away from me. >> can't drink beer, starting in december, very upset. >> it has vitamins, selenium. >> i need validation with wine. i'm going to text you. >> something alcoholic, cheers to that. >> wine or wine -- >> wine, i love it. i.p.a. if you are drinking a beer this weekend, drink it for the pregnant woman. here is "america reports." >> john: i'll have one for you, no problem with that. biden administration avoids an economic disaster just in the nick of time after helping broker a deal to stop a railroad strike. critics argue inflation under biden is what nearly caused the strike in the first place. >> sandra: and now with christmas, wait for it, just 100 days away, the ceo of fedex is warning the economy would be entering a worldwide recession. art laffer, formerly of the reagan administration, and larry kudlow with their takes on the

state of the economy. >> john: first, fox news alert to kick off "america reports," stunning new exclusive video coming in from our fox flight team. infrared video shows dozens of migrants crossing the border into eagle pass, texas as it spirals out of control. had to mention christmas. >> sandra: you had to mention beer, wait four hours for that. the issue plaguing the southern border and border states for those. >> john: vice president and board czar seeing a surprise at her doorstep after migrants were bussed there from texas. and the swanky island of martha's vineyard greeted by dozens more after being flown there from florida. >> sandra: and more on the way

according to governor abbott. white house slamming republican governors saying they are playing with politics and people's lives. greg abbott responded a short time ago. >> biden himself was doing that very same thing, the only difference is he was moving people in the darkness of night and dropping them off without the public being able to see it. what we have done, we have done it in the light of day, and so they are just hypocritical. >> sandra: and that is true, art del cueto will react to that in moments. >> john: and fox team coverage, but jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. this expected to come up in today's briefing. >> jacqui: absolutely, the white house reportedly held some high level talks, involved department secretaries weighing litigation options, according to an axios article, about how they can try to stop republican governors

from bussing and flying migrants from the border area to democrat-run sanctuary cities and states. apparently the tipping point was the latest shipment of migrants by private plane to martha's vineyard. the president last night sounding off on all this. >> we are committed to fixing the immigration system, instead of working with us on solutions, republicans are playing politics with human beings, using them as props. what they are doing is simply wrong, it's un-american, it's wreckless. >> according to nbc, some internal division over how the administration should respond to all of this, and some dhs officials have expressed frustration at the meetings with the white house reluctant to take a page from the book of republican governors and transport them to cities in the u.s. obtained by internal communications by nbc news. the second gentleman reacting to the group of migrants dropped off in front of the vice president's residence yesterday.

>> i think it was shameful. these are human beings. these are people. they need to be treated with dignity and kindness and respect. and they weren't. they are using people as pawns for political stunt. >> but of course, the white house takes no blame for record crossings under president biden's watch. they have been blaming the trump administration for everything that we have been seeing. they also pointedly would not tell migrants in the briefing yesterday to stop crossing illegally, saying that is homeland security's job to communicate and they have echoed the vice president's claim that they believe the border is secure, john. >> john: jacqui heinrich kicking us off, thank you. >> sandra: bickering between lawmakers doing little to change the situation at the southern border. migrants and drugs still flowing over at record rates. bill is reporting live in eagle pass, texas for us. bill, what are you seeing on the ground there today?

>> bill: sandra, as usual, we have had ourselves yet another busy day out here in eagle pass, just in the span of a couple hours we saw well over 500 illegal crossings in several different parts of the city, and right to the video and show our viewers. take a look. this is the debut of the new nighttime flying fox news drone with thermal imaging, we were able to fly it early this morning as it was dark out and seeing the migrants crossing the river, walking up the riverbank into a private orchard here in eagle pass. the group was well over 100 people, all gathered together, all crossing illegally at the same time. they come across and wait for border patrol to apprehend them. eagle pass, number one spot along the border for the large groups, but that was not the only one we saw this morning. take a look across town on the north side of eagle pass, this group walking down a local highway after they crossed illegally. this group, about 200 people in size. as you can see, most of them predominantly single adults, which is largely what we are

seeing out here in the del rio sector, sometimes upwards of 2,000 illegal crossings every single day. and while that was happening, take a look at this third group the drone team saw. other side of town, about 200 in size as well, again, predominantly single adults. we are not seeing the family units like last summer. over 450,000 illegal crossings here, double last year. and fentanyl bust out of nogales, seizing 276,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a vehicle spare tire, a smuggler tried to get through with the pills. more than half the rainbow color the dea says is designed to go for younger users.

and they arrested a convicted murderer, from nicaragua, previously convicted of murder in miami in 1996. he has been deported two times, as recently as in june, and he tried crossing again this week but border patrol agents were able to find him, catch him, and he will be getting deported again. >> sandra: real stuff happening every single day. bill at the border with the continued fantastic reporting, thank you. john. >> john: art del cueto, just about everybody is playing politics here, abbott, ducey, lightfoot, desantis, or the white house saying the border is closed, when it's anything but. let's just take a look at the statistics here. number of people flown to martha's vineyard, 50.

d.c., 9600, chicago, 500. along the southern border in texas, 1,946,780, according to the last official count. art, we know that number is well over 2 million. >> it's just chaotic, and this chaos started day one. day one of this administration is it when this chaos started. they put that magnet there to say hey, come, ask for asylum, you have the catch and release and you are right, you have other problems in texas. and then look at arizona, when you are having all the got-aways, the drugs coming in, and you know, i think that what these politicians have done by sending and bussing these people to the sanctuary cities, put it in the front yard and said hey, look, there's a problem. you guys need to start addressing the problem instead of ignoring it. when you have people in the white house that are saying people are not walking across, people in the white house saying there is no problem at the southern border, you have to bring that problem to them and say look, now you have to see

it. the so i mean, i don't see the individuals in government that are sending them there doing wrong. they are simply saying we are fed up, you need to acknowledge there's a problem instead of denying it, and i mean, what happened to the signs we are welcoming everyone here. i have seen, you know, some signs in martha's vineyard they said hey, everyone is welcome. i guess the reality, everyone is welcome, but not where we don't want you to be and that's part of the problem. i mean, a lot of hypocrisy going on, it's obvious, and they need to be aware there's a problem, they need to do something and need to figure it out because they created this mess to begin with. >> john: we see pictures of people coming off a small plane at the tiny airport on martha's vineyard. officials are declaring it to be a humanitarian crisis, arrival of 50 illegal immigrants that were flown there. so, let's look at some more statistics. 50 people arrived, 50 illegal immigrants arrived at martha's

vineyard. permanent population, 17,000. during the summertime, 200,000. and the average home price there is $1.35 million, so it's not exactly a destitute place. given the economics and the population size, arrival of 50 people trigger a humanitarian disaster? >> you know, we have been seeing the humanitarian disaster down here on the southern border since this administration took over. they need to answer for the issues that a lot of the border communities are seeing and answer for, you know, agents having to put their lives on the line and basically being told process faster so we can continue to catch and release and need to answer for the amount of drugs entering the country, based on their policies and the lack of commitment defending the nation's borders. >> john: what ron desantis said after he was criticized by many

democrats. >> the minute even a small fraction of what those border towns deal with every day is brought to their front door, they all of a sudden go berserk, and their virtue signalling is a fraud. >> john: it should be said these are sanctuary jurisdictions, apparently until somebody shows up on their doorstep, but it does illuminate the issue as we close out here, a lot of the places far, far away from the border are more than content to allow texas and arizona and new mexico and california to take the brunt of the immigration crisis. >> definitely, like i said, it's very hypocritical. put up signs and say they are welcome here, go on national tv and say we are a sanctuary city, say all kinds of things. but put on the front doorstep, they start buckling and wait, wait, we like to welcome you, we just don't want to welcome you

here. that's the hypocritical part. >> john: art, always great to catch up with you, thanks so much, appreciate it. this really has, as art pointed out, illuminated a huge problem and that is a double standard that folks who are in places like martha's vineyard and chicago and new york city and washington, d.c., look at the border and say not our problem until it ends up on their doorstep. >> sandra: and the interview with the texas governor this morning when asked how far he's going to go with this, gave every indication he's going to continue to boost the volume of migrants that he's sending to destination that he's already using. real quick, i look back at jen psaki, remember the days when they were sort of trying to spin those secret flights that were landing at places like west chester airport in the dark of night. i was looking back at some of her transcripts from the white house briefings at those things, when she sort of snarked back at a reporter that sure, some of

these are maybe earlier than you might like. no, they were landing in the dark of night and when local police were asked about those flights, they were not given any head's up or notification, they didn't even know who was coming in on the flights, john, and that is fact and that needs to be put out there and people need to be reminded of that as we see these flights in the broad daylight. >> john: the difference is the migrants are arriving in the day as opposed to the dark of night. as we roll on, mixed emotions for ukrainians after russians retreat from the northeast. cities like izyum are discovering atrocities left behind by the invaders. >> sandra: the white house intervening to keep the trains running. but is biden's inflation crisis what made a railroad strike possible in the first place? we will get art laffer's take.

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>> sandra: president biden set to meet at the white house with family members of wnba star britteny griner and paul whelan. the two are being held prisoners in russia. it comes as the administration holds talks with the kremlin. griner was in jail since january for cannabis oil, and whelan was convicted on espionage charges

which he denies. >> john: scenes of horror from newly liberated parts of ukraine. izyum digging up a mass grave with more than 400 bodies days after ukraine took back the town after a successful counter offensive. jeff paul is live in kyiv with the latest for us. jeff, this is not the first time that ukraine has discovered atrocities after russia has retreated. >> completely right, john. a few months ago it was bucha, and now izyum. you have russian forces who occupy a town or village, they are then drawn out and driven out by ukrainian forces but it's what they leave behind that is a devastating reminder of the brutality of this war. officials in izyum say they are just the latest sight of a discovered mass burial site. more than 400 bodies were discovered buried in a forest. ukrainian prosecutors say some

show signs of torture and a few cases they are seeing their hands tied behind their backs, others ropes around their necks. some are ukrainian soldiers but above all, most are innocent civilians, nothing to do with this war other than simply being alive and being ukrainian. >> many instances these amount to war crimes, the appropriate frame to look at this. that work is going on. there needs to be accountability. >> as the counter offensive continues, newly liberated territory in the kharkiv region, they are still sifting through all the damage, one of the most important tasks is to not only restore power but to also get water back online for the people who did survive this latest round of russian occupation. one of those things that can really help the counter offensive is this new military aid package just announced by the biden administration, $600 million coming into

ukraine, bringing the total to more than $13 billion of u.s. aid since the start of this war. john. >> john: the whole area just so devastated. jeff paul for us in kyiv, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: biden administration helped broker the tentative deal to avert a railway strike that could have devastated the economy, but some critics argue biden's policies are what caused the near crisis in the first place. >> in some conservative circles, always fashionable to rail against union wage increases, no pun intended. but you know, the reality is, they are trying to keep up with inflation. government is the big problem, not the workforce, and in this case, not the union. >> sandra: government data showing prices up 8.3% in the past year. that's inflation year over year, and it is certainly outpacing wages by more than 3%. tough to keep up. former reagan economist art

laffer joins us, and also author of "taxes have consequences." larry will be joining us next hour, your good friend, art, but thoughts he shared on the tv screen are extremely important for people to hear. this is not the fault of the workers. they want their wages to go up, by the way, the workers' label was asking for a lot of other things other than pay increases, like better work conditions. but the wage increases are because these workers are trying to keep up with inflation caused by massive government spending. >> yeah, larry is totally correct on what he just said. it's totally biden's fault, inflation has led the workers to have lost money before, and now are trying to catch up and catch even. biden is so pro union, so anti-business, and anti-nonunion workers, so much so he's given the unions in this country sort

of the credibility, the power, the ability to exploit businesses that they are involved with. if it had not been for the government stepping in, there would have been a strike and we would have been back in the 1950s where unions caused nationwide strikes, a real shutdown, i think we have a problem with unions as well with inflation and biden has caused both. >> sandra: interesting. as prices continue to soar, so do interest rates, and this is a direct result of what the fed is having to do to tame inflation. it's painful, we have gone through this as a country before. but raising the key fed fund interest rates result in higher borrowing costs, and the average car payment, a new car loan payment, it is hitting a record high, $743 a month. art, this is out of control. >> it is truly out of control and i do think a lot of the

fault here rests with the fed. they are trying to raise rates to market levels, a little bit at a time, like taking off a band aid, a little bit at a time. if you must be doing it, just take the band aid off and get it done with, and these guys should let interest rates seek their natural level to where no one would buy a ten year bond today, no reasonable person would buy a ten year bond because of the 3.5% yield. with the inflation the way it is, the economy the way it is, you would require at least a 10% yield or more. the fed has held down the interest rates by buying and buying and buying bonds out of their balance sheet, subsidized inflation and created a society of where inflation is just rampant and they have not done much whatsoever to bring it under control. they need to let interest rates go and seek their own level in a free market. price controls never work, sandra. >> sandra: as you know, that could inflict some serious, at least short-term pain in the form of potentially millions of job losses in a matter of days, weeks, months, of a move like

that, art. but we get your point, i mean -- there's going to have to be serious economic point to write this ship and get those prices down. this also is what americans is dealing with. this is home prices. through the roof, i mean -- art, you are looking at the average mortgage rate over 6% in this country right now. it was below 3. mortgages are up 63%. 53 days to midterm election day. a lot could happen between the u.s. housing market between now and then. you could have a lot of folks underwater and the mortgages in a different economic environment. >> you are very true. that's all true. but you know, by the fed doing it so slowly, they are going to guarantee the damage is more than it possibly ever could by by getting it done quickly. my view, not the huge amount of pain. you would get some pain, that's for sure, but it would be much less than this silly bit of

raising it 50 basis points, 57, 100, every 2, 3, 4 weeks, a lot more damaging when they finally get to where they should be by doing it so slowly. it's horrible what they are doing. >> sandra: it did serve to bring down prices but i don't know if the white house or the federal reserve is willing to do that, something is going to have to give. the prices keep going higher. art. >> you are so correct, right on that. great to see you, have a wonderful weekend. >> thank you, sandra. you too. >> john: democrats seeing a path to victory in the midterms as they connect with voters on abortion rights messaging months before the elections. do republicans have an effective counter punch to that messaging? our political panel weighs in just ahead. >> sandra: crime plaguing major

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>> sandra: washington, d.c. is grappling with a major crime crisis, even the wealthiest neighborhoods are not immune to it. homicides, car thefts, robberies are on the rise there, causing some stores to lock their doors during the day and others to see customers by appointment only. lucas tomlinson is live in washington for us. does mayor bowser have any solutions for this spike in crime?

>> well, she claims she does, sandra, but many residents we have spoken to are very scared. good afternoon from the corner of wisconsin, in the heart of georgetown, homes go for over $1 million, a lot of high end shops, boutique shops, a lot of the stores are closed, especially eyewear stores. one was recently robbed for $100,000 in merchandise. across the street was robbed as well. we asked them to talk about the robberies, they were too scared, declined to go on camera. this business owner talked about the threat and how scared he is, sandra. >> a couple break-in, and mostly was in the glass shops, they are looking for troubles, you know, they can do anything they want. >> carjacking involving guns in d.c. is up 74% this year alone. murder up this year as well, on top of a nearly 20-year high a

year ago. on 8th street alone, robbery has doubled this year. a few weeks ago, a rookie running back was shot twice in his leg. he was expected to get a lot of playing time, he scored a touchdown against lsu. fortunately he is back on the practice field playing but revitalized area, many locals are still very scared. >> nobody wants to get jobs these days, they stand around the corner, cause problems, drama. >> you think crime is getting worse? >> yeah, especially in this area. i just moved here and somebody is getting shot, robbed, every day. >> every day? >> you hear about something every day. >> despite high end apartments, restaurants and even a whole foods, spike in crime, did not want to show his face on camera, out of fear of retribution.

>> i've been in this area since the 1980s, crime has always been here, it's less, but it's not going to change. it's going to be here regardless, no matter how gentrification comes, how much it change, still going to happen. >> police i've talked continue the last few days say it's not their fault. cops are making arrests every day, they blame the courts. they say the criminals are back on the streets a day later. >> sandra: thank you for that report, on the ground in washington for us, thank you. >> john: the revolving door of justice. 53 days from the midterms. inflation is the main concern for voters, democrats are gaining ground by focusing on issues where they have a stronger footing. can republicans find an effective counter to the message. our panel, good to see you. >> how are you. >> john: put up on the screen here the generic preference for congress line graph, shows a

market narrowing in terms of the preference here over the last few weeks. you see republicans had quite an advantage there, disappeared literally to nothing. the same time, brad, chuck schumer was overheard in a restaurant, that nancy pelosi is in trouble and that democrats could lose the house. so, which is it? >> well, i would trust the actual polls more than something overheard in a restaurant on capitol hill. >> john: are you saying chuck schumer doesn't know what he's talking about? >> fabulous restaurant that it is, nancy pelosi is speaker of the house, no one can know for sure what is going to happen in november. where we were three months ago versus today, no one can dispute momentum is on our side. leading the generic ballot, the president's approval rating is up nine points and continuing to rise, up nine points in the ap

poll. in any event, the momentum is moving the democrat's direction. don't know if it will continue, six week to go but i feel better about our chances today than i did in june. >> the turn point seems to be the dobbs decision, and democrats have leveraged the abortion issue and republicans don't seem to have an effective counter punch. >> they do, it's the economy, inflation. poll after poll after poll, the top concern is jobs, the economy, inflation, gas prices, grocery prices across the board. and the fox poll and break down the cross tabs more on the generic ballot independents are up three more points for republicans than democrats and on inflation, economy, crime, border, republicans outpace democrats, and on that "new york times" poll, for president, joe biden is at a weak or weaker position than any president since 1978 that has lost control

of congress. history is trending toward republicans. democrats may have solidified their base but the economy remains very weak, and it is because of democrats, and american people and independents are not buying it. >> if they are not buying it you cannot explain the line graph. >> you can explain it. >> that you all won in the rout and now democrats ahead. >> independents still favor republicans over democrats in the congressional -- but that's the swing vote you want. >> you lose -- >> assure a base not there for biden. >> you can see we are ahead in the generic. >> don't tell me we are all of a sudden in a different position than we were. that was the biden position. >> different position than three months ago. >> we are still in a strong position. >> i'm not conceding that.

>> john: democrats were closing on the abortion issue, a great day on tuesday with the inflation number and lindsey graham turns the conversation back to abortion again. >> some republicans don't feel comfortable giving themselves a solid position and sticking with it. they said a state decision, stick with you want, not a federal decision. they want to talk about teconom. >> it bans it, correct, it bans it. bans it. >> 15 weeks. >> ban -- when you tell a with woman she cannot have a procedure -- >> john: many democratic states don't have any restrictions on abortion. fox news poll showing another issue i want minds of voters, 85% said they are extremely or very concerned about the future

of democracy and political divisions. the idea that biden is hammering, maga republicans, may have some influence but failure to pay off what he said in his inaugural speech has people concerned, too. >> what i'll say, when he came out with the maga republican, started talking about maga republican being extreme, he is separating some republicans that helped on. >> trying to have it both ways. >> hold and a minute. people said it's not going to work, and i'm a maga republican, it's working. that poll result shows it's working. people are concerned about democracy and not concerned about democrats, they are concerned about maga republicans, trump republicans and donald trump is a weight on republican prospects. >> john: one more quick answer. how do republicans counter that? >> by showing what economic success looks like. that means lowering taxes, it means shoring up the supply chain, democrats have not done,

tackling the pocket book issues like energy, economy, border crisis, drug overdoses, things democrats have had -- i'm sorry no, i didn't interrupt you multiple times. >> i'm sorry. >> democrats -- you guys didn't have -- you did not want to. >> john: quickly, do you agree it's going to reduce inflation? >> absolutely. if you consider inflation to be prescription drug prices and energy prices. >> oh, wow, semantics. a broad brush there. >> john: great discussion. >> sandra: maybe they'll hug it out, great panel. hillary clinton attacking republican governors for sending migrants north, could that help republicans win elections. >> john: a teenager's life cut short as the fentanyl crisis spirals out of control. what parents need to tell their kids before it's too late. >> i had to tell her sister that her big sister is not going to

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hollywood area high school. 15-year-old boy accused of selling what authorities believed a fentanyl laced pill to a student, melanie ramos. suffered fentanyl poisoning and found dead in the bathroom tuesday night. the young suspect was arrested at his grandmother's house and found additional pills they believed to be laced with fentanyl in that home. >> our work does not stop because these two individuals, 15 and 16 years of age, are simply transferring and soldiering, if you will, this distribution. there is a drug organization behind this. >> police say ramos and her friend unknowingly bought fentanyl-laced pills from the 15-year-old suspect on campus at bernstein high school, they thought they bought percocet. her friend is recovering in the hospital as ramos's family comes to terms with her tragic loss.

>> i had to tell her sister that her big sister is not going to come back. she's a 7-year-old, how do you tell a 7-year-old that, you know, your sister is not going to come back. >> officials in the l.a. unified school district announced they will be focusing on drug prevention, something some area parents have been striving for, including orange county mom amy nevel who lost her 14-year-old son to fentanyl poisoning. >> every kid that dies this way is a missed opportunity for us to do better and it is -- it's heartbreaking, it's frustrating. >> absolutely heartbreaking. at least six students have overdosed in just the last three weeks alone from drugs obtained at a hollywood area park near bernstein high school. fortunately they were all able to recover. >> heartbreaking stories there. thank you, john. >> john: just 100 days until,

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>> certainly we have violent crime that's happening in our restaurants. happening with homelessness, homelessness issues in our restaurants. we are having drug overdoses that are happening in our restaurants, so we see in our restaurants every single day what's happening in society at large. >> sandra: well, that was eye opening. ceo of mcdonald's on surging crime in chicago where there are about 400 of the chain's locations. the fast food giant also based in windy city, the headquarters, and the ceo says crime is making it hard to recruit corporate talent and get employees back in

the office. pete hegseth joins us now, author of "the battle for the american mind, up rooting a century of miseducation," good to have you here. >> great to be here. >> sandra: do you eat a lot of fast food? >> a lot of mcdonald's. >> sandra: i said no, i know pete, and he loves fast food. >> and it's made all around me. >> sandra: if you go to chicago, might be harder to find mickey d.s. because of crime they will likely have to shutter some restaurants, crime is running rampant, people are walking in, holding cashiers up at gunpoint, and the corporate angle, they are having a tough time retaining people and people don't want to move with their families. >> they should say it but they

won't, because they are in democrat-run cities, and saying the obvious thing, it's not safe in the restaurants. you remember the waffle house index for natural disasters, mcdonald's index could be something like that. this idea of is it safe enough to go into a mcdonald's in that neighborhood or is vagrancy taking over. i remember the mcdonald's across the street from us here one block away, i've watched it deteriorate in the safety situation, even just in there, as more and more is tolerated, drug use, vagrancy, screaming, fights, people don't want to go in there as much. let alone work there, in the dead of night, a lot of these are 24-hour locations, and then you have the white collar aspect of it, saying i don't want to commute into the corporate headquarters inside mcdonald's as well. so the ceos are saying our business model is threatened by the reality of standard quality of life and it's not oh, we are taxed more because we are in a democrat city, it is i don't

feel safe working behind a register, comes back to mayors, soft on crime policies, no consequences for the small stuff, like the stuff that happens at a mcdonald's, which means the big stuff gets bigger, too, more ceos need to state the obvious. >> it should be a wake-up call for washington, it definitely should be a wake-up call for leadership in chicago. mayor lori lightfoot has to get control of this. she's lost boeing, lost caterpillar, like the largest hedge fund on the planet, citadel, and ken griffin departed the city. it's a major, major, major -- >> 2 billion in revenue mcdonald's as a headquarters provides in chicago. over time that money is going to walk. new york city was named the wealthiest city in america. over time that changes. >> sandra: big mac, what -- >> i love nuggets, i'm more of a whopper guy from burger king,

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