watch it at christmas. maybe i need to start something there. >> interesting. interesting. i love "the grinch." >> i like stealing peoples presents. >> is that a movie? >> "christmas story," and "nightmare before christmas." >> blend of halloween, too. enes, an honor having you here today. >> i really want to appreciate you guys. from my heart, appreciate that. >> thank you for being here. >> guys, "america reports" is right now. >> john: "love actually," nothing better. despite what they say are wins support president biden, most are wondering where the country is headed. and wondering if joe is the way to go 2024. >> and a left leaning add telling biden not to run. will he take their advice, coming up.

>> look at the last numbers in the past couple weeks, the last 3, 4 days, and that's unsustainable and that's with title 42 in place. >> sounding the alarm, the money is not solving the issue. >> take my hat off to the city of el paso and brownsville for being able to do the best they can with the situation. it is really a crisis. >> john: begin "america reports" with el paso, officials sounding the alarm as migrants flock in droves. and they are concerned it could spiral further out of control with title 42 coming to an end. say it. >> sandra: happy friday eve to you, john. and to weigh in on the debate "elf" is up there for me, and "miracle on 34th street." just to weigh in.

>> john: two good movies. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. title 42 is set to end next wednesday, and hundreds of migrants are waiting to enter the u.s. once the policy is lifted. fox news obtaining video from the border in el paso showing migrants wearing blankets and lighting fires just to keep warm while they wait. meanwhile, cartels continue to exploit bedlam, to sneak drugs and migrants into the country. >> john: we start this thursday with bill melugin, he's live on the border in eagle pass, texas. is el paso completely overrun at this point? >> john, good afternoon to you. it absolutely is. and we'll put it in perspective for you, a cbp source telling us in the last 24 hours alone, in the el paso sector, nearly 2,600 illegal crossings and the releases are continuing daily by the hundreds. showing the situation in el paso

last night, well over 1,000 migrants waiting for border patrol to let them in through a chain link fence, and process them. some of them starting campfires because it's so cold. the cbp source says the el paso sector has seen over 139,000 migrant encounters, a staggering 255% increase over the same time last year. local shelters completely overwhelmed, and they say what's happening there is completely unprecedented. take a listen. >> we have never seen anything like this, and i've been the ceo 25 years. in years past we would get, you know, maybe here is a group of ten cubans, something like that. now all of a sudden the border patrol is releasing as many as 500, 600 a day just to the streets of el paso.

>> and it's not isolated to just el paso. take a look at the footage here in eagle pass. the del rio sector overwhelmed, several hundred have crossed illegally, almost all of them single adults. the source telling us the del rio sector has seen over 115,000 illegal crossings since october 1st, that is up 56% over the same time last year and last year was the all time record high for the sector. and the rio grande valid, liquid meth bust made by border patrol. agents seizing over 3,000 pounds of liquid meth. they found hidden in chlorox bottles disguised as bleach with border patrol saying the third largest meth bust in the history of u.s. border patrol. back out here live, the crisis affecting parts of the border.

miami sector, border patrol there saying they have been inundated with boats of haitians and cubans, and people from the dominican republic. their numbers for the first two months of the fiscal year, up over 500% in miami sector over the same time last year. so, this is happening all across the southern border and that is with title 42 still in place, at least for another six days. back to you. >> john: that's pretty amazing, and the dhs secretary on tuesday with nothing that resembles a plan to you to deal with this. bill, thank you. sandra. >> sandra: a brand-new report from house republicans saying that there are indications covid-19 may be linked to china's bioweapons research program and says the virus may have spilled over to the civilian population after leaking from that lab in wuhan. florida senator rick scott joins us with his reaction to that in just moments. but first, let's go to senior national correspondent rich edson, this report takes

aim at u.s. intelligence agencies. what are we learning? >> it does. authors of this report say the intelligence community is stone walling them and refuses to answer their questions. last year the office of the director of national intelligence released a report on the origins of covid-19. republicans write their review quote of available public and non-public materials reveals evidence that sars covid two was potentially connected to the china biological weapons program, a report omitted much of the information. gop report claims the information is still classified, and they contend agencies could disclose it without harming national security. the information the republican report does offer largely centers on suspected ties between china's military and bioweapons research, and scientists at the wuhan institute of virology.

they have not found a smoking gun that resolves covid-19 origins. >> you can call it circumstantial evidence but when it starts to mount up you have more and more questions you need answered. we are not being vindictive but we want the truth and honesty and facts in front of us. >> in the report last year, the office of the director of national intelligence said we remain skeptical of allegations that sars covid 2 was a biological weapon, supported by invalid claims, proponents do not have direct access to the wuhan institute of virology. a spokesperson had no comment on the republican report. back to you. >> sandra: generating a lot of buzz. thank you. john. >> john: florida republican senator rick scott for more on this. as you heard rich say, no smoking gun here, and long

speculated and long downplayed by the intelligence community. if anybody suggested a couple years ago this could have been the case, they would have been dispensed as an tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist, but there are questions, are there not? >> origin of covid is not a partisan issue. we need a bipartisan, whatever the facts are the facts are. sure looks like it came out of the wuhan lab, but let's get the facts out and then we can tell people you know, the truth. let's remember this. everything that comes out of communist china is bad for the united states of america. they are out to dominate the world and everything they are doing is bad for american citizens. whether it's social media, whether the wuhan, they clearly covered this up for whatever reason, so i think we have to --

you know, let's get the facts, i don't trust anything that comes out of communist china personally. >> john: rewind back to april 30, 2020, in the east room of the white house, i asked president trump if he had high confidence that the virus came out of the laboratory, here is what he told me. he said yes, i have seen this evidence, we have people looking at it very, very closely. scientific people, intelligence people and others and we will pull it together and i think we are going to have a very good answer eventually. and i asked what gives you a high degree of confidence this originated from the wuhan institute of virology. the president, i'm not allowed to tell you that. back then the president said we have seen the evidence, we don't know if we will have anything definitive, but if it came out of the institute and part of a bioweapons program, what consequences sh you had china face and held to account?

>> let's get the facts. we need a bipartisan commission to understand what happened here. and if we find out it did, we have to figure out how do we cold communist china accountable. we need to tell the world who the government of communist china is, and i don't trust anything about them, whether it's tiktok or anything they are doing, i don't trust anything, drone program, anything, it's all in an effort to harm american citizens. but i think the step one, let's get the facts. steps two, if it was proved they did it intentionally, figure out how we hold them accountable. >> john: switch gears to the border, we have been talking about that a lot as we saw with bill, people coming across the border with literally nothing to stop them. the dhs secretary was down there on tuesday, he got an icy reception by border patrol officials in el paso, and one report we saw, he maintained he

told the border patrol agents he never said the border was secure, despite the numerous times he said it was. listen here. >> the border is secure. the border, we are working to make the border more secure, that has been an historic challenge. >> secretary mayorkas, do you continue to maintain the border is secure? >> yes, and we are working day in and day out to enhance its security, congressman. >> john: clearly he said the border is secure. now the white house is asking for $4 billion to secure the border or what happens when title 42 comes off, and brandon judd, the president of the national border patrol council says throwing money at the problem is not going to fix it, it will make it worse. >> mayorkas has no credibility. he said the border is secure, we all know the border is not secure. i said you are it, i don't know another american that believes the border is secure. so, why would we give meyer kas

money to secure the border when we don't trust a word that comes out of his mouth and i've not seen a plan, this whole funding program they are doing right now, this spending bill next week, we have not seen anything. i mean, 7500 earmark, negotiated in the dark, a few people know anything that's going on. whether it's border security or anything else, none of us have any idea what's going on right now with regard to the spending bill. >> john: you mentioned spending bill, the idea of this breakfast club, a small group of senators, including yourself, senator mike braun, lindsey graham, mike lee, ted cruz, rand paul, want pressure on mitch mcconnell to make sure your issues are attended to. is mcconnell not doing enough to look after the things you and your fellow senators care about? >> well, as you know, i ran against mitch mcconnell to be the leader of the republican party up here, in the senate, i did it because i believe we have to start acting like a

republican party there. we can't keep caving into the democrats. passing bills with a few republicans, and not giving time to read it, the omnibus spending bill, why don't we know what's in it. why don't we know what's in it? >> john: as nancy pelosi once said, you have to pass the bill to find out what's in it. senator, good to talk to you. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> have a good day, bye-bye. >> john: money is on a lot of people's minds. >> sandra: it is, what's happening on wall street in a second, a big retail sales report just out. everything happening right now as far as raising interest rates to tame inflation that, is taking away from american consumers to buy things, growing concern what the fed is doing

could be pushing us into not just a recession but a deep recession. dow is down 900 points. >> john: hope they find a reason to be optimistic. >> sandra: two mississippi police officers tragically gunned down while on duty. what led to the shooting that has an entire police force in mourning. >> john: recent wins for president biden not moving the needle much with voters. democrats are asking him not to run for re-election. are they getting the sense biden does not have what it takes for 2024? jessica tarlov and sean duffy sound off coming up next. >> how would i grade. >> joe biden on the overall performance in the last year. >> what's lower than -- me? about 1000. walgreens...millions. no way can i miss her big debut. with your booster, i think you'll be there.

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>> sandra: fox news alert, wall street we are seeing the dow off 920 points at this hour, the lowest point of the session. just a couple hours left in the trading day and this as we have a brand-new report out on the economy. retail sales did take a hit in the latest month. they fell .6%, it was the biggest decline of the year. and that is weighing on investors' minds as they see the fed trying to tackle inflation. there are fears that the fed raising interest rates will drive us into a recession. what we are seeing is consumers starting to pull back on purchases, you know, whether it's updating their homes, holiday purchases, automobiles, we are starting to see that take a hit and as a result the market is down. brand-new polling shows voters are not thrilled with the economy, not thrilled with the direction the country is going in, one poll shows 81% think the

economy is in fair or poor condition and 68% are dissatisfied how things are going in the country right now. that feeling has left many democrats wondering whether or not president biden should be running for president again. jessica tarlov, co-host of "the five," sean duffy, former wisconsin congressman and co-host of "fox business show," "the bottom line," i hope i get an invitation, sounds amazing. i love it, i love it. >> you will. >> sandra: jessica, where do you stand as a democrat? you want joe biden to run another term? >> absolutely. we know what the polling was on the economy, around where it is now, people are deeply dissatisfied with it and they came out and still supported democrats, and we benefitted from them running poor candidates but net, a resounding show of support keeping the

democrats and he had the most successful midterm since 1934, i believe it was, why wouldn't he run for president again. >> sandra: wouldn't that mean more of the same, people not feeling about about the direction of the country or the economy? >> joe biden did well, if i was a democrat i would disagree with jessica. if you look at how well he's doing on the stage, how well he's governing, he's losing his step and i think they would be well served. as a republican, i love that joe biden will run again, 41, 42%, wrong track, 72%. >> sandra: and who would he run against? >> i think donald trump has the heart of a lot of republican voters but i think they will watch the debate happen and go who really is right to lead the country forward and we'll see. >> sandra: there are some democrats who are starting to show their concern about a

potential joe biden second run for the presidency. a sampling of what we are hearing as far as don't run, joe. >> i'm concerned with joe biden's low polling. >> with his low popularity, it's way too much of a gamble. >> if he runs, the election is at serious risk. >> joe biden representing the status quo in 2024 will not cut it. >> sandra: and this is fox digital asking austin residents, blue town, by the way, their thoughts on joe biden. listen. >> i don't really think that he is a made strong decisions to progress our country forward, in terms of like our economy. >> i'm disappointed in the economy, inflation has picked up. >> every time somebody questions him with anything, it's very dismissive, or it's getting better, or like this before i got here. >> sandra: as far as taking the temperature of the people, jessica, it's a little cool out there.

>> well, i would separate the ad, came from a far left progressive group from interviewing people who live in austin and i think there are a lot of democrats, they look to the alternative, would happily check that box and vote for joe biden again but are saying we could do better and we talked about this on "the 5" and your show as well that the messaging had to be better for the white house by the economy, and it's tough out there, inflation was causing people a lot of distress. gas prices have come down a lot but that was terrible, especially for people who had to rely on their cars to get to and from work, truckers, the price of diesel, etc. so there is room to grow and room to improve but i don't see any reason why joe biden shouldn't be the candidate. >> the midterm elections are not the presidential election. i think he'll have a hard time navigating a presidential race, most gave him an f, economy is

so bad, outlook is bad, austin, really blue, they say he's not cutting it for us. >> sandra: biden's own allies remind him of his age and he said, you think i don't know how [blank] old i am? >> i hate being 38, let alone being 80. 39, like one from the grave for a lady. but i understand the frustration, especially coming off the midterms, he takes his health seriously. he exercises every day. >> or shuffles every day. he does. >> if i was in as good a shape when i turned 80 i would be happy about the situation. and gavin newsom announced he will not be running, people are getting in line behind joe biden and those moments, by the way,

are why people -- >> they are saying they are not going to run, but bottom line, he's doing everything like he is running in case joe biden falls when he's shuffling around the white house, they are ready to go. >> no hillary talk, let be real here. >> sandra: a nice thursday panel, appreciate the discussion. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> sandra: john, care to weigh in? [laughter] >> john: how can you follow that act, it's very difficult. >> sandra: ok. then just don't. [laughter] thank you. >> john: we want to bring you this, a tragic story. mississippi police force in mourning after two officers were shot and killed during a welfare check. bay st. louis police say a woman opened fire when they arrived at a hotel. john, what are we learning about the fallen officers? >> both of the cops were

fantastic officers who sacrificed their lives for the good of society, the good of the community they everybody is. 34-year-old sergeant steven robin was a serious mentor, made great cops out of rookies, a husband and father. and brandon westdorf showed maturity beyond his age. they conducted a welfare check on a woman and child in the parking lot of a motel 6 in bay st. louis. after they called for child protective services, the woman, 43-year-old amy anderson, allegedly shot the officers before fatally shooting herself. the community is holding a candlelight vigil to honor the officers this evening. >> lives were not lost in vain. they loved coming to work and being officers, putting on the uniform and going out there every day to serve you, serve our citizens.

>> and chief schwartz is asking to pray for the families of the fallen officers, and also for the family of the assailant. john. >> sandra: a warning from russia as the u.s. considers sending ukraine a battery of patriot defense missiles. what moscow is saying about possible consequences, live to kyiv. >> john: plus the national archives could release hundreds of white house records related to hunter biden and the ukrainian energy company that paid him millions. but would the biden administration try to block that from happening? byron york says the white house republicans are ready to go to war over it. he's here next. >> the reason we are investigating joe biden, we fear that this administration's compromised because of the millions of dollars that hunter biden and jim biden have received from russia and china.

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>> sandra: tensions escalating between the u.s. and russia as washington considers plans to give ukraine advanced patriot defense missiles. moscow saying it would consider the move a provocation. warning, it could lead to unpredictable consequences. nate foy is on the ground in kyiv for us. he's got the latest from there. nate. >> hey, sandra, yeah, russia launched a rocket strike hitting kharkiv today, hit an empty warehouse so nobody was hurt but more shelling in kherson, a southern city here in ukraine, two people were killed and the power grid is out there as a result of this shelling. take a look at this video, comes one day after the regional administrative building there was also hit. today's attack about 100 yards from the attack that you see here playing out yesterday, but remember, this is a city that ukraine just took back from the russians and it was also a city

that was home to an american citizen for two years before the war started and his life got a lot more complicated back in june. take a look at the next video, sandra. involved in a prisoner exchange, he was arrested by russian forces in june under suspicion of being a cia operative. he says his time there in russian captivity was horrible. he says he was tortured with electric shocks, given very little food, very little water to drink. he was released as were 64 ukrainian soldiers, unknown exactly how many russian soldiers were given away as part of that deal. take a look at the next video, undisclosed location, we met with the commander of the georgian legion here in ukraine. he tells me his unit is making significant progress in the east but he also said this, listen here. >> one of the heaviest stages

because there is the potential threat that russia might use tactical nuclear weapon and they might start one more offensive of kyiv. >> sandra, being that commander tells me as this war drags on he's encountering less trained russian soldiers because he speculates russia's better soldiers were killed earlier in the war and he says that is fueling ukraine's counter offensive. back to you. >> sandra: we will keep watching every bit of that. nate foy on the ground in kyiv for us, john. >> john: the national archives reportedly set to release hundreds of pages of white house records, including emails about hunter biden and barisma, dates back to 2014, will the white house allow the records to go public? one of the questions we will ask byron york, chief political

correspondent, and you go public all the time. >> every day. >> john: let's look at this first of all from 30,000 foot level, you wrote in "the washington examiner," house republicans in the white house are about to go to war over hunter biden. what does that war look like? >> well, republicans in the house start an investigation, investigative, the oversight committee under james comer start an investigation. a number of outside groups that favor democrats, former democratic activists and like, are currently raising money and planning strategy on ways to attack the investigation, to help democrats or potential subjects resist subpoenas, attack witnesses like tony bobalinski, the former business partner who has had a lot to say, basically the old fashioned attack the investigator

strategy. the biggest challenge that republicans have is convincing the public this investigation is really about joe biden and not just about hunter biden who doesn't hold a position in the u.s. government. >> john: that's the point james comer is making, saying it's not about investigating hunter biden, it's about investigating the president of the united states to see if he improperly benefitted from his son's overseas business dealings. you cannot really make a case, oh, we are going to investigate a private individual. you have to say we are investigating a public individual and then if you catch a private individual in the investigation, then you've got both. >> if you listen to some of the defenders of hunter biden, there's a lot of sordid material on the hunter biden laptop. he was a crackhead, and they do all sorts of really awful things in the midst of their addiction. and much of that is recorded in pictures and stuff on the laptop. so you are hearing democrats say republicans are just, they just want to expose that stuff, they are just crazed about you will a

the salacious material and that's all the investigation is about, and republicans are saying no, no, no, we are interested in bank records, the financial records, we want to know where the money went. >> john: so the treasure trove of documents the national archives is preparing and may release, how hard do you think the white house will keep to fight these from the light of day. >> we don't know if it's a treasure trove. it's interesting, a lawsuit filed by a group called america first legal, started by steven miller, former trump white house aide, and they have documents that have the word barisma in it, the energy company that hired hunter biden for $50,000 a month to do not much of anything. so the question is will the white house, or the obama archive, turn over this

information. there's two ways they cannot turn it over. the current president could claim executive privilege, might be a bit of a stretch. and two, anybody who has filed a freedom of information act request knows they have ways of not giving you stuff, so it's entirely possible there would be lots of withholdings for no particular good reason. >> john: or even redactions. >> exactly. >> good to be here. >> sandra: south carolina republican nancy mace taking a victory lap on twitter after a heated exchange on the hill with a far left activist. we'll ask the congresswoman about that showdown when she joins us live coming up. >> john: alleged crypto con man sam bankman-fried behind bars but some lawmakers calling the time of the arrest hours before he was to testify before capitol hill. mir

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>> quite conveniently for mr. bankman-fried's counsel he is arrested right before he was due to provide hours worth of sworn testimony to congress. >> getting six hours of congressional grilling for a tar targeted investigation for a defendant, that would be great for my case. >> sandra: arrest of ftx founder sam bankman-fried raising more questions and not just about the collapse. they nabbed him less than 24 hours before he was set to testify on capitol hill, albeit remotely. some are questioning the timing.

fox news contributor miranda devine joins us now. i take myself back to the night before when the arrest took place and we were planning our shows for the next day, we knew we were going to have this hearing happening, we were going to see this alleged con man testify before the house committee and wham-o, the arrest took place and what went through your mind? >> i just immediately smelled a rat. this is extremely suspicious timing. there's no reason for them to have nabbed him there and then, they could have waited a few hours. they sort of -- the idea had been floated around that he was a flight risk. i mean, he's been there for weeks. if he was a flight risk, he would have left. his mother was in court in the bahamas on tuesday morning and she just laughed out loud at the idea that he was -- he would be a fugitive. so that doesn't pass the sniff test. they are obviously trying to protect someone, and there's a couple of theories, one is

because sam bankman-fried was the second largest donor after george soros to the democratic party, and there's talk of as much as half a billion dollars already gone to sort of dark money pacs for the dems, as well as he promised another $1 billion for the 2024 election. now, they don't want that money to really be scrutinized too closely, perhaps that's the case and a political issue in congress, and the other maybe even more likely reason is that gary genzler, the head of the securities and exchange commission, had met twice with sam bankman-fried in the past year, pretty unprecedented, and he also obviously had not done -- put the correct regulations around that industry and around what sbf was doing, it's like he was turning a blind

eye. and we also found out curiously from a fox news exclusive that gary genzler had scrubbed the details from his diary, his public diary of meetings with george soros, hillary clinton his former boss, he used to be the finance chair of her campaign, and also nancy pelosi. so, what is going on? it's something fishy, and it is just shameful that the doj would be involved in, if they were, in covering up and making this timing so conducive to sam bankman-fried's defense attorneys, not to the prosecutors. >> sandra: and as far as precedent in the hours that followed, we were able to catch up with jonathan turley and very similarly he said this. >> this is the first time in my memory that prosecutors rather than defense attorney stopped someone from making

self-incriminating statements. this was a winds fall 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. >> sandra: it seems so simple and you asked the same question in the piece, if you are a prosecutor, wouldn't you be disappointed not to bring him in under oath, and finally follow the money, sbf donations and the percent that went to liberal causes, number are astronomy l ca. and almost 39 million went to liberal causes. as you say in your piece, democrats and perhaps republicans were spared the embarrassment of this being exposed during a house committee hearing. >> well, i don't think it's true

at all, there's no evidence for what sam bankman-fried says that he gave equally to democrats and republican, it's laughable, but gave a few million to republicans and they shouldn't allow that to prevent them from questioning what went on with this -- these slush funds. it looked like that company, ftx, was a giant money laundering operation to provide money from big corporates to the democratic party and the republicans should follow that. >> sandra: miranda, thank you very much for joining us today. appreciate it. >> thanks, sandra. >> john: the white house taking action on the border but not what you might think. they are now suing the state of arizona over governor ducey's efforts to stop an endless flow of illegal migrants. should this be the administration's priority with title 42 set to end in six days? >> sandra: solar energy companies are spending big

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>> sandra: it is amazing what some people think they can get away with. arizona state trooper finding a strange passenger in the hov lane. a driver was cruising along on interstate 10 in phoenix with an inflatable grinch in the front seat. it requires two people, as we know, but inflatable grinch does not pass the test, even during the holidays. arizona department of public safety tweeting even though they had to cite the driver, they "appreciated the festive flare." so the ticket, john, was still issued. >> john: oh, of course. >> sandra: now who is the grinch? >> john: i was driving in the hot lane with our twins and said dad, if you were driving alone could you fake it by having like something in the front seat?

and i said like what? oh, what about a wax figure? >> sandra: because you have them laying around, right? >> john: exactly, in the basement. >> sandra: worth the effort. rural areas across the country. >> john: hot spots for massive solar farms. green energy building boom is raising concerns that short-term profits could cause long-term damage for communities. mark meredith is live in richmond, virginia. how is the community reacting to these projects? >> it's mixed reaction, it depends who you talk to. virginia farmers face a choice. keep the property the way it's been or convert land into some solar farms. energy companies pay sometimes $1,000 an acre in order for the long-term land leases. we spoke with one family who decided to take the money and convert a piece of the property into the solar farms and it has

worked out for them. >> it takes some of the pressure off, it's definitely not a cure-all, but the income they see for that helps them pay property taxes and support some of the other endeavors that they do. >> some farmers say they have real concerns about what future solar farms may mean for the ag industry. also a county in southern virginia paused all long-term solar projects for at least a year to ensure proper protections are in place. the department of energy announced $8 million through various research grants to examine how solar farms can co-exist with traditional farm life like animal and crops. they are scratching the surface to see what's possible. >> solar deployment is increasing rapidly, and some cases it can be seen as relatively new, it took a little time to think about how can i actually integrate that with agricultural land instead of

choosing one or the other. >> no doubt solar increases the presence, outjust here in virginia but the country. john, a lot of questions what it could mean for long-term development in these farm lands. >> john: mark, thank you. >> sandra: one thing everyone in congress seems to agree on. bipartisan lawmakers taking on tiktok by introducing a bill to ban the app on government devices. why both sides of the aisle say it could be a national security threat. plus, congresswoman nancy mace on her headlining-making showdown with a far left activist, and two star-studded panels, brand-new hour coming up. veteran homeowners, we've al been hurt by rising prices. use your va home loan benefit at newday and get cash to see you through. $99,700: approved! the newday 100 va cash out loan lets you borrow up to $60,000 or more. $56,600: approved! been turned down by your lender?

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