family about politics, don't drink. okay? then you will. you have to be absolutely certain that you get nothing good out of fighting with family about politics. >> dana: enjoy your christmas. >> or stay home. >> dana: merry christmas. >> bill: i come from a big family and you come from a bigger family. you know this better than most. >> why would you? we all know by now don't get into politics. >> dana: just don't do it. great to see you, merry christmas. >> bill: thank you. >> dana: fox weather alert now. chaos as americans prepare for the peak of the holiday travel season. major winter storm is already slamming the west coast as much of the country braces for heavy snow, rain and blast of arctic air. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. good morning. >> bill: good morning. i'm bill hemmer. it's been a while since we had something like this, right? got 113 million americans right now traveling over the christmas

weekend. that storm will have a devastating impact on airlines. hundreds of flights already canceled or delayed. >> dana: roughly 2/3 of flights nationwide will be impacted by storm with blizzard conditions to make travel virtually impossible across the midwest. that's later this week. >> bill: fox weather correspondent nicole is live at nashville international airport with a lowdown on what's happening there. good morning, nicole. >> good morning. definitely not what you want to hear a few days from the christmas holiday. unfortunately this could be a weather nightmare. this arctic blast may not ruin the holidays but could turn into a life-threatening situation in some areas. blizzard conditions in some areas of the plains. talking below freezing. some below 0 temperatures there. and we're looking at close to 300 flights canceled today

alone. more than 500 delayed so far as winter storm warnings are in effect for the northwest including seattle metro where heavy snow is already starting to fall. look at states like hawaii. they're reporting hundreds of delays there. more than two dozen cancellations after travelers dealt with severe turbulence on their way to the state's big island. now several major airlines including american, jetblue, united and southwest are hoping to get a handle on the demand for travel and they are encouraging passengers to change their flights at no cost. they are offering them options to book their same flight for a different day, a different time or potentially to a different airport near their destination. now experts warn you may need a backup plan at this point if impacts start to trickle down. unfortunately as we approach later on this week they only expect those delays and cancellations to grow and all that system is going to move from the northwest through the plains into the northeast.

it is just going to be a messy christmas unfortunately. it is about that time to start looking at the backup plan and potentially take action on it. >> bill: 21st is tomorrow, right? so we'll be in the season then. nicole, nice to see you in nashville. thank you. >> dana: fox news alert a magnitude 6.4 earthquake rattling california early this morning and leaving thousands without power. we have the latest. tell us more, claudia. >> i can tell you that the shaking has not stopped. at least 20 after shocks so far after that big earthquake woke everyone up at 2:34 this morning. this happened about 7 1/2 miles southwest of ferndale, a coastal community near the oregon border and 5 hour drive from san francisco. the 6.4 earthquake struck along the junction of the san andreas

and ten miles deep and felt off the coast and felt in some parts of the bay area hundreds of miles away where some residents not a notification on the my shake alert app. two injuries have been confirmed and reports are flooding in of widespread damage to roads and homes. they released this picture of a roadway that buckled and remains closed. some residents have taken to social media to show the mess inside their homes. take a look at this. pictures and books fell off, tables overturned. this video comes from the owner of a 100-year-old victorian home who apologized for the dark video but not alone. at this report more than 70,000 customers had lost power. 70% of the homes and businesses in that area. the local utility is warning people to be prepared for further shaking that could cause more destruction and hazards. i mentioned those after shocks. several have measured in the 3.2

to 4.6 range. so not insignificant. pg&e says it could take a few days to get everyone back online. at this point officials with the national weather service say there is no threat of a tsunami because of this earthquake but reports of damage and injuries are still coming in and we'll keep you posted. >> dana: i hope everyone is all right. >> bill: five minutes past the hour now and we have our seventh installment of the twitter files now revealing how the f.b.i. worked to suppress the hunter biden laptop story. the "new york post" cover calling the tech giant a bird in the hand. miranda devine is a columnist for the post and fox news contributor. thank you for your time. want to remind folks, the f.b.i. have a laptop for a year and knew it was real and you say the f.b.i. was grooming twitter employees to recognize your laptop story. how so? >> that's right, bill and dana.

it was pretty clear that there was really a psychological operation being conducted against twitter executives by the f.b.i. so that when our story came up in october of 2020, that they would recognize it immediately as a russian hack and leak operation because they had been warned for weeks by f.b.i. exactly what to look for. in fact, to look for this operation in october and that it would involve hunter biden. and remember that the f.b.i. was paying twitter $3.4 million they gave them to help censor americans and particularly our story three weeks before the election. >> dana: lou said he read this. you don't have to. twitter disagreed with the f.b.i. you're welcome. matt taibbi responded and saying it's very odd that people, being ted lieu, think the f.b.i., dhs

relationship is a partisan story. it has grown under republican and democratic administrations. this concerns everyone. do you agree? >> absolutely. ted lieu has a vested interest there. and the fact is that every american should be very concerned about the fact that the premier law enforcement agency, the f.b.i., has been doing this sort of subterranean influence operation on the social media giants in order to tilt the 2020 election in favor of one candidate in order to suppress an accurate story by the "new york post." now, the f.b.i. have been spying on rudy giuliani throughout 2020. they would have had access to the email that came through from the computer repair shop owner to rudy giuliani, pressing his concerns about the laptop material on it pertaining

particularly to ukraine and millions of dollars paid to hunter biden, which he was concerned would have compromised candidate joe biden. so the f.b.i. had access to that. they had access to messages between me and rudy giuliani in october which would have alerted them to the fact the "new york post" was about to public. and they lied to twitter and told them that this was going to be a russian hacking operation. and that was why twitter on the morning that we published immediately censored us using their hacked materials policy. >> bill: miranda, one last question here. republicans will take over the house in the new year. we've seen investigations in congress. sometimes they go nowhere. where do you expect this story to go in the new year? >> look, i think that this time the republicans have an enormous trove of information. the twitter files has given them

a lot and so have the f.b.i. whistleblowers and tony bobulinski and the laptop. there is a wealth of information from the treasury department showing the money coming from china, russia, ukraine into biden family coffers. they have said that they are investigating joe biden because this is about his family's influence operation using him as a person that greases the wheels and meets the potential business partners. i think that they have so much information to go on and let's hope elon musk is not leaned on by wall street as seems to be happening right now today as we speak to intimidate him into not releasing anymore information. there is a lot more in the twitter files to come. >> bill: thank you. off we go into the new year. she mentioned elon musk at the end there. i just checked the twitter feed. he hasn't tweeted in eight hours. he put that poll out there and said do you want me to run the

place or step aside and 57% of twitter responders, over 17 million did the poll, said step aside. cnbc. >> dana: do you think he voted for himself to leave? >> we're of the same mind. we think he wants to step aside. cnbc reported earlier today he is actively searching for a new twitter ceo. >> dana: bill hemmer is not available, sir, right? >> bill: nor am i interested. you can have it, right, >> dana: a serial burglar hitting the new york city home of robert deniro as he slept. the suspect's lengthy bail sheet is reigniting the debate over bail laws. >> bill: the situation surrounding title 42 remains unclear at this hour. chief justice john roberts issued a temporarily hold. will it last? a lot of migrants on the border bracing for a surge of migrants,

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>> bill: a career criminal accused of breaking into robert di nero's home in new york city. it was one of the city's top five thieves. 17 arrests for burglary in the last two years amid a series of other crimes. the upper east side of manhattan. what happened? >> this is where it all happened right behind me at his townhouse here on the upper east side. investigators say the suspect

broke in through the back door of that oscar winner's townhouse. when she was arrested she told police she didn't do it. >> i didn't do it. >> anything you want to say? >> i didn't murder anybody. i didn't rob anyone's house. >> 30-year-old woman has a long rap sheet, arrested 17 times for burglary alone within the last two years. she was also arrested less than one week ago and was already back and at it again. 69,000 a month recental town home. the suspect entered his house in the middle of the night and checked out the presents under his christmas tree. she was attempting to remove property. she was taken into custody quickly without incident. this is another example of a growing crime trend across new york city. check it out here, robbery,

felony assault. burglary and transit crimes are all up from last year with total crime up over 23% from 2021. back out here live in front of the townhouse still at the center of this investigation, she is being held on a $40,000 bail. see how that plays out. >> bill: you are on that. >> dana: at least someone is held on bail. >> bill: thanks. >> we'll see for how long. >> this is the biden border policy, open border policy. this is consistent with where they've been from day one. over the past two years this administration has turned the border patrol into the welcoming committee. they want to continue to pander to the left wing to make it appear that they are welcoming and making this country open to anyone in the world who wants to go there. >> dana: house oversight committee member james comer blaming the ongoing border crisis squarely on president biden. the supreme court paused the

lifting of title 42 that permits rapid expulsion of migrants at the border. how long will the stay hold? residents living on or near the border are bracing for an increased influx of migrants if it's lifted. one is a rancher who texas who joined us before. we appreciate you being for and willing to come back. we'll show a graphic here of what you have found on your own ranch. i'm sure it's distressing for you and your family. tell us what you expect in the days ahead. >> well we're all bracing for the worst, of course. just like the oversight committee will tell you, it is open border. there is no -- dps is trying their best and our counties to our west are really trying but we're way more than a crisis. i don't even know what word, conundrum, how to explain it. we're seeing 100 plus a week and

we're 45 miles from the border. they are getting dropped off daily by the truck loads. an incredible number of buses headed eastbound. is anybody following the buses to see where the people are being dropped off? amazing to me. >> bill: it is amazing for us to watch it as well and you are closer to it. i believe your ranch is near uvalde, around that vicinity in texas there. i was just wondering what have you done on your property in terms of secured for yourself or your family? have you changed anything? >> absolutely. we've never locked our doors before. everything is locked now. vehicles, no keys. it has taken -- i feel like we live in an inner city where there is lots of trouble and crime. we have never had that issue before. you have these people coming in here that are killing their own.

the guy that is dead in the photo was killed by his own. so those people that are coming -- they are a danger to all of us. >> dana: does it make you -- i guess you almost feel abandoned by the president? >> -- we have no president for the most part. -- [inaudible] ] choppy audio] >> suicides are up. there is a reason. the morale is in the gutter, guys. >> bill: you raise excellent points. our apologies to viewers, some of the audio was cutting out a little bit but we wanted to hear your story again. we'll stay in contact with you. you are right when you ask the question when you see, a live picture from eagle pass, sun is up for another day. he is right when he says he sees the buses go by day after day after day and where are they

going? they are going to various parts of america. >> dana: 100 a week passing on foot. those are people that are gotaways. the ones the authorities did not track. how many of those are also in our country now? we actually don't have a firm number on that. we have millions of people that have come across in the last two years and no sign of stopping. >> bill: how many different countries? >> dana: hundreds. >> bill: 160? at one point that's what they said based on who is coming across. john klein, thank you for that. a majority of voters in the latest fox news poll give 2022 a not so good review but hopeful about the next year. we'll break down the results and show them to you there. sources tell us now in the bahamas sam bankman-fried has agreed to extradition. so when does he leave and when does he arrive here in new york? the good news? so has the value of your home. and maybe a lot more than you think.

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side of caution. a dangerous winter storm could disrupt your holiday get together. blizzard forecast for many parts of the country starting in the american west. the state of washington into the midwest, great lakes, northeast, nasty mix of bone chilling temperatures, gusty wind, rain and snow all may topple travel plans for americans from coast to coast. i'm heading to ohio over the weekend. two degrees. >> dana: my mom said overnight in denver it was minus 14. >> bill: is that right? >> dana: you have to wrap up and take all the precautions you need. josh earnest from united was with us last hour. if you can change your plans and travel earlier they're willing to let you do that with no cost. >> bill: that helps. been a while since we have seen a storm affect this many people. >> dana: a white christmas maybe even for you in ohio. we're watching and waiting for

fallen crypto king sam bankman-fried expected to be extradited to the u.s. to face several criminal charges over the ftx collapse. it may happen as early as today. colin mcshane is outside the district court in lower manhattan. are they expecting him today? >> there is no sign of him right now but this is fluid. it could change. once it does change, it could change very quickly. sbf did, we think waive his right to fight the extradition from the bahamas to the united states. he did it after his court appearance. we saw him leaving the courthouse in the bahamas. in court things were chaotic. his lawyer in the bahamas claimed he was shocked to see him in the courtroom. asked the judge to take a break and after that the lawyer said sbf needed more information before he agreed to the

extradition. he was sent back to jail for a time. yet another twist yesterday the same lawyer, very same day, told a group of reporters that he agreed to go along with it after all. so we'll see. once he does arrive here in new york he is facing eight federal charges wire fraud, security fraud, money laundering. you see at the bottom of the screen campaign finance violation. he was arrested about a week ago in the bahamas. if you had to sum up the charges against him you would say he is accused of using billions of dollars in customer deposits to his crypto currency exchange in order to finance his trading firm and also his lavish lifestyle. now fox has learned once he does arrive here in new york he is expected to be released on bail in a deal struck as we understand it between the prosecutors and the judge here. as you guys know, that at the end of the day is always up to

the judge. district judge abrams. in the next couple of days we expect to see sam bankman-fried here in new york. >> bill: want to bring in trey gowdy. early merry christmas to you. a couple of things i want to show you. here are the charges. maximum sentences, two counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, could be 20 years, two counts of wire fraud, another 20 years, conspiracy to commit securities fraud and on. it's all about fraud and it's all about conspiracy. you are a former prosecutor so you look at this case how when you know that he gave upwards of $40 million to democratic candidates and causes? >> the word that catches my attention is the word conspiracy. all the rest of it just means stealing, embezzling, taking stuff that doesn't belong to you. conspiracy is an agreement, unlawful agreement with two or

more to break the law. who was he doing it with? in particular i feel terrible for the victims, but the politically interesting part are the fec violations, the political donations. that's also a conspiracy count. who was he conspiring with? so are there other shoes, other names, other people being indicted? that's what i find most interesting. >> dana: and how -- in a case like this, when he comes back, i know sometimes it can take months before there is a trial. do you expect that to be even in 2023 probably towards the latter end? >> the more complex the case. it sounds complicated because you hear fraud and commodities and crypto. i don't think it is. when i listen to other legal experts they say it's pretty straight forward. congressional testimony is straight forward stealing. here is why i think it matters. bail and bond, the sooner

prosecutors say they're ready to go to court the more likely a judge is to keep him behind bars until the trial date. if the trial date is a year in the future he is probably going to grant him bond. if i'm a prosecutor i say i'm ready to go right now. >> bill: let's see what comes of that. i want to ask you about the fox polling we did for the holiday gives us a sense of the temperature for the country and how people are thinking about their own lives and their future. here is one guy. in 2022, was it a good year or a bad year for your family? we've got 52% saying it was -- it was up -- sorry. this is in reverse order. it's like doing math live on tv. it is down slightly from a year ago. which would suggest that people think this past year was better than the year prior. just go ahead and wax poetic on that what we have here.

>> well, i'm not good on poetry. what that tells me is the pandemic makes us fear for our lives. it makes us fear for our way of life, whereas inflation we can recover from inflation. we can save more, we can make more, we can work harder. but if you're dead, there is no recovery from that. so i'm not surprised. what did surprise me about the polling was hope. hope is one of those things that you can be both rational and delusional and still believe in hope. hope is -- it doesn't have to be rooted in logic and rationality. and yet about half of our fellow citizens still do not have hope. that's what concerned me about the polling. >> dana: hopeful for the country's future, yes at 53%. that's up from last year quite significantly actually. but you are right, hope is

something that we all need. this is the season of joy and renewal and hope. i will give you the last word. >> i hope it is. it should be. if you live in this country you have a leg up on 99% of the rest of the people on this planet. dana, to your point you talk about this all the time. be intentional about hope. look for things to be grateful for. they abound if you look for them. >> dana: if you do that you get en ddo endorphins. there is a way to do it throughout your day. thank you so much for being on. the season for catching all sorts of colds and flus and children are prime targets. what some pharmacies are doing to make sure parents are able to treat their children. plus what one elite university is doing to make sure students

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>> dana: dramatic video from ohio state troopers capturing an overdosing driver out on the highway. serving right off the road. luckily missing nearby cars. officers were able to get the driver to pull over where they found him slumped over the wheel. they quickly administered narcan potentially saving his life. the incident happened this september. but the ohio highway patrol are releasing the video as a warning

about the dangers of driving under the influence. >> bill: wow, he got lucky twice in that. >> dana: geez. >> bill: don't see that every day, do you? high demand and low supply in children's code medication. big chains are rationing sales of pain relief drugs which will leave parents scrambling to try treatment for some amid a surge of respiratory diseases among our youngest. lydia hu is outside a cvs in mont claire, new jersey. what did you find out? >> good morning. we took a look inside the cvs behind us and we couldn't find any children's pain relievers or fever reducing medication. this is a situation that more and more parents are encountering across the country. >> had to go to three stores the other night to get her that. it's not just a combination -- being a new mom is hard enough without everything going on. >> as supplies are running thin

big chain stores are limiting purchases, cvs has placed a two-product limit on all kids pain relief products bought through its pharmacies or online. walgreens limiting customers to six purchases of children's over the counter fever-reducing products when buying online and kroger is asking customers to limit purchases to two kids pain relief products and four cold and flu items. now there are a number of factors behind this situation. one is the early flu season combined with the circulation of the respiratory illnesses among patients. pharmaceutical companies miscalculateed the demand this season and one pediatrician thinks consumer behavior is also to blame here. watch. >> very sad. i don't think all the people who are buying the motrin and tylenol actually need all of it. there is a lot of hoarding going

on. >> so now, bill, not only is it baby formula that parents are searching for, it is also pain relievers, fever reducers and experts warn this situation is not going to go away any time soon. expect the shortages on the medications to last throughout this winter cold and flu season. >> bill: who knew? interesting story. lydia, thank you from new jersey. >> dana: a question, why work? you can make more money with unemployment benefits and obamacare subsidies an a medium income job in most states. this is according to a study. this is a concern we hear from employers across the board in every sector, can't find employees. this might be one of the reasons why? >> yes. this is one of the things that is also compounding inflation. if you can't find workers because 3 million adults who were part of the labor force before the pandemic have opted out. labor force participation rate has taken a big hit post

pandemic. some people, not most people, but some people got used to the idea of sitting at home watching stream services like fox nation that you can get now. >> bill: sign up right now. we aren't talking about $15,000 or $20,000. in 14 states you can get $80,000 a year. three states you can get more than $1 hundred thousand per year. washington, massachusetts, new jersey. >> a lovely six-figure salary with two non-working adults. healthcare is covered. what is the incentive to go back to work? the pandemic did change a lot of people's behavior. so unfortunately the cold hard reality is the government can't afford to do that forever. this has been big government and mainly democratic politicians trying to buy votes with programs like this. and it will bankrupt the country. when that happens, everyone is going to be in horrible shape

episcopal three most vulnerable lower income americans. >> dana: no good. in-flight disturbances are down since there is no longer a mask mandate. you are already irritation because you are traveling and the mask added more irritation >> bill: and judgment. >> the judgment came not only from the flight attendants. mask nannys and forced to do this and forced to engage with people who maybe they had a few pops during a layover. the last thing they want to do is sit for five hours with a piece of cloth. they are being yelled at by flight attendant and other passengers, where is your mask. >> dana: everything is better now. >> they have gone down 2/3. 2/3 fewer flight disturbances.

>> dana: i asked if masks were coming back and he said i hope not and they're not necessary. >> it is bad for business. horrible for flight attendants. if you're sick you can wear a mask. it doesn't mean we need a mask mandate. >> bill: you have a new york rangers sweater on there and salty language at madison square guard den. dana has some interesting tid bits out of stanford. >> dana: their i.t. department said they would have harmful language. ages and colonallism. institutionalized racism. they don't want you to say american anymore, but u.s. citizen. >> bill: i'm proud to be an american. anyone who becomes a u.s. citizen call themselves american because it means something. no. >> dana: what happened to the american dream? another one. they don't want to say karen anymore. you have to say demanding or

entitled white woman. i think that's more offensive. >> i would like to see the manager about this one. as a karen i think i need to keep the designation. >> bill: tone deaf is unenlightened and handicapped parking becomes accessible parking. >> you can't call someone an addict. this is why we need word economy. if you use shorthand you know exactly what you are saying. the person knows what you mean. now you have to have 16 words for person with substance abuse problems who may be having a hard time right now. >> dana: so many words. have you heard of these kid adults merged together. they're keeping the toy industry alive. they are buying little yoda dolls and things like that. >> if you go to a bar. a lot of millennials go there. you see things like corn hole and slushy machines. they just add alcohol. adulthood is childhood with alcohol. if you go to disney world are

disneyland they are adults with ears and cotton candy and maybe they are -- >> dana: maybe they have having more fun. >> they are keeping the economy alive and i want to give them a high five. >> bill: nice sweater. zelensky visits the front lines as his country marks 300 days of work of the we're live coming up. chri chri christmas nativity scene starring puppies. ♪ christmas is going to the dogs ♪ with nostalgia. so to help you remember that liberty mutual customizes your home insurance, here's one that'll really take you back. it's customized home insurance from liberty mutual!!! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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court for an emergency stay for the policy that expelled 2 1/2 million immigrants from america. and where is the transparency candidate joe biden promised? president biden in office stiff arming the media with only seven sit-down interviews with journalists so far. a court ruling that biological boys can continue to dominate girls' sports. pete hegseth, and others, talk talk top of the hour. >> bill: now that the senate passed the defense authorization act. a group of republican senators are pushing for thousands of u.s. troops to be reinstated after they were discharged for refusing the covid-19 vaccine. will they get their day soon? mike emanuel is on that story live in d.c. what about it, mike? >> six gop senators writing

saying the pentagon needs to go further writing while we're proud to see the needed change included simply reversing the covid-19 vaccine mandate is insufficient to right the wrongs done to our service members. the gop senators say about 3400 service members have been dischargeed over their vaccination status and now some are calling for bringing them back with back pay and full benefits. >> this mandate should end. those service members dismissed should have their, you know, position reinstated with back pay. i think we should end the state of emergency that is declared by the biden administration. or perpetuated by it. >> since the vaccine mandate was imposed military officials between 98 or 99% of active duty personnel have received their shots. earlier this month lloyd austin defended the vaccine mandate saying a million people died in the united states of america.

we lost hundreds in d.o.d. the mandate kept people healthy and i support continuation of vaccinating the troops. the commander-in-chief agrees with austin. >> the president still supports the secretary of defense's position that repealing the mandate is not in the best interest of our troops. it is not in the best interest of our military. it is a health and readiness issue as the pentagon has long been saying. >> leaders point to recruitment and retention struggles in the military and calling for this change. >> thanks, mike emanuel with the changing day there in d.c. thanks much. dana. >> dana: today marks 300 days of war in ukraine. president zelensky visited troops on the front lines at vladimir putin admits military struggles. let's check in with nate foye live in kiev. hi, nate.

>> yeah, president zelensky visited one of the most dangerous places you can be in the country today. the eastern city where he gave soldiers some awards and they presented him with a gift meant for the united states. i'll have more in a second. i want to show you how dangerous this trip was. as zelensky was speaking you can hear explosions going off in the background and he barely flinchs. watch. >> first of all i would like us to thank those not with us with a moment of silence. let's honor all heroes who died. >> ukrainian soldiers mentioned presented zelensky with a signed ukrainian flag and asked him to pass it along to the united states congress with soldiers writing on the flag thank you messages for the military aid and weapons provided to ukraine by the united states throughout the war. zelensky said he would pass along that message. where he was today is the focus of the russian offensive in the

east for months. look that the video. surprising admission from president vladimir putin describing the situation in the east as quote, extremely difficult. he also praised russian soldiers for showing a lot of courage in the war. listen to putin himself describe the state of the war in the east. >> the situation in dones and luhansk and in the other regions is extremely difficult and bare down hard on the actions of foreign special services and quickly identify traitors, spies and saboteurs. >> that last part was in reference to another announcement today from putin. he ordered the fsb to step up surveillance of russians within the country as well as the country's borders to quickly identify any traitors coming as the u.s. is seeing conflicting views in russia about a counter offensive in the coming months. >> dana: nate foye in kiev. stay safe. >> bill: a long war in ukraine. >> dana: before we go.

>> bill: here we go. a nativity scene is a common sight as christmas. none like this. violent video shows the pooches at the u.k. dressed up as the figures from the nativity depicting the birth of christ. which one do you like? >> dana: i love them all. good dogs. great to be with you this morning. harris faulkner is next. here she is. >> harris: the u.s. supreme court has hit pause on ending title 42, but it is a fragile situation. now we wait to see what the department of justice will do. but we're being told the trump policy that has helped stem the enormous tide of illegals flowing into america will likely end very shortly. i'm harris faulkner and are you in "the faulkner focus." chief justice john roberts approved that last-ditch effort to save the border protection tool of title 42 keeping people in mexico and deporting some