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 the

japanese we should be able to beat the houthis. secretary austin and the biden administration is failing our troops in the field. i admire him, he is a patriot, but he is not doing a good job protecting the soldiers. without iran there are no houthis. the houthis are completely backed by iran. >> molly: forces in israel are expanding their ground operation in gaza. trey yengst is live in tel aviv with the latest on these escalations. trey, to you. >> good morning. threats from iran and its proxies are increasing amid concerns about the possibility of a broader regional conflict. yesterday alone we understand that 12 attack drones, three anti-ship ballistic missiles and two cruise missiles were shot down by the american eisenhower carrier strike group from the houthis and lasted for ten hours. an american service member

remains in critical condition following a drone attack against the erbil air base that drew an american response. zooming in on the ground, israeli chief of staff announced tuesday the idf is expanding operations in central and southern gaza while forces continue to go after hamas leadership. the idf says three additional soldiers were killed overnight bringing the total to 146 since the invasion began. as israeli prime minister netanyahu issued a new warning to hamas. >> we say to the hamas terrorists, we see you and we will get you, we are continuing the war and are intensifying the fighting in the southern gaza strip and other places. >> israel's northern front remains active as well. more than 20 rockets have been fired into northern israel today from the lebanese militant group hezbollah. molly. >> molly: you have been there for quite a few holiday seasons. this one is different from

seasons past and here the christians wrapped up their christmas celebrations and heading into a new year. what are we expecting in the next couple of weeks ahead there on the ground not just as part of this fight but politically as we turn the corner into the new year? >> it's a great question. israeli government is under immense pressure right now especially from the families of those 129 people still being held inside gaza. internally there is a lot of difficult conversation that has to take place in the coming weeks about what the future of this operation looks like. but when you zoom out, there is a real concern among the israeli population about the possibility of what is happening inside gaza unraveling to a broader war and the understanding that the threats from the north are very serious and if a conflict erupts with hezbollah there would be many casualties throughout israel. molly. >> molly: the depth of your reporting very much appreciated.

happy new year to you. >> mike: let's bring in retired u.s. army lieutenant general keith kellogg. general, welcome. the united states navy is dealing with ballistic missile attacks from the houthis and senior defense officials calling it a significant escalation in the region. >> thanks for having me today. look, we're seeing a lot of rhetoric coming out of the administration. very little limited response both to the attacks in the red sea and attack with the houthis launching their missiles. if you back out a minute, the concern i've got is this has set a very bad pattern. all of us set patterns in our lives in how we do things. this administration set a pattern of talking a lot but not doing a lot. i don't care if it's ukraine, russia, the far east, if it's the mideast or right now in the red sea. they will have to take some strong responses especially with

what's happening with the houthis now in yemen. if they don't take that it just compounds itself. my experience being in the white house when situations like this occur, if you don't respond aggressively and take disproportionate responses, then it will build. it is harder to put it back in the box. right now there is a lot of things out of the box. we're talking a big game but we're not doing very much. the concern i've got when you look at it. you see a lot of allies saying we hear you, we're really not listening to you. we're looking to what's happening with the protection of the red sea. italians and spanish have gone their own way, french have gone their own way. even some of the fleets, the major shipping fleets are putting ships back into the red sea they're cautious because they don't really trust it. >> mike: mike waltz is raising this concern. >> i think it tells us and our adversaries and allies loud and clear that deterrence is

failing. we have put significant assets in the regions. aircraft carrier, planes, in the sea and ships in the red sea and yet the attacks keep continuing. >> mike: how should the president and pentagon respond? >> what i mean they need to do something disproportionate. way out of the box to bring it back into the box. just protecting the shipping through missile defense is wrong. they will have to go to the source of the problem. one is in yemen. the second is iran. when you look at what is happening with hezbollah in iraq right now and attacking u.s. servicemen. what you see the houthis doing, they aren't doing it on their own. they are supplied by the iranians. iraq parra military force is being supplied by the iranians. hamas, hezbollah, backed by irrelevant an answer. it is hard to do that. if they don't make a hard response, this is going to continue. the trouble is it will spin way

out of control and just not in the region but globally as well. >> mike: from the "wall street journal" editorial board biden endangers u.s. troops. he is afraid. we use that word advisedly at being involved in a larger conflict. that anxiety is interfering with his core obligation to defend u.s. forces. is the president too worried about war with iran? >> yeah. it's a pattern. he set the pattern. it is risk avoidance. you have to be willing to accept risk. when you're inside the white house those decisions come at you hard and fast. you have to understand escalation control. you have to understand risk. but you have to do it. your job is to protect the nation, protect america's troops abroad and they aren't doing it. he set a pattern and adversaries see this. they are despots, dictators, terrorists. you must respond accordingly. the american people expect that.

our nation has to respond hard to bring this thing back under control. right now he is not doing it. i think it's actually almost too late. >> mike: lieutenant general keith kellogg with sobering advice and analysis. thank you. >> appreciate it. >> molly: despite the escalations at home and israel president biden is taking a break this week. he is taking the first family on vacation in st. croix where lucas tomlinson is. somebody has to do the hard work out there. lovely back drop. >> molly, as the secretary of state heads to mexico today president biden and his family are coming to st. crow in the u.s. virgin islands. many republicans would like to see him go to the southern border first. the president ignored a question about the border while he was boarding air force one a short time ago. >> here is the dirty little secret. they could fix this tomorrow if

they went back to trump policies but they won't do it. we'll change the law to give them tools to deal with this. will they use it? i don't think so. no matter what we do, no matter how we write the law they want it this way. >> when it comes to the economy americans are not optimistic things will get better according to a recent fox news poll. two in ten americans think it will improve. a far cry from december of 2020 and 44% think the economy will get worse. 86% of those surveyed are extremely or very worried about inflation. they know when prices go up, they rarely go back down. molly. the prices from 40-year high inflation two summers ago feel locked in. despite the polls the white house remains optimistic. >> we're glad to see that americans are feeling more confident about the economy. and as you know, i think a year ago, six months ago there was this talk about recession, recession, recession. that is certainly not where we're headed. >> then there is this latest

battle in the red sea off the top for the second time in history, molly, a u.s. navy super hornet from the ship scored an air to air skill shooting down some of the 12 drones launched from yemen. for the first time in history a ship shot down anti-ballistic missiles. the cost of those were $5 million a pop. a far cry from the $2 thousand drones very crude launched from iran's proxy forces in yemen, the houthis. >> molly: a great way to end your reporting. great points on all account. thank you so much. happy new year. >> people are angry about the asylum. i've never seen new yorkers as angry as they are now about a particular topic that they have all rallied behind. >> mike: eric adams has the migrant crisis turns new york into another border city, too.

he is calling out president biden for failing to contain the surge. plus. >> molly: vice president harris. she posted a picture with a gas stove. does this holiday meal come with a side of hypocrisy? to duckduckgo on all your devie

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>> mike: the michigan supreme court rejecting an attempt to take former president trump off the 2024 primary ballot. the ruling comes after the controversial decision by colorado's highest court to remove the former president from the ballot bass week.

-- last week. a deadly blizzard and ice storm in the central u.s. colorado getting buried in snow. major highways are open today after dangerous conditions briefly closed them yesterday. meteorologist adam klotz with a live look at the forecast. hello, adam. >> that system is still on the move. maybe losing a little bit of steam but a lot more folks are ultimately going to see snow before all is said and done. now winds at times were up to 60, 70 miles-per-hour. calmer now. there is still spots where snow is falling. this system will continue to move. more folks will see snow. the future in-house forecast model. all the snow dragging itself across illinois and portions of southern indiana and getting as far south as into places like kentucky. areas where you maybe don't see quite as much snow you are finally getting some of the snow. this is the path that system is going to take.

as i said, areas like indianapolis toward louisville getting back towards st. louis, more snow on the way for all of those folks as that system makes its move. otherwise, millions and millions and millions of folks here today are dealing with a raw, soggy type of day across the mid atlantic and new england, d.c., philadelphia, new york. rain coming down and it will linger for several days as we run through it. now because of the rain lingering today and tomorrow there is at least some risk of flooding as a result. you will see just on the low end possible flood risk. if you're stuck in this now the rain will be here for a little while. mike, back over to you. >> mike: i can confirm it is damp and chilly in the d.c. swamp. thank you very much. molly. >> molly: critics turning up the heat on vice president harris over this christmas tweet taken in her kitchen next to a gas

stove. just another instance of do as i say, not as i do. particularly after the administration was considering remember this, the ban on gas-powered appliances. rich has a show and joins us now to chat about this. happy new year to you. i have to say, they look adorable in the pictures and look like a happy couple, but is there a little sprinkling of hypocrisy here? >> just a little bit, molly, right? don't you love in this particular picture at thanksgiving the gas stove was featured in their shot. this one is like doug. guard the gas stove so no one sees the hypocrisy on full display. >> molly: at the same time i look at this and they cleaned it are proud of it and love the stove. they keep going back to this spot. >> this is where she makes all her word salads, that's right there on the stove. you're right. it's hypocrisy.

they want to ban gas stove for everybody. the gas stove for me, not for thee kind of approach. it shows you the hypocrisy of the left. they don't think gas stoves are a problem. they want to ban them it's something they can virtue signal and be woke about and the extreme climate left wants them banned. every chef know it's the best way to cook and they know that why they were cooking on the gas stove for christmas. they did not say jesus christ at all when they wished everybody merry christmas. they knew about the gas stove. all the people who went to copp 28 have gas stoves on yachts or private jets. powered by propane but the same concept. the world's biggest hypocrites telling us what to do all the time. >> molly: are they trolling? they did it at thanksgiving. got smashed and ripped and now they take another picture in front of the stove. just checking. >> it is trolling or complete political tone deafness, a

bigger point. kamala harris is more unpopular than joe biden. i believe they would dump joe biden in a heartbeat if they had a strong number two but sthe is worse. not good political instincts and not well liked and this is the problem. i think it is political tone deafness more than anything else. >> molly: california is fining stores who don't have gender nifty rail sections in stores. >> i go to go stores, dolls, legos, dragons, stuffed animals. i don't recall seeing signs that say boys only, girls only. your thoughts on this. >> listen, i have three kids, nine, seven, three. they all know exactly what toys they want. it is not about gender. they just know what they want. they weren't asking santa for gender neutral toys. if there is a demand for gender

neutral toys in california they're satisfying that element. another way for the government to tell private companies what to do. they have the right to advertise and every toy is made for boys and girls. i got my daughters -- santa did lego princesses for christmas. enough of this nonsense. >> molly: i have a 2-year-old into race cars and airplanes. when the daughter got the nail kit he got his nails painted. how do you enforce that from the paw patrol and running a small business nowadays, $5 hundred to fine you? >> law and orderer gender neutral toy division. they'll look around. aren't we acknowledging there are two genders by doing gender

neutral? if you allow boy and girl toys aren't we saying there are only two and that we'll pretend for all the other in this area. send in swat teams. the left talks about how less involvement with law enforcement. come in there and raid them. i love it. >> molly: thank you so much, rich. happy new year to you and thank you for joining us. >> happy new year, molly. thank you. >> molly: mike. >> mike: sanctuary cities across the u.s. scrambling to house an overwhelming number of migrants. how taxpayers in chicago are paying the price. plus senior biden officials head to mexico to attempt to get a handle on the border crisis but some say it's too little too late as a record breaking caravan of migrants now heads for the u.s. >> this meeting is really just a mere trying to create the pretense they are doing something about this because they're starting to get a lot of bad press, a lot of political

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>> mike: thousands of migrants streaming in new york city every week. the mayor said the city is not getting the federal support it needs and he had some choice words for president biden. cb cotton is live from new york city with more. good morning, cb. >> the mayor's office is pointing a finger squarely at the white house saying the biden administration is not providing the necessary financial assistance to the seemingly unending wave of migrants flooding new york city. mayor eric adams' office said another 188 migrants arrived tuesday night to the port authority bus terminal after their flight from el paso, texas to new york's jfk airport was diverted to philadelphia due to bad weather. the city tries to keep up resources for the more than 68,000 migrants still in their care. a spokesperson for the mayor said as temperatures drop, they

have had a surge at the city's intake center saying, quote, we have seen 7200 new arrivals come through the intake system over the last two weeks arriving through various means of transportation. last week 14 rogue buses from the state of texas arrived in one night. the highest number recorded by the arrival center. another act of treating human beings like political pawns. we've reached out to texas governor greg abbott's office for a response. mayor adams says he keeps asking the white house for more help but can't get it. listen. >> we're the economic engine of this country and state. i don't believe any of these cities should be going through this. i don't have the answer. i think that's the answer that we need to turn towards washington. people are angry about the asylum. i've never seen new yorkers as angry as they are now. >> last month he announced budget cuts as the city deals with the fallout of 4,000

migrants arriving weekly. the mayor is also blaming congress saying that the city will continue to do its best while the federal government remains paralyzed. mike, back to you. >> mike: cb cotton, many thanks. >> molly: illinois is struggling. more bused to chicago suburbs over the weekend. officials turning to local hotels for shelter. we're live outside one of the shelters in chicago. kelly, to you. >> the state has made about 230 hotel rooms available here in chicago for these migrants as more arrive daily by train, plane and bus. the illinois governor's office says funding for the hotel rooms will come from an additional $160 million set aside in the 2024 state budget to deal with the migrant crisis. our bill melugin caught up with some migrants in arizona last week headed all over the

country, including to here in chicago. >> [speaking spanish] >> pennsylvania, new york, chicago, chicago. >> secretary of state blinken will be meeting with the mexican president this afternoon along with homeland security second mayorkas that talk about this crisis as many as 10,000 migrants were arrested at the southern border per day this month. nearly 15,000 migrants are currently being housed in the city's 27 shelters. to date the governor's office says they have helped 2,000 people leave the shelters by connecting them to friends and

family. we're in chicago now where migrants are being housed in commercial building. the market association tells us the mayor's office is doing this illegally because these buildings are not zoned for residential housing. the mayor's office said they have taken in 30,000 migrants from texas and they say they are being targeted because they are a sanctuary city. molly. >> molly: these housing challenges happening across the nation in some of these big cities getting hit particularly hard. kelly, thank you so much for the reporting. mike. >> mike: it all comes as secretary of state antony blink en and homeland security secretary mayorkas are going to mexico. four migrants on the terror watch list were arrested in the last two months. homeland security reporter for "the washington examiner" joins me now. anna, welcome. >> hey, mike.

>> mike: secretaries blinken and mayorkas are on the way to mexico city with the border crisis on fire. state department saying about the visit, quote, secretary blinken will discuss unprecedented irregular migration and identify ways to address border security challenges including actions to enable the reopening of key ports of entry across our shared border. should we expect more than a discussion and an actual deal of some sort on the crisis at the border? >> you know, i don't think so. the biden administration still isn't even calling this a crisis, it is just unpre unprecedented, right? for the last three years we've seen people encountered at the southern border each month. normally we'd see 30 to 50,000. despite what's going on in the last month with multiple caravans of migrants coming

across the border every single day, the biden administration is still taking very minimal action, sending officials down but not saying what its hopes even are. for mexico to take action it would probably take a little twisting of the arm like president biden did with taxing imports. >> mike: president biden is in deep trouble on this issue from the fox poll. 33% approval of his performance on border security, 63% disapprove. does that put pressure on the american team to produce results? >> yeah, i think it puts significant pressure. i think people are tired of seeing what's going on at the border. like i said, more people encountered at the border under president biden in three years than under president obama's eight years in addition to president trump's four years. that's unprecedented.

and i think people want to see -- people across the country where immigrants are resettling, it is not fair to anybody, 3 million cases in the immigration court back logs. people will wait years to get decisions on their asylum cases if they even seek asylum. some just stay. people want to see results or a change in administration. >> mike: then there is the pressure another caravan of 6,000 people heading to the southern border at the time when border facilities are full and hearing complaints like new york city and chicago. another caravan of 6,000 or so people. what kind of pressure does that add to the mix? >> well, 6,000 really is pennies compared to what we're seeing every day. last week we were seeing days where border officials were encountering 14,000 people in a

single day. another 6,000 isn't actually the end of the world compared to how many -- we're seeing multiple caravans come across daily. i don't think -- and in three years not much has changed with the biden administration's approach. they'll say they are having results but then the results will fade after a couple of weeks or months. then they will point to those again and say well, it worked but, you know, look at the numbers every month. nothing has changed. and i don't know if -- push cans want to know is it incompetence or indifference to addressing the situation? >> anna, thanks very much for your time today. molly. >> molly: it has been a very busy year and news takes no holiday from global wars to holiday -- nationwide strikes and historic shake-up on capitol hill. a look back at 2023 next. plus republicans in the house

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>> mike: as you look forward to the new year we're looking back on the big events that shaped 2023. america's news rooms bill hemmer has a special wrap up of the most notable headlines from the year. >> bill: 2023 was another turbulent year marked which two major world conflicts and political instability at home.

they made plenty of headlines over the past 12 months. the white house spending much of 2023 confronting new threats from china. it started in january when a chinese spy balloon was spotted drifting across north american airspace. it passed through alaska and the central u.s. before being shot down off the coast of south carolina. the war in ukraine grinding on for another year. the pressure on russia's military prompted the wagner mercenary group to launch an insurrection. the leader taking over a key russian city in the south before beginning his march to moscow. the rebellion finally ended wwhen he cut a deal with putin but his plane crashed under mysterious circumstances. donald trump becoming the first former president to face criminal charges after being

indicted by new york prosecutors for allegedly making illegal hush money payments to his former mistress. that indictment followed by three others. including criminal cases related to attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 election and his retention of classified documents in mar-a-lago. it was a big year for unions. in may the first hollywood writers strike in 15 years. members of the writers guild of america walked off the job calling for more money from streaming services and protections against the use of artificial intelligence. two months later, the screen actors guild followed suit bringing hollywood to a halt in the middle of the summer movie season. the strikes were eventually called off after both unions won what they call historic victories against the big studios.

another big union strike hitting the economy hard in september. the united auto workers picketing against all three major auto manufacturers for the first time ever. tens of thousands of workers walked off the job costing the u.s. economy more than $9 billion. this strike finally ending after 46 days. the uaw claiming a big win with increased wages and better benefits. intense winds knocking down power lines on the hawaiian island of maui sparking fires that quickly push into the historic town of lahaina. folks had little to no warning as the flames reached the town. some were even forced to flee into the ocean. 100 people were killed and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed causing some $6 billion worth of damage. the office of speaker of the house of the united states house

of representatives is here by declared vacant. congressional dysfunction reached unprecedented levels in october after kevin mccarthy became the first house speaker in history to be voted out in the middle of his term. it happened when mccarthy cut a deal with democrats to avoid a government shutdown angering some conservatives who then voted for mccarthy's ouster. it took weeks for republicans to agree on a new speaker finally handing the gavel to little-known louisiana republican mike johnson at the end of the month. israel experienced the deadliest terror attack in its history. more than 1200 people killed in a surprise cross-border attack by hamas. the overwhelming majority were civilians including hundreds attending a music festival. at least 240 others were taken back into the gaza strip as hostages. israel responding with a massive

invasion of gaza. diplomats from the u.s. and qatar are work being on a new cease-fire bust it will not be easy with prime minister benjamin netanyahu vowing to keep up the fight until israel is safe. now looking ahead to 2024, israel and ukraine will continue to top the headlines but we're also keeping a close eye on the race for the white house. after all, it's an election year, america, and we will be here for all of it. in new york, bill hemmer, fox news. >> molly: looking at the michigan supreme court rejecting an attempt to take donald trump off the primary ballot coming after the controversial decision by colorado's highest court to remove the former president from the ballot last week. jason chaffetz joins me now, former utah congressman and fox news contributor. we'll start with this issue as we're on the cusp of a new year and election year, of course,

great to have you with us. your thoughts on this michigan decision and also does it mean we have more wait now on the potential u.s. supreme court decision related to colorado? >> well, the michigan decision seems reasonable. people tend to forget the government works for the people. the idea that you would exclude somebody from the ballot because of insurrection. donald trump never was charged with that, never convicted of it because he didn't do it. the government never charged it. to try to take him off the ballot was absurd. colorado made the wrong decision, michigan made the right decision. we need to have the supreme court decide on this. we need to get this behind us so we can focus on what's truly important. >> molly: a lot of good -- you

had a chance to speak to the house oversight committee james comer. he talked quite a bit about some of the most fascinating things. one of the things they've uncovered that is pretty interesting, president biden allegedly used pseudonyms in emails with his son. >> the documentation we need are the pseudonym emails. we found joe biden was using at least three fake names on government email. >> molly: what do you make of this and will we get more details in 2024? >> chairman comer put it up as one of the most important things to get. the national archives have tens of thousands of documents related to vice president biden's communications. the idea the vice president used fake names. he was communicating on a lot of

different things. in particular i know the committee is very focused on the interaction with a guy named eric schwinn was involved in the hunter biden business enterprises and a business manager type of person for the biden family business. you want to get those documents. we know the national archives have them. you can also go over to the servers, the people that actually -- two ends of an email. also subpoena those. the committee needs to do this. it is an impeachment inquiry with the vote of the house behind it and they need to see these documents because joe biden says he has never had a conversation ever with his partners or with his family about this stuff. but boy, it certainly seems like he has and they have to look at those emails. >> molly: speaking of impeachment. the headline out of "politico."

deadline reads republicans are barreling toward an impeachment vote. it might look like failure to the base if they skip it. your thoughts on what this could mean for the republican party in the new year. >> i think that's a bunch of hog wash. "politico" is fishing on some holiday story they have never covered for the last couple years. but no, they will continue to unearth the documents, present those to the american people, there are emails, text messages, voice mails, suspicious activity reports, tens of millions of dollars flowing into the biden family. so yeah, "politico" i'm glad to see they're actually paying attention at this point. >> molly: thank you for giving us a little of your attention sharing time with us today. happy new year to you. >> thank you. >> mike: the rise in remote work comes with a price tag, a high one. new york city's left footing the bill for empty buildings while

luxury offices are getting a break.

>> molly: preparations are underway here in new york city for the big apple's iconic new year's eve ball drop. the ball revealed just momens ago. it will be shining brightly from the flag poll above times square with a million people expected to gather in the crowd below to watch it fall in just a few days. >> mike: empty office space in new york city comes with a high price tag and taxpayers are footing the bill. gerri willis is live with the details. good morning, gerri. >> good morning to you, mike. that's right.

nyc is giving big tax breaks to luxury office developers here in nyc even as more and more employees work remotely. between 2014 and 2022 the city doled out 1.5 billion in tax breaks. the recipients include are hudson yards, this development behind me here. but also the bank of america office tower in mid town and nbc headquarters in rock center. in 2022 alone the city doled out 171 million in these tax breaks. now, hudson yards is mixed use, high-end retail and pricey office space. in fact, taxpayers had to pay $74 million for that last year alone. the city's investment was supposed to pay for itself. that hasn't really worked out. supposedly tax revenues from real estate were supposed to off set what the city spent. unfortunately project costs were underestimated while revenues

came in a half billion lower than expectations. pro p -- guess what? more to come. nyc mayor adams saying they'll do even more of these kinds of deals as much as 10 million square feet of office retail space will be renovated over the next 20 years. mike, back to you. >> mike: gerri willis live in new york city. thank you very much. >> molly: nasa launched a mission to intersect a massive asteroid. known to researchers as the god of chaos it was first discovered in 2004. it is more than 1,000 feet wide. expected to pass close to earth in april 2029 within 20,000 miles of the earth's service. nasa is on it. >> mike: that was fun. "the faulkner focus" is next.

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