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leader saying he is pointing finger instead of working on solutions. some republicans back mccarthy. >> he is right to hold mayokas responsible. he should resign and be held accountable. we want to know what has mayokas's responsibility here and what has he proposed to the white house and what is president joe biden's responsibility. how much is mayokas following orders with a white house that's fine with an open border. >> one example, the texas department of public safety releasing this video of a trooper disrupting a human smuggling event on thanksgiving. texas republican congressman will weigh in. first christina coleman. >> as mccarthy calls mayokas to step down the humanitarian at the southern border continues. no slowdown in illegal activity there. take a look at this video from

yesterday. the video you just showed. thanksgiving day authorities say texas troopers and border agents stopped an 18-year-old from trying to smuggle migrants in a neighborhood in mission, texas. they located three migrants in the brush trying to get to houston. also border agents shared this photo at kingsville, texas tuesday. their canine team snuffed out a utility truck and seven migrants were crammed into it. border agents seized 119 pounds of cocaine at a laredo point of entry. the hard narcotics have a street value of more than $1.5 million. kevin mccarthy visited the border on tuesday along with texas congressman tony gone goons. >> it is in our best interest to

secure the border thchlt is my people living in this hell. guess what? the administration continues to not take our call. i literally have called them every single week to hold this together. >> also today the fox affiliate in philadelphia is reporting that two buses with 80 migrants arrived in philly this morning. the third and fourth buses of migrants sent to the democrat-run state by texas republican governor greg abbott drawing even more attention to this critical issue. meantime dhs continues to defend mayokas. he is not stepping down and his supporters say he has inheristed a broken and dismantled immigration system. >> we have pat fallon from texas with us. thank you for taking time out of your thanksgiving weekend to join us to talk with us about this important topic and critical to your state. let's start with your thoughts, the back and forth.

mccarthy calling for mayokas to step down or face impeachment and dhs saying it isn't happening. >> they said he inheristed this problem. let's look at the numbers and data. this april there was the worst month. in may it was 241,000 illegal border crossings, 930% worse than when president trump was in office. biden's administration has made the issue ten times worse. we have had eight months in a row of over 200,000 illegal border crossings. what his policies have gone is made every state a border state. >> one of the other big issues we're watching ongoing the biden administration has been ordered to stop using title 42 slated to end december 31st to turn away

illegal immigrants related to health policy. are you concerned the ongoing crisis is about to get far worse? >> yes, you took the words out of my mouth. it is a catastrophe as gonzalez said. look at what is happening with the illegal narcotics? mexican drug cartels are controlling the borst. we lost so many americans to opioid overdoses. 80,000 to -- we lost 293 americans a day. in world war ii we lost 297 a day. warfare waged by the chinese communists, we have to change course. >> you are bringing attention to this all across the country. christina coleman showing us the buses of migrants arriving in pennsylvania today. now republican attorneys general

from 15 g.o.p.-led states are fighting to keep title 42. alaska, kansas, west virginia have submitted a motion to the judge to intervene. they argue if title 42 is terminated there will be increased release of aliens and flow to other states. we're seeing buses going around the country and a financial burden on the states that will be hosting them. your thoughts. do the a.g.s have a case and a chance of succeeding? >> i certainly hope so because we've already seen 5 million illegal border crossings when you consider and count the encounters we've had and known gotaways under the biden administration. that's a huge amount. the border patrol agents can only handle up to 5,000 illegal crossers a day. we're already looking at twice that and if title 42 -- if title 42 goes away, then we are looking at a flood that will be unstoppable. this administration refuses to

institute the wait in mexico policy which president trump did. if you are claiming asylum you have to wait in mexico while we adjudicate your case. >> kevin mccarthy is trying to walk this path to become speaker facing a few bumps in the road. a five lawmaker has announced opposition joining some other more vocal opponents to that. if the current margins hold, republicans only have about a four-vote majority. that's pretty tight. what do you think it means for kevin mccarthy as he aims for this ascent? >> the rules state we have nominees and our own internal debates, discussions and that we vote. kevin mccarthy won the vote 188-31. he is now our nominee. i don't want the democrats to have any say whatsoever in who the next speaker is. we didn't have any say when

nancy pelosi was elected. so time will tell but kevin mccarthy is the one. we have the majority now and led us to that majority and also went around the country for the last two years raising hundreds of millions for candidates to insure we could retire nancy pelosi once and for all. >> are you concerned about those tight margins? >> sure. molly, if we had done 3% better we would have had 24 more reps. the red wave almost hit. not quite. we would have 245. it looks like we'll have 222. every vote, if we lose five we don't win. we have to really unite and hold together the conference. >> do you think it means we'll see a lot of power in some of the more moderate members of your party? >> i hope that the conservatives rule the day. i have talked to kevin mccarthy and so have others we need to paint bold colors not soft pastels. take a book out of ronald reagan and donald trump and really

listen to the people that got us here and do what is in the best interest of this country. >> red wave or not it will be interesting. appreciate your insight. thank you so much. congressman from texas for sharing your time with us. president biden getting called out again for extending the pause on student loan payments for another nine months. critics calling it his eternal emergency. saying it's pure politics. plus this. >> this deal with the railroad unions is literally about to come off the rails. this will be devastating, a billion -- a billion dollars per day will be lost. we can't function without our great railroad workers. >> with a potential railroad strike the white house is getting flak for sending out mixed signals. we have marc thiessen in "focus" next. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future.

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>> molly: are you ready for the return of mask mandates? it could happen with cold and flu season and the lingering threat of covid and rsv in kids. los angeles county are recommending masks. a new report from the federal services department say mandates may be necessary to protect people from long covid. but a "new york post" op-ed says return of a mask mandate? never. if you're worried about giving long covid wear a long mask but enough with society-wide restrictions. biden is right. the pandemic is order. it is time to let people decide

for themselves. >> certainly a lot of discussion and debate about the possible return of facemasks when it comes to covid. you mentioned los s county. their local rates of infection for covid have gone up by more than 50% since the start of november so in los angeles county, officials are calling and strongly recommending that people do wear facemasks now in public places. now since covid is being joined by the flu and by rsv there are many medical professionals who say it is time for some people to consider returning to wearing facemasks. >> true that covid is just smoldering along but now we have rsv and we have influenza surging in most of the country. those are also very, very serious viruses. so it seems a reasonable thing to do if you are going out in public, put back that mask. and do some social distancing.

this may be the time to rent the movie rather than going to the movie. >> the department and human services commissioned a study where it says it recommends that people begin to wear masks in public again. it did not call, though, for a mandate to wear those masks and health professionals are pretty keen making the distinction between the voluntary wearing masks again and that mask mandate. a big difference between the two. >> the mask is a very polarizing way to go given everything we've been through the past couple of years. a mask mandate is a different thing. it is different than voluntarily wearing a max. >> in the u.s. about 40,000 reported cases of covid infection every day over the last two weeks. a 7% increase. molly, back to you. >> molly: folks with strong feelings about those mandates. thank you, steve harrigan. major mixed messaging from the

white house on the threat of a crippling rail strike early next month in the middle of the holiday season. one of the biggest railroad unions voted this week to reject a biden administration-brokered deal. the fourth union to do so. listen to what president biden said about it yesterday. >> can you talk about the hold-up? >> president biden: i can't >> have you been in touch with both parties? >> president biden: my team has been in touch with all the parties and i have not directly engaged yet because they are still talking. >> molly: that is in direct contradiction to what the white house said earlier this week. >> the president is involved directly. i don't want to get into details at this time. he has been involved. we said -- i just said the president has been directly involved. he has been in touch. i said this is the third time i'm saying he has been directly

involved. >> molly: railroads haul 40% of the nation's freight, $2 billion worth of good a day. it could mean loss of jobs and force nearly half a million more trucks onto the road to pick up all the slack. marc thiessen, former white house speech writer and "washington post" columnist and fox news contributor joins us to wear in. thank you for being here on friday after thanksgiving. there is really no way to downplay the potential impact on americans if this rail strike actually happens. potentially as soon as december 5th. railroads, 40% of good, domino effect would hit the food, farmers, energy, christmas shopping. look at the beautiful holiday lights in new york. president biden has given a mixed message on that says he is not directly engaged yet. is this a big test of his clout and does he need to become more

engaged personally? >> he has been directly involved in creating the conditions that would make this an absolute disaster for the economy if it happened. president biden thanks to his american rescue plan has unleashed already record inflation and record supply chain crisis. this would create a massive supply chain crisis on top of that. it would require 467,000 trucks to make up for the lost rail capacity. the problem is that truck capacity doesn't exist because of the biden's inflation and the supply chain crisis. thanks to biden we have the worst labor shortage in american history. 10 million unfilled jobs in this country. the trucking industry is short 80,000 long haul truckers right now. so if you throw on top of that the requirement for another half a million trucks every day out there, they can't meet that capacity. so what that means is the capacity is not going to get filled. it will mean that prices will go up. if you wonder why your grocery

prices are so high one of the reasons is the shortage of truckers. now take away the rail on top of that and it will go through the roof. >> molly: there are concerns about the diesel supply. another side of this congress has stepped in before on this issue. is it going to fall to congress, the divided congress to openly prevent this strike? >> you know, i think it's really presidential test not a congressional responsibility. when ronald reagan fired the air traffic controllers because they threatened to go on strike because that would have caused an unprecedented and unacceptable shutdown of american transportation system. here you have a situation where the president of the united states needs to really -- these unions are supposed to be his allies, right? i think there is a reason why the strike didn't happen before the mid-term elections. these are the president's allies. he needs to start twisting arms and using his authority as president to force a deal and stop this from happening. it is ott him.

i will tell you something. the largest customer of the rail system is ups. so guess what? the g.i. joe and kung fu grip won't get to the store this christmas for your kids if there is a rail strike because -- food prices will go up. the housing industry will come to a grinding halt. we get all our canadian lumber by rail. so many effects that will ripple through the economy. it would be a debacle. >> molly: parents now are ordering presents now. back in august biden promised he would end the student loan repayment pause by december 31st. the courts -- he extended the repayment requirement going through june.

did he do this so courts could see many borrowers were able to make payments or doing what he can do because the records are halted? >> he is using the courts to extend it now. we don't want to make these people start paying back their loans when they could have been forgiven. he is creating false hope. this is an unconstitutional power grab. the united states doesn't have the authority to spend up to a trillion of taxpayer money without approval from congress. nancy pelosi said that last summer and her position until biden went ahead and did it and then she supported him. the power of the purse of congress and what he is using and the reason why he will lose in kousht. he is using a 2003 heroes act to make sure men and women called up to active duty didn't default on their loans because they had to leave their jobs and fight the terrorists. he is using that law says a war

or national emergency. he is saying the covid national emergency allows him to give a benefit that was intended for people risking their lives for our country to people who took out loans they can't afford. no way the courts will approve that. it is an act of stolen valor and quite frankly an assault on the constitution, article one, of congress. >> molly: the "wall street journal" board said who knows if or when borrowers will have to make payments again? the biden administration is touting the improving economy and job markets coming back. a great query. your thoughts. >> he is a little bipolar on this. he goes to the courts and says you have to give us the authority to lift title 42 because the pandemic emergency doesn't require it anymore. the pandemic is over for illegal migrants at the border but then he uses the pandemic emergency as the pretext for spending a

trillion dollars of taxpayer dollars that congress hasn't authorized. which is it? is the pandemic emergency over or still going? the worst part is, this is a reverse rob-in hood plan. he is taking from the poor and giving to the rich. he is taking from a cafeteria workner a hospital and making them pay important the medical degree of the doctors and nurses working there. taking a janitor in an elementary school and making them pay for the wealthy parents who pick up and drop off at the schools they clean. this is an assault on the working class. democrats claim to be the party of the working class. but they are the party of educated coast alicoastal eli. >> molly: thank you for your insights and joining us this

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>> molly: a potential new lead in the idaho student murder mystery. turns out there was a similar attack in the neighboring state of oregon in 2021. two people stabbed with a long knife in their home with a long knife. no suspects. the police chief in moscow, idaho was asked about that wednesday. >> you are investigators are looking at every avenue and other agencies reaching out to us with other cases and stuff we're doing follow up on and continue to follow up on those. >> are you aware of that case? >> i had a tip come in on that case and i forwarded to our tip line. >> molly: dan springer is following all of this in moscow. >> that unsolved case out of salem, oregon, have some similarities to this case.

so far they have said there is no obvious connection. maybe the most interesting connection or similarity is that when travis and jamie lynn were attacked at 3:00 a.m. while sleeping by a stranger with a long knife, there was another person in the house who was ignored by the killer. in that case it was a man going to dog sit for the couple the following day as they were about to go on vacation. two roommates on the first floor were ignored by the killer here in idaho. no connection made at this point. kaylee goncalves's father said police told him the killer targeted just one of the four victims prior to his rampage. if true it would mean the other three victims were collateral damage and police addressed reports that kaylee had a stalker. >> kaylee stated she may have had a stalker. detectives have been looking into this and at this point

unable to corroborate the statement but we continue to seek information and tips regarding that report. >> as we look at a live drone shot of the university of idaho the campus has been pretty empty this entire week leading up to thanksgiving. classes resume on monday after the break. officials know there will be a significant number of students not returning to campus for in-person classes. >> as the investigation continues we'll know how to proceed in the new year and endeavor to find a balance among safety concerns, need to grieve and long term needs of our students and employees through everything we do. >> we are starting to see more people come back to moscow but not students. this is because there is a big football game in pullman tomorrow, the apple cup between the university of washington and washington state university. that's happening tomorrow. some people come here because

they have hotels and stuff but it will be really interesting to see how many students want to come back to in-person classs on monday. the university is preparing for the possibility a lot of people will not. they have the professors having classes both in person and online like it was during covid. >> molly: understandable. a lot of parents concerned to send their students back to the community with no arrests. thank you for following this for us and we know you've been trying to get the answers. let's bring in former miami-dade police. people are looking at the case and killer on the loose and a community remains terrified. when you look at what happened and the information that police say they can't tell us yet, how concerned should the community be despite the fact that police say this attack and murder in

this house was targeted? >> you have to remember this town is a small town. hasn't had a murder in seven years. so they started off real slow. they didn't have the adequate resources available to them at the beginning so most of their time was spent on the crime scene. now that they have additional resources from the state police and the f.b.i., there will always be concerns out there. as the leads come in and go through them they can determine how much of a concern. right now, i would be concerned. only because initially the resources weren't there to get all the leads done that need to be done at the time. >> molly: i had a chance to listen to the press conference earlier this week. one of the local reporters asked an interesting question about wifi hot spots in the residence and if there is perhaps the suspect had a phone and been in

the room or in the home that there could have been a ping off a wifi hot spot. investigators didn't answer the question and talked about video downloads and still seeking help from the public. the technology aspect of this case. gps and student vehicles and potential wifi hot spots in the home, the f.b.i. is there. do you think they are looking into each of those aspects? >> that is exactly the point, a major investigative point that i'm sure they are looking into. the hot spots. if there are no towers within the campus area they'll ping on any phone in that home. i'm sure they're in the process of getting that information. it is a lot harder to get these days with iphones to get information but much easier with a subpoena to get from the phone companies ping information of all the phone numbers in the

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your thoughts on mowtive. >> having handled some of these cases, you look at his cell phone and computer. he is working the overnight shift which makes it very difficult for management to see if this individual had any problems with anybody. it sounds like he had an issue with the company and he may have had a personal issue with mental health. so it is going to be very important with the local agencies and police downloading the cell phone and obtaining information out of there. i'm sure they'll find out a possible motive, a disgruntled employee for various reasons in the case. >> molly: the victims ranging from 16 to 70. it doesn't seem like one particular person was targeted. we'll see. what comes out of it. thank you for your insight.

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>> molly: it is the biggest shopping day of the year. with inflation and many retailers offering black friday deals online well before today are the brick and mortar stores getting the rush of shoppers that we have been watching so many times in the past? garrett tenney is live in chicago and keeping an eye on it for us. garrett, to you. >> no question black friday looks a lot different than it used to. it is still the busiest shopping day of the year. the national retail federation predicts nearly 115 million americans will do some kind of

shopping today with another 50 million between now and cyber monday. shopping habits look a bit different this year, though. with the economy and inflation most folks are being more cautious of their spending and looking for good deals. there are a lot of big discounts. some have been going on for weeks as retailers try to clear out excess inventory. >> microwave for $20. air fryer for $40. i can't beat that. >> i like being physical and going to the stores and shop. i don't like online shopping. >> christmas already here. >> it would have been 618, i paid 306. >> they can touch it, feel it. take it home and not the stress of shipping on top of other things that they need. >> holiday retail spending overall is expected to be higher than year than last. it can be a bit deceiving,

though. the rate of increase is just not keeping up with the rate of inflation. so a lot of folks are spending more, they are just coming back home with less. molly. >> molly: i will confess i once bought a tv black friday and returned it later. what are you seeing on the ground? >> that's brave of you. >> molly: a crazy day. that was then. what are you seeing out there on the ground? are you seeing the shoppers rush into stores or is it pretty peaceful? >> it's really interesting. this year a lot of stores didn't open last night or open early this morning. it was fairly normal opening hours, maybe a little earlier than normal. 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 in the morning. not the rushes you would see. some parts of the country there were stores that did open last night and some lines set up out there. we have seen some stores that had a barricades set up outside

the store for folks to line up in the queue waiting for hours before the store opening. the queues were completely empty. very different this year. a lot of stores say they expect that to be the case with the shift to online and longer sales times stretching out. >> molly: maybe folks got to enjoy the thanksgiving holiday. maybe a good thing. plenty of spending to be done between now and christmas. thank you for covering the shopping for us this thanksgiving day weekend and all the spending. fun story, thank you. >> you talked a little bit about president obama joining you. would you welcome president biden down or any plans for him to join you on the campaign trail? >> president obama is tight. i don't control the schedule of the president of the united states. we have a little over two weeks. >> would you welcome him if he did come down? >> i welcome the people of

georgia to show up and we'll see over the course who shows up. it's a big tent and i've tried to do everything i can to help the people of georgia to understand the work that i've already done for them and to help them to understand that we need 51. >> molly: that is georgia democratic senator raphael warnock failing to directly answer whether he wants president biden to campaign for him in his runoff election against republican herschel walker. "politico" reporting the white house let the campaign know they're willing to do whatever they need to keep the seat blue including stay out of it if need be. their only focus is the win. former president barack obama is headed back to georgia to campaign for warnock on december 1, 5 days before the runoff. arkansas senator tom cotton says president biden's absence from the campaign trail tells you all you need to know about his

policies. >> i think it's notable reminder that joe biden's policies remain very unpopular across the country and especially in places like georgia where families are struggling to make ends meet and trim the sales for the christmas gift giving budget. worried about crime in the streets and the southern border. barack obama remains the most popular and powerful figure within the democratic party. joe biden remains his understudy and running his third term. not surprising the democrats are deploying president obama. >> molly: power panel nick adams foundation for liberty and american greatness and dan, a former senior advisor to hillary clinton talking about this. all eyes on georgia. they're doing it again. we all get to partake from afar. i want to start with dan on this question of how senator warnock responded when asked about if president biden was coming down. it was pretty hands off and yet

barack obama warm embrace ready to go and they'll have the rally. your thoughts. >> well look, i think warnock is doing what he should do. focus on the race in georgia and opponent in herschel walker and keep it local. republicans -- i would do the same thing if i were them try to make it a national election. the match-up between warnock and walker favors the democrats. walker is tremendously unfit. terrible record and bad judgment and can't be a senator in office in a federal way. warnock is a pillar of his community and there for people in georgia for his entire life. one needs to focus on the issues for people in georgia. i think it's true that inflation and economy has been present in voters' minds, but importantly gas went down $0.20 this last week in the country. it's at $3.08 in georgia.

it's less of an issue it was even a month ago. meanwhile dobbs a big issue in voter's minds. president trump and his entry and extremism. that plays to democrats' favor not republicans'. >> molly: gas prices going down, something the president has been talking about recently. but yet the indication isn't for president biden please come down and help me out. it is president obama that is coming to town. your thoughts on what that says about this race and biden's policies in georgia and the people of georgia. >> molly, i remain single about the prospects of herschel walker winning this runoff. i do believe he has the momentum that's needed. this should be a referendum on joe biden. every single person in georgia should be going out to vote to send a message. joe biden remains deeply unpopular. his approval rating is hovering

around 36 or 37%. that's why raphael warnock doesn't want joe biden there. he won't help warnock in the slightest if he comes. this president has earned his unpopularity. every single area of our lives are worse off than what they were two years ago. i want to push back a little bit and just talk about in terms of herschel walker. he is a phenomenal candidate. an icon. he is a man i think people in georgia love and respect. i think that he is going to win that race whether it's framed nationally or locally. he certainly is the right person for this position. >> molly: one of the big aspects i want to hit on. democrats have spent more than

$20 million in radio and tv ads. a phenomenal amount of money poured into the race. it can happen when you have an all eyes runoff election. with the balance of power in the senate not so much being discussed anymore, why is there so much money being put here, dan? >> well, a few things. one, i think the race has the attention of the entire country. when you can capitalize and folks on one state it makes it higher. democrats have a large national grassroots donor base, small donors who make a big difference. >> molly: i want to make sure nick has a final thought, too. >> i think it shows just how desperate the democrats are. they want to win this because they know that the map does not look good for them in 2024. if they do not win this seat,

this runoff, then they will be in all kinds of trouble come 2024. so i think that we're going to see a senator herschel walker, a great thing for georgia and america. >> molly: we appreciate you joining us, thank you so much and thank you everyone for watching. "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is coming up after the break. ♪