victims killed in last november's predawn stabbings released a statement last night expressing their deep disappointment with the university for going forward with having this crime scene demolished before the accused killer goes to trial. a trial date has not been set yet. >> a jury trial you never know what might be valuable, and so the family feels like the house is a huge piece of evidence, it's the crime scene, you know, you don't know what's going to need it or whether it's going to be needed or if it's going to be needed at all. >> university officials say they decided to have the house torn down during the winter break to try and minimize further impact on students. >> it's certainly not been a secret that we intended to demolish the house and so we have continued to communicate with the families as we have moved through the process. we have talked with students, we have talked with community

members, and really everyone at the next stage of healing. >> in an email to university officials, prosecuting attorney in the county explained why he does not believe the house is of further use to lead investigators, based on review of idaho case law, the current condition of the premises is so different than at the time of the homicides a jury view would not be authorized. the prosecution did file a request to go ahead and try and have the trial scheduled for next summer. at this point, we are waiting to see if that request is granted. anita. >> anita: we will all stay tuned for the trial date. christina coleman live in moscow, idaho. thank you, christina. >> nothing coming out of that meeting, frankly just a waste of time and a joke of a meeting because of the u.s. does not step up and lead strongly on this. >> unfortunately it was just a check a box meeting. >> top biden administration officials wrapping up high texas

meeting with the mexican president over the unprecedented crisis at the southern border. dhs secretary mayorkas describing it as productive but critics say it's anything but that. it all comes as a migrant caravan of thousands is advancing toward the border, and adding to an already dire situation. hello, i'm bryan llenas in new york. >> anita: anita vogel in los angeles. john and sandra are off. while biden soaks up the sun in the caribbean, sanctuary cities are left holding the bag. breaking point, and democratic mayors are not staying silent any longer. >> 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's the entire country that is now at stake. >> it baffles me.

i am not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. from the federal government. >> anita: national border patrol council president brandon judd is standing by with reaction. >> bryan: grady trimble on how sanctuary cities are happened ling the migrant surge but first gillian turner live in mexico city with the key take aways from yesterday's meetings. gillian. >> gillian: hi, bryan. secretaries blinken and mayorkas came to mexico city with an assignment to get help from the migrants crossing into the united states illegally. none of the delegation traveled to the border to look firsthand, but they were all smiles when they met at the national palace yesterday. secretary mayorkas tweeting we had a very productive meeting

with president lopez obrador and members of his cabinet in mexico city. regional challenge requires regional solutions, and his effort alongside us and with others. one priority is getting mexico to crack down on cartels that smuggle thousands across the southern border. they are making it clear they view the border crisis as someone else's problem. take a listen to the foreign minister. >> talking about the economic part and structural causes of migrant. interested in addressing the causes, people come because of poverty, inequality, violence, family reunification and want to address their problems in the countries of origin. >> border patrol tells us between last friday and this monday, encountered over 35,000 migrants along the border and a quarter million for the month of

december so far. the numbers leaving many republicans unimpressed. >> blinken's visit to mexico is all about paying lip service to this issue. we are seeing independents, republicans and democrats getting very angry about what they are seeing at the border. >> gillian: deliverable out of yesterday, at least according to the mexican side, they say the biden administration agreed to reopen the rail crossings, impacting tens of thousands of americans in the border communities there, and this just in a moment ago, bryan, confirming through the mexican side here that they have agreed to a follow-up visit to take place at the white house in washington, d.c. in january. more on that as we get it. >> bryan: gillian, thank you. live in mexico city. >> anita: the crisis at the border taking its toll on so-called sanctuary cities. democratic mayors from chicago, denver and new york are pleading

for federal help. however, it appears those local leaders will have to wait at least for now with president biden on his caribbean get away. fox business grady trimble is live in washington. what are the mayors asking for? what do they think the biden administration can actually help them with? >> they say they are overwholed and so they are asking the biden administration to step in and provide more money. they also want the president to declare a state of emergency. >> we cannot continue to do the federal government's job. we have spoken to fema and other federal officials. we have expressed concern about the border's surge but not offered additional help. we need action. and we need it now. >> we cannot do this alone. we need more support from the federal government. >> as part of that press conference, mayor eric adams is also announcing new restrictions on where and when busses full of migrants can arrive in new york

city. the executive order requires busses provide 32 hours notice before their arrival. this comes after a record 14 busses arrived in one day in new york city last week bringing the total number of migrants who have entered the city's shelter system in the past couple of years to well over 150,000. chicago and denver have taken in more than 50,000 migrants combined. republicans say president biden and the democrats have brought these problems upon themselves. >> what governor abbott is doing, saying hey, liberal, if you don't have double standards you would have no standards at all. if you are a sanctuary city or state you can help us deal with it and see what kind of a catastrophe it is. >> and with border encounters and crossings at an all-time high and the caravan on the way, that likely means more migrants heading to sanctuary cities, you

heard from the mayors, they are already stretched thin. >> anita: seems the shelters are bursting at the seams, can't take anymore people. >> bryan: brandon judd, national border patrol council president. appreciate it. let's start off with this meeting that gillian turner, it appears they agreed to open the rail crossings, normalize the situation, the caravan is making its way to the border, and they have gone after some encampments, what do you expect the united states agreed on giving mexico if anything at all. >> everything comes down to incentive. what is the mexican government incentive to stop illegal immigrants from making their way through their country up to our borders, and there is absolutely no incentive for them to stop it. when you look at the amount of money these people are paying as

they are making their way for goods such as food, clothing, shelter, they are paying thousands upon thousands of dollars going to the mexican economy and on top of that, look at what the cartels are making. they are making billions of dollars and all of that money is going right back into the mexican economy. so, there is absolutely no incentive for the mexican government to want this to end. what they are going to try to do, extract concessions from us. they are going to try to get more money from us that would be more than the amount of money going into their economy and that's going to cost our taxpayers and that's why the money is going to come from. it's extremely disappointing this administration continues to try to get other countries to solve our problem when we have the solutions on our side of the border. we could stop this tomorrow if we had proper policy. i would say to mayor adams, i would also say to mayor johnson, why don't you ask the administration to give the proper policy to stop this, these incursions, rather than asking for more of our taxpayer

money that's going to go to them and then also to mexico. it's insane to think that we are going to put this on to the taxpayer rather than give us the proper policy that will allow us to shut this down tomorrow. >> bryan: looks like another meeting between the white house and the mexican administration in january, we shall see if they are going to try to stop the trains coming up with the caravan going forward. you had mentioned earlier on "fox & friends," i caught you talking about the fact you believe tariffs, economic pressure is what's needed on mexico. how do you apply economic pressure on mexico while not hurting the united states. it is after all our largest trade partner. >> the first thing that you have to recognize is the moment we threaten the tariffs, the mexican government will act. we don't have to go through with them and even if we did have to go through with them, it's going to be for a very short period of time. what we have to do is we have to

bring the power, the big stick to these meetings. if we don't do that, then we are going to be giving away everything to the mexican government. we have to show that we are coming from a position of power. if we do that, the mexican government will react in a way that we want. we have proven that. president trump proved that. we don't have to go forward with the tariffs. all he had to do is threaten the tariffs and mexico had to believe that the tariffs were going to go into place and if the biden administration would do the same thing, we would get the same reaction from the mexican government. >> bryan: it's talked about a lot, the push and pull factors. you hear mexico, guatemala, talking about the dire conditions pushing people to come. what's not talked about more is what's pulling people into the united states. you have texas governor greg abbott in march they signed a law that's now going to make it a misdemeanor, six months in prison if they catch you illegally in texas. they are hoping this will kind of help on the pull factor, if

they can put you in jail, maybe that will keep people from coming but they have already arrested some 10,000 migrants since 2021 on trespassing charges and yet we are still seeing record numbers. do you think this new law in march in texas is going to do enough to keep people from wanting to come here or does more need to be done? >> it will have a huge effect in texas. when you start applying consequences, we see an immediate drop in people. it's not going to be until march until it goes into effect so we will see the immediate drop. when we talk about the pull factors, it's amazing people are not working up to canada and the reason they are not is because they don't have the same factors up there. we provide so many social services. we give so many benefits to these people that come here illegally that canada does not, that's why they are not going there. we have to put the pull factor off. we have got to cut off and say our social benefits are for united states citizens, not for citizens from around the world who are violating our laws.

that's a reward. that's the pull factor, that's the magnet that we continue to reward people for violating our laws. we have to stop that and this will end. and that's what governor abbott is trying to do. he's trying to give a consequence to people crossing the border illegally. >> bryan: and border patrol agents outnumbered 200-1, and working to try to get things under control. brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council, thank you for being here. >> it's good to be with you. thank you. >> anita: a teenager killed by her sibling all stemming from a fight over a christmas gift. more on that story coming up. >> bryan: another iranian-backed group is ramping up attacks at israel's northern border. fears of a much wider war are growing. retired lieutenant general keith kellogg weighs in next.

>> yesterday lebanese hezbollah conducted the most intense attacks since this started. united states is in a low grade war with iran. we are just not acknowledging it.

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>> bryan: two florida teenagers are in custody after a fight about christmas presents turned deadly. it started when a 14-year-old boy got in an argument with his brother about who was getting more gifts. their older sister tried to break up the fight, but the 14-year-old allegedly pulled a gun and shot her dead. steve is live with more details on this absolute tragedy. steve, how did this all get started? >> a gruesome christmas eve for

the coley family, the family was christmas shopping for presents, apparently the 14-year-old demarcus was jealous that his 15-year-old brother darkus was getting more presents. he pulled a pistol, and the sister intervened, demarcus shot here, a 23-year-old woman, mother of two, holding a 10-month-old infant in her arms. the infant fell but was unhurt. as for the 23-year-old, she died in hospital. police say the two young men have a history of violent crime, they have only gotten probation in the past. here is the sheriff. >> i really think we need tougher laws to deal with these kids. as you can see with their 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. >> the story gets even worse. after demarcus shot his sister, darkus shot demarcus and then threw the weapon and ran. right now we have a 14-year-old and 15-year-old, one charged with first-degree murder, the other charged with attempted first-degree murder. bryan, back to you. >> bryan: absolutely outrageous, the only good news here the infant miraculously survived all of this. steve, live in atlanta, thank you, steve. anita. >> anita: as the war rages on in gaza, fears grow over a possible new front for israel. the country is warning of a second war with iran-backed hezbollah in lebanon. france, germany, u.k. and the u.s. all pushing back on iran, islamic republic has produced more highly enriched uranium. they say tehran must never

develop a nuclear weapon. bring in retired army lieutenant keith kellogg, former national security adviser to vice president mike pence. thanks for coming on. i read that as that crossed the wires about the four nations pushing back, saying tehran must never have a nuclear weapon, and that certainly is comforting, but what about all the chaos they are causing in the region without a nuclear weapon? >> yeah, anita, thanks for having me today. look, this thing -- we are in day 83 of the war between hamas and israel and projected to even get worse and go longer. now there is concerns obviously about the north with hezbollah. the minister in israel has warned them off and told the leader of hezbollah that you know, if you get involved you are a target as well. but look, you are seeing a lack of credibility of the united states and allies on pushing

back against iran. they don't believe what we are doing and a lot of our allies don't either. sitting back and watching these things develop and not really going in full strength and saying we support israel, full up, and until this thing is complete, and they defeat hamas, eradicate hamas and other things are happening in the region. when i talk about lack of credibility, just a couple months ago you had china come in and broker a deal between iran and saudi arabia, just recently on prosperity guardian, that is the mission we have to protect red sea assets from the attacks by the houthis. look, italians have backed out, spanish have backed out, and the french have backed out. it does not give you a lot of confidence and compound with the iaea, international atomic energy agency saying iran is probably in months of a nuclear breakout, enriching uranium up

to 80%, they were only -- and now heading towards 90%, weapons grade. so you look at all this and put it in one big package. and basically saying look, the reason why this is happening is there are bad actors and bad actors are seeing more problems because they don't see credibility of the united states to lead and benny gantz is reaching out and saying look, we need to get involved in this peace process, somebody needs to come in and help us out and the united states is not helping at all. >> anita: you mentioned benny gantz, the senior member of the israeli war cabinet, he actually said stopwatch for diplomatic solution is running out here. i also want to ask you about lebanon. people say the lebanese government needs to step up and stop hezbollah from firing on israel's northern border. the people of the community there, they have not been able to go home yet since the attack happened on october 7th because

of the firing back and forth across the border. what does lebanon need to do here? >> well, honestly, lebanon can't do anything. when you look at hezbollah, it's a political entity, a very large one and strong military one within lebanon itself. basically a caretaker government of lebanon. they can't do anything. it's up to us, the united states and alliance to do something, and how we need to do something, and it's not with hezbollah, not necessarily with hamas or with the houthis as well. the real nation that's involved here is iran. they are the ones that are backing the houthis and hezbollah and hamas with weapons and activities using the republican guard force that they have. that's what we need to react and we are not doing it. instead, we are helping them out, talking about giving them money for release of hostages as well, we are trying to get back into joint comprehensive plan of action, that's not dealing from strength. and until we recognize that, until we do something hard, make

a hard move, nothing is going to change. and you are going to see more dysfunction, more disarray in the middle east. >> anita: we didn't have time to talk about the hostages but 128 still being held and pray for their safe release as well. lieutenant general keith kellogg, thank you for joining us today. >> thanks, anita. >> bryan: gypsy rose blanchard, remember her, officially free from prison. served seven years behind bars for the murder of her mom. her story made national headlines, sparked a tv show and gaining traction with a new generation on tiktok. coming up, the details of her early release. >> anita: anti-israel protestors disrupting major travel hubs on one of the busiest days of the year. demonstrations show no signs of stopping even as we are learning more about the things committeed by hamas.

former state department special envoy to combat antisemitism joins us next to discuss.

>> bryan: nikki haley holding multiple events in new hampshire after controversial comments last night. she was asked about the reasons behind the civil war during a town hall last night and did not mention slavery. haley responding to the criticism over the earlier -- responding to the criticism earlier today, excuse me, saying of course she knows about slavery, being from the south. >> anita: governor ron desantis responding saying the comments prove hayley is not ready for primetime and will wilt under the pressure. the florida governor and vivek ramaswamy are crisscrossing the hawk eye state. ramaswamy doubling down on the decision to pull the tv ads saying that type of campaigning

is for chumps. former new jersey chrischristie is dismissing calls to drop out of the race. >> bryan: fox news will have you covered with iowa just 18 days away, followed by the first in the nation primary in new hampshire the following week. >> palestine will be free. [horns honking] >> anita: trying to spread the anti-israel message by stopping traffic. activists blocked the main roadway to los angeles international airport. desperate holiday travelers tried to push past the protestors on foot. alexis mcadams has more from new

york city. police also arrested dozens of protestors. >> 63 to be exact in l.a. and new york, chaos from coast to coast, people showing up and seeing the protests shut down the area near the airport. those two protests, one in l.a. and one in new york. at jfk airport, demonstrators blocked the roadway, forcing some to get out of their cars and walk with their bags, just hoping to make the flight. watch. >> free, free palestine. >> free, free palestine. >> more than two dozen people were arrested at jfk facing charges for disorderly traffic and blocking traffic there, not what people wanted to see on the busiest travel week. port authority sent some busses to pick them up. and similar at lax, protestors stood in the road bringing traffic to a standstill. the group used construction debris, road signs, even blocks

of concrete and tree branches to block the roadway, whatever they could get the hands on. even attacked a cop, listen. >> when they heard the unlawful assembly was declared, some started to leave the area and others became aggressive with the police officers. one police officer was thrown to the ground by a protestors. >> thankfully the officer was not hurt. the person who attacked him charged with battery. at least 36 others were arrested for rioting in l.a. travelers support first amendment expression as long as it's peaceful. >> hold up signs to make it vocal, not destructive. >> good thing being in america, you can say what you feel and protest about anything you want to protest about. >> from the airports to the bridges to pretty much any street across the country this is popping up. more protests in the coming days and the country, and here in new york city, the mayor says they are prepared for pro-palestinian

protestors planning to disrupt new year's eve ball drop in times square. >> anita: you can't blame the travelers for getting out of the cars and walking to the flights. >> hope they made it. >> bryan: former special envoy to combat antisemitism came to u.s. as iranian refugee, thank you for being here, ali, this sound bite from the former police commissioner who had this to say about the fact he thinks frankly they need to do more about being tougher on those protestors. listen. >> get back to the people on criminal violations, charging them criminally, and if they keep acting up, they have criminal records to screw them up the rest of their damn lives. nothing is happening to them. police arrive, disperse them,

detain some and immediately let go. >> bryan: what do you make of that, ali, the belief perhaps the protestors are more emboldened because the consequences just are not stiff enough. >> bryan, they are more 'em boldered and not only problems for holiday travelers, the core values of american, defaced the white house, defaced the lincoln memorial, scuffled with the police on christmas day at places like the st. patrick's cathedral and chanted things like christmas is canceled. what we are witnessing is attack by these violent pro terrorist, pro-hamas mobs against america and our core institutions and everything that america stands for. yes, it's time for the democrat-run cities and mayors to hold these violent mobs accountable, bill braten is exactly right, we need to see

arrests, need to see the books thrown at these people, and also, bryan, a lot of these acts are hate crimes. we are seeing a huge reluctance by democrat mayors and d.a.s to charge hate crimes for what they are. as a jewish american, former antisemitism envoy, i can tell you that american jews are not feeling safe. a vast majority of the country is not feeling safe. we are seeing that democrat mayors are handcuffing law enforcement and the police instead of the criminals. >> here in new york city, mayor adams, democrat, has said he found there was a settlement that was done between the city and the black lives matter protests in 2020 and a part of the settlement means the nypd agrees to no longer do kettling, block off the protestors and then arrest them all. they can't do that anymore, and even mayor adams has said the police force has become more hesitant dealing with the protestors and does not think they should have carpeblanch,

the able to march wherever they want. >> fallout of the blm protests, the complete lawlessness we saw in mostly democrat cities across our country, the legacy of that chaos and lawlessness, and so we need -- we need our country back, we need law enforcement to be empowered, to enforce the law, we need police to make arrests, hate crimes enforced as well and we need to see mass arrests of these violent pro terrorist mobs because until they are arrested we are going to continue to see escalation. and bryan, as you just said, new york is bracing for this violent people to ruin new year's eve, our annual new year's eve celebration. why should we allow that to happen. they have made their point loud and clear but again, we want peaceful protests, that is the american way. it's enough of this violence. this is more about hating on america than any events that are taking place in the middle east

right now. >> bryan: ok, thanks for being here, sorry, wish we had more time. appreciate you being here today. >> thank you, bryan. >> she didn't deserve what happened. if anything, she just deserved to be where i am. >> anita: gypsy rose blanchard, the woman who famously plotted her mother's murder after years of abuse has now been released from prison. what life might look like her amid all the infamy.

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>> bryan: gypsy rose blanchard, subject of "the act" has been

released from prison. pleaded guilty plotting the murder of her mother in 2015. claimed her mother made her believe she was chronically ill and disabled from a young age. trial attorney mercedes colwin is here, but first garrett has more details on this story. garrett. >> yeah, bryan, gypsy rose blanchard has never really known what it was like to be free, she was a prisoner in her home and her own body for more than two decades, her mother claudine deedee, said she had the mind of a 7-year-old and suffered from various medical conditions such as muscular dystrophy and leukemia. she shaved gypsy's head, removed her teeth, forced her to use a wheelchair and oxygen tanks, and procedures she didn't actually need again for more than 20 years. prosecutors say deedee suffered from a rare psychological disorder making up those fake symptoms and causing real ones to get attention.

in 2016, gypsy pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in missouri for her role in convincing her then boyfriend, whom she met online, to kill deedee. 2017 interview with dr. phil, she said at the time she felt she did not have any other choice. >> she would have found me. she would have convinced them that i was lying and she had paperwork to prove like i was mentally incompetent, nobody would have believed me. >> now 32 years old, she tells "people" magazine she regrets having her mother killed every day, she didn't deserve that, she was a sick woman and i was not able to see that, she deserves to be where i am, in prison, she has an upcoming docu series, but she and her husband, who she married a year ago while in prison, have tickets to a

kansas city football game, where she hopes to meet her idol, taylor swift. >> anita: bryan, trial attorney mercedes colwin, thank you for coming in, welcome to the program. this is a wild and tragic story. so, gypsy rose blanchard, now 32 years old, doing some tiktoks garnering some attention, we heard in garrett's report the horrib things her mother did to her, chained her to the bed, had her salivary glands removed so her teeth would rot and then had to be removed, it's no wonder people want to cheer on her freedom i guess, right? >> that's exactly right, anita. and anybody that has ever watched any of the documentaries about gypsy rose are really cheering because for the first time she's free. she's free from that

imprisonment by her mother, those were such excessive abuses. obviously it's a laundry list. all these hospitalizations that took place, and forced surgeries as you noted, and so did garrett note as well. so that's why there is so many individuals out there cheering her on. but there are layers of complexity in taking on this new life because there are laws that don't allow you to benefit from the crime. so, there is going to be -- she's going to have to consult with some lawyers whether she can benefit from the books she tends to put out in the an ethos and other things she wants to do, there are laws that say you can't benefit from the crime. as long as it's autobiography, and the life she had at her mother's abusive hands, maybe she can script the laws and benefit. >> anita: and she was convicted of plotting the murder, she did not carry it out, that was her

ex-boyfriend. he's still serving a life sentence in jail. i want to turn the topic now to the idaho murder case. that house in moscow, idaho where the four university students lived was demolished today. pretty unbelievable. the university says they are going to leave it as an empty plot and plant some grass but some of the victims' families members are upset, they say wait a minute, there could still be some evidence in there. they wanted to wait until the man charged with their murders, bryan kohberger, had been tried. what do you think? >> anita, such a compelling argument because think about it. such a high burden to convict someone of a crime, it's beyond a reasonable doubt. if there are 1, 2, 3 jurors on the box saying a lot of evidence about what they heard, what the surviving members of the household heard, well, certainly they would probably be application from the jury's themselves looking to go to the house. the house being removed, they are not going to be able to get

those questions answered and that could ultimately result in acquittal. so, there is a compelling reason for those concerns. >> anita: yeah, and still waiting to see when a trial date will be set and perhaps hear more about this. mercedes colwin, thank you for your legal in sight. appreciate it. >> bryan: electric vehicle sales expect today slip. why the industry could be in more an even bumpier ride in 2024. and the third year in a row, the golden state, california, is losing its luster, next. for a e to find some relief. cosentyx works for me. cosentyx helps real people get real relief from the symptoms of psoriatic arthritis or psoriasis. serious allergic reactions, severe skin reactions that look like eczema, and an increased risk of infections, some fatal, have occurred. tell your doctor if you have an infection or symptoms, had a vaccine or plan to or if ibd symptoms develop or worsen.

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>> electric vehicles sales surged past one million for the first time this year. demand is expected to stall with troubling reports giving buyer as reason to tap the brakes. jeff flocks is live in illinois. jeff? >> hello toe, bryan. beautiful day here. we're at the ev charging station here in the suburbs. there's a volvo over there and a couple of chevy bolts. they're still selling them just not as fast as they thought they were. there's several i guess you could call them bumps in the

road when it comes to evs in the coming year, not this which pertains to tesla. senators blumenthal and markey have sent a letter to the folks at tesla asking their vehicles be recalled because there's reporting that the company has known about safety problems, but they have kept them from the national highway traffic safety administration. they want recalls. in addition, consumer reports now says they have studied multiple vehicles and found 79% more problems with evs than regular vehicles. there's also a problem with those vehicles holding their value. depreciation. when folks at iccars.com found that evs lost half of their value after five years. that compared to 38% of the value for all other vehicles. so you know, evs continue to be popular in some circles. they're making a lot of them.

we have 95 different models to choose from. people just don't seem to be as interested as people thought in buying them. >> even with the rebates and tax breaks. jeff flock live in illinois. thanks. >> new numbers show california lost residents for the third year in a row in 2023. it appears that wealthy taxpayers are fleeing the fastest. senior national correspondent william la jeunesse is live in los angeles. william, why are these high income earners leaving and where are they going? >> well, i bet you can guess. it's primarily taxes, anita. you know, they can handle the cost of living. 750,000 californians have left for other states in the last three years. but it's also revenue. the state is projecting a 68 billion deficit. partially because these wealthy people are leaving. right?

and who is it? well, for the first time, highly educated, high-earning professionals are leaving the state than coming in. why is that a big deal? these are the taxpayers that foot the bill for the state's progressive politics and programs. wages and pensions. >> the 1 percenters about which is 150,000, 160,000 people in the state of 40 million are paying nearly half of the income taxes. >> so no state is more dependent on the wealthy. 1% here pay 45% of the income tax. their rate, 13.3% combined with the state's housing costs double the national average is driving people away. >> i'm seeing anywhere from two to five clients a month calling me and saying we're leaving. it's not the younger people anymore. it's the age bracket of 55 to 65. the reason that here leaving they're giving me is primarily

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♪ i'm gonna hold you forever... ♪ ♪ i'll be there... ♪ ♪ you don't... ♪ ♪ you don't have to worry... ♪ >> bryan, that will do it. the two hours flew by. i enjoyed spending them with you. i know you're making new year's plans. are you going to hit the ball or what? >> no, i'm not going to hit the ball. i'll be in illinois. i'm happy. i think the ball drop is overrated. that's my take. have you seen the ball drop? >> not in person. only on tv. >> you're smarter for it. it's not worth it. bryan llenas. thanks for being here. here's "the story" with rich edson in more martha. >> good afternoon, everybody. i'm rich edson in for martha ma