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beyond a breaking point. the finger pointing is over. it's always somebody else's faults. the first step to getting out of a hole is stop digging. >> the border crisis exploding. migrants flooding into the u.s. at a staggering rate draining resources and morale. instead of spending the holidays at home with their families, border patrol agents will face scenes like this. processing those entering the country illegally with no slowdown in sight. good morning and welcome to "america's newsroom" i'm bret baier. bill and dana have much needed time off. good morning, gillian. >> gillian: i'm gillian turner in washington. u.s. border patrol is vastly outnumbered with 200 would be illegal migrants to each single agent on the ground there. southern border governors say it is not at all clear president biden has seen what is happening on his watch. take a listen. >> has president biden seen

photos and videos of people going into the country. has he seen photos and videos of it actually happening? >> i can't testify to what the content is of the material he gets every day. but he has been kept apprised and briefed, of course, by the domestic and national security teams on this. what's in that content i'm not part of those discussions. >> gillian: fox team coverage on the story for you. tom homan is standing by. first to bill melugin at the border in lukeville, arizona this morning. >> gillian, good morning to you. some brand-new numbers, cbp sources telling me we've at 45,000 encounters at the border since monday. we could fill up yankee stadium in four days. a live look at the situation here in lukeville. it is pouring rain out here. pouring rain at night. that hasn't stopped the mass illegal crossings. the lukeville port of entry closed down for weeks now because of what is happening out

here. you can see hundreds of illegal immigrants being processed by border patrol here underneath the port of entry after they cross had illegally. many handed out the blankets because it is cold and very rainy. now non-stop it's been. the video our team shot in lukeville yesterday. stunning footage we've shot out here. a single massive group of well over 700 people who crossed illegally through a breach in the border wall yesterday. as usual, they are coming in from all over the world. we had a lot of adult men from africa, as you mentioned, >> gillian:ian, the agent ratio has gotten so bad upwards of one agent per 200 migrants. we have talked to people from ecuador. they are here to work and going to sanctuary cities. listen. >> ecuador. [speaking spanish]

>> pennsylvania. new york, chicago. chicago. >> as you take a look at this video from eagle pass the numbers have been unprecedented this week. remember on monday we had the highest single day ever recorded of migrant encounters with more than 12,600. it has been absolutely non-stop. agents are completely overwhelmed and the border patrol union says more agents than ever are going to have to be working on this holiday, this christmas holiday leaving their families because of these mass illegal crossings. the border patrol union telling fox news in part, quote, while our agents are more than willing to sacrifice the holidays to protect fellow americans, that is not what they will be doing. they will be processing the illegal border crossers for release into the u.s. while large parts of the border are

left wide open to exploitation by organized crime. this will not be happy holidays for the hard working men and women of the border patrol. back out here live i will step out again. that's exactly what they're doing now. the agents are processing migrants. only a few of them here for about 200 illegal im granulitis. and we have seen the frustration out here in recent days, guys. we'll see huge mass groups cross, border patrol will spend hours processing. they will finally get the group done, take a little breath and look up and there is a group of 600 or 700 showing up and you just see their heads go down and the frustration build. they signed up to patrol the border, right now they feel they're social workers essentially just processing, processing, processing for release. we'll send it back to you. >> gillian: stay close. we'll come back to you throughout the show this morning. thank you. >> bret: for more on the border crisis, former acting ice director tom homan.

good morning. thanks for being here. you know, these numbers that bill is talking about are just staggering. i know you've heard them, dealt with them. but in december if you look at the fiscal year 2021, 2022, 2023, look at these numbers. 235,173 in fiscal year 2023 compared to those past three years. that is staggering. and how do you put that to words? >> two things, first, bret. we're on a glide path right now for december. december may be the highest month ever recorded. we're on a glide path to that number now and three years into an administration. two things that concern me. number one is that there are certain sectors on the southern border now where there isn't a single border patrol agent on patrol. they are all processing. several sectors every agent into the processing facility to process. which means national security

mission has been put aside. more drugs, sex trafficking and criminals. several agents last week in texas. they are so busy processing and they've been in such a push to process and release quickly they're not doing investigative interviews and going to pocket trash and how they got here or doing deep dives into who these people are. many will lose their passports and throw them away before they get to the border. so the border patrol has to take their word for who they are and where they came from. this has caused a new national security crisis. because of the surge, the job isn't being done. this country is at great risk. we don't know who these people are. we don't have time to deep dive into investigation. >> bret: the other graphic i want to put up is the terror watch list numbers over the past three years moren 200 that

we've seen on the terror watch list. part of that is this screening that you are talking about. >> yeah, each border patrol unit is trained very well how to recognize when someone is lying to them and to look. like i said, back when i was an agent look at the pocket trash and the information in their pockets try to make sense of it. terrorist screening databases the oh data we have. a lot of terrorists have no record unless they're captured in a title three wiretap or encountered on the battlefield by the soldier, there is no record of them. that's why we need an investigative interview which is not being done. there are thousands of people entering this country coming from countries that sponsor terror. 171 countries. some sponsor terror. 227 on the southern border last fiscal year at the same time 432 on the northern border. again, i say 1,000 times the

biggest national security failure i have seen since 9/11. >> bret: we're talking about almost 12,000 a day now in the past couple of weeks. jay johnson, former homeland security secretary said if he saw 1,000 coming across a day was a bad day. how much, tom, quickly, would the remain in mexico policy that this administration put aside, if it was still in place would deal with this effectively at least at some point? >> first off all jay johnson respect the man greatly. 1,000 a day we got called into the office and wondered what we were doing about it. what's happening here the remain in mexico program is a game changer in the trump administration. the highest courts in the land have said it's legal. if they would put the remain in mexico program back in tomorrow this would be a game changer for this administration. people will still claim asylum they wait in mexico for the hearing . people stopped coming and selling everything they had

to pay the cartels only to come to the country and be removed. it was a game changer. i said it for a year and a half. put it back in place. secure the border, do your job. it makes sense and we've proven it's effective. >> bret: tom homan former acting ice director. merry christmas, thank you for coming on. >> merry christmas. >> gillian: a grim milestone in gaza. a u.s. citizen held by hamas has died. a 73-year-old man was shot during the october 7th hamas attacked and now died from the wounds he suffered that day. his body still being held by hamas and his widow, judy, remains herself in hamas captivity. all this comes as the u.s. prepares to support a united nations resolution possibly today intended to boost the flow of humanitarian aid into gaza. >> we put a mechanism on the ground that will support

humanitarian assistance and we're ready to vote for it. i won't share how i will vote but it will be a resolution. >> gillian: hamas-run gaza health ministry claims over 20,000 palestinians to date have been killed in the ongoing war. michigan congressman was at a holiday party in detroit when protestors wearing free palestinian t-shirts stormed in. one woman ended up in the hospital. garrett tenney is live in chicago with the latest on that. garrett. >> this holiday party was meant to focus on unity among democrats. instead i highlighted the growing divide over the war between israel and hamas. several dozen pro-palestinian protestors pushed their way into a party democrats were putting on in detroit saturday night in order to confront democratic

congressman over his support for israel. but things quickly got physical as party goers tried to push the protestors out and accused them of causing chaos and mayhem. some of this video is graphic. you can see at least one woman, a democratic activist hospitalized after suffering two black eyes and a bloody nose. it did not stop there. after protestors were removed, though, video shows them pounding on the windows of the restaurant continuing to chant cease-fire now. a few hours later some of the protestors then showed up outside the congressman's home in the middle of the night honking their horns and yelling at him on a bull horn. he said neighbors called police but the crowd took off before officers arrived. he recently renounced his membership from the democratic socialists of america over the backing of anti-israel rally and he has gotten a lot of heat from detroit's large muslim and arab communities over his support for

israel. as for the unity holiday party, no arrests were made but detroit police say they are investigating. bret. >> bret: garrett tenney live in chicago. thanks. >> gillian: a terrible trend we want to alert you to now. the teen homicide rate in america now is almost 13%. that's more than triple what it was back in the 1960s. what's behind that rise? we have paul mauro on that coming up next. >> bret: more about when the idaho multiple murder suspect will be in court. a new move by prosecutors in kohberger's trial. >> gillian: a new covid strain. what you need to know about jn.1 coming up. tter cotton crop ? we believe that the best products are made in america and come fresh from the family farm. and produced under the most sustainable

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>> gillian: welcome back. the hits keep coming for claudine gay. the "new york post" has on the front day plagiarism accusations continue to pile up. some are wondering why she still has the top job. a prominent professor who gay allegedly plagiarized without attribution is calling for her to be fired. carol swain said harvard needs to get back toward sanity. >> bret: a highly contagious strain of covid jn.1 is the fastest spreading variant in the country. jonathan serrie is live in atlanta with the latest. good morning. >> good morning, bret. jn.1 is spreading rapidly in the northern hemisphere, which has gone into winter and while people are gathering indoors especially with the holiday

weekend upon us, experts say it does not appear to cause more severe disease than previous variants but it appears to spread more easily from person to person. >> the variant is spreading very rapidly but fortunately the current updated vaccine continues to provide good protection against severe disease. the need to be hospitalized, and it will protect you from dying. what's wrong with that? >> in addition no updated vaccines and improved covid treatment new research from duke university suggests an over the counter antibiotic significantly increases protection against covid in general. >> if you are exposed to someone with covid-19 and you are taking a probiotic and healthy when you started, you are 50% less likely to get symptoms of covid and you are three times less likely to

get diagnosed with covid. >> duke researchers say they aren't entirely surprised. previous research suggested that pro-biotics offer protection against other respiratory diseases including flu and rsv. >> thank you. >> gillian: a new study finds teens are being killed at triple the rate that they were six decades ago. the homicide rate for 15 to 19-year-olds back in 1960 wa 3.9%. it is 12.8 between 2020 and 2021. what's beh stats? let's bring in paul mauro retired nypd inspector and train your expert eye on it for us. 15 to 19-year-olds now, two years ago, are triple as likely to be killed as they were six

decades ago, i'm guessing this is not trending in the right direction in your estimation. >> so it's not, gillian. and because this began in the 1960s, i think we have to recognize there were probably a number of complex factors that play into it, right? 60s were a time of great social upheaval in the country and you had a lot of fraying of the social norms and family cohesion that held society together. one thing that comes out in the study if you look into it is that black males are six times more likely to be arrested than white males for homicide but eight times more likely to be the victims of a homicide. embe. it is one of the things that, you know, the current progressive movement towards defunding and decarceration, the people that purchase port to be helping these communities are hurting the very communities that they say they are trying to

assist. what changed those policies they will have to admit they got it wrong. that's the kind of political courage in short supplies these days particularly in the democrat run cities. >> gillian: the study also tells us murder rates across the whole american population, all age groups, has also gone up dramatically since the 1960s. is that part of the same narrative you just laid out? >> i would suspect so. i think that we've got the proliferation of handguns and in especially in the cities there is just no impetus as we are going down in police numbers, the ability to investigate these crimes and realistically the political will to charge them are just not there. so it's very much trending in the wrong direction. we hear every time there is a tragic school shooting, a mass shooting we hear about we need

gun control, have to ban long guns and everybody recognizes the tragedy of the situations. the truth is those sorts of incidents account for 3% of gun murders. the vast majority of murders that occur in this country come from handguns, generally illegal handguns. the political will to enforce against that doesn't exist. >> gillian: before i let you go i want to flag it for you. we cover crime in the city of seattle a lot because it has been a major problem in the last couple years since covid really. they recorded their 71st homicide of the month. it ties a record high back in the 1994. we have certainly seen a city that has made major strides to defund police. they lost 600 officers in the last couple years. >> they've lost almost a quarter of their department. unfortunately it is not a unique story. there is still an outsized influence of progressive activist legislators that have a

grip on seattle. realistically they have the community bail fund getting people out of jail early, many career criminals. we see the same decarceration narrative there. chaz, four shootings when they got rid of the police in that zone thchlt he had to backtrack on that. this kind of nonsense is taking hold in the inner cities. the truth of police work is you can make gains but it is equally as hard to hold onto those gains. as soon as you start to lighten up, those things come back. we see it across the board. >> gillian: here is wishing seattle a quieter week this holiday week. merry christmas to you. bret. >> bret: all the other cars were able to make it through. but when i tried -- >> bret: storms hammering southern california bringing historic rainfall and massive flooding.

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>> gillian: more than 20 million people on the west coast are under a flood watch now. powerful storm is pushing through southern california heading toward central arizona. parts of the golden state got drenched with several inches of rain flooded homes and streets overnight. max gordon is live in ventura, county, california one of the hardest-hit areas there. what are you seeing this morning? >> good morning, gillian . the good news we get a break from the rain in ventura, california. we're even seeing peaks of blue sky as dawn begins to break here. that's giving a break as well to rivers like the ventura river we're standing along right now. swollen with muddy water runoff from the hills and mountains surrounding us now. we have received tremendous amounts of rain over the past couple of days. one spot receiving 16 inches of rain over the past five days. this storm he marked by periods of heavy rainfall in short amounts of time.

a month's worth of rain fell in less than an hour in downtown oxnard. first responders had to make water rescues including a senior living center where residents were evacuated. good samaritans were there as well. a man pulled up a truck up to stalled vehicle. it wasn't only people that needed to be rescued. santa barbara fire department rescued a dog after crawling through an opening. crews cut open a section of the deck and rescue the pup. the rain is expected to scant off and on through today and in ventura county sandbags are available. every drop of rain that falls is insult to injury after a tough few days. back to you, guys. >> gillian: let's hope sage gets reunited with her family soon.

fox weather is the winter storm headquarters, stream it on your favorite device, always on and free. >> bret: march lawsuits are being filed in states across the country looking to kick former president donald trump off 2024 ballots. after this week's colorado supreme court ruling, constitutional law expert professor jonathan turley with this note of caution. >> you have four justices on the colorado supreme court that want to prevent millions of people from voting for what is currently the leading candidate for the presidency. but you also have people like "new york times" editor that recently said that anyone who questions this ruling is standing with confederates. it's that type of overheated rhetoric we all have to be unified in condemning. >> bret: former utah congressman jason chaffetz joins us now. good morning, jason. listen, we have had a couple of days to digest this.

what is your thought now looking at what has happened and what is possibly going to happen? >> i think it's scary the number of people that are willing to take somebody off the ballot unilaterally for a crime that he was never charged with, never convicted of, and yet use that as justification to say the people shouldn't have the power, we, the judicial branch should have the power to take him off the battle rather than empowering the citizens of those states to make the decision. in colorado you are not even allowed to do it as a write-in. they would exclude those as well. so i think the absurd tee of that spreading to these other states politically democrats are just really hurting themselves. america has a sense of fairness. they understand when somebody is being a bully and they understand when somebody isn't being treated fairly. this all goes to the favor of donald trump and republicans

across the board who just say we're trying to be the adults in the room and democrats i think are blowing an opportunity to stand up and say no, the principle over policy here. >> bret: you look at the map and there are several other states that are trying to do the same thing with different cases. a couple of them have already been overturned. but these are suits to bar trump from the ballot. "wall street journal" writes this way. national unity in the colorado supreme court and so are end of year prediction, the court will take the case and won't uphold the colorado ruling. not a prediction but hope that the decision be unanimous. that it not be open to suspicions of partisan hack re that is court of many pieces holding together when the stakes are high. what is the growing bet about the supreme court and this? this is a colorado supreme court decision dealing with a primary.

>> peggy noonan is smart and spot on on this. the court needs to address it sooner than later. three weeks from the iowa caucuses and rolling quickly. if you are nikki haley or ron desantis it is a huge distraction. you are three weeks out from the vote and this is what we're talking about rather than what is going on in the iowa caucuses. they have to address this soon. >> bret: i want to turn to another topic. former federal prosecutor who allegedly shielded president biden and his son from investigation testifying but not with a lot. here is the chairman jim jordan. >> ms. wolf refused to answer most of our questions even -- we have a number of exhibits where she is sending the email and receiving the email and she refused to answer just about every question it seemed we had. >> bret: lesley wolf apparently testified 79 times that she was

not authorized by the justice department to answer questions. what about all this? you've been in the oversight role. >> yeah, i used to be the chairman. we don't take it lightly when somebody in the administration during an authorized investigation will not answer questions. not pleading the fifth, but just simply refusing to answer the questions based on a five-page memo from somebody up in the bureau. you have f.b.i. agents who wanted to pursue things with a subpoena. you have i.r.s. whistleblowers who were in meetings taking contemporary notes about lesley wolf and what she did and what she excluded and wouldn't allow to happen. the idea that she allegedly maybe tipped off the biden family or the biden legal team with their ability to go out and subpoena documents, there is a lot of really serious

allegations here. for her to not answer congress, that is just not acceptable. >> bret: we'll follow it all. jason, as always, thank you and merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> i just wanted to make sure we were home in enough time to enjoy the holiday season here. >> gillian: the great christmas getaway is in full swing. travelers are hitting the skies and taking to the roads. how crowded will it be? how crowded will it get? the sale of an american industrial icon is hitting a roadblock. why u.s. steel is facing some potentially intense scrutiny. >> the issue for us is the long-term security, viability and sustainability of the steelmaking operations in the u.s. owned by an american company and controlled by an american company.

>> gillian: welcome back. the white house seems to agree with lawmakers and unions that are really unhappy about the sale of u.s. steel to a japanese company. the pittsburgh-based manufacturer is one of america's oldest companies. national economic advisor is releasing this statement on the $14.1 billion deal writing the purchase of this iconic american-owned company by a foreign entity, even one from a close ally, appears to deserve ser ser serious scrutiny. >> bret: gas prices are going up as tens of millions are people are hitting the roads for holiday travel. not helping matters, the unfolding crisis in the middle east. kelly of fox business is live in chicago with the latest.

hi, kelly. >> hi, bret. good morning. we're on the roads here in chicago. things have been looking pretty good as we've been on the roads for 2 1/2 hours so far this morning. we haven't come across much traffic. hopefully that's the case for the 103.6 million travelers who will be taking a 50 mile or longer journey by car, according to aaa, over this holiday travel period that's coming up. they also suggest that if you are going to hit the roads, you do it before 10:00 a.m. tomorrow. 7 million people will be traveling by air. 4 million people traveling by train, bus or cruise. aaa also tells us despite what the economy may be like, more people are investing into the memory of the holiday season to spend time with their friends and family. about 2.5 million more travelers will be out and about this year than they were last year.

if you are like us and on the road, gas is slightly more expensive. it was up $0.04 from last week. >> bret: be careful there, all right. didn't know i would catch you driving. have a good holiday. >> safety first. >> winter weather will be a challenge. even the busiest days of thanksgiving travel cancellations were below 1%. so far this year, i don't want to jinx us, so far 2023 has seen the lowest cancellation rate in the last five years. >> gillian: now that he said it out loud we know it won't stick. transportation secretary pete buttigieg sounding optimistic about holiday travel this year. he warned bad weather could upend everything. this as tens of millions of americans hit the road and airports hoping to get home in time for christmas. we have a travel expert here to give us tips to help us over the

coming ten days or so. look at this from aaa the horrifying numbers, 103 million people will hit the roads. 7 1/2 million will fly. 4 million will be traveling on buses, trains, or on cruises. that sounds like a lot of bad options to me. >> well, there is no easy way to travel around the holidays, right? but this year it's actually kind of good because it is a little spread out with christmas being on monday. the travel days will be a little bit more evenly spread out, whether it's before or after christmas and new year's. but there is no great options. you really can't control the weather. you cross your fingers and hope for the best. so far it's looking all right in most of the country for christmas at least. >> gillian: i guess the holiday travel season for christmas starts now and then goes through what, january 1st or 2nd. your advice, some of it is to

choose non-peak days and non-peak hours. break down for us when those are. >> traveling early in the day especially if you are flying is generally the best option because even if you get delayed or canceled you have a better chance of getting out that particular day. also if you are flying, try to fly direct. avoid connections if you can because obviously that gives the airlines more time to cancel or delay your flight. if you are checking luggage, whether presents or regular luggage, consider sending it ahead of time. send presents to wherever you are going so you don't have to check a bag. if you go somewhere and receive a lot of presents, consider sending them home ahead of time as well so you don't have to check or you don't have to deal with potential lost luggage. because that's always a problem. it delays you at the airport when you arrive especially with so many people checking bags. >> gillian: as somebody who free quants the northeast amtrak train lines you aren't getting

luggage, never mind presents, aboard any trains over christmas. i tried it a couple years ago and lived to regret it. talk to me how weather will impact all of this. i understand huge parts of the country including areas usually likelyer to have white christmases in northern minnesota and wisconsin will be ten degrees higher this year. is that good news or bad news for travelers? i'm guessing good. >> well, if it's not snowing, and if it's warmer it is general good news. snow can cause accidents and delay flights. if it's warmer, that's a good thing. i don't know about the whole global warming things. in terms of delays at airports and bad road conditions it is always going to be better. but again you have to anticipate the weather can change on a dime generally, especially in that part of the country. just anticipate, plan ahead. give yourself time, be patient and leave early or leave late but don't necessarily leave right when everyone else does.

>> gillian: is there any other hot tips we didn't touch on? >> another thing i tell people to do is have travel insurance just in case things happen because then you can recoup some money that you might otherwise lose. also, consider a bag tag, an electronic bag tag in case the airlines or train or whoever does lose your bag you can actually track it on an app. that's a new thing and pretty cool, i must say. >> gillian: i'm glad i asked you that question. running tight on time. i'm glad i got it in there. lee, thank you so much for helping us out. we appreciate it. >> merry christmas. >> there is a lot we have to tackle in the coming weeks. shutdown clock is ticking now. >> cr is unacceptable for a year.

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entirely. >> bret: lawmakers are home for the holidays, the clock is ticking on capitol hill. a series of deadlines on a host of critical issues will be waiting when the house and senate return in january. capitol hill, chad pergram is there live today. good morning, chad. >> good morning. 2023 was a terrible year for congress to pass much of anything. 2024 might not be much better. lawmakers are staring at two potential government shutdowns when they return next year. >> i urge speaker johnson to understand that as we approach the january 19th deadline. without bipartisanship we will not get anything done. >> but neither the house nor the senate approved any spending bills between thanksgiving and now. that's why there is worry about a crunch when congress comes back in january. >> i don't know why he chose not

to immediately go to the next set of bills but it does certainly complicate things. >> funding the government may be easy compared to the other big issue in the qui, lawmakers are working over the holidays to seal an accord on border security. part of a major bill to send aid to ukraine and israel. bret. >> bret: chad pergram live on capitol hill. thanks. >> just over and over again 30 rounds. >> gillian: the nation's capital in crisis with violent crime spiking in d.c. two people dead and two other critically injured after a shooting in broad daylight. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm gillian turner. bill and dana have much-needed time off. good to be with you, bret. >> bret: good to be with you, gillian. i'm bret baier.

a vehicle was burned. the gunman is on the run. it is a trend. d.c. law enforcement seeing across the board violent crime in the district has risen nearly 40% this year alone. the city shaken by carjackings and brazen smash and grab crime. two days ago a mob stole $250,000 worth of goods from a chanel store in downtown d.c. >> gillian: alexandria hoff is in washington with more. >> violent crime is up 39% in the district. even members of congress have been victimized the year and city shocked by how brazen criminals have become here. five suspects made off with a quarter of a million dollars earlier this week from that chanel store you were talking about. video shows a fire extinguisher being used against an officer during that