>> later on carley has more to say. she will be joining me on radio from 9:00 to noon. >> a different type of music. a theater of the radio ear. >> i'll have a band. all right, carley, great working with you. will, see you later. he just left. >> bye, everybody, merry christmas. >> why doesn't will answer us? >> julie: new border apprehension numbers, migrants continue to enter the country illegally. conditions for communities and authorities rapidly getting worse by the day. i'm julie banderas. bill and dana have some time off. >> i'm rich edson. this is "america's newsroom." vast majority of them still in the country. this with title 42s future hanging in the balance.

>> dana: the white house says it has a plan to handle the crisis but president biden seems none too eager to talk about it. >> mr. president -- >> we're covering the border from all angles. alexandria hoff at the white house, former acting ice director tom homan looks at the big picture. let's go to bill melugin at ground 0 of the crisis live at the border in eagle pass, texas. >> temperatures have fallen off a cliff at the border. in the mid 20s in eagle pass. dangerous for anybody trying to get into the water behind us. we want to show you something that happened right where we're standing trying to interview texas congressman tony gonzalez. a group of migrants rushed the river from mexico as they were being chased by mexican authorities. look at this.

>> wow. >> some of the beeping you heard is the mexican authorities chasing the migrants in their vehicles. ended up being a dozen at least migrants who jumped into the water and started crossing illegally. some had little kids with them as they started crossing into the river. they ended up illegally entering into eagle pass as those mexican authorities watch from the mexican shoreline and yelled at them. they walked around the shipping containers and the barbed wire and crossed onto a local golf course out here where people were playing golf. congressman gonzalez said it happens every day and will get more and more dangerous as the temperatures continue to plummet here at the border. we we'll take you to tucson, arizona. the drivers of this vehicle, two

u.s. citizen teenagers ages 14 and 15. law enforcement saying they continue to see more u.s. teenagers getting involved in human smuggling because the offers of quick, easy cash on social media from the cartels and smuggling organizations primarily on apps like tiktok. last photo, nogales, arizona. border patrol trying to stop a van that took off into the desert with 16 illegal immigrants. all dressed in camouflage. they bailed out and all captured and arrested by border patrol. cbp sources tell fox news just since october 1, 400,000 migrants are processed via title eight. it means release. we're looking at several hundred thousand migrants released into the u.s. in the last three months or so. send it back to you. >> incredible. bill, thank you. >> julie: questions linger over what, if any, action the white

house is actually going the take what 42 expires days from now. alexandria hoff is live at the white house. >> the white house says they have a plan for when title 42 expires. what the exact details of that plan may be is unclear at this time. we do know the biden administration wants a few more days to sort things out. this week the d.o.j. asked the supreme court to reject a request by g.o.p.-led states to keep title 42 in place but delay ending it until at least december 27th. the justice department wrote the government recognizes the end of the title 42 orders will likely lead to disruption and temporary increase in unlawful boarding crossings. the government does not want to minimize the seriousness of the problem. the messaging from the biden administration is that the border is closed. steve scalise said this earlier today. >> they are misleading the public saying the border is

secure. everybody knows it's not and it is communities all across the border that are getting ravaged. now communities all across america. >> in the same filing the biden administration said it aims to send a surge of resources to the border. texas congressman tony gonzalez fears it means expanding already overwhelmed processing centers. >> i worry that they are only going to increase capacity and release more people into el paso and throughout the country. >> for months democrats have been voicing concern as well. listen. >> what is going on at the southern border is a crisis. we shouldn't avoid that or pretend it's not happening. >> this is not a democratic or republican problem. it is an american problem. here in south texas it's a personal, local issue that is hugely concerning. >> the white house will not comment on if the president plans to visit the border. >> julie: thank you.

rich. >> julie, how is washington going to resolve this. let's bring in former acting ice director tom homan. we've heard so much about title 42. it has dominated the conversation about immigration certainly over the last couple months. how important is title 42 in the mix of securing the border? >> well, it's important but not the end all, be all. if you look at title 42 under president trump everybody was expelled, 100%. under biden he carved out family units, not expeled, unaccompanied children. biden released more people in the united states than he expelled under title 42. they have expelled over a million. if they end title 42, that over a million will cross the border where 80% of them are no longer even on patrol, they're

processing. title 42 ends, more migrants will come which means more agents pulled off the line for processing. more fentanyl will escape into the united states to kill americans. more women and children sex trafficked across the border because they get away and more known and suspected terrorists have an opportunity to come across an open border. 80 to 90% of agents are no longer on patrol. >> congress working on keeping the government open. a catch-all bill. an opportunity for congress to put other priorities in there to try to get them to pass. some border mitigation trying to deal with the people coming over trying to make sure that they are taken care of and processed. as far as comprehensive immigration reform is concerned nothing like that in here. what does congress need to do to help fix this? >> congress needs to make some legislative changes, right, to relook at the asylum laws and raise the threshold. right now look at court data.

90% of those who claim asylum never get relief in u.s. courts because they don't qualify. they need to change the trafficing victims act. when children comes across treat that child like you would treat a child in mexican. mexican children go back. people from other countries you have years of hearings. families coming across, we used to detain families in a family center until they saw a judge. 90% send them home. this can be fixed. until congress can take action, the administration keeps saying title 42, we don't control it. what they do control is remain in mexico. they could turn that on today like the trump administration did and give the border patrol relief. it would move the numbers way down. they aren't going to do it. congressman gonzalez is right. what they will do is send more resources to the border to

process and release quicker so there doesn't appear to be overcrowding. they haven't done a single thing in two years to secure the border. they won't send one law enforcement officer to the border to -- they will send them to the processing centers. >> there has been a back and forth about who is saying the border is open and not saying. a suggestion from the white house those saying when title 42 closes the border will be more wide open, what do you make of that debate, the federal government has sent some tweets out telling people not to come to the border. what's the signal that's needed to tell people not to just jump in the river like they with you a in bill melugin's report a couple of minutes ago? >> the message -- administration needs to detain people. get away from catch and release. when you tell the whole world you can enter the united states illegally we won't detain you. we'll buy you a plane ticket and send you to the city of your choice and 90% will lose their case in the end.

we need to end catch and release. congress needs to step up. the bill they signed yesterday is an insult to the american people. we brought over 1700 -- the number came out this morning. 1700 migrants have died on u.s. soil since joe biden is president. 100,000 americans dead from fentanyl. 117 known suspected terrorists arrested coming across the border. at what point does congress take action to secure the border? >> tom homan, former acting ice director. thank you for joining us. >> julie: a once in a generation bomb cyclone is causing temperatures to plummet in the mid with blizzard conditions blanketing much of the region and bringing a white christmas to some americans. i'm jealous. can't you get the snow here in fox weather is live in dallas with more. how are you, will? >> i don't know, stand in the 12 degrees and you might not be

jealous for long. we're 12 degrees and holding in dallas, texas, if you can imagine that. millions of texans and americans wanting to know how the power grid is going. so far we have a surge in demand at this hour. we're told by authorities that demand is being met and even some added capacity if it continues to increase. that does not mean that there aren't outages. we look at 75,000 outages at least across the state of texas. that number increases as you move to georgia, the peach state seeing this system rush through right now. some of the georgia pine trees snapping under the breeze happening along with the powerful system. upwards of 100,000 plus outages in georgia. tennessee, kentucky, arkansas hearing from numerous authorities in tennessee saying please, please, avoid travel if at all possible. not only the secondary roads a mess across the state but some of the major interstates still snarled with accidents. we still have hours to go as this system continues to sweep across the country. so much of our nation affected by this right now.

still some crucial hours ahead for the power grids. because we have so many states right now negative temperatures with windchill factor. negative temperatures even in dallas with the added windchill. painful no matter where you go. we'll continue to guide you through it as you travel home for christmas no matter where you are going, join us any time on the fox weather stream and we'll do our best to guide you through it. >> julie: i just want the snow. can't we have snow and milder temples? i want it all. thank you so much. stay warm. >> mexican drug cartels getting a boost from the tensions with beijing and how they're fueling the fentanyl crisis. another concern over tiktok and the safety of your personal information. what an internal investigation is -- the shrinking american pocketbook. a reality check on your money coming up next, thanks

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>> president biden delivering a christmas message yesterday calling for peace and unity as the country's political divide deepens >> president biden: i hope this christmas season marks a fresh start for our nation because there is so much that unites us as americans, so much more that unites us than divides us. our politics has gotten so angry, so mean and partisan and too often we see each other as enemies, not neighbors, as democrats and republicans, not as fellow americans.

>> he vowed to be the president of unity on the campaign trail. republicans accuse him of sounding like a broken record. biden has also been launching attacks on maga republicans all year long. >> president biden: maga republicans don't just threat en our personal rights and economic security, a threat to our very democracy. donald trump and the maga republicans represent an extremism, the extreme set of maga republicans has chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. >> you know, julie, we have seen this across the political spectrum. in less than two weeks you have democrats and the white house and senate will try to have to work with republicans controlling the house and run the government. >> julie: it is quite astonishing the fact this white house is touting the economy is doing well when we're in the midst of months and months of inflation and increase in cost of living. happy holidays, rich edson, see

you in a minute. so we're talking about a year of economic hardship. not a laughing matter but it is coming to a close. you have decades' high inflation like i mentioned, record gas prices, stock market slumps, supply chain back logs were a few of the struggles americans dealt with in 2022. according to president biden, the economy is doing just fine. let's bring in fox business david asman. i want what he is having, all right? i'm not joking. president biden has penned an op-ed on his economic plan. can we please put his words on the screen? these are not mine. you probably won't believe it. it came out of his mouth. the headline is looking back at 2022 i feel more confident about america than ever quote, my economic plan is making the united states a powerhouse. we entered this year with inflation still too high and families concerned about prices but americans should have

confidence my plan is working as we look back on 2022 and look forward to what lies ahead, i have never been more confident about what the american people and the american economy can achieve. what? >> all you need to focus on is the one word powerhouse, really? we have had two negative quarters in this year. that's usually the definition of a recession. they are avoiding that because we have the extra jobs out there because of the hang over from the pandemic. the bottom line is two negative quarters in the economy, inflation of over 7%, it was over 8%. the fed is turning on the squeeze now on the economy, which may cause a recession going into 2023. that's not a powerhouse. it's a very sick economy. and he inherited -- he keeps talking about how he inherited a mess and his economic plan turned things around. he turned it into a mess but inherited an extraordinary

recovery. we had 6% annual growth rate when he came to office in january 2021. 1.4% inflation rate. all he had to do was sit on what he had and he would have had real powerhouse economy underneath him instead of a very sick economy underneath him. the reason is primarily the $5 trillion in spending. yes, it's true, trump spent trillions of dollars of money as well. temporary money for the pandemic. the money, the $5 trillion is permanent money creating permanent programs, permanent bureaucracies to increase what we have now so that $5 trillion in ten years will turn into 20 trillion. look at the debt. he talks about the deficit going down. it's going down because we phased out a lot of the trump spending that was temporary. the debt has gone up to 31 trillion. keep your eyes on the debt. the money that we're spending now just to service the debt, the interest on the debt, people

who bought it in china and elsewhere, is going up by hundreds of billions of dollars a year. >> julie: you look at main street and wall street not looking good. the close for thursday's dow was down almost -- just over 3300 for the year. that's insane. you look at the nasdaq. that was actually flirting with a 52-week low yesterday. it would have been the lowest since 2020. 2 1/2 years. >> nasdaq goes down by interest rates go up. it's lost 35% in the past year. nasdaq is the tech-heavy stocks. the microsofts, amazons, etc. it was doing better over the past couple of weeks just because they thought the economy was going into a recession and that way interest rates would go down a little, which wall street

loves. main street hates it but wall street loves it. main street is going to be suffering the most when we go into a recession. >> julie: i have to know what do you think in the future interest rates, what will happen in the next year? >> the problem is we're just about to spend at $2 trillion on this horrific bill passed at midnight on tuesday, 4,000 pages that nobody has read. we'll pass something again that nobody has read. bottom line it will turn into 2 trillion more and it will mean that even though the fed had been coming down with the interest rates it will have to goose them up again. it's spending money you don't have is what causes inflation and that's what congress with biden's approval has been doing. >> julie: spending our money, thank you. we get through christmas. >> no thanks to congress or biden. >> julie: merry christmas. >> millions of americans are getting a feel for life on the red planet. temperatures in the midwest now

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windchill is negative 28. we didn't expect to have good news today and i have nothing but bad news particularly for the people traveling in the pacific northwest. seattle tacoma airport announced they're closed. there is too much ice on the runway. alaska airlines has canceled all flights not only out of seattle but portland as well. as we look at some of the major air carriers cancellations since midnight last night. american airlines 246, delta 166, southwest has had a rough go, 764. they said yesterday they are canceling a lot of flights out of abundance of caution. united 174. as we look at domestic flights across the nation, we're now up to 3,433 flights that have been canceled according the flight aware.com. for the people stuck on the road there are not a lot of good options to get home. >> unfortunately last night we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning. we got a text saying they

rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. we're trying to figure out what's going on and trying to avoid the line and get home. this is a mess. >> flight aware.com puts out the misery map. the red indicates the cancellations and delays. it looked yesterday like denver and the twin cities had the market cornered on misery. it is now being shared across the nation from seattle to new york, chicago is getting it hard and houston pretty hard. a lot with houston is the rip el effect. what flights get canceled somewhere else you can't make it to your destination. it is cold here in chicago. snow never really piled up but one of the things you see at the airport are people standing around staring at phones hoping to find better news and it is just not there, rich. >> rich: mike tobin in chicago, mike, thank you. >> julie: russian president vladimir putin warning the

nation's satan two missile will be ready for combat with an estimated range of up to 1200 miles. it can hit targets anywhere across the world. russia claims the weapon is capable of overcoming all modern means of anti-missile defense. >> rich: protestors in iran and china are risking their lives for freedom taking to the streets against those oppressive regimes and their grip on power. as people yearn for liberty some wonder where is the leader of the free world? our next guest wrote an opinion piece on the biden administration's lack of response. former c.i.a. station chief dan hoffman. i want to get into what you wrote here quote, i witnessed firsthand in my career how our closest allies appreciated presidents who publicly defend democracies. the u.s. should never hesitate to use our immense soft power advantage against our adversaries. we should be as publicly supportive of those striving for liberty and freedom in china and

iran as we are vigilant about protecting human rights at home. so what is your evaluation of the administration and what should it be doing? >> i just don't think our elected leaders are doing enough to call out china and iran for their massive human rights abuses. maybe they are doing it because they want a nuclear deal with iran or maybe they want to curry favor with china for better trade relations or whatever we might need from the chinese. we talked a lot about china's production of those pre-cursor chemicals for fentanyl making their way across our border and killing record numbers of americans. this is where we enjoy our advantage, our soft power. i grew up in the 1980s when president reagan never hesitated to call out the soviet union for their vicious attacks on their own civilians as well as overseas in other nations as well. i think the president -- president biden would do well to use that teddy roosevelt bully pulpit as reagan did and john f.

kennedy did in his inaugural address in 1961. >> rich: we've seen divisions in both parties recently of wanting to move back from a more internationalist stage, for less intervention from the united states. do you see the trend continuing? how much does that hurt an administration's ability to push back against these dictatorships? >> well, i think it depends on what form our involvement with the rest of the world takes. for sure our country is war weary after having fought for decades in afghanistan and iraq. but our engagement worldwide is a lot more than that. when i was at the c.i.a. we were responsible for detecting threats, weigh out what we call left of boom before they are visited on our shores. if you look at the fentanyl crisis, that's an opportunity for our intelligence community to find and fix those mexican cartels and including the chinese nationals working with

them and disrupt them along with our mexican law enforcement partners before the fentanyl reaches our border. we need to enhance and improve our border control for sure and build physical barriers where necessary. but there is a lot more for us to do. diplomatically we can engage more overseas. it doesn't always involved hundreds of thousands of troops stationed overseas sometimes just a few hundred brave american special officers in syria killing isis leadership so they don't inflict harm on the region and beyond. >> rich: beijing has quit cooperating as the u.s. took a more robust approach toward china. how does the u.s. thread the needle and standing up for protestors but getting beijing to act when it is sending fentanyl to the western hemisphere? >> social justice is universal.

if we care about human rights at home we have to call out nations like china for violating human rights in their country. for sure china needs to do more. we can sanction chinese company and expose china for what they are doing and highlight in china our ambassador can emphasize to the chinese. it isn't a good idea to allow the chemicals to be produced in china. we need to do what i said. hit the cartels in mexico and not expect a whole lot from china. look what they did with the coronavirus pandemic. they caused millions around the world to die. it was a self-inflicted wound from which they're suffering economically and their healthcare right now. >> rich: dan, thank you for joining us. chaos aboard a staten island

ferry after a fire breaks out. the vessel filled with smoke. laura engel is live in lower manhattan with this. >> if you've ever been downtown over here in manhattan and you have been over to the statue of liberty, chances are you have seen those bright orange staten island ferries going back and forth between the city and staten island. yesterday about 900 passengers, including crew members, had one very scary ride as they had to be evacuated while they were on the water. we have some video to share with you. hundreds had to be removed by the u.s. coast guard. many who were wearing the life jackets after a fire erupted in the ship's engine room just after 5:00 p.m.enter five people were reported injured. three had to go to the hospital for treatment for minor injuries. new yorkers will tell you, this is a very busy form of mass transit. on a typical weekday five boats

make 117 trips carrying approximately 75,000 passengers. the fire department responded quickly working with the coast guard and crew members to get passengers to safety. >> the crew of the vessel was very quick to act and acted appropriately by notifying the coast guard of an emergency on board. they were also very quick to make sure they sealed the engine room, evacuated the area and followed the protocol to put the co2. >> the ferry was anchored as passengers were transferred off the ship. fire officials will make sure the fire is all the way out before opening the engine hold for 24 hours to make sure the fire is extinguished. the weather here is awful. we have high tides and high winds and could cause delays or suspensions of the lines today.

be prepared for that. >> rich: laura, thank you. >> julie: a warning, the following footage may be disturbing. this is shocking video of a woman being shoved -- oh my gosh -- head first in front of an oncoming train. it happened in chicago. do local officials have any solutions for the out of control crime? we'll address. washington avoids a government shutdown in the nick of time coming at a hefty price, $1.7 trillion to be exact. was all of it necessary? >> this is one of the most significant appropriations packages we have done in a very long time. >> it will cost all americans more money. this is bloated, it should not move forward. oh man. always look for the grown in idaho seal.

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>> rich: shocking admission from bytedance. tiktok employees were caught using the app to keep tabs on several users including two journalists, employees were reportedly able to gain access to their sensitive information. fox business's hillary vaughn has the story from the white house. >> this comes as tiktok is trying to dodge an all-out ban here in the u.s. also convince u.s. regulators they are not a national security

threat to u.s. user data. forbes said some of their reporters were being surveilled by bytedance who tracked them by accessing their i.p. addresses and user data trying to see if their paths crossed with any of bytedance employees. tiktok spokesperson telling fox the misconduct of certain individuals who are no longer employed at bytedance was a misuse of their authority to obtain access to user data. it is unacceptable and not in line with our efforts to earn the trust of our users. we take data security very seriously and will continue to enhance our access protocols which have already been significantly improved and hardened since this incident took place. this news comes as congress moved to ban tiktok on government devices. some in congress want a total ban in the u.s. because they do not think that beijing-based app can be trusted not to access u.s. user data. senator mark warner telling forbes the d.o.j., who has been

reviewing tiktok data practices for over a year needs to step up or congress will step in saying this. this new development reinforces serious concerns that the social media platform has permitted tiktok engineers and executives in the people's republic of china to repeatedly access private data of u.s. claims despite claims that this was protected. >> rich: hillary vaughn live from capitol hill. thank you so much. >> julie: we have managed to avoid a government shutdown for now. but a closer look at the $1.7 trillion government funding package reveals a trove of lawmaker pet projects. let's bring in former national republican congressional committee communications director matt gorman and former communications director and senior advisor to democratic senator joe manchin jonathan kott. thank you for coming on. matt, let's talk about the

1.7 million government funding package heading for the finish line to avert a shutdown. it is chock full -- i mean full to the top of the barrel, of pork barrel politics. is congress trying to ram this tluth ahead of a winter storm that we've been talking about that could keep them snowed in in washington, d.c. for christmas? >> you give them too much credit about the winter storm. they just want to get home. this was preventable. we knew it was coming. they extended the funding two weeks ago. it was on the horizon for a while. like a college kid to get their term paper done before they go home for the holidays. this was a bill and they vote for things they might not support to get it over with. that's what you see here. >> julie: from decades-high inflation to rate hikes, supply back logs, two consecutive

quarters of negative gdp growth. the list goes on, right? according to president biden if you ask him everything is doing just fine. where are the pinocchios? >> i think he is saying we've had a great year. we've done a tremendous amount. joe biden, chuck schumer and nancy pelosi have probably accomplished more than any member of congress and president in their first two years. this is the most historic first two years of any presidency and has had huge accomplishments and what he is talking about. this bill is a cap on that. i point out we're supposed to do these bills by october 1st. there are supposed to be 12 of them. i'm not old enough to remember the last time we actually did that. what winds up happening is for the last three months staff and members sit down and cram everything into one bill. any member who says they don't know what's in the bill or this 4,000 page bill has to be read isn't doing their job. they know what's in the bill and

known what is in the bill for months and yes, we do it in congress every year. you can set your calendar to it. christmas and avoiding a government shutdown and getting out of here at the last minute always happens. >> julie: you say that the president doesn't think that things are going well. he wrote an op-ed and he says looking back at 2022 he feels more confident about america than ever. he even says his economic plan is making the united states a powerhouse. i would like to take a look at his so-called powerhouse. the pork items in the 1.7 trillion bill. it looks like a commercial but this is real. $575 million for family planning. 200 million for the gender equity inequality action fund. 70 million for salmon. 65.7 million for international fisheries commission. i can't go through it all because there is so much. matt, are they trying to pull the wool over americans' eyes?

this is huge. most haven't read it and they are trying to jam it through before midnight right before christmas. clever timing. >> i like santa but not that much. when ups or amazon are busy during the holidays they expect it. but doesn't have to be this way. with congress they let their work pile up to the end of the year as john said instead of getting it done throughout the course of the year in normal chunks. we should have having a tiktok conversation during the course of the year. i'm happy they did it but throwing it in at the end of the year. you let the things pile up and that's how these things sneak through. no one cares at the end of the day, they want to get home for christmas. >> i think there are a lot of good things in this bill. angus king helped save the lobster industry in maine. the pregnant workers protection act. funding for ukraine. what the president's point is, things were bad when he took over. things are getting better and he

is working hard as hell to make sure that continues in the next year. >> julie: i'm not sure things were so bad. i don't remember gas prices reaching $6 before he took office. >> that's because there was a global pandemic where nobody was driving. >> julie: and putin, it's his fault. matt gorman and jonathan kott, appreciate it. >> rich: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried is back living with his parents. looking like a white christmas. what to expect in your area as this once in a lifetime storm makes its way across the u.s. ♪

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our pharmacists are here. ♪ ♪ >> rich: disgraced ftx founder sam bankman-fried has been released on $250 million bail, the highest pre-trial bail in what prosecutors are calling one of the biggest financial frauds in american history. lydia hu has the story from new york. >> that's right. the disgraced former crypto ceo -- yesterday on that $250 million bond. take a look at the 3,000 square foot bay area home where sam bankman-fried will spend the holiday. the home is estimated to be worth $4 million. owned by the accused fraudster law professor parents located in

an exclusive neighborhood on the edge of stanford's campus and a gated in-ground swim pool and manicured lawn. the hoepfl is not only where he will rest his head but security for his release. that means if bankman-fried fails to return to court or violates other conditions of his release his parents would be responsible for paying the $250 million bond and this home that you see here could be seized. bankman-fried's court appearance follows the news that new former executives, ellison and wang, have pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges and are cooperating. their cooperation is expected to complicate bankman-fried's defense. his parents actually appeared alongside with him yesterday in court. now bankman-fried maintains his parents had no involvement with ftx. ftx's current ceo said that his

father, joseph, did receive payments from ftx when he allegedly helped with the company's charitable endeavors. the next hearing is scheduled on january 3rd in new york. >> rich: thanks for joining us. >> julie: as you know, i wrote a children book that teaches children the importance of perseverance. we created a treasure box for the holidays. you get seven books, and so much more. limited time that we're offering for you. go to brave books.com and the gift that keeps on giving. teach your children a moral compass. you get a compass, an opportunity for you to gift to your children and grandchildren on the holidays. all right, let's talk about weather. immense wither storm delivering disruptions to large parts of the nation bringing heavy snow