calls papa bear plunge. his daughter said the first time he has built a sledding course but he did build ice rinks when he was younger. pretty cool. >> julie: i'm sorry, that's the coolest grandfather ever, look at this. it's amazing. i love that. come over, please, i need snow in order to make it happen. i'll see you again tomorrow. >> rich: molly line in for "the faulkner focus" coming up. >> molly: fox nulls alert as the year comes to a close the biden administration is taking one last chance for a victory lap on its performance in 2022. this is "the faulkner focus" and i'm molly line in for harris. over the past 12 months president biden has managed to put a positive spin on massive spending and decades high inflation. he has begged adversaries for help with oil and all-out ignored the influx at the southern border but it appears the rose covered glasses are on. americans feeling the impact

don't think 2022 was all that great. a recent fox poll shows that just 23% think this last trip around the sun was a good year. as critics point to biden's broken promises. >> president biden: without unity, there is no peace, only bitterness and fury. no progress. extreme maga republicans in congress have chosen to go backwards full of anger, violence, hate and division. it's a bill that will cut your cost of living and reduce inflation. take time to get inflation back to normal levels. a more humane policy based on family yoonfication. don't come. don't leave your town or city or community. >> molly: the white house is looking at 2022 as a success and making promises for the new year. after building the most significant legislative record

we will deliver more for the american people. we'll talk to ronna mcdaniel in a moment. jacque heinrich is live in the virgin islands with the president. >> 67% of americans say that 2022 was not a good year. a bad year. granted that is down from 78% in 2020 and 70% in 2021 but it is not a great number for a president who intends, as he says, to seek re-election. the president wants people, though, to remember the highlights. he tweeted wrapping up one of the most productive legislative sessions in recent history with 1, 2 or 65 final bills to sign. thanks to my friends in congress for making it possible. the president's team is circulating what they see as biden's greatest hit. the top advisor circulated a memo touting the president's improving approval rating and

strong support for the president's agenda. also saying it was not bad gop candidates or fall out from roe v. wade that determined what happened in the mid-terms bust the work democrats has done not fully reported on or understood. the press secretary that people can expect biden's biggest year yet coming in 2023. critics say it is turning off republicans who the president will need to partner with when they take the house next session. >> we have to show true and trustworthy leadership in america. for the rest of the twoerld see this. i don't think people around the rest of the world can fathom why we have, for example, open borders. why we have let this pandemic go on and on without searching for the truth. why we have people in leadership that are on vacation when we have a transportation problem.

>> all of this new work in the new year will not begin immediately. the president is on vacation here in the u.s. virgin islands for the new year. he hasn't even signed the omnibus government spending bill yet. we don't know how they plan to get it to him. >> molly: so much work left to be done. we appreciate it you covering it all for us. the biden administration is patting itself on the back with its year well done and some point to major mishops. a new op-ed pointing out the ten worst things joe biden did in 2022. slow military aid to ukraine, massive student loan hand-out. promoting extremists and the disasters that the country will carry in 2023. ronna mcdaniel joins me to talk about the last year. the white house finishing out the year putting a positive spin

claiming a lot of legislative victories. your thought on how the white house looks back at 2022. >> i think it's fitting that joe biden is on vacation yet again. he has been on vacation almost half of his presidency while the american people are wondering can they even afford a vacation under joe biden's administration. people are really hurting. uncertainty at its highest. layoffs, a looming recession, gas prices that are high and home heating prices that are high on top of a border crisis. i don't think the american people feel like they are doing better under joechbltd i will say this, too. we have such a divided nation. one thing we learned from the mid-term is this country is divided in way it's never been. joe biden promised unity. instead of bringing people together he is on vacation again as more and more americans are worried about our future. >> molly: the biden administration is not only putting on a positive spin. but the media said they got his

groove back. biden and team being vindicated, one calling 2022 actually not at all bad year. you raise an interesting point here. how do americans feel about where they are in life? is their life better with inflation, supply chain problems, children trying to make up all the education that has been lost? your thoughts on the actual reality that americans are facing versus the way things are being painted. >> your poll just showed it. most american people think we're on the wrong track and massive layoffs announced and inflation still there. we know it as moms dealing with the deficit of our kids coming out of the pandemic. we see what's happening at the border. joe biden painting one america that he thinks exists and the american people living in the reality of more and more uncertainty. the division is real.

we're a divided country. most americans feel we're more divided we've ever been. joe biden promised unity. he pushed our country further and further apart instead. people right now coming into the new year are looking for a leader bringing our country together and looking for a brighter future. joe biden is on vacation. >> molly: let's talk about 2023. we are almost there and have a new congress to look at and dive into and dig into. the so-called squad is adding to their roster in the new congress. five new elect are joining the group of uber progressive democrats trying to push the party further to the left. new members dealing with mayors of illinois and florida and vermont and texas and pennsylvania. this is part of this effort to pull the party, to pull the administration. "politico" says they're ready to bypass the limits of being a

first term lawmakers and using their voices to turn the party leftward. the gop will have the numbers but at the same time we see this influx on the democratic side of the aisle. your thoughts on what it means. >> pay attention. a lot of the democrats who said i'll work with republicans and show their real colors now that they are in congress. we'll see the progressive agenda like we've seen with so many democrats who run as one thing and govern as something different. we did take back the house. maxine waters won't be the head of financial services, ilhan omar will no longer be on the foreign relations committee. we won't allow the progressive democrats to take the reins of power. we did retire nancy pelosi. and that's a very, very good thing for checks and balances on the biden administration. >> molly: what will the gop accomplish? will they be able to tackle some big issues like what is happening at the border or less about legislation and more about

investigations? where do you see the new congress going? >> oversight is a big part. we have to talk about the border. kevin mccarthy put forth a clear vision what the house will do. we have to talk about the border and fentanyl and the origins of the pandemic and hold this administration accountable. this is what republicans elected us to do. we need to take the reins of power and hold the biden administration accountability and stop some of the radical agenda hurting our country now. everyone should look at the southern border and the influx of people trying to come across our border and the biden administration continually ignoring that and fighting to overturn title 42. >> molly: you talk about some of the things getting answers for questions that have been unanswered for two years now. what is the most important question that republicans should get to the bottom of when they get there? >> i think we have to look at big tech and the suppression of hunter biden laptop and real

information that was prevented from getting to the voters because of big tech and democrats colluding together and the origins of the pandemic. were we given clear information? why were our kids kept out of school? what were the policies that worked and what didn't? that's very fair and this is what winning the republican majority in the house will bring to the american people. now republicans will have the reins finally. >> molly: do you think who will be running for 2024 >> we already have a candidate announced for the presidential process has already started. debates are around the corner and primaries are around the corner and it is interesting to watch joe biden on vacation and taking a victory lap and not talking about how he is going to bring people together. that's a signal of what he means

as a president. somebody to ignore the problems of the american people and will he be running for the democrat nomination in 2024? >> molly: we're waiting to find out. ronna mcdaniel. thank you so much and appreciate you joining us. happy new year to you. >> thanks for having me. >> molly: critics crying hypocrisy after president biden announced a new policy to regulate travel from china. the president under more pressure to reveal his plans for the border as we learn some alarming new numbers. >> the bottom line is the administration won't have a conversation. it has to start in a conversation. enough with the finger pointing. who cares how we got here? how do we get out of here? >> molly: the number of illegal crossings surging to record levels and ice reportedly says it has no records on thousands of migrants released into the country with scheduled court dates. matt finn joins us live from the border in texas.

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october 1st. that's 7,000 a day. 186,000 were expelled under title 42. the vast majority remain in the country as the new report says immigration and customs enforcement admits it has no records for hundreds of thousands of migrants released with electronic monitors. migrants vowed to cross the border illegally and we'll get in. matt finn is live from the southern border in eagle pass, texas where many people are getting in. matt, to you. >> over the past couple of days we've seen a consistent flow of smaller migrant groups arriving in eagle pass. there is one behind me now. this group is growing by the hour waiting to be processed by border patrol. you will see men, women, and young children. they've been sitting here for hours now and interesting to note that many have warmer weather gear on right now.

throughout the summer and fall we see them in sweltering heat and now they are trying to brave some of the cold. worth pointing out we've noticed perhaps the most -- the greatest bolstering of the border here in eagle pass in recent memory. there are now a line of cargo containers here and this morning we are watching national guard install razor wire on top of these cargo containers. governor greg abbott's office tells us it is part of texas bolstering physical deterrents along the border. it is happening here and in the northwest in el paso where the national guard installed two miles of fencing along the border there. we have new video of yet another large smuggling bust. texas dps says 18 illegal migrants plus a child were smuggled inside tractor trailer. the driver was arrested for human smuggling. everyday people from all over the country are coming to the border to smuggle humans for some quick cash. also new video from shortly

before christmas believed to show one of mexico's most powerful cartels handing out christmas gifts in this neighborhood. the mexican president telling mexican there they should not let themselves be manipulated or should not protect these gangs. we have learned from authorities here over the past year they consistently tell us that cartels and coyotes are making a lot of money smuggling humans into the united states. >> molly: all sorts of issues. incredible pictures. thank you for bringing that to us. for more on this we have sean duffy fox news contributor and former wisconsin congressman. thank you for being here and sharing your holiday week with us. we appreciate it. matt finn just brought us these incredible pictures, the shipping containers and we know what happened with the shipping containers when arizona gave it a shot. they were told to take them

down. the efforts the states are trying to slow the influx of people, which they are barely able to handle. people are sleeping on the streets in el paso and that city spending millions of dollars. when you see this, what are your thoughts? predictable outcome for what we've been seeing. >> first off, you look at arizona and doug doocy the governor is leaving office. katie hobs a democrat will come in. the time frame to keep those barriers up with the cargo shipping containers doesn't work for arizona. abbott was elected and his state is committed to shut it down. texas will fight back hard. that's a positive. we talk about this all the time on the network. this is a humanitarian crisis to every degree possible. it is horrible and a crisis for the soufflé america, molly.

i think you have so many democrats and liberal elites who loath our country and not worthy of having a border and deciding who can and can't come into our country. like every other country in the world we're not worthy of that. open up the border and let everyone come. what is frustrating for me. this issue i was passionate about it. i would work with democrats to find a solution. there is no solution because democrats do want open borders. they want amnesty for anyone who comes across the border. so republicans, a couple million migrants ago were willing to offer some pathway to legal status, maybe not voting status but you have to secure the border. we are now well beyond that with millions of more people coming in you can't offer amnesty to everyone who broke our laws, lied to border agents. said they were threatened and came into the country. there is no solution or pathway forward. i don't know how we resolve this problem at the border. it is a conundrum. >> molly: border apprehensions

are up six times. inadmissibles are the new crisis. the number of illegals without proper documentation are surging. up 240,000. one expert quoted as saying the simple interpretation customs and border protection has been instructed to wave people through. so is this lack of a strategy, lack of explaining what will happen with 42 before and after 42, is that the actual strategy that democrats are working on implementing right now? >> thoughth is the strategy. look no further than the omnibus bill. democrats made sure that more money couldn't be used to secure the border, but they did want money to actually process people more quickly. they are not about making sure less people come. they want to make sure there aren't lines of people so tv cameras show america what's happening, they need to get the illegal migrants into the country, quickly processed and out across our nation because

they don't want the lines. the reporting that i've heard is you have 18, 19, 20 year olds doing the vetting and processing moving people through. they are waving people in. we don't know whether their criminal histories, records, good or bad people, work or suck off the government? we have no idea. there is really no vetting happening. it is a processing, getting people into a facility. onto a plane or bus and out spread across this country. it is disgraceful. >> molly: the lack of media coverage. we have been covering it non-stop. matt finn and bill melugin. some of the liberal media has shown up in the last couple days or so and pointing out the huge numbers coming across and causing problems in the cities along the border and the challenges at shelters. a lawyer for the aclu took a shot of republicans for their claims of chaos at the border. >> i think people are

overstating what is happening at the border. if you close the border for so long, of course there will be a temporary influx of people. but ultimately it will even out. the federal government has more than enough resources to deal with this. >> molly: this blows my mind. it is asking people to not believe what they are seeing. there is clearly a problem, a massive challenge down there. >> aclu, he is a liar. anyone who goes to the border and sees footage from the border knows it is an uncontrollable crisis and should be addressed. the come on and gas light the american people saying there is nothing to see, we'll let as many people in as possible not a real issue. he is a liar. the aclu has been a great organization in its past but now become a wing of the democrat party. a mouthpiece and giving cover for the democrat party. there is no credibility there. anyone who sees it, we all know what's happening at the border

and it is intentional and we know it is a crisis and little girls are being sold into sex slavery and young boys and girls are being forced into labor. it is horrific and again democrats are all to blame. >> molly: you talk about the challenges in respondsing to this for republicans. republicans will have control of the house and be at the helm in the house. does it do anything if you can't get the other side to work with some of your ideas? >> that's a great question. the 18 senate democrats who passed the omnibus bill extends funding to the end of september. you don't have to republicans have any say over the budget for another 9 or 10 months. when we do a new budget in congress republicans have to have a stiff backbone and say if we don't start to fund border security and deport people we are going to have a fight with the senate democrats and we're

willing to have a national debate on this issue. it is about american sovereignty. shutting the government down to call attention to it and call out democrats is worth it. if republicans aren't willing to do that they will lose it. i think under kevin mccarthy they'll have the fight. you will have a government shutdown to push the issue before democrats will cave and say okay, we'll secure the border and stop letting people come in illegally and make sure we have a sane policy on the southern border. that's the only way to get democrats to partner with you. >> molly: the title 42. your thoughts what happens between now and then? >> i think you will see a massive flow of people. title 42 was only used sparingly to send people back to mexico or back to their home country. you have a vast majority of those coming across the border coming into the country. the flow will continue. again it is a little rested before massive more flows come. allows the administration to set

itself up to process people more quickly when those throngs of people come into the country. in the end this is really doing nothing to fix the problem. this is just a little finger in the dike to stop the water flow from coming in. sadly, the administration has no will power to fix the problem and congress can't come together to fix it, either. as i laid out earlier. >> molly: sean duffy, thank you so much and we appreciate you joining us. happy new year to you. it is a never-end problem for southwest passengers. thousands of flights are still can cismd -- canceled. critics are talking about biden taking a vacation while people are facing this winter storm. >> our president deserves a vacation. it's the toughest job in the world. joe biden does not personify hard work and relentless pursuit and vigor.

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airport. senior correspondent mike tobin with more on all of this. the continuing chaos live from chicago midway airport. mike. >> the only thing i can tell you is the big ugly visuals are gone. the pile of bags that ex ashened in baggage claim at midway airport is moved out of sight. doesn't mean the bags are reunited with their owners. they have a hanger. we know where some of the bags are being stored. an airplane hanger. the bags are there and an effort to get the bags back in the right city, let alone in possession of the people who own them. you say that southwest airlines has got more than half of the cancellations. it goes way beyond that. if you look at the numbers, 2400 flights canceled nationwide. southwest is responsible for 2300 of those. if you look forward to tomorrow, that number drops down to 39. it is not clear if that's an extension of the fact that southwest had already canceled

2/3 of its normally-operating flights. still you have management at southwest airlines again offering an apology. >> my personal apology is the first step of making things right after many plans changed and experiences fell short of your expectations of us. we're continuing to work to make this up to you and you will hear more about that soon. but for now, we're focused on restoring the reliability and level of customer experience that you expect from us and we expect from ourselves. >> people are stranded across the nation. staying in cheap hotels, trying to get rental cars. the rental car industry some outlets are trying to price gouge and people worn out by the winter storm meltdown of 2022. >> i don't have my medicine and my charger, everything that i have, my perfume. all my personal stuff is in the

suitcase. >> my concern is really one of my bags is all christmas gifts. i just really want that back. >> spokes people for southwest airlines are not able to offer up numbers how many bags are lost, missing. they offer up a lot of new resources and directing people to the website to the find pathways to see if they can reclaim ticket money and vouchers for meals and hotels and things like that. >> molly: it is wild and still going on. woman talking about the medications. parents who car seat and stroller both checked. i can only imagine people are untangling this. thank you. critics are calling out the biden administration for its handling of the latest travel crisis. one op-ed argues the southwest airlines mess has politicians angling to rule the skies. congresswoman nancy mace said

this. >> i want to be careful about the federal coming in and regulating the airlines. when the federal government and taxpayers bail out airlines like southwest to the tune of over $7 billion, what i first want to see is an accounting of where that money went. clearly, it didn't go to upgrading and updating their technology to prepare for this kind of disaster. >> molly: with more on this fox news contributor and columnist for the hill joe concha. excited to talk to you about this. wild people are still suffering this way and trying to find their stuff and get to their destination. the op-ed says the only worst results for passengers would be to put pete buttigieg in charge. he said there will be an investigation and over the summer he met with the airlines. did government fail here as well? >> i think this is primarily on the shoulders of southwest in

this situation. i was on full three hours on fox business earlier and we spoke to the vice president of southwest pil pilot. they haven't heard from executives of southwest nearly a week later. you see it on your screen. tens of thousands of passengers impacted sleeping on floors, booking hotel rooms for nights on end they may not be able to afford. the numbers are staggering. 16,000 flights canceled in six days. total collapse of communication internally and the horrific results externaly. we can point to pete buttigieg and transportation secretary and biden administration in general is are they on top of this as well. mainly this is about a private entity in southwest simply not, as nancy mace pointed out, not using money from revenues or from government bail-outs to

upgrade the software, to create redundancy and modernize it. no other airline is having remotely any types of problems like this. southwest didn't invest where it should have. >> molly: some of the pilots and flight attendants said they saw it coming. now travelers from china will need a covid test. remember as a candidate joe biden criticized president trump going back in time a little bit for the restrictions he put on travel from china saying it is no time for donald trump's record of hysterical xenophobe yeah. are we going back in time in more than one way in some regard? >> well i can go back in time and talk about joe biden as a candidate when he promised to stop and control the virus. those were his words. as we've seen, this is a virus that will go where it is going to go and i just don't quite understand two things as far as this order with china and its air travel to here and other parts of the world in terms of

well, why are we waiting until january 5th to enact this? again i'm not sure if it makes too much of a difference. remember the days of contact tracing and trying to pin down who has the virus, who doesn't, quar an teens, lockdowns. china has had lock downs and a complete and total outbreak in the borders of that can trachlight i'm not sure any policy can do anything at this point considering that a lot of people, 70% of people in the country are vaccinated and seeing breakthrough cases and transmitted by those vaccinated and unvaccinated. i'm not sure it will make that much of a difference regardless of the rhetoric joe biden used in the past as a candidate or against donald trump. >> molly: you know, seeing people trying to get from place to place the crisis is stacking up here at home. massive winter storm last week, border, crime, inflation, some americans forced to choose

between food and heating their home. president joe biden is enjoying this relaxing vacation at the villa of a billionaire democratic donor. the bidens got the invite to the tropical island after inviting the donors to a state dinner. your thoughts on just the optics of this generally in the midst of all these challenges? and also the donor aspect. >> very few people would begrudge any president who takes a break during the holiday season. every president does it. the problem with mr. biden that seemingly every weekend is an extended holiday weekend. delaware beaches, nantucket. the r & r presidency. 59 weekend visits to delaware and not two years into the presidency. given the horrific death toll in buffalo it is above three dozen now it's the worst we've seen from a storm in 45 years going back to 1977. given the thousands of people stranded at airports for days on

end and given everything we're seeing at the u.s. southern border, well past crisis point. we're at humanitarian catastrophe levels. this trip to the virgin islands looks tone deaf because it is. it would have been a welcome surprise from republicans and democrats alike if mr. biden visited the border, visited buffalo or tried to show that he cared and by being at st. croix in an expensive house that comes from a wealthy democratic donor the optics are bad, let's face it. >> molly: interesting to see what happens when everyone returns to the scene. the government, new congress in 2023. appreciate your insights, joe, wonderful to see you. happy new year. >> hope new year to you. >> molly: new yorkers are still ding out from the storm of the century. democrats urging biden to wait

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>> molly: tragedy in buffalo as 37 people are dead in the after math of that christmas weekend blizzard now doubled the storm of the century raising questions how a city so accustomed to snow could be so endangered by it as the state of emergency continues today. robert ray is live in buffalo with how things are going. >> look at this. the heavy machinery here on one street in south buffalo three miles from downtown moving the piles, feet of snow. over 50 inches that fell in the blizzard nearly a week ago. if we look back to november,

over 100 inches in total. as you see up and down this area, this is the first time if the camera can look down this street, that this has been cleared . people have been trying to get to jobs, grocery stores and dig out since the blizzard of last weekend. as we know, unfortunately, 37 people have lost their lives. there are still national guard going door-to-door with wellness checks and you can see people trying to shovel their driveways as we take a look behind us here at the heavy machinery, still moving all of this piles of snow. temperatures in the 40s so we'll start to see a melt of the snow. it is very loud. over 450 of these heavy snow machinery moving around the city today. moving all of these piles and the thing is you mentioned how does a city like buffalo be in a situation like this? when you have a blizzard

condition that comes in so hard, so fierce for so many hours, and wreaks havoc on the area, blinding people's eyesight, trapping them in vehicles and making life hell on earth for about a week, this is what you get unfortunately. and with the new year coming up this weekend, all they can do is hope this great melt occurs and that basements are not flooded and flash flooding doesn't occur on the roads. in the meantime officials are out here trying to do their best to clear the streets. we've witnessed it this morning. yes, there is frustration but that is bound to happen when people are locked up in their homes running out of food and medicine for the past week. clearer skies ahead, clearly, in the city of neighbors, buffalo, here today. >> molly: warmer temperatures can be good news but as you point out can create some challenges. thank you so much for your reporting there. appreciate it.

president biden still weighing that 2024 run. he says he will make an announcement in early 2023. "the washington examiner" reports that as biden mulls that 2024 bid, some democrats are advising him to delay. delay that announcement. power panel cassie smutly america rising pact director and richard fowler joining me to talk about this. thank you for being here around the holidays. merry christmas, happy new year, we appreciate it. the two questions would be richard, should biden run again and when should he announce if he does? >> two great questions. first it is up to the president whether he decides to run again. let's remember, you know, a decade ago the idea of announcing your presidency in late the year before the presidential election was customary. this ideal of announcing the presidency days after the

mid-term elections is a new thing. let's remember there is only one presidential candidate announced at this point. former president donald trump. it is in biden's best interest to wait this thing out, right? there are so many unknowns, right? if we go through the pages of history, just think about the last election and the 2016 election. nobody thought in 2016 that donald trump would have been the nominee. everybody thought it would have been jeb bush, marco rubio. nobody thought in 2008 that barack obama would have been a nominee. the idea of trying to predict how it will play out days after the mid-term election, days before we seat a new congress not only problematic but not based on the history of this country. let's take a minute, pump the brakes, enjoy the new year, enjoy the new congress for a couple of days before they get at each other as throat before we decide to say is he going to run or not run. >> molly: i live up in boston

near new hampshire. we see visitors up our way. your thoughts on if the president should wait to announce and if everybody should wait to announce to get in the race. >> i'm all about taking a beat in politics. we aren't talking about random no-name candidate. this is the president of the united states. incumbent. it is very normal for there to be an understanding that he is going to run for re-election. so we're having this much of a conversation about it, i think does speak to the uneasiness of democrats about not only biden's ability to get reelected but is he up for the job for the second term? that's the question that maybe they aren't only talking about internally as he vacations at the family summit in st. croix but the american people are wondering and asking as well. are you better off now than you were four years ago? right now most americans are inclined to say no. that's the calculation that the

bidens and democrats are making right now. for republicans, yes, we should have a very robust and thoughtful primary. we have a lot of incredibly qualified people. >> molly: i'm being told we're almost out of time. enjoyed talking with you. i appreciate you being with us. thank you for watching "the faulkner focus." "outnumbered" is coming up right after the break. ♪ my name is austin james. as a musician living with diabetes, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i use the freestyle libre 2 system. with a painless, one-second scan, i know my glucose numbers without fingersticks. now, i'm managing my diabetes better, and i've lowered my a1c from 8.2 to 6.7. take the mystery out of managing your diabetes and lower your a1c. now you know. try it for free at freestylelibre.us my name is joshua florence, and one thing i learned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into,

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