here with you, john. we're always thankful to be on fox and thankful to those at home. i'm glad we talk about jesus christ at christmas. do you have elves? >> john: we have an evil on the shelf, too. have a merry christmas. >> julie: molly lines in for harris. >> we begin with a fox weather alert. dangerous weather stretching from coast to coast. a bomb cyclone and arctic blast combo bringing deadly temperatures and putting hundreds of millions at risk this holiday weekend. this is "the faulkner focus." i'm molly line in for harris today. the national weather service is calling it a once in a generation storm. the potentially deadly front affecting nearly every single person in the united states,

blizzard-like snowfall blanketing the midwest. 200 million americans are under advisories. the bitter cold hitting ha. denver temperatures dropping almost 50 degrees in the span of just a single hour. it is so cold in some places that frostbite can happen in near minutes. the president spoke moments ago before a briefing from the national weather service and fema. >> president biden: i encourage everyone please heed the local warnings. take this storm extremely seriously. i don't know whether if you all have travel plans, leave now. >> that storm already putting a massive wrench into the holiday travel plans across the country. later we'll check in with one of

the busiest hubs in the country, chicago's o'hare airport. first adam clothes with what you need to know in the next few days. >> a couple parts of this system. the one we continue to look at is a very heavy snow moving across the plains states lifting into the upper midwest. if you live along the east coast you could be talking about a lot of rainfall. flooding as this part of the storm lifts its way up the coast. heavy rain in d.c. and boston. the back side of the system is where the cold air is and where we're seeing a lot of winter weather alerts. everything in orange is a blizzard warning. winds up to 60 miles-an-hour. not a ton of snow. 4 to 6 inches in some places. with the wind it will be a white-out. driving will be difficult. 100 million people or more under some sort of winter weather advisory.

a massive system that will impact a lot of people. the wind plus the temperature is where it gets brutal as this air settles in across the country. it will only stretch farther into friday and saturday. currently there are places in the northern plains where it feels like negative 45 degrees. earlier i saw negative 55 degrees. very cold. this is only going the spread out and more folks will be dealing with temperatures. cold temperatures from texas border to the canadian border stretching toward the east coast. millions of folks will deal with strong winds. the future forecast and show you the feel-like temperatures. as we run through tonight and early tomorrow morning is where you see the deepest, widest area where the cold air settled in. tomorrow morning north texas plenty of folks will be negative 5 and 10 degrees. st. louis negative 25 and negative 33 in chicago. unbelievably cold air settles.

still on friday not too cold if you live on the east coast but i will leave you finally with the temperature drop there because you are not going to avoid it entirely. saturday. if you live in the east coast it gets really cold saturday morning for us, too. molly, it will be hard to avoid the massive winter system. >> merry but cold christmas for a lot of folks. get ready for it. adam, very important information. thanks for staying on top of it for us. now to the scene at our southern border. dire conditions as freezing temperatures set in. title 42 still in limbo. we're waiting for the supreme court to decide if the pandemic-era border policy can stay or has to end. it allowed the rapid expulsion of 2 1/2 million illegal immigrants since march of 2020. if it is lifted, border towns that are already overwhelmed will be crushed with more than double the number of illegal

immigrants crossing into the u.s. each day. unbelievable images coming in by the hour showing just how bad it is. the question is where is president biden and what exactly is going to happen, what will he be doing about it? republicans with some strong opinions. >> the law is the same, the difference is this administration is not enforcing the law. >> the biden administration comes up with a plan. let's make every town a border town. let's make every state a border state. and let's take those that are illegally entering and let's shift them to other communities. >> it is becoming harder and harder not to conclude that the border crisis is intentional. i mean, nobody is this incompetent, right? >> bill melugin is live at the

border. he is in eagle pass, texas today. bill, to you. >> good morning to you. temperatures expected to absolutely plummet here at the border across the board over the next few days. still migrants are showing up in massive numbers every single day, case in point we'll start you off in eagle pass this morning. look at the thunderstorm -- thermal drone. we continue to see this every single morning largely cubans, columbians and nicaraguans. those are released after they're done being processed. we'll show you what happened yesterday in maverick county. look at these wild images. texas dps and border patrol arrested a group of illegal immigrants from honduras hitching a ride on a train hiding themselves amongst cases of corona beer. one of the migrants had a small little child with them. we've seen migrants do this before. hitch rides on the trains in an

effort to get deeper into the united states. it wasn't all. look at these images. another train texas dps found illegal immigrants hiding inside brand-new vehicles left unlocked and those vehicles are headed to car dealerships in the san antonio area. we've seen where migrants will get on the trains and sit in the cars and hitch a ride to san antonio. take you to el paso. look at these wild images. illegal immigrant runners looking to evade. they run across the main interstate i-ten and disappear off into residential neighborhoods. no border patrol around anywhere making these people likely got aways. now to arizona. more fentanyl busts. look at these images. cbp stopped a train that was coming in from mexico. they open up a secret compartment and find 736,000 fentanyl pills and 196 pounds of

meth hidden inside of a rail car. that happened yesterday. then the day before that lastly take a look at these images. same location, arizona, cbp officers stopping smuggler vehicles and seizing over 300,000 fentanyl pills hidden underneath the car seat as well as hidden in the car's gas tank. the single port of entry over the last two days more than 1 million fentanyl pills seized in arizona. back live it ties into what the cdc announced, announcing in 2021, there were almost 107,000 overdose deaths in the united states largely driven by fentanyl. those numbers up 16% over 2020. we'll send it back to you. >> bill melugin showing us the ramifications tying things all together for us. we appreciate your reporting especially this cold weather we'll see in the coming days. brandon judd joins us now, the national border patrol council

president. a big job you have working with people that have an absolutely enormous and stressful job. we've been talking a lot about title 42 and we're waiting for it to shake out. but the numbers of migrants are already swelling on the other side of the border. this anticipation. i just want to get a sense here we are a few days from christmas and your people are under enormous strain. your thoughts on just these next couple days ahead. >> it's very disappointing to every single one of us as we go out and try to patrol the border and protect the nation. we don't feel like we have the support of this administration. all their policies are encouraging everything we're seeing. all of this catastrophe we're seeing is strictly based upon the policies. if it wasn't for these policies these people wouldn't be lining up in el paso now risking their lives due to all of this weather that we're seeing right now. again, this administration does not care about life. it doesn't care about the law.

it is showing it. the facts. not the rhetoric, not what you hear from the white house press trick. this administration doesn't care about human life. >> bill melugin showed us disturbing pictures of the nogales point of entry and the drugs seized there. 50 million pills were confiscated this year and 10,000 pounds of powder. they estimate it represents nearly 380 million potentially deadly doses of the drug. enough to kill every american. another grim stat, the cdc released the final tally for 2021 showing 107,000 americans died of drug overdoses last year. that number up 16% from 2020. your thoughts on how this all ties together. >> what is scary about that, it starts with illegal immigration. when you look at the explosion in illegal immigration that's

when all the fentanyl started to hit our streets. when you go back to 2020 when we had the proper policies in place, we had the lowest number of opioids on our streets in my time in law enforcement. but now as illegal immigration has been on the rise, that is when all of the drugs also come in. the cartels are very adept at what they do. all they have to do is flood our resources with illegal border crossers, take border patrol agents out of the field and creates gaps in coverage. when they create the gaps they are able to get drugs into the united states. again, a scary situation for the american people and we have to ask where is this administration? why aren't they doing what is necessary to protect the rights of u.s. citizens? not just adults dying, it is our children dying and yet we don't see anything from president biden. >> americans are starting to get fed up with the border crisis. an issue we know americans care

about. the biden voter from south texas says this could be his last straw before saying you know goodbye to voting democrat. >> it should be. it should be. when you look again it is not just about border security, this is about the safety and security of the american people. if we don't have that, why would you vote for president biden? >> one of the things we are looking at here as we are watching it unfold and congress is talking about title 42 and what they will ultimately decide, there are people on both sides of the aisle that would like to see this extended. there is some sort of work done twitched ending the crisis. do you think as we round into a new year that something specific can be done to address this. republicans feel the strategy has been an intentional one. >> i just don't see any solution right now. i don't see there is a political will that exists to have

democrats and republicans come together. when you look at this, it is constantly democrats that are saying that they are not going to do what's necessary to give us the measures to put the proper policies in place to stop this. again, we have to look at is this about the safety and security of the american people or is this about politics? is this about the safety and security of the immigrants that are actually dying when they enter the deserts of arizona or cross the river into texas? again, it clearly shows that they do not care about life. it clearly shows she don't care about the american people. >> merry christmas to you and all of our border patrol agents and also wishing you a very happy new year. i'm optimistic. i hope for border patrol agents that 2023 is a better year. thank you for joining us today. we appreciate it. too many gaffes to count. a look back at the president's fibs and some of the tall tales over the past years and even

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>> we're going to get brian kilmeade's take on the big story of the day. the f.b.i. finally responding following this latest batch of twitter files writing them off as the work of con spur tee theorists. the bureau insists its actions were not out of the ordinary and reimbursed twitter for standard requests. 3 1/2 million spent was used to suppress information by some. the f.b.i. says it did not provide twitter, quote, any specific instruction or details regarding the hunter biden laptop story. now some quick to the point wiggle room in the statement. it was not a blanket denial of conversations with twitter about hunter. the f.b.i. says it is unfortunate that conspiracy theorists and others are feeding the american public

misinformation for the sole purpose of trying to discredit the agency. kellyanne conway says americans should be worried. >> 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, this is frightening to me as an american citizen to think this is going on under the guise of some official operation. they are sitting on the scales of free speech. they are sitting on the scales of justice. >> we have brian kilmeade co-host of "fox & friends" and host of one nation the brian kilmeade coming to us from his radio studio. thank you for joining me, merry christmas. excited to get a chance to chat with you about this. you work all day long. >> we're sharing network and audiences, great to see you in new york. i was waiting for the f.b.i.

pushback. i thought it would be more professional and like one would think somewhat limited but it is an aggressive pushback and naming people that have a problem with their action as con spur tee theorists is like something i would see on msnbc and cnn with every host. what are they so worried about? i was shocked. i didn't know it was the actual f.b.i. from what you just said on the intro , this is how it is counteracted. not only did i think the f.b.i. was every its skis was you stunned they were doing it. matt taibbi feels the same way. michael shell burger and yoel roth. was he the one who said if he didn't feel if the f.b.i. was breathing down his neck and getting his antenna up for hunter biden. listen the what he said under

oath. they learned there was a hack and leak operation involving hunter biden. excuse me, that's yoel roth, the vice president of twitter. meanwhile they are saying the f.b.i. is saying we're gas lighting with conspiracy their i haves who was directly interacting with the f.b.i. they said he was -- he understood the hunter biden thing was coming down the line and chan feels like he has been unjustly called out. elvis chan, i have news for you, roth says that you guys brought up the hunter biden laptop so when it came out they were ready for something that looked exactly like you were war gaming with them in the tabletop exercises at the aspen institute with "the new york times," "washington post" and other outlets. something else into play. not only is the hunter biden laptop a player in twitter, mark zuckerberg told the same thing

to joe rogan, we were told by the f.b.i. that something exactly like this was coming down the line. so don't -- if the f.b.i. is mad at us it has been exposed, that's it. >> fair questions about free speech on these platforms that americans are participating in. you don't need to act like people are nuts because they are asking the questions. something else i wanted the talk to you about. keit keith -- he said to fight back against republicans. take a listen. >> i wish the democrats would play that game to 10% of the levels that the republicans do. until the democrats stop rolling over for this and saying we won't dirty our hands. when they go low, we get baseball bats. that should be the next, you know, big let's get obama out there saying when they go low, we get baseball bats. i think that would solve this

completely. >> i don't know who his following is, i hope no one goes out and grabs baseball bats. >> maxine waters would be proud. follow them and that was happening with sarah huckabee sanders and all the other players during the trump era wherever they went. what will be happening now is people are going to come out of the woodwork and feel like they have to go to marginalize the republican majority in the house. they will be big players once they speak mccarthy as speaker. i hope they do. i have to warn you about pretending that keith is relevant. the only thing consistent is the word former with him. everywhere he gets hired he is fired. former espn and former msnbc. he tweets things that are totally inappropriate. i just warn you against making him relevant. but i do think if the five

people that follow him, if they will grab bats he should be personally responsible. >> why watch him when you can watch brian kilmeade now today and into the evening. thank you for joining us. >> go get them. thank you for having me. >> out rage as mask mandates are making a comeback in some schools. >> they are literally trying to kill a generation of kids figuratively kill them. they aren't learning or advancing. >> when and where students will be forced to cover up again. what the cdc said that caused it to happen this time and why some are calling it plain cruel. jason rantz is in "focus" next. ♪

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>> it was easy getting off the flight. people pushing to get off. people are trying to get to connecting flights. >> i'm one of the last flights out. hopefully we'll be good. great for a white christmas, not good for travel. >> molly: millions of americans are facing a holiday travel nightmare. very cold temperatures are hitting nearly every state affecting hundreds of millions of people. the national weather service is calling it a once in a generation winter storm. now major airlines and travelers are in a world of hurt already. hundreds of flights from coast to coast canceled or delayed ahead of the chaos that is still yet to come. mike tobin is live in chicago with the latest on this as it is just beginning to unfold. mike, to you. >> at least here at o'hare the

pile-up hasn't coming. airlines were able to email customers ahead of time letting them know their flights are canceled. despite the fact if you look at just the domestic cancellations you have more than 1600 flights canceled thus far. running down the major air carriers, american airlines 89 flights canceled. delta 113, southwest has taken it hard, 692 flights canceled thus far. united is looking at 112. as far as the people making it through the airport, these are the people hoping to slit under the wire or already out and have to get home one way or another. >> over the next couple of days we'll be checking out the weather and seeing what's happening at the airports and also it is the holidays. even being delayed let's say a day or so is a big deal if you are supposed to get home on the

22nd. fingers crossed the weather doesn't impact everyone as much as it might depending on what happens over the next 48 hours. >> stand in this line and that line. we're standing in the line and missed our flight to begin with. >> coming earlier. i got delayed to orlando an hour later than it should be but it is okay. anything after that i get a little excited but i'm okay with an hour. >> flight aware.com has a misery map. if you look at the map the red where we look at the domestic flight cancellations. 1600 flights have been canceled. the one thing it tells us is denver, minneapolis, st. paul are getting it the worst so far. here in chicago the weather hasn't turned that bad. it is not too cold and even when the bad weather comes in we'll start to get flurries in the next hour according to the forecast. even when the weather turns when you talk about 2 to 4 inches or

5 to 7 inches in chicago it's something the crews can handle. the complicating factor will be the bitter cold and the wind when it comes through. i can tell you one thing looking at the barometer it fell 14 mill bars overnight. one thing when the barometer goes down bad weather is on the way. >> molly: i know how you know how to handle the cold weather. the temperatures take a dive today. it will be in the single digits by 6:00 tonight out there. it will be frosty. thank you so much for keeping on top of travel for us. mandatory masks making a come back. critics are outraged. a school in new jersey saying they are ordering face coverings for employees, students and visitors. the district citing cdc numbers reporting high community levels of covid in ten of the states -- counties there. the move sparking a lot of backlash. one critic with two weeks to

slow the spread has turned into 2.75 years to flatten a generation. another writing this is anti-science, anti-child, and just plain cruel. fox nation's david webb, kids can't take anymore. >> think about what it means to develop in school and think about what it means to really learn to adjust to others, social development. what they've done in new jersey is taken 2 1/2 weeks to slow the spread into almost three years to slow down a generation of kids. they are not learning. they are not advancing. >> molly: more new jersey camden city schools and philadelphia city schools bringing mandates back into effect in january. new york city and state now recommending masks indoors. jason rantz joining me now to talk about this. your thoughts as we head into the holiday season and looking at potential masks coming back

in january. >> it is ludicrous, not based in science and not going to work. it seems odd to me that no one seems to step back and say maybe the fact that for 2 1/2 years some folks kept that mask on, kept people inside not having any relationship with the outside world might actually be bad for them not just emotionally but to their immune system. it is the flu season. guess what? the flu happens during the flu season. covid isn't going to go anywhere. we have to be smarter with how we approach these things moving forward. throwing into this fear mongering it is a tripledemic and mask up. it makes it worse. you are not introducing anything into your immune system the way we used to. when it comes to kids in particular, we know the risks of being in a mask and getting sort of away from the relationships they used to have and being able

to see the person you're talking to is way worse than what covid will do to the average kid. no one seems to have learned anything over the course of the last 2 1/2 years. >> molly: interesting to see some school districts doing this others not. recent polls show a majority of americans even democrats are looking ahead to 2024 and don't want president biden the run again. look at this poll. among democrats, this is independents as well. 78% want someone other than biden. many express concerns about his age and mental fitness and we've seen a lot of gaffes and cringey moments throughout his presidency. the "new york post" is out with a quote. how well do you know the falsehoods of our fibber in chief. his claim he was arrested trying to see nelson mandela and sneaking into an all-girls door

and being a big rig driver. politically raised by puerto ricans. the president saying delaware has most chickens of any state but no turkeys. >> where do you start with that? it is interesting as we go over the last couple of years. this year in particular. there were gaffes and lies, there were political stories he tells because he thinks it comes off as folksy and give him a little pass but it plays into this idea he is just really old and doesn't have a grasp of what is going on. then you have the political lies. i think that sometimes they get written off as gaffes, including some of the articles that i've read over the course of the last week going over this year. when you tell us the border is secure. that's a flat out lie, gas lighting. there is political intent behind that. for me, though, trying to

reflect on all the gaffes, where the where is jackie moment was so disturbing on so many levels and frankly sad. for a lot of people that was the moment on the left where they said maybe it's time to move on. >> molly: remember how virulent the fact checkers were a few years ago? >> where are they now? >> molly: biden welcomed zelensky to the white house yet. you have this interaction with president zelensky in the oval office yesterday. >> president biden: by the way, we have a famous thing that occurs once a year. we take the man of the year in "time" magazine. we have a man of the year in the united states of america. >> molly: i believe he tried to pay a compliment but your thoughts on that back and forth? >> it seems every time he is in a position like this, he screws

it up or he gives reason for people to doubt his fitness. where it gives reason for people to wonder whether or not he is actually leading this country or if there are people behind him making these decisions and putting him out there to do some of the frivolous back and forth. it is again sad. at some point you have to step back and say this is a human being who clearly is not fit for office and it just seems cruel to keep him in these positions. >> molly: voters will think about that a lot in the new year. election season will kick off before we know it. thank you for joining us. i love your tie, merry christmas. the senate is on the floor right now working to pass this absolutely massive spending bill, nearly $2 trillion. republicans with a big beef over what they say is loads and loads of pork packed in there. we'll put it all on the table for you. ♪

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>> molly: democrats are pushing for one last massive spending

spree before year's end and will probably get it. some republicans taking issue with many of the goodies thrown in there. mike lee is threatening to hold up the bill to keep title 42 in place. >> this 4,000 page bill does nothing to protect the border. it contains language undermining border security. it would bring us to utter chaos if it expires, which is it about to. i want an up or down vote. chuck schumer and the democrats are terrified of an up or down vote. why? they want pandemonium and chaos on the border. >> molly: hillary vaughn is following this on capitol hill. >> the rush to avoid a government shutdown and get congress home before christmas means a lot of stuff has been stuffed into this spending package. the return of so-called earmarks where lawmakers request your

taxpayer dollars to fund pet projects in their districts are back in a big way. over 7,000 special spending projects in this spending bill adding up to a whopping $15 billion. spending taxpayer cash for things like 65 million for restoration of the pacific salmon populations, 3 billion for be friendly highways, 3.6 million for a michelle obama hiking trail. 3 million for the lgbtq plus muse emotion in new york city. equity training for teachers and at 3,000 per year for the continuous plankton recorder. >> we'll justify having all this money in the discretionary side. all the equity inclusion, equity appears 14 times in this bill. democrat priorities seem to make

it in. 98% of all democrat earmarks, over 3,000 of them have made it into this final package. why are we paying for pet projects when we have real problems in our country? >> there are some republicans who have cashed in on the return of pork. senator john thune and elise stefanik among the gop who secured funding for their community projects but democrats are defending this spending. >> they don't concern me. as an appropriateor i think that senators and members of the house are often able to better identify the specific needs of their home states than beer congratulations in washington. a very small percentage of the overall bill. >> the senate is expected to vote on this spending package this afternoon. the house has to approve it to officially avoid a shutdown before christmas. >> molly: we'll see if everybody gets to the planes and head home to their families. thank you for bringing us the

latest. a new op-ed not holding back calling the proposed bill the ugliest omnibus ever. we have a panel here. thank you so much. merry christmas to both of you. we appreciate you giving us a little of your time right before christmas. i feel when we talk about pork, congressmen and women like the pork when it is their pork and get to take it home and show it off to their home areas but what do you think about just how massive this is, mark, start with you. >> this entire bill is a d.c. swamp mess. 4100 pages long. four times the length of the king james bible. when you look at all the spending priorities, the thing they aren't spending money are is securing the border. it prohibits them from securing the border and provides over $4 hundred million for middle east

country to protect their borders. if are you a conservative or america first should reject it. is a horrible mess. >> molly: the size of this. spending is often about priorities. your thoughts. >> it's a big bill. a great bill in the sense that half of this bill goes to support ukraine in its war against russia. it does have 1.8 billion in it not necessarily to secure the border but to make the processing at the border more effective and more efficient. listen, the democrats and republicans negotiated this on the senate appropriations side. it is not a democratic bill, it's a democratic and republican bill that both sides have to live with and i think it will pass later today. >> molly: rand paul tweeted a picture standing behind this 4,000 page bill stating i wonder how long it would take the clerk to read this? one of the posters in front reading 1.7 trillion of

hazardous debt and also posted this. >> senators were nestled all snug in their beds while visions of pork danced in their heads. mischief and debt while the taxpayers wept. >> molly: sounds familiar to a lot of folks. give credit where credit is due. sounded like 'twas the night before christmas. >> he is making light of a serious situation. you do have to wonder how republicans can stomach this. it is just so bad. i know that democrats like to point to things like ukraine but let's think about this for a minute. when this passes today the u.s. will spend over $1 hundred billion on ukraine. that is nearly double what the entire world combined has contributed to ukraine. time for our allies and friends to start stepping up and doing more to protect people in their own backyard than just relying on the u.s. welfare bank, which

is what we've become. >> molly: i feel like he shifted topics. i don't feel like ukraine and pork are in the same pocket. particularly when we come to the amount of money. but your thoughts as we are looking into january here when we start to reflect on some of this pork after the vote has already happened. >> it certainly a big bill. i think rand paul and my colleague make some good points here. we need to take another look at what our appropriations are, how much we appropriate to foreign governments. i know ukraine's issues and we want to support them. it is an important issue. we have a lot of internal issues here in the u.s. for people of color, people who are poor and disenfranchised and poverty itself. i hope both sides take a deeper and closer look at that because i think my colleagues on the other side are correct to some extent. both sides need to do a better

job at it. >> molly: a quick other topic. florida democrats crossing the aisle. a new report calling them desantis democrats. it is based on inflation, covid lockdowns. your thoughts on potential democrats supporting this possible candidate for the presidency, mark and scott quickly. mark, you first. >> a great example. they aren't leaving the democrat party. the democrat party is leaving them. florida is a blueprint. if you focus on inflation, education, making sure parents have the right to raise their children you win. that's what is being proven in florida. >> molly: scott, to you? >> it's unique to florida. i think the rest of the country is a different lock step. trumpism is their philosophy they won't do well in the presidential election or anywhere else in the country. >> molly: thank you, both for joining us, merry christmas and happy holidays. thank you for taking time for

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