nobody is licking their chops like the cfp. >> college football is important in every hometown. i think we're losing the regional. thank you for giving us your break down. well, guys. >> a great interview. i'm glad it's over. the whole time i was staring at the chick-fil-a by you. >> you weren't excited about the holiday bowl? >> good score. how many have you got there? when do the dogs play? >> new year. they play in the orange bowl against florida state. half of each team will play. hopefully it will be a good game. >> hit the gridiron. >> chris is looking it up during the interview. >> the original football field looked like a cross hatch. >> we'll eat chick-fil-a. >> have a good day, everybody. >> bye. >> as the migrant crisis

shatters more members top members of the biden administration are en route to mexico for high state talks. i'm mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. >> molly: i'm molly line in for dana perino. this is "america's newsroom." mike, wonderful to be with you. hope you had a wonderful christmas and we're looking forward to a new year. >> mike: i hope santa was good to you are kids and you. >> molly: santa pulled it off once again. a record christmas at the border. more than 35,000 migrants crossed illegally into our country over the four-day holiday weekend and now a new caravan is heading our way but in just a few hours, secretaries blinkern and mayorkas will meet with mexico's president. >> i have 0 confidence in anything blinken does. everything he negotiates is actually not in the best interests of the united states. the first thing he has to do is say we'll shut down the border.

anybody that comes into the united states send them back to your country. good luck with 700,000 immigrants per month coming into your country. >> molly: a sheriff from arizona will join us in a couple of moments. we start with william la jeunesse live in los angeles. >> the irony is we're asking mexico to control its border when we can't control our own. mexico has helped before and it worked for a while. so the white house wants several things from president obrador. one, resume deportation buses and flights from its northern border with the u.s. to central america. tens of thousands of migrants camp along the fence or live in shelters in places like tijuana and others. mexico ended its deportation flights a few months ago when it ran out of money. resumed policing of its railroads known as the beast. rail is cheapest and quickest way for migrants to come north. we want them to increase immigration checkpoints and

finally to limit or deny visas that allow migrants to transit mexico legally. here is some video of a visa center outside where haitians and other migrants revolted after being denied those visas and where the latest caravan began on christmas eve. 8,000 to 10,000 are marching north hoping to prevent mexico's effort to break it apart. obrador said he is open to talks but in return he wants the u.s. to lift sanctions against cuba and venezuela and invest more in central america. >> we will boost as much as we can to help maintain and orderly flow. recently there was an abnormal surge. >> mexico has come to the table after the u.s. closed two rail lines that cost mexican shippers $1 hundred million a day and it also hurt mexican farmers dependent on u.s. grain for their livestock.

a bipartisan group of senators will meet virtually today to hammer out an immigration bill that makes it harder for migrants to enter the u.s. and easier to deport them. the border patrol regroups, congress acts and illegal immigration falls, that's the best case scenario. >> molly: did you just solve everything on the border crisis? >> in one sentence. >> molly: we'll see if there is progress made. thank you for your reporting. >> mike: more on this now with sheriff from arizona. >> thank you for having me. >> mike: i would like to start with comments from biden administration officials insisting the border is safe and closed. >> 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 of immigration

than anybody else. >> my testimony the border is secure and we're working every day, day and night, to increase its security. >> mike: what's the reality, sheriff? >> mike, let me just say those are false narratives. that's political theater at its worst. you talk to any border patrol agent on this border and they will tell you if they could speak to the media and public they would tell you it's not true. you look at the non-political statistic. look at the videos that come across. what we've done is set aside border security, national security for immigration flow. that's going on every day. and we have not prioritized this. i say we talking about u.s. congress and the white house as they worry about re-election we're down here every day to address this border. >> bill: secretary zbloosh >> they're due to meet with the

mexican president. is it a photo up or an attempt to come up with serious solutions snow >> i don't think it's a serious solution. the president hasn't prior or advertised this. his state of the union and all his presentations. not a priority. when he spoke on the border of the state of the union he spoke about fentanyl, one or two minute statement. we have thousands die in this country, the border wide open and migrants coming across the border we're here because of your president, here because of president biden and why we keep coming. until he changes the theme and says the border is secure and quit relying on everybody else to secure it. he needs to take charge, he is our president and took an oath to protect the citizens, country and our borders. >> mike: we have sound from a migrant making demands of the president. let's play it. >> the president of the united states must help us. we are migrants. in reality, some of us only go

to the u.s. for four, five, six, seven years and then return to our country. for this reason, we demand that joe biden help us. >> mike: you've been in law enforcement for 37 years or so. how bad are things right now? >> they're really bad. the amount of tragedies we see on the border. things i see in any own county. the numbers, the border crime numbers, migrant deaths. there is not a win in any category here. the only win is politics being played out in washington, d.c. i don't consider that a win for us on the border of this country. it is not a good thing, mike. we have to get a handle on the border and do what's right for the americans that we serve and this country. >> mike: plenty of finger pointing in washington. republicans suggesting the president has the tools to secure the border. democrats insisting congress needs to do more. what is your sense of it? >> well, the president can do

more and number one is to make this a priority, enforce the rule of law and have reasonable consequences behind it. the rule of law we could do it today. if the president chose to do it today he could shut down the border. if you come across the border you're detained and expelled from the country. we set that aside. this is all about catch and release. as long as the president is okay with having an open border philosophy, this is by design, mike. they'll keep coming. we have the green light on. it is frustrating to see what we're seeing on this border and the tragedies. and the tragedies for the migrants, too. and act like it is not real to this country. that's sad. >> mike: sheriff, thank you for your time and the reality check from the border. >> thank you, mike, have a good day. >> molly: proxies escalate hostilities. the latest attack came yesterday, israeli air defense

forces shooting down a hostile drone shot by the houthi rebels. we are live in washington. >> after pausing operations in the red sea, major shipping companies are starting to resume them but they still face the threat of attacks from houthi rebels as they do that. french shipping company cma is the latest to announce it will gradually increase the number of ships going through the red sea following mersk. yesterday houthi militants claimed responsibility for another attack on a container ship. this brings the total number of attacks on international vessels to 21 and it comes after defense secretary lloyd austin announced operation prosperity guardian to protect commercial ships moving through the region. on tuesday the u.s. navy shot down three houthi fired iranian provided missiles using anti-ship ballistic missiles but

republicans say president biden is not doing enough. >> every time you hear the secretary of defense, secretary of state, jake sullivan say our number one goal is de-escalation. tehran hears that as opportunity. that the united states is not going to hit back in a way that hurts us and that's why you are seeing these attacks continue. >> republicans like congressman mike waltz and others say it's time for the u.s. to hit back whether it's in the form of a cyberattack, attack on infrastructure or some other means. they say it's necessary in order to protect not just those ships, but also u.s. service members. molly. >> molly: grady trimble. thank you very much. mike. >> mike: meanwhile the israeli military expanding its ground operation to the area between gaza city and khan younis as the idf chief of staff has is war with hamas will go on for many

months. he told reporters there are no shortcuts dismantling a terrorist organization but with the group's roots so deep in gaza, exterminateing it entirely is no easy task. congressman mike waltz who sits on the house foreign affairs committee says in order to eradicate terrorism in gaza, you need to cut off the head of the snake. >> israel is just going to be mowing the grass in gaza. it is going to go back. terrorism is going to come back as long as iran is flush with cash. the biggest thing the administration could do to help israel is do a 180, reverse course on its iran policy, go back to maximum pressure and dry up their coffers that are fueling terrorism across the region. >> diplomatic relations between u.s. and iran is collapsing. tripling production of weapons grade uranium to raise tensions further as iran-backed militia's

continue to attack american and israeli forces in the region. >> joe biden stated during the campaign he never met with any of these people who sent his family money and that he had a wall between the government and his family's shady business schemes. >> molly: republicans in congress will follow the facts as they step up the investigation into hunter biden's overseas businesses and possible links to president biden. what's next? jason chaffetz on that in the next hour. plus more fallout over anti-semitism at many of the country's top schools. why some say harvard university is losing its appeal as an elite college. leo terrell is straight ahead. m. so, toast? 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. ♪

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people found dead inside a car in san antonio yesterday are likely this missing couple. the woman was nine months pregnant and a week past her due date. detectives are looking at it as a possible murder. garrett tenney is following the story for us. >> this woman went missing friday a day before she was supposed to go to the hospital to be induced. they found the bodies of what is believed to be her and her boyfriend in his car at a medical apartments in san antonio. investigators say it appears the couple had been dead in the car for three or four days and they are describing the crime scene as complex without sharing details about how the couple died, if a gun was recovered or if the fully developed baby soto was carrying survived. >> we're looking at a very perplexing crime scene. and detectives right now are

looking at this as a possible murder and -- but we don't know for sure. >> it was a heartbreaking christmas for salve anna's family and friends who are devastated by her loss. >> we were supposed to celebrate christmas with her baby. all she wanted was that baby. she didn't want anything else. she was so ready to be a mom. >> police chief said they should know more about the case once the medical examiner is able to finish their work. a heartbreaking story. >> molly: heartbreaking to see the beautiful young mother about to give birth and clearly investigators holding some details back on this one for now. thank you very much. mike. >> mike: jewish students resorting to legal options to fight anti-semitism on college campuses. at least four universities are facing legal challenges under

title vi. it bars federally funded institutions treating people worse based on their race, color or national origin. are american institutions losing their credibility? leo terrell joins us to discuss. let's go to lydia hu with more on the legal battles. >> hi. the universities are the university of pennsylvania, nyu, carnegie-mellon and berkeley. lawyers say more lawsuits against other universities are coming. the students claim that the universities have violated title vi of the civil rights act in 1964 which prohibits any program receiving federal funding like a public or private university from excluding, denying or discriminating against a person based on race, color, or national origin. one of the students suing the university of pennsylvania says the university fosters a hostile environment. >> when there is a class

happening on campus and people with bull horns chanting intifada, an armed up rising throughout campus, that's not allowed. when this happened for eight hours on a monday it was during mid-terms. >> that student's lawsuit and others ask the courts to order the universities and enforce their own codes of conduct to protect jewish students. they want professors and students fired or kicked out of school and tuition refunds. we reached out to the universities for comment and did not receive replies. the protests on college campuses are often defended as exercises of free speech. but experts, including the former assistant u.s. secretary of education for civil rights say the law does not protect speech that intimidates or harasss jewish students. >> there are universities that have terrible reputation when it comes to free speech.

they censor and punish people for saying things politically incorrect. when it comes to anti-semis many suddenly they discover the first amendment. >> the department of education has launched title vi investigations, university of pennsylvania, harvard, columbia, cornell and others. they could potentially lead the schools to lose their federal funding. we'll send it back to you, mike. >> mike: lydia, thank you very much. >> molly: we have leo terrell here to talk about this. leo, thank you so much for joining us and happy new year, great to have you with us and to get your insight on this topic. this has been going on for a while now. we've seen the escalating challenges the colleges are facing. any surprise that students are suing? >> first of all, thank you very much for having me, molly. this is a slam dunk case on behalf of the students. they have a winning case. why? because the evidence is

overwhelming. these jewish students on these private and public universities, molly, are being intimidated, harassed. how can they enjoy the quality of an education studying when they are being harassed, targeted because of their religious beliefs? they can get injunctive relief. get a court to order protection and make sure they're safe. i would submit to you that the democratic administration, department of education is not doing enough. where is merrick garland? it is a double standard when the jewish students are being targeted. i would submit to you if this was being targeted toward black or hispanic students you would have the f.b.i., department of justice, national guard on these campuses. the jewish students are being disadvantaged because they are jewish. >> molly: we've seen recently at least one college president stepping down, liz mcgill stepping down after the congressional hearings in which the president's reactions were rightly criticized.

now all eyes are on harvard president claudine gay has been facing a lot of fire, donors calling for resignation and others for resignation but she has held her post and the harvard corporation, the major highest governing board at harvard has also helped her to hold that job. your thoughts as we are turning the corner on a new year under this continued criticism but also new allegations of ongoing plagiarism over the course of her quarter century career in scholarship. your thoughts. >> i want to be very clear. she is holding onto her job because of her skin color. in my opinion, the university of penn, molly, female, white president retired. she resigned. the harvard university is keeping dr. gay in that position. she is the first black president and her race is keeping her in that position. besides the fact that she did not come out strongly against

ant semitism, her plagiarism is inconsistent with the code of conduct for every student on that campus. i think it's wrong for her to remain in that position. she should be fired yesterday because she is being protected based on her skin color. i think it's wrong. i it's fenceive and she received a vote of no confidence from the jewish students and everyone in this country regarding her role in handling the problem at harvard. >> molly: i think sets us up for the next point that i want to talk about. there is an investigation in congress and also looking into harvard, the leadership itself and how they are handling this situation. here is another even more recent headline than that one. this is the national review op-ed. as one watches harvard university abandon any semblance of commitment to academic standards with it's accused

serial plagiarism president. you might wonder an institution closing in on its 400th year could be taken over by such medi mediocrity. one of the mostly let schools leadership. >> follow the money. the money that's being received by not just harvard, some of these alleged prestigious universities. where is the money coming from? it's an ongoing, decade long move to the left by these universities that were supposed to be the gold standard. the money is coming from overseas and countries that have a left wing agenda and the agenda is being protected in these universities. and in my opinion dr. gay represents the worst of this agenda. keeping people in positions based on identity politics. it is shameful and it has lost the credibility of harvard and these other alleged ivy league

schools. it is just not harvard. it is on the west coast, too. berkeley, the law school and ucla, private university. it is shameful. follow the money. that's the problem. >> molly: virginia foxx is the head of the house committee on education that's looking into this angle of the story as it continues to move forward and she said she wrote to us without sufficient action from harvard corporation, that depends on context president will also be forever marred as the plagiarism president and a great stain will mark harvard's legacy. how can claudine gay hold any student to plagiarism. is there a double standard that professors and presidents are at the same standards at the students at these universities? >> let me think about that. it's a double standard and shameful and embarrassing. if you are a student at harvard. she represents the school, the

institution, and she has plagiarized and you are being treated differently? why is she being protected? it's shameful. we're 2024 around the corner. her skin color is keeping her in that position. it's shameful and wrong. as a civil rights attorney for over 30 years it is wrong. you put the most qualified individual, a role model in that position and dr. claudine gay is not a role model, molly. >> molly: leo terrell, thank you very much. 2024 just around the corner and see what it holds for harvard and also for the president there. thank you for joining us with your thoughts and insights today. happy new year. >> happy new year, molly. thank you. >> mike: vice president kamala harris getting burned by her christmas photo featuring the picture of a gas stove. the president is getting hammered over his age but this time it's coming from a

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>> mike: we're keeping an eye on the stock market after a strong day for the dow closing only 20 points away from a new record breaker. a major upswing since halloween rallying several thousand points and nasdaq rising 44% this year. s&p is now within 1% of all-time as well. >> molly: president biden's age a hot topic after democratic challenger dean phillips hammers this point on a christmas day tweet. let's spring in a reporter from "the washington examiner" to chat about this. we're in the cusp of a new year. thank you for joining us. i should get to that tweet to

give us insight. it's funny. he says imagine waking up january 21, 2025, with a president who grew up listening to u2 and watching mtv on color television. that's gen x, i guess we qualify. your thoughts on the latest little dig on the president's age from one competitor, at least. >> the concerns about joe biden's age are universal. it might be the only nonpartisan issue left in this country that everyone left, right and center agrees upon, which is that joe biden's age makes his ability to do the job of president a really open question. and it's hard to believe with the state of the economy and the border and divisions culturally in this country that joe biden's age remains his biggest vulnerability. polls show that is what a majority of voters are concerned about is joe biden's physical and cognitive ability to do the job of president.

so any competitor who wants to have any hope of questioning joe biden's legitimacy, whether it's from outside the democratic party, republican challenger or primary challenger like dean phillips will need to confront joe biden's age. and the white house and biden's team, his campaign have done very little to answer questions that voters have about whether joe biden is still capable of being president. >> molly: it raises a great point and comparison as well. as far as the average number of press conferences, president biden is way, way below his predecessors as far as taking those questions, those hard questions from the press on the fly. you can see some of those numbers there. and his people have been accused, both campaign and the white house, hiding him away to a certain extent. when we see something like this, is there some credence to that? >> yeah, his lack of visibility really deepens the questions about his age.

the white house has not made him available to the press whether in press conferences and joe biden has done very few interviews this year. you can count them on one hand. you look at his predecessor who is similar in age but the same questions don't exist about his ability to do the job. donald trump gave dozens of interviews every year. joe biden isn't doing that. the white house has continued to treat joe biden's age as sort of a talking point issue. they just get the right combination of talking points they can put the problem of joe biden's old age to rest. it is not really that. they need to be able to show that joe biden is still capable of doing the job and the fact that they haven't done that and it's really the only solution to this, i think does raise legitimate concerns whether it's even possible. >> molly: he is dealing with challenging approval ratings as well. vivek ramaswamy had his moment in the sun along the course of the campaign trail but now he is pulling the money for television ads, a little bit ahead of the

new hampshire primaries and iowa caucuses around the corner. your thoughts as we look at the race where he stands as well as the competitors we're just a few weeks to shake things out. >> vivek ramaswamy reminds me of someone like a ben carson in 2016 who had his moment in the sun surging in the polls way early in the primary before it had any sort of meaningful impact. by the time the iowa caucuses rolled around he wasn't really a significant player. the real clear politics national average vivek ramaswamy is 50 points behind donald trump and so is everyone else. at this point it's hard to see any candidate changing the dynamics when we're now looking at less than three weeks away from the iowa caucus. >> molly: we'll see if things look different by mid february. we shall see. thank you for joining us and appreciate your insight. >> happy new year.

>> people are angry about that. i've never seen new yorkers as angry as they are now about a particular topic that they have all rallied behind. >> mike: the migrant crisis in new york city intensifying as thousands of asylum seekers arrive knee city every week. mayor adams says he still can't get a meeting with president biden. plus dry january becoming a new year's tradition. dr. marty makary joins us to explain how 30 days without alcohol can improve your health. ♪ the all-in-one and done symptom relief of mucinex is delivered fast with doordash, so you don't have to leave the couch. oof! that was fast. mucinex. available on doordash. it's comeback season. (dad) it's our phone bill... we pay for things that we don't need. (mom) that's a bit dramatic.

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beneficial. >> and the information can range from sticking garlic up your nose -- which is probably harmless. >> let's talk about the untold story of borax. >> swallowing borax which can be deadly. you are getting phone calls from people being poisoned by medical advice they get on tiktok. >> yes, absolutely. unfortunately people are doing that and they are getting in some cases very, very sick. >> kelly johnson is a doctor with the poison control center in washington, d.c. unfortunately you have people who want a quick fix and can't tell the truth from the false. >> right. some of those videos are very believable and look like they are accurate. unfortunately it can be hard to tell fact from fiction. >> tiktok says it tries to remove any video flagged as

dangerous. a recent scroll found hundreds with questionable medical avice. including avoiding sunscreen. >> when it washes off our skin into the water it is killing fish eggs. >> reject the vitamin k shot. >> and these challenging viewers to drink a gallon of water a day leading to bad results for this user. >> my muscles are just so weak. >> i'm seeing misinformation and disinformation on social media as a direct risk factor to people's health. >> this doctor is an epidemiologist at the university of illinois. and has a blog that attempts to debunk erroneous medical posts. >> it is a whack-a-mole game. as soon as you push one down, another one will pop up. >> a fact that johnson calls a national health crisis. obviously you will say people need to talk to their doctor but

people also need to exercise some discernment as well. >> that's right. we all need to be -- be careful where we get our information from. >> where we get it from often comes from people pushing products or have some other profit motive. in washington, d.c., douglas kennedy, fox news. >> mike: many americans will be putting down the bottle this new year as dry january grows in popularity. how does 30 days without alcohol affect your health? uncorking the good, bad and bub lie of what happens to you when you quit drinking. dr. marty makary is here. let's put on the screen what happens to the body when you stop drinking. toxins clear from the body. boosted mood and improved sleep. ten days increased energy. 14 days clearer and smoother

skin, 30-plus days lower blood sugar, weight, cholesterol and risk of disease. should we all dry out in january? >> these are real improvements. people are reporting these within days or sometimes within a month. they can actually notice changes to their skin, to their health and we've seen that with tests for diabetes. there are benefits. now, you will hear that alcohol is good for you in moderation or there is a small amount of alcohol that explains why the french live long. any small incremental benefit to the heart is far outweighed by the danger to the liver: overall alcohol is a net negative to your body's health. one of the biggest areas is how it reduces sleep quality. that's a bigger and bigger recognized part of your overall health contributing to high blood pressure and so many other aspects including cognitive health. >> my family we were told moderation is the key on lots of different things. what about moderation as it

relates to alcohol? >> first of all, we don't have a great set of studies that look at people that limit alcohol use to one glass or one beer before they go to bed. not in the time in the evening but earlier in the day. we know that in the evening it affects your sleep quality. we know that is bad for your health. but we don't know about that earlier in the day. we've seen cultures that do that successfully but there are so many factors it is hard to know. i will say about the concept of all things in moderation, it is a bit of a retreat position. you have parents now saying no added sugar, no screen time in the formtive years that's not an ole ninjas in moderation position. that recognizes potential harm. >> mike: bad news for hypochondriacs. they are 84% more likely to die from illness. does it make sense that all of that anxiety is bad for your health? >> look, anxiety is definitely

affecting overall health. think about your blood vessels. they have muscles in them. when you are anxious the muscles are tightening up. when you don't sleep well those muscles tighten up and the pressure goes up in the blood vessels. people are hypo chondria demand tests and want to be diagnosed and the most overdiagnosed people in the healthcare system will lead to potential unnecessary treatments down the road and those have harms in and of themselves. and the study i'm most interested in this coming near is a study that read out later that will look at people with mental health disorders including bipolar and it will give them certain probiotics which are believed to produce seratonin to interact with the brain and see if it can be therapeutic to people with disorders like anxiety and bipolar. >> mike: most of us have a

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>> mike: the white house is looking to refill the strategic petroleum reserve. the planned purchase of 3 million barrels seems like a drop in the bucket after the largest sale of oil in history last year.

right now our stockpile is at its lowest level since the 1980s and that's raising all sorts of concerns. jeff flock with fox business is live with more from chicago. hello, jeff. >> good to see you always. not a good time to have not as much oil perhaps in reserve as you would like with the mideast in some chaos. administration says it is getting a good deal for taxpayers. look at the numbers. right now yes indeed replacing about 3 million of the more than 200 million barrels they drained at the cost of $7seven a barrel. as the administration points out it's well below the average of $9five a barrel they sold for in 2022. they say it's securing the good deal for taxpayers. critics say it is not about profit, it is about making sure we have enough in our reserve. listen. >> if they really wanted a good deal for taxpayers they wouldn't be giving tens of thousands in

subsidies for every electric vehicle. if they wanted a good deal for taxpayers they wouldn't shut down coal plants our cheapest form of electricity around the country. >> the numbers on the spr reached its highest level in december of 2009 during the obama administration. 726 million barrels. when president trump left office in january of 2021 it was 638 million. we're now at 352. almost half of what we had just a few years ago. it's worth noting as we talk about oil, u.s. oil production continues to just go nuts really. it is at an all-time record for the last month of reporting. 13.2 million barrels a day coming out of the ground and the forecast going forward is for that to continue in the fourth quarter of this year. even 13.3 million barrels. good news there but do we have enough in reserve is the question? and right now the administration trying to replenish but buying

what they have now replenished 13 million of more than 200 million barrels is, as you pointed out, perhaps a drop in the oil barrel bucket. >> mike: important subject. jeff flock in chicago. thank you very much. >> molly: a rising threat at the red sea as the u.s. navy shoots down incoming anti-ship ballistics missiles in combat for the first time. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm molly line. >> mike: i'm mike emanuel. bill and dana are off. senior defense official telling fox news the move marks a significant escalation in the already tense region. the u.s. shot down the drones and missiles fired by the houthis. the retaliation comes after three u.s. service members were injured in a separate iran proxy strike. president biden facing growing pressure to do more to defend american troops. >> we're fighting the houthis. we beat the germans and th