criminal histories, they are not getting the consequences that they should get that keep them from doing it again and again and again or deterring others from doing it again and again and again. >> both of these brothers had criminal histories from age 12. as it stands now 14-year-old chargeded with first degree murder. his 15-year-old brother charged with attempted first degree murder. 23-year-old sister dead, two children age ten months and six years old both now orphans. molly, back to you. >> molly: terrible and heartbreaking for this family. i think of the grandmother that this is what she is seeing on a christmas day. heartbreaking. thank you very much for that report. so sad. >> mike: second american hostage held by hamas has been declared dead. judy weinstein and her husband in their early 70s were shot and

injured in their kibbutz during the october 7th terror attack. good was declared dead last week. their bodies are still being held by hamas in gaza. they are among the eight americans held hostage by the terror group. our condolences to their family. [shooting] >> idf releasing new video of troop activity in the gaza strip as it works to eliminate hamas. israel's military chief saying the war will grind on for months. i'm mike emanuel >> molly: happening overnight israeli forces conducting a raid in the west bank leading to the arrest of 21 suspects who the idf says helped finance hamas through digital currency and cash. those arrested worked as foreign exchange brokers with at least

tens of millions in israeli currency being confiscated. trey yengst in live in tel aviv, israel with the latest on this. to you. >> good morning. i do want to start with the latest out of the west bank. israeli forces launched new raids against militants and infrastructure. the raids targeted 10 separate cities notably the west bank city of ramallah. a number of arrests made at other locations and money exchange shop was reportedly raided. further south in the gaza strip it is day 83 of the war between israel and hamas. after expanding ground operations the israelis are facing fierce resistance. 167 israeli soldiers and thousands injured. they use infantry troops to clear new areas. each day hamas and islamic jihad use new attacks using roadside

bombs and rpgs. the humanitarian situation is in gaza is deteriorating. >> the war is especially challenging for some of gaza's most vulnerable residents. like this one, a deaf woman whose daughter has autism. war is very difficult. i see people upset and it is hard for them. i struggle a lot from the war. there is hardly any food and it is challenging to find supplies. the at a food kitchen in the south of gaza civilians line up to wait for their next meal. the food here is far from enough to feed so large a number of people. i got my food today but sometimes i am not so lucky. on the humanitarian front, 115 aid trucks entered the gaza

strip yesterday. israelis say at the request of the united nations they closed the inspection point. there were so many trucks going in at one point they couldn't keep up with the flow on the other side of the border. >> molly: we understand they are finding new tunnels in gaza, trey. >> yeah, the israelis releasing new video today. an interesting video. it shows a drone that goes into a mosque in the central part of the gaza strip and as it flies in you can see where this tunnel entrance is located in the mosque. israelis say there were civilians sheltering in this location at one point. this video illustrates how close the civilian population is to the infrastructure beneath gaza. molly. >> molly: remarkable video. they released so much video giving us more insight into what idf troops face there every day. thank you very much. fascinating update. we appreciate it. >> mike: republican lawmakers are ramping up their

investigation into president biden looking into obstruction allegations to determine whether the president was involved in his son, hunter's plan to defy a subpoena for deposition this month. if so, it could be an impeachable offense. lucas tomlinson is live in st. croix where the president and his family are spending the new year's holiday. lucas. >> mike, top house republican committee chairmen have written a letter to white house counsel saying they expanding their investigation into the president. we'll read you part of that letter which says, quote, in light of an official statement from the white house that president biden was aware in advance that his son hunter biden would knowingly defy two house subpoenas. >> they can't answer a simple question. what did you do to receive the money? they also know that 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. >> here is our own peter doocy with an exchange with karine jean-pierre earlier this month about hunter biden defying that subpoena and what his father knew about it. >> the president was familiar with what hunter was going to say today. and he is proud of his son. he and the first lady are proud of his son how he is rebuilding his life back. he will focus on what is needed on the american people. >> hunter biden faces his first trial in court on january 11th. he makes his first court appearance on the tax charges. it isn't the first time family members of the president have made money. billy carter made a lot of money on billy beer and hawking and selling the good old boy persona, harmless stuff. later accepted $220,000 from

libyan dictator qaddafi and made several trips to libya. >> mike: the back drop in st. croix today. thank you very much. >> molly: let's bring in rich lowry, national review editor in chief. happy new year to you. i want to start by getting -- we're all so jealous. we have a good perch here. the house gop probe. now they are looking into what president biden may have known regarding what hunter did the day he did not go into the deposition he was called to attend on capitol hill where hunter went and gave this speech and then disappeared and everyone was where did hunter go? they want to know if the president knew about it, was evolved in it? the thought here is that could be a contempt of congress and lead to potential impeachable offense. your thoughts on that angle. >> well, we can assume that the president knew everything hunter was going to do. it's extremely sensitive matter

with major political implications. of course the president knew. i think making it part of the impeachment is probably a stretch. it is contempt of congress by proxy, which doesn't -- is not as serious as the core of this investigation, which is the money. the investigation has been a major success. finding millions of dollars that went sleuthing into hunter's accounts. the family's accounts and some of it we have checks that have been shocking checks to joe biden from his brother and from hunter, including $40,000 of a $4 hundred thousand train much of money from china, which is 10%. the 10% for the big guy we've heard various talk of over the years. so i think that's the main thing. that's the core of it. and this -- >> molly: you raise the point

i've been thinking about when i saw this was an angle that the gop was taking. they essentially the oversight committee chairs james comer and chairman jim jordan essentially write a letter to the white house counsel complaining. they say the press secretary -- why take this angle? as you mentioned, there is all of these other things that paperwork that they've been revealing and documents and phone calls and things like that. why take this angle? >> yeah, again i don't think it's the main thing but i think there is the case that turn about is fair play, the democrats went after don mccann, the former white house counsel and others in a major way to know what they advised trump to do during the mueller investigation. when trump was considering various means of being highly uncooperative and this was a big deal and they tried to make a huge stink out of it and it

dragged on for months and months and months. so i think republicans are thinking turn about is fair play and, you know, contempt of congress is not a minor manner. so i think it's disgraceful that hunter showed up outside the door but wouldn't actually go inside the door and comply with the subpoena. doesn't mean he has to testify. he would have taken the fifth if he actually showed up. but it is disgraceful. so they will squeeze every ounce they can out of it. again, this is not -- if joe biden ends up being impeached this won't be the main count or article. >> molly: there is something the gop in colorado are working on asking the u.s. supreme court to overturn the ruling disqualifying trump from the 2024 ballot. they say the colorado supreme court engaged in an unprecedented right to let the

rights of the people to choose their elected officials. your thoughts. >> they are right. this is one criticism you can make of that decision. there are many others you can make. there is no way it is going to stand. the supreme court will take this up. it has to, right? it can't have -- we can't have other states following colorado and have it up for grabs whether the candidate could be on the ballot. the colorado decision is deeply flawed on many grounds. it's a bad interpretation of the 14th amendment. this provision of the 14th amendment is supposed to involve active engagement in a real no kidding in a civil war insurrection against the united states government. giving a speech even if you don't like it on january 6th doesn't constitute that. this will not stand. >> molly: rich lowry, thank you

for your thoughts that morning. >> we are again seeing a record number of crossings at our southern border. what that means for us in new york city is another surge in migrants arriving at our doors. >> mike: mayor adams slamming the crisis at the border. sanctuary cities scramble to handing the migrants heading their way. >> molly: lauren boebert is changing up her political plans. >> mike: she was censored for speaking out against lia thomas. how her former employer is responding to the claims. >> i was asked to stop tweeting about it. i was asked to stop doing anything and saying anything about it on social media because i was offending others at the company.

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>> molly: this is the off campus home why four university of idaho students were killed back in november 13th, 2022. it's being demolished more than a year after the murders took place. it was a story that gripped the nation, a killer remaining on the loose for several weeks. police ultimately arresting bryan kohberger who has yet to go to trial. he is charged with four counts of first degree murder pleading not guilty. arrested weeks after the killings. the demolition could potentially take several days but they are making significant progress there on the ground this morning. the families of some of the victims not happy that this demolition is taking place. a lawyer saying isn't it better to have the king road house and

not need it than to not have it? we spoke in this last hour with mark furmin about the demolition. >> people don't understand a jury walk through would be more confusing than helpful. the first thing. the jury would not get a lead-through by a detective or a prosecutor or a defense attorney, nor could they ask questions, nor could they talk with each other. they wouldn't be in deliberation. it would actually be more confusing than helpful. >> molly: the university of idaho president scott green saying it's a grim reminder of the heinous act that took place there. the demolition is underway. >> mike: i can only imagine how the parents feel of those college students. it struck me when we went to christina coleman our colleague at the scene at 6:45 local time they were well into knocking down this house. makes you wonder why they felt like they needed to do it so

early. did they think that doing it in daylight might be a bad look? >> molly: it is also winter break as well. so the students are away. perhaps a more peaceful time on campus. as you mentioned, fewer eyes. >> mike: thanks, molly. lauren boebert announcing she won't seek re-election in her current congressional seat representing colorado's third district. she faced a rematch with adam fritsch and narrowly beat him by fewer than 600 votes. fritsch has already raised three times as much money as boebert over the last three months. she will run in colorado's fourth district. that seat is held by republican ken buck who announced he will not seek re-election. >> molly: a renewed surge at the southern border is spreading resources thin as migrants rush

to cross into the u.s. sanctuary cities pushing the federal government for more aid as texas sends more bus loads of asylum seekers their way. now mayor adams issuing a new order to fix the charter bus system after new york city received over 14,000 new arrivals just last month. nate foye live in new york with the latest on this as it continues. nate. >> moving forward, charter bus companies will have to communicate with new york city 32 hours before dropping migrants off at a designated location. more than that, all of those drop-offs will need to happen between 8:30 a.m. and noon monday through friday. now any bus company that fails to do that could be fined or face other penalties. mayor adams issued the executive order wednesday after a record 14 migrant buses arrived from texas in a single day last week. adams said he can't get a meeting with president joe biden to address the issue and he is

again criticizing texas governor greg abbott. >> this is a national problem that has only been exacerbated by governor abbott's cruel inhumane politics. the federal government must take responsibility and lead on this humanitarian crisis. >> the mayors of chicago and denver criticized governor abbott during a briefing yesterday. brandon judd with the national border patrol council says their criticism is misplaced. >> as long as they continue to deflect and not tell the truth, then biden is given a pass. until he is called on the carpet, he is not going to do anything. these mayors need to clearly say this problem is a federal government problem. not a greg abbott problem. >> mike: secretary of state antony blinken and secretary of

homeland security mayorkas met with the mexican president yesterday. more buses could be headed up to sanctuary cities like new york. send it back to you, molly. >> molly: major concerns for a lot of cities. nate foye, thank you. >> without real significant investment from our federal government, it won't just be the city of chicago that won't be able to maintain this mission. it is the entire country that is now at stake. in no way what the state of texas is doing is helping the cause. >> mike: that was democratic mayor brandon johnson sounding the alarm on the mounting migrant crisis in his home city of chicago. the biden administration failing to make progress on additional border funding. he calls the texas program

reckless as the airport and hotels are used to house asylum seekers. congressman, welcome. >> good morning, thanks for having me on. >> mike: what do you make of the chicago mayor sounding off about this being a crisis for the entire country? >> well, now you have mayors in chicago and in new york who are sanctuary city mayors sounding like republican mayors. they are highlighting this crisis. they are overwhelmed and the numbers that they are seeing are a fraction compared to what we're seeing in southern arizona in the tucson sector, the most busy sector in the country, even more than sectors in texas. what they see on a monthly basis we see on a daily basis many times. daily. 12,000 to 14,000 a day now with even the lukeville port of entry closed which made matters worse. now you have these democratic mayors crying for help and the white house still ignoring democratic mayors also. this is a crisis all around.

these sanctuary cities are feeling the heat that every state has become a border state. now they know what it feels like. it is impacting the entire nation. i'm glad to see them call the biden administration. i agree with previous comments. their blame has to be placed not only in the federal government but on the white house which are the ones that are failing at this. joe biden has the authority to end this today and he doesn't. >> mike: the mayor blasting texas republican governor greg abbott saying his busing of migrants to places like chicago is reckless and dangerous. but if those blue cities were not seeing some of this crisis, would they feel the pain? would they understand what's going on at our border? >> they wouldn't. they never said anything until the pain was brought to them until the migrants were brought to them and they were able to partake in the pain that the border states have been feeling. so what we're seeing at the border could be stopped not so much on the stopping the busing precisely but stopping the flow

of people crossing the border. that's where it can stop. if we actually apply the laws we have on the books and deport people that do not have a legitimate asylum claim that would actually stop. that's where the solutions are placed. you know who gets it? local mayors get that and local super viceors in southern arizona, democrats and republicans alike. i hear real solutions and a real frustration against the white house, mayorkas and joe biden on what they are not doing and also on mexico with the meeting that they had yesterday with secretary blinken visiting and nothing coming out of that meeting. it was just a waste of time and a joke of a meeting because the u.s. does not stand up and lead strongly on this, mexico won't either and that's what's happening. >> mike: we are looking at eagle pass, texas on the screen. let's look at real live numbers of encounters at our southern border. 466,702 in fiscal year 2023, up

significantly from 2022. then migrant encounters in the tucson sector up to 119,864, up 158%. what is the impact of that on arizona? >> it's having a tremendous impact. having an impact, of course, on the border security piece. having an impact on the humanitarian crisis that we're seeing from people. and also on the trade on the commerce on the usual flow of tourism that you see at this time of year especially on the lukeville port closing. that was detrimental to our businesses. i had a round table with my local leaders as soon as i got back from washington two weeks ago and we had local mayors, we had supervisors, business leaders crying for help on this frustrated and feeling the pain in different ways. this is not good for anyone. nobody is winning with this. the white house needs to understand that. step up and do their job. it is not just on congress. congress has done our job with

the house republican leadership and passed hr2. step up and enforce the current laws and get the job done. >> mike: the great state of arizona congressman, thank you for your time today, sir. >> thank you, have a good day. >> molly: this is two days after christmas, pro-palestinian protestors blocking traffic in front of two major u.s. airports. chanting anti-israel rhetoric and delaying travelers from their destinations on one of the busiest travel weeks of the year. the big easy is in for a very big chill. winter storm front making its way south. could the deep south see some snow? ♪ our future will demand more energy than ever. and with innovations in natural gas and oil, america can deliver. but washington keeps pushing extreme policies that limit america's energy. their plan?

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>> mike: a winter plunge headed for the southeast. temperatures expected to drop below freezing.

that's ten to 20 degrees below average. some places could even see snow before ringing in the new year. say it isn't so. fox weather's robert ray is live from new orleans. good morning, robert. >> good morning, mike. happy holidays to you and america as you hear the bustling sounds of the big easy, which is just entered into a big chill just in time for the new year's eve weekend and the french quarter is preparing as is the city of new orleans putting out a freeze warning. telling people coming in from around the country wear gloves and bundle up. it may be 50 degrees here right now, but in the morning and tomorrow it will feel right around 32 degrees. take a look at all of the south if we can at this graphic. you see just the temperature departures. not only from new orleans but even over to dallas, memphis, atlanta, florida, even seeing the 40s, orlando at disney

world, bundle up. we may potentially see snow. that in the north georgia mountains, maybe even in parts of metro atlanta. nashville could get a little bit. even the tennessee/north carolina/georgia border. it won't account for a lot, just a trace. nonetheless, this is not really the norm for this plunge this time of year. of course, here in the big easy, we know on monday is the sugar bowl. texas versus washington, a lot of people not only from the u.s. but around the world celebrating here this weekend on new year's eve. of course, if you are into the hurricane cocktails, the tropical ones maybe you switch that out for a little whiskey. maybe that will make you feel a little warmer, mike. >> mike: i expect those sales to spike. robert live in the big easy. thank you very much. >> molly: pro-palestinian protestors causing major holiday

travel headaches blocking entrances to two of america's largest airports. protestors held up the express way leading to jfk airport in new york. a similar situation playing in los angeles leading to dozens of arrests. let's bring in adam scott with the israel innovation institute and thank you so much for joining us. i just want to get your thoughts as this seems a little bit of an escalation, not similar to other protests we've seen. taking to the highways and blocking people from their travels. >> yes, thank you for having me, molly. i have to say this is a major escalation and one of my main questions is where are the police? there were over two dozen arrested i believe in new york. i believe there was a smaller protest near o'hare airport. these protests are starting to become reminiscent of the protests that we saw all over the world in the 1920s and the

1930s clearly anti-jewish protests. this isn't about the palestinian people. these are pro-hamas, pro-terror protests. you didn't see people in the streets when hundreds of thousands were killed in yemen or syria or anywhere else in any global conflict over the last ten years, 12 years since the arab spring started. so it's very clear what these are. it's a very clear escalation and also clear to me that the american government is completely unprepared to handle this situation given what was in the anti-semistism policy that did not address anti-semitism from the pro-palestinian, anti-zionist left progressive side of the political field. >> molly: which brings us to the next chart. anti-semitism incidents nationwide, a dramatic increase. this from the anti-defamation league tracking this from

october 7th to december 18th. up 323% over last year. your thoughts on this as we're seeing these protests. >> listen, i think it's very clear that many of the institutions that are meant to fight anti-semitism and prepare the community for anti-semitism have completely failed. i do believe that the adl was completely wrong to kind of give the seal of approval on the biden administration's anti-semitism policy. care was involved in that. clearly connected to hamas and islamists. it is clear that given the reality of these protests and the intensity of these protests and if you look at -- if you watch the footage from these protests, you can see the hate in these people's eyes. if you listen to the interviews of people from san francisco where their shopping and christmas was disrupted you can

tell everybody is starting to get very uncomfortable. why are we allowing these protests to even happen in the first place when we would never allow an isis protest to happen? there is no difference in the ideology at all. whatsoever. these are people who are primed to support terrorism in the united states and abroad. >> molly: before i lose you and we have to let you go anti-semitism incidents on college campuses seeing a major increase. 40 in 2022, 470 in 223 tracked by the adl. an austrian university, announcing it terminated ties with harvard. that's following suit with others that have cut ties with harvard whether it's notable alumni, donations, the wechsler foundation in october. as we see the ramifications hit harvard and big name universities? >> listen, president's gay east

performance in front of congress was embarrassing for harvard. i think the son who is the head of the world jewish congress i don't think it's a surprise he would server ties with harvard like other prominent jews. this is reminiscent of the old days of quotas. it is clear that there is a connection between their foreign funding and the rise of ant semitism on their campus and the allowance of this type of really extremist activity to be completely honest. i think it's a total disgrace and i'm very proud the university to server ties with harvard over this. >> molly: continued fallout for these elite institutions.

thank you for your insight and happy new year to you. >> mike: president biden may have to park his plan for electric vehicles in 2024. why some car dealers want e.v. progress to stall. espn silent after a former anchor accused the company of telling her to stop talking about trans swimmer lia thomas. >> this is the hill i will die on 100% because it is facts. this is not my opinion about a vaccine mandate or whatever. these are facts, this is science, this is biology, this is all of the things.

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>> mike: a live look from our fox flight team of the home in moscow, idaho, where four

university of idaho students were brutally murdered last year. demolition is well underway as you can see this hour. it started before dawn. it is worth noting some of the victims' families aren't happy about this and still had questions about the scene of the murders. a university of idaho spokesperson telling fox news that a lot of students had expressed they were upset by the house and wanted it gone. now during winter break it is being taken down. there is hope that the bryan kohberger murder trial will be held sometime this summer. that's the aim for prosecutors in this case. >> molly: electric vehicles may have a rough road ahead of them in 2024. the high price and charging issues are keeping evs on the lot. jeff flock from fox business is live in illinois with more on this. >> good morning from one of the charging stations here. a couple of chevy bolts you see

charging up this morning . not too -- just to be clear, e.v. sales continue to rise. we'll sell a million e.v.s by the end of this year, all-time record. 10% of the new vehicles sold. but a lot of potholes in the road going forward. one is reliability. the report from consumer reports. they in studying all vehicles found that e.v.s have 79% more problems than regular vehicles. that despite the fact not having an internal combustion engine. and then holding their value. after five years, the folks looked at trucks, hybrids and s.u.v.'s and found e.v.s were the worst at holding their value. lost half their values. models like the tesla model s, chevy bolt and nissan leaf half their value lost in five years. why is that? part of it is the federal rebate

that you get inflates the price and then elon musk say some experts with his price reductions. listen. >> when you have the percentage of the e.v. market that he still does stère and you lower your prices on your e.v.s dramatically over 12 months guess what? all prices for your cars and every other e.v. come down because you own that much of the marketplace. >> there you go. the rain falls in illinois, charging up over there. we'll continue to watch it. >> molly: yes, indeed. you might have to since they are just sitting there charging away. great update. >> see you. >> mike: espn delivering no comment when press evidence about an accusation that it try to suppress sage steele over her concerns with trans swimmer lia thomas. >> i was asked to stop tweeting

about it. i was asked to stop doing anything or saying anything about it on social media because i was offending others at the company. i made sure i sent off another tweet that night after i received that email because like no. >> mike: let's get into it with chris bedford, editor of the common sense society. welcome. what do you make of espn saying no comment on the claims of censorship? >> completely unsurprising. the company espn went really political in theably starting in 2012. they had a little before that and gone increasingly political and something they push an agenda and hosts who put out wild left wing ideas on that network are never punished but anyone who tries to speak against that is. they are bullied and intimidating their colleagues, etc. espn is paying a price for that. people who turn it on want to

check in for sports. over the last five years they've lost 25 million subscribers. i was calculateing on my phone. over 6 thousand people a day are cutting off espn. something unsustainable for a business. the riley gaines story, politics was all throughout the entire thing. i've heard her story a couple of times from her when she told it the heartbreaking aspects how hard it is to train to become that level of athlete, training through covid by swimming in a river near her house, pushing her body to the extremes and tying with a man on this race in the contest supervisor saying we've been told we have to give the trophy to him as opposed to you because of political reasons. the whole thing is politics and depressing to hear about it. >> mike: if we want to be fair to everyone why not have a trans division, men's, women's, trans

competitions? your thoughts? >> sure. i see no real issue with that if people want to compete in that. the men often competing and winning the women's sports are placing in the hundreds when they compete in men's sports. not remotely near the top. they are on the top in women's sports because of the biological differences we see between men and women. dig up bones 10,000 years old and test and find out if those bones belonged to a male for female. trans division, sure if they want to support that. i don't know if espn would get the audience numbers but it wouldn't be as awfully unfair as we have been seeing. >> mike: they do lots of female events. chris bedford, the common sense guy, thank you very much. >> molly: it was a big year in the business world from red hot inflation to big growth in tech. we'll take a look back next. ♪

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>> molly: the fight to tame inflation with all eyes on the fed and focus on a.i. >> as the lights go down on 2023 investors have reason to celebrate. investors wrapped up double digit gains in 2023 as bets on lower interest rates in 2024 dominated end ever year trading. >> it is a spell the fed will start cutting rates fast. >> the biggest worry of the year for investors was higher interest rates cutting into economic growth. they raised rates 11 times in its effort to tame 40 year high inflation. >> the economy is still growing but slowly. they decided to cut because they're close to 2% and want to avoid a recession. >> despite expectations the

economy would take the hit there was a growth of 5%. >> inflation is slowing down. we have seen compared to 12 months ago. transportation rates, labor rates slowing down so we are definitely seeing a much more stable environment. >> expectations turn to 2024 for a potential economic slowdown. rate cuts to follow. sending investors searching for growth. >> i think the fed much to the disappointment of the speculators, who are banking on early reduction in the funds rate i think the fed will reassert its determination to see the rate of inflation as measured fall to the order of 2% rather than say three or 3 1/2. >> no 223 investors found plenty of growth in tech companies providing artificial intelligence support. a.i. chips up nearly 230% in 20203. microsoft which has a stake in

open a.i. up 55% for the year. the debate on a.i. a major headline as experts questions whether machines will take work and influence from humanity. as politics and infighting reigned in washington heading into a new presidential election last year. kevin mccarthy was ousted and the colorado supreme court said it was removing president trump from the ballot sending the issue to the supreme court. maria bartiromo, fox business, new york. >> mike: always a blast working with you. excited we get to do it again tomorrow. "the faulkner focus" is up next. here is julie banderas in for harris, have a great day. >> molly: thanks for watching. >> julie: fox news alert. thousands of illegal immigrants flooding over our southern border each and every day. now a caravan of