nothing beats nat king cole. >> mel torme. >> you just have to hear it. it's a moment. >> as long as it's christmas music, we love it, right? >> amen. >> thanks for being with us and when you can't be with us, set your dvr. we are always here for you. here is "america reports." >> look at the vast numbers increased in the last couple weeks, especially the last 3, 4 days, that is not sustainable and that's with title 42 in place. we can only imagine when that lifts will do on top of everything else. >> john: the el paso city manager sounding the alarm over the end of title 42 and warning an unprecedented migrant surge will get even worse. border patrol facilities overwhelmed and migrants are released on to the streets. >> sandra: many are asking the

question, is the white house at all prepared for the coming chaos? brandon judd is the president of the national border patrol council. we'll ask him when he joins us live coming up. >> john: begin "america reports" with tuesday, arrest of disgraced crypto kingpin sam bankman-fried, just hours before he was scheduled to testify before a u.s. house committee. i'm john roberts in question. questions being asked, sandra. >> sandra: so many, and to weigh in on the christmas song debate, never too much christmas music in my opinion, john. >> john: never enough. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. in about an hour, to give you a head's up, we are expecting a news conference. it is expected from the federal prosecutors here in new york city. after both the southern district of new york and the sec filed charges against sam bankman-fried. he allegedly orchestrated the

scheme to defraud investors and used their funds to make undisclosed investments, lavish real estate purchases and large political donations. all led to the sudden collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, ftx, filed for bankruptcy. >> john: he is in custody of the bahamian government. u.s. is asking for his extradition back to american soil. capitol hill hearing went on as scheduled without sbf. lawmakers slamming him for his role in ftx's downfall. >> my fear is we will view sam bankman-fried as just one big snake in a crypto garden of eden. >> it appears to be the same old school fraud, just using new technology. >> everybody loved the exciting idea of a politically progressive, smart, entrepreneur

who is going to reimagine capitalism, and i'm glad to see it's finally unravelled. >> sandra: many are asking where the lawmakers were months ago. jonathan turley will join us in just moments on the legal implications of all of it. begin with fox business kelly o'grady what is coming out so far from the court hearing as we await this press conference that should be happening here in new york. >> what a day to be on set with you, sandra. this is absolutely wild. start with the court hearing. what we are learning, the prosecutors are arguing that to the junl that he's not only a flight risk and should be denied bail if he chooses to oppose extradition. he is foreshadowing he may not go quietly, refusing to wave his right to extradition hearing. sbf is looking at eight counts. everything from conspiracy to commit wire fraud to money laundering and one interesting one, to violate campaign finance

law. my go-to legal expert brian walters shares if he's convict d he could spend up to life in prison. for example, just one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud could mean up to 25 years in jail. we are told the wire fraud and money laundering charges are the easiest to prove, especially with all the evidence that new ftx management is bringing forth in the hearing. campaign finance charge is interesting. what sbf and others are accused of, fraudulently donating under other names as a work around to political contribution limits. donated nearly 40 million. it means the figure is even larger. a big question on everyone's mind, if and when he will be extradited, that's likely to take some time. a source inside the sdny is saying no extradition motion have been made at this time. though the bahamian authorities did share this, they are willing to play ball, at such a time as a formal request is made, the bahamas plans to process it promptly, and treaty obligations

with the united states. lots of frustration he was not at the hearing today but number of headlines, this is my favorite, what role should sbf have in the role going forward, and what he has thus far, none. >> sandra: exactly, and waiting on the news conference top of the next hour, that will be key to listen into anything new from there. thank you. john. >> john: jonathan turley, george washington university law professor and fox news contributor. the question everybody is asking today is sam bankman-fried was supposed to appear before the committee, via remote while he was still in the bahamas, but the feds said to authorities, pick him up for us, please. they complied. did the feds not want him to testify today? i mean, put your sleuthing hat on here. why would they arrest him on the eve of his testimony?

>> first time in my memory prosecutors rather than defense attorney stopped someone from making self-incriminating statements. this was a windfall opportunity for the prosecutors. he was willing to go forward with hours of rather hostile cross examination on every detail in the case. why wouldn't you want that to happen? that's all admissible. he had not been arrested, and yet they decided to move this rather quickly, have him arrested just before he was going to take that step. he's already done great harm to himself in my view as a criminal defense attorney with his public statements. but this was going to be absolutely overwhelming in terms of its benefits for the prosecutors if they let him go forward. so, it left a lot of us scratching our heads. why would you do that? you could just wait for a day, maybe they'll explain that. now, part of the motive may be

they wanted to show that they have enough evidence, they are not protecting him or delaying any action against him because of his strong democratic connections. that could well be true. but they really did him something of a favor here by moving the schedule forward because he may have just wrapped, if he -- if testified, he could have wrapped up the case against himself. >> john: a lot of people thought congress would give him just enough rope to hang himself with about 100 times over. so if you are a prosecutor as you say, potential windfall of all of this open testimony, uncoerced, that you could have used in a court of law. why wouldn't you take that opportunity? let's take a look, jonathan, wire fraud, securities fraud, conspiracy, money laundering, violating campaign finance laws. you know, you add all of those together, there's a lot of years there, though i imagine any

sentence would run concurrently on the charges. >> that's right. people often treat it as consecutive sentences, life or more in terms of years. but most usually run concurrently if they are based on the same underlying fact patterns. some of these charges are relatively easy to establish in cases like this, like wire fraud. these a really darling of prosecutors, a heavy hit, even if they don't run concurrently. that is over a couple decades in jail as your maximum offense. now, he is a first offender, so if he was convicted, that would be weighed in the balance. he's also accused of one of the greatest fraudz -- frauds in history. and where caroline ellison is, the ceo of alameda research and his sort of sidekick. she's lawyered up with some big names, and in cases like this, it's sort of a game of musical

chairs but in this case it's really just a musical chair. these two are most at risk and she may have sat down on the only chair in the room. the belief she might be cooperating. because a lot of these allegations really do implicate her. they are very interesting characters. they are both children of faculty, ellison's parents were professors at mit, bankman-fried's parents are law professors at stanford, very bright and precocious, also were quite lax in how they dealt with what became a massive fortune. so interesting if she is going to cooperate. >> john: sounds like they both are eager to throw the other one under the bus. so, we'll see how that goes. jonathan, we have just learned that the hearing in the bahamas has been adjourned until 2:15 local time, the court is

considering whether it has jurisdiction over bail. we'll know what the immediate fate of sam bankman-fried will be, and then up to federal prosecutors to determine the long-term. jonathan, always great to see you. thanks for your take on things. >> thank you, john. >> sandra: as we continue to learn more, as you just mentioned, the judge has adjourned there until 2:15 local time, an hour from now to consider whether the court has jurisdiction over bail and some of the things we are hearing out of that courthouse is that his parents did arrive with him, they were photographed arriving at the court there. his congressional testimony blaming depression, claims he's a victim of anti-semitism, that solvent can cover 1.8 billion in losses. prosecutors say he used it as a personal piggy bank to fund his lavish lifestyle and discussions

about the enormous donations to the democratic party, and republicans, also some received donations, a lot is coming from this. see what happens an hour from now. waiting the news conference in new york top of the hour. >> john: and as he pointed out, the lavish lifestyle has gone up in smoke. literally knock left. >> sandra: ok. we'll see what happens. border patrol agents are mass releasing migrants into el paso after the record setting caravan came across the border on sunday, as officials are warning lifting the title 42 border policy, expected eight days from now could spark an even further increase in migrants crossing over the border. bill melugin is live in la jolla, texas. how are agents preparing for what is likely to be even a bigger surge coming over the border? >> sandra, good afternoon to you. what they are doing is trying to clear out as much space as possible. and border patrol in el paso are

completely overwhelmed, in part because of the large caravan that came through on sunday, and averaging more than 2,400 illegal crossings every day there. and here is what's happening as a result. take a look at the footage, border patrol has started mass street releases of these migrants. they call them community releases. hundreds of these migrants just released to el paso streets because all border patrol facilities and local ngos and shelters are overwhelmed and overcapacity. this has been happening in el paso for the last several days. we went to one street corner and saw dozens of migrants camping out, sleeping there, they are essentially homeless, nowhere to go. we talk about mass releases, take you down to brownsville, texas. take a look at this video. fox news wits n mass releases of several hundred migrants at this parking garage in downtown brownsville. bus load after bus load after bus load brought in by border patrol and released at this parking garage. all single adults, they get into

a single file line, they walk across the street, go to the ngo, helps them with travel paperwork and they are free to go. then go to the bus station or the local airport and they are travelling across the united states, that is the catch and release policy in action right there. then we will take you to the mexico city directly across from brownsville. there are thousands waiting for title 42 to drop in eight days. when we went over there, we found hundreds standing around, camped out on public streets, in public parks. migrants are simply waiting for the opportunity they feel will come when title 42 drops eight days from now and this is happening all along the border. back out here live, there are mexican border cities, all over the place, migrants, thousands of them sitting and waiting for title 42 to drop. again, the count down is on for them, the question for the you

state and dhs, are they ready for it? back to you. >> sandra: bill, keep us posted. john. >> john: in less than an hour's time, the former school superintendent loudoun county, virginia and the spokesman are due in court for allegedly mishandling two sexual assault cases in school. what charges they are facing. we'll let you know. >> sandra: and annual inflation cooling even further. the white house seems to be taking a victory lap, the markets seem to be telling a different story now. david asman in agreement. and jackie deangelis. break down what we just learned. >> when do you expect prices to get back to normal, mr. president? >> i hope by the end of next year, we are much closer. i can't make that prediction. all across the country, people are working hard to build a better future. so we're hard at work

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>> sandra: a key inflation number out just today moving markets. consumer price index showing inflation is cooling a bit year over year, annual inflation number for november, 7.1% on annual basis, that's the lowest it has been since last december. but still, much higher than when president biden took office, keynote. jackie is one of the co-hosts newly announced big money show set to premiere on january 23rd. super pumped for that. and brian is a frequent guest on this program as well. jackie, what the heck happened with the inflation number out this morning out of the gate, the markets went way high and then -- the past, you know, 30,

45 minutes, even dipped negative, they back being now. what's going on? >> they were up because the markets and main street have a disconnect here, so markets were excited about this, thinking inflation is coming down, 7.1%, fed will have to pull back, instead of 75 basis points, maybe 50 for the next few times. main street does not do that, and me, i'm not celebrating a 7.1 inflation number. it's not just about the goods and services we are purchasing and the grocery store, may see the prices come down on meat products, for example. >> i haven't. >> i haven't, but when they are embedded at the restaurant, for example, and labor costs are going up, that's a huge problem for the fed right now. consumers end up paying for all of this. this is not just, you know, inflation is 7.1%, so let's all celebrate, things are getting better.

it's not getting better fast enough, president biden. he was taking a victory lap early year today and he shouldn't be. >> sandra: whether you feel it or not, the white house is celebrating this. president biden. >> inflation is coming down in america. in fact, this new report, fifth month in a row annual inflation has fallen in the united states. inflation outside from food and energy a key measure that economists also fell. >> sandra: does it show this is a white house out of touch with what the american consumer is living through. >> of course. he said energy is down, heating oil was up 64% in november. that's the stuff that people can't live, literally cannot live without, particularly a cold winter, seems to be. also remember last week the producer price index, inflation that producers pay was up more than expected. eventually that's going to land up on your store shelves when you go out and buy retail. and as jackie was talking about,

you have food prices up double digits, last month, aring this -- as far as everything else is concerned with regard to the market, the market had a sugar rush with the fact it was less than expected on consumer prices. >> sandra: i don't know what went on there, the dow actually ran up before the actual number was announced, this was something. while you are both here, i have to dig into this ftx debacle, mess, chaos, after sam bankman-fried was arrested overnight. we saw this happen, ok, it's finally happening. but, a big hearing today where he was expected to obviously testify. that is no longer happening after his arrest. the ftx ceo, the now man in charge, john ray said this at that hearing. >> this is just taking money from customers and using it for your own purpose. not sophisticated at all. just plain old embezzlement. >> old school.

>> old school. >> sandra: arrived, sam bankman-fried arrived at the courthouse in the bahamas, see where it goes. >> i've been saying it from the get-go, it's not so much about crypto, but it's garden variety fraud and charges he was arrested, they didn't want him making a fool out of the sec and the cftc and the justice department any longer, this has gone on for a month since the scandal broke. i think that's what the timing was about. people are questioning why it was last night right before this hearing. >> sandra: you know what i want to know, hold up, where were lawmakers in all of this? we go back to terry duffy in march at a hearing where he was pressing ro khanna on the issue and ro khanna said -- >> duffy knew, and the commodities futures trading commission is part of the division that's charging this guy. anybody who was into any kind of commodity trading or any trading

of any sort knew it was a fraud. but the people in congress were going along with this guy because of the fact that they were getting paid off. and as the guy said, the new ceo says there was co-mingling of funds, no distinction between alameda, spending money on the politicians, means people who thought their money was safe with this guy had their personal money going to politicians that they may not have supported. i mean, that's extraordinary. >> sandra: silence of politicians and celebrities, by the way, also after his arrest, how about tom brady, giselle, alongside him pushing this. >> crickets, crickets. >> i'm not sticking up for them but also don't think they necessarily understood what was happening here. >> sandra: saying something would be good then. >> to say something would be good. >> sandra: fascinating. we expect developments top of the hour.

john. >> john: former loudoun county school superintendent, scott ziegler, and the spokesman are due in court, facing charges over the handling of two sexual assault cases at high schools. mark meredith is here. this comes after a month's long investigation. i was shocked to see they were facing charges. >> in the next hour, the former superintendent of loudoun county schools in court for an appearance, multiple misdemeanors after a grand jury investigated how he and others, a male student sodomized a female student inside a girl's bathroom. he was transferred to another high school, not long after, he choked and assaulted another girl in an empty classroom.

scott ziegler has faced questions what he knew of the assault and what he was telling the school board. he is facing three misdemeanors. the exact details are a bit murky. he was fired last week but is blasting the indictment, he spoke to washington post, said in a statement "i am disappointed that an attorney general controlled secret and one-sided process which never once sought my testimony has made such false and irresp irresponsible accusations." the case has sent shock waves through the suburban community, 40 miles outside of where we are. we have seen protests with parents claiming they had been kept out of the loop about what is happening in their kids' schools and while those protests are from last year, more protests are expected to happen this afternoon. a school board work session is scheduled for the 4:00 hour. john, there are so many parents that say they cannot believe what was going on behind the scenes. >> john: scott smith is one of them, he was one of the girls sexual assaulted in the bathroom

in the school, and he questioned the school board and they said oh, no, that never happened. >> he was just here on the show. >> john: and then he got taken down by the police and kicked out of the meeting and he was right in all of this. good reporting, thanks. >> sandra: exactly one month since the murders of those four idaho college students and there is still no suspect in the case. but could bodycam video taken near the crime scene hold the key to finding the killer? >> john: the end of title 42 is in sight, and if you think the migrant crisis is bad new, some critics say just wait until title 42 is gone. brandon judd will be talking to us what we could see starting as early as next week. >> if they want to secure the border, dust off the trump policies because they have proven to work. does not take another dime, just policy changes. i brought in ensure max protein with 30 grams of protein.

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>> sandra: coroner revealing new details in the idaho murder mystery, a lot of questions remain in the hours what happened before four students were found dead. more than a month ago. alexis mcadams, some bodycam video raising more questions at this hour. what are we learning is in it? >> sandra, if you take a close look at the body camera footage, tipsters are saying you can see a group of people walking behind an area where the police were but body camera footage gives more information that investigators were out there in an unrelated call right around the time of the murders, just steps away from the crime scene. this is the video we just got into the newsroom, the video released by moscow police shows them questioning three students suspected of underage drinking.

that stop was made near the home around 3:00 a.m., about the same time the coroner says the students were stabbed to death. tipsters have spotted a group of people walking in the background of the home and police have not commented. police retracing the victims' steps, they look at video surveillance from moscow, idaho. investigators were at a local bar and have collected investigative material, including surveillance video from the bar, cameras inside and outside and went to a gas station that is only a half mile from the murder scene to take their video, too, to try and piece this together. right now, investigators are still trying to track down a white hyundai elantra spotted near the home around the time of the murders, and that's an example of the 2011 to 2013 model. now, an update from investigators a short time ago with moscow police, the captain

reflecting how a month in this case has rocked the community and their department, talking about just how emotionally affected all of these officers are as they continue to search for the killer. back out here live in front of the police department, i can tell you the coroner tells me investigators at the crime scene put paper bags over the victims' hands before they moved the bodies, to make sure none of the dna was put at risk. if they fought back they could have the killers' dna under fingernails, including hair, skin and blood. >> sandra: john. >> john: eight days from now, title 42 is set to come to an end, and border officials are bracing for a migrant surge. brandon judd, president of the national border patrol council is in town, and joins us in the studio. numbers we have now are almost ridiculous.

to pale in comparison is crazy. the border patrol chief raul ortiz tweeting over the past 48 hours, over 16,000 encounters at the border, 97 million in narcotics seized, two murders, two warrants, one injury to a child, another weekend of hard work for the agents. thank you for all you do out there. those numbers are insane. >> he didn't even talk about the got aways, how many enter illegally and got away. and what he is crazy to me is that $97 million worth of narcotics seized, when you look at that, that is in two days, and the amount of narcotics, we estimate we only apprehend about 10% of the narcotics that come in, and it all starts with illegal immigration. when the cartels know they can flood resources with illegal immigrants, they know it pulls agents off the border and that's when they get their higher value products into the country, whether it's criminal aliens,

aliens from countries that want to do us harm or the narcotics, and that's crazy to see the white house just does not have any sort of a plan to address this. >> john: they have pulled a lot of agents off the front lines, when 1500 were bussed up to juarez, handed over to ngos and then walked across the borders, and you see the pick to yours on the right-hand side of the screen. i asked ro khanna, democratic congressman from silicon valley, whether it's time for the president to step up to the plate and do something about it. >> secure borders and orderly immigration process, we need funding to do that. >> john: you can throw as much money as you said, but how is that going to fix what we just saw happen over the weekend? >> i don't think it's just about money. it's about a systematic solution. >> he says we need money and then says it's not just about money.

if you throw money, what happens? >> money does absolutely nothing. if we continue to reward the people for violating the laws, you can line me and my fellow border patrol agents up across the entire southwest border and if we are continuing to let people go, if we are rewarding them for violating the laws, they will continue to come. we have to have proper policies, programs and operations. without that, which by the way does not cost us a penny without that, we can't do anything. >> john: jake sullivan was asked yesterday, what about title 42 and when it comes off. >> concerns over the title 42 expiration? >> so, the team has been working very hard to ensure that we are taking steps to be able to manage the expiration of title 42 and to put in place a process that will be orderly and humane. and we believe in doing so we can protect our national

security concerns. >> john: you get the idea they have some sort of plan to handle the influx when title 42 comes off eight days from now. do they? >> as you know, i'm an active border patrol agent, i'm here talking as the border patrol president but there is no plan in place, no plan coming that's going to address this issue. they know what they need to do but they are not willing to do it. >> john: are they gas lighting us or worse? >> not just in the state of denial, they are in a state of lying. they are lying to the american people because they know that the mainstream media will not fact check them, and then their lies become the truth. >> john: here here in d.c. working with -- >> giving technical advice what needs to be done. >> john: does the look like it's going to go anywhere? >> i'm hopeful, but doesn't look like it's going to go anywhere. >> sandra: federal prosecutors set to hold a news conference on charges against the alleged fraudster, sam bankman-fried. we are going to go there live

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their aggressive push for clean energy. this time an illinois car plant is cutting 1300 jobs to invest in electric vehicles. it comes despite the white house consistently vowing the inflation reduction act would create jobs. let's bring in katie pavlich, katie, great to have you here today. not only does it appear it's not creating jobs, but in this case, folks are losing their jobs so this this automaker can finance the government mandated and subsidized electric vehicle expansion. >> it's not the only car plant as a result of the government forced transition to electric vehicles. ford announced in august they were cutting 3,000 jobs from a plant to try to transition over to electric vehicles because of the inflation reduction act, and now the government has always argued and especially the white house that look, yes, some jobs

will be lost, famous moment from john kerry, the climate czar for president biden, saying build solar panels, don't see people losing in the standard energy industry through oil and gas is a problem because they are saying they will make up deference through the transition into clean energy. we have not seen that. they are not saying we are lo losing 300 jobs here, 1200 here, they are gone forever. and the affordability, doing it to finance the transition to electric vehicles. the inflation reduction act argued that in order to do this and to make it affordable there had to be more subsidies for electric vehicle makers. as we know, the history of the government subsidizing leads to

things more expensive, more unaffordable for the everyday american. >> sandra: something they write about in the wall streetbefore buttigieg, with his taxpayer jet travel, this sound out for you, i think i said yesterday one of my favorite moments of live tv. another network, cnbc and the anchor is trying to have a discussion with someone from in the white house pushing green energy initiatives. got to watch this. it involves a leaf blower. >> ongoing challenges with this difficult flu season this year, that actually things have looked so positive on that side of the ledger. >> all right. you usually have a leaf blower, a gasoline-powered leaf blower so i cannot hear what is going on. what's happening now that you are piping in? >> it's a leaf blower behind me.

>> sandra: ok, so it would have helped if she would have confirmed it was not gas powered leaf blower. i suppose it could have been electric, didn't sound like it. but i mean, there are rakes, so they are pushing all of this on the american people as expensive as it is, but it's ok if they resort to their fossil fuel usage if it's pretty and easy on the staff. >> i don't blame them for using the electric powered, i've tried to use electric and it takes longer. and fine to clean up government buildings, elites to fly on private jets with pete, and they make it impossible to get around and eliminates jobs.

>> sandra: i have to identify on the screen. p transportation secretary has taken at least 18 flights on private jets despite his consistent calls to curb carbon emissions. quick final. >> yeah, his justification, well, it's ok if i use private jet transportation because it allows me to spread the message about the moral importance of reducing carbon emissions. this is the same thing you see throughout the administration, while the everyday american and people around the world suffer as a result of their policies. >> sandra: katie, thank you. electric leaf blower does not last longer than ten minutes, by the way, john. >> i left monday at home. it does not. >> john: the electric hedge trimmer does work well. vladimir putin ditching his annual news conference after

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the size of a bb. and after decades of trying the atoms replicated, producing more energy than the lasers consumed. >> this milestone moves us one significant step closer to the possibility of 0 carbon abundant fusion energy powering our society. >> officials call this a milestone, fundamental building block toward a commercial reactor, probably still a decade away. u.s. invest about 700 million a year infusion, some goes to the national labs, other money goes to the private sector. bottom line is, we are not going to see fusion energy tomorrow, but if they can scale it economically, it does unlock a new source of clean energy. back to you. >> john: put it together with a flux capacitor, maybe we have time travel on our hands. >> sandra: a live update on the feds from charges against ftx

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