gave $80 million for internalse revenue service to be able to administer these audits more fairly. actually, we lost $7 billion over this last decade from those who have not paid their taxes. >> $80 billion to recover $7 billion, that ives all the te we's have tonight. i'm in for laura ingraham and go to jason chaffetz.com. have a great week. ♪ ♪ >> a fox news alert supreme court keeping title 42 against the white white house's wishes. another mass surge of migrants at the southern border on top of the already alarming numbers we are seeing pure you are watching "fox & friends first" on wednesday morning i'm todd pie. >> carley: ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. 15,000 encounters alone including a convicted murderer and gang member. the agent stopping 14 commercial

buses caring 323 illegal migrants and traveling further in the u.s. >> if title 42 is dropped eventually we could see 14,000 encounters every single day at the border and that adds up to 5 million illegal crossings each year. life for us in washington, lucas, good morning. >> good morning todd and ashley. one of the supremes court title pandemic era that turns migrants away from the southern border will remain in place for now. 5-4 ruling, very narrow. here are the four cojustices to lift title 42, and here is justice gorsuch. the current border crisis is not a covid crisis. should not be in the business of perpetuating need to ask the same for one emergency only because elected officials had failed to address a different emergency work court of the law, not lawmakers of the last

resort. dhs is saying "people should not listen to the lies for the migrants but the border is not open and we will continue to enforce immigration laws but we do show within the constraints of decade old immigration system everyone is broken. before taking caribbean vacation, president biden weighed in. >> they will not decide until june apparently. >> some democrats urging the president to do more. what is happening at the southern border's humanitarian crisis. joe manchin, john cornyn, tony gonzalez are committed to bipartisan solutions to address the situation. >> unless they change some of their policy decision-making, you will see title fortitude to continue. we've got to win tonight and we

are grateful for it, even if it is just a band-aid that house democrats have the majority. part of that is making sure the administration is held accountable and finding ways for solutions. >> the supreme court will hear oral arguments with a argument this spring. todd and ashley. >> todd: brandon judd said agents are done waiting for the white house to stand up and do something. watch. >> what is overdue this president actually giving policies and programs to allow us to secure the border. right now if you look at title 42 come even though the supreme court said they would have to keep it in place but in the meantime the only expend about a third of the people. if you look at christmas, we just set a new record for christmas day apprehensions. it wasn't even close. that is the problem with this president and his administration. no new policies, no new operations and the border continues to be absolutely out of control and eight times we are averaging out what shall we

are apprehending. all of this is complete chaos in this president is going on vacation. what is overdue for him to give us the actual policies and programs we need. >> ashley: i want to bring in cory mills. thank you for getting up with us this morning. i was reading the ap story about the president taking this vacation, leisurely vacation to st. croix. meanwhile, the united states is really swelling as far as not being able to take too much m more. when it comes to the biden administration, they did have a plan in place to combat whatever happens post title 42, temporarily to stay in tact. what does this say, what message does this give to the american people that he is just flying off to have a vacation in the warmth while we are dealing with this at-home? >> thank you so much for having me. again, this is the state of the biden administration whether biden going to the caribbean at

the time of this cycle of coke balm or pete buttigieg with the supplying chain issues who went on leave as the lead of the department of transportation. they do not want to address the issue. we have seen that time and time again where migrant insurgency comes across and buying americans of entry time and time again. lifting title 42 come it would mean 18,000 per day coming across, not just 14,000 as todd was talking about. for more in this record high this month, record high this quarter, record apprehension this day, record terrorists on watch list yet 23 and a single month. this is more than a health crisis. this is a humanitarian crisis. this is child sex trafficking crisis and fentanyl overdose poisoning crisis. this is something we must address, we must secure our

borders and we must maintain title 42 and defund sanctuary cities. we must do it with immigration reform to make sure we keep americans of entry and putting america's lives first. >> todd: quarry, even though the title 42, the supreme court did buy at the white house time to come up with a plan. what will they do with that time? >> they will not do anything, todd. they will try to say the borders are secure like secretary mayorkas said there are no open borders and yet you see record numbers are for month. they are playing political football to cricket down the line. the whole thing is they are holding america hostage while letting people to terrorize the criminality in our cities and systems. they are trucking, buzzing, flying, training everyone in, it is a border state. this is not just texas, arizona, new mexico but we see it in my state in florida. and as far as baltimore and

maryland. we see it in north dakota. this is not just a border issue. this is an american issue. until we address this and secure our borders and look at proper immigration reform needed in the 118th congress, we will not stop this. >> ashley: you think about people saying there is a win for the right, it is a win for everyone and a crisis for all states. you can look at new york, the mayor here declared a crisis declaration because of a couple thousand, tens of thousands of migrants bust up here. when you think about title 42 stating intact for now, i mean, when it comes to the cdp, is it really helping at this point? they don't have the resources to combat the issues at the border. >> that is right on day one, defund the 87,000 irs agents that the biden administration tried to push for and reallocate that money to get the necessary

man force that we need on the border. we need to go ahead and look at the understanding this is an american last agenda. we continue to build all these makeshift and allocate tens of millions of dollars. what about the military veterans homeless on the street? why can't we address those issues? because they are too busy to get more people across to look to pass and radicalize hr one type bill that enabled these people to vote in our elections and silence the american force. this is the ultimate goal for the republican party. this is not a democrat or republican issue. this is an american issue. we must protect our sovereignty and protect the american people. >> todd: in the meantime, if you look around, obviously it is credited in new york city. but the overall numbers, the state of new york and the state of california decreasing significantly. the exit from the blue states is

palpable. since april 20, california and new york have lost 500,000 residents well, you guessed it, your state of florida, cory, gained residents and 884,000. i asked this question until i'm blue in the face no pun intended or pun intended, why don't these blue-chip states change policies that are forcing people to flee? >> look at the end of the day i've been telling people these are americans voting and they understand and see the greatness of florida, texas, the free state that we are. banning unconstitutional lockdowns, the banning of drag shows for children and sexualization not to mention porter was ranked number three in education. they actually understand what real america is states like florida and texas and these blue states who continued to go ahead with crt and esg and all these other things and lock their

citizens down, they want to escape that. not to mention soft on crime catch and release. you look at new york where nobel reforms. increasing criminality and doing nothing about it. people want those safe for america and make america florida. >> ashley: it is no shock california, new york before leaving for places like texas and florida, i get it but does it concern people like you in florida and people in texas that these people are leaving from these very liberal states? they are going to keep voting the way they did to her in states they left from. on the flip side, not concerned about it because desantis and abbott and texas imported in the midterms. >> well, i can tell you come america as governor says right there in florida. governor ron desantis incredible and a lot of people

escaping these blue states because those policies come to florida. we saw a record high owner registration for the first time in florida. we had 500,000 more republicans than democrats. that's never happened before in our history. people are not just coming to florida, but changing the registration, changing political affiliations and voting read. what we see and we tell all the time, come to florida with every state of florida. >> todd: that phrase always goes on in my head, socialism is great until you run out of others people's money. that leads to the question who will be left to turn out the lights in california? new york, illinois at the end of the day? at some point enough people will say, "we've had enough" and they will get out. >> todd, that is the whole thing. we help people say they have had enough and vote for people that don't include socialist and america last policies. use all new york as an example who actually have more seats

that flipped. some of those seats like we had with michael lawler was against dccc chair and able to push out patrick maloney. so you are starting to see not just people escaping new york, california, texas, and florida but actually people voting to try to stop these types of policies and save the state they were born and raised in. >> ashley: it was interesting to see lee zeldin come close to kathy hochul 14 points and she was not the greatest candidate. anyway, it was nice to see to get so close in new york. cory mills, thank you for getting it up with us on wednesday, happy wednesday. >> thank you. >> ashley: now a fox alert, more than people are dead with the lizard crippling buffalo. the state in more than four decades but the death toll to go up even more. military police enforcing a travel ban in buffalo with covered with snow and completely possible. the city's airport set to reopen

this morning at 11:00 p.m. eastern time. to clear the runways there and authorities warning a flight of risk as temperature set to rise throughout the remainder of the week. m people have been arrested and charged with looting following this deadly storm and the buffalo police department releasing shocking video of one ransacked store, byron brown publicly condemning and the lowest of the low those looters and still investigating across the city. >> todd: people are sick. banning tiktok on government advice is effective immediately after cybersecurity unit found the ad post too many security risk. i could have told you this. we have told you this. but they are just discovering this, "you are not allowed to download tiktok on devices if you have the tiktok app on the hells mobile device you will be contacted to remove it." partially blocked from state managed devices over concerns

the chinese government could use the app to track americans and since her content. one point's $7 trillion on the package, the house passed last week includes a bill pinning the app from nearly all federally managed devices. in speaking of tiktok him at the face of leading account calls out left-wing extremism on the platform finally revealing her identity. runs the lives of tiktok social media account with millions of followers, rachel says she stayed anonymous until now out of fear of retribution but she is back in town. watch. >> i realize that hatred that the left has in their violent nature. i was like, i will anonymous. and i think i will be a lot more effective when i'm not so anonymous anymore. and i'm excited. i already have a couple of speaking engagements plan for the next few months and hopefully there will be more,

but i want to do all i can to help people to fight this agenda. spay went the video shared on tiktok that show children and sexually explicit or gender identity content in classrooms. purchased by elon musk but suspended twitter due to hateful conduct. it is fair to repeat that line, all she does is post what far left wingers post in classrooms. basically, these guys get on the app and be like, "here is what i told the kids, the 8-year-olds in class." she reposed that an accused of hate speech and all sorts of horrible things she didn't do by the left and ultimately was censored by twitter until now. >> ashley: right come if it wasn't for people like her, people on the right like the parents who she said has reached out to her and asked for ways

that they could do the same and bring light to what is happening with the left, and especially the progressive left and woke ideologist. it is interesting to see this happen with her. but i thought it was interesting that the woman who worked for "the washington post" is the one -- >> todd: taylor lorenz. >> ashley: she put her location out there. she got man from twitter by elon musk because she didn't give a reason as to why but elon musk said previous doxxing behavior. granted i don't know if this is exactly what it was and there was more doxxing but if you look at the definition, publishing private information about a particular individual particularly with malicious intent. it was interesting to see that come from her when she was the one the reporter with the criminal location. but good for chaya raichik for staying with us. some people would just lay down

and give up. >> todd: this interview was fascinating in the sense she talked about how she wasn't particularly interested in social media, journalism. this wasn't her jam until the pandemic started. everybody is at home posting on tiktok and everybody have so much time on their hands. she started noticing these patterns of, what are these people teaching our kids in school? the lid was sort of pulled off by people like her. but also the parents who are over the kids shoulders on these zoom lessons thinking to themselves, "wait, when i was in school ten, 12 years ago math, reading, science but now these kids are hypersexualized and told they are not a boy or girl if they are a boy or girl and raises the question what is happening to our kids. that is important for the kids to follow up on the great work of people like this who have exposed these problems and say, not in my schools and not to my kid. >> ashley: i feel like if there was not covid, we would

not know about this. we will switch this now, check this out an 8-year-old with an internet sensation for breaking it down at his school's christmas concert, watch. >> get it! [laughter] be two in his own little world and that video shared by his mother and going viral with 600,000 lights on social media. when asked about his killer moves he said, "i feel it coming to my body and i just want to dance. i want to make people feel happy and i was feeling the vibe." >> todd: when you were in the pageant circle, did you ever feel the vibe? >> ashley: they put me in the back and i cannot dance or seeing. >> todd: so if i challenge the producers to find video, will they succeed? >> ashley: i can probably find one. spay when we've got to mind this. this is what the nation needs.

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migrants when dropped off? >> todd, that is a very good question because right now, over 1,000 have been dropped off in the transit centers and not given any resources, not given any tickets or means of how to get to where they are going. they are just being dropped there. it is primarily silent seek let the border patrol can no longer granted this asylum-seekers status and only hold for certain period of time and because of governor newsom's homeless problems in california, the shelters are full and we can't handle anymore. so the border patrol is doing is dropping them off at the transit centers with no resources. it is really taxing already populated situation here in california, not helping at all.

so the federal government needs to step up and provide housing for these asylum-seekers and not just dump them on the streets. >> todd: that is the question. where are you putting them off because you have 10,000 in san diego and 18,000 this fiscal year alone and this fiscal year begins in october. so where did they go? where are you putting them all? san diego is a large county and surrounding counties riverside, but there is not a lot of infrastructure to handle that kind of number. >> no. we've got about 600 beds. so we've been taking these asylum-seekers. we have been screening them and things like that. and some of the services that we work with, catholic charities and others, they help guide them and get them to transportation or connect with family and things like that. we are saturated. we don't have any more room. we are really concerned about

title 42. if this goes through or gets released, then we will have three or four fold and as many people coming to san diego county being dropped off. this is not a sustainable solution to just bring people here, drop them off at the transit center and say, "see you later, goodbye, you are on your own." this is taxing our resources and like i said, they started that friday. last friday where the last four days over 1,000. we have been able to absorb a few hundred, but we've got over thousand and hopefully a lot of them are actually moving on but it takes time, they are bewildered and they don't understand the system. it is just a shame the way the biden administration and the hypocrisy as they blame governor abbott and also governor desantis and the federal government is doing the exact same thing.

>> todd: governor abbott heading back after busing migrants to d.c. telling fox news digital, the migrants willingly chose to go to washington, d.c., finding voluntary consent and multiple languages does up on boarding and they were processed and released by the federal government who at historic levels at texas border towns like el paso which recently declared a state of emergency because of the biden made crisis. what i can't get over continuously throughout the border crisis saga is you have joe biden dumping these individuals and then accusing governors like greg abbott and desantis not mean you maine. where is humanity and what joe biden's doing? where is the humanity a la drove mallorca's and to defend for themselves when they don't speak a language and not getting the resources ad encourage those individuals to come here through open border policies? it makes no sense, jim.

>> you're absolutely right and it does come down to border policy. we have these open borders and not only migrants but fentanyl and other things coming across. what we are seeing is these migrants are not just from mexico but also from china, nicaragua, south america and all over the world, different languages and all of a sudden they get this asylum status and the border patrol. they can't hang onto them any longer peer of the is double on the streets in san diego county. it is not sustainable. like i said, the homeless problem, governor newsom has brought upon us and allowing people to live on the streets. here they are dumping them on the streets. it is exacerbating the problem we already have. it is not sustainable. the federal government needs to step up and give us the resources and provide the housing of a guidance for people or help them get on their way instead of just leaving them in

san diego county. the governor newsom and governor abbott is acknowledging it is a federal problem. he's doing something to protect his state but similarly governor newsom acknowledging this is a federal problem but instead of doing something to help his state, he is blaming republicans. could you get a better contrast how the left and right think about these issues? >> absolutely purity even here in california, our governor has been doing anything. we haven't heard from him at all on this issue. they have been helping from the funding to provide the shelters but it is not enough. but they will keep dumping them here. it is going to be even worse and we will have to figure out ways to help get these people out of the way when we don't have the resource for them either. we have 600 beds in san san diego county from just this issue alone. it still isn't enough unless we get resources in dallas and the

federal government, and they stop dumping these people at our transit centers that basically they can't handle the system. you know, and talking to people, i have lived here quite a while. and i don't quite understand the bus system or transit system either. to have these people that can't understand english come here to try to figure it out is just expecting too much. it is unsustainable. be one border policies and the biden administration put everyone at risk. thank you for your time come appreciate it. problems for southwest airlines passengers, thousands of flights canceled again today, but pete buttigieg says, "he's on it." speak with the secretary of transportation, what does that mean hold them accountable? >> we have enforcement tools that we have been using especially this year. we will watch to make sure they follow through. >> still not a whole lot of answers there. when can travelers expect this

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>> i want everyone who is dealing with the problems we have been facing whether you have been able to not get where you need to go were one of the heroic employees caught up in a massive effort to stabilize the airline to know that we are doing everything we can to return to a normal operation. >> yesterday, 85% of all canceled flights from southwest airlines. today, over 4100 flights have been canceled so far. more than 2500 of those are southwest, todd, ashley. >> todd: lawmakers have said about this they are working told southwest accountable for all of these cancellations, right, marianne? >> that is right. secretary of transportation pete buttigieg to take action against southwest amidst the cancellation but not exactly to say what that would entail. >> you are the secretary of transportation. what does that mean, "hold them accountable? ">> we have enforcement tools that we have been using especially this year. we can also use enforcement powers and fines to hold them to

the things they have committed to us. we will be watching. speak with the chair of the senate committee on transportation and aviation operations, safety and security sagging an investigation will be launched what caused the mask cancellations, "the problems at southwest airlines over the last several days go beyond whether a committee will be looking into the causes and these disruptions and its impact on consumers." meanwhile president biden out in the virgin islands for rnr and buried under a deadly winter storm and kind of reminds you of the time the transportation secretary took parental leave when facing a serious supply chain crisis and a real strike threat. many passengers don't seem hopeful something will be done to resolve this travel nightmare, ashley, todd. >> ashley: marianne, thanks i guess president biden was not on a southwest airlines destination

and he got to his destination. for southwest airlines, it has been a nightmare. just under 3,000 flights were canceled. now, today, as you saw in maryann's piece just there come over 4,000 flights have been canceled but look at that number, more than half of those total flights canceled have been southwest. obviously, everyone is having problems. there was a former winter weather patterns that affected 150 million plus people over the weekend. but you look up pete buttigieg and what he is saying, not the excuse but the solution is they will hold them accountable. they will find them but who is to say it won't happen again? what happened? it is so hard to try to figure out what happened. will there be accountability? will we actually get the answers we need? this was all for what happened to these people. people being stuck at the airport over holidays here there is a woman her team spoke to

yesterday, and she still doesn't have her luggage. she is in salt lake city and her luggage in dallas. she has one of those apple air tags so she knows it is on a truck headed to salt lake city. but there has been no communication when she will get it. it has been a complete nightmare. >> todd: i will answer the question whether they will be held accountable. no. people a word pete buttigieg huge dome iqs to sound tough and people should not by what these politicians are selling. he said, we will hold them accountable and this will not happen again. they said this last time and look at your screen, it is happening again. another reason this is happening, obviously, they are lines are not all to blame. it is weather delays. it also has to do with something you did during the pandemic, two things, in fact. when you mandated that the workers all get vaccines and a lot of them because you fired a

lot of them. also, you got tremendous bailout money during the pandemic so that you could keep workers on and you didn't have to furlough or didn't have to fire. somehow, you fired a lot of workers and furloughed a lot of workers and kept that money. so now, you are faced with a situation where you don't have these workers. we are in a much different economy right now. it is tough to find workers. you don't have the parties to deal with what you are seeing at the airport right now. your computer systems are outdated and all of these things are coming to a head. nothing is happening to help the american people. the american people, to your point, our suffering an pete buttigieg thing we are getting to the bottom of it. i guarantee all the ceos held in these airlines are going to make their bonuses this year while all this happens at the airports. it is sickening. >> ashley: the majority of them will get reimbursed and if they don't, that is a whole nother issue. that doesn't even matter. a reimbursement at this point is

just kind of -- >> todd: humanist christmas. >> ashley: there is so much damage down that i don't know what would help make this better. i can guarantee a lot of people flying southwest or tried to fly southwest this weekend here and right now they will never go with them again. it is more or less just bite the bullet, pay the higher price. i know there has been times, it will not fly united. i just booked a southwest flight so this makes me nervous. and i know what is making a lot of other people nervous too. because you rely on these airlines. there is another question, was there a pilot issue order staffing shortages? coupled with the weather, and you have a recipe for disaster. >> todd: ashley, the problem with your approach this is not like the nfl where you get to choose 1 of 30 teams, 32 teams. there aren't that many airlines. if you say, "i will never fly united again or southwest" you

are limiting your options. what happens when delta messes up? i'm not attacking but this is the problem with the current system. well, at the end of the day, they don't have to change because they are the ones that have all the power. it is a sad state of affairs. it is really, really tough. i'm putting my hat on for a parent come if i was traveling to see the relatives and say i have relatives in california with this mess and two kids, that is a disaster! >> ashley: it is not good. listen to this, virginia high school accused of hiding their students academic achievements all in the name of equity. >> todd: parents not happy about it and not surprising, mother who exposed all of this joins us next. you don't want to go anywhere. ♪ ♪

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♪ ♪ >> ashley: florida governor ron desantis launching an investigation into chris smith's same drag show that expose children to sexualized acts. this dancing and drag queen christmas is put on by the same company that has marketed similarly provocative shows as family-friendly. and photos from monday's fort lauderdale performance circulated online, brought the

show to desantis' attention. the department of business and regulation is actively investigating this matter, including video footage and photographs from the event exposing children to explicit activity. it is a crime in florida. two more shows and one in clearwater, florida, today and tomorrow. >> todd: who goes to this on christmas week? virginia high school accused of downplaying academic awards from students preventing them from these awards on college applications. parents say the move is due to the school's new "equal outcomes for every student without exception strategy which eliminates zeros and give students 50% just for showing up." fairfax county, virginia, parent joins me and this is insane, walk us through what happened. >> this is so unbelievable. i've seen so much and you all have also in the school systems, but this one just really blew my

mind. for many years now, decades, the national college has been giving students scholarships every year. they do it after the kids 1.5 million juniors take a psat. thomas jefferson physical science and technology is the "crown jewel" and america's education system here they probably could figure out in one weekend what southwest airlines did wrong in its scheduling. these kids are so smart. but what happened is that the last several years i've been able to identify this piece in the city journal the principal and director of student services from students, their families and the public in honor called commending students among the national merit scholarship award winners here are those, 3% of

kids in america, the number about 65,000 out of the 1.5 million and if you can believe it, the director of student services told this intrepid mother who helped to figure this out that the school wanted to recognize students as individuals, not their achievements as if the two had to be separated. in this year, the entire controversy blew up because the kids got their certificate weeks after early college application deadlines just dropped on their desk as if it was another piece of paper. this amazing mom started asking questions. just like every parent has got to do from issues of the drag queen story hours to indoctrination of the school's peer is another form of this race to the bottom that schoolst

now. >> todd: not only are the schools not hiding in their extreme equity agenda but actively promoting. equal outcomes for every student without exception here they are not hiding anymore. what is the incentive to achieve? you mention people didn't want identified by achievements. what is the incentive for students to achieve if you are suppressed by your own school? >> yeah, everybody just a single pat on the back from the teacher. motivation is so important, special at this time it is a crisis to the pandemic. what is the motivation? saving face. right now another piece for a fairfax times, the paper, the fact that just as the school system was hiding these awards, they signed multi-month contract for $631,000 for this contractor come ironically with the name of

performance facts as if, performance matters for these woke, industrial complex contractors. it is a nine month contract, and that is the company, an outsourced company that has brought this idea into the school system that they are paying for that says equal outcomes for every child. so, it is part of this agenda that is dumbing down of america. these kids are the ones, like i said, scientists coming up with solutions and things that make us pull our hair out like southwest scheduling problem. and this is important not just for this group of kids but for all of america. because there is war on america happening everywhere. >> todd: you have to ask yourself what is the next generation of employees look like if there are no standards? it is a problem for the future. asra nomani, thank you for telling us all about it and

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