foreigner. >> it has been a busy year. we love you and thank you for watching us and keeping us on the air. >> i'll see you at point pleasant, new jersey with dana perino. >> dane is a very cute. you will have fun. >> smart and beautiful. >> bill: christmas party down there. good morning. five days until the floodgates open. the end of title 42 expected to unleash pan today moneyium at the border. does the white house have a plan? that's the question that we put forward this morning. bill hemmer, welcome. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." you ask our viewers does the white house have a plan and do you think they know the answer? they probably do. we'll tell you more about it. this has been coming down the pike for the while. wednesday will mark the official end of title 42. >> it allows the cdc to turn

away migrants without a visa. it would be the only thing keeping the border crisis from spiraling out of control. >> dana: it has been tied up in the courts for months. administration knew it was coming but has yet to announce any plan to replace it. >> bill: so without a plan border crossings expected to reach 15,000 every single day. that's according to the president's own department of homeland security. >> dana: it is raising alarm bells for both republicans and democrats. according to the white house everything is just fine. >> what americans should know is that the president has done the work to deal with what we're seeing at the border since day one. to fix the gutted system that was -- that has been around for some time but certainly was gutted by the last administration. but what we're seeing is republicans continue to move forward with political stunts. so the president has done the work. >> dana: white house

correspondent jacque heinrich is live on the north lawn. i listened to that and i think -- i don't know if they're seeing what we're seeing. you can see it on the screen for yourself and this is not working since day one. >> you know, dana, all week long we have been promised more details on exactly what system is going to replace title 42 when it goes away five days from now. that still has not come. but we did notice a subtle shift in messaging. after months of whispers around here that there are some nft west wing bois would like to see the court punt this until there is a better plan in place we're hearing from the white house a refusal to say whether they think that ending the trump-era policy is a good thing. >> does the white house think ending title 42 is a good thing? >> what i'm telling you is that it was a court order that we are

following and we are going to follow the law when it comes to what the court has decided to do. >> dhs is asking for funds to surge resources to the border bolster nonprofit capacity and target smugglers. lawmakers who have to vote on the plan say he there are no details and the home secretary says the border is secure. >> we haven't seen anything. 7500 earmarks, it is being negotiated in the dark and a few people know anything that's going on. border security or anything else none of us have any idea what's going on up here with regard to the spending bill. >> bill: before title 42 goes away denver's mayor declared a state of emergency after a surge of only 900 migrants in the past several months which amounted to $8 hundred thousand in shelter costs. new city mayor eric adams is asking for a billion dollars in emergency funding struggling to house more than 30,000 migrants.

>> it is bad. it is bad. the projected numbers that we continue to evaluate, you know, this is a national problem and the national government has a responsibility to, number one, have a decompression strategy to resolve the issues at the border, to make the municipalities whole who had to take away from their citizens to pay for this. we should not be paying for this. >> now imagine for just a moment how they feel in el paso where more than 55,000 migrants have crossed since october 1st. yesterday the press secretary was asked how many migrants we can expect to see when title 42 goes away. she could not give an answer. it is not like those answers don't exist. the department of homeland security estimates after title 42 is lifted we'll see anywhere from 9,000 to 15,000 migrants crossing into the u.s. every day. >> dana: thank you for that

report from the white house. >> bill: we have some new fox news polling showing voters have little appetite for biden back in the white house come 2024. 64% among all voters registered say they do not want him to run again. "wall street journal" columnist, fox news contributor bill mcgur reacting. what do you make of the headline number >> i think the democratic numbers are just as high. the number of people who don't want him to run again as a democrat. the one thing that's interesting is the democrats have traditionally fought for the nomination. i think biden will get challenged. kennedy fought carter, obama fought hillary. they have to earn it. joe biden had to fight off all the contenders when he ran. the republicans are somewhat different. until trump, they were like the

elks. they give it to whose ever turn it is, bob dole or john mccain. biden is very weak and democrats are going to sense that. i think he is going to get a primary challenge if he decides to run. >> dana: two of the other democratic leaders in the party are urging him to run again. here is a little sound from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. >> i hope that he does seek re-election. he has been a great president. >> look at what he has accomplished. he has done an excellent, excellent job and he runs i'll support him all the way. >> dana: i notice he said if he runs. i guess they are still trying to hedge a little bit. we had additional reporting that jill biden is all in and biden is telling his team i know how old i am but seems inclined to do it. how and when do you think a challenge would actually come to biden?

>> i think other people will just say okay, you are going to run but i'm going to run, too. the same way in the republican party. donald trump has announced. he is going to face a lot of contenders. i think there are serious contenders and i think some could beat him. so nothing is a given. president biden is still very weak. they can all talk about his accomplishments but anyone that goes to the grocery store is paying a lot more money. people are living paycheck to paycheck. i don't think he is going to be a popular pick. i think he is going to have to really fight, if he wants to keep that nomination. i don't think he is up to it politically or physically. >> bill: wow, okay. unfavorable numbers still high, 56% in the polling for joe biden, 57% -- that's favorability. the opposite, right?

so you are at 43 for biden. basically dead even. the unfavorable, biden 56, trump at 57. >> right. again, trump is a sitting president. a lot of unrest in his own party. of course party leaders will back their president and say reassuring things but i think behind the scenes everyone is plotting their strategies if he falls out or they want to push him out. >> dana: i had one more question, bill. i find that speech writers and columnists are wonderful students of history. our old boss would say you are six are -- they get tired of seeing you in their living rooms and they want something new. trump had one term, biden will have had one term at the end of this. do you think that timeline is shortened and it's not six years for these two individuals, it

might just be four? >> yeah, i think so. i think part of it is because we really didn't get a good look at joe biden in 2020. you know, he was in the basement and just emerged a few times. and i think we're not getting a full look at him now because of his obviously limited physical abilities, they are carefully projecting his public appearances. and he can't get through another primary with that. behind the numbers are the americans who don't want him to run again is the view he is just not physically up to the job. look at it this way. if you were vladimir putin or xi jinping in china and you met with biden, would you really come away thinking i have a vigorous opponent that i have to be careful of? or would you think of

afghanistan? >> bill: thank you. have a great weekend and holiday if i don't see you. >> dana: elon musk is temporary suspending the twitter accounts of at least half a dozen reporters. musk said they put him and his family in danger by sharing an account that tracks his private jet. what happened? >> also a few independent ones as well. a former msnbc host. all of these accounts have covered musk for a while and some have written negative stories in the past and retweeted the elon jet account which musk said is doxxing criticizeing me all day long. doxxing my realtime location and end endangering my family is not. musk tweeted out a video of the

alleged stalker. aren't you being hypocritical in that case? have you guys followed the elon jet account. around for a few years. he tried to buy it for a million dollars started by a university of central florida college student and it just uses a publicly available faa data. anybody can get access to where private planes go. he actually got on a twitter spaces and confronted some of these banned accounts last night. listen to this. tell me what you think. >> sharing realtime information about somebody's location is inappropriate and everyone on this wouldn't like it. there won't be any distinction between journalists and regular people. >> he put out a twitter poll. did you read that this morning? should he unsuspend the accounts who docsed my exact location in

realtime? 59% say yes, they should be unsuspended but because these banned accounts were able to get on twitter spaces like night and weren't able to use the audio files. >> bill: you have to ask yourself what do these reporters do at that point? >> what about free speech? if he is an absolute free speech advocate shouldn't anybody be able to say anything on the twitter platform? >> bill: i saw the video. do you know this person and can you identify them? >> some would say if you are anti-doxxing you are doing it yourself. >> bill: he thinks he is driving traffic to twitter. >> he is. there is never a day without an elon musk headline but he needs to get going building up twitter's usage. 200 million users, a tenth of

facebook which has over 2 1/2 billion. >> dana: we talk about it non-stop. good to see you, susan. >> bill: thank you so much. in a moment there will be a nation-wide ban on tiktok? it's what a group of republicans and democrats are calling for. congressman mike gallagher will tell us what he will decide on that coming up shortly. >> dana: an outbreak of strep throat making the tripledemic even worse. what parents need to know. >> bill: new reporter saying how many americans are living paycheck to paycheck. what it tells us about the health of our own economy todayu . you can borrow up to 100% of your home's value. veterans get more at newday usa.

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>> bill: inflation squeezing families across the country this holiday season. disappointing retail sales yesterday show higher prices

have shoppers pulling back. a new report from lending club finds 2/3 of americans live paycheck to paycheck, whoa. cheryl casone, inflation nation, what is your station? let's begin there. >> well, the effects of inflation are showing themselves in the u.s. economy. savings rates are down. we get personal saving rates as data every month from the government. that's down. inflation is tampering down a little bit. when you are still talking about inflation overall at 7% plus, that is not 2% it's 7%. if you look at the cpi report which we did this week, flour, eggs is 49%, year-over-year numbers. that's the better context. in some instances it is cheaper to eat out than to eat at home because of the cost of what you are seeing at the grocery store. we can get to the different semantics but americans are

scaling back. wal-mart and target have told us in their financial reports saying a higher-end consumer come to wal-mart to buy their groceries. >> dana: majority of people say the biggest stress this season is money concerns at 50%. 50% of people. this point about that bill made that 2/3 of people living paycheck to paycheck. when inflation is up and that probably increases the number of people having to do that but it doesn't give you the cushion and why the stress becomes money concerns over the holidays. >> the holidays were already stressful. way too much going on in the month of december. at the same time, yes. also, too, we got this other piece of data this week. wages. we saw that go down. average hourly earnings went down. that shows you that it was a small percentage month-to-month but when you see a slide decline like that, that means someone is making a little less money. the prices they are paying in

some instances are 50% higher versus last year. they are putting more money on their credit cards, we're seeing credit card spending go higher meaning more americans are increasing the level of debt they have on their cards and it all feeds to 2023 if you want to see what the market is looking at a recession? recession, yes. does the market know that? yes. the fed told us this week rates will be going higher more. they were very aggressive in his testimony on wednesday. market didn't like it. this is why, because the story filters down to the american consumer and family that's telling you they are stressed, making less money, paying too much for butter. >> bill: you have the financial debate whether the fed is doing too much and not enough. here is steve forbes yesterday. >> you don't concur it by trashing the economy. it wasn't just the recession

that conquered inflation in 1980. it was what they did after the recession. stabilized the dollar better than the 70s. great growth measures that the whole country imitated. you had a global boom. >> bill: i'm not surprised by steve forbes's answer. i know where he stands on this. is the fed doing the right thing? >> it's a big debate. the aggressiveness will cause economic hardship and destruction but that's what they want. markets don't want this. but what powell says he is concerned about lasting inflation, embedded inflation that doesn't go away. the grocery prices that you pay at the grocery store won't go down, that's their fear. it is all projection. let's talk about the 80s. remember what happened in the early 80s when the 30-year was at 14% level. if you think 6% and 6 1/2% is a

high mortgage rate right now are we going to 14% in 2023? i don't think so. i don't want to throw that out there. if you want to look at the 80s and compare it to now it's different. let's talk about where the economy was. the early 80s was a very rough time for our economy and americans. take all the bad news out. >> dana: rough waters ahead. >> i don't think 2023 will be g. i think it will be rough. i'm sorry. >> dana: we have to be honest with people. >> bill: maybe we move like this. >> i swear i'm not scrooge. >> dana: merry christmas. >> bill: a new lead to idaho. police telling fox news they're combing through information on tens of thousands of white hyundai elantras. they think the driver may have information that could be critical to the case. a lot of ifs there.

matt finn is live in moscow, idaho. good morning to you. >> good morning, bill. we're standing on the back side of the crime scene. a lot of discussion whether the killer or killers could have entered through the sliding glass door at the back of this house. here on campus it is growing quieter and darker by the day. finals week wraps up today. we spoke one-on-one with moscow police and they are sifting through 22,000 hyundai elantras. moscow police tell us that the white car was, quote, there at or near the murder scene but at this hour the driver and that car hasn't surfaced. >> the information that we've received about the car is that it was there. the license plate is unknown. we don't know who owns the car.

we need information from anybody who might connect us with who was in that car that night. so that could be anything ranging from someone who happened to be there to whatever you might imagine. >> and you hear right there moscow police saying they haven't identified the license plate on that car. we asked if the license plate might have been removed. police could not give us an answer. the license plate was simply unknown. they insist f.b.i. analysts are working entreesing that car. also fox news learned investigators requested surveillance video 28 miles to the east. we spoke to a gas station owner in other cities. state police requested surveillance video from them. take from that what you will. investigators were interested in a route all the way to the east of here in moscow. back to you. >> bill: thanks, matt finn trying to piece it together.

thank you, moscow, idaho this morning. >> cops are encountering the same people over and over again in the same neighborhoods committing the same crimes and still being let out of jail. >> dana: law enforcement against a revolving door in chicago. crime is putting pressure on mayor lori lightfoot. everyone knows the internet is forever, right? apparently genz job seekers are learning the hard way. wait until you hear this.

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>> dana: russia with a warning to the u.s. do not give ukraine patriot missiles or there will be consequences. pentagon officials said the u.s. was planning to send ukraine patriot missile defense batteries. they're used to shoot incoming missiles and aircraft out of the sky. they require -- >> bill: they require a lot of man and woman power in order to operate it correctly. meaning that there is training involved to make sure you can use it the right way. >> dana: do the ukrainians have enough people trained to use them if we give them. that's the question. >> bill: right now they could be in poland for all we know trying to learn this. we've seen it with other

weaponry that we've given them. >> dana: they shot down 37 of 40 missiles going into ukraine today. >> bill: we're anticipating that russia will get many more supplies through the iranians and maybe the north koreans at some point. they might need these patriot missile batteries to defend their own country in 2023. back at home violent crime soaring in chicago even over the highs we've seen in two years. they are seeing a 40% spike with no signs of slowing down. mike tobin is in chicago. some of the stuff a warning is hard to hear about. some of the videos disturbing. good morning to you, mike. >> good morning. palm police put up a warning as there were 50 armed robberies in four days. some crimes were minutes apart in similar locations. they are dealing with mir

aweding crews of gunmen. they picked up four individuals and connected them to four crimes. violence is on full display in chicago. in the normally peaceful portage park neighborhood saturday night and sunday morning a man was kicked out of a birthday party and confronted by a crowd he opened fire. we froze the video out of sensitivity. it shows the gunman firing execution style on four of the victims down. three died. one fights for her life. accused gunman was out on parole having served four years of an eight-year sentence. >> whatever process goes forward, throw away the key. get this person off our streets. don't release him on electronic monitoring because he is a danger not only to this community, but to the city of chicago at large. >> crime spiked in chicago since the pandemic is carjacking.

cook county sheriff said it is the carjacking number of the nation. the numbers are down from last year. 2021 was so bad a spokesman said cook county's numbers doubled new york and l.a. combined. a multi-agency vehicle hijacking task force has been formed with the sheriffs police, city police and suburban agencies and federal government using helicopters and squad cars tracking hijacked vehicles. dispatch center links the communication and gets cops to the scene. cook county says they recover upwards of 80% of the vehicles but catch and prosecute roughly 15% of the hijackers. on the hijacking task force sometimes you have kids doing the hijackings just for a thrill ride. sometimes they sell the cars. most of the time the hijacked car is used for another crime like a drive-by shooting and it can't be traced to the gunman. >> bill: start with the small

stuff and work your way up. a long challenge ahead in chicago. dana. >> dana: police identify the woman accused of shooting and killing two mississippi cops in a hotel parking lot thursday. 43-year-old amy anderson, a vet and mother with no criminal history opened fire while sitting in an s.u.v. with her 10-year-old child. reports say two officers were talking to her about a half hour before the dispute and she became angry when they called child protective services. anderson was found dead with a shot to her chest. it is unclear if she turned the gun on herself. reports say an officer fired one shot. there is an investigation underway. tragic. >> bill: sure is. the government could be only days away from another shutdown as lawmakers must decide whether or not to approve an unprecedented 1.6 trillion spending deal. is it a preview of what's to come in a divided congress?

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>> dana: a federal judge in texas blocking president biden from ending the remain in mexico immigration process. let's bring in shannon bream, anchor of "fox news sunday." what's the practical effect of this order. >> well, essentially what it does is it puts everything on hold. it doesn't mean that remain in mexico is gone for g. it says while the legal challenges remain in mexico play out, you leave it alone. it is -- biden attempts to get rid of it are actually done for now. they say they will probably appeal the ruling. i would be surprised if they don't. what it did under the trump administration is tell people, a lot of folks that were coming seeking asylum you have to wait on the mexico side of the border while the u.s. court proceedings play out in your case. it is one of those tools the trump administration used along with title 42 in place during the biden administration to try

to manage things as the border. as we know it is a chaotic situation there. >> bill: bill melugin, based on his reporting says the effect of this will be nothing. right now you have 14,000 crossings per day. once title 42 ends call for number one, guys, 420,000 per month. i don't know how many football stadiums that is. 5 million a year. this is what it's forecast. we'll see whether or not it goes that way. listen to the woman whose brother was killed by a twice deported immigrant. >> president biden, please close the borders. stop saying there is no crisis down there and that there is closed borders. it is killing americans. every day when we have an influx of this many illegal immigrants coming in, it will directly impact our communities like mine. my brother was murdered by an illegal immigrant that was deported twice in the past. was arrested two days before he

was murdered. >> bill: his brother talking about it. in new york city they're saying it is an emergency in new york. in denver, colorado saying they have an emergency as well. you've got a phone. you can call the white house and let them know you are having problems in your city. >> they have. newsom is doing the same out in california saying even though he has been very open to policies like universal healthcare for anybody here regardless of status that they want to open the floodgates. now dealing with the reality as adams talking about new york. we need help and money from the federal government. we're being overwhelmed. this is a situation that democrats and republicans alike are admitting is completely out of control. democrats now publicly calling out the white house saying president biden, listen to us, go visit the border. acknowledge this for the problem it s. i'm hearing from border patrol agent and bill melugin does everyday as well about 60

to 70% of their resources are being used on administrative things. not patrolling the border but making sure people get processed safely and the framework we have in place. they are worried and predicting once title 42 lifts next week 90% of personnel for border patrol will be doing processing and those kinds of things meaning the border is open more broadly for cartels, drug trafficking. the kinds of things they thought they were hired to police and crack down on. they will be stuck in an administrative role as agents. >> dana: what a disaster. shannon, i'm sure you have a lot coming up on "fox news sunday." give us a preview. >> we'll talk to members of the congress, the democrat escobar, republican chip roy are on the front lines in texas. both admit there is a problem. different ways to solve it. we'll see if we can broker any kind of common ground on sunday and do it to the best of our ability. >> dana: you always do. shannon, thank you.

>> bill: outgoing house speaker snapped at a reporter if she plans to represent her entire district for two years. >> will you commit to serving your full two year term for the people of san francisco? >> what is the this? don't bother me with a question like that. really. those kinds of questions are such a waste of my time. >> bill: how about that? let's bring in carley shimkus. nice to see you, good morning. she didn't like the question. >> she did not. made it clear. this reporter asked a question that i think her constituents would really want to know essentially now that you are out of a leadership position will you bail early or have you got two years left in you? >> bill: i don't know if she has been asked this question before. we tried to figure out today whether it was -- it has come up before. we couldn't find it. maybe it has. >> it has, yes, because i spoke to chad pergram.

hello. he is google, better than google. he said he has asked this question to nancy pelosi several times and she has never snapped at him but she always beats around the bush. she never really wants to -- aren't there better things? she plays it like that. he has reported that what nancy pelosi is really doing is trying to set up her seat for somebody that she likes. could it be her daughter or somebody else that will get her blessing? possibly. the question is the timing on it. >> dana: i don't blame her for snapping. we heard biden snap as well. yes, we know they are in their 80s and we know that everyone is saying you're so old. imagine if you were suiting up every day and going to work and one of the questions as you are trying to do your work are you going to stick around, are you going to leave, are you coming back? i understand why she snapped. >> right. i think politeness always

matters but in washington things are a little bit different. >> dana: if you get asked about it more than once. >> one other thing that will be interesting come january is hakeem jeffries will be the new minority leader and nancy pelosi, who has so much seniority. how will that power dynamic going to play out? i can't see her taking a back seat. >> dana: i think she might surprise. >> bill: so many years since she has had a normal role in congress. >> dana: she might be a good mentor. there is reward in that later on in your career. >> bill: ask chad. i think this is the case. i don't know if a former house speaker has gone back to be a back bencher in some time. how she manages this relationship will be interesting. >> i don't think there is a lot of history on that, either. >> bill: ask you about tiktok. gen zers are learning that your

footprint doesn't go away. >> so there is this 17-year-old whose video is going viral on social media. she posted online that she had this shock and awe moment. she thought she got a job but they thought they were going to hire her and realized that because they looked at her social media she didn't get it. >> dana: look at social media before they offer the jobbed? >> she was alluding to the fact the interview was going really well. $20 an hour, no experience. the whole thing is your digital footprint lasts. the fact that young people don't know that and waking up to this now when it is a little too late. >> bill: she said me realizing the digital footprint is real. they loved me with an interview. when they did a background check they didn't want to hire me anymore. >> people are trying to teach young people to get around it.

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york city today. >> the full extent of the health scare is difficult to assess. fox confirmed that hospitals in at least three states, colorado, texas, wisconsin say they've seen a spike in the number of cases. other reports cite washington, west virginia and arizona. the full scope of the spread difficult to determine. the cdc says it is looking into a possible increase in the number of group a strep infections among children in the u.s. since november the colorado state epidemiologist eight cases in the denver area. two died from the illness. kids most susceptible already have another respiratory illness. >> we don't expect a large number of these infections to occur. 1 to 2 a month. we've seen an increase over that number, of course, in the last couple of weeks. we still expect these to remain

uncommon complications of strep throat or other preceding respiratory viral infections. >> the world health organization reports increased cases in france, ireland, netherlands, sweden and u.k. 74 deaths across all age groups including 16 among children. health experts say invasive group a strep is spread by close contact like coughs and sneezing. no vaccine. wearing masks in crowded indoor areas, vaccinated and getting vaccinated against the flu and covid. >> bill: we'll stay on it and hope for the best. >> dana: let's bring in dr. saphier. as a kid i had chronic strep throat until i was 17 years old. my parents found a doctor willing to take out my tonsils and haven't had it since. i remember how horrible it is to

have strep throat. for parents looking at their kids wondering how to protect them from the new strain, what should they do? >> first of all, dana, this is not a new strain. it is group a strep. as you referred to it most people know it as strep throat. the problem with group a strep is it's not one of these respiratory viruses where a little rest and hydration can make it go away. it requires antibiotics. oftentimes people don't realize it is a bacterial infection and not getting the and biotics. it can cause more severe illness. i will be honest, my middle son was hospitalized with this several years go away before covid when a child has a respiratory infection and let's be honest, just about every child this season everyone has had it. a child's immune system is shot because they fight off the respiratory virus and then they get what we call a super infection meaning they are

exposed to a strep and that strep is kind of hitting them when they're down. that can cause a more severe illness. the best thing to do for your child is you want to make sure they are as healthy as possible getting the right nutrients, staying hydrated. if they continue to spike fevers more than you would expect you want to stay in touch with your pediatrician to see if they would benefit from antibiotics. >> dana: what are you thinking about the shortage of antibiotics out there? is it getting any better? >> that's the problem when it comes to strep throat the most commonly prescribed antibiotic is a mocks i -- -- there are may other options. i don't want people to go out there and start panic buying or trying to get anything they can because there are kids and adults who really need the antibiotics. don't horde them. we need to make sure that

physicians aren't overprescribing them. it needs to be maintained for those who really need it. we don't want to create the antibiotic resistant bacteria and who need it can have access to it. >> dana: smart and reassuring words from our dr., nicole saphier. have a good weekend. thank you. chaos at the southern border as migrants enter the country in record numbers. it is expected to get worse next week with the end of title 42. i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good morning at home. merry christmas to you. a couple days together next week, however. >> dana: great. >> bill: keeping score, right? an estimated 50,000 migrants seeking asylum waiting in mexico now planning to cross the border as soon as title 42 ends. the number of illegal crossings could double or even triple in the coming days with no clear plan for the administration to stem the tide. senator john kenne