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a be friendly highway? >> jacqui: i'm still waiting to find out, but if it does not pass government shuts down tomorrow. i'm jacqui heinrich in for sandra smith. a lot stuffed into the 4,000 page spending bill. what's good and what's bad about it. released early on tuesday morning and trying to do the math, we'll do it for you. a lot of reasons to speed through that reading in the next couple of days. >> john: good luck. you have it behind you on the desk. won't stop reading it. some lawmakers say it's irresponsible, especially given the eye popping national debt now, and more than $31 trillion. >> jacqui: hillary vaughn is tracking the extras, but first fox news alert at the southern border crisis. >> john: the state of arizona will take down the makeshift

border wall out of shipping containers after a court battle with the federal government. >> jacqui: the state had stacked dozens of steel containers and topped them with four feet of razor wire along the mexico border. the government says washington's failures forced the state to build its own wall in the first place. >> john: this comes as title 42 remains in limbo and businesses and communities are preparing for an influx of people that will strain every aspect of life. >> business doesn't work in a vacuum, everybody is impacted. educational system, the medical system, certainly business, and even, you know, judicial system. everybody gets impacted. >> john: brand-new polling shows most americans have no clue just how bad things along the border have gotten. talk to former clinton adviser and pollster mark penn about some stunning new stricts. >> jacqui: 1st gradey is in

bisbee, arizona, what are you hearing out there? 20 minutes north of the border. >> one of the main human and drug smuggling corridors in this area. we have seen people arrested for both on this highway in just the few days that we have been here. the owner of this auto repair shop tells me that high speed chases have ended right here on his lot. he's also had migrants vandalizing and damaging his property, and he's even caught some of them sleeping in customers' cars. >> i'm a little fearful what's going to happen at nighttime when we go to bed, wake up in the morning, what are we going to find? law enforcement is overtaxed. they are spending so much time trying to keep the corridors safe, keeping the highways safe. >> and law enforcement officials tell us the large groups of migrants in yuma, arizona and el paso, texas tie up border patrol there, allowing the cartel to

smuggle across the border in these areas. >> they put the people and take the resources of border patrol to process these hundreds of people that are encountered at the border and filing mostly bogus asylum claims and then they use another place along the border to bring in the illicit drugs. >> one other update in the grand canyon state, the biden administration has blocked the governor's attempt to stop migrants and drugs across the border. ducey will stop making the makeshift wall and remove all existing containers on federal forest land. biden administration had sued the state of arizona claiming the state was trespassing on federal property and harming the environment. jacqui. >> jacqui: thanks so much. john. >> john: jacqui, now to the brand-new polling we mentioned.

listen to this because this is really quite extraordinary. a whopping 87% of americans underestimate the number of illegal migrants who are crossing the border according to the latest harvard harris polling. and folks are not missing it by just a few thousand here and there, they are underestimating the number of crossings by millions. so, why are americans in the dark about what is happening at the southern border? mark penn, former clinton adviser, fox news contributor and the pollster behind the numbers. mark, i found this extraordinary. when asked how many people you believe cross the border every year, 55% of respondents said less than 500,000. only 6% correctly answered that question, between 2 and 3 million. it was 2.4 million in 2022. why are people in the dark? a factor the mainstream media ignoring the story? >> well, i think it is likely a factor of the media that on

certain channels you get a pretty good dose of what's happening on the border and others you hear that everything is fine and of course, the administration has said for a while that the border is closed even though in this polling 55% of the people say the border is open. so 81% believe it's a serious problem, but they have no idea how serious it is because they vastly underestimate the number of migrants that are crossing the border. you know, many, a third of the country underestimates it by a factor of ten, and so when we tell them, wow, almost everyone really thinks title 42 should be continued. >> john: when you tell people what the actual numbers are, attitudes whether the policies should be changed changes dramatically. here is what you found. given the correct data, 67% of respondents said oh, change the policy, 33% said oh, no, leave

it the way it is. does -- clearly the white house does not want to change policy, so it probably does not want to see these numbers. >> well, i think that's right, and i think also shows that when the media doesn't really explain problems to people and when people don't get the basic facts, how are they going to make the right kind of policy decisions or what they think is right for the country. look, 79% think title 42 should be continued. you've got 68% who believe migrants should be turned back to mexico. and so you wonder why congress is not immediately stepping in here, you know, to pass something, given the striking nature of these numbers and the growing number of this issue. >> john: let me bring that up, and that's the last call for in the segment. whether or not people should stay in this country or whether they should be turned back to mexico, you just mentioned, here are the numbers. should people who cross the border with mexico illegally be

turned back to mexico, 68%, 32% released with the u.s. court date. i remember the remain in mexico policy when it was implemented by the trump administration. it was cruel, it was horrible, it was not what the american people thought should happen. clearly it is. >> well, i've also seen the polling numbers have changed. when biden originally took office, and i ask well, is biden implementing a more humane policy or just an open border, most people said it was a more humane policy. they say it's just an open border. so really public attitudes have changed and if more people got the facts of what is actually happening, i can assure you public policy -- public attitudes would change even farther and more dramatically, raiseses the issue of why isn't congress acting. >> john: seems like a lot of

democrats are getting it, independents are getting it, mark, have a great holiday. >> happy holiday to you. >> john: that's just extraordinary, isn't it? >> jacqui: it is. people think the biden administration has a more humane policy, but what is the policy? >> john: just to let everybody in. >> jacqui: they are dropping trump administration policies but don't have a plan evidenced by, that's not just a talking point, evidenced by dhs admitting that they don't have a plan right now, and the department of justice asking for more time to put one in place after title 42 goes away. >> john: as a person in the briefing room most days and karine jean-pierre comes out and says yes, we have a plan. >> we asked for it every single day for over a week and admitted to us that they didn't have it, and you know, keep us in the loop when they had more, the

next thing that dropped was the biden administration's response to this supreme court hold saying look, we actually need some more time and they blamed the stay for why they don't have the plan, said the stay, temporary hold unwound some of the multi-agency efforts that were underway. >> john: do we have any idea what they have been doing the last six months, nothing title 42 is coming off? >> all they are saying, going back to title 8, but also fighting remain in mexico. so you know -- we are waiting the details still. >> john: we'll count on you to bring them. >> jacqui: i will do my best. now the massive winter weather storm, blasting tens of millions of americans, called a once in a generation event. we do often hear that, but already it's dumping snow and the big concern is dangerously cold temperatures and wind chills, of course, causing travel headaches. more than 3,000 flights have been canceled, according to flight aware, over 12,000 delays since just yesterday.

team coverage, ian oliver has the forecast in just moments but first to senior correspondent mike tobin at chicago's o'hare international airport. mike, is it a mess over there? >> you know, it's not as bad as you would think, jacqui, in fact terminal 3 here at o'hare is pretty empty, a couple of factors playing into that. one, the bad weather, what is forecast, has not hit here as hard as it is supposed to hit chicago. and the other is the airlines seem to have done an effective job to let them know the flights have been canceled, and they are not piling up here at the airport. it does not mean flights are not canceled. look at the major carriers, american airlines thus far, 102 flights canceled. delta, 122. southwest airlines is getting a particularly hard 729, united airlines looking at 126 cancellations. then, if you look at just the domestic flights that were canceled today, almost 2,000.

1,914. the travelers that we see coming through the airport, a lot of them are people who are away at work or some other reason, away from home, and they are just trying to make it back for the holidays. >> they canceled the flight, changed the gate, and then canceled the flight, go here and rebook or refine, a hassle, and i had to pay for my carry-on and luggage. >> kind of dealing with the change, so if we can't get flights we are just going to stay home. >> we thought everything was good to go, boarded the plane, got on the plane and 30 seconds later told the flight was canceled. >> flight aware puts out what they call the misery map. the misery is the red there, delays and cancellations. looks like denver has the worst of it thus far and with dallas fort worth and the twin cities behind them.

chicago is supposed to get hit hard, and the snow has been coming down for two hours now here in chicago, but it's a light snow and it's not sticking because at this point the ground is still warm. we are just at the point where the forecasters said the bad front is going to start coming through with the super cold temperatures so that's going to change. we are going to see the ground freeze up. the snow really will not pile up that deep. the plows should be able to handle it. the complicating factors are the super cold temperatures and the wind gusts, up to 50 miles per hour to drive the snow and make the visibility terrible according to the forecast. jacqui. >> jacqui: let's hope people are at their destination or can get there quickly, the misery map looked pretty miserable. thanks, mike. >> john: expert opinion here, the storm bringing life-threatening temperatures across most of the country, much of the country, rather, with more than 200 million americans under a critical weather alert.

ian oliver is tracking the storm. is it stronger moving east? >> it's expected to intensify over the great lakes, interesting, you said where is the front for chicago, there it is. this is the 24-hour temperature change, and it shows you the coming attractions here. that's the arctic air taking over. denver right now, 61° colder right now as compared to this time yesterday. so, that is the work of this arctic cold front associated with the sprawling storm system. the actual area of low pressure, that's going to be moving into the great lakes, getting a lot stronger as it does so, and the wind gusts crank up. that's very problematic. look at this, we could see at least locally some wind gusts, up to about 70 miles per hour, which will lead to power outages and of course, makes it feel a whole lot colder. we have the wind chill alerts from the canadian border all the way down to the northern gulf coast. more than 100 million americans impacted by this. look at where we stand first

thing tomorrow morning, some of these feels temperatures or wind chills. little rock, 5 below. chicago, it will feel like it's 33° below 0 tomorrow morning. wind gusts lead to power outages, may be widespread, we also have coastal flood concerns with an on shore component to this, a bit of a storm surge develops with the gusts pushing the atlantic waters into places like northern jersey, long island, connecticut. coastal flood warnings up. it may be a top ten flood event for some of these areas. if you have had trouble in the past the high tide cycle tomorrow morning is one to watch closely. >> john: ian, thank you for the update. not so much looking forward to what's coming our way in the next few days, but glad we have you on the case. download the app for free at foxweather.com.

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>> john: breaking news from capitol hill, the senate has passed the giant 1.7 trillion omnibus bill, and now to the house for approval, but, it may not get to the president's desk before funding runs out tomorrow night. so the senate is also fast tracking a continuing resolution which would cover the time period between now and the 30th and keep the government running. there was so much concern about the gigantic spending bill and now pass a cr to cover the gap? some people might ask why they didn't just have the c.r. and debate the new one when the new congress takes over. >> your money is not charity, it's an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way. >> john: yep, president

zelenskyy making the case it goes beyond the country's fight, protection against actors like putin. additional $45 billion in funding for ukraine. fox team covering now, jack keane is standing by by aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill. did zelenskyy convince his critics? >> well, we'll wait san see. but i can tell you first and foremost it's very important to note here the vast majority of democrats and republicans bipartisan do support more funding for ukraine, more ukraine aid, which is actually now being passed in that big omnibus, about $45 billion happening right now on capitol hill. but you are right, voices on the right are growing when it comes to calling for more oversight into the spending that is going to ukraine, in fact, some republican senators, including

senator josh hawley did not even bother to attend zelenskyy's speech as democrats brush that off. >> i didn't go to the speech, i didn't want to be part of a photo op asking for more money when they have not given accounting on anything they spent. >> good for him. >> nearly one year into the war, the u.s. is by far the biggest contributor, approving 60 billion so far and another 45 billion right now. gop leader kevin mccarthy will have a very slim majority if he becomes speaker next year, he recently said republicans will not be writing any more blank checks. >> are you concerned about not having their support, the republican senators? >> no, i'm worried about putting us deeper in debt and worried about the american public. they always come first. >> staunch supporters of ukraine say transparency is fine but we

have to continue to help ukraine first. >> transparency, where is our money going, all that makes sense. but what doesn't make sense is to assume that pulling support for ukraine will make america a more secure, prosperous nation. that's folly, that's silly. >> michael mccaul actually told me they may start to condition any future ukraine aid on nato stepping up more and pitching in. john. >> john: and we were hoping to have him on today but apparently some weather issues and could not join us. >> everybody does. >> jacqui: retired four star general jack keane, also fox news senior strategic analyst and chairman at the institute for the study of war. general, ask you, picking up where john left off.

talking about funding and how much the u.s. has provided compared to some other nations, we are above and beyond, you know, providing to ukraine what our allies are doing, and the question is, you know, is it possible to get them to do more and in the interim, can you do something like condition aid or would that be a risky condition to make? >> well, first of all, i don't think we are actually beyond. if you look at the giving as a function of gdp, which is the amount of funds that are really available in a country, we have eight countries that give more than we do as a percentage of gdp. latvia, poland, lithuania, czech republic and canada is above us, and most of those countries border russia. they see the threat, understand

it and are willing to make significant szacarias sack -- s. european institutions have given $30 billion, none of it military aid but also financial and humanitarian, we have given 48. so i think there is a general misrepresentation going on here in terms of what actually is taking place. all that said, should there be an accounting for this money, you bet. there are three ige's, inspector generals, government police in the sense that track money, that are tracking this, and there's a government accounting office, the investigation arm of the congress is tracking it, and if we need more help there then we should get it. but the feedback, the institute for the study of war gets every single day from ukrainian military and the people themselves is that the equipment that we are providing and getting in the hands of those

soldiers. if it wasn't, we would hear from them, they would be hollering at us as they were in the beginning when distribution wasn't what it should be. >> jacqui: i want to get to your second point there, zelenskyy made another plea before congress for continuing aid, we got some details on the kinds of systems they are looking for and they want longer range weapons. these are assurances that zelenskyy is willing to make, will not shoot them into russia, might seem like a big concession, but also the issue of what russia considers what russia versus what the rest of the world considers to be russia, crimea, is that part of russia, ukraine would say no, russia would say yes. so, you know, for these longer range weapons, is it a risk worth taking to send, you know, weapons that zelenskyy says could end this war. if you don't, are you just signing up for something that's

very problem -- protracted, you didn't get the votes for it. >> when you look at the war and what the options are, what we think, frankly, the fastest way to end this war is defeat already cobbled russian military inside ukraine. to do that, give zelenskyy the weapons he needs as quickly as we can. so we can end this, end the killing, end the suffering, at least reduce the suffering. if we don't would that, putin is counting on the fact that they will lose support, and break the will of the ukrainians, and keep troops indefinitely and rearm and regroup, you've got to drive him out of the country, and for some people that's a tough pill to swallow, i got it.

but let's look at it realistically and clear-eyed what is really happening here. this thought that putin would go, does not want a ceasefire is nonsense. my sources tell me putin would take a ceasefire today and why is that? because zelenskyy's counter offense stops, putin rearms, repositioned as he did before, that's his way of war. he welcomes anything like that that's going to stop zelenskyy. >> and zelenskyy, he talks about the ten-point peace plan, says victory is the goal, because you cannot trust putin. that's his goal. general jack keane, thank you for your expertise. always a pleasure talking to you. >> merry christmas, happy hanukkah, take care. >> john: and breaking news, the federal courthouse in downtown manhattan as cryptocurrency, i

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course, they don't have any in stock and down here we would see cold medicine, cough supressants, and thin on the supply. the pharmacy tells me -- >> this is the tip of the iceberg that, we seem to kick the problem down the row and we are down the row at the end of the row now. we need to do something to protect our future, the children's future. >> the biden administration has blamed surging demand for medications, cases of the flu spiked during the first week of december according to the cdc and roughly 150,000 people have been hospitalized with the flu this season. now the administration is releasing prescription flu medication from the strategic national stockpile. states can request the flu

medicine, but the administration is not saying how many doses will be made available, and the pharmacist here, jacqui, he questions how helpful this release will be, saying it's not going to offer any quick or sustained help to the supply. now, meanwhile the makers of tamiflu, they tell us that they have the supply to meet the demand, but that comes as senator chuck schumer is calling on the fda to consider importing medications to meet the country's needs. so as the back and forth plays out, jacqui, it does seem like parents for the holiday season are left in the lurch trying to find medications they need, particularly for their children right now. jacqui. >> jacqui: just as everyone is getting together for the holidays, terrible. lydia, thank you for the report. appreciate it. john. >> john: back to capitol hill now, the senate just passing that $1.7 trillion omnibus spending package, some lawmakers sounding the alarm over all the so-called pork stuffed inside of it. hillary vaughn is live on

capitol hill with a look at what's buried deep in the text. hillary. >> hi, john. this rush to get congress home before christmas means a lot of pork is in the spending package, they don't like but they will vote anyway because they don't want the shut down. earmarks, the taxpayer dollars for pet projects in tdistricts are back in a big way. 7,000 in the bill, adding up to $15 billion total, like things like $65 million for the restoration of pacific salmon populations, 3 million for bee friendly highways, 3.6 million for michelle obama hiking trail, 3 million for lgbtq+ museum in new york city, 200 million for gender equity action fund, and

300,000 a year for the continuous plankton recorder. >> all the democrat priorities seem to make it in. 98% of all democrat earmarks, over 3,000 of them have made it into the final package. why are we paying for the pet projects when we have real problems in our country? >> there are some republicans, though, who cashed in on the return of pork. senator john thune and elise stefanik secured funding, and democrats are defending their spending. >> they don't concern me. i think they are often able to identify the specific needs of the home districts, home states than bureaucrats in washington. it's a very small percentage of the overall bill. >> so, john, a small percentage of the 1.7 trillion price tag. but look at the individual costs of the projects, some will give you sticker shock.

one gives a california high school $4 million to build a swimming pool. john. >> john: you know, you are talking about $1.7 trillion, all of the individual earmarks seem trivial in comparison to the overall cost. but it does add up to real money at some point. hillary, thank you for the break down, appreciate it. hillary mentioned all of this is being jammed in in order to avoid a government shut down. according to chad pergram, it will probably not make it to avoid the shut down, what are they doing? >> jacqui: a continuing resolution, they can't get through the 4700 pages and now have to have a stop-gap funding bill in the interim to get through everything. who is to say if it even passes the house, they will vote today or tomorrow, but the deadline is tomorrow night and what's crazy to me, it happens every year. always the question of will we have christmas in the capital, seems we will, and won't, and now a storm, and maybe we will. >> john: if there was a little snow on the dome, it would look like a nice place to be.

folks, that's the way things work in washington. you pass the gigantic spending bill but not in time to avoid the shut down. >> jacqui: i'm glad we know what bee friendly highway is. she didn't, i want you to. >> john: apparently bee friendly highway is a highway that has a lot of wild flowers around it, like the tom petty song, the bees cannot travel that far, so the more around highways and any rural area the better you are with the bees. >> jacqui: still figuring out how to restore salmon populations. now the border crisis, more serious issues. ice planning to release single adult illegal immigrants into the state of tennessee and republicans in that state are sounding off now. >> places like d.c., chicago,

new york city, said we are sanctuary cities. we welcome them coming in. tennessee is not a sanctuary state. >> jacqui: tom homan, former acting ice director and fox news contributor. always a pleasure talking to you. the news we are hearing about moving migrants to tennessee, not unique to tennessee, other places soon, right? >> yeah, exactly right. they have been doing it across the country. they are hiring ngos, giving them millions of dollars to take care of illegal aliens, to house them until they get them an airline ticket or bus ticket and send them to the final destination. senators from tennessee, what action they take on the omnibus bill. if they support the omnibus bill they should not be complaining at all. when i looked last night, 21 republican senators looking to support this bill and they can't

have it both ways. we have the biggest national security failure since 9/11 happening in our southern border. what's more of an immediate national security issue? our southern border when they have arrested 117 known suspected terrorists trying to sneak in or ukraine halfway across the world. if tennessee is angry, see how they vote on the omnibus bill. i'm upset we have 21 republican senators thinking they would sign it, i don't know how many did, we'll find out. it's a shame. it's a shame. a lot of these people work at the southwest border, dog and pony show, and they sign the bill that gives $0 to border security but gives millions of dollars to ngos to release aliens in the country more efficiently. >> jacqui: the issue of funding is obviously upsetting cities as well. folks who are getting this influx of migrants say it shouldn't be on them to deal with housing and sheltering all these people who come into the cities, it shouldn't be a state

thing to pay for. but quick, back to what the administration has been saying, when title 42 goes away, you know a lot about title 8, is that an effective policy. what would need to happen to make it effective? >> they need to stop catch and release, put in expedited removing, statutory issue they can do. the trump administration can do it. i promise you they will not do it. they will not do expedited removals. >> jacqui: they are fighting remain in mexico in court. no indication that's going to happen, but that is the plan so far. tom homan, appreciate your time. always good to talk to you, sir. >> merry christmas. >> john: story of taking and then giving this holiday season. a community rallying to help a food drive after a grinch tried to ruin christmas. we'll talk to a man whose incredible holiday display is bringing everyone together. stand by for that. but my clothes still smelled. until i finally found new downy rinse and refresh!

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he was stunned to see that bin, which was filled by donations, had been snatched away by a christmas grinch. thankfully in a scene comparable to the holiday classic "it's a wonderful life" the east hartford community gathered together. we are mixing our movies there. rick, how long have you been doing this fabulous inflatable land for christmas, if you will, and the food drive? >> this is the third year i've done it, john. >> john: third year you've done it. what's the response been from the community? >> oh, it's been great after what happened. it's like a whole hallmark movie, everybody came together and it went from the grinch stealing it to the whos in whoville saving christmas again. >> john: how successful has your food drive been in previous years, you had a box full of goods people in the community

had been bringing for the st. mary's church east hartford food pantry, you came home one day and poof, it was gone. what did you think? >> i figured it was the end of the display. we were supposed to get a snowstorm and thought if it got buried it would stay buried. >> john: whoever stole it, do you think it was somebody in need, or just vandals who took it? somebody trying to ruin christmas? what were you thinking about that? >> well, i'm hoping it might have been somebody in need. because i've had, for years i've never had vandals before. that's a lot of stuff that they could destroy out there. >> john: you mentioned the community came together in response to this. you had so many food packages delivered to your house in the wake of this you could not even get in your front door. >> yeah, i came home one morning and the whole front step was

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>> great spending the afternoon with you. you're taking off the holidays? >> yeah, going to philly. >> so you'll be at the beach? >> and getting paid for it. >> way to step up to the plate. what are your plans? >> home for christmas day and going to san diego. >> hope you have fun. >> i'm john roberts. >> i'm jacqui heinrich. "the story" starts right now. >> thanks. good to see you guys. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum. so breaking now, the white house says that the state of arizona has to remove those shipping containers that they put to create a border to keep their own states secure. we'll have more on that. dan crenshaw has some thoughts on this. he joins us in moments. first, the government is about to spend nearly $2 trillion in your tax dollars and of course they have once again put