, retired yuma sector border patrol chief. you are in lukeville, arizona. nice to see you and good to have you on. bill melugin is down there yesterday. he pops up yesterday with dana and me and he describes as the sun is coming up hundreds, maybe thousands, of single adult males from all over the world. then he rolls this video of a hole in the wall and they just come flooding in and at the very

end of the line there is a smuggler, black hat, black face, throws his hands up in the air and salutes and walks away. we have asked you to make sense of this all the time, chris. we can't. can you? >> there is no making sense of this. this is three years running of what we're dealing with down here. you know, just like you reported and what bill reported, what you are seeing right behind me this is military age single adult males. eight syrian nationals cam across. people from all over the world showing up here right here in lukeville. just like you mentioned in the beginning of this segment, resources are so stretched thin that they have had to shut down ports of entry and border patrol had to reassign operations to come and address this. this is reminiscent of what i dealt with the last two years in yuma. we're continuing this same

uncontrolled, unregulated, illegal immigration and something needs to happen. washington needs to get it right. it is getting old real fast. >> bill: if you take a road to get to tucson from where you are now you have to drive 150 miles. yuma is 175 miles. here is the tucson sector border encounters this year compared to last year. up 140% so far in 2023. up 187% a year ago. we have got time to meet or match that number, unfortunately. lindsey graham questioning why democrats and the administration have had this policy. >> you clearly as a party do not want to change the policies that are attracting so many people. it is inhumane given the threats that exist in the world. it is dangerous. are they incompetent or do they want it this way? a lot of smart people in the biden administration and they

want it this way. >> do you agree with him and can you explain it, chris? >> at first we thought it was incompetence. didn't know what they were doing. the fact we're into year three and something that was told by us -- to us that this was unsustainable. they figured out a way to sustain it. it has to be deliberate. we come off the heels of the f.b.i. director the threats they're seeing are unmatched compared to things in years past and all this traffic coming over here. you see it behind me and the people the mass of humanity, trash left behind. we're a national park. this is coming every day. look, our numbers overnight were 10,000 on the southwest border. holding over 20,000 people. when will it end? i'm glad lawmakers are getting together to do something about issues impacting washington, d.c. what will they hold each other accountable to do something on the border? the border states have to deal with this every day and it's taking a toll. take care of our agents. >> bill: i want to go back this

guy shrugging and saluting to the camera this week. is he technically on u.s. property because he is standing at that wall? >> well, you know, the wall is slightly on the u.s. soil. if he is touching the wall he is on u.s. soil. >> bill: anybody thought about grabbing him? >> you know what? they could if the agents were there. but they are too tied up doing humanitarian service down here. it is frustrating to them. i feel for the agents and their families supporting them. we have to get the executive and legislative branch to get together and get it fixed. look, americans are paying the price. >> bill: we'll see whether or not that changes in an election year. good luck down there. thank you. okay. >> do you think in 11 months he will be their candidate? >> i don't think he makes it physically and mentally i would say he is possibly equally as

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[gunfire] >> bill: israel pushing forward in its mission to defeat hamas, idf has entered gaza's second largest city khan younis in the south near the mediterranean seat. trey yengst, more from southern israel. we were told there would be a ground invasion and that's happening.

hello and good evening there. >> good morning. that's exactly right. israeli forces are ramping up their strikes against the entirety of the gaza strip hitting more than 250 targets over the past 24 hours. we do understand that israeli infantry troops are operating once again on the ground in southern gaza. they are going house to house and have located more weapons, rockets, explosives and tunnel shafts. israelis also targeted the launching sites responsible for a barrage of rockets that hit tel aviv yesterday. inside gaza the death toll continues to rise. israeli strike against central gaza killed multiple palestinians yesterday. you can see in the after math complete destruction of neighborhoods in that second largest city of khan younis. israel is gathering intelligence on the hostages inside gaza. we spoke with a man whose two sisters were held by hamas along with three nieces and discussed the psychological terror they

faced. >> they heard the bombings that was part of the concerns about the fact that they were forgotten because hamas told them these things. israel gave up on you. they are saying they are going to flatten gaza. they don't care about anyone. they don't care about you. they'll probably kill you in one of their bombings. >> his brother-in-law is still being held by hamas inside gaza. his family will not be whole until he is home. bill. >> bill: thanks, trey. nightfall in southern israel. >> dana: president biden has just one motivation for re-election is to stop trump. we can't let him win. voters growing concerns on everything from the economy and abortion are not enough. martha maccallum joins us now. two weeks ago karl rove said

both candidates if it ends up being trump and biden have to put forward a pro-active this is why you should vote for me agenda. we don't have that from biden yet. >> it is very interesting. the first part of the statement from biden that if trump wasn't running and he didn't look like the eventual nominee at this point he wouldn't be running. he has said as much before that he wants to prevent that. but i think the fact that he is trying to go back to the 2020 playbook which is like i can help prevent trump win. i wonder if voters go for that a second time around. four years of a record to reflect how he does as president and i think it's interesting. went back to 2020 and looked at what he said. it rings in my ears when i hear this conversation. back in 2020 he said i want to be a bridge to the future. you view myself as a bridge, biden said. not as anything else. there is an entire generation of leaders stand behind me. they are the future of this country referring to gretchen

whitmer, kamala, pete buttigieg and cory booker, okay? i guess he is surmising that group is not ready to cross the bridge because he feels he has to stay on it. >> bill: i want to roll the trump sound in a moment. he made that statement in boston and later asked about it again. his quote changed. he said i expect so but look, he is running and i just -- i have to run. then asked if trump dropped out -- asked if he would drop out if trump left the race he said no, not now. >> dana: we know how the thanksgiving conversation went. >> bill: shall we go to iowa? the town hall with sean last night. >> under no circumstances you are promising america tonight you would never abuse power as retribution against anybody. >> he said you aren't going to be a dictator? no, no, no, other than day one.

we are closing the border and drill, drill, drill. >> if you google that quote, i mean. every single -- it is just day one. not with the caveat. >> dictator on day one all our competitors saying that. he wants to do those two things and important to him. i don't think that either one of those actions would make him a dictator. in both of these cases, which is interesting with the two candidates, you have four years of a record to look at for both of them. the kind of presidency that president trump would have. we sort of have a playbook for that for four years. now a playbook for biden for four years as well as these other candidates try to shake up the race. we'll see what happens. >> dana: day one biden canceled the keystone pipeline. isn't that the same thing? >> that was day one action for obama, day one action for trump

and biden. >> dana: the other thing going on test scores across the country. we care deeply for the children in america what's happening. now all these reports are coming out saying the learning loss was really bad. here is what randi weingarten said on the drop in math scores. worldwide the extraordinary drop in math and reading scores shows how detrimental the covid-19 epidemic was and that we prepare now and not caught off guard during another public health crisis. in-person learning is where kids do best. >> unbelievable. she fought hard along with the chicago teachers unions to keep teachers out of teaching. do you remember the dancing video of the chicago teachers union when they were doing interpretive dance? there was a lack of desperation and commitment on the part of educators starting with randi weingarten, a former teacher herself but now runs the union,

that is absolutely abyss mal. 13 point drop in math scores. we're 28 in the world ranking for math students. you can't compete as a country that way. you aren't going to have an edge that way. technology is not going to be better that way. this is a very serious thing. i said it a million times talking about it. there is an education crisis in america and it is barely crossing the lips of the president or the first lady, who really is an education advocate so she says. it is shocking. >> bill: nikki haley is talking about this a lot. randi weingarten is on the side of the issue wherever she needs to be to push for more money. >> absolutely. every time i interviewed her. i would love to talk to her again about this. she always talked about we need more resources, martha, resources, money. what we learned all the other

institutions catholic schools and homeschooling were able to get better results not because of money but creativity, dedication and getting kids back into the classroom. we have a lost generation and it is a real heartbreaking and -- >> dana: violates their civil right and their right to pursue happiness. >> i would like to see a public school students who they think failed this way suing the government. i have a promise of 180 plus days of public education. it is paid for with taxpayers dollars. if you are failing to carry out the mission shouldn't you be held to complete it? >> dana: indeed. see you at 3:00 on "the story." >> bill: higher interest rates pushing americans to pay a big price to buy a home and we aren't talking just about dollars. how far some americans are willing to go to keep their cost of living down out of necessity. ♪

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>> harris: former president trump has a lot to say appeared we're here for it from his town hall last night. he hit on biden's age, his gop rivals and took the actual question would he be a dictator if he wins the white house again. plus a red hot capitol hill hearing on anti-semitism in america's mostly let colleges. congresswoman stefanik left the upper crust university president speechless. >> bill: see you in a couple minutes. check this out. on screen, screen right is lukeville, arizona. we have been there for two days. they keep on coming, america. eagle pass, texas screen left. back on the border where the story has not given up. it has been unrelenting and we will not leave that story. hang with us.

>> dana: people need to know. they have to see it. desperate times call for desperate measures. thanks to the risings cost of housing many americans are looking at options they would rather avoid in order to keep costs down. how far would they go? madison is reporting for fox business. >> people are taking desperate steps moving back in with mom and dad, taking on roommates or considering continuing to live with an ex after a divorce. mortgage rates are expected to stay above 7%. another thing people are doing, millennials, is when you are a homeowner and you rent out a portion of your house to supplement the morning. according to zillow have done that in order to cut down the costs. sometimes the person moving in with you is someone you know. the amount of americans living in multi-generation all homes exploded. nearly 60 million americans live in a multi-generational home.

from 1971 to 2021 the numbers quadrupled. most people were okay with living with parents citing free childcare but they drew the line at the ex. >> i lived with them for eight years. >> a bad idea. they are an ex for a reason. >> helps to have a roommate. >> i would pay any amount of money to not live with an ex. >> i live with my parents to save money. >> helps to have a roommate and better if it wasn't someone used to be married to. >> bill: here we go. we've been waiting two hours for this, dana. you have been waiting two hours. >> dana: i'm pleased. >> bill: taylor swift once again

proving she can still make the whole place shimmer. "time" magazine person of the year. that's a massive hemmer celebrity news. roll it. beat out tech tycoons and politicians and the prosecutors of donald trump. that was on the list. her tour boosted local economies and concert film made a lot of money and spotify's most streamed artist of the year. hats off to her. >> dana: i love that she got it. she deserved it and gave people good quality family time together and great memories. i love she did the movie so more people could see it who didn't get to go. i also love when they called her and said could -- we would like to name you person of the year she said i will bring my cat to the photo shoot. it looks great indeed. congratulations. >> bill: the cat's name is benjamin button. >> dana: hair ifs is next. she will take you from