other and i think lane epitomizes that more than anyone, obviously, i've ever seen. but what was so incredible is that so many ubs colleagues stepped up to get tested and a side story to this not in the written article, there's a gentleman, one of our executive vice chairman, brian hall who got tested and found an 11 centimeter mass on his spleen so saved his life by discovering that and removing it. you talk about the tentacles and the story and the goodness of people and how it helped another person, amazing. >> carley: amazing. so lane, you saved bill's life and through your journey you could have saved the life of another. this is amazing, we need to highlight more stories like this in the news and we are so grateful to have you both on this morning to close out our show. thank you so much for joining us, god bless you both. >> have a good day. >> carley: bye, everybody, have a great day.

>> new concerns the reason could become a bigger tineder box. smoke rises over the skyline of gaza this morning. i'm mike he manual in for bill hemmer. claudia, great to be with you. >> claudia: this is a special edition of "america's newsroom." the u.s. going after hezbollah targets in iraq after a christmas day attack against american troops. defense secretary lloyd austin says his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured. >> that attack one of the more than 100 against our forces since the hamas massacre in israel october 7th. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with more. good morning, trey. >> good morning. overnight president biden ordered the u.s. military to strike a series of targets belonging to militants in iraq. we do know according to u.s.

central command that three different strikes took place and destroyed the targeted facilities and likely killed a number of kataib hezbollah militants in response to a drone attack against the erbil air base that houses u.s. service members. three americans were injured, one critically. it brings the total number of attacks against american interests in the middle east to 103 since mid october and comes as israeli forces remain on high alert in the northern part of their country after an air strike yesterday in syria killed irgc commander mousavi. in response to that it is the zion of a zionist regime in the region and will pay the price. addressing israeli politicians saying this about the situation. >> we are in a multi-front war and are coming under attack from seven different places. gaza, lebanon, judea, iraq,

yemen, iran. we have already responded in taking action in six of these threats. i say here in the most explicit way, anyone who acts against us is a potential target. there is no immunity for anyone. >> the possibility of a broader war with iran comes as a top advisor to benjamin netanyahu is reportedly in the united states today to speak with the biden administration about the next steps for the war in gaza. mike. >> mike: prime minister netanyahu laid out in the "wall street journal" the conditions for peace to take place talking about once hamas is destroyed, gaza demilitarized and palestinian society can begin a deradicalization process, then you can rebuild and perhaps look forward toward peace. is that signaling to the world that this is going to take a long time? >> yeah, absolutely.

israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the country's defense minister have tried to set the bar quite high for how long this military operation inside gaza is going to take. they are describing this as at least several months, if not a number of years when you break down the next phases of this operation. you won't see active phases of fighting throughout the entirety of the process but you will likely see israeli forces operating on the ground inside gaza even once the hostages are released or found and they go after hamas leadership. they want to stabilize the security situation and transition in a palestinian-led government that does not have one goal in mind, destroying the jewish state. the issue for the israelis is not just gaza, though, it's the west bank. when you look at the factions inside gaza they have thousands of fighters across the west bank. it is part of the reason you've seen nightly israeli raids

inside the west bank including last night a city where israeli forces were engaging palestinian gunmen trying to hit as many of the militant cells as possible. mike. >> mike: trey, many thanks. live in tel aviv. [shouting] >> mike: hundreds of anti-israel protestors trying to ruin christmas in new york city. some got violent as they mobbed the rockefeller center christmas tree and carried nativity scenes saying christmas is canceled. scuffles outside st. patrick's cathedral. police made several arrests. >> claudia: new polling shows voters are still unhappy with the economy. president biden is not re-evaluating his policies. instead, he is blaming the media. freedom works chief economist

steve moore joins us on this in a moment. first to grady trimble of fox business in washington, d.c. grady, what's the president saying about all this? >> good morning. not only does the president say the economy is in good shape right now, he is also making a prediction for 2024. >> what is your outlook on the economy next year? >> president biden: all good. take a look. start reporting it the right way. >> the president says the reporting on the economy is the problem. he is still trying to sell voters on bidenomics. he visited the swing state of wisconsin last week to make the case for it. but those voters are not happy with the current state of the economy or president biden's handling of it. 78% say the economy is in bad shape according to our latest fox news poll. only 14% of voters say president biden's economic policies have helped them. >> i think that every single american as we've gone out this

holiday season and we went out for christmas and bought our turkey and our baked hams. things like that. we know the economy is not better. the price of gas is still extremely high when you think about what it was in the previous administration. >> the white house likes to point out wages are higher that inflation. that hasn't been the case for most of biden's presidency. real wages, hourly pay adjusted for inflation, are down since president biden took office. claudia. >> claudia: yet the reporting is the problem. thank you, grady. thank you, mike. >> mike: for an economic reality check let's bring in chief economist steve moore from freedom works. headlines that must be troubling to president biden and his campaign team. fortune, home buyers are being haunted like scrooge this holiday season. cnbc, 53% of generation z see high cost of living as a barrier to financial success.

market watch, $1 hundred thousand doesn't go as far as it used to. almost half of americans earning 100,000 or more now say they live paycheck to paycheck. heading into re-election mode, that's pretty brutal, steve. >> yeah. these numbers, mike, have not moved in the last two years. those polls that show 70 to 80% of americans are unhappy with the direction of the economy. and the same number saying that their own personal financial situation is worse, not better, under biden. and that's been, as i said, true for the last two years. look, the truth is the economy is better today than it was last year remember when we had 9.2% inflation under biden. the good news is inflation has come down to somewhere between three and 4%. but remember, mike, that 20% increase in prices, that's embedded into everything you buy now whether it's the grocery store, gas pump, mortgage. with those higher mortgage

rates, let's just give you a concrete example. because the mortgage rates which were 3% are now 6 1/2 to 7%. if you want to buy a new home instead of paying say $1,800 a month in your mortgage, which you would pay under the trump policies now you pay $3500 a month. these are putting a huge financial stress on middle class families. >> mike: it doesn't end there. cnn analyst issued this warning. >> he has tried to use bidenomics, the economy is the number one issue. the polls are suggesting it isn't going over well with people because of inflation, misperceptions about other things, maybe an unfortunate -- sure the economy might be getting better if voters don't perceive it in time he'll loose. >> mike: what about that, steve? >> when biden goes around the country telling americans how good things are it makes him seem he is out of touch with main street america.

americans are feeling financial stress. if you look at what has happened to american's incomes after inflation the average american family has lost $2 thousand in purchasing power and they are feeling it. another element here, mike, that i think is an overriding factor why americans are pessimistic about the economy. that's the debt situation. both people's personal debt, you know, you've seen the numbers, mike, $1.1 trillion in credit card debt. americans are using the plastic and their debt goes up every month. the other big one, the big giant elephant in the room is the $33 trillion national debt and the fact in just three years biden increased the debt by $6 trillion. >> mike: "the new york times" poll, more than 60% of americans in battleground states don't have a favorable view of the economy. if it's all about the economy, steve, that's deep trouble,

isn't it? >> it is. again, the economy is getting better, i want to be clear about this. the job market is pretty strong right now. good news is inflation rate is coming down. i don't want to be a debbie downer right now but the problem is if you are someone in the top 1% and had a good stock market, people at the top are doing well. the big problem now is middle and working class families that feel like they were doing better when trump was president than under biden's policies. >> mike: grateful for your time and analysis today. >> merry christmas, take care. >> i want to be very clear. our borders are not open. >> the border is secure. >> the president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue on immigration than anybody else. >> claudia: has he? a new migrant caravan, the biggest since 2022 is on its way to the u.s. from mexico. plus this.

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>> mike: a huge migrant caravan running the eagle passport of entry. thousands of men, women and children camped out there over the holiday. three short words on the front page of the "new york post," new year's wave. florida congresswoman laura lee will visit the border next week and she is standing by. first williamlagelage in los angeles. >> it is not just texas agents, arizona and california are also being overrun by a non-stop highway of migrants leaving

central america to the u.s. border welcomed by the administration with a blanket, a bus ticket, a work permit, and notice to appear in court. that will ultimately go unenforced for 90% of those migrants. this is eagle pass right where most border agents didn't get christmas off. they are delugeed by 10,000 migrants over the holiday weekend who surrendered to border agents to get papers and get released. a gift from uncle sam. some complained. >> first christmas we spent away from home and not in the best way as we expected to give the best to our children. but this time it is our turn and here we are, doing our best and going ahead as god is helping us. >> i was used to my christmas dinner with the family. not spending it in the street as we did yesterday. >> right now migrants worldwide have joined this caravan. it is seen as their turn. they are being encouraged by

se selfies and relatives who already made it. cities in new york and california they can make more hourly than a month at home. mexico says it will try to stop the caravan. they are difficult to break up especially when you have women and children at the front. it is hard for police to use bat ons and shields and young men are adept at using side roads to avoid the blockades. mayorkas and blinken arrive in mexico to do more. they have run out of money for their border security. the u.s. offers carrots. >> mike: william la jeunesse live in l.a. thank you very much. >> claudia: mike, congresswoman laura lee is the member of the house homeland security commission going to the border next week to check things out. good morning to you, congresswoman. one of the things you will

certainly see is an epic failure of border security. take a look at this quote from the associated press. it says this new caravan estimated at around 6,000 people, is the largest in more than a year. a clear indication that joint efforts by the biden administration and president of mexico to deter migration are falling short. that's from the a.p. what has the biden administration done these past few years to secure the border and really address this critical situation down there? >> well, the biden administration has clearly done nothing serious to secure the border. we've watched for three years while president biden sat back and talked about things like root causes while allowing the drug cartels to take operational control of the border. the situation that this has created across america and in our communities is tragic and

dangerous. we know that it's not just people coming across. we've seen the consequences of fentanyl trafficking, human trafficking. there is just no reason at this point to have any confidence that joe biden actually wants to secure the border. solutions are simple. we had them during the trump administration. we need to build a wall and have a physical barrier and we also need to be enforcing our laws and policies like remain in mexico to stop this unprecedented flood of people coming across our border illegally. >> claudia: you mentioned the drug cartels and fentanyl. look at the latest numbers. they continue to grow and as you mentioned it is killing our cities in many respects. fentanyl overdose deaths in the u.s., 2020 to 2021, 65,500. 2021-2023, 73,610. the latest numbers here over 78,000 fentanyl overdose deaths.

senator chuck grassley also weighed in on this and what mexico is or is not doing. he said mexico is fighting an imaginary war on drugs designed to score political points rather than to save lives. i imagine, congresswoman, you would agree with that. >> absolutely. the statistics are staggering. the trafficking of fentanyl is affecting every community across america. we cannot continue to sit back and trust or allow joe biden or mayorkas to be telling americans the truth about what is happening at the southern border. so how republicans are committed to insuring that not only do we go see it, but that we can provide an opportunity for the american people to truly understand the reality of what's happening there and the reality of what this administration has done to our country. we have brave men and women of border patrol down there ready, willing and able who want to enforce our laws, who want to fight for our country, and

instead as you point out, they are being assigned tasks like passing out blankets and working as travel agents to just bring people into this country. we don't know who they are. we don't know where they are going. we know that quite a number of these people, some on the terror watch list and they are getting spread out throughout america with the notices to appear that many of them simply ignore. so this is a crisis that is a true danger to our country and something that has republicans are committed to putting a stop to. >> claudia: the democrats claim they have the situation under control now. we have this high-level visit with mayorkas and blinken happening tomorrow. the optics don't seem to jive with the situation that's under control. >> no, they absolutely don't. here is the thing, americans understand what's going on. americans see it every day. they see it in the news coverage of the flood of people coming across our border and they see it in their communities where

these people are being bused and flown to go live in their communities. so they are not fooling anybody by coming now and having a meeting down there. if they were serious, if the biden administration was serious about this situation about securing our southern border this travesty would never have happened. so i completely agree. unfortunately i have 0 confidence that their efforts down there are going to have any result. i don't believe they really want to fix it. if president biden really wanted to understand the border, he would do what we house republicans have been doing. come to the border, he would talk to the men and women of law enforcement who are trying -- trying to protect our country and the people who live there whose communities have been destroyed. >> claudia: it's so true. congresswoman, i know you are visiting the border yourself next week. we look forward to hearing what you think after your visit and up-close look at the situation. thank you for joining us this morning.

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can still expect winter snow tomorrow. >> 100 plus attacks that's gone on we're seeing where the intense attacks are starting to happen in the north, which was known as a safer area in the kurdish region. >> mike: new reaction to the united states finally hitting back at iran. proxy attacks with retaliatory strikes on hezbollah targets in iraq coming after more than 100 such attacks on our troops in the region since mid- october. is this response strong enough? mike is managing director of beacon global strategies and former national security council member under president george w. bush. michael, welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> mike: at least 103 attacks since october. the latest 13 service members were injured, one critically. what do you think of the president's response to the

latest violence? >> well, i have to say i'm glad that he finally hit back. but he should do it earlier in the cycle. his red line seems to be if a u.s. troop or a u.s. contractor gets hit, injured or killed, then the united states will hit back. i would rather us hit hard earlier in the cycle so that we can prevent someone from being injured in the first place. so i think president biden, as usual, is overly concerned about escalating the conflict with the iranians except the iranians haven't learned anything from us because we only seem to hit back and weakly at that, after serious injuries to our troops. >> mike: more than 100 attacks on u.s. service members in iraq and syria since october. do you think jake sullivan would like to have this comment from september 30th back? let's play it and i'll get your reaction. >> the middle east region is

quieter today than it has been in two decades. challenges remain, iran's nuclear weapons program. the tensions between israelis and palestinians. the amount of time i have to spend on crisis and conflict in the middle east today compared to any of my predecessors going back to 9/11 is significantly reduced. >> mike: a week later hamas launched its deadly attack on israel. >> that's definitely the gaffe of the year. i think they really wanted to point to the middle east as a place where they were able to park a conflict and focus elsewhere. except the world doesn't work like that. we know so much more now about the iranians being hooked up with the chinese and with the russians. they all work together to work against the united states. so we're not going to be able to take a vacation from any of the major theaters in the world. we have to stay vigilant and make sure we're deterring our adversaries so they don't take

additional action. if we can deter them, that lessens the chance the united states gets into a conflict later. >> mike: benjamin netanyahu laid out what he sees as the path to peace writing our three pre-wreck sits for peace, hamas must be destroyed, gaza must be demilitarized and palestinian society must be deradicalized. these are the three prerequisites for peace between israel and palestinian neighbors in gaza. how do they get that done? >> it really really hard especially when the egyptians are putting out a similar plan that says that hamas should be part of a transitional government in gaza and even in the west bank. we can't even live with that. of course, the israelis cannot live with that. they need to make substantial progress. it is kind of unfair for us to be out there insisting that the

israelis just less than 60 days or so from the attacks be out there compromising against their mortal enemies. we need to let this assault on gaza play out. see how things are going and then try and pick up the pieces and move forward. not in the middle of the fighting when israel is trying to reestablish its deterrents to insure this doesn't happen again. >> mike: grateful for your time and analysis today, michael allen. >> thank you. >> claudia: you may notice more security cameras the next time you go grocery shopping. stores are now using facial recognition to catch shoplifters. but paying customers say that's a violation of their privacy. douglas kennedy has the story. >> this is a threat to you, a threat to your employees, it threatens your whole neighborhood. >> absolutely. it is something we've never seen before. >> she has been working at her

father's grocery store in the bronx since she was 14. what she has never seen before is the level of stealing. >> it is detrimental to our business, we're concerned about the livelihood and keeping our doors open. >> shoplifting and robberies are up 22% from last year in new york. costing business owners $3 hundred million. now some businesses are fighting back, turning to new technology, trying to stop robbers before they rob. fair way supermarket announced it is collecting bio metric data using facial or body recognition software to identify repeat offenders. every time you go into fairway now, they are collecting your personal data through these cameras outside. what do you think about that? >> i don't like it. >> why not? >> i don't want anybody

collecting personal data. >> i just feel like it's an invasion of privacy. why do they need to have my face and know who i am? >> it's a way for the government and large corporations to collect some of the most invasive possible information on just about every american without their consent often without their knowledge. >> david is from the surveillance technology oversight project, a group that is sounding the alarm over the potential proliferation of bio metric data collection. he says it's so effective it will mean the death of privacy as we know it. >> this information can be combined with information that's available on the internet, on your credit cards and cell phone to know who you are, where you've been, what you bought. >> fairway did not return calls or emails seeking comment. natalie says she knows why they use it. and would definitely consider using it herself. >> we're desperate. we understand that having

bio metrics can be a concern for safety or privacy but our concern is the safety of our employees. >> right now she says her employees and many other employees are not safe going to work. in the bronx, douglas kennedy, fox news. >> claudia: after outrage at her testimony on campus anti-semitism and growing plagiarism claims new pressure and criticism building on harvard university's board for backing their president. plus after crime plagued chicago all year a look at where the windy city stands coming up. yeah. everything is so expensive these days. hey, chevy gets it. that's why they're keeping prices down to earth. like on the most affordable ev in america. ♪ a super strong and capable chevy truck. ♪ and a high-tech chevy suv. ♪

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now. good morning. this is a scary study. what do you make of it? >> yes, it is scary. it reminds me of the old adage, you don't get to pick whether you're in a war or not. only your enemy gets to pick whether you're in a war. and it certainly does feel like we're in an information war with china because, of course, there are no companies that have any autonomy or freedom that are owned by chinese companies. they are all appendages of the chinese communist government. this is no exception. when you look at the study and you look at the degree to which -- we're talking not twice as many or three times as many, we're talking hundreds of times as many -- distribution and tilting the scale in favor of issues that are important to the

chinese communist government as opposed to things that they don't look favorably upon. it really does put a lot of these issues, the debates we have in our country into a new perspective. >> claudia: let's look at this pew poll where it talks about the percentage growth year-over-year over the past few years of young adults who get their news from tiktok. in 2020, 9%. the numbers grow to 32% in 2023. over this time frame, it looks like the number of young americans getting their news from tiktok has quadrupled. >> they really are the largest publisher in america today if you stop and think about it in its most basic terms. they choose the stories, promote the stories, they choose and you can say it's all done by the algorithm. but that's made by somebody. in the case of tiktok it's made by chinese communists.

obviously it will serve their interest. when you sit back and look at the protests on college campuses today where you have these people on the side of hamas, on the side of -- against israel and you wonder how did we suddenly get to that spot? this is probably a big way we got there. >> claudia: in fact, to your point, last week rutgers youth issued a study looking at how china is possibly pulling the strings behind the scenes without overtly doing so. look at this quote. we assess a strong possibility that content on tiktok is either amplified or suppressed based on its alignment with the interests of the chinese government. charlie, what's also interesting is that federal officials, people who work for federal agencies, should not have tiktok on their government-issued devices and yet many do. why are federal workers risking breaking the law and risking possibly their job security by

having this app on their devices? >> well, increasingly we're seeing politicians going after this one small sliver, federal employees, federally paid for phones and banning tiktok from being on those phones. but the larger influence, of course, is among regular americans and regular kids who have this stuff on their phones. and any effort to try to go after that or curtail that runs into obvious first amendment complications. you can't just tell people they can't read things or they can't see things. that's not the way we do things in this country. it is the way the chinese communists do things. it is a real problem and we have to grapple with it. i consider myself a first amendment absoluteist so i don't like the idea of ever going after free speech in this country, but that doesn't mean we have -- we have to figure out some way to deal with it.

right now the chinese communists are winning the information war when it comes to social media on stuff like this. >> claudia: india has banned tiktok. does the u.s. need to do the same? >> like i said, you run into first amendment problems. i think it is great that people are prohibiting this stuff from government phones like they should. but i think that banning it more broadly is a far more complicated things and i think we probably ought to find some other ways of going after it. for example, if tiktok is spying on the united states of america, go after tiktok. >> claudia: right. we'll see what happens. congress will have to grapple with this issue next year. charlie hurt, thank you so much for joining us today. >> great to see you, happy new year. >> claudia: you, too. >> mike: israel continues its ground offensive deeper into gaza. prime minister netanyahu says his forces will keep fighting until the enemy is crushed. plus some cities with the

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>> mike: two gop lawmakers found themselves the target of swatting calls on christmas day. brandon williams says at least five police cars showed up at his house after confirm the calling to be a folks. he set them off with homemade cookies and spiced nuts. a bogus emergency call was aimed at marjorie taylor green. police are looking into both incidents. >> claudia: what to do with all those unwanted holiday gifts? you might be better off regifting them than returning them. retailers are tightening return and exchange policies. some like amazon and macy's have tacked on fees or shortened the

window for online purchases. part of the reason to off set rising costs of shipping and labor. >> mike: the year that's now drawing to a close saw no shortage of scandals. the great equalizer that hit royalty, celebrities and politicians alike. ainsley earhardt looks back. >> there is never a shortage of scandalous headlines. 2023 was no different. the royal family's lips are sealed not offering any response to prince harry's memoir. the prince lobbing a host of accusations against his family in the tell-all including his brother physically attacked him during an argument in 2019. despite this prince harry made the trip across the pond in may for his father's core nation. involuntary manslaughter charges dropped against alec bald win following the fatal shooting on set of his movie rust. prosecutors are attempting to

charge him again citing new facts in the shooting which killed helene yeah hutchins. danny masterson sentenced to 30 years behind bars after being found guilty of raping two women several decades ago. he plans to appeal his conviction. meanwhile masterson's friends and co-stars kucher and kuhnis feeling the fallout from the verdict. they issued a public apology after writing letters of support for him before his sentencing. musician known for her message ever body positivity facing a lawsuit from three of her former dancers accusing her of sexual harassment and a hostile work environment. lizo said all allegations are false. >> jimmy fallon. >> late night host jimmy fallon hit with allegations of

fostering a toxic work environment. they accused him of being drunk at work at exhibiting erratic behavior that affected employees' mental health. ♪ >> country star jason aldean not backing down with his song. the musician accused of promoting gun violence with the lyrics. the video some said had racist undertones. the song soared to the top of the charts. many blind-sided this year when former nfl player michael or failed a lawsuit. court documents filed by the couple show he was paid more

than $138,000. the conservatorship over him was ended in september. on capitol hill embattled congressman george santos expelled from congress in the wake of a scathing house ethics committee report. he is left to fight charges of conspiracy, wire fraud and falsifying records for lying about his background and illegally using campaign funds. elizabeth holmes reported to prison for her 11 year sentence. she was found guilty of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars, making false claims that technology at her company would be able to diagnose a number of health conditions with just a pinprick of blood. ftx founder sam bankman-fried found guilty of stealing at least $10 billion from customers and investors. >> he perpetrated one of the biggest financial frauds in american history. >> he claims he never committed fraud or meant to cheat ftx customers. he faces up to 110 years in

prison with sentencing expected in march. there was plenty of success on the field. questionable actions behind the scenes for the university of michigan's football team. analyst for the team accused of in-person scouting against opponents. head coach jim harbaugh denied any knowledge of the wrongdoing accepting a three-game suspension. the scandal not affecting their performance. the team is set to play for their chance at the national championship on new year's day. 2024 is sure to bring some scandalous stories, fox news is here to cover them all. in new york, ainsley earhardt, fox news. >> claudia: the u.s. military strikes back. president biden ordering the pentagon to take action against iranian-backed activities in iraq. u.s. air strikes hitting three targets in response to a series of more than 100 attacks against u.s. personnel in iraq and syria. welcome back to a se