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live. >> john: incredible pictures there. congress called on a woke harvard law professor and trans activist to testify but congresswoman nancy mace teaching the valuable lesson about hypocrisy in a must-see moment gone viral. she is here to talk about it. >> sandra: and children suffered during the pandemic when teachers' unions shut schools, one educator went above and beyond to make sure they were not left behind, and it has earned her a million dollar thank you, and it's a surprise. >> sandra: perhaps the story is one of the most -- the one i'm most xhieted about today, she is fantastic. and a parent on the front lines. sandra smith in new york, begin new brand-new at 2:00. ♪♪

>> i'm a little bit disappointed in the economy, inflation. >> even if your christmas light display is not this elaborate, you'll be paying quite a bit more than last year. >> 15, 16, $1,700 bill this year. >> i'm thinking inflation is affecting everything right now. ♪♪ >> sandra: geez, ba hum bug. americans scaling back for gifts as inflation remains high. a whopping 81% of the american people say the economy is right now in bad shape. >> john: only 19% say the economy is in good standing. all of this on the backdrop of the federal reserve hiking rates the highest level in 15 years yesterday. >> sandra: and consumers getting hit the hardest. raising rates, car loans,

reaction from the white house as we await a briefing about to happen. >> john: brian brenberg and steve moore are on deck, but first the new polling. interesting new findings. >> absolutely, john, you bet. fox poll showing americans are struggling with higher prices. 7.1% if inflation had caused hardship, nearly three-quarters of americans saying yes. only 25% saying no. and folks are worried about next year with 48% saying they think the economy will get worse, and only 25% saying it will get better. this is important because when folks feel uncertain they tend to spend less and their forecast of tough times becomes reality. despite the president touting his performance on inflation this week, people are not buying it. the fox poll showing a consistent 62% of americans

disapprove of his handling of the economy, and the worries are seeping into the board room. a new deloitte survey showing cfos not optimistic about their own companies. the numbers dropping for the third consecutive quarter, back to you. >> john: thank you. sandra. >> sandra: steve moore, freedom works economyist and former trump adviser and brian brenberg, he's also the co-host of the fox business program "the big money show" 1:00 p.m. eastern time. ok, as far as the big news we are dealing with today and you are big on this, down almost 900 points the dow, and digging into the fact that consumers are getting hit, and it's showing up in retail sales and we are starting to get a look at how this is weighing on consumers

with holiday sales. it's really putting a dent in them. >> they are hating this retail sales number which dropped much more than expected. you put that on too much the fed and powell is doing his best paul volker impression saying we are going to bring rates up, and they are reading it as the recession could get very real. if consumers back off, and seeing a bit of that now, that makes 2023 very scary. already loaded up with debt and the interest rates could be what breaks the camel's back here. >> sandra: ba hum bug to brian. are you seeing any bright spots, steve? right now the retail sales number, it's a serious reflection of the rising rates. if you are paying more for your mortgage, more for your car payment, carrying a balance on the credit card, those are going up, people are taking on more

and more debt. give us something to look forward to. >> the job market is still strong for workers, jobs are out there. i don't know how long it's going to last. but it is sort of ironic that today in the wall street journal the lead editorial by janet yellen, unbelievable piece. and the minute that report comes out, fox poll comes out, 80% of americans don't agree with her and the 900 point decline in the stock market. by the way, when trump was president the number for people rating the economy good or great was around 60 to 65%, so to go from 60 to 65% approval on the economy to 20%, that's bad news politically. people are feeling the financial strain. >> sandra: and it's showing up in the polls. number of americans who say they are living paycheck to paycheck, it's hovering around 60, now 63% living paycheck to paycheck in

the country, lending club survey, and those who say the high prices, inflation is causing them financial hardships, that number continues to be very high. right now, 74% say that is the case for them. and then there is the outlook for the economy, ok. those that believe it's going to get better, the lowest we have seen in years, only 25% believe the economic situation will improve, brian. >> so think about the tone deafness of that yellen article in the wall street journal saying we are at the precipice of something great and america says no, the precipice of a cliff here. >> sandra: what's behind us? why are you hating on janet yellen? >> not hating on her, she should have to tell the truth, that's what america wants, she used to be a professor. if a student handed in what she wrote -- >> sandra: she got it wrong, she

said no inflation and would not be a problem, and oh, ok, some inflation but transitory, and then apologized, said she got it wrong and we are dealing with a serious problem. >> like the captain of the titanic saying everything is going fine on the voyage. quit listening to that captain. that statistic you had on people feeling, you know, living paycheck to paycheck, that explains something that really concerns me which is the surge in credit card debt. so people now have nationally a trillion dollars of credit card debt, that's gone up 15%. and don't -- one piece of financial advice. the worst way to rack up debt is the credit card. you are talking about 15 to 20%. >> sandra: oh, higher in some cases. i mean, there are some people who are carrying balances and paying interest rates, 25%. >> all interest rates -- household debt at record high, not just credit card. but every single area of life,

the cost of servicing is going up. treasury secretary should be real and she's not being real right now, and as a result, biden is claiming credit and victory. >> sandra: i don't know if it's half truth or just got it wrong. >> she's been wrong in the past, don't listen to her in the future. >> also makes the white house seem out of touch with real america. i live in washington, d.c. yeah, things are pretty good in washington, d.c. but when you get on main street america, not so good. >> i can't wait to hear about who wins the big prize. >> sandra: john, as it turns out, he's friends with our guest coming up. >> it was an inspiring, a great story, great story. >> sandra: she found out about the money. >> john: fantastic. steve is friends with everybody, no question. >> sandra: this is true. >> john: a bipartisan effort in washington is taking on tiktok, lawmakers introducing bills to ban tiktok in the united states.

chinese-backed app spies on americans and a threat to our national security. aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. there is a smaller scale bill that passed in the senate last night, aishah. >> that's right. that was josh hawley's bill that seeks to ban tiktok on all government devices. passed by unanimous consent in the senate but might be stalled in the house because speaker pelosi just told reporters today that it may not be brought to the floor as important as she thinks it is, she doubts they will have time to take it up before the end of this congress. the hawley bill, talk about that, first. that was passed in the senate last night but it appears it's turning out to seem that some senate democrats gave consent to this bill without even really knowing what was in it, watch. >> no. i don't -- i haven't seen what they have done, i want to go see. >> unanimous consent. >> i want to take a look.

>> ok, nevertheless, marco rubio and mike gallagher now have put for the another bill that goes a step further here to ban all transactions from any social media company that is run through adversaries like china, russia, even iran. >> it's going to be hard for the democratic senators now on record recognizing tiktok as a national security threat to not support a more broad ban of tiktok nationally. >> so democrats and republicans both agree tiktok is a problem, but chairman of the senate intel committee says, look, tiktok is not all bad. he is suggesting the app instead be regulated by the justice department and i just asked senator marsha blackburn about this idea to use a justice department to regulate the app and she said if there is going to be a regulator, it needs to be one uniform regulator and has to be the ftc, john. >> john: interesting that warner

said that.enter the other day he said donald trump was right, and tiktok was a threat and easier to deal with in 2018 than now. >> there you have it. >> john: and sandra, one of the big aspects of tiktok, we talk about data mining and getting young people hooked, increasing percentage of young people are getting their news from tiktok, and if it's ultimately run by china they can sensor what young people see. >> sandra: and if you take a look at the news being delivered over tiktok, you might fall on the parental category of maybe it should go away for a little while. >> john: it's not welcome in our house, that's for sure. >> sandra: a live look at the white house, waiting on a white house press briefing on a busy news day. karine jean-pierre facing some big questions, tiktok ban, 900 point sell-off on the dow, concerns on wall street, she's been dodging tough questions and claiming the hatch act is the

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>> sandra: seems to become a common refrain from the podium in the white house press briefing room. karine jean-pierre claiming she cannot answer certain questions without violating the hatch act. critics say she is using a convenient excuse to wiggle her way out of tough questions. jacqui heinrich is live on the north lawn digging into this for us. jacqui, who is telling the press secretary to use the hatch act? >> you know, sandra, we are

still trying to get clarity on that, karine jean-pierre has cited the hatch act more and more recently, most recently when answering a question about whether the president would return political donations from the disgraced crypto con man sam bankman-fried. listen. >> i'm covered by the hatch act, happy to say over and over again because we believe in the rule of law here. >> the hatch act prohibits restribted employees from taking part inactive partisan political campaigns, speeches to elect candidates, and cannot use official authority to influence or interfere with election, can't use official titles while engaged in political activity and solicit, accept or receive a political donation. a little questionable she would use the hatch act as questions whether biden would return contributions from the ftx founder, and directed the dnc or the campaign for the question, but also trying to figure out why she's using it as a basis to

dodge questions about, for instance, the president's schedule ahead of the midterms, or avoid answering weather anyone associated with the president used twitter, from hacked materials, the company's official reason to censor it. >> wondering if it was communicated even informally by someone around the president or the president's family or campaign it was hacked material. >> i'm covered by the hatch act. i'm not going to comment on the question you are asking me. >> didn't have any qualms slamming republicans ahead of the midterms from the podium. >> i have to be careful. i can't -- we do, we do respect the hatch act and our strict limits from here. >> so we have asked the white house who has directed the president secretary to cite the

hatch act and under which circumstances so we can get more clarity how to best get our questions answered, sandra. >> sandra: very interesting, and jacqui, you always do a great job and the briefing room set to begin shortly. john. >> john: white house counsel chief of staff, good place to start. and our next guest, calls out hypocrisy on the left. it happened on a hearing, nancy mace caught an expert witness using extreme rhetoric on social media. watch this. >> only a few weeks after the attempted attack on a supreme court justice on june 25, 1 of the witnesses tweeted out the following in response to a decision on abortion overturning roe v. wade, the six justices who overturned roe should never know peace again. it is our civic duty to accost

them every time they are in public. they are pariahs. since women don't have rights, the justices should never have a peaceful moment in public again. so my last question today, do you stand by these comments, this rhetoric on social media. >> i don't believe that's a correct characterization. >> you tweeted that. did you not tweet that. >> what i'm saying -- >> not an accurate characterization of my statements. >> john: bring in south carolina republican congresswoman nancy mace. you set her up, to say the least, but saying before you confronted her on the tweet, do you believe that language like this is a threat to democracy, she said yes, then you put up the tweet said in part the six justices who overturned roe should never know peace again. it is our civic duty to accost them every time they are in public. she claims you took it out of public. not a lot of nuance in that.

>> literally her words and her writing on her own social media. it's amazing how a little common sense can go a long way, iep not sure she learned her lesson. you come before congress and speak out against hate speech, against violent rhetoric, we all should and yet you are the same person who is putting hate speech online, using violent rhetoric to threaten our supreme court justices. i mean, one of whom had somebody show up on his doorstep, armed and dangerous ready to kill, justice kavanaugh, and i represent a very purple district. i see it from all sides, left and the right, i've been accosted before, i know what it means. physically, verbal can escalate, so it's important to call it out for the hypocrisy that it is. >> john: she tried to ding you back, she wrote on twitter, representative mace is more concerned about scoring political points than a violence

against the lgbt community, pinned quote of a retreat of a racist anti-conspiracy theorist, and respond to what she said. >> i change my pin content all the time and one thing, it's always the left is always attacking the messenger and not the message. what she said is indef indefensivesybil. you can't say it's harmful and then participate, it's the definition of hypocrisy. i'm not a qanon theorist, i'm right of center, conservative who reaches across the aisle and work with democrats on a number of issues. i voted to support gay marriage and biracial marriage last week. >> her tweet was about conservative supreme court

justices and you pointed out what happened to paul pelosi is every member of congress's worst nightmare, a member of their family would suffer because of their position. so this is not conservative or liberal, this is poison across american. >> about principle and values, and what do we stand for and the american experiment we should be able to experience ideas, and disagree without threatening and when i'm only or here i look behind my shoulder, the threats from both sides of the aisle. >> john: you had a threat in august. >> i've had a threat at my home, my house spray painted, and my car keyed. i carry a gun everywhere i go, i have to carry a firearm and some members of congress have millions of dollars, they can afford private security but i'm often my own private security. i do what i can where i can, but i'm always, i'm always carrying because i have to for my safety and the safety of my family. that's where we are today.

it's wrong. >> john: and gabby giffords. >> and steve scalise, too. >> john: you and james comer sent letters to elon musk and mark zuckerberg asking for documents relating to social media, said in part, committee republicans investigate whether u.s. government officials have participated in suppression and censorship of lawful speech, and that social media companies acted at the behest of officials. do you believe under the guise of suppressing misinformation and did so at the behest of the administration? >> a twitter executive was meeting with the fbi and homeland security and the director of national intelligence. for a private business to make its own rules about content moderation but apply equally across the board, not discriminating based on political affiliation. is entirely another when you

represent the federal kwoft, knowing we have the right to free speech, and we are trying to actively suppress free speech and censor, especially days before an election, i don't care if you have an r or a d by the name, that's wrong, and we will investigate to the full extent of the law. >> john: great to have you in the studio. >> sandra: tornadoes through louisiana leaving a trail of destruction. families try to pick up the pieces. >> john: united nations finally takes action against iran as protests grow. how they are cracking down on the brutal regime. >> sandra: and one school being celebrated for going above and beyond to help its special needs students adopt to remote learning. how they did it when we speak to one of the parents on the front lines of those efforts next. >> i was just a mom ten years ago needing a better school for

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>> john: second straight day of terrif victims trapped in the path. now millions more are bracing for strike three as the same monster storm system churns east. louisiana already seeing the storm's devastating strength. several tornadoes reported as far north as richland parish and through new orleans. some entire houses ripped from the ground. many of those who survived are in shock that they did. >> i went in the closet, the middle closet in the middle bedroom and when the storm hit, you don't want to go through nothing like that. it was like a bomb went off when it went through the house. >> john: fox weather robert ray is live in louisiana, robert, the new orleans areas, no stranger to natural disasters but don't see a lot of tornadoes

down there. >> john, they don't. and especially in december and also especially two times in one year. where i'm standing right now, a brewing company destroyed, mangled. you see this, the aluminum roof and cinder blocks strewn like they are nothing. mississippi river behind the camera. downtown new orleans 3, 4 miles away from arabee, the small community hit twice by tornadoes, once in march and now again. and the drone video of the tornado that came in late yesterday afternoon and you see the transformers blowing up and the debris everywhere, that is the exact spot where i'm standing at this brewing company right now, and if we come back here and look at this disaster behind me, look at just how wide and how tall all of this. the power and energy of the tornado that swept down and

ripped it apart. national weather service, john, is on the ground, surveying the damage. they are expecting three different tornadoes popped down into the new orleans metro area. there is people without power, there is one survey that has concluded by nws and rated it an ef-two tornado. where i'm at, the damage is sporadic, sort of all over the neighborhoods, and some spots there are homes that were lifted off their foundation and others there is no damage at all. and blue tarps sit on many roofs but not from yesterday's tornado, from the tornado back in march, john. unfortunately, three people have lost their lives in this wonderful state, two of them in the area yesterday, 8-year-old boy and his mother died from a tornado and one person in the new orleans metro area, john. and i want to show you something

quick. ben west, my photographer could pan over here and look at these power lines, john. so you see, they are standing. they are ok. and then if we come back to where i am standing and look at the massive warehouse, you see how ecentric they can be. they pop down, didestroy thingst random will. and this business the second time it was hit, they just replaced the roofing two weeks ago after insurance covered it all. the business owner who did not want to go on camera with us today tells me it's a total loss now, he's not going to rebuild, he can't, he's out of money. >> john: it's a mess, no where he about that. robert, thank you. >> sandra: heartbreaking to those people. united nations is kicking iran out of the women's commission over the brutal crackdown of

protestors there. they say iran is violating demonstrators human rights. nearly 20,000 people have been arrested in recent weeks. protests erupted across the country after 22-year-old woman was killed in police custody. >> john: and now there is word that the country is planning another brutal execution of a protestor, this time iranian soccer player is facing a death sentence. greg palkot is live in london. greg, this is outraging a lot of people. >> outrageous. the sports world, the whole world, that yes, a soccer player from iran could be facing the death sentence for protesting against the regime there. the 26-year-old arrested last month, three security officials were allegedly killed. among his charges, undermining security and hostility to god. worldwide football player union

summed up reaction, they are sickened that he faces execution in iran after campaigning for women's rights and basic freedom in his country. we stand in solidarity with amir and call for the immediate removal of his punishment. earlier this week, john, the second person involved in the protest was executed via a very public hanging. all told, a dozen people face the death penalty. 400 sentenced to lengthy jail terms, nearly 500 killed in the streets by authorities and yes, thousands arrested. all this comes nearly exactly three months to the day of the killing of kurdish iranian woman, snatched off the streets by the so-called morality police. since then, along one precedented protests, reports of disbanding of that outfit and jolts to the regime itself. these are very tough times them in iran, trying to keep a lid on things and even tougher for the

brave people in the streets, men and women, young and old, fighting against the government. >> john: executions are just stunning. greg palkot, sandra. >> sandra: we are expecting the white house briefing with karine jean-pierre a few moments from now, but starting out first, dr. jha, and we expect questions on inflation, the border. jacqui heinrich, for now an update on covid and speaking of which, as covid was forcing children out of our classrooms, some findings now show the most vulnerable students were suffering the most, and it was happening from the very beginning of the pandemic. in may of 2020, just a few months into remote learning, a parent survey found almost 40% of special needs students did

not receive any support at all. and by 2021, the department of education concluded that "there are signs that those disruptions may be exacerbating long standing disability-based disparities in academic achievement". in other words, remote learning cracked the gap wide open for families and students with disabilities. and as we continue to assess the damage caused by the covid lockdowns, one school is now getting recognized for going above and beyond to help special needs students during the pandemic. janine yass, founder of the yass prize to transform education on my left, diana dias harrison, founder of arizona autism charter schools incorporated, and honor to have you here off your big night last night, congratulations to you. >> thank you so much. >> what did it feel like to receive this award? >> it was an awe-inspiring moment. it was such a long road and culmination of our work to keep our schools open for kids.

our schools grew during the pandemic because we kept serving them and when other schools were shutting down and not having any services, we had our doors open and we were ready for kids however they were ready to learn. >> sandra: and you have a very personal path to that. in 2004, your son was diagnosed with autism and you felt he was not getting the education he needed. fast forward, now you are helping so many others. >> yes, we are, with the help of the yass prize we are going to help even more. we have opened three schools in arizona, and we have a plan to open more autism charter schools, at least one in every major city in america. >> sandra: remarkable. diana, i know it was your mission early in the pandemic to highlight and reward those parents, obviously like janine and others, going above and beyond, r he cannizing that we can't send these kids home and have them trying to learn behind

a computer screen. it was not going to work. >> we created the yass prize, jeff and i, to reward educators that came through -- they came through, even before covid, and especially for children with disabilities that need that kind of personal interaction, it really is a shame how so many of the systems delivered, did not deliver education during that time. initially responded by giving out laptops and chrome books to students in cities, and when i went to visit them in their after school programs, i would get behind the screens and there was no learning going on. nothing. like gone fishing signs. so the people that did come out, like diana and a lot of our award winners, they never took no for an answer, they stayed focused on the students, and they did everything they can to make sure they have the quality education.

>> sandra: thank goodness for parents like you for fighting for these kids on the front lines. if it was not for you -- and this is a study from autism speaks, december 2021, saying parents of children with autism more than three times as likely to report negative changes in their child compared to parents of nonautistic children. parents of autistic children were more likely to report their child was affected by changes in routine, and a small personal story of my own, i have a sister who is a teacher to special needs students and she was heart broken when they were sent home. she said of all the kids she teaches and has taught, those are the kids who need that personal engagement. they need to be face-to-face. and she was so concerned about them falling behind to where she went around the rules and started visiting them at their homes. >> absolutely.

we did the same thing. visited children in their homes, tutoring sessions, one of the first schools to open in our state offering appointment-based school, because the show must go on for kids and they need that personal attention, and we gave parents options. we did whatever was comfortable to keep teaching the children and to keep the learning growing. our outcome in academic, social and emotional grew during the pandemic and our enrollment grew because parents know what's best for their kids. >> sandra: and you said i don't want my kid to be seen as disabled, but a doer, intelligent, productive, so the charter schools we are starting across america will help the children be neuro diverse, who they are, and fulfilled citizens. diana, you had 2700 applicants, janine you were one of them, and you rose to the top and here was the big moment when you found out you won a million dollars. [cheering]

>> oh, congratulations. i mean, that had to feel amazing and all these children you are helping, thank you so much for all you are doing. >> yes. >> one of the points i wanted to make before it's over, is that this was also inspired by diana and her personal story. she started out looking at the options available for autistic children in cities, and she could share it with everybody that wants it across the city, and more students will benefit like the students in arizona. >> our kids deserve innovation, they are suited ford entrepreneurship and problem-solving, if we create the conditions, and that's what our schools will do. more so now fueled by the yass prize. >> amazing. i'm so inspired by both of you, incredible, incredible story, janine and diana, thank you for

all you are doing. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having us. >> sandra: john. >> john: we need more people like diana and janine, recognizing people like diana. >> sandra: parents fighting for their children on the front lines, don't mess with them. >> john: diana says parents know best what is best for their children. >> sandra: absolutely, absolutely. >> john: surge of migrants so big at the border, the rest of the news media, guess what, starting to take notice. fox news has been documenting the border crisis every single day. and right now, we are covering what could be a game changer in the crisis, the end of title 42. it's happening in six days and likely to make the current crisis explode into a disaster. juan williams and mollie hemingway have some thoughts about that. they are coming up next.

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>> john: the trump era title 42 immigration policy ends next week and border agents are predicting an explosion in migrant crossings. border states are stepping in

their defenses. arizona is building a wall out of shipping containers and the federal government is suing governor ducey for doing that. here is what the federal government is saying in the lawsuit against the governor. instilling shipping containers, arizona has widened roads and cleared lands, cut down scores of trees, clogging drainage and species under the endangered species act, suggesting that federal law enforcement has been detrimentally impacted. doug ducey is saying if you are not going to do anything about immigration, i'm going to. mollie. >> one of the things so interesting about president biden, he inherited a border that was largely secure. there were improvements that needed to be made, but after four years of the trump administration an almost secure border. he tore down all the protections there, and situations like this, ingenuity from the arizona governor trying to help the situation, the biden

administration, rather than encouraging that, or doing it on their own, they sue to stop it. it's a willful destruction of the border. >> john: mollie said they inherited a secured border, and dismantled it, and now complain it's broken. >> i think mollie will agree we have a broken immigration system and not a secure border. we had surges under the trump administration, we are now experiencing an awful surge under the biden administration. >> john: the worst surge ever. >> i think you have a situation -- you remember when we would, fox news would go out and cover the caravans coming in in previous years before biden. we have a broken system, and i think you see a governor like ducey trying to do something, but it's clearly an incursion on federal authority, not only federal land, but the federal government is in charge of our immigration system and they are

the ones that should be doing something and here i'm not only talking about the biden administration, i'm talking about the united states congress. you have kevin mccarthy from california, he has said he will not allow any vote on any floor item that deals with amnesty in the coming congress. what is that saying? give up, don't do anything, i'll play partisan politics? >> amnesty is contributing to the problem, the idea that you can fix things by incentivizing people to break the law, violate, american citizen is acceptance of the rule of law. breaking our laws how we have a border or a lawful way to come in is no way to start. >> we have 11 million people -- >> john: don't that increase the pull factor? >> it's jobs, and we have jobs and economic opportunity for those being laking. >> john: you say you might get

amnesty. >> we have 11 million people living here right now, they are not coming in, they exist here, they are our neighbors, and we don't deal with it. and we don't deal with the consequences of having so many people on an illegal status in our midst. >> juan does have a point that congress has not done anything here. the american people have repeatedly for decades asked for control over the border, to have control over the immigration system, and does not seem like they want that to happen. but the american people are desperate for it, it's going to continue to be a political issue. >> john: look at the gang of 8, still in the burn unit. a quick answer to this, title 42 is coming off in six days. biden administration has no plan to deal with it. >> that's true. and we don't know how to deal -- united states government does not know how to deal with it and they should. you know what, it's going to worsen the existing crisis. thank you, mollie, i agree with you. both sides are to blame here. >> john: we have to leave it

there. good to see you, juan, mollie. >> happy holiday. >> john: same to you. >> sandra: a story across continents and back to the fight in afghanistan. an afghan soldier worked alongside u.s. troops as a special forces officer in afghanistan, now detained in a jail at the u.s.-mexico border after he tried to enter the u.s. he was arrested and charged with a federal crime. chief national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon with that. >> illustrates how tragically broken the u.s. immigration and asylum system is. he was trained by the u.s. military to be an elite special forces commando in afghanistan. on august 30, 2021, when the last u.s. plane left kabul, he went into hiding, moving from safe house to safe house, arranged by u.s. veterans. now he's in a texas prison facing deportation back to kabul. >> i wasn't special force

commander with u.s. military. i come to the united states, to help me because i was with them, but i come here, they put me in jail. >> described a year-long treacherous journey through ten countries, robbed, tortured and beaten. these are some of the videos crossing the gap near panama, it was the type of treatment he expected from the taliban, his brother sammy also worked as a translator, he became a u.s. citizen in july 2021, 1 month before kabul fell. >> he is deeply disappointed. he was not expecting the behavior from united states officials against him. he was expecting a hero welcome. >> on september 30th, he crossed over the rio grande into the

united states, a border patrol agent arrested and charged him with illegally entering the country. ben owen is a u.s. veteran who has helped the safi family. >> the night he crossed i think he was with 90 plus other migrants, all of whom were detained, all of whom have been released. but the one dude that served with the american forces who we know, you know, has america's best interest at heart to the point that he would put himself in harm's way to defend it, is still being held. >> he is facing deportation back to afghanistan. >> to answer your question how we know who he is, we have found him on the roles through the last special force to leave afghan, all the certifications, he went to officer training in india and held a command. >> he is still being held in the eden detention facility in texas. department of homeland security

has not answered our repeated requests for information on his case. his next court hearing is slated for january 10th. >> sandra: jennifer griffin from the pentagon, thank you. >> john: quite a story. a guy who served with americans in afghanistan, he is the sort of person that the state department and the dod should have been getting out in the botched withdrawal from afghanistan, and now he's actually in the country and they are potentially going to send him back where he'll be killed? >> sandra: it's a big story. >> john: it's unfathomable to think that would be the process. >> sandra: indeed. jennifer, we'll stay on that. we are monitoring the white house grieving and john, as we hand off here to the final hour of trading, also keeping our eye on the dow, off the lows of the session, big concern about whether or not this country is going to enter a recession in the new year or bounce back. >> john: i've stopped following

it. last year it was -- last week it was optimistic, then pessimistic, it will be optimistic again next week. dow goes up, the dow goes down. >> sandra: for the most part, historically, it has gone up. so, the bulls will stick around, i'm sure. >> john: this is all temporary. >> sandra: john, thank you very much. that does it for us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. see you tomorrow. "the >> martha: thanks, guys. good afternoon, everybody. i'm martha maccallum. exclusively today on "the story," my one-on-one with virginia governor glenn youngkin from inside the governor's mansion just a short time ago. first, we want to get to this. we're six days from the end of title 42 which has till now allowed border agents to block some of the immense flow that crosses over the southern border during the pandemic. now those that live and work on that border that are waiting and bracing for this are