is bigger than us. >> yeah, i was just telling emily on the break when i was in hawaii in january, one of the much smaller eruption than this volcano, but the size of it, it makes you feel very small. >> emily: mount etna was just erupting in sicily the other week. >> joey: and you are sicilian. >> reminder something much bigger than us is always at play and thank goodness with the earthquakes that led up to this that people evacuated. wonder of planet earth and reminder we are not necessarily the boss. >> harris: i mentioned earlier people did not need to be evacuated after this happened, that they had -- it's always, always safer. all right. we are this big, and the lord has us all. thank goodness. "america reports" now. >> mr. president, why are you

losing to trump in the polls? >> you have the wrong poll. >> why do you think it is you are trailing trump in all the swing state polls. >> you don't read the polls, ten tolls, eight of them i'm beating him in those states, eight of them. >> mr. president, what's your message to democrats who don't want you to run again? >> they want me to run. >> two-thirds say they don't. >> read the polls, read the polls, jack. you guys are all the same. >> polls indicate are not happy with the way you are doing your job now. >> i don't believe polls. >> sandra: read the polls, jack. the white house response then. see what the white house response is to the sinking poll numbers a few moments from now when reporters will likely press the biden administration at a white house press briefing on growing concerns in democrat's ranks over the president's ability to win again in 2024. all of this as brand-new fox polling suggests more americans feel they have been hurt rather than helped by his policies.

hello, sandra smith. hi, john. >> john: don't believe the polls. words to live by. president biden is getting ready to tout his economic agenda with a trip to milwaukee, even though it appears that voters are not buying into bidenomics. 48% say the administration's policies have hurt them personally and overall majority say the economy is in bad shape. a growing number of dissatisfied democrats contributing to negative views. >> sandra: art laffer and muhammad, will join us in moments. and how polling could affect his re-election chances. >> john: jacqui heinrich live from the north lawn. >> jacqui: bad polls have been getting to the president at least a month. the "washington post" reports

around thanksgiving on nantucket, biden gave a group of his close aides a stern warning the numbers are unalow, and his overall job performance is up three points from low of 40% last month, helped by men and voters over 65 and handling of national security but still well underwater on the issue, including border security, israel-hamas war, china and ukraine and inflation, only 28% approving. 46% say the policies have hurt them and voters don't see the economy any better. twice as likely to see it getting worse next year. white house credited biden fob initiatives and economic recovery but acknowledged the president understands there is more work to do to lower costs for hard working american, why

he passed legislation to lower prescription drug and energy costs, hidden junk fees to rip off consumers and taking on corporate price gouging. and broadly assailing gop for pushing impeachment inquiry and investigation into hunter biden, but the white house may not have helped that the president is keeping far away from hunter's local woes. we were watching the first family's return from delaware ob marine one and peter doocy noticed someone hop off the chopper not on the passenger list the white house gave us, hunter biden. so, hunter is apparently here at the white house after defying a congressional subpoena while being indicted and facing a maximum of 17 years behind bars on financial crimes plus another 25 on the gun charges that he is facing, john.

>> john: interesting he was not on the helicopter manifest. jacqui, thank you, at 1600 pennsylvania. >> sandra: art laffer, former reagan economist, and muhammad, chief economic adviser and member of the global development council. as americans are struggling under this president's bidenomics, art, not a good look heading into a re-election year for the president. >> no, it's not a good look, sandra. i mean, you know, one special treatment for us and them and look at when they do with trump, special treatment for trump. does not seem fair, does not seem even, balanced, and frankly, i think that affects the polls a lot and people's view of the whitney houston. >> sandra: muhammad, good to have you on the program. it's a while since we have seen both of you. we can dig into the economic numbers and implications that

they have for 2024. the brand-new fox news polling shows how dissatisfied voters feel with how things are going in the united states. 68% of voters feel unhappy with how things are going in the country. that is up from 53% since early in biden's term. there are a lot of people who don't feel good with how things are going right now. how do you see all of this impacting the president's chances of being re-elected? >> well, obviously it's a big head wind. and they must be scratching their head, sandra, in the white house. unemployment is very low, lots of jobs created, mortgage rates are coming down, and yet people are dissatisfied and three aspects to that. one is inflation, went all the way up to 9%, and took a big bite out of paychecks. two, people think low inflation means prices coming down and

that's a misunderstanding. and then thirdly, the white house took ownership of the inflation issue when the inflation issue really is at the federal reserve. so, until people feel that inflation is totally under control, which they don't, this administration is going to have a lot of challenge convincing people that the economy is better. >> sandra: fair enough, and the 15 point rise in the polling showing how dissatisfied people are comes from a 27-point increase among democrats climbing to 47% from 20% in 2021. so the biggest change has been with democrats, art. meanwhile, nearly half of voters, 46% of them, art, say the administration's policies have hurt them personally. that is more than three times as many as say they were helped, 14%. another 39% think the policies have not made much difference either way. this has -- this says a lot

about the way people feel. if they believe this president's policies are what are hurting them, that's worth noting. so, why is it that this white house, art, has doubled down just in recent months on their economic pitch that clearly is not being sold to the american people? >> i don't know why they are doubling down but agree with muhammad on what he said. and people understand, sandra, a poor person can't spend his way into prosperity. the policies of the last three years under biden have just been spending, spending, spending, and the prosperity has not materialized. all it has done is taken people off the employment rolls. it's not the unemployment rate, people are no longer unemployed but are not in the workforce and people do understand that you

cannot tax an economy into prosperity. so the last three years the policies have been going in the wrong direction, my view of the world, and everyone realizes it. it's not the same and you know, it's not going to work and i don't think it's going to help the biden white house touting it. this is something they should run away from, rather than run on. >> sandra: that's not going to happen, the president is heading to milwaukee to tout bidenomics as we see the polling. the original point of the optics of all of this, another member of the biden family revealed to not have paid taxes. let's remember what we have heard from the president calling out tax cheats, demanding the wealthy pay their fair share. a sampling of what we have heard. >> look, i'm a capitalist but pay your fair share. >> we always have to raise revenue and go after tax cheats and make sure everybody is paying their fair share. >> it's about time they step up

and pay a fair share. >> it's a matter of decency, dignity. >> paying your fair share, for lord's sake. >> and another member of the biden family is revealed to not have paid taxes. and a fox news poll on registered voters and how they respond when asked about their current personal financial situation. this is an incredibly telling number, and concerning for those obviously currently in the white house. 64% say they rate it only fair or poor, your final thought on that and can republicans really champion a message that says you will be betsz off under a republican presidency? >> you know, the republicans are very lucky because this is happening even though economy grew by 5% in the third quarter.

republicans will push the notion you are worse off because of what we all feel is higher pricis. the fact that this is the fault of the federal reserve and not the administration doesn't matter to the average person. that's what i think republicans are going to push over and over again. >> sandra: all really interesting stuff. and great to have you. as we head into the holidays, art, great to see you, muhammad, thank you for joining us. >> thank you, sandra. >> john: sandra, illegal crossings shattering records at the southern border. agents say they caught more than 54,000 migrants in the tucson sector alone over the past three weeks. and that's in december, which is typically one of the slowest months of the year for illegal crossings. bill melugin is live in lukeville, arizona with more. what else is cbp telling you about all this? >> bill: john, our cbp sources are telling us that as of this morning they had more than 25,000 migrants in federal custody and 20,000 is what is typically considered their breaking point.

so, mass releases are imminent and will be coming soon and are underway right now. out to eagle pass, texas, a live look at the scene right now. eagle pass has been inundated in the last 24 hours with mass illegal crossings. you can see hundreds upon hundreds of migrants gathered waiting for border patrol to process them. border patrol totally overwhelmed. they have over 5,000 in custody as of this morning. they are still trying to transport another 4500 in their facilities in that sector, they are running 260% of what their capacity should be. mostly venezuelans crossing there. as a result of the chaos, you can see the orange bridge, that is the international railway bridge. that has been shut down in eagle pass. it's also been shut down in el paso. cbp making the decisions in order to redeploy personnel on to the ground to help border patrol take migrants into custody and process them and that is damaging international commerce. union pacific not happy about it. they put out the tweet says in

part, union pacific urges the eagle pass and el paso border crossings to be reopened immediately. roughly 450,000 rail shipments move here annually. it would take 1 million trucks to move the same amount of goods. 45% of cross border union pacific business and include goods critical to the u.s. economy. in other words, they are stopping commerce to speed up migrant processing. and lukeville, arizona, another mass illegal crossing, hundreds of adults from all around the world came through a breach in the border wall and gave themselves up to border patrol. border patrol then marched them up to an outdoor processing area. you'll see them walking up the road here, a lot of them from africa, including liberia, and guinea, another from bangladesh, also some family units mixed in there. but this tucson, arizona sector had more than 3,000 illegal

crossings in the last 24 hours alone and back out here live, it's so bad, border patrol has them working in detroit center to do virtual processing of migrants caught at the southern border, to speed um -- up the custody. >> bill, thank you so much, more about this coming up later on in the program with sheriff from cochise county in arizona, and and also we'll have the former acting ice director. >> sandra: completely out of control crisis at the southern border as we have been reporting on day after day, this is a crises all over the country right now, and in chicago where we have been reporting on these migrants who are being bussed to other areas of the country, texas is, you know, they are

outnumbered, jut resourced and they end up in other areas. in chicago, where they have said we have had enough, we cannot take any more, sanctuary city status, they are having such huge problems there that this poor migrant boy, five years old, he buckled under the weight of the crisis there, he died, four more children at the same time, between 1 and 14, this was on sunday, were hospitalized with fevers. they were being housed at a facility there, a migrant facility that has had enormous amount of complaints not being safe, not sanitary, but this little boy became sick, he died, chicago alone is struggling to care for 26,000 immigrants sent from the southern border and you can imagine and probably guess, john, the mayor of the city is not blaming the federal government for not tackling the problems at the southern border, he's blaming texas for bussing the migrants to their city. that is where this is today, as we look at these record numbers,

john. >> john: you know, texas can't take care of the folks coming across the border and the biden administration doesn't seem to be doing anything to stem the tide. take a look at those pictures, live in eagle pass, texas. this goes on each and every day there. and these folks have to go somewhere. they are released into the country, they can't all be released into texas, so they have to go other places as well. >> sandra: it is just a huge story and seems to only be getting bigger, john. all right, meanwhile, waiting the update from the white house and how the biden administration plans to deal with that crisis, but also what is happening overseas. iran, as its proxies are ramping up attacks against american forces in the middle east. could the u.s. get pulled into the middle east war? plus this. >> reason why you shouldn't join the military. reason number one is pay. we do not get paid enough for what we do. >> i would not join the military, you can't say whatever you want to say.

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>> john: a scene in the capitol building a short time ago, a group of protestors came in and decided that they were going to create a ruckus in a building where you are not allowed to do that. so the capitol police there put the flexicuffs on them and are leading them out of the building. this is clearly a pro-palestinian protest and you can do that outside on capitol hill, you just can't do it inside the building. they dropped shoes on the rotunda floor to under score how

many people they say israel has killed. let's not forget the casualty figures in gaza come from the gaza health ministry, also known as the hamas health ministry and our president has said he would not put a lot of faith in the numbers that the gaza health ministry is giving us about casualties there. they also do not count hamas fighters separately in their casualty count so it's possible a good percentage of those palestinians who have been killed in the war were hamas fighters. obviously a lot of civilians have been killed as well. so the u.s. capitol police on the job there as they clear out the building and take people in for processing. sandra. >> sandra: we'll keep watching the scene on the hill. any moment now, a live update from the white house. press secretary karine jean-pierre is expected to appear at the podium as well as the national security council spokesperson john kirby, on the

attacks by iranian proxies. at least 101 attacks on american troops in the region. all of this as the pentagon announces a new international task force to fight attacks from houthi rebels in the red sea. former u.s. army colonel is here how that might work, but first trey yingst is on the ground from tel aviv. what's the latest from there? >> sandra, good afternoon, hostage square in tel aviv, you can hear the roar of a blackhawk helicopter that landed at a local hospital, israelis are pulling casualties out of gaza as we speak. 74 days into the war, focus for the israelis is inside gaza, the middle east keeping an eye on the entire region because there are new threats from iran-backed groups from the middle east. after a visit to tel aviv

yesterday from the defense secretary lloyd austin, he announced operation prosperity guardian, to address growing threats in the red sea. freedom of navigation in the area and counter missile and drone attacks from houthi rebels in yemen. late yesterday, two additional attacks were reported. and they say about the evolving threat from yemen. >> this partnership is not -- not just built on respect but on trust. and our militaries will continue working together to increase armability and to support regional security and stability. on monday, the cia director met in warsaw, poland, to try to set

up a new hostage deal in exchange for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners. deaths of two additional israeli soldiers, the total death toll since the ground operation began stands at 131 israeli troops. here in tel aviv, the families of the 129 people who remain in gaza are calling on their government to get a deal together and get their loved ones home. >> sandra: trey, thank you. >> john: retired u.s. army colonel, former centcom spokesperson, the area of responsibility, that whole area there, so you are a great person to talk about this. what we see in the red sea and the gulf of aden is very

reminiscent, because of a threat from iran, you know, it's the same play, it's just a different set of players. >> everything old is new again, and that part of the world. one other aspect of this that's a little bit different is during that period we took offensive actions. we struck oil platforms, iranian oil platforms, we sunk half of the iranian navy in the red sea, and arabian gulf. so far in this time we are only taking defensive actions. this maritime task force is protective measure. we have shot down some drones. everything has been on the defense, nothing on the offense. >> john: and that is a question a lot of people have and criticism, let's put up on the screen where the majority of the attacks have been here, it's in the lower part of the red sea, near the strait there between djibouti and yemen, and a couple in the gulf of aden.

i remember the other gulf because i drove through the checkpoint there, not too long ago. and then if we take a look at the next map it's really only a couple of ports where the houthis are in control. in control of the white ports, the government of yemen is in control of the red ports. it's a fairly small geographical area. where doesn't the u.s. just take away their ability to attack in that area? >> i have the same question. so this task force was established, i think it took entirely too long. because we have an enter nation maritime task force already there. it's anti-piracy, about 30 different countries operating there, that could have been converted to protective measures here to strike the houthi radar system, strike the houthi batteries in yemen. so far that has not been done. i'm told that multiple times now

the administration considered a strike on houthi forces and each time talked themselves out of it. so, thus far -- >> john: what's the down side? >> the down side for the administration would be, two elements here. one, concerned about widening the war, ok. the second is the ceasefire, this tenuous ceasefire between the houthis and saudis, and we have focus on american interests right now and so far this thing continues to escalate. it started with threats, then the houthis started attacking israeli ships, then they started attacking any ships going to israel, then any ship in this area. continues to escalate and we have done nothing offensive to date. >> john: i want to attack a different subject as well because you just retired from the military after 27 years, there are a lot of enlisted who are on tiktok who apparently are not too happy with the way that the military functions.

listen to what some of them said in these online posts. >> reason why you shouldn't join the military. reason number one is pay. we do not get paid enough for what we do. >> you do not like your freedom being suppressed a little, not really, i would not join the military. >> why did you join the army? >> i don't know. >> why did you join the army? >> hate my life. >> john: hated my life in the army. it's a tough life, no question about that, you have so make some compromises but seems to me that whining about it on tiktok, a chinese-owned platform plays -- the chinese must be looking at this and say wow, this is working out better than we ever could have expected. now we have u.s. military enlisted who are complaining about their life in the military on tiktok. for all the world to see. >> i would tell those young men good luck. think about going to google, think about going to best buy, and working there, and then going on social media and bashing the company, bashing the corporation, bashing leadership. think about it this way, john.

there's a lot of people in this bl right now who put this show together for fox news. what do you think would happen if they went over all these places and bashed fox news. they would be out of a job before the show is over. these young men, they have, they do have guaranteed pay, dental, medical, they've got g.i. bill, a lot a lot of people in the country would want to have they have an opportunity for. >> john: i remember in the wake of 9/11, military service was a calling. and now it's something to complain about. >> that's right. well, perhaps it -- it's a generational thing and it's also perhaps, there's no galvanizing element. so you think by joined the army to fight the russians. i came of age toward the end of the cold war, then 9/11, then the global war on terror. maybe right now there's no galvanizing element and the young men and women are

distracted by the social media. >> john: social media by itself is very distracting. joe buccino, great to have you with us. appreciate it. >> sandra: fox news alert on the u.s. stock market. look at this, this is another record setting day for the dow jones industrial average. year end rally continues with consecutive records being hit. this as investors are betting on a big pivot by the fed in the new year. they sort of broadcast that they'll be cutting rates so investors are betting big on u.s. stocks. now this. >> today i challenge all new yorkers to be the patriots and rebuke and not excuse our role in benefitting from the institution of slavery. >> john: new york governor kathy hochul signing a bill for a committee to study reparations for slavery in her state. what could it mean for an overburdened taxpayer base. >> ripping up our sign, i'm

sorry, it's a private property. >> ok [bleep]. >> sandra: disturbing new images and video coming from anti-israel protestors right here in new york city seen tearing down posters with hamas hostages on them. our next guest is a new york city business owner and she comes from israel, has been here 30 years. she put up those posters, she's on set. she says she is being targeted by those protestors. we will hear directly from her next. (dogs barking) - hey, we're here to get you. (whimpering) - it's okay. - don't be scared. - let's go. - that's a good job. - can i see him? - this is our home - and this is our room. [coughing] copd isn't pretty.

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>> it's a private -- what's your name? what's your name? she ripping up our sign. i'm sorry, it's a private property. >> ok. [bleep]. >> you should be ashamed of your several. >> anti-israel protestors demonstrating all over new york city and harassing jewish businesses, ripping down posters they put up of missing israeli hostages. now those business owners are calling on the city to take

action. right now joining us is chen levy, co-owners of a jewelry store here in manhattan. >> thank you for having me. >> sandra: i wish i could pay your first name by saying it properly. you came here 30 years ago. a business owner, that was your store, your voice in the background of the video. >> my store, yeah. >> sandra: what did the protestors say to you as they were ripping down, we can put them up on the screen, you put up the pictures of the hostages on your store windows, they came ripping them down, you put up your cell phone video and you said why? why are you doing this what did they say? >> so they don't have much answer, just say shame and they say free palestine. i don't know how ripping up poster of innocent civilian that has been kidnapped out of their home helping the cause. but i know that every day i get

up and i put those posters so people not going to forget those people have families, they have names, they have faces, and since the 7 of october the horrific day, i learn to know all the names, their stories, and it's heartbreaking. they just rip them out of their home, like they ripping those posters, they went to their homes and they ripped people out of their families, and it's heartbreaking, and i have no idea why it bothers them so much. i keep those posters because we can't forget. these people are in captivity, we don't know if they get food, we don't know if they have been tortured, we don't know if they even are here. and we need to get them back home. >> sandra: i know you also said living here 30 years, now having lived through this war, since

october 7th, do you feel like you are being targeted? >> yes, every day. this is a private business. i come and i put those posters, they vandalize, they spray paint. >> sandra: every day. >> almost every day. almost every day. >> sandra: wow. what do you feel you can do about this? >> i'm not sure why. i do what i can. i can't do much. i live here, i have family in israel. my nephew, my nieces, they are in the army, so that's the little i can do here in supporting the families there that are waiting for their loved one. and i think everyone that have humanity in them, it's -- if today they are going to free the hostages they are going to have ceasefire. it's that simple. the picture very clear. if they are going to free the

hostages out of gaza, out of the hamas end, we are going to have a ceasefire. and all the people that are running and chanting in the street free palestine. >> sandra: grand central yesterday. >> she should change their chanting to free the hostages if they care so much about the palestinian people. it's very simple. free the hostages, you'll have ceasefire. >> sandra: this was the scene in grand central about this time yesterday, that crowd was building. it's all over. we continue to see these demonstrations. we appreciate you joining us chen and your best to you as you try to operate your business through all of this. >> yes. the main thing for me right now, putting everything aside and just bring everyone back home and if you allowed me, i would like to give you this. you can wear it until we have every single one back home. >> sandra: thank you so much. appreciate that. thank you for coming in.

>> thank you so much. >> sandra: john, obviously emotional and difficult for so many to discuss this, and this is a business owner here in new york city. karol markowitz, they are friends, posted the video of her friend, the store owner, of the posters being ripped down and confronting the protestors yesterday caught our eye and this is something so many, not just in the city but all over are going through and they feel they are being targeted. she says they come every day to the store. >> john: and not just new york city, everywhere across the country as well and other issues as well, like this, chicago parents taking yet another hit as major changes in the public school system, all in the name of equity. potential economic impact of the changes. pt -- >> this move by chicago mayor to

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and when you do, your gift will have two times the impact. >> john: dramatic live pictures, look at this, from iceland, lava is flowing. bryan, you were there just outside of grindavik a number of weeks ago, i guess you came back and the volcano said now that bryan is gone i can erupt. >> bryan: i could not stay there for a month and a half, but the latest update there is less lava spewing out, it is weakening but the images are magnificent.

volcano erupting at 10:17 iceland time, 5:15 new york time. at one point the lava reached 330 feet into the air, some 66,000 gallons per second was coming out of this two and a half mile fissure. the good news here, there is good news here. this is about two and a half miles north of the fishing town of grindavik, they do not think the lava is going to flow into that town, good news and no lives are threatened here. the other good news, just in time for the holiday travel, they do not expect flights to be affected in or out of iceland, and also the international routes are not going to be impacted, not like what we saw 2010 when 100,000 flights, john, were canceled because of the huge plumes of smoke and ash from that eruption. all things looking good there.

john. >> john: how long do they expect it's going to go on? >> bryan: great question. it could end today, it could be weeks. >> john: one way to end it, you fly back over there. >> bryan: talk to the bosses, john, please. >> john: thank you. >> sandra: new records at the border, more than 12,000 migrants now crossing in a single day. so, why does it seem the white house is pretending this is not happening? we are going to have on a sheriff who has been on the front lines of the biden border crisis. he will sound off.

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>> john: u.s. border patrol has no timeline for the reopening of the lukeville port of entry after it quickly became the epicenter of the latest migrant surge and a major economic impact on communities on both sides of the u.s.-mexico border. bring in arizona cochise county sheriff, take the 30,000 foot look first. yesterday 12,600 people came across the border illegally and yet the biden administration seems to be pretending that this just isn't happening. >> well, john, first of all you are correct on that. we have been sounding the alarm, national sheriffs, myself and many others have been sounding

the alarm that it's not working, and saying that our border needs to be addressed immediately. but we also, we have never seen on behalf of sheriff, never seen an operational plan where we are going but what they have done over three years and accept that they opened up the border. open border philosophy, intended result by design, while we ignore and abandon those communities, countries and the migrants we are seeing the tragedies with. >> john: as we pointed out, a young boy died in chicago in custody of immigration officials. arizona's tucson sector, first week of december, 18,900 migrant apprehensions. lack of meaningful action by the president or his administration has caused the arizona governor, katie hobbs, a democrat, to say this. yet again the federal government

is not doing its job to keep the communities safe. they need resources to reopen the crossing, biden administration has refused to deliver desperately needed resources to arizona's border. i mean, she's sounds like the former governor who was a republican and he was criticized for saying that. >> well, john, this is a bipartisan concern now. we are dealing with america, the vulnerability, whether it's drugs coming across the border at record numbers, the amount of people, never forget 9/11 and what we are doing to this country is a huge transition right now why the white house and certain members of congress have turned their back on those they serve. and it frustrates, insulting for everybody putting their lives down here on the line, the men and women, border patrol, officers, to make it better and we are getting no engagement. and john, this is the first

president in modern day history that has never met with one sheriff in this country. 3,000 sheriffs, he has refused to meet with america's sheriffs. >> john: you cannot wrap your head around that one. an economic impact as well, sheriff, read the statement from the union pacific railroad because the railroad crossings have been closed in addition to the lukeville border crossings and in eagle pass, and el paso. it says union pacific urges eagle pass and el paso border crossings be reopened immediately. represent roughly 45% of cross border union pacific business and include goods critical to the u.s. economy. the economy is just getting better and now we are going to impact it with these border closing? >> well, this intended result is more important. they have never prioritized to keep our border secure and that's obvious, it's indicative of the numbers, nonpolitical numbers we are seeing, the

deaths we are seeing, the public safety risk, it's not going to get better until this president engages it and makes it a priority. >> john: he doesn't seem to want to do either one of those things, at least not at the moment but it is an election year coming up. sheriff mark dannels, always good to catch up with you. >> sandra: fox news alert, global shipping giants force today reroute major hauls as houthi rebels target merchant ships in the red sea. will an international coalition stop the rebel attacks from happening and what it could mean for already high prices here at home. am for veteran homeowners, it's easy as 1-2-3. one: call newday and apply. two: take out an average of $70,000. three: pay off your credit cards my a1c was up here; now, it's down with rybelsus®.

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