thanks. >> dana: the white house insisting president biden has been to the border despite the fact that records show he hasn't ever been to the border. the crisis continuing there to spiral out of control. record number of migrants pouring in and so are the drugs. >> like any type of illegal drug we have to go to the shady shied of town or wait, fentanyl is different. it is year round and you can buy it off your phone and get on social media and order pills and it can be delivered to your home. >> dana: welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom." i'm dana perino. >> bill: good morning. he is not wrong about that. i'm bill hemmer. new hour starts now. 2000 pounds of fentanyl has been seized in the first month the border patrol fiscal year. it is too much. enough to kill close to half billion people. >> dana: this comes after a record setting 2022 where 3.1 billion lethal doses were seized by border agents.

a 435% rise from just three years ago. helping to fuel a devastating rise in overdose deaths across our nation's communities. >> bill: we have all the angles covered. casey stiegel is live in eagle pass, texas today. good morning. >> good morning. 95% of the fentanyl seized, by the way, comes across the southern border right back here. the chief of this border patrol sector where we are says that eagle pass in and around del rio continues to be the epicenter for the number of illegal crossings of large groups of migrants. remember, border patrol classifies that as anything over 100 migrants traveling together. agents here encountering at least 1 or 2 of those every day. like this one yesterday. look at this. close to 500 in size. cuban and columbian. fox flight team drone captured images of a second group of 400

being apprehended right by the border wall in eagle pass on wednesday. all the while as we said that streak of fentanyl continues flowing into the country. in nogales, arizona this week close to 700,000 fentanyl pills were seized at a checkpoint inside a space heater as texas researchers work on a fentanyl vaccine that aims to block the drug from entering the brain. >> the effects were so profound that i knew people would not believe me. so i started filming the rats as proof that our vaccine was -- was having these amazing effects. >> those amazing effects he talks about are studies done in lab animals. they say that human trials of this vaccine could begin in the next few months. later today texas governor greg abbott will tour that facility

in houston and bring us more information about it. >> bill: thank you, casey. casey stiegel in eagle pass. >> you know the president has never been down to the border. the possible next speaker says he wants him to go with him. is he going to? >> so look, he has been there, he has been to the border and since he took office -- >> when did he go to the border? >> the white house standing by its claim that president biden has been to the border despite no record having been there even as vice president. let's bring in josh. >> why did president biden say he has been to the border? >> well, peter, as you may have seen there has been reporting that he did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008. the most important thing everyone should know and understand is that the president has worked on these issues

throughout his entire career. is well versed in every aspect of our immigration system. >> dana: josh, how is this sustainable when the border is actually the president's responsibility? >> dana, it is not sustainable politically. immigration and border security is one of the president's and democratic party's biggest political vulnerabilities. i almost feel like this is groundhog day. we saw the same routine a year ago when vice president harris, who was tasked to deal with border security, took months before she finally went to el paso in june of last year. she didn't even go down to the rio grande valley where so many illegal border crossings are taking place. look, democratic -- a lot of moderate democrats in the senate like mark kelly who just won re-election, during his campaign, dana, he called the biden border security policy dumb. you had maggie hassan go down to

the border, the senator from new hampshire who had a tough race this year. she went down to the border to show she was serious about border security in contrast with the biden administration. it is pretty remarkable not only has the president not visited the border but he the press secretary yesterday is lying about his travel to the u.s./mexico border. >> bill: were there any follow-up questions on that? if there were not, i imagine it comes back again for this white house to answer. >> i didn't see any. but certainly the republicans are going to be touting the issue of border security in their new majority if kevin mccarthy becomes speaker. one of the big themes he is talking about is holding the dhs secretary mayokas accountable. he may hold impeachment hearings against the dhs secretary. at the very least there will be a lot more oversight when it comes to the biden

administration's policies on the border. bill, we actually reported at axios the biden administration, even though the press secretary was not being truthful there, they are looking at ways to pivot to be tougher and really cracking down on border security in the coming year. they know the republican oversight is coming and politically unsustainable to keep going on the path they're going on. >> dana: title 42 is about to end and president biden is likely to go to mexico for a visit with their president in december or january. hard to imagine that they are not going to try to press on this issue. but at that point that would be a great time you go to the border, it's on the way, sir. >> right. it would be good timing, dana, you are right. the timing also is convenient with title -- the administration fought to keep title 42 but a court ruled it can no longer stay in place. it will force the administration's hand. they hinted and told us at axios

they are looking and discussing now ways to crack down on illegal crossings and actually amp up the prosecutions taking place in the rio grande valley at the border. >> dana: they spent the last two years telling us the border is secure and it is obviously not. >> that's right. i think they are hearing from some of these moderate democratic senators who won re-election because they broke with the white house on their immigration policy. >> bill: thank you, josh. we'll speak good very soon. call for number two. mark kelly, kyrsten sinema, hassan are asking why you got rid of title 42? the question is why don't you keep everything in the arsenal. the question about the border the president himself on cnn in october 2021. >> president biden: i have been to the border before and i know it well. i guess i should go down but the -- the whole point of it is i haven't had a hell of a lot of time to get down.

>> bill: they believe el passy is the border and that's why kamala harris went tlchlt if this is true in 2008 he drove to the border on the campaign trail it might have been the city of el paso and believes he is able to say what he says. >> dana: it shows your priorities where you go. he says he doesn't have time to go there. he has time to go to delaware every weekend. the priority is not there. i hope that changes. i hope they overhaul the immigration policy. we'll be all ears. let's look now over to qatar. iran's crackdown on citizens has no limits. reports emerging the regime security forces shot and killed the friend of an iranian world cup player. alleged reason for celebrating after the team's loss to the united states. alex hogan is live in doha. what are you hearing? alex? >> hi. as people celebrated the 1-0 win

to iran, in iran some people took to the streets celebrating the loss as an act of defiance against the government. people took to the streets celebrating, cheering, even setting off fireworks. in a crackdown on the demonstrators security forces shot and killed one man. they shot him in the head for honking his horn. he was a close friend of iranian midfielder, who you can see here in this photo playing in the match against the u.s. on tuesday. in his grief the player wrote after last night's bitter loss and the news of your passing set fire to my heart, someday the masks will fall and the truth laid bare. activism has bled over into the game. security forces have stopped spectators supporting the protestors and protests for women's rights back in iran.

much of the iranian team their time has been overshadowed by the protests and their families had been threatened if players chose to stay silent for the national anthem. they fell to the field after their loss in game three and some members of the men's national soccer team comforted them in those moments after that final match. the team did travel back to iran late last night. according to the group, iran humans rights, as many as nearly 450 people so far have been killed in these protests for women's rights back in iran. >> dana: thank you for following the story. >> bill: from the white house now president biden, macron about to take questions. first official state visit since he has become president and we'll watch that when the questions begin from washington, d.c. beauty of a day there, wow. plus he is the disgraced founder of the bankrupt crypto firm ftx. why is he talking? is this smart?

and why is he in the bahamas? and what will washington do about it? how all this is going over with the many who lost a whole lot of money. >> what gives you the right to do this? how you have a plan to get us our money back? who is on your side? why are you not in jail in the first place?

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>> dana: president biden hosting president macron at the white house. a rebound in biden's relationship with macron that got off to a rocky start last year. we'll talk about that today but other pressing issues as well. >> they sure do. the beginning of what is a long

day of pomp and circumstance. the presidents both spoke to a crowd of supporters and distinguished guests on the south lawn. quite a frigid morning with the full playing of both country's national anthems and brief remarks. they have a lot on the agenda to talk about in a bilateral meeting we're getting a spray of pretty soon here. top of mind for both presidents being the issue of russia's war in ukraine, the energy crisis that that is causing in the continent of europe and also spilling over into the u.s., and especially with the house being taken by republicans and what could be house speaker kevin mccarthy potentially not wanting to give ukraine a blank check when it comes to funding. the issue of funding ukraine and making sure to deter russia is top of mind for both presidents. we heard them each mention ukraine and russia in their

remarks. want to play you a bit of what the president biden said. >> president biden: france and the united states are facing down vladimir putin's grasping ambitions for conquest and russia's brutal war against ukraine, which is once more shattered peace on the continent of europe. >> russia's war in ukraine did sort of put to bed the rocky start of the relationship which began when the u.s. partnered with australia and the u.k. for a strategy to contain china and compete with china in the pacific. it cost france a submarine deal with the australians they had expected to get $60 billion on. the french briefly recalled their ambassador diplomats back to paris after there was this disagreement on how president biden should have handled it. they patched it up and the war in ukraine put that tension to

bed. the two countries, oldest partners are working closely on this issue and expect to address many of those priorities today, today. >> dana: jacque, keep us posted at the white house today. beautiful day there. thank you. >> i really deeply wish that i had taken like a lot more responsibility for under standing what the details were of what was going on. i should have been on top of this and i feel really, really bad and regretful that i wasn't. a lot of people got hurt and that's on me. >> bill: that's sam bankman-fried and he is talking a lot. he is the founder of a bankrupt crypto exchange saying he never tried to commit fraud. on the hill there is a senate hearing on the firm's collapse getting under way right now. charlie gasparino. we had a book event yesterday and he came in by zoom chat. had a big interview. had the big "good morning america" interview today and he

is talking a lot. lawyers would say keep your mouth shut. >> i'm glad he is speaking because i think what i learned yesterday it wasn't totally a revelation. he is tweeting about this stuff that he didn't do anything purposely wrong. but it kind of reconfirmed in my mind that this dude is going to jail. if he is not jail a year from now i would be very surprised. you just can't start a financial firm like this and say oh, i forgot about my compliance department. you just can't do that. you can't say oh, i'm adoctor but i forgot to go to medical school and do open heart surgery. he is trying to say i never intentionally looked to steal money. it was a confusing mess. where the intent becomes involved. i'm not a lawyer but i speak to a lot of lawyers and been through a ton of legal edits. why didn't you set up the compliance functions? why wasn't there risk control?

why wasn't there conflict of interest control between the side hustle of the hedge fund he had and his trading business where the funds were co-mingled and he lost money gambleling in the hedge fund. why wasn't that controlled? i forgot. the minute you forget that you are guilty of fraud. i'm telling you this dude is going the jail. i can't believe there are so many allegedly smart people on wall street -- i'm reading tweets by kevin o'leary and others saying we believe the kid. he is 30 years old. we believe him. it is so absurd. >> dana: like elizabeth homes. >> bill: are they tweeting it now? wow. >> it reminds me of one thing if you are an average person and give your money to a broker. wall street is a confidence game. it is literally a confidence game. i have confidence in the

intermediary to do the right thing, okay, with my money. but you have to give him confidence. now, jamie dimon gives me confidence who runs j.p. morgan. doesn't mean he is infall able. you have to remember when ever you give your money to someone you are giving him your confidence and is he worth it? this dude in my view -- was never worth it. >> dana: one quick question. he said in one of the interviews that he believes that he can get people's money back. is that delusional? >> listen, there have been instances of this sort of stuff, not madoff. where people got money back. remember the mf global blowup. run by a former governor and senator from new jersey. he ran this thing where there was co-mingling of funds and it was a big mess. they had to declare bankruptcy. people started pulling money out

and they went to bankruptcy. when they sorted it out everybody got their money back. this is a little different because -- >> bill: you said he is going to jail. >> this is a little different. what he was doing on the side hustle, what was going on was gambling wickedly. corzine wasn't doing that. they were losing money and that's different than this. i don't know if the money is there. >> bill: how long did it take before they busted bernie madoff. >> he turned himself in. it was an ongoing thing. he forced himself to turn himself in. what was happening it was a ponse scheme. you have to replace it with new money when people pull it out. no more money and people were withdrawing it. he was exposed and came forward. this is a little different. they're all different. again it comes back to this guy

understands how to sell himself, how to sell preachy, whiney, progressive values and he was -- >> bill: he was talking about esg and called it b.s. >> he said that in private. >> bill: he said it publicly yesterday. said it is a bunch of b.s. >> he was saying a lot of stuff we do, we posture is b.s. but he used all that b.s. to his advantage for years. he used the campaign contributions, and if you look down the list of how many smart people he went. black rock and the robin hood conference. they raise money for charity and he was on the stage with larry fink. how f is the stock market.

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>> time to embrace critical race theory and do mandatory pronoun training. >> the most capability force in the world. it will be so going forward. >> willingness to serve among americans is falling. 26% aren't willing to serve at all, they say. just 13% of 18 to 29-year-olds say they are extremely or very willing to join the military. u.s. views on u.s. military priorities overseas emerge clearly in these reagan institute surveys. 3/4 of respondents say china is a u.s. enemy, up from 55% in 2018. 82% of respondents say russia is an enemy as well. 71% are concerned that russian aggression left unchecked will inspire other authoritarian governments to invade their neighbors across the globe. >> taiwan is on the minds of the american people. they know taiwan matters to the

u.s. economy and they're concerned about president xi and the chinese communist party. >> 3/4 of respondents view ukraine as an american ally and want to continue support. eye opening stats from the reagan institute. >> bill: rachel hoff from the reagan institute. we'll see you tomorrow in california. one question here. military's performance in iraq and afghanistan, you found 47% say confidence in the military at least some. what did you take from this question? >> thanks for that, bill and thanks for having me. the question was among a variety of factors, how much has any particular factor decreased your confidence as gillian said. 20-point drop in the last four years in overall confidence in the military. those that say they have a great deal of confidence in the

military. pollsters read through a variety of options. the one you mention on the military's performance in iraq and afghanistan ranks near the bottom of the list at 48%. variety of factors around politicizing the military and the leadership of the military rank further. >> bill: i wonder what the kabul chaos had to do with that. i wonder what happens the further we get away from 9/11? it has to be discussed here and we will on saturday. you also said is the military overly politicized and the impact on confidence? that was the question asked. at least some, 62% say yes. can you explain how you went at that? >> sure. we've been asking this overall question how much confidence americans have in the military and we've seen it decline year-on-year since the first survey in 2018 across bipartisan presidential administrations, a steady decline. a new question on why that's

happening this year. we found even though to your point about afghanistan and the withdrawal from kabul americans perceive the war in afghanistan to have been a failure. that is relatively low on their list of reasons contributing to this declining confidence. what is driving the trend is these concerns about politization. >> on that the "wall street journal" says americans are losing trust in the military. the rise of woke politics has undermined public confidence in the brass. americans want their military to focus on preventing or winning the next war not serving the latest political fashion. rachel. >> what we see elsewhere in the poll is that the american people as the "wall street journal" wrote about want the military to be focused on deterring wars and prevailing in any future conflict. they want them to be focused on supporting allies and partners around the world and defending freedom and pushing back against authoritarian aggression.

we see it in questions we asked about deterring a potential chinese invasion of taiwan, we see it in questions we asked about supporting our democratic partners in ukraine and supporting our nato allies further to the west in eastern europe. >> bill: thank you for your time. you said the good news is we've seen it before and we know what we can do about it. and that's where ronald reagan came in. we'll see you over the weekend. looking forward to it in california. thank you, rachel. >> see you soon. >> dana: president biden's student loan relief plan suffering another setback in federal court. will the $4 hundred billion hand out pass legal muster? my vote is no. how does this affect the battle for free speech on the platform when a former employee of twitter says --

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>> we should not be making centralized determinations of truth anywhere. the way we get to truth in this country is through free speech and open debate. the way we correct for bad speech is with more speech, not less. that's the american way. i'm glad it appears to be the way forward for twitter. >> dana: twitter's critics saying better late than never after their late safety chief says it was wrong to censor the "new york post" story on hunter biden's laptop. the quote from him. he said there was smoke and for me it didn't reach a place where i was comfortable removing this content from twitter but it set off every one of my finely tuned app 28 hack and leak campaign alarm bells. he didn't want to but -- >> fancy bear, the russian hacking group. that's the designation they give

them for the material that they release, the misinformation god knows what it is or what they're trying to achieve. he assumed based on no evidence he is giving in that statement that it was appropriate to lock the "new york post" out of their account. they could not get into their account for two weeks and this was right before a very critical election. and there are a lot of voters that say if i had known this information it might have changed how i perceived the president and his family and what was going on. obviously there has been so much investigation particularly from miranda devine who wrote a book on it. she is a columnist for the "new york post" and works in this fine building but she has done so much research and investigation and many news outlets and say this is completely authentic. there was nothing at the time. >> bill: if musk makes it public it will be something.

>> i hope he does. i hope we get to see what we've all known and have tweets that haven't shown up on people's time lines who follow us and people unable to access information that other twitter users put out, we know that something is going on. we know there is a led curtain. even this little bit of truth shed on the subject is cause for musk to do just that. >> dana: when you see him doing cya there was something there. >> exactly right. >> dana: like a teenage girl. you give a little because you know that the pain is coming pretty soon. i also wanted to ask you about this. the student loan hand-out plan that the biden wanted to do before the election it's been blocked now by two courts. not just by trump-appointed judges. this is across the board.

do you think that this is going to ever see the light of day? >> i hope it doesn't. if this is something that is so critically important to our cultural infrastructure which i disagree it is. 2/3 of the people in the country shouldn't be on the hook for paying for those who get college degrees. that's a job for congress. nancy pelosi said that herself. democrats have had the majority for two years. the house, senate and the presidency. they could have done this. they very easily probably could have swayed kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. they didn't even try. it is a very expensive plan that certainly exceeds the bounds of an executive order. >> bill: nice to see you. >> great to see you both. happy december. >> bill: china now, perhaps they're pulling back on the 0 covid policy. you had tall protests over the weekend across the country.

major cities rolling back lockdown measures, might be a good thing for all. susan lee is watching it from fox business. what did you find out today? >> definitely a softening on 0 covid policies after the most widespread protests in china in 30 years. southern china you have barricades coming down. people returning to restaurants and shopping malls after the city wide lockdown was lifted. it is just a day after video leaked of confrontations between riot police and protestors. we heard from the official in charge of enforcing the government's covid policies who admitted the pandemic containment faces a new stage and mission setting more vaccinations, a weaker strain. city wide lockdowns in massive cities like many home to 60 million residents right there. less testing. home quarantine being allowed, a remarkable small win with a population frustrated by three

years of covid restrictions. it's been the ability of chinese citizens to get around the great chinese firewall surveillance. twitter became a stage for protestors to post images and videos of their discontent. as for the rest of the world we heard from the federal research chairman jay powell says we'll be feeling the effects of those disruptions right here in the u.s. >> parts of the country and parts of the economy that are deeply connected to global supply chains, that is going to make the supply chains less efficient and less effective and so that will have an effect on, you know, on the prices of some of these goods that are manufactured or assembled in china. it does have an implication for the u.s. >> american companies with production in china have been negatively impacted and that does clue the world's biggest company apple. reports suggest that apple will try to push their suppliers to make more of these advanced

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>> bill: horrifying story out of san francisco. a family saying they were with their two kids playing in a public park when their 10-month-old began to lose consciousness and paramedics administered narcan. that's the drug to treat overdoses after realizing the baby may have been poisoned by fentanyl. we're live in california with the story. what happened here? >> you know, bill, this happened at a popular family park in the marina.

one of san francisco's nicer neighborhoods. far from the open air drug market downtown at the tender loin. it is unclear how the 10-month-old ingested the fentanyl. it appears to have happened while playing in some leaves with his babysitter and twin brother nearby. according to his babysitter the boy lost consciousness and started turning blue. the boy's father arrived in minutes. the little boy given cpr and narcan which reverses fentanyl overdoses. now the narcan appeared to work fast and according to his father, the boy was back to his normal self a if you hours later. he told the newspaper we came out with a positive story and tell other people to be aware it's a risk. the incident is under investigation. police say they have not found any fentanyl but nannies at the park say along with the child in

their care they have to watch out for needles and people who appear to be intoxicated. >> to see the constant proximity of those who in my opinion who appear to be under the influence of drugs or addicted how close they are to our parks. >> one local supervisor tweeted hopefully this will serve as a wake-up call to those content with our status quo as a response to this crisis. that was from a supervisor. san francisco has a harm reduction approach rather than pushing addicts into treatment. more than 500 people in san francisco have overdosed this year. 359 of those deaths were caused by fentanyl. no question, bill, this toddler is lucky to be alive and police say they will be stepping up patrols around that park. >> bill: remarkable. claudia cowen in northern

california in the rain. >> dana: los angeles county is seeing a huge spike in fentanyl deaths in the last five years. they report a nearly 1300% increase in fentanyl deaths since 2016. tom dylan is a former acting dea administrator. comment on the story we just heard from claudia. this sends a chill down my spine and a lot of parents are watching how do you protect your kids from this? >> look, the u.s. is being flooded with fentanyl, cocaine, methamphetamine coming over our southern border. manufactured by mexican drug cartels. it is every where. when i was a acting administrator i saw what was going on in san francisco and stunned to see people using drugs on the street, disposing of used needles. selling drugs. unfortunately with fentanyl it takes a very small amount to be fatal and when you are talking about a 10-month-old baby, finding even a very small amount in a park could have been fatal.

it's a good thing first responders recognized the situation right away and treated the baby appropriately. >> dana: here is from the l.a. county department of public health on tuesday. the increases among youth being targeted by drug traffickers and the widening disparities among marginalized groups are concerning. >> right now what we're seeing is supply matters. there are more drugs in this country than ever before. the mexican drug cartels essentially control our southern border, they manufacture fentanyl in mexico and able to move it at will into the u.s. and they are targeting the most vulnerable among us to become addicted to these drugs. doing it for one reason and that's to make money. we have to do something to stop this. there are a number of things we can do. secure our southern border, need to hold mexico responsible for allowing these drug trafficking organizations to manufacture and move these drugs to the u.s. there is a lot that can be done

and we need to start doing it now. >> dana: i understand president biden will be going to mexico in december or january for a meeting. what kind of pressure can be brought to bear on the mexicans at this point? >> enormous amount of pressure. we should be telling the mexican government if they don't take this drug crisis seriously. this administration, this mexican administration has not been taking it seriously. it has gotten worse not just here in the u.s. but also in mexico. people are murdered on a daily basis by cartels. we need to tell the mexican administration if they don't take it seriously we'll take it seriously and say drug cartels are foreign terrorist organizations and additional tools to get to the mexican cartels. >> dana: bill barr talked about it as well. to me it has to be done. what would be the hesitation to

do that? the cartels are at the center of it all? >> well, normally we've dealt with the drug issue as a criminal justice system. this would raise it to treating these cartels essentially as terrorists and would provide additional tools for the government to use. it would also send an important message to the mexican government that we're taking this seriously. you are killing literally hundreds of our citizens every single day and we will treat it like the terrorism it is. the administration should also consider declaring fentanyl a weapons of mass destruction. we need to send a signal to mexico, to the drug cartels and to the world that they cannot kill our citizens wantonly like they are doing every single day. >> dana: do you think the dea under president biden has the support that it needs to carry out its mission? >> well, i know the rank and file agents are doing everything they can every single day. i was proud to lead the men and women of dea as the acting administrator during the trump administration.

i know they love the mission, they do it to save lives. i just don't see this administration focusing on the real problem. supply matters. the reason people are dying is there is too much of these drugs getting into the u.s. it means enforcement matters and we need real enforcement and real drug policies and need to hold mexico and china's feet the fire. they are responsible for what we're seeing here today and we need to make sure they know that and we're sending the right messages. >> dana: please stay in touch with us. we appreciate your expertise. >> bill: we'll be in california tomorrow. tell you about that later. you love your music. i love my music, right? we get very possessive about our own musical tastes. spotify came out with what you listen to. so you are first. >> dana: my top five artists, kenny chesney. morgan wally, randy carlyle because i read her book and

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