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border is not, as it turns out, secure and significant policy changes are needed. this comes despite his own homeland security secretary repeatedly insisting, even this week, there is no crises. welcome to fox news live, i'm gillian turner. griff: we have a lot of news as biden's numbers drop, and lucas has things kicking off. >> the lowest of any president in modern history. presidential polling began nationwide the end of world war ii, but his name is not on the ballot in new hampshire perhaps because of his fifth place finish in new hampshire behind tom steyer. and he met and discussed the

southern border. >> the speaker and house republicans, are they ready to act as well, whether they want to solve problems or score political points against the president. i'm ready to solve the problems, massive changes and i mean it sincerely. >> well, biden is not on the ballot in new hampshire. immigration is one of the top issues in the granite state according to the voters there ahead of the primary on tuesday. last week the president told me he didn't think there was a crisis on the southern border and yesterday our own jacqui heinrich had this impromptu exchange where he admitted that it's not secure in contrast to what his dhs secretary said. >> what do you think of the republicans trying to impeach mayorkas. do you think it's constitutional. are you on the same page with benjamin netanyahu. >> do you say that the border is secure, sir? >> no, it's not. (inaudible). >> do you believe--

>> give me the money. >> do any of your policies enabled any of the crisis. >> i've asked for thousands m more-- (inaudible). jacqui: thank you, everybody. >> do you think that-- >> i said exchange, griff. that was like an impromptu interview. a cabinet secretary has only been impeached one time in u.s. history that's 150 years ago. griff: lucas, thanks. gillian. >> the president now admits to fox news the southern border is not in fact secure. fox cameras were capturing more texas border officials apprehending illegal immigrants. this comes as the state's governor greg abbott's feud with the biden administration rages on.

danamarie joins us from texas with details. hi. >> hi, gillian. we're seeing a major change in policy here for years migrants have been able to cross over into shelby park with little to no deterrents. now, texas has kicked out border patrol and has installed hundreds of feet of razor wire. as you can see behind me. now, another policy note to change that troopers are now arresting migrants who illegally cross the razor wire here in shelby park. texas dps tell arrested migrants are charged with criminal trespassing and wait in jail until they're sentenced. after that, texas will turn the migrants over to ice which then they will decide whether to deport or not. as texas continues to fortify the border, the federal government is suing texas to gain full access to the park and its ability to potentially remove the razor wire as it sees fit. yesterday, members of the texas state legislature got a tour of

the border operations. >> my feeling is, the federal government is going to remove razor wire. i hope our texas troopers just put it right back. >> last night, mcallen texas and border patrol shows us now tactics migrants are using to move over the 30-foot border wall. >> that's the new style ladder they're coming with, it's like a rebar, a rebar type that they're using now, i guess it's a little lighter than the wood ladders they were using, so-- >> now, here in shelby park, the number of migrants crossing has significantly dropped, but in other areas like mcallen texas where the military presence isn't as huge, we're seeing people still trying to cross in very dangerous ways, gillian. >> danamarie mcnichols in eagle pass for us, thank you. griff: we're joined by national

border control council president brandon judd. you just heard danamarie mcnichols report where i've spent the vast majority of 2023. the numbers are down, but i'm not buying it it's about to slow significantly down as secretary blinken was telling a bunch of dignitaries from mexico that they've had a recent drop and it's likely a trend that's going to be going forward. what do you make of it? >> yeah, i smiled because i know how long you have been down there reporting on this and it's great to see you down there every single time. our agents are very happy to see reporters down there actually talking about this. when we talk about blinken, when we talk about mayorkas, talk about meetings with mexican officials they're just not going to prove fruitful. we know we can control everything that happens here and of course, you listen to what president biden said, he said the border is not secure, but talks about the wrong thing. he talks about money. we don't need money for this

issue. if president biden was seriously concerned about this issue, all he would have to do is give us policy. he doesn't have to have congress, give us laws. yes, it would be nice to have those laws because that's a long-term fix, but president biden can fix this immediately with policy. we saw that with president trump. it was brilliant what he did to drop illegal immigration 45-year lows. biden could do the exact same thing, he doesn't have to have congress step in. griff: it's interesting and worth pointing out, i think, brandon, in that moment that you saw in lucas tomlinson's report, president biden saying no, the border is not secure, it hasn't been for 10 years and he says, he's been saying that ever since. well, here is a little bit of what his administration has been saying for him. stands quite in contrast, watch. >> i want to be very clear, our borders are not open. >> the border is secure. >> the president has done more to secure the border and to deal with this issue of immigration than anybody else. griff: let's just set the record straight.

is the border open or closed? is it secure or is it insecure, brandon? >> so what we have to talk about when we talk about an open border, who controls it? what sections are being controlled and right now there are sections of our border that are being controlled by the cartels. all you have to do is look at got-away numbers and the drugs on the streets today. that shows the border is not secure and cartels operate, flood our resources pull our agents out of the field, create gaps in the coverage and cross their high value products. that shows the border is not secure. those facts are irrefutable and those facts clearly show that the border is not secure and that the border is, in fact, open at specific times that the cartels want to open the border. griff: and when you hear the administration saying that they're doing things now to bring these numbers down, my sources in the darien gap in

panama, the panama folks, if you will, they expect a greater number of migrants in 2024 than in 2023 which is record breaking. what are you hearing? >> yeah, all of our intel points that everything is going up. look at the past few days, 5,000 apprehensions for the border patrol alone and cvp just under 7,000 in the past few days. the numbers will go up. look at december, compared to past december, we're going up. the only thing that drives it down is if the cartels recognize that president trump is going to be very, very bad for them. this is a business, they recognize they have to generate profit. do they scale back trying to make this less of an issue for president biden going into 2024 or do they just continue saying hey, it's a foregone conclusion

that trump is going to win, and let's generate now. and the mexican government have no incentive to do because of the amount of money that goes into their economy due to illegal immigration and drug smuggling. griff: we're running out of time. when are we able to get official numbers. 302,000 migrants apprehended in the month of december yet, here we are on january 20th, and they still haven't released the official number. >> yeah, dhs always hides the numbers because they don't want the american public to understand what's going on. they don't want to have the honest conversation so we can make an informed decision about everything going on. and we don't get the numbers until they actually publish them based on our apprehensions are, they're not telling people what's coming up because they know it's going to hurt them politicalically. it's unfortunate that they're

not telling the americans the truth. griff: national border patrol council president. thank you very much. >> thank you, griff. >> well, former president and current g.o.p. frontrunner donald trump is holding a rally tonight, just three days ahead of new hampshire's primary so voters in the granite state state right now say border and immigration are the top issues they're most concerned about ahead of tuesday. alexis mcadams joins us outside of a rally in new hampshire. hey, alexis. >> hey, gillian, there are people in front of the trump rally. it's not going to start for a couple of hours, it's cold out there, i can barely feel my face, and that's not deterring people and they want to hear about the border, and not just the southern border. and they're crossing here at the northern border, watch. >> i think there are so many

issues going on right now. immigration is one of them. immigration is number one. number two is education and number three is the economy. >> immigration, the border is my top number one. >> and those polling numbers show trust trump's border policies. and elise stefanik has been on the campaign trail talking that it's not just the southern border they're worried about. >> the northern border is a crisis as well. the other issue important to the northern border, because of the southern border issue our border patrol officers have been transferred over and over to the southern border. so this is an issue that matters. >> stefanik is not the only one on the ground for trump. tim scott who dropped out of the race was backing him. and with all of the support trump says it doesn't mean it's

time to coast. >> we just don't want you to take anything for granted. this is what i spent all last week saying, don't take it because we want to begin by big margins, we don't want to just win. >> and take a live look here right now. you can see outside here in manchester, new hampshire, this is the line of people just kind of preparing at this point for the former president to arrive. and this is something different gillian than we've seen at other rallies, when i've gone to campaign events for desantis or nikki haley, no one is selling t-shirts, almost like they're getting ready for a big concert. they're excited to see the former president and see what he has to say. >> it does look like a concert or a game out there. alexis, thanks for your reporting, appreciate it. griff: like a dead show, instead, a trump rally. and candidates set to appear on

the new hampshire ballot tuesday, but joe biden isn't one of them. and they're encouraging people to write in biden on their ballot. >> griff, it's the final push leading up to the new hampshire primary and president biden is not only not in the state, he is not on the ballot. this all happening after he informed the dnc to make south carolina the first in the nation primary and new hampshire, which has been the first in the nation for 100 years, did not comply. so even though the president is not here, that's not stopping his friends for stumping for him here in the granite state. boston mayor michelle wu, as well as california congressman ro khanna both here working for the grass roots campaign called write in biden. some political analystses say it needs to do well not just

that biden has to win here, but a win is a win. ro khanna telling fox news, he's confident the president will prevail. >> success means winning, that's the key and i think that joe biden is going to win in new hampshire. to win in a write-in campaign is very, very difficult and because of the folks here, the grass roots organization that people have put together, he's going to win. >> the reason for the write-in campaign is because local democrats fear the optics of an incumbent president running for reelection and losing the state to a lesser-known challenger. at the event that just wrapped her her here in nashua, she spent most the time talking about former donald trump warning democrats they cannot see him retake the oval office. griff: madison live for us. thank you. gillian. >> for a closer look what to

expect coming out of new hampshire. let's go to our political panel. joining us matt gorman and former secretary, and thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> a big political week coming up ahead of us. let's start here, matt. i want to give you the lay of the land ahead of new hampshire when it comes to the latest polls from fox news. trump's got 52.6% support nikki haley 35.8 and desantis 6-- three and a half are undecided at this point. looks poised to be another landslide for the president. >> certainly nikki needed that boost in iowa. if you want to be the man you've got to beat the man. nikki has to get extremely, extremely close or win here, the x-factor are the democrats

and independents. even though we have michelle wu and ro khanna campaigning for biden. they can cross over and vote for nikki. that could be the x-factor and boost her numbers and get her closer. >> i want to ask about the democratic side, the biden election campaign throwing their hands up in the air and taking themselves off the field on tuesday. interestingly, dean phillips was on our era couple of hours ago, talking about the fact we had historically low voter turnout last election cycle and poised to get worse. this time around democrats put forward their candidate, you know, the president, but he's got historically low polling numbers. could be a recipe for disaster? >> look, i don't think so. i think that the president will do well. i think obviously with the write-in campaign that they put

together he will come out on top. i do think it's counterproductive for the dnc and local new hampshire laws to have this sort of in-fighting, you know, which primary is the official one for new hampshire. is looks to me from the latest information i've gotten from the dnc they're not going to count the delegates for the nomination. i understand in new hampshire they're upset who comes first. the rules are the rules and the dnc if they want to change, they're able to do so, but i think that the president regardless a write-in campaign he'll come out on top on tuesday. >> i don't have any doubt that president biden is the leading candidate on your side of the aisle, the question is whether he's giving up, you know, important pr ground in new hampshire, a chance to communicate with potential voters. >> well, his team is still down there. his supporters are still down there. they're still carrying the message and the message of everything he's done, inflation is now and gas prices what have

you. and his team is very present in new hampshire and they're going to continue to do so all the way until the general election. >> some big news for former president trump this week came in the form, matt, as endorsement as you know from senator tim scott. you worked on his own presidential campaign. take a listen to what he said on friday night at trump's rally. >> we need-- >> donald trump. >> you see, we need a president who doesn't see black or white. we see a president who sees americans as one american family and that's why i came to the very warm state of new hamp hamps hampshire. [applause] >> to endorse the next pres president. >> it was a highly sought after endorsement for the former president. i'm curious to know, i guess, whether the senator really believes that trump is a

candidate who does not see race? >> well, look, i take him at his word. i think that growing up in north charleston in poverty and rising through, as only you can in this country, tim scott knows firsthand what it's like to live the american dream and this is the themes he's talked about very consistently. i heard about it during his campaign when he was a presidential candidate and heard is last night. this isn't a diversion for him. >> does ebl, -- does he believe, what i'm asking does the senator believe that trump doesn't see race in america? >> again, you'd have to ask him that. i took everything he says at his word. even though he went all in in iowa, our campaign did, new hampshire has a special place for him. he loved going up there and so, i don't think it was a surprise he endorsed trump yesterday up in the granite state. >> gentlemen, thank you for

taking time for us ahead of the big night on tuesday. we appreciate it. we'll check back soon. >> thank you. griff: a great discussion. coming up, reaction to alec baldwin's manslaughter charge in the fatal "rust" shooting and the new court filing shows a financial link between a georgia prosecutor and district attorney fani willis. how it could affect trump's election interference case in georgia? we'll tell you coming up. ose t more energy in just two weeks. -ugh. -here, i'll take that. woo hoo! ensure max protein, 30 grams protein, 1 gram sugar, 25 vitamins and minerals. and a new fiber blend with a prebiotic. (♪) ♪ ♪ every day can be extraordinary with rich, creamy, delicious fage total yogurt.

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>> welcome back. the folks gathering at freedom plaza here in the nation's capitol for the 2024 annual women's march. this week's theme is bigger than roe. they're hoping to rally supports for reproductive rights at the ballot box this year comes after yesterday's annual march for life on the national mall which brought thousands of pro-life supporters together. we'll bring any news out of this as it happens. griff: fulton county district attorney fani willis becoming under investigation, the lead prosecutor in the trump case, wade bought flights for he and willis. and the latest, this is really

getting ugly, madison. >> yeah, griff, some new revelations linking d.a. fani willis and her special prosecutor nathan wade as lovers. the lawyer for wade's estranged wife show credit card purchases for wade and willis. there are plane tickets to miami for the two of them in october of 2022. flights to san francisco in their name in april 2023, as well as cruises, hotel stays, and flowers. >> the allegations are true, she's going to have her hands full with ethics issues and other things. >> also on friday, the fulton county board of commissioners launched an investigation into whether or not willis acted improperly when she hired wade. wade filed for divorce in 2021. the day after he was appointed special prosecutor by the d.a. wade earned upwards of $650,000 since he started working on the case. the attorney for one of trump's

codefendants alleges that willis benefitted from the money wade is making from fulton county and what happens next will be up to the judge overseeing the trump case. >> if these allegations are true, could lead to a whole host of things that the d.a. doesn't want to happen. she could be removed from the case. could be held to to have a conflict of interest, could potentially be dismissed if it's so structurally unsound that it amounts to a violation of due process. >> willis has been subpoenaed in wade's divorce case, but says she shouldn't have to be involved. there's a hearing in cobb county court on monday to make the decision. griff: what's amazing, madison, we may actually get to watch this play out in a courtroom. and live for us in atlanta, madison, thank you. gillian. gillian: alec baldwin could be headed to trial. he's now facing new manslaughter charges in the

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western film "rust". baldwin was an actor and co-producer of the film. he had the gun when it fired killing her and injuring the director souza. baldwin has repeatedly denied wrongdoing and says he pulled back the hammer, but did not pull the gun's trigger. he was initially charged with involuntary manslaughter in january, but three months later, last april, special prosecutors dropped the charge after new evidence indicating that the gun had been mod fight before being delivered to the set. new analysis by ballistics experts determined the trigger had to be pulled for the gun to fire. in a statement, attorneys for hutchens family said in part, quote, we're looking forward to the criminal trial if he should be convicted for the untimely death. and last night baldwin's attorneys tell fox news, they look forward to their day in

court. gillian: christina coleman in l.a. at this hour, thank you. griff: joining us with more on the indictment of alec baldwin. let's dive in and talk about -- you heard christina's report about new evidence which is why this has come back in another indictment. what do you make of it? >> griff, that's kind of the $64,000 question. apparently the grand jury indicted him and seven new witnesses who have provided new evidence or at least new testimony with respect to what happened. now, grand jury proceedings are confidential so we don't know yet, but i tell you alec baldwin faces a n uphill climate trial. historically cocky, and new yorkers don't typically do well in cases in new mexico. i think there's a significant chance that he loses and he spends prison time hard for

someone. griff: cocky arrogant, liberal new yorker? that's not at all what he is. i want to play a clip of that interview with george stephanopoulos which we all watched and it could possibly become part of this case again based on talking about pulling the trigger or not. listen here. >> i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. i let go of the hammer of the gun and the gun goes off. >> at the moment. >> that's the moment the gun went off. >> it wasn't in the script for the trigger to be pulled. >> well, the trigger wasn't pulled. i didn't pull the trigger. >> you didn't pull the trigger. >> no, no, i wouldn't pull point a gun and pull the trigger. that's the training that i had. >> are we right back to what they're discussing there? >> come on. joe biden would say come on, man. he violated the number one rule on movie sets, which is you don't point the gun at

somebody, and to claim that he didn't pull the trigger, how did the gun go off? this is the sort of legal kenard that he has to try to sell to a blue collar jury in new mexico and i think it's going to be really, really tough for him. griff: now, andrew, explain for our viewers, so, what kind of jail time? what are the possible consequences here? >> he faces 18 months in prison if convicted for involuntary manslaughter charges in new mexico. look, he's a first time offender, so, i don't know how much time he's going to get. he is certainly isn't going to spend a decade behind bars, but if he's convicted i bet the prosecutors will try very hard to get jail time because it will serve a prophalactic effect. griff: put yourself in the shoes of the prosecutor.

you put baldwin on the stand. what's your line of questioning? >> oh, griff, prosecutors are salivating at the opportunity to cross examine him. look, i cross examine people for a living and when you know you have a hothead and arrogant and conceited. you try to push every button to get him to explode. and juries typically convict someone if they don't like him. and alec baldwin is generally an unlikable fellow, and gee, you get him to say that, 20, 30 times and the jury will sit here this doesn't pass the red face test. griff: do you forsee this in case of perhaps the baldwin team trying to play a little bit of this trial, of this case in the court of public opinion, as much as in the legal courtroom? >> oh, absolutely. look, i think that prosecutors are going to do that as well because you're not supposed to do it, but prosecutors and

defense attorneys taint the pool all the time with their message. this is going to get huge coverage in new mexico. so i expect both sides to be leaking their message and trying to convince the jurors, potential jurors beforehand that they didn't do anything wrong. griff: great analysis and insight as always. awe who about that bonus joe biden come on, man, cameo. have a good weekend. >> thanks, griff, you, too. gillian: and houthis struck again after the houthis struck a commercial ship off the coast of yemen and now iran successfully launching a brand new satellite this morning. stick with us. i think i changed my mind about these glasses. yeah, it happens. that's why visionworks gives you

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>> president biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu speaking on the phone yesterday for the first time in nearly a month. the leaders have differing ideas about supporting a palestinian state after the war. alex hogan is live in tel aviv

with the latest. hey, alex. >> hi, griff. we've heard the white house reiterate that there needs to be a palestinian state established after the war. here on the ground very different reactions from israeli politicians about what should take place next. and we did hear in that conversation last night between biden and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu. netanyahu saying that there needs to be a control that remains in the hands of israel and only for threats from gaza. and israeli and middle east foreign ministers are expect today meet with the european union. they say it's mainly the women and children who are the victims. two mothers reportedly dying every hour. and there are only nine working hospitals and those open are severely lacking.

and a doctor said he had to amputate his niece's leg with no anesthesia. >> could they get her to the hospital? of course not we were under siege for 15 days. the tanks were at the house. we took the decision, to do anything for me to save her. >> meanwhile, new tensions spilling out into the surrounding region and an explosion on syria's capital of damascus has killed at least five members of iran's revolutionary guard and calling that strike provocative. no statement from the israeli military or israeli government. new tensions on the northern part of israel, saying it's set in fighter jets to attack more hezbollah outposts, griff. griff: that's something we will certainly be watching and keeping a close eye on. alex hogan live for us in tel aviv. thank you. gillian. gillian: and the gaza war now

expanding across the region. the u.s. just struck down another houthi anti-ship missile in the seventh round of strikes against the terrorist group since last thursday. officials at the state department and pentagon emphasize these are all defensive strikes. for more, let's bring in the retired colonel, joining me now, a former spokesperson for cent-com. what do you make for the sort of late in the game military response by the dod for houthi strikes in yemen and with strikes across the middle east for the better part of two months. >> what i make of it, it's not working. the houthi strikes conif you thk of it, it's a motorcycle gang and a state that's run out of

water and they're contributing to global inflation. so the strikes are not working. iran continually replenish the stocks there in yemen as they did, as they have been for almost a decade when the saudis were bombing the houthis, so this tit-for-tat back and forth is going to continue. gillian: to that point, take a listen to national security council spokesman john kirby yesterday in the white house briefing. >> this morning, u.s. forces conducted three successful self-defense strikes against houthi targets in yemen. this is the fourth p preemptive action that prevent houthi attacks in this case anti-ship missiles. centcom, central command will have more details later, but as you know the u.s. navy ships in the red seas and international shipping. the actions, i want to emphasize, they were done in

self-defense. gillian: when it comes to houthi operatives the common refrain out of the white house, these are defensive moves, going to great lengths to emphasize that in press briefings, but then they also describe these strikes on houthi targets as preemptive. how can both-- can you square that? >> i cannot. and you know, john kirby is a great friend of mine, a great patriot and mentor for me, but these strikes are all defensive in nature. in other words, we're knocking their missiles out of the sky and then hitting their missile sites, their radar sites on the coast of yemen. gillian: in short, they're not preemptive. >> they're not preemptive and also a little bit meaningless because the more we strike these coastal battery sites, the more we hit the missiles, their radars, the more iran flushes those things back in and pushes that stuff back in, so it's not really having the effect that we would like, you know, the administration does not want to raise up, does not want to escalate this thing and widen the war, the problem is

we've got to do something about the red sea to get commercial shipping through there. gillian: so the houthis may have started out as you mentioned a moment ago, as a gang, but they're well-financed by iran, iranian government. the trump administration had designated these people as a foreign terrorist organization, a designation that president biden removed when he came to office three years ago. this week, interestingly, the administration redesignated them with a sort of lesser label, sgt, described by experts as like a watered down version of the terrorist designation. what do you make, if anything, of that decision, does that make sense to them? >> to be fair the trump administration labeled them terrorists at the end. for most of the administration they were not labeled as terrorist.

both labels are meaningless. you're talking economic sanctions and holds, it's not like the houthis own stocks in the new york stock exchange. these labels don't have a power over the houthis. kind of went with a half measure here, we went, as you identified, they are not designated as fto, foreign terrorist organization, people cannot be prosecuted for contributing to the houthis. it's more like a political label and messaging aspect to this. gillian: now, there's reporting under the new designation houthi terrorists could potentially apply to u.s. visas and travel to the united states. and i asked the department spokesman about that two days ago. take a listen to what he said. >> i don't expect that you should see any houthis with the

visa. gillian: i asked them what method they could guarantee that. he said they'd get back to us. do you feel confident that houthis operatives would not come to the united states? >> we don't know who in yemen is part of the houthis, who is not part of the houthis, who supports them. who is part of the large group or financing network. the houthis have kind of spread out all aspects of life in yemen, they're the garbagemen. they keep the water running, they teach kids in school it's not just the military component in yemen that's the houthis. it's hard to know in yemen who is supporting the houthis and who is an actual houthi operative. under this half measure that you identified. >> not the fto, full terrorist organization, there is no really full mechanism to identify who is a houthi and to stop them coming into this country. gillian: that's alarming. colonel, thank you for coming in today. joining us live on set. great to see you.

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ohio. back to you in the studio. gillian: run back to our car. thanks for being out there braving it for us, nick. we appreciate it. griff. griff: the dancing nick. over in colorado did you see this a mother-daughter duo taking crazy hair day to a new level with the arctic temperatures freezing her hair. unbelievable. gillian: i feel that pain. griff: coming up, we'll go back to new hampshire. one more hour to go. stay with us. yay - woo hoo! ensure, with 27 vitamins and minerals, nutrients for immune health. and ensure complete with 30 grams of protein. (♪) i love your dress. oh thanks! i splurged a little because liberty mutual customized my car insurance and i saved hundreds. that's great. i know, right? i've been telling everyone.

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