fear. i went with what i -- i don't think tiger will win a tournament this year again. >> dana: caroline wanted me to say that tiger will win a masters this year. i said what do i know what i'm talking about? you don't think the bengals will win? >> bill: i'm not going there. thank you and merry christmas. >> dana: a great year for us and all of you and thank you for watching. harris faulkner is up next, here she is. >> harris: fox news alert. razor wire, military blockades. throngs of people huddled around fires as a polar vortex weather moves in. where is president biden now? i'm harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." biden's cruel and failing border policy on full display hours before title 42 was originally set to end. that's likely still coming. the trump-era order that was used to keep many illegal

immigrants south of the border. and we're waiting for the u.s. supreme court's order on title 42 as well. the g.o.p. states challenging the end to the policy just filing their brief. they argue the stay or delay should be in place as even dhs admits ending the policy will cause harm to america. this has a lot of chapters and suddenly it gets more interesting. fox cameras capturing what you are seeing here overnight. texas national guard deployed to keep the crowd on the mexico side. hundreds more trying to get into the city of el paso, which is already totally overwhelmed. illegals who make it through the porous border are now on el paso streets lined up, desperately trying to get into shelters. i mention the weather. temperatures already below freezing. now the biden administration is

asking the u.s. supreme court to delay the end of title 42 at least until christmas at this point. again, d.c. so far away from the border they just can't see what's needed or is there something else at play? what about rapidly deporting these people based on title eight and other legal steps that even former president obama used? the biden white house told fox to go to dhs with questions. dhs told us, a quote, we'll keep you in the loop. newly independent senator kyrsten sinema is taking some action. she set up a bipartisan border visit and says the system has to change. >> we will quickly and fairly adjudicate claims and remove those who do not have a valid claim of asylum. sending a message to those in other countries that our asylum system will no longer be manipulated. the crisis at our border represents an immediate threat.

but those of us from border states know and we've seen up close that strong border security, healthy cross border trade, and a fair immigration system all go hand in hand. we can and must achieve all three. >> harris: democrats reportedly don't like those ideas. maybe it's part of why she left them. former acting customs enforcement directly tom homan is with us. bill melugin in texas. >> good morning to you. throughout the border crisis we've been used to seeing the mass crossings in the summer heat. over 100 degrees. now we're starting to see the other side of the coin for the first time. mass crossings in these frigid temperatures. it is getting cold down here at the border. look at what the thermal drone team saw this morning in eagle pass before sun rise, a huge group of more than 350 migrants

who crossed illegally into a private pecan orchard. some walked up from the river and organized and gather in the cold and have to wait for hours for border patrol to show up and process them and get buses and vans to transport them away. as temperatures continue to drop. supposed to be in the 20s the next couple of days it will get more increasingly dangerous for the migrants as they cross. other groups crossing last night as well. look at the second piece of video. hours before that drone group this was a group of 200 that crossed illegally and had to have a law enforcement escort walking them along a local highway so they could get to border patrol proper sense. locals have to deal with this. migrants walking along the local highways after they've crossed. out to el paso that you mentioned. the temperatures there even colder. look at this video. you can see hundreds of these migrants crossed onto the american side of the river in el paso camped out with campfires and they're waiting and hoping to be let into the united states.

texas national guard is out with soldiers, humvees and rose of wire and you'll see a long line of hundreds of migrants waiting behind the wire hoping to get let into the united states. texas national guard wants to take a posture they aren't welcome and not going to get in. then lastly we'll take you out to arizona. yet another fentanyl bust at the nogales point of entry. agents saying they seized more than 10,000 fentanyl pills at the port of entry and six pounds meth all hidden inside tubes of construction adhesive mixed in amongst different work tools. goes to show how the smugglers are trying to hide that deadly product. back live it feels like every day during my live shots i'm reporting a major fentanyl bust at the know gals point of entry. the amount of fentanyl being seized there shows how much is pouring into the country. that's only one single port of entry on our southern border.

send it back to you. >> harris: excellent reporting as always. thank you. that polar vortex that i was telling you about is about to hit the state of texas and many other parts of the country. illegal immigrants sleeping outside in already freezing temperatures. that struggle is about to get worse. texas governor greg abbott is right now saying all that we do next on the border is about saving lives urgently. >> we're having to manage the crisis on the board. even before the potential lifting of title 42, we've seen this massive influx. you have to go back to see the way the biden administration has handled this whole situation. completely unprepared, complete disaster. texas is left to pick up the pieces of the disaster caused by the biden administration. >> harris: tom homan, former acting ice director. i have heard many people say it

in the lead-up to this week. is this america? >> no, it's not. it's not the america i grew up in. beginning at the monologue where is president biden? i agree. he hasn't made one trip to the border. he can't talk to the men and women who put their lives ton line for this country. they're overwhelmed to the .14 of them have committed suicide this year. where is the commander-in-chief? where is congress? now they are looking at a funding bill that doesn't address the crisis. all the money in the funding bill talks about getting millions more dollars to ngos to help process and release more into the united states. when you process and release quicker, more want to come. we send a message to the whole border. cross the border illegally, you'll be released and get you to your final destination. who the hell wouldn't come to the greatest nation on earth if there is no consequence for entering illegally? what upsets me the most is the deaths. how many more americans have to

die from dent nall overdoses because 90% of the border patrol isn't on patrol. we have 1500 migrants who died a terrible, tragic death because the most vulnerable people in the world are putting themselves in the hands of criminal cartels to come across an oper border. secure borders saves lives. president biden's policies are killing people in record numbers. >> harris: you heard the governor there and the urgency i hear in your voice and now spreading to some on the other side of the political aisle. or at least in the middle. kyrsten sinema. she is an independent. wants to take a bipartisan group to the border. these ideas are good or great but it is so late in this game to be talking about show and tell. >> it is late. they released several million people into the united states. even if right now if you look at the court data. immigration court data.

nine out of ten people who claim asylum never get relief from the u.s. courts and don't qualify. they can call them asylum seekers but fraudulent claims of asylum. they will lose their case and a federal judge will say you must leave the country. you can't remove millions of people. how will you do that? people need to understand these millions of people coming across right now are here to stay. even the most proactive ice doesn't have the resources to go arrest millions of people. people -- they are going to lose their case, not going to leave and they will hideout waiting for amnesty because this country has shown if you hideout long enough we'll give you daca and amnesty and give you something. all these family groups coming across now, all these children, a quarter million children entered this country since joe biden became president. the next daca people. they said if i get to the country i can be the next daca recipient. we have to secure the border before we make any promises of

amnesty or anything else. stop the flow. save lives. >> harris: you are the expert and one of many who we should be listening to. but instead here is what congress is doing. the new congressional spending bill, which is enormous, you talked about it in a moment. we'll dig deeper, gives dhs, look at that. that's a big pot of cash. some 1.5 billion of that, though, is restricted as operations and support allocations. that money, quote, cannot be used to acquire, maintain or extend border security technology and capability. former cbp customs and border protecting acting commissioner called the funding restriction -- he used a bad word. bleeping insanity. north carolina republican dan bishop said the priorities are america last. we'll spend a whole lot of cash but we aren't going to spend it where it needs to be at the

border. >> i'll say this. any republican that votes for that bill, any republican that went down to the border and did a dog and pony show and comes back and signs that knowing there is no money to secure that border, only money to bring more people in and to process them in and to release them into the united states, they shouldn't be representing us in congress. you can't have both sides. how many americans have to die of fentanyl overdoses? how many migrants have to die? how many women sexually assaulted from the cartels and sex trafficked. record numbers of women and children being trafficked for sexual purposes across the border. at what point do the congressmen, republican or democrat, independent say enough is enough? we have to protect americans. we have to save lives. you can't have national security border supreme court. suspected terrorists have been

arrested trying to get into the country. how many gotaways are suspected terrorists. at what point does our national security and the lives of americans and vulnerable migrants mean enough to secure this border and spend some of that money on our own border and protect americans instead of ukraine. >> harris: tom homan joining us now. we are getting some really rich detail from you because you know what it takes to make us safe. and much of that is not being done right now. the game is about to change. we don't know what they will do with title 42. it is like a game of hot potato up in washington, d.c. well, the u.s. supreme court says one thing. white house says this. waiting on d.o.j. for this. in the meantime use some other laws that obama used like title viii. there is plenty on the plate that we could use to deport people at this point. >> they have title eight. let's not forget title 42.

we have a crisis with title 42 in place, right? what about putting back to remain in mexico program which was a game changer for the trump administration. people can still claim asylum. they will wait in mexico for the hearing date. a game changer. the courts haven't shut that down. if they really want to secure the border and save american lives from drug overdoses and migrant lives and care about these people dying in the freezing weather in texas, why not put the remain in mexico program back in place until congress figures how to fix it. joe biden ran on open borders. this isn't incompetence or mismanagement. it is by design. he ran on open borders. when you say i will put a moratorium on deportations and shut down ice detention facilities and award amnesty and free medical care. when you take those promises the most vulnerable people in the

world will put their hands of criminals. this administration can fix it in 30 days. all they have to do is brush off the trump policies and reimplement them. they say our policies are in inhumane in that administration. illegal immigration was down 83%. 83% less people were coming. how many women weren't being raped and how many people weren't dying and how many migrants didn't die? at what point do we make common sense decisions to save lives and protect our national security? you can't have national security without border security. we have the database is in place and tsa, no fly list, visa security program. they mean nothing now. don't try to get a ticket or visa, just go to mexico and cross the border illegally and get in and not be caught. that scares the hell out of me.

>> harris: your line of the day. you can't have national security without border security. if we are not safe, we are not sovereign, period. tom homan, thank you very much for getting us started on this topic and being in "focus" today. appreciate your time and expertise always. >> thanks for having me. >> harris: the latest twitter files keep dripping unreal detail about the secret working agreement between twitter and the f.b.i. and pushing some kind of government messaging. democrat governor of illinois price kehr on defense as critics rip apart his law to end cash bail. >> let's just set the record straight with everybody. the safety act is designed to keep murderers and domestic abusers, violent criminals in jail. >> harris: the safety act. republicans warning the new year could now come with a new crime

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>> harris: well, here is another reason why democrats are taking heat on their soft on crime policies. illinois is about to become the first state to completely eliminate cash bail. the law is called the safety act. the critics point out it has very little safety in it. and will only make crime in the state worse. one republican state lawmaker says there are some people who are a threat to society who should be detained at trial. don't take this national progressive approach. democratic governor pritzker on defense. >> the safety act is designed to keep murderers and domestic

abusers, violent criminals in jail. we're also addressing the problem of a single mother who shoplifted diapers for her baby who is put in jail and kept there for six months because she doesn't have a couple hundred dollars to pay for bail. >> harris: that's the example versus somebody who murdered someone? hum. a new op-ed with this. count it as another dubious first for a state that is developing a reputation as a test track for liberal hobby horses. the safety act, as it is called, begins january 1st. it is coming quickly after an entire year of violence in chicago. total major crime up by 40%. theft rising nearly 60% from this time last year. jason riley, fox news contributor and "wall street journal" columnist. marie harf, former state

department spokesperson under president obama. you know what, jason, i want to start with this. what is acceptable? is it what we see in illinois and chicago? how do they get to the point of creating a situation that critics say will create more crime? >> well, it's not acceptable and we don't have to speculate about what will happen because these policies have been implemented in other part of the country, new york, philadelphia, baltimore, california and we see the results. higher crime rates, demoralized police departments. cops don't want to risk their lives arresting people only to see them released in 20 minutes or so. it is also having an impact on police. but in chicago in particular. in the past five years, there have been more than 15,000 crimes committed by people out on bail awaiting trial. they will make it harder to hold people until trial? it makes no sense whatsoever.

>> harris: marie, your response to what jason just said particularly about holding people and the crimes that are committed. >> well, right now under current law if you are accused of a very serious crime and you can pay, you can get out of jail. this new legislation is fixing that problem. if you are accused of rape i don't think you should be able to pay your way out of jail before going to trial. what many experts believe from this legislation, more people incarcerated accused of serious crimes before their trials and fewer people who are accused of less serious crimes. we can't lock up everybody before trial. we don't have room to do that and we certainly shouldn't. it is not the best use of our criminal justice system. pritzker is prioritizing those accused of serious crimes. leveling the playing field. you shouldn't be able to pay your way out.

you will see people accused of more serious crimes in jail before their trial. >> harris: it is interesting that en masse people are not agreeing with that. i wonder what does marie and the governor and what do people see on the democratic sign of the line that the rest of the people don't see? >> this isn't about the actual results. this is about social justice and patting yourself on the back for your efforts. we know that the outcomes of these policies as i said have been tried elsewhere. they have already tried decriminalizing shoplifting for amounts to up to $1 thousand in california. so these policies have a track record. but the left refuses to look at that track record. >> harris: the national fraternal order of police, the nation's largest union of police officers, is reporting just this morning 323 officers have been

shot in the line of duty this year, 60 of them have died. as we often do here on "the faulkner focus", we focus on our law enforcement and we have put the names of those who perished in 2022 high above our giant wall in the studio here. the president of the nation's largest police union called it more dangerous than any other year for law enforcement in recent history and blamed failed policies of pandering prosecutors and cynical politicians. i'll start with you, marie, in reverse order. your response to this. >> well look, we talked a lot about how hard it is right now in this country for law enforcement and for people who feel like law enforcement still has some challenges, right, to fix. we know we're always working toward a more perfect union here but i do think in the new law and cities across the country where we know crime is a crisis they're trying to do things that

will keep the most violent criminals in jail. they will not be able to go out on the streets. judges and prosecutors in chicago and illinois are still going to have to sign off on anyone they release. that is political pressure. you and i know that. i do believe the democrats and republicans know this is a crisis and we have a lot more work to do and this is one way to address it that is more equitable. >> harris: i don't know about that. most of the neighborhoods damaged even further are neighborhoods that were recently defunded of police and have fewer resources to fight crime. they are more vulnerable and lower economic. many communities of color. so you are trying to tell people what is equal but you don't live there. last word, jason. >> these policies don't work. they do not reduce violent crime, marie. in philadelphia they set a record in homicides last year.

baltimore there have been more than 300 homicides a year for seven years in a row. that is what happens when you have district attorneys who brag about how few people they will prosecute. these policies don't work despite the intentions. >> harris: look, we are seeing in here in new york city, too. you mentioned the crimes that are just rampant with decriminalizing shoplifting. you can't find a bottle of cold medicine. walgreens in certain areas have been hit so much they're pulling out. you create new places where you don't have pharmacies or grocery stores and makes people more desperate. great to see you both. a deep conversation at this time of year. always important to have it. thank you both. >> thanks. >> harris: the coldest christmas week in decades. we're watching a massive arctic blast expected to disrupt holiday travel and affect

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>> harris: the official first day of winter is roaring on in. more than 100 million americans are bracing for the major arctic blast that's already delayed or canceled hundreds of flights. we're also expecting a dangerous bomb cyclone that could make matters infinitely worse. the temperature on the

thermometer may not tell the whole story. hundreds of flights in and out of seattle and you are watching now live atlanta. already have been delayed or canceled. major airlines giving passengers travel waivers specifically united airlines headquartered in chicago. the busiest travel hub where so many flights connect. complete coverage for you. fox weather is live for us in my old home city minneapolis. where we are used to snow. we'll begin with meteorologist a a adam. >> i can give you the definition. bomb cyclone means low pressure system will drop 24 mill bars in 24 hours. it means it will intensify quickly. it might not seem like there is

a lot happening. in 24 hours you'll see the storm ramp up driven by absolutely frigid temperatures. this is what you are looking at now for your windchill. the northern plains negative 30 degrees, negative 25 degrees. seeing that the last couple of mornings . it will dip further south. we have windchill alerts from the canadian border all the way down to the mexican border. a deep dive of cold air getting all the way to texas and covering a huge portion of the united states. these are your feels-like temperatures. future forecast. from now to friday morning. by the time you get to friday morning folks are waking up and if you step outside in the plains it feels like negative 40. in dallas feels like 0. feels like negative 34 in chicago and negative 23 in columbus. a massive area. a real arctic blast. if you are some of the coldest spots. the frostbite times takes five minutes when you see the pink

colors to see the frostbite. the storm suddenly runs through this and that's when you start to see some of the really big snow. i will leave you with some of our snowfall total projections here. in the midwest and some of the pink colors if you get down from the great lakes the purples you talk about a couple of feet of snow. widespread a lot of folks see six inches, winds intense. gusting will be a problem with the snow also. >> harris: sounds like the temperatures and winds are the worst part of this and what gets so dangerous. you can make the decision to stay in and not move that snow for a while but you can't walk in it. five minutes is quick. i remember how it was in minnesota. that's very, very fast to get frostbite. good to see you, thank you for all of the pertinent information. very useful as many people are about to travel. minnesota could see its coldest christmas in decades with dangerous windchills as well as 50 below 0. you saw some of the map that

adam had. that is expected to come in between now, tomorrow and friday. white out conditions making travel impossible at times there. look, this is a skycam but you can look already. it is not good conditions. fox weather has more from minneapolis. i saw duluth at minus 29 later today. this is just going to plummet. >> it is. good morning, harris. i can tell you one thing that both you and i know is that people here in minnesota they really embrace the cold temperatures here. when it's colder and more snow, people get excited because of those winter activities. but there comes a time when you have to ask yourself is it too cold? the answer, folks, it is just too cold here in minnesota. it doesn't matter if you are used to this or climatized as we call it. the national weather service warning people if you have to be outside it needs to be about planning and preparation ahead of tomorrow because things are going to get worse. when we say worse we mean it is going to get colder.

right now it is negative three degrees in minnesota and checking here in minneapolis and checking with our meteorologist at the fox forecast center they tell us it feels like it is minus 17 outside. just being outside it feels horrible. when we talk about planning and preparing, it means if the water goes out in the next few days have 3 to 5 days of water. if electricity goes out have a backup plan, have the candles and flight lights and if your home is run by electricity to get heat you want to make sure you have a warming center nearby or get in contact with loved ones. it is just cold and brutal at least until saturday and it is all about survival for the next few days, harris. >> harris: frozen pipes creating trouble. people sometimes can't day in their homes. this is a tough one to get to. your five minutes are up and you have to get inside. thank you very much for a full report. great job.

for full coverage of the storm and conditions across america, stay tuned to fox weather on cable and you can download the fox weather appear for up-to-the-minute updates. five minutes out there for much of the country when it dips below 0, get inside so you don't get frostbite. the latest twitter file drop is here. the platform working hand in hand with the government doing some of its bidding. >> the big concern is when it was inward facing and they engaged in domestic politics. that's where it goes way over the line and fundamentally and totally wrong. >> harris: what we're now learning twitter was doing to push pentagon influence. calls to cut off the f.b.i. from funding until that agency answers some very important questions. what does it mean to veteran homeowners that newday is a leader in va loans?

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>> harris: the eighth edition of the twitter files is here and it is yet another glaring scar for twitter, the f.b.i. and the federal government in general. the files show twitter quietly boosted the pentagon's propaganda efforts and broke its promises to stop secret

state-run networks. this is hard to believe. but it's true. the f.b.i. still has yet to respond to the previous drop or drops of the twitter files. drop number seven showed the agency tried to bury the hunter biden laptop story. top republican an house oversight says dramatic action is now needed. >> one way to get the f.b.i. in front of the committee quickly is we aren't giving you a penny until you come down here and explain to us what this task force was, why you told twitter to suppress the hunter biden laptop story when you knew it was true. and the senate is counter to everything that we're trying to do in the house from an oversight standpoint right now especially with respect to the f.b.i. >> harris: a new op-ed agrees with this. the f.b.i. and twitter formed a censorship alliance and can't be allowed to get away with it. lucas tomlinson with more from washington, d.c.

i tell you, lucas, every time you report it is an encyclopedia worth of information. >> fox has confirmed the f.b.i. paid twitter $3.5 million. these f.b.i. officials defend those payments saying these are just reimbursements as part of a normal legal process based on investigations from court orders to possible foreign actors and election security. f.b.i. claims none of the payments were used to spike stories like the hunter biden laptop stories and revealed in shellenberger say the f.b.i.'s influence campaign may have been helped by the fact it was paying twitter millions of dollars for its staff time. i'm happy to report we've collected 3,415,323 since october reports. jim baker was twitter's former deputy general counsel avant the

top f.b.i. lawyer for his alleged role in suppressing information. cornyn is outraged over this. >> this is not the role of the intelligence community, including the f.b.i. this ongoing welationship with social media companies attempting to censor some information and allow others to go through does indicate a bias and it is wrong. >> the f.b.i. tells fox, quote, we did not provide any specific instruction or details regarding the hunter biden laptop story. we are waiting a formal statement in writing from the f.b.i. >> harris: kellyanne conway, former counselor to president trump and now the president of ka consulting is in "focus." bottom line this for me. how serious is this? >> this is incredibly serious. i think it's the most damping and destructive to our democracy

to coin a phrase, dump of the twitter files to date. why? the sixth installment did start to show us a little bit about the f.b.i.'s possible involvement with twitter. and then that succeeded the earlier twitter file expo says that showed people were being censored and shadow banned and treated unfairly. but to have our chief law enforcement officers up to 80 f.b.i. agents in one report routinely saying to twitter you have to look at this tweet, you have to look at that person's postings. while we're in an election season and while we're in the early stages of the biden administration formation, this is frightening to me as an american citizen to think this is going on under the guise of some official operation, when harris we know what it is plain and simple. they are sitting on the scales of free speech. they are sitting on the scales of justice. also, if you look at the story

lucas tomlinson is reporting, this all started on february 10th. jim baker who your viewers would recognize somebody involved in the russia collusion hoax he is now over at twitter. a former f.b.i. general counsel, three weeks into the biden administration he is busy making sure that the f.b.i. is working for twitter frankly and i don't buy this stuff that the $3 million plus -- i think it's the worse so far and if the republicans are going to investigate many things including the afghanistan withdrawal six months after the february 10th exchange, this has to be part of it. you are asking the pentagon -- you are asking twitter to help the pentagon with its military influence operations. what does adam schiff have to show for his intelligence committee chairmanship. he didn't know the taliban would take over in 11 days in

afghanistan, they never truly investigated the biden administration over the afghanistan withdrawal. that will happen. they were looking for collusion for over three years where this was happening under the guise of an operation that should frighten every american. >> harris: we knew the james baker situation. elon musk got rid of him. we knew about that. the february 10th date seems to be one that pops now because of so many other things that were going on, not the least of which the planning of what do we do about afghanistan? by the way, schiff must have been the only person on the planet who didn't see it coming that the taliban would fold in. they broadcast that themselves. everybody could see it coming. i don't know if that's genuine but you made some excellent points about how some of this needs to be looked at simultaneously. i tell you why i say it's dangerous what was going on. we had the election with lots of questions about whether the suppression of information not just about the hunter biden laptop, but about the business

dealings that were going on with foreign players with the son of a would be president. what would that look like? would that make this nation have to give in in some way its national security? a lot of questions around that. i want to get back to elon musk firing back at the house intel chair now adam schiff over these comments over the weekend. let's watch together. >> we should actually -- and other anti-competitive actions of big tech and i think we have a big problem right now with social media companies and their failure to moderate content and the explosion of hate on twitter. the banning of journalists on twitter. i don't think these companies should enjoy an immunity from liability when they behave this way. >> harris: twitter ceo responded with this. as outgoing chair of house intelligence, did you approve hidden state crensorship in

direct violation of the united states constitution adam schiff? your response. >> that's going to be investigated. it has to be at this point. adam schiff has a year's long history as the chairman. very little to show for that except a personal vendetta against donald trump. adam schiff was there for part of it. i would have preferred even there to have heard from the f.b.i. what did they know and when did they know it rather than a bunch of young people i worked with who were trump -- i think it will all be investigated because it is private company and what's baked into twitter we'll hear about that and buckle up, everybody. >> harris: a quick correction to make. merry christmas and thank you. we showed you the wrong jim baker in an image earlier in the segment. we apologize for that error. i did not see it or i would have

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