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their plane when a good number aren't. >> dana: there was no break in the border crossings. >> there wasn't. a non-stop holiday weekend out here along the u.s./mexico border. in this one sector alone where we are, we have personally witnessed at least ten large groups illegally crossing over into the united states and that's just been in the last 72 hours. again, in just this one spot in and around eagle pass, which is part of the del rio sector. we are talking easily over 1,000 migrants. then as the sun came up this morning, another one about 240 plus in size. mostly cuban, columbian and dominican. resources now spread so thin sources say at least 150 federal air marshals are being temporarily reassigned each month to do three week

deployments and assist agents at the border. dhs brushed it off saying it's nothing new. >> every year since 2006 i believe it is, the department of homeland security has relied on the department of defense to augment its resources to address the challenges at the border. >> now, earlier this month a front tier airlines flight bound for tampa was diverted to atlanta after a passenger had a box cutter on board. aviation safety experts are questioning whether decreasing law enforcement presence on planes especially during the busiest season of all is a smart one. >> kind of shocking to think about that they are taking air marshals out of the sky and high-risk aircraft and putting them on the border to simply do welfare checks of migrants essentially. >> spokesperson for tsa telling fox news that despite the

deployments their important work with transportation security also continues. dana. >> dana: thank you. joining us for more on this tony gonzalez representing a huge area of texas along the southwest border. what do you make of that taking air marshals and putting them on the border? >> it's another failed policy. i wish this administration would sit down with those that live along the border to have a conversation on how we can have better options. right now the people in my district are terrified that title 42 is coming to an end on december 21st. uvalde a few days ago with the six month mark of when the terrible tragedy happen. i had the mayor there call me and say tony, the border patrol let me know on december 21st, i'll get hundreds of migrants dropped into my city. my city is already a powder keg. we haven't healed yet. that has to stop. in el paso migrants are sitting

along the border had to move them into shelters because of the temperatures. livestock is out. i wish the administration would have a conversation with house republicans so we can have real solutions. >> bill: republican solutions, four i found. finish the border wall that probably won't happen. expand title 42, the courts have already decided on and modernize technology. you might get a maybe. overhaul the asylum system. it seems to me like you are one for four on those possibilities. >> you know, bill, it is funny the administration has actually started to finish some of the wall. they've done it quietly for political reasons but they are getting a lot of pressure on their side. you have a lot of -- the senators from arizona that are up in arms both democrats essentially saying something has to give. you've got house democrats along

the texas border that are saying something has to give. house republicans are the only thing standing in the way of this administration continuing down these failed policies. we have to continue to put pressure on them to have real tangible solutions. the number one thing i would recommend is end catch and release. people that don't qualify for asylum need to be sent back to the country of origin. it alleviates stress right away. >> dana: in the washington times today there was an article about how the biden administration is converting them to legal parolees and by changing the definition of the immigrant that came across they can say they solved the problem. if you look at this, call for number two, southwest border encounters 2.-- almost 4 million this year alone. if you change the definition they could maybe say that they have improved the border? >> the biden administration has

tried to play this slight of hand, if you will. i hosted kevin mccarthy a few days ago. during that time we sat down with border patrol agents having a thanksgiving meal and one of the agents when he was frustrated with was these definitions. he goes look, these people are here illegally for whatever reason they're here illegally and they are breaking our laws. we need to enforce the laws on the books. instead of that the biden administration is trying to spin it saying the border is secure. everyone knows it's not. especially those that live along the border. >> bill: thank you for your time. tony gonzalez. we'll see what changes. right now it doesn't look like a lot will. thank you for your time, sir, for coming on today. one thing they will do, they will try to do house republicans is go after secretary mayorkas. they have had a target on him for a while but they haven't had the power. here is kevin mccarthy going

after him in terms of impeachment. >> dana: we don't have it. let's play it. here we go. >> if secretary mayokas does not resign, house republicans will investigate every order, every action, and every failure to determine whether we can begin impeachment inquiry. >> bill: it might get you somewhere. they need to look into the orders and actions and failures for the border. over 2 million people that cross your border. no one in the world does it that way. >> dana: even the mayokas doesn't resign or impeachment isn't successful the one thing you can do and call attention to it and the media will have to cover it. in the last two years bill melugin is down there by himself and all of our reporters are by themselves. >> bill: screaming into an empty

room. the potential freight railroad strike is looming over the holiday season. it might mean a $2 billion shock per day to the economy. it would have a devastating impact on the supply change. james freeman last hour with dana and me. >> this is a question was it a political effort to kick the problem past the mid-terms? here we are. in the most critical time. we have close to 30% of the nation's cargo moving by rail so if you were thinking that supply chain problems were a thing of the past, it may be inflation was moderating, this would do nothing but inflame those problems once again. >> bill: madison who always goes where the news is, is live at the cfx oak point yard in the bronx, good morning, madison. >> good morning. the stakes really could not be higher right now with this rail

strike that would put more pressure on an already incredibly shaky supply chain just ahead of christmas. as we just heard, about 30% of cargo that moves by rail that would be completely shut off and the consequences would be immediate and immense. to replace those rails you would need half a million trucks, which is near impossible right now considering our already existing trucker shortage. the problems jamming up the supply chain after president biden touted successful negotiations that ultimately fell through in september. >> president biden: this agreement is a big win for america. together we have reached an agreement that will keep our critical rail system working and avoid disruptions of our economy. this is a win for tens of thousands of rail workers and for their dignity. >> now months later we are still dealing with the problem. a strike this close to christmas would not impact your holiday toys already on the shelves but

relying on a shipping company like ups that heavily uses rail to get your gifts to loved ones out of state would be a problem. not to mention more importantly for our economy the fuel, food and chemicals that are so necessary, those all travel largely by rail. that would be completely cut off which is why congress is eager for a resolution. >> failure is not an option here. we cannot have our transportation system responsible for 1/3 of our products being transported throughout our country shut down. that's not an option. >> you know, bill, what i'm hearing from those within the supply chain industry is that even though the strike would be set for december 9th, we would start to see companies canceling orders as early as december 1st in anticipation of a potential strike. even if a strike doesn't happen we expect a slowdown. a lot needs to happen in the next two weeks. >> bill: thanks, nice to see you madison in the bronx.

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>> bill: if you're a landlord in new york city you may soon be denied the ability to do a background check for someone who wants to move into your building. it is gaining traction. opponents say it puts the safety of families at risk from potential sex offenders or convicted violent felons. advocates including the new mayor eric adams argue everyone deserves a second chance. >> dana: this might be true. maybe landlords should get to decide that if it's your property, right? what happened to property rights? i understand that sometimes if you've gone to prison it is hard to get a job and get your life back under way but i see the other side. there is a way to work this out. >> bill: do they do a background check on you? >> dana: i had top secret clearance so go for it, i don't care. >> bill: there is this from china. [shouting]

>> dana: remarkable way of anti-covid lockdown protests sweeping across china. the communist party 0 covid policy is definitely backfiring. angry demonstrators are risking their freedom and even their lives as they chant down with xi jing ping and down with the communist party. are these continuing today, gillian? >> they are. this is right now the white house national security council tells us they support the protestors. we asked whether u.s. politicians push for renewed mandates could similarly backfire here at home. they tell us now quote we've said 0 covid is not a policy we're pursuing in the u.s. and very difficult for the people's republic of china to refrain this virus through their strategy. we'll focus on what works using

public health tools continuing to enhance vaccination rates and boosters and making testing and treatment easily accessible. back to china. the communist party is contending with protests erupting across the entire country. in shanghai the nation's largest city, there were clashes with police over the weekend. in the capital city beijing protests are flaring in response to the strictest lockdowns including peaceful student protests at one of the nation's most prestigious universities. this is all a first during the tenure of president xi jinping who has been in office a decade now. tension first boiled over thursday after an apartment fire killed ten people in a high rise. some of the residents have been locked down for 100 days. here on capitol hill republican lawmakers over the weekend told fox the situation is barbaric. listen. >> they are still welding chinese people into their apartments. we've had apartment buildings burn down with people locked

inside. toddlers being taken if their parents and put into quarantine camps. >> these protesting as you know by the chinese people against their government are very, very rare. for the first time in decades experts are telling us there may be actual political consequences ahead for the communist party and their iron-fisted rule. >> dana: we'll keep an eye on it. >> bill: what does it mean for the future of president xi and communism in china? general jack keane chairman of the institute for the study of war. nice to see you, good morning. it is fascinating to watch over the thanksgiving break. give me your top line take on how you see this developing and where it goes possibly from here. >> well, it certainly is significant. local protests are not unusual in china because they deal with local issues. what is rare here is it's a mass protest, ten cities or more, a dozen universities, and it is largely focused against the

ruling chinese communist party and its leader president xi. that is significant in and of itself. you give the fact since 1989 chinese communist party has really tightened its grip on all aspects of life in china. they literally, bill, wiped out civil society as we would know it. and they have this high-tech surveillance they've imposed on their people. facial recognition being the centerpiece. gillian is right. people on the street protesting here knowing that system exists, this is an act of courage that we're seeing for certain. yes, it has significance. it doesn't mean that president xi is in trouble in the sense of his regime. it does mean the fact that president xi worries about this. it is a fact that the chinese communist party leaders under president xi and his predecessors have always been more concerned about their

domestic security than any adversary out there to include the united states. they know full well with a population the size that they have, a billion 400 million people, if that population rose up against them they would have difficulty staying in power so yes, it has significance in terms of what it could grow into. with the dissent move from just young people, college students into a larger dissent among the elites. not that they would be in the streets but they would be dissenting against president xi's enforcement of the covid 0 policy and the issue it's causing for its own people. >> bill: a couple things i would add. vaccine is not as good as ours clearly. no natural immunity because of the way they continue to cordon off people in the cities made up of 15 to 20 million people per. in addition, china is the only major country in the world still trying to stop the transmission of the virus.

with that said gordon chang has a forecast. he said this earlier today. >> the problem for the communist party is that we have seen just mass discontent. and people are linking this to xi's rule itself. this is against xi jinping and the communist party. i think what we'll see within a couple of years is that the party will fail. largely because the chinese people don't want it there anymore. >> bill: i don't know if that last statement is even possible or if it's wishful thinking that the chinese people will not want the party, they will want it to fail within a matter of years. your evaluation of that claim is what? >> well, two things. certainly our audience understands how draconian a lockdown is. it's very different from ours. they can't go on the street whatsoever. they are locked in.

the apartment buildings are locked in. some of the apartments and homes are locked in by chinese police. they digitally tracked on a regular basis. as mass testing involving millions and millions of people in these cities on the daily basis. so it is enforcement that we have never had a frame of reference for. the future of the regime, that remains to be seen. they have enormous control over this population and to prevent it from ever getting to the point where there would be massive rise, it has to be seen and played out in front of us. certainly the economy is centerpiece to xi having control of that population. he is guaranteeing his people will have a satisfactory quality of life and something better for their children. the ccp is smart enough to understand that's the glue that will help sustain them. if that starts to go south as it

is, then there are troubled waters ahead for sure. >> bill: great to get your perspective. the next week will tell us a lot and we'll follow it as it goes. general jack keane, thank you for coming on today. >> dana: elon musk suggesting he might release information on twitter's censorship of the hunter biden laptop story. beckham junior kicked off a plane in miami. what is that all about? jimmy failla is here next. ♪

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censored the hunter biden story. >> twitter's new boss is making freedom of speech a priority on his platform under his leadership at twitter including coming clean about what steps led to them censoring the hunter biden laptop story on their platform in the critical days leading up to the 2020 election. a twitter user requested that twitter release it. a ceo said they were wrong to dismiss the story. two years after the "new york post" story several news organizations have said it is legitimate. republicans on capitol hill say they'll use oversight powers to dig into who at the f.b.i. warned this story was russian disinformation and investigate

the former intelligence officials that signed a letter saying they also thought it was russian disinformation. >> on the hunter biden story there is something we can do in a republican-controlled house here. we should investigate and subpoena everybody that signed that letter, former high-level officials signed a letter saying it was all russian disinformation. turns out it wasn't. turns out it was a lie. if people are abusing their current or former posts in the intelligence community to meddle in american politics it is something we should investigate. >> republican james comer the incoming chairman of house oversight said they'll investigate 40 to 50 different things with a staff to handling it of 70 people. >> bill: let's bring in jimmy failla, fox across america. >> this is a great booking by you guys. i partied so much over the holiday i am hunter biden right now. i'm in bad shape.

i'm not getting money from shady foreign business dealers and you have to hope elon musk releases whatever internal discussions they had for two reasons. we know that sunlight is the best disinfectant. if twitter wants to be perceived about being above board we should be able to see as a public if they got it wrong, they genuine by got it wrong meaning to the best that they could they tried to make a decision strategically and wound up censoring something that turned out to be real. the perception is they didn't get it wrong, they got it censored. they wanted it out of there. >> bill: my guess is he knows the answer and see whether he not he tells us. he will release the algorithm of twit twitter. >> democrats like to say we're trying to protect democracy. you want this out there if that's true. if the government collaborated with big tech to censor a story

that potentially swung an election it is election interference and the thing we've been lectured about the whole time. anybody who is trying to bargain in good faith should want it out there. >> dana: there is a story about odell beckham junior, football player on a flight removed from his flight in miami after 90 minutes. his lawyer says he was the victim of an overzealous flight attendant. the flight attendant that beckham was going in and out of consciousness before the flight to los angeles on sunday morning. >> i know i look like i've been kicked off a few flights. that's not true. odell beckham has a reputation of doing a lot of me first attention seeking things selfishly at the expense of his teammates which is why a guy as talented as him is currently a free agent. this is really bad timing by him no matter what happens. this week he is supposed to be meeting with the giants, cowboys

and bills to potentially sign a free agent deal. if you think the people on that plane were drinking a lot when they got kicked off wait until you see what his agent is doing right now. >> bill: i think he had a big night out. he went to sleep. he wouldn't put on the seat belt. said you have to get off the plane. the other folks on the plane were not happy. >> they don't want to deplane on a day like yesterday. the biggest travel days of the year. they do not want to empty that plane unless they have to. so the idea that he was just some innocent bystander targeted by an overzealous flight attendant is hard to stomach considering his previous record of doing things like this that get him in trouble. >> dana: the other thing i saw the story about frugal flyers. you fly every weekend. there are some people that want to avoid at upcharge at any cost. this one woman will pack for an entire week in a carry-on.

do you want to pay the extra fee? >> with the level i occupy at fox i'm in stowaway. you guys are up front. jimmie, the discount airlines are nailing you for everything. the pre-flight announcements on front frontier. pull down your oxygen mask and seat kush on, has a charge of 18.95. >> dana: they put a lock on the do door and you had to pay a pound to go to the bathroom. >> the carry-on deals. if you don't check it before you get to the airport it is $1 hundred at the gate. that's nuts. flying coach at this point is a way -- you are getting called names and take your money.

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victimizes them resulting in financial loss and in this case loss of life. he is wanted for felony i.d. theft. he is six fought 3, 250 pounds and has ties to wisconsin and northern illinois. right now he is officially a person of interest in this woman's death. police are still waiting on her autopsy results to see exactly how she died. >> bill: very intriguing. >> dana: kentucky installing its first narcan vending machine as fentanyl plagues the state. it is an antidote for opioid overdoses. critics say the vending machines enable opioid abuse. the police chief said no, they save lives. we have the chief of police in vine grove, kentucky. thank you for being here. i want to show nationally overdose in america if you look at these numbers here is quite

astounding. as of june of 2022, 72,000. that's about five months ago, sir. you've seen this in your own hometown and you decided something needed to be done. a narcan vending machine you thought would help. tell us why. >> in our county alone we have had 50 deaths in 2021. as of this morning we're up to 43 with five pending results. our ambulance service responded to 468 overdose calls in this county alone this year. i went to a call earlier this year and a citizen had actually had the dose of narcan and had administered to a friend that had overdosed and saved his life. i got me thinking how to make it available and i got authorization to put it in the police facility. >> dana: it doesn't cost taxpayers anything? >> it does not. we have not expended one penny

of taxpayer money for thchlt it is funded by our local mental health and substance abuse treatment facility. the ones that purchased the machine and provide me with the product to put into it. >> dana: there was concern that this would enable more opioid abuse. why is that wrong? >> i think it was just the shock to the system of the citizens. they didn't understand what it does. they thought i was making something available to the drug addicts that would enable them to continue to use drugs. >> dana: here is a map of the states that narcan vending machines exist in. quite a few. maybe after a story like this gets out there more will be available to people. you personally care about this issue and about people dealing with this struggle. if you could comment on how you bring that to the efforts that you are using the try to protect people. >> i think it's a challenge if law enforcement to be able to do something like this overall.

the general consensus amongst law enforcement is these people need to be locked up. that's not the opinion i have. i had my daughter was an addict and she had to be narcaned twice. she is now doing great but it is a very personal issue to me and i know there are other police officers in my region that reached out to me and even more personal to them. >> dana: if there is a parent out there worried about their loved one maybe reaching out to you in your area reaches out may give them hope. your daughter is doing better? >> yes, she is. i welcome anyone to come in and i can explain why i did it and the result i'm trying to get out of it. >> dana: are you the picture of leadership in your community and appreciate you coming on today. i'm glad your daughter is doing better. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> bill: good luck, chief. many u.s. troops serving

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>> dana: jay leno returning to the comedy stage last night two weeks after suffering burns in a gasoline fire. the former tonight show host performed for a sold out crowd in california. he is 72 years old and working on one of his many cars when he was burned on his face and hands. he had multiple surgeries and he was released from the hospital ten days later. quite remarkable that he kept that comedy club shot and he looked good. >> bill: good for him getting back up there. humor cures a lot. i would love to see his set first time back. really good. >> dana: does he have flowers like this? >> bill: or christmas tree in the corner. remarkable over there.

all right. parents struggling to find critical medicine for their kids. health officials declare shortages of antibiotics and other medications. grady trimble is live in oswald form see -- pharmacy in illinois. >> a mocks silin is hard to come by now. adderall is hard to find and at the shelves, anything used to treat a cold, cough, flu, there are shortages of those products as well. especially children's version of the products. down here you can see these are 12 varieties that are out of stock in the children's department. alex andersson is the owner of the pharmacy. >> it's the combination of rsv, cold, flu, covid all coming together and i think people are stocking up. there hasn't been a reported

shortage officially from tylenol but you look at our shelves and it is not there. >> i want to read a statement we got from johnson & johnson. some products may be less readily available due to this increased demand but we're not experiencing a shortage of children's tylenol in the united states. you said it visually it looks like a shortage. >> even on our ordering system some of them are back ordered until mid- november -- mid- december, january, february. so now i'm looking for other wholesalers to see where we can find generics. >> a lot of illness going around and parents are trying to find drugs like this and having trouble doing that. the advice is try to find generics if you can. some of the name brands might be out of stock. it is hitting generics as well. >> bill: thanks, grady.

>> dana: u.s. troops serving overseas get holiday care packages again this year thanks to operation santa, sam's soldiers. the packages contain things like blankets, travel mugs and toiletries and other things you might need or miss from back home. let's bring in the teen who started operation santa two years ago. we talked to you last year, trey, you have had quite an experience since and you have changed up a little bit this year. what's new? >> yeah. so last year was so successful thanks in huge part to america's newsroom. we were able to provide supplies to over 700 soldiers. it was a huge success and we were just so happy that we were able to help all these soldiers. so this year we're trying to raise as much money as possible trying to hit the same goal with the 700 soldiers and if we're lucky enough we might be able to surpass it. it just hits home for me especially because my sister is one of those soldiers serving

overseas. so we're just trying to do what we can to help these soldiers. >> bill: i bet your sister is very proud of you. do you hear from the soldiers when you ship them supplies overseas, trey? >> i do. it is so great because over the years the past two years we just keep getting letters throughout the year from these soldiers telling us how grateful they are and it's so amazing just to see these letters because it really makes me feel good that i'm doing a good thing helping the soldiers and the community themselves just to help to show these soldiers our appreciation, it is just inspiring and it makes me feel great. the community should feel amazed. >> dana: later this week bill and i will be at the reagan defense forum. one of the things that we'll be talking about is america's love for its military but there has been a decrease in trust and confidence in the institution of the military.

i think what you are saying is that what you hear from people the generosity of people who donate to your fund so you can send these care packages to the soldiers is they have full confidence and 100% support of the soldiers who are serving. >> yes. i think that especially people in this country, everyone should realize just how grateful they are that these little things that we take advantage of, these soldiers could appreciate them so much and they mean the world to them. little things that -- wipes, hand sanitizer, these are just things that they could really help in the field and that's why i think the entire community understands the ultimate sacrifice these soldiers are making and just wants to help out in any way they can. i think that's an amazing thing. >> bill: you tell your sister sam hello and best to your parents.

they have raised a good young man and we put the gofundme page on screen, too. >> dana: there it is. good for you, trey. you are a great role model. thank you for all you do. merry christmas to you as well. >> bill: you are our first christmas story. so you are number one out of the gate. good luck. keep it going. >> dana: get your foam finger. >> bill: thank you. before we go, this one is for you, perino. g guess who was grateful for the record snowfall in buffalo last week? this guy. >> dana: this is luna, the polar bear living at the buffalo zoo. they had seven feet of snow and she said this couldn't be better. i have to get more of this. i love living in buffalo. >> bill: i love buffalo, i love the snow, i love the bills, and i love the taxes. >> dana: this is how we should be when we get snow, be happy.

look at that. >> bill: as you said, not moving the floor. >> dana: not worried about taxes? she likes the buffalo zoo. who wouldn't? a great place to visit, maybe when it's plowed. good to be with you. >> bill: i will check you later at 5:00 and see you tomorrow. >> dana: harris faulkner is next with "the faulkner focus." here she is. >> harris: we have breaking news at this hour as democrats in one area are bringing back masking just short of mandate. i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." rsv, the flu and covid are surging across america right now. it is the fall season. we all knew this was coming. we're heading into colder winter months. rsv, the most serious right now because it attacks children. all of us have had this as children. rsv cases are up