>> william: over 16,000 encounters at the southern border over the christmas weekend alone, and that from border patrol sources. one agent telling us who has worked the holiday weekend saying "unprecedented numbers are overwhelming agents as they deal with this crisis without any support from leadership." i'm william. >> anita: good to be with you for our second hour of fox news live, william. one down, one to go.

anita vogel. remember title 42, the supreme court weighs what comes next. those numbers are expected to surge if the policy is lifted. art del cueto says drugs and criminal cartels will explode as well. correspondent jeff paul. hi, jeff. >> anita, with title 42 set to expire last week, many went to the border hoping for a better chance to get in. but the supreme court announcing a hold until it hears the case, it's leaving thousands in the cold not knowing what to do next. >> we turned ourselves into immigration authorities, immigration expelled us because what they told us is that everything from central america is closed off. we are waiting for title 42 to be nullified. >> even with the frigid weather,

the number is not slowing down. from friday to sunday, 16,476 encounters over the span of those three days. roughly 2100 were expelled under title 42, the remaining 14,000 were released. busiest sector was del rio, more than 4,000, followed by el paso, more than 3,000, and yuma, arizona, the third busiest with roughly 2500 encounters. now, if title 42 finally comes to an end, law enforcement personnel at the border are bracing for an even bigger increase in migrants and more people taking advantage of them. >> with lifting of title 42, our concern is the criminal activity, we will see more human smuggling, more got-aways, drugs coming into the country, border patrol will be pulled off the line. all the resources will be pulled off the line to process this massive flow of people coming across. >> this was the scene at vice

president kamala harris's house this weekend, more than 100 people were bussed from texas to d.c. on christmas eve. around 15° at the time and some were only wearing t-shirts. local organizers were on hand with blankets and trying to move them as fast as possible to a nearby church. anita, william. >> william: jeff, thanks so much. art del cueto, national border patrol vice president, not only do you do that job but have been a field agent 20 years, close to it. do you see anything changing in the next year? >> no, not at all. the only thing they might change if they lift title 42, more chaos at the border. but the border is broken, the line has been broken. this agency has not done anything to help it. administration has done nothing but create more of a magnet, and as we have seen in the past with caravans, the agency was always

not knowing what to do. they didn't have a plan. right now, they don't have a plan to lift title 42, the only ones that do have a plan are the criminal cartels that are going to continue bringing more drugs. as soon as that gets lifted, it's going to get even worse. more individuals coming into certain areas, more agents off the line and more drugs coming in and as we have talked before, apprehensions, the got-aways are a big concern, they have serious criminal backgrounds getting through the lines. >> william: feels like groundhog day, there's a large group in eagle pass, texas that just crossed over the border as well. both political parties seem to be talking past each other, right. pummel each other in the press, every day on our air, many argue we have wasted the last two years and not getting anything done. what's the voter or the viewer supposed to conclude? >> look, they have to reach out.

we have to stop screaming in this echo chamber about. that's what's been happening. we keep screaming in the echo chamber. other people need to be aware, see the reality. when you have individuals at the white house that are saying there isn't a problem, that the border is fine, we need to continue to show the pictures, reach out to people and say look, there is a problem and it's something not just affecting people on the border and definitely something that is not just affecting one political party. the drug cartels, the human smugglers, they don't care who people voted for. they just want to harm american lives and we need to reach out to these individuals and somebody needs to do -- you don't have political will to make that change. >> william: do you speak to democratic lawmakers and if you do, do they say to you honestly, listen, art, the white house has got me between a rock and a hard place, i have to take this position. but privately do they share anything with you that would illuminate us? >> look, there's a lot of

conversations that goes back and forth with different lawmakers and we try to make our point. a lot of individuals, they understand it, get it, but it does not matter how often you agree or you say you get it, you have to show that political will and make that change and that's what needs to happen right now. i'm telling you, the line is broken, the agents are out there, you know, putting their lives on the line each and every day. we are seeing this agency transport apprehensions from one sector to another, move agents from one sector to another to help, and the end of the day, more drugs are coming in, individuals are coming in, and individuals are being released regardless and we have to wait and see if they show up to court. >> william: to that point, art, we are looking at the screen and have several hundred individuals at least waiting for processing in del rio. explain to viewers what's going to happen, they are going to see an agent, take the prints, process them there in the field, and then where do these busses

take them? and i relate to that only because there's all this criticism about governor abbott sending some busses to potentially to the residence of vice president, and it's cold out there, a bad idea, nevertheless, individuals released from the border patrol and from ice are also ending up in cold cities around america. true or not true? >> correct. these people are not just staying at the border, they are going to different parts of the country. and vice president harris, saving her the trip she does not want to make to the border. to see the problem. he's bringing the border to her, he's saving her that trip. >> william: art, thanks for taking the time with us just after christmas, or christmas holiday. reports at an air field near the buffalo international airport that it's going to remain closed until 11:00 a.m. on wednesday

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>> william: president biden has been briefed on the extreme weather that has killed almost 50 across the country. the white house says it is in touch with officials in new york state after the worst blizzard in buffalo in close to a half a century. >> the city of buffalo is impassable in most areas while mains may have a lane open for emergency traffic or two, most secondaries, as well as side streets have not been touched yet. >> anita: steve bender from fox weather is standing by. it is just incredible what the storm has wrought on buffalo. but first -- go ahead. >> yeah, anita, when we look at buffalo, it's the great lakes region, blizzard is a different scenario and so when we look at this event, it is alarming. what we have seen with the death toll continuing to rise to 25 and we are likely to see that

number continue to grow. real quickly show you, buffalo airport, 43 inches of snow in the past 48 hours and several more inches and it's all because of a clipper system. we'll address that real quickly. so far, over 92 inches of snow for the entire yearly average, they expect about 95 inches of snow. this season, by the way, runs through june of 2023. so we have months to add on to that. now, the blizzard that we are talking about over the holiday, that has moved to the north. hudson bay. this is the clipper that is going to push over the great lakes late tonight into tomorrow, and add several more inches of snow not only for buffalo but watertown as well so. air temperatures back into the 20s and teens. wind chill near 0. still dangerously cold outside, as people try to dig out from their homes. remove 3 to 4 feet of snow. for buffalo, through tomorrow, snowfall clearing out and by the weekend, temperatures warming up

into the mid 40s and rainfall into the region from watertown, because of what it's going to form, the winds out of the west, snow likely through wednesday and then wednesday evening finally clearing out. and because of that, watertown could see up to another foot and a half of snow. here is the good news, though. we are going to get some relief with the warmer temperatures by wednesday. now seeing really only into the desert southwest where temperatures are below average, so there is the warmth ahead to look forward to and it will linger around for quite a while. you'll notice by thursday that's where we have the warmth that builds in the northwest to the northeast and it continues into the weekend. as we look at hagerstown, maryland, on average about lower 40s. by the latter half of the week, ten degrees above average. so a long ways to go, but there is improvement in sight. >> anita: thank goodness for that, and incredible to think buffalo can get snow into june.

but i started my television career in erie, pennsylvania i know the weather there, it does snow in june. thank you for the weather update, appreciate it. all right. yep. now senior correspondent mike tobin from chicago who is following the storm's effect on holiday travel. mike, you've been in the airport for the past couple of days, now i see you are outside. how cold is it there and how are things going there? >> it's warmed up considerably, but still pretty cold in chicago. the worst of the weather has been out of chicago now for a couple of days, but you still have a lot of problems at the airport. the way the spokesman for one of the major airlines told me you get a lot of planes that get stuck at one airport, they are supposed to be at another. the schedule gets out of sync and it takes a while with a major disruption to get the moving parts back where they belong. despite blue skies yesterday, calm skies today, you have 100 flight cancellations at midway airport and the number is on the

way. 46 flight cancellations out of o'hare. look at the major carriers, southwest airlines, a rough go through this particular storm. 1784 flights are canceled so far today, delta, being 253, united, 118. and 2,065 flights are canceled, down considerably when the weather was at its worst but still pretty bad. you made it to christmas with the family and wondering if you will make it to work tomorrow. >> i was here until 1:00 a.m. last night, got rebooked for today at 3:00, that got canceled, and now i can't find my luggage. >> i'm supposed to be to work tomorrow morning at 8:00 a.m., so yeah, a dent, and now we won't be at home until maybe thursday. >> that first woman mentioned luggage. that seems to be the trend with this round of travel disruption.

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no organization is perfect and part of the fbi obviously overreached with respect to online censorship. joining me now by phone, constitutional attorney jonathan turley, a george washington law professor and fox news contributor. professor turley, thanks for joining us today even if by phone. we always love to have you. >> thank you very much. >> anita: yeah of course. elon musk says the fbi overreached, he says he's pro fbi but their involvement crossed the line for support for donald trump, hunter biden, list goes on. >> there is a loss of space in the last few weeks for many of the censorship apologyists in congress and the media. for years they denied there was any censorship, any shadow banning, black lists, all of that was formally denied and

because of musk we now know that all of that were lies, that in fact there was extensive censorship system that was being directed in part by the fbi. so one of the questions that we have is whether twitter became an agent of the fbi for purposes of the first amendment. first amendment applies to the government, obviously, but it can also apply to agents of the government, people who are acting on the government's behest. you now have the company itself saying yeah, we did become an agent of the fbi. we were being directed by the fbi. and that makes things tougher for people who have really struggled to tell the public there is nothing to see here. and one of the things that is most disturbing, quite frankly, is that when these files came out, the fbi had tasked many of us who were raising free speech concerns and called all of us

collectively conspiracy theorists disinformation. it's a menacing thing when you have the largest law enforcement agency attacking free speech advocates. >> yeah, it is incredible. a lot of people thought something was going on behind the scenes but could not figure out what was going on, now it's out there. an op-ed you penned that says when the fbi attacks its critics as conspiracy theorists as you were just mentioning, it's time to reform the bureau. so, what do you mean by that specifically. what kind of reforms do you think are needed now? >> well you know, 50 years ago when watergate began, there was a bipartisan call for an investigation into the fbi and

other agencies and their involvement in domestic politics. and then eventually there were also investigations into the cia, and foreign intelligence agencies, part of what was called the church committee. now, that -- those investigations reformed all of these agencies. so what concerns me is that there was this group of voices back then, republicans, democrats and most certainly the media demanding these investigations. well, that has been replaced with crickets. it is complete silence. the media has another blackout on the story just like the hunter biden laptop. they are refusing to cover what are now confirmed practices like shadow banning, like censorship program in conjunction with the fbi. the fact the fbi gave millions to twitter to censor people. and all of that has been blacked

out. >> anita: it is hard to find any information on the story. of course we are covering it here at fox, have been covering it a long time. you said you were concerned that twitter became an agent of the fbi and of course, that affects the first amendment. i mean, this looks and smells so bad in terms of the bias by the fbi and other agencies also, the cia and others. are there other legal ramifications here? >> well, we have learned some really chilling things in the last couple years. perhaps most chilling is that you can have a state media without having censorship by coercion. you can have censorship by consent, you know, and really the first amendment dealt with the classic censorship problem, state agencies silencing people. what we have seen the last few years are social media companies working closely, quite frankly, with many democratic members

demanding censorship of everything from opposing views on climate change to election fraud, to many other subjects. and the question is at what point does that cooperation with thrn violate the first amendment. and it does if there is this agency relationship. now what's interesting what elon musk has done, he has done a great service to the country by releasing this information. he's confirmed the fbi paid social media companies to help them deal with what they called disinformation which most of us call censorship, but also that they were in continuing communication as were other agencies targeting specific citizens and specific posters to be banned or suspended. that really does smack of an agency relationship and that do violate the first amendment.

>> anita: yeah, it is going to be interesting and republicans say they are going to be holding hearings on this next year, so we are certainly going to be following that. jonathan turley, thank you so much for your legal insights today. always great to hear from you. >> thank you. >> william: and breaking today, a significant development in russia's war in the ukraine as president vladimir putin insists he is ready to come to the negotiating table but the strikes continue. former u.s. army intelligence and special operations soldier bret villeavich is coming up after this.

>> william: mixed signals from vladimir putin on the ongoing war in ukraine. over the weekend, barrage of russian missiles taking aim at cities across ukraine. in the southern city of kherson, russian forces reported shelling areas over 71 times. >> anita: as the russian leader says he is ready to negotiate. we will play that sound in a moment, but first to correspondent nate foy live in kyiv. hi, nate. >> hey, anita. president zelenskyy shared his peace plan with the indian prime minister but clearly the war drags on. you mentioned the russian shelling attacks over the weekend, russia says ukraine targeted an air base deep inside russian territory with a drone

and as a result of that attack, three russian service members were killed. take a look at the video, this happened in the early morning hours. you see the flash from the explosion as russia says it shot down the drone but the falling of the debris is what killed those three soldiers. ukraine is not officially taking credit for the attack, but one official calls it the consequences of the aggression. the second time this specific air base has been hit. last time was december 5th and we saw retaliatory airstrikes from the russians. take a look at this next video. president zelenskyy warning ukrainians of more airstrikes after the deadly attack in kherson. 16 people were killed, 64 more were hurt in this attack. here is president zelenskyy today with a new message as we head into the new year. >> only a few days of this year left. we must be aware that our enemy

will try to make this time dark and difficult for us. >> this comes as intense fighting continues in ukraine's east, specifically in a front line city. we are also seeing videos of members of the wagner group, a russian mercenary organization leading russia's efforts here complaining that russia's not providing them with enough weapons. russia has been pushing for the city since may, they have not been able to take it. back out here live in kyiv, temperatures are dipping below freezing, snow intermittently following throughout the day, and five regions are dealing with power consumption limits. the power efficiency rate is 50%. >> william: a former special

operations, and the statement by putin regarding a possible negotiation. >> we do not have any other choices but to protect our citizens. however, we are prepared to negotiate some acceptable outcomes with all the participants of this process. but it is their business, it is not us refuse talks, it's them. >> william: bret, is this an opening or propaganda peace? >> calls for peace negotiations are lies and propaganda. a week after he told the world there was no chance for peace, so straight out of russia's playbook. the past few months have been very educational for putin and the shock. revealed the strength of his fighting force, the strongest in the world he promoted, and now you see true colors.

members rebelling against the war, soldiers don't want to fight, and public videos back at their own military leadership, not supported by moscow, you are seeing them surrender to ukrainians in droves, they are not being fed, they are left to die on the front lines. and the conscripts, with zone someone week of some conscripted to war putin had them on the front lines, so they cannot fight. he can only lie to his own people how it's going for so long. >> william: you have given us a half dozen reasons why it would be in putin's interest to try to negotiate. why are you dismissing it out of hand? >> i hope so. i've seen where he's called for negotiations only to regroup fighters and send more missiles in. you can't refute the fact also there's been a wave of mysterious deaths inside russia from high ranking officials. so his support structure is slowing crumbling around him.

he does need to change tactics. look at the will of the ukrainian people, empowered every day. more and more they withstand the russian advances, the more power to keep fighting. i returned from ukraine where we were donating supplies, and seeing new towns being liberated every day, renewed spirit they could take back crimea, unthinkable at the beginning of the year and now you have the shopping centers and facilities inside russia are mysteriously blowing up, like random warehouses catching fire. drone strikes overnight, that was 500 miles inside at a military base. the strike was able to penetrate russian air defenses and resulted in three killed. in the end, this is one man's war, he's never wanted peace, always wanted control and i think they are surprised with the will of the ukrainian people. >> william: less than a minute, strategy. early in the war this

administration refused to send ukraine what it considered offensive or escalatory weapons. now we seem to be giving them almost everything they want. patriots, thad missile system, etc., and drones, and now they are taking the war over the border. is that strategy in retrospect a mistake and right now is this bringing putin closer to the table by taking the war over the border? >> i don't think it's the strategy is a mistake. the fact, the more russia is focused on the ukraine war, the less they have to focus on the u.s. and i think the latest statements are a sign of weakness by russia and the kremlin and exposes the fact what the u.s. is doing to help defend ukraine is working, helping to contain russia and even ukrainian soldiers on the ground admit their successes have a lot to do with the fact what u.s. and nato has done for them. extremely thankful for the u.s. support, and those who help them

the strategy seems to be working. now is the time to continue to provide weapons to the ukrainian people to defend against russia. >> william: thanks for your perspective. anita. >> anita: american voters tell fox digital how they would grade president biden's job performance in 2022. listen. >> only in there two years, and he has just tanked the country. >> as much as he has control over, which is not necessarily a whole lot, i mean, he's doing a good job keeping it together and trying to help people that need it. >> we are still dealing with rampant inflation, gas prices have been skyrocket since he canceled the pipeline. >> anita: a lot of different perspectives there. we will hear from jason and david with their own scores on the president right after this.

>> anita: president biden heading into his third year in office and midterm report card. listen to what these american citizens had to say about the president's handling of issues like the economy, immigration, and foreign relations. listen. >> on the economy, i would give joe biden an f. >> c or d. >> b, i would say.

>> f. inflation rate is absolutely ridiculous. i have friends that -- we were just talking about retail and how like everything is up like at least like 30, 40%. >> what he would do with immigration but i have not seen anything come of it. >> f minus. >> f as well. >> around a d. >> all kinds of drugs coming through the borders, trafficked kids, trafficked women. >> foreign relations give him an f. >> f. >> foreign relations f. >> i would probably give him a d because he's trying. >> anita: ok. a lot of fs in there, but i did see a b. let's bring in jason, former republican utah congressman now fox news contributor and david, obama campaign official. thank you for coming in today. so, on the big issues, the economy, inflation, foreign relations, let's talk about that. jason, to you first. let's take on the economy and inflation. because these are issues that affect everyone all over the

nation. it does not matter where you live. jason, how do you grade the president? >> shockingly, i give him an f. these are highly avoidable types of things but it's the democrat policies put in place. record high spending by the federal government, no plan to attack energy. heating oil, for instance, is up 144% over the last two years. that was not an accident, and there is no plan moving forward. the labor participation rate, you know, 20 years ago was north of 66%. now it's hovering just about 62%. it just -- there are not a whole lot of things going well here and i don't think the president actually has a plan to deal with it. >> anita: ok, david, i want you to respond to that. jason brings up some good points and the numbers don't lie. but of course there was covid and the war in ukraine, those are factors that affect the economy as well. what is your grade for the president on the economy?

>> look, you know, jason ignores the most recent trends and most recent numbers. which are actually pretty positive. inflation is down and remarkably unemployment has stayed low as well. gasoline prices, which jason did not mention are also down, and it appears more and more like some of the economic troubles that biden faced were troubles that were coming out of the pandemic where we had very low demand and then suddenly high demand and we had a chain of -- supply chain issues that really impacted the ability to get products to the shelves. and a lot of that is now being fixed, and that's why inflation numbers are much better. president biden's approval ratings are not as good as he would want, 42.3%. but notably in president trump's presidency they were 1.5% lower. >> anita: what's your grade, david? what's your grade? for the president?

>> b plus. >> b plus, all right. move on to immigration. obviously it's a huge issue right now, title 42 still in question. and a record number of immigrants and drugs pouring over the border every day. david, back to you. how do you grade the president on immigration? >> we need immigration reform, and as jason knows, the only way to have true immigration reform is for congress to pass reform. and it's a pox on both parties they have not been able to pass bipartisan legislation that would fix immigration. president biden has a very different approach to president trump toward immigration. he's doing -- he is cracking down on illegal immigrants, especially illegal immigrants with felonies and deporting them back to the countries that they came from but in order to fix the system we really need congress to pass a law that has immigration reform. >> anita: jason, you and i have

talked about this subject before, i know you have a different take. how do you grade the president on immigration and what was david's grade again on immigration, did he give you one? david? >> b. >> anita: b, ok. david, your grade on immigration. >> i mean, is there a grade lower than an f? because david, you are living in a different, on a different planet here. there is not a single metric that suggests that immigration is going in the right direction. how about we just start enforcing the current laws that are on the books. don't tell me passing a bill around, that's the way we are going to solve this problem, enforce the current law. >> anita: jason, running out of time, your grade quick. >> lower than an f, whatever that is. >> anita: all right, david and jason, thank you for joining us. i get the voters will have the final report card on that. thank you so much. william. >> william: i looked at ice

statistics this morning, 68% of those people who are in custody have no criminal record. now something else, the economy, covid, ukraine, the list of some of the top stories taking over the headlines in 2022. bill hemmer is joining us to give us a look back and what's to come in 2023. >> 2022 was another turbulent year marked by economic uncertainty, the ongoing covid pandemic, and the biggest european conflict since the second world war. those stories and many more dominate the headlines from this past year. this was the third year of the covid pandemic. 300 million cases reported worldwide by early january. that number more than doubling by december, mostly driven by omicron, dominant in the u.s. in late march. the numbers started falling over the summer, but now seeing the start of another possible surge, which is combining with flu and rsv to create a so-called

tripledemic, threatening america's healthcare system once again. russia sending troops over the border into neighboring ukraine in an all-out invasion. vladimir putin saying ukraine was threatening russia and run by "nazis," but the ukrainian military was able to stop the russian advance toward kyiv, eventually pushing the russians back to positions in the far east and south. now ukraine is on the offensive. bolstered by military aid from more than a dozen countries, including the u.s., which has spent more than $60 billion arming the ukrainians. the war having major economic consequences around the world. it helped fuel the worst inflation crisis in decades here in the u.s., with the cost of goods and services skyrocketing throughout the year as wages are

largely stagnant. the federal reserve aggressively raising interest rates, hoping to cool down the economy and relieve some of that inflationary pressure. in may, a major tragedy hitting a small texas town. a gunman killing 19 students and two teachers at the robb elementary school in uvalde. the third deadliest school shooting in american history. in the aftermath, revealed local law enforcement were on the scene for more than an hour but did not confront the shooter until members of the u.s. border patrol tactical unit arrived. perhaps the most consequential supreme court ruling in decades creating significant political upheaval. the court's new conservative majority ruling in june that abortion access is not a nationwide right. overturning the roe v. wade resident and prompting abortion bans in more than a dozen states. 2022 also marked by multiple investigations into the former president, donald trump.

perhaps the most significant, the congressional january 6th committee, kicked off televised public hearings with the goal of finding out what led to the attack on the capitol and who was to blame. >> we believe this evidence set forth in the report is more than sufficient for a criminal referral of former president donald j. trump and others. >> legal troubles escalating in argue with the raid on trump's private residence at mar-a-lago. hundreds of documents seized, many marked top secret. the former president saying he d declassified them, but no record of that. possibly exposing to charges violating the presidential records act. the end of an era. queen elizabeth ii passing away at the age of 96. her son charles becoming king charles iii after spending more than 64 years as heir to the

throne. a pair of hurricanes causing big problems in september. first up, hurricane fiona, bringing major flooding to puerto rico and the dominican republic before heading north. it hit canada as a powerful cyclone, packing hundred mile an hour winds and widespread damage. two weeks later, hurricane ian slamming the florida gulf coast. deadliest hurricane to hit the state in more than 80 years. officials there say it could take years for some coastal communities to get back on their feet. the tech world thrown into turmoil in late october after elon musk completed his $44 billion takeover of twitter. musk immediately firing thousands of employees as he warned about the company's financial situation. we elected a new congress in 2022, the midterms resulting in the house flipping control to the republicans. but there was no red wave as

anticipated with democrats actually gaining a seat in the senate. and republicans only winning a slim majority in the house. the year ending with a bang, literally. mauna loa roaring back to life after lying dormant almost four decades. tourists flocking to volcanoes national park to get up close and personal with the eruption. now looking ahead to 2023, expect covid and ukraine to dominate the headlines and close eye on congress and whether or not kevin mccarthy will have enough support to become the next speaker of the house. and of course, we will be here for all of it. until then in new york, bill hemmer, fox news. >> anita: thanks, bill. hour three of fox news live kicks off with karl rove right after this. and then it just fuels that fire.

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