annual christmas picture reveal. my kids made the nice list. it was touch and go at times like every day this year. whether you're naughty or nice who am i to judge? i want everyone a year filled with joy. come on, this is amazing. i wish it existed when i was a skid. if you want to dress up your kids. i do every year and they'll wear them. someday they'll get too old and say no way. what is your holiday traditions? >> rich: well, to hang out here for a little bit and spend time -- much-needed time with the family. molly line in for harris faulkner. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> molly: dangerous weather hitting hundreds of millions of americans. the historic and life threatening conditions wreaking havoc across dozens of states. this is "the faulkner focus", i'm molly line in for harris

today. bone chilling cold and some seeing temperatures well below 0 and the chill extending to places not used to it. texans hoping to avoid another power crisis as frigid conditions are there. is sunshine state, florida, could see its coldest christmas in more than 30 years. blizzard warnings in effect for more than 10 million people in the upper midwest and great lakes region. those conditions basically snowstorm on steroids. across the country widespread power outages. more than 1 million reported from texas to the east coast. all of this is also causing some chaos for travelers. >> we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning. we got a text last night saying they rescheduled us to austin at 12:00 today with a layover. no, no, no. this is a mess. >> the kind of cold that hurts your face. >> it looks a little chaotic. i'm wondering how everyone will make their flight. >> the wind is pretty brutal.

i felt like i got frostbite instantly. >> at the hotel they had the screen of flights, canceled, canceled. one flight that made it off the ground. >> molly: thousands of flights were canceled today. seattle tack o -- we're in minneapolis where the current temperature is negative nine degrees. first meteorologist evan clots from our fox weather center. >> we do a graphic in the studio. i can begin with what we have here. this is that front line max ten is what i'm looking for, guys. this is our power outages that we switched over to. it is along the frontal boundary stretching from texas -- stretching from texas all the

way up into the northeast and as you see, it's that strong line of where the frontal boundary is and knocking out power. we're continuing to watch it sweep. here is what i was looking for all along. begin with the temperatures. widespread as we pointed out negative 20 to negative 30 and 40. you see it in the midwest and upper midwest. as far as some of the southern reaches of the country. folks in texas don't see feels-like temperature of three. one ding in atlanta this morning driven by the cold air and strong winds. where is the snow system? working its way across the interior new england and getting into parts of the mid atlantic and along the east coast. it is 47 degrees in new york city but as soon as this system passes by temperatures fall to 14 degrees, fall back to one degree. cold air. if you feel like you've been avoiding it and live on the

coast it is about to change. once the front moves through things change rapidly. 50 degrees colder right now than 24 hours yesterday in louisville. it continues to march off towards the east and it will get frigid. wind alerts in place where we look at gusts getting up to 65 miles-per-hour from interior new england and the mid atlantic and portions of the midwest. winds will make it feel frigid. that is what's knocking out the power we showed you a little bit ago. strong wind and i do want to leave you with this. warm right now in new york city and the rest of new england. by the time we get into this evening and early tomorrow temperatures in the teens. molly, even if you feel like you've missed it so far you aren't going to. it is hitting nearly everybody. >> molly: getting ready below freezing. the midwest is getting what seems like the worst of the arctic blast. we're in minneapolis where the snow is piling up and boy, is it

cold. >> this bomb cyclone is not playing fair. it made an entrance that we all feel across the country. according to the meteorologist at the fox weather forecast center they say 68 million americans are experiencing subzero temperatures and across the country, half the country experiencing below freezing temperatures. here in minneapolis is currently negative nine degrees. when you factor in the windchill, molly, it feels more like negative 35 degrees. it's why the national weather service is really urging people to stay off the roads here. temperatures are not expected to reach above 0 degrees today. we're under several winter weather advisories and a windchill advisory. if you walk outside you can get frostbite in a matter of minutes. it's best to hunker down and

stay inside. now, there is some light at the end of the tunnel. tomorrow, christmas eve, temperatures will reach as high as four degrees and christmas day temperatures can reach as high as seven degrees. that's quite a christmas gift considering where we are now. >> molly: it is important to warn people about the dangerous temperatures. thank you for your reporting. temperatures are also down at our southern border. the number of migrants trying to get into the country illegally keeps going up. the latest border patrol numbers show well over half a million encounters just since october 1st. now, some have been expelled under title 42, the pandemic policy that is in limbo. nearly 400,000 have made their way into the u.s. title 42 is still in place but it could end soon. depends on what the supreme court ultimately decides. the white house has asked to lift it but also asked the high court for a bit of a delay

admitting it needs time to prepare for the expected migrant surge once title 42 is officially gone. meanwhile the president literally turning his back on questions about the crisis yesterday. >> president biden: merry christmas, happy holidays, and all the best of the new year. god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you. >> mr. president, are you going to the southern border? >> molly: no answers there and still no border visit from the president, either. republican lawmakers are not impressed. >> he has done nothing to fix the problem. he has never been to the border. it is so unconscionable for him not to go to the border and listen to the agents and people trying to control the border, what life is like along our southern border. >> molly: chad wolf former acting secretary of homeland security now to talk about what's going on. thank you for giving us a little

time this holiday. first we'll get an update from our reporter bill melugin consistently bringing light to this very topic. bill, to you. >> good morning to you. certainly not used to these kind of temperatures down here at the southern border. we're in the mid 20s here in eagle pass right now. we want to show you something that happened yesterday right here where we're standing as we were trying to interview texas congressman tony gonzalez who represents the area. a group of migrants rush the river behind us and get chased by mexican authorities. take a look. >> wow. >> some of that beeping you hear are from the vehicles belonging to the mexican authorities who are honking at the group of over a dozen migrants who jumped into the river. pulled up and started yelling at the migrants. didn't want them to get into the river. a dozen migrants did that in the

cold, frigid water and some brought little children with them. they crossed illegally into eagle pass and walked onto a local golf course where people were playing golf and they surrendered themselves to border patrol. congressman gonzalez says this happens every day and get only more dangerous with the weather the next few days. >> it is going to get very cold. we are talking temperatures we haven't seen in a decade. here you have people wading through the water. it is not good for everyone. children, it is not good. we have to keep title 42 in place and need to have a plan after. >> i'll take you out to the tucson, arizona sector. border patrol arresting two u.s. juveniles ages 14 and 15. they were driving that red car and they were smuggling five illegal immigrants inside of their vehicle including two in the trunk.

border patrol continuing to see more u.s. teenagers getting involved in human smuggling as they get sucked in through offers of quick, easy cash on social media by cartels and smuggling organizations. we'll finish in texas. the police department here doing a traffic stop on a big rig truck and found 20 illegal immigrants being smuggled inside of that 18 wheeler big rig. border patrol took all of them into custody. we see a lot of that on the texas border, the big rig trucks smuggling large groups of migrants. we all remember the tragedy that happened earlier this year in san antonio when 53 migrants died in a big rig truck. cbp sources telling fox news just since october 1st there have been more than 575,000 migrant encounters at our southern border. that's equivalent to the city of baltimore's population and a large majority of those have

been released into the united states via title eight processing. >> molly: also noting that cold weather adding a different dynamic to what's going on there. serious issue happening across the country but for those folks in particular in the water. now we go to chad wolf. the former acting secretary of homeland security. thank you so much for joining us, giving us a little bit of your time on this holiday. we heard from bill, excellent reporting consistently. today it is really cold down there in the 20s and we see people wading through the waters coming out adding a whole level of danger to a situation that has claimed the lives of so many migrants already that have a terrible situation trying to get into this country in this illegal manner. your thoughts as this cold weather is infolding across the country? >> what i'll say is the human trafficking and the business of the cartels don't stop for weather unfortunately. we see it historically and numbers bear it out.

the images you showed is important to remember that's what title 42 in place. we already have a crisis on our border of historic proportions. very difficult to deal with. now when you look at title 42 potentially going away, you had another level, a whole other dimension to this crisis that is going on. so i feel for the men and women of the border patrol. the agents there that will spend their holidays again processing migrants instead of being on the border and securing that border. i will just say congress had a chance to try to fix this and they failed. instead they simply provided more money to simply process more and more migrants into the country. so what congress did here recently is just provide another year of this failed border strategy. >> molly: do you think the more money for processing is a lure? >> absolutely. if you build it, they will come. the cartels are monitoring our

actions and our reactions very closely. so they hear this, they understand that congress has provided more money for more processing facilities and more resources to process folks. great news to the cartels and traffickers. they can push more product. their product is human beings. they can push more of their product over the line because they'll be processed quicker. it will be a -- continue to be a boon for the cartels unfortunately. >> molly: the governor agreeing to remove the state's makeshift border wall after the biden administration filed a lawsuit last week trying to get the shipping containers off of federal land. representative dan crenshaw of texas weighed in on this. take a listen. >> it seems if the biden administration is upset about the governor of one of our states putting contain -- shipping containers on federal land, you would also think the

president would be upset about an infringement on federal land in general, say at our international borders. they go through all this effort to dismantle and stop this effort but go through -- they put no effort into preventing illegal immigration and disincentivizing it. >> molly: your thoughts on this trespassing supposedly in arizona when in reality there are a great number of people coming across? >> well, i agree with congressman. if the federal government wants to do something they should put time and energy to securing the border. instead it appears as though they are interested in filing lawsuits to actually take away border security measures such as what the governor of arizona is doing. i know that they are also suing governor of texas and others. i think they've got misplaced priorities at the end of the day. the federal government needs to be securing that border. they aren't doing that. it is a very clear to every american they aren't doing that. the numbers bear that out. the numbers will continue to get worse and worse.

historically -- seasonally we actually see lower numbers usually in the month of november, december and january because of the weather situation down on that border. it gets very cold at night in the desert. what you see and what is bearing out on the images that you are seeing the numbers are going up. so there is only one reason for that. only one reason, the policies of this administration continue to incentivize more of that illegal immigration every day. >> molly: thank you. we appreciate a couple minutes of your time. president biden is still pushing his plan to forgive millions in student debt but he also suggests the pandemic justified canceling all of that debt and now that the pandemic is over, what is going on with that? what's the back and forth on that? after democrats -- house republicans are giving a preview of their oversight proposals.

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>> molly: president biden seemed to put covid in the rearview mirror in a pre-christmas address yesterday even though he recently said the pandemic was the reason to forgive $4 hundred billion in student debt. >> president biden: covid no longer controls our lives. our kids are back in school. people are back to work.

in fact, more people are working than ever before. americans are building again, innovating again, dreaming again. >> molly: those remarks come as a biden administration recently ex extended the pause on student loan payments through june 30th with debt relief plan still blocked in the court. the supreme court will hear arguments on the case in february. the president ordered the loan forgiveness in august 2nd 1/2 months ahead of the mid-term elections. marc thiessen. "washington post" columnist joins me to talk about it. thanks so much for being here and happy holidays, merry christmas. >> good to be with you. merry christmas to you. >> molly: one of the problems for the president is he did this as part of a plan to alleviate hardship and now he is talking about how covid is under control and the economy is looking much better. so which is it? >> so he says that covid no

longer controls our lives as long as it allows him to control hundreds of billions that he can spend as he sees fit without authorization from congress. where does he get to authority to spend nearly $1 trillion on student relief without congress authorization. even nancy pelosi said he didn't have the authority to do thachlt he is using a 2003 law called the hero's act passed after the 9/11 attacks to make sure the men and women of the military who were called up to fight the terrorists didn't default on their loans during active duty service. he is using that law to forgive the loans of thousands of americans who never wore the uniform. it is an act of stolen valor and creates a problem for him because he has just argued in the supreme court that we should lift title 42 because the pandemic emergency is over but using the national emergency, what the law says in referring to the 9/11 attacks and

authorization for that loan forgiveness, he is using that pandemic emergency to forgive student loans. which is it? it is over when it's convenient and not over when it's not convenient for his policy preferences. >> molly: i want to touch on february the supreme court. harvard law professor doesn't have much hooch the plan will survive the supreme court. he says it put the program in deep freeze until it proceeds to most likely dismantle it. what do you think the court will ultimately decide? >> he is stretching this law beyond all recognition. the law clearly states the 2003 hero's act it is intended for people called up to active duty in a war or national emergency. and so none of these people who are getting loans forgiven are getting them forgiven because they were called up to active duty. the plain text of the law is clear as to its intentions. so i think he is going the lose no doubt.

>> molly: the student loan hand-out is one of the issues that house republicans will dig into next year after democrats spent this year laughing off the gop oversight aims and proposals. republicans laying out a roadmap of planned investigations once they have the subpoena power. could include agenda things related to border security, very disastrous afghanistan withdrawal, covid origins and hunter biden. house majority leader kevin mccarthy says former intel officials who dismissed the hunter biden laptop will have a lot to answer for. >> how will we hold that 51 intel individuals who signed the letter saying it was russia collusion that it wasn't real? let's get to the bottom of the problems that have been happening. >> molly: 2023 could be very interesting, marc. what do you think? >> 100%. look, for the last two years the democrats have been able to do whatever they wanted without any serious oversight from congress. they were able to spend

trillions with democrats only spending bills and able to preside over a litany of disasters without serious oversight. republicans have the chairmanships and carve else and subpoena power. we know democrats think congressional subpoena power is serious. so we -- they certainly wouldn't resist a subpoena from congress if they were given one. there is a plethora of areas to go after. the afghanistan withdrawal. no serious oversight over this because democrats criticized it when it was happening. as soon as it was over they wanted to sweep it under the rug and move on because it was embarrassing for the president. he promised more than a year since the kabul airport attack that killed 13 americans and he said to the people who did this we'll not forget and find you and hunt you down and make you pay. here we are a year later. nobody has hunted down or paid. what has he done? what happened with the over the horizon strikes that would take

out the isis terrorists who killed our americans. so many areas republicans can look into and get answers to. >> molly: what do you predict one of the biggest headlines will be in january? >> that's really hard. there are so many disasters. we have the worst inflation in 40 years, worst collapse in real wages in four decades. highest gas prices on record. worst crime wave since the 1990s. the worst border crisis in american history and we have all the scandals like we're learning from the twitter files, f.b.i. collusion with social media, the intelligence community. i can't wait to hear these 50 intelligence officials hauled to explain that letter before congress. so many areas. we'll be very busy here in january. we'll have so many stories to cover it will be an interesting year. >> molly: what about the border? do republicans get anywhere on that matter?

omnibus gives us a clue they won't be able to do what they want to do. your thoughts on that. >> it will get worse. so in 2021 he unleashed the worst border crisis in american history. 2022 it got worse by every metric. more gotaways, more encounters on the border. more terrorist watch list arrests more migrants died crossing the rio grande and it will get worse when title 42 goes away. so these problems, you don't get rid of problems by sweeping them under the rug. republicans will have to call them to account. now they will have the subpoena power to call up witnesses and demand documents and find out what the heck is going on. >> molly: maybe that's where the headlines will come from. thank you so much for joining us and giving us your insight. >> merry christmas. >> molly: the military may be going woke again. a new report commissioned by the u.s. marines suggest dropping sir or ma'am to address senior offices and the senate passes a

massive spending spree before leaving for the holidays. some republicans slamming their colleagues who voted for it. >> there hasn't been enough time for a single person to read the bill. the bill in process ignores soaring inflation, rising interest rates and ballooning debt. enough is enough. >> molly: another $1.7 trillion in spending. the kind of spending that helped spark this year's record inflation. we have charles payne coming up next. ♪ (fisher investments) it's easy to think that all money managers are pretty much the same, but at fisher investments we're clearly different. (other money manager) different how? you sell high commission investment products, right? (fisher investments) nope. fisher avoids them. (other money manager) well, you must earn commissions on trades. (fisher investments) never at fisher. (other money manager) ok, then you probably sneak in

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>> the culmination of an 18-month long investigation. it alleges that president trump was key in motivating the attack on the capital and failing to stop his supporters from breaching the capitol as lawmakers worked to certify joe biden's victory. house speaker nancy pelosi wrote this. the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack has succeeded in bringing clarity and detail the fragility of our democracy. committee chair republican liz cheney added every president in our history has defended this orderly transfer of authority except one. january 6, 2021, was the first time one american president refused his constitutional duty to transfer power peacefully to the next. following the release last night former president trump fired back sharing the highly partisan unselect committee report purposely fails to mention the

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pleased. >> this is too much spending for me. look at how much they have already spent. when you look at cares, the inflation reduction act, the infrastructure bill and now want to do this with another $1.7 trillion. the american people deserve better than this. >> molly: government spending the blamed for record-setting inflation that is up close to 14% under president biden. that's costing the average american family about $10,000 over the past two years. everyday costs, food, energy, transportation, all impacted by this soaring inflation. we have charles payne here. the host of making money on fox business to talk about all of it with us. charles, thank you for being here. we were just looking at the omnibus numbers. what does it mean for these average americans, people at home facing all of this inflation and the higher costs?

>> listen the federal reserve is trying to dismantle this economy saying the only way to stop inflation is to dismantle the economy. send unemployment up 1 to 3 million people lose jobs over the next year. everything turns around. when you put more money into the system and i think senator blackburn made the point like throwing kerosene on a fire. it backfires and hurts the american public. it's the thing that has been going on and it is shocking because both parties deserve a certain amount of ridicule for this. 4100 pages. no one read this thing, right? the surprises that will be coming out of this for years to come. we'll be learning about things for years to come. we already know it's filled with all kinds of pork. all kinds of special bridges to nowhere, and in that regard a lot of people are disappointed with the republicans who sign on. there was a pledge along time

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don't have access half the folks don't use it. one of the best tools out there for retirement. you will be able to have more deductions, small businesses are going to have some things where they can write off 100% of the maintenance. if you are a small business and can't afford to get a brokerage firm to do this you can write it off and required minimum distribution. right now 72 years old you must start taking money. the longer you keep the money in there, the longer it is tax deferred. you don't have to pay taxes on it and it grows wealth. that number goes to 73 next year, 75 by 2033. there are some good components in my mind. something for folks making $35,000 a year. i'm not sure many will still be able to do it. if you put in $2 thousand the government will match $1 thousand. >> molly: that's a big chunk. >> if someone can take advantage it. any of these programs you want to take advantage of them. there are a few things in there

that are really great if they were stand alone but put them in there so they can get the other stuff through. >> molly: holiday spending. the best of intentions, right? about half respondents of this gallup poll say they'll spend the same. what do these plans mean for retailers, for the economy? >> a little tough. this morning we got some important numbers out. income and spending. income up 4/10 percent. spending was up less than everyone thought it would be. our savings rate is 2.4%, up from 2.2% last month. not long ago it was in the 30s. people are running out of money, people bought a lot of nikes but no cars. even the stuff we're buying the price tag is getting smaller as we tighten our belts. >> molly: a lot of belt

tightening around heating expenses. wonderful to see you, merry christmas. thank you. winter weather is what's causing the holiday nightmare out there and we're keeping a close eye across the country. white-out conditions making it hard to see the airplanes out there. can you see it? here is what we can expect this weekend. we'll look at that and remember this. >> president biden: maga republicans have made their choice. they embrace anger. they thrive on chaos. >> molly: that was just four months ago. the president completely changing his tune ahead of the holidays. jimmy failla with his thoughts on biden's christmas flip-flopping. ♪ big idaho potato truck... i finally caught it.

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>> molly: fox weather alert. the number of power outages going up now 1.4 million americans in the dark. it is cold out there. bitterly cold across the nation. travelers facing a nightmare on the roads and at the airports as well as holiday travel -- this is the nightmare before christmas. thousands of flights have been canceled. thousands delayed. chicago's o'hare airport has the most flight disruptions for today and where we find mike

tobin. mike, to you. >> i'll start off with what happened in seattle. they got a big dump of freezing rain 2:00 a.m. and that iced over all runways at the airport there. they shut down the airport entirely. it is very difficult for the crews to get the ice off the runways, even more so than the snow. they have one runway operating now but the major carrier, alaska airlines, grounded all planes until noon both out of seattle and portland. as we look across the country major carriers, american airlines canceled 263, delta 209. southwest airlines 798. united 215. domestic flight cancellations

3,897. >> last night we were scheduled to leave at 7:50 this morning and 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. trying to avoid the line and just trying to get home. this is a mess. >> we were originally meant to fly to toronto for london, england last night and our flight was canceled. then we rebooked to detroit today but that was canceled as well. so we just tried to get another flight to toronto or detroit and there is nothing left for us. >> flight aware.com puts out the misery map. you can see the red, those are cancellations and flight delays. yesterday it looked like denver and the twin cities really cornered the market for misery. now they have shared it with the rest of the nation. misery is spread all over the place.

houston is getting it pretty bad. in chicago the snow didn't got that bad or the roads never got that bad. plows can deal with it. it got cold. negative seven and warmed up to a negative five with windchill that makes it feel like negative 30. back to you. >> molly: thank you for keeping an eye on that across the nation. we asked you to get to the top of everest you would give me a couple of weeks. you're in a warm, toasty spot. folks are cold across the country. thank you. we appreciate it. president biden -- >> president biden: i sincerely hope this holiday season will drain the poison that has infected our politics and set us against one another. 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. >> molly: president biden is returning to the uniter in chief

mode at the white house yesterday. critics remember the polarizing remarks attacking maga republicans from earlier in the year. one tweet on biden's unity speech says the guy who tried to turn americans against each other over a vaccine and yells about half the country being fascist. spare us. another writing last year's christmas message wasn't a hit. he warned the unvaxxed faced a winter of severe illness and death. jimmy failla host of fox across america to weigh in on all of this. the sparkly coat going. >> i was trying to distract between the -- i'm kidding. i mention iq. if joe biden was a christmas song he would be dumb. what an idiot thing to say. it speaks to such a lack of self-awareness. as everybody pointed out on twitter there is no one more

divisive in this year than joe biden. let's take it further. not only did he call the pandemic of the unvaccinated. not only did he say mag yeah republicans were semi fascists but called georgia's voter i.d. law jim crow on steroids and it broke every record known to man. this white house lives in a depth of shame. they will say anything. they don't care if it's true or disproveable. they know the media doesn't push back. karine jean-pierre in a year where we've had millions of people cross the border got up to the podium this week saying the border is closed. apparently the border i department files as closed. it's pronouns are bull and crap. in what world with a straight face could you say that but that's who they are. >> molly: the president's remarks. lighting the christmas tree. standard procedure and we remember before october the

vilifying maga republicans. is this all part of what you can expect? part of the theater. nothing out of the ordinary here. >> politics as usual in that yes, they say one thing and doing another because like we said the case history of him dividing us. if anything, he did get the message that he needed to hire a knew light and sound team after the philadelphia a bomb nation where he was in the blood red lights and looked like he was an extra in jaws and cursed out half the country. if anything he is trying to go toward the center and the spirit of the season. i ain't buying that even if the democrats promise to forgive the loan afterwards. >> molly: that's for 2023. we'll see what happens. the u.s. marine corps. they may soon stop using the words sue and ma'am to address drill instructors. the marine corps asked for this report two years ago and notes the army, navy and coast guard

tell recruits to address officers by rank and last name. in part gender identifiers prime recruits to visually search for a gender first. >> this is embarrassing and horrifying. the military's job is to hurt the enemy, not to focus on our own hurt feelings. what makes it is scary is they are mentioning leadership, officers, drill instructors. the toughest people we're supposed to have. we're five years away from having a military oh ice called me an infidel today, i'm not fighting today. we'll have tanks with bumper stickers that says hate has no war here. it's war. if you can't stare down a pronoun how about staring down enemy fire. this generation will decide there wasn't enough diversity in

the boats and turn around. it's bad. >> molly: we'll see what actually happens with that. merry christmas, happy new year. excited you were able to join us. appreciate it. >> try not to get emotional. just go. >> molly: thanks for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" coming up after the break. ♪ ♪ mercedes-benz is turning electric... completely on its head. bringing legendary design... and state-of-the-art technology... to a fully-electric suv.

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