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wall street journal assistant editor james freeman is here to weigh in. >> but first, no end in sight for the migrant crisis overtaking the southern border and no plan in place yet from the white house with the title 42 policy possibly ending any day now. welcome to "america reports," i'm aishah hasnie in washington. >> i'm rich edson. border patrol agents are taking drastic steps to prepare for the worst. in just a matter of days, built a massive tent in the el paso desert bigger than a football field to handle the expected overflow of migrants if title 42 is lifted. >> and "the new york post" puts it "welcome mat" for illegal immigrants. >> chad wolf is standing by, but

first matt is live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. matt. >> rick, so far today our crews have seen four different migrant groups cross into the united states. standard procedure along the southern border. the surge is not slowing down and did not slow down over the christmas holiday weekend. sources felling fox news, 16,476 encounters between december 23rd and 25 at the border. 2,150 of those migrants were expelled under title 42, but 14,326 that were released into the united states. here is the vice president for the national border patrol council responding. >> i mean, you are releasing 14,000 people, that just does not make any sense. and i know a lot of the focus is on title 42, but this is happening with title 42 still in place. so, that will give you some type of a message of how bad it is

going to get if title 42 gets removed. >> and in anticipation of title 42 potentially ending, military officials have moved hundreds of personnel to the border in el paso where they set up a wire fence. 400 soldiers from various agencies preparing for the el paso sector alone to potentially explode with migrants should title 42 end. also in el paso, texas, as you mentioned, in the middle of the desert, giant massive tent, larger than a football field, serve as an overflow processing tent should title 42 end. it depends when the supreme court will hear a challenge from 19 republican-led states who want to keep the policy in place. also new video from texas dps, yet another high speed chase. a texas dps trooper pursuing a human smuggler from north carolina here in maverick county, texas, the driver had nine illegal immigrants smuggled

in his truck, something we see so often here along the southern border. rich. >> matt, thank you. >> aishah: chad wolf, former acting dhs secretary under president trump. thank you for joining us. i want to get right into where matt left off with this giant football field-sized tent that dhs, that border patrol has had to put up in el paso, where they are expecting upwards of 5,000 people a day once title 42 is lifted. when you look at this thing, do you think deterrent? >> no, you don't. the soft sided facility they are constructing there, because all the facilities along the border are at capacity or frankly beyond capacity. and so they need more space, they need more agents to process more and more individuals. this is the strategy, unfortunately, of the biden administration is they want to

spend time, taxpayer moneys on processing more and more illegal immigrants into the country, rather than trying to solve the crisis and trying to stop the number of individuals crossing the border illegally. it's a fundamental difference in how you approach this crisis, and in their strategy, and i would say for the last 23 months, that strategy they have employed has been failing because we continue to see these pictures over and over in el paso and south texas and i agree with the individual that you had on from the border patrol council. this is with title 42 in place. all the images over the past two weeks anticipating title 42 being pulled down, what title 42 in place and dhs is only removing, i would say, less than a third of individuals under title 42. so, this crisis will continue, it will continue whether title 42 is in place or pulled down. >> aishah: talk about the administration response to this and the six-prong plan you talked about released earlier this year. obviously not working as well as they had hoped.

here is the administration, here is the white house officials talking about how they plan to deal with the end of title 42. >> we are devoting tremendous resources to address the border in a way that achieves its security and upholds our values as a country. >> what i would encourage people to do is to read the department of homeland security, they put forth a six-point plan on how they are going to move forward. >> you have the administration blasting republicans for sending migrants to the vice president's house here in washington. i mean, at the end of the day, isn't this already -- aren't we already way deep into a humanitarian crisis? there are people sleeping in the cold at the border right now. >> absolutely, and i would say we have been inside that humanitarian crisis, unfortunately, for over a year now. so that humanitarian crisis

starts well beyond they actually reach the border and are sleeping on the streets of el paso in freezing temperatures. it's the two-week, maybe four-week journey they go through at the hands of cartel members and human smugglers trying to cross the border. the amount of pain and anguish and the conditions they are put in to get across the border is a humanitarian crisis on itself. but the administration's response continues to be to try to manage the situation and you heard the secretary talk about managing it, just here in the last spending bill that passed congress. democrats, i would say congress had the ability to actually allocate some funding toward border security but they didn't. they told the american people what their plan was and the money can only be used processing and managing the crisis at the border. they have no intention of trying to stop it or curtail it or reduce it at any point, and so i think that is the fundamental shift, that's what i think most americans want to solve the

crisis instead of just trying to manage the crisis. >> aishah: absolutely, and $60 billion went to dhs and not much is going to the southern border. thanks for joining us. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> millions of americans are digging out from the brutal winter storm over half the country, and killed nearly 60 people nationwide. death toll expected to rise. dozens of storm-related deaths reported in western new york, saw more than four feet of snow and temperatures as low as minus 22°. new york state police using specialty equipment to remove stranded vehicles. meanwhile, travelers stranded at airports across the country as thousands of airlines canceled and delayed flights. southwest airlines accounts for more than 90% of those cancellations. steve is live in atlanta. steve.

>> rich, mountains of baggage piles up, tens of thousands try to make it back home after the christmas weekend. 4,500 flights canceled again today, domestic and international flights, but southwest as you mentioned bearing the brunt of that, more than 2,500 southwest flights canceled. we have been speaking to people who are really at the edge of their patience right now, saying they don't have their luggage, they don't have their clothing, and they are not getting any information about what to do next to get home. >> we literally spent half of christmas day at the airport finding another flight. and we actually drove six and a half hours here to atlanta just so that we could find another flight to get back to lax. a little skeptical still, he told me the flight is pushed back an hour, i hope it does not mean it's canceled again.

>> department of transportation said the cancellations by southwest, the level is simply unacceptable, and minutes ago president biden tweeted out that the airlines would be held accountable for these cancellations. rich, back to you. >> steve, thank you. for continuing coverage, tune into fox weather by downloading the app for free. foxweather.com. and also use your phone to scan the qr code on your screen. aishah, all the times this is going to happen. >> aishah: the airlines say we will make it up for you, but how do make up christmas, like that woman, half of christmas day -- why i'm so weary about travelling during the holidays. we talk about this almost every year. >> you want to get to the destination now, all the folks now want is their bag back and sleep at home.

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company to censor tweets during the pandemic they believed countered their covid messaging. fox team coverage now, james freeman standing by. but first, fbn hillary vaughn. >> the latest release of internal twitter company emails show both administration's under former president trump and president biden tried to insert politics into science and censor things not in their favor, and as a result, some doctors and scientists who had opposing views on covid were banned. independent journalist david swiek tweeting the trump and biden administrations directly pressed twitter executives to moderate the platforms pandemic content according to their wishes. he said in my review of internal files i found countless instances of tweets labelled as misleading or taken down entirely, because they veered from cdc guidance or differed from establishment views.

but the biden administration has flip-flopped whether or not they were involved. jen psaki admitted to routine engagement with twitter but karine jean-pierre putting distance between the white house and the tech giant. >> we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team. >> we were not involved, i can say that, we were not involved. >> sometimes censorship efforts came from inside twitter. former deputy general counsel james baker seen in the company email asking a trump tweet telling people not to be afraid of covid had not been taken down. while telling people not to be afraid was not a violation of the misinformation policy. twitter's former chief of trust and safety replied to baker that optimism was not misinformation. rich. >> hillary, thank you.

>> aishah: bring in now james freeman, assistant editor for the wall street journal editorial page and fox news contributor. a lot of this stuff, i have to say, that was suppressed was true. some came from experts, physicians, people that graduated from harvard medical school. and some of it was, the cdc's own data. so, in looking at this recent dump, was this just an o overzealous platform during a once in a lifetime platform or nefarious going on. >> nefarious, and you are seeing across this range of documents a first amendment, seemingly series of first amendment violations by the government

leaning on a social media company to regulate online speech. but this one, it had this massive disastrous consequence. the benefits of living in a society like ours is supposedly we are an open society, we debate issues, we come to the right answer. that's why our system prevailed over the soviet union, closed society in the 20th century. what we have here is government suppressing speech and leading to a catastrophic result. what they were suppressing are those people like you mentioned, martin from harvard and the others who fortunately were able to appear on this network, ignored other places, the signers of the great barington declaration, looked at the science and children were not a great risk, and instead of locking down, have focused protection. focus on protecting the elderly. it was the opposite. >> and their accounts were suspended.

james, they mail exchange we saw twitter former deputy general counsel jim baker is asking why a tweet from then president trump telling people not to be afraid of covid was not violating their covid policy, and then you have a response from twitter former head of trust and safety who says look, it's just an optimistic statement, it's not misinformation. what do you make of that? >> yeah, we needed more of those in 2020. there was too much fear mongering. there is actually a former fbi official then at twitter making this case, but this was part of the problem, and why we had this multi-trillion dollar catastrophic response that inflicted so much harm on young people, whether you look at addiction, at mental illness and the alienation related to all the shutdowns and lockdowns and separating people from the rest of society. this cost was massive. this is not a theoretical harm from the government's first amendment violation.

we saw the result. we, i say the government basically, state and federal government made the wrong decision about covid and what should have happened is instead of the government telling twitter who can be published, we should have had the open discussion, challenging a lot of these government claims that turned out to be wrong. >> aishah: james, where do we go from here? obviously house republicans come in and have a heyday, but i'm imaging it's still ongoing with other sites not owned by elon musk, where do we go from here? >> the social media sites get to decide how they operate. with the caveat if they want section 230 protection they can't be publishers, they have to be an open forum. but i hope that even democrats will see the republican oversight effort this coming year as a benefit to them

long-term. because we can't have the government dictating what can be said online. it's going to end up hurting all of us as it did in 2020. >> aishah: i would love to be a fly on the wall in side the fbi headquarters wondering what they are thinking as the dumps continue to come. james freeman, thanks so much for joining us in this very busy holiday week. appreciate it. >> thanks. >> aishah: nuts, right? we talked about it last night on special report when you hosted, and it's just unbelievable. this is one of the more brief dumps of twitter files but there was so much information i think for some conservatives are thinking told you so. we were saying this all along, we were being suppressed, shadow banned and then liberals are probably thinking ok, you know, this was a once in a lifetime pandemic. we were trying to figure it out. >> and you look at the internal arguments and that's really fascinating here, to see not even government agencies, not even executives in twitter had any idea or real direction or

real solid front moving forward as to any set of standards and what they were willing to do. some were jokes they were discussing, you talked about even the president's tweet saying, you know, don't panic, things like that. rose to a pretty high level at these companies. >> aishah: maybe it's a blueprint what not to do in the future, let's see. businesses dealing with the massive uptick in shoplifting. some retailers warning they will have to raise prices or close doors if the problem persists. details ahead on the steps now being taken to combat retail theft. >> it has been six weeks since the gruesome murders of four idaho college students. still investigators appear no closer to cracking the case. why is there no suspect despite the amount of evidence at the crime scene. >> i think bringing a private investigator is a good thing.

a lot of witnesses would rather talk to somebody besides law enforcement and may create some new information.

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this isn't something that people get away with that goes unsolved." joining us, criminal defense att attorney. three weeks does not seem to be a suspect. >> longer than that. and you cannot blame the parents of the victims for holding out hope that justice will be swift. right about now it's not looking like that. i can't help but think of a recently solved crime that took decades to be solved, and that was kristin smart. college student, disappeared, did not get justice for her until recently when paul flores was convicted by a jury. right now it's not looking so good. we literally are searching for a needle in a haystack with one clue and that's a white sedan the authorities are looking for. but other than that, there's not a whole lot they are hanging their hats on, and that's scary

from everybody's perspective. >> it's a white hyundai elantra, a popular car. we have seen a photograph of it. at this point, you know, you were saying, more than three weeks into this entire thing. what are police officers, what are police doing at this point. we know they have gotten some 10,000 tips. is that the needle in the haystack? >> you know, sifting through all the tips is going to be hard but they need to do it. what i think they should be doing at this point. how about taking a second look at those potential suspects that they quickly dismissed. i think that would be important at this point. six weeks or so into this investigation. and secondly, how about let's investigate outside the box, and i'm not suggesting that there's anything nefarious in law enforcement, but let's take a look at people, security for the campus, for example, people you would never expect. at this point you have to cast a very wide net and i think that's going to be the next best step for police and authorities in

this case. >> rich: what we know here, the evidence they have compiled so are fa. some victims had defensive wounds from fighting back, a 911 call came from inside the house from roommates, surviving roommates and a man from surveillance cleared aspects. police are searching for the white hyundai elantra, 10,000 plus tips so far and no suspect identified. when you look at that mix, what does that tell you? >> it's gonna be a very long road for authorities and for the families of these victims. honestly, i think they'll have to go through every single one of those tips, they have to hope maybe that somebody trips up. how could anybody commit such a heinous crime and then not say a word and not leave any clue whatsoever. in this day and age, you can't walk out your front door without being a few security cameras. where is all that footage. they have to clear their decks,

dig in and start investigating and thinking outside the box on this one. >> rich: how does somebody dispose of the evidence from that type of crime scene, four people. >> you know, four people -- and he or she, i'm leaning toward the perpetrator's as a we, because of the violent nature of the crime, wrap himself in bubble wrap? no weapon, no transfer evidence, have any other dna other than the victims so far. i know it's -- it was a bloody scene, so there's a lot to cull through and i know that's going to take time. but it seems like it's taking longer without any prospects on the horizon. that's the strange part about this horrific case. >> rich: while i have you here, i want your thoughts on this case out of north carolina, a disappearance. the timeline on this, this incredible case out of north carolina, november 23rd, this 11-year-old is last seen by her mother, reported december 15th

missing by her mother. december 16th, fbi joins the investigation. on the 17th, parents are charged with failing to report a disappearance and the 20th of this month, a clip of the last time she was seen. what does this mix tell you and are they looking anywhere beyond the parents here? >> this is really terrible, and they probably aren't looking anywhere beyond the parents here and they really need to start talking to the mother of this child because i'll tell you what, i don't believe a word that has come out of her mother. what mother would not report her daughter missing for three weeks and the excuse, i thought my husband, the stepfather of this child, i thought my husband was going to cause trouble for the family. that's bull, that does not make one bit of sense. authorities really need to see if they can get her talking because either she knows that her daughter, and i hope it's not the case, either knows her daughter is murdered or maybe she was afraid, maybe she did

have an abusive husband -- >> rich: how do they get her talking, push her to talk? >> push the mother to talk? if the mother knows anything, they'll want her to flip. let's say the stepfather is involved and the mother knows that. they'll want the mother to talk to save herself and so that she could be the best witness against the stepfather if these two are the only two involved. and again, this case reminds me of the lori daybell, another weird case, a mother was lying about the demise of her children. they might take a page out of that playbook in doing this investigation. >> rich: jonna spilbor, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> aishah: a federal judge has now sentenced the ringleader of the plot to kidnap michigan governor gretchen whitmer to 16 years behind bars. a look at michigan native adam

fox, convicted alongside an accomplice for plotting to kidnap whitmer from her vacation home in 2020, in retaliation to her lockdown policies. whitmer was never physically at risk because the fbi was secretly embedded in the far right militia group adam fox led. 14 members of the group were also arrested in this plot. >> coming up, despite russia and ukraine's foreign ministers floating negotiations to end the war, peace seems highly unlikely to any time soon. what vladimir putin is willing to agree to and not agree to. >> i'm not a criminal, not here, not abroad, have i committed crimes.

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every day. trust be verified. >> aishah: new york congressman elect george santos coming clean here, this will make you roll your eyes. admitting to "the new york post" he lied on the campaign trail about not only his education but also his work experience. david lee miller is live in new york city with all the details of this crazy story, david lee. >> george santos sounded apologetic and combative, a "new york times" article accuses him of lying to his past. santos admitted making false claims. >> did i embellish my resume', yes, i did, i'm sorry, it shouldn't be done, and there's -- words can't express 100% how i feel. but, i'm still the same guy, i'm not a fraud. >> in an interview with "the new york post," he said he fabricated the bachelor's degree

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coalition, and are disappointed he misrepresented his heritage. he says he will be sworn in next month and will not step down. >> aishah: david lee miller, i can't believe this is real news, here we are in 2022. appreciate you and that report. rich, and you wonder why people don't trust washington. >> rich: yeah, ok. he's coming here, apparently, you've got to think one of the big stories of the midterms how republicans managed to pick up seats in the house in new york. just a little bit of research could change that race big time. >> aishah: more to come here on "america reports." >> rich: border agents in one state intercepting enough fentanyl this year to kill everyone in north america twice. and more slipping through the cracks each day. >> aishah: irs delays the cash app crackdown. what it could mean for anyone using apps like paypal, zelle.

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a dog abandoned at san francisco international airport has a new home, thanks to a united airlines pilot. polaris was travelling with a passenger from china but the traveller did not have the proper paperwork to bring the puppy into the u.s. instead of trying to resolve the problem, the owner just gave the dog up. look at how cute his eyes are. united airlines worked to make sure polaris was taken care of until he could be adopted. guess what happened, captain william dale and his family looked into those sweet puppy eyes and stepped up. and to celebrate, united hosted an adoption party and donated $5,000 to the san francisco spca. so, everybody wins, including polaris, who gets to go home with a captain, a pilot. that's exciting. >> rich: what an adorable dog, too. and for him not to have to go through a shelter, go through the whole process, really good way to step up there. >> aishah: my new year's resolution was to adopt a dog,

and in new year's resolution fashion i have not done that. >> rich: you have a couple days left. the irs is pushing back the start of a new $600 threshold for recording payments made through apps like venmo and zelle, it comes from a backlash. art laffer is a former reagan economic adviser, freedom recipient and author of "taxes have consequences." so, art, this has been pushed back. there is bipartisan reaction to all of this that has pushed this off. does this thing ever get implemented? >> i don't think it will get implemented, to be honest. so much pushback, it's typical of the irs and congress to do stuff like this. remember when they wanted to ban

$100 bills to stop illegal payments to people, and this is the mental attitude they have is us versus them. and that's not the right way to think of taxes. we are all in the same team. taxpayers are perfectly willing to pay their taxes fair and square as long as it's not exploitive of them, and this is way too intrusive here. at these tax rates, these things, this is not the way it should go. it should go to where taxpayers love the way they file their taxes, agree with the amount of money and that's the way it should be run. they should send, polaris, by the way, pictures of polaris over to the irs to warm their hearts for all of us. >> rich: i don't know if the irs computers have the capacity to download the photos, but if you look at what's behind this thing. >> just put it on twitter, they have that. no, i'm just joking. >> rich: can't put it on tiktok, though. if you look at what the deal is -- if you look at what the deal is with this reporting

requirement, currently if a seller gets $20,000 in gross payment, and more than 200 separate payments in a calendar year, that's when they have to notify the irs and there is documents and all that involved. under the american rescue plan, it's $600 in gross payments. that's a major downgrade in how much you got to make before the irs figures this out. but if you are, let's say, somebody who does not earn an income on these apps, and the irs is not learning about it until you've got $20,000 in payments, you know, for those of us who work for a company, certainly the first $20,000 is all reported to the irs. why should these payments be let off the hook? >> i think they should be reported to the irs, it's income, they should file it and pay their taxes on it. should it be intrusive in the way of having the irs collect the data and go through it all

there, it's really intrusive. when you look at this, this is what the irs has been trying to do forever. there was this wonderful quote by henry morganthal, secretary of the treasurer under roosevelt when they were having the irs go after the people, he said you know, we have just hired 2800 irs agents, now we have to fight 45,000 business tax accountants and lawyers and it's not working. you know, this is a huge intrusion here in personal freedoms, and in personal record keeping. believe me, once these rules go into place, they are going to change their behavior and make it go around them. but it's going to put a huge burden on the overall economy. i think $20,000 is a nice threshold to go at. it's not high income, it's not the rich, these are just regular ordinary people and i think they do report their income at the end of the year. they just don't have to report it in these transactions. >> rich: does the irs find it

too difficult, too time consuming, resource intensive and too risky to go after multi-national law firms and working for them. >> what the law firms do, they hire ex-irs agents, they hire those people and then they use them this way. believe me, the large corporations do not make tax evasion mistakes in general, nor do very rich people. they really have great tax lawyers, tax accountants, deferred income specialists, all of these people and they know their taxes better than the irs agents do. the real people you want the irs agents to do is you want the tax system in part voluntary, everyone knows we have to pay taxes, i've always avowed for a low rate, broad base flat tax. say with jerry brown, 13% flat tax for everyone on the first dollar you earn and the last

dollar you earn, everyone knows what the tax bill is, everyone agrees it's basically fair. should have, a couple of cheats here and there, but the irs can handle them. if you make the tax system fair you don't need all the irs intrusion into personal lives into the computers, into the transactions that these people are making. and it does a huge burden on the economy and does cause prosperity to disappear. >> rich: art laffer, thanks so much for joining us. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> rich: you know, aishah, filing your taxes and you know, the congress a few years ago just tried to make this simpler, and you get your w-2 in the mail and it's like this again? i have to go through all this again? >> aishah: i think everyone watching collectively groaned every time we talk about the irs. never good news. here we go again, right? >> rich: and how much will you have to go through if you have a side business, all this while the federal government is in

trillions in debt. >> aishah: more than 20,000 migrants waiting in mexico to cross the border once title 42 is lifted. the white house appears more focused on the latest bus loads of migrants being dropped off outside of vice president kamala harris's home. why is the president focusing on a political dispute rather than addressing the looming surge? former dea special agent derek malts, dan hoffman and doug holtz ekin, all of that and much more as "america reports" rolls on. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you. not having to worry about the future makes it possible to make the present as best as it can be for everybody.

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