georgia state trooper. he is my hero, he's watching today, dad, i love you, i watched him go out, a torn uniform, blood on the shirt -- they need to be enforced and loved. >> thank you for your father's service and your service, congressman, and you are absolutely right here every day is law enforcement appreciation day. thank you to everyone for watching and supporting and now here is "america reports." >> john: we will second that here on "america reports," thank you, emily. fox news alert, murder suspect bryan kohberger awaits his next court hearing, and they are puzzled why a surviving roommate waited eight hours to call police especially since she says she saw the masked suspect in the house at the time of the murders. >> we hear from a woman in a similar situation, it happened three decades ago. she says she understands why that roommate froze in fear.

here so explain thoughts coming up, plus mark furman whether defense attorneys could use this to their advantage in a trial. >> it's a photo op, they cleaned up the streets, show them clean, not like they look normally. >> we were hoping he would get to see the chaos he has caused. this is a self-inflicted wound and he is the inflicter, it's ridiculous. >> one word for biden, enforce the laws. he does not have create new laws, just enforce them. >> john: president biden in mexico city after finally visiting the southern border for the first time ever since taking office. but critics say it was just a photo op for the president as he eyes a re-election bid in 2024. i'm john roberts in washington. welcome to a new week, sandra. >> sandra: sandra smith in new york. this is "america reports." a trip the president has avoided

making for nearly two years now, residents and border officials say biden failed to get a full grasp of the crisis in the three hours he spent in el paso, he chose not to speak with any migrants or residents and skipped out on seeing the areas most affected by this migrant surge. in fact, migrant camps were cleared out before the president even set foot on the ground there. >> john: following his stop in el paso, he flew over the border into mexico where he will meet with mexico's president later today to discuss how the two countries can work together to address widespread human smuggling and drug trafficking. topics that texas governor greg abbott brought attention to in a letter he handed to the president yesterday. "the new york post" saying too little too late. >> sandra: complete coverage now, brandon judd is standing by, but first griff jenkins,

live at the southern border in eagle pass, texas. griff, what is the latest on the president's trip there? >> well, good afternoon, sandra. he will soon have bilateral meetings with mexico's president and canada's prime minister and what's unclear, whether there will be any discussion or plans coming from the meeting about how to combat the cartels. let me take you up to the fox flight drone team and show you here in eagle pass, this is the del rio sector, one of the hardest hit areas, we just had crossers coming and the important point to note that nobody, whether it is humans or narcotics crossed that river, the rio grande without the cartels' knowledge and somebody paid for it and the cartels have been flexing their muscle in recent days in the wake of the arrest of el chapo's son, he was also arrested in 2019 after a lot of bloodshed and they released him. now the cartels are declaring war on the mexican cartels

demanding el chapo's son be released after killing 30 people and downing two military planes. why when greg abbott met with him on the tarmac, and one of the list of demands was to label cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. no indication the white house intends to do that. this comes after el paso's visit where as you mentioned the president saw the port of entry enforcement operations but witnessed no migrants, despite cbp this morning telling fox news there were 518 migrant encounters in the el paso sector alone in the last 24 hours. we spoke to a local landowner here in eagle pass. what she had to say about the president's visit. take a listen. >> the dam's already burst. you can't put your finger in it and stop the flow now, it's too late. they want to go further into our country. we are the voice trying to warn the rest of our country.

we can't hold the line. your government is not holding the line. these people are coming to your front door. martha's vineyard, welcome to the border. >> and let us just show you some of the video from early this morning before the sun came up, you've got 164 migrants in this large group, they come every day like clockwork as i've often said, like an amazon delivery. you can count on it, it's unclear how many migrants were from the four countries of venezuela, nicaragua, cuba or haiti, where new policy will expell them under title 42. as far as the president's meeting, closed press but he will meet and discuss priorities according to the national security advisor, jake sullivan. >> sandra: griff, thank you. john. >> john: brandon judd is the president of the national border patrol council, he joins us now. brandon, did president biden get

a full view of what's happening on the border there yesterday or kind of get a village view of the border? >> politics, it was nothing more than politics, and i don't care about politics. i don't care about democrat, republican, independent, liberal, i don't care. what we care about is we care about a secure border. every single border patrol agent, we are all extremely frustrated and upset about what happened yesterday. he spent the vast majority of his time at a port of entry. that's not where the problem is. we are not seeing the chaos at the port of entry, but between the port of entry. he did not bother spending time with the third component of cbp which is amo. he spent a very short time with border patrol agents. spent the vast majority of his time with the ofo officers at the port of entry and that's not where the cartels control stretches of our border. they control it between the ports of entry. he needed to see what was going on. did not need a sanitized version. he stacked the line with border

patrol agents on late saturday night through sunday so that the mainstream media would see something that is not normal in that area. it was wrong what he did. >> john: still, according to griff jenkins, put it up on the screen, in the 24 hours in which the president visited three of them, 518 migrants crossed the border illegally and were picked up by cpb. the president did not see any of them. should he have? >> he should have. he could have gone to where the apprehensions were taking place and done it from a safe distance. he could have seen the problem he caused. he refused to do that. again, he knew the mainstream media was going to come down there, he wanted to give them a version of what he wanted to paint, the picture he wanted to paint for the american public and by doing that, the american public says nothing is going on. it's amazing. when i travel around the country, it's amazing how few people know what's going on on the border. and unless the mainstream media calls him out, the political

watch dogs they need to be, we are not going to get a full scope of the border. >> what's the response of the rank and file of the border patrol council to the president's visit? folks there when he was there and other sectors who weren't. >> extremely frustrated, upset. again, we put that uniform on because we want to protect the american people. we would expect the president of the united states to do the same thing. we would expect governor, the governance would be about the american public. safeguard the american people. that's not what he did. that's not what he wanted to do. it was all for a photo shoot, it was a photo op and nothing more than that. >> john: we chose a sampling of some reaction from democrats to the president's visit. three of them, listen here. >> there's no doubt that there is a problem at the border and president biden recognizes it and it's common sense. we need to secure the border. >> he needs to hear about how over time the challenges that we have faced as a country on immigration, on border issues, they have grown exponentially.

>> they want to use immigrants as political footballs and they want to be able to villianize those who want to come for a better life. >> john: what's your sense of how the democratic party sees this whole thing? >> they don't want to do anything about it, that's what's frustrating. again, i'm not a political organization. we don't care about democrats or republicans, we have supported democrats in the past. what we care about is we care about the safety and security of the american people. the safety and security of our homeland. it's not political football talking about immigrants. we are talking about illegal immigration. we support legal immigration. the vast majority of the american people support legal immigration. this is illegal immigration and

congressman jaypal refuses to address that issue. president biden has in his authority to stop what is going on on the board. we can stop the cartels, after their profits, we can do everything that is necessary. we just have to have the programs and operations and that's what he refuses to give us. and by the way, if he does not go down there and see the problem firsthand he's never going to give us those programs and operations. >> john: we'll be watching and waiting to see what, if anything comes out of the meetings with mexico's president later today. as always, good to catch up with you. thanks for your thoughts, appreciate it. >> sandra: a very passionate brandon judd as he has been on this issue, you get the sense of urgency from him, and we have for quite some time. we are also going to hear from mario, the el paso deputy city manager, and byron york will weigh in. >> john: the washington examiner using the word pitemkin, russian

villages to put up fake facades and buildings to make everything look like it was good when it was not. >> sandra: brazilian authorities arresting more than 1200 supporters of former president, after what officials are calling an attempt to overthrow brazil's newly elected president along with leaders in congress and the supreme court saying yesterday's events were acts of terrorism. the supporters claim the presidential election was rigged against him. bolsonaro is hospitalized in florida with stomach pains has not officially conceded, but has condemned attacks on government buildings. >> john: new developments in the case of the missing massachusetts mother of three, ana walshe's husband brian was

arraigned charged with misleading the police. brian lied about where he was the day ana went missing. live near the courthouse in quincy, massachusetts. what did we learn in court, molly? >> quite a bit. the husband of missing cohasset mom ana walshe remains in custody on $500,000 cash bail and disturbing discoveries in open court, including the discovery of blood in the family home. and they relayed statements that they say 46-year-old brian walshe made to investigators that were not substantiated by the investigation regarding his whereabouts and activities in the hours and the days after his wife disappeared. police say 39-year-old ana walshe, a mother with three young boys, disappeared on new year's day. the investigation revealed walshe went to a home depot the next day wearing a mask and surgical gloves, paying in cash. >> he's on surveillance at that

time purchasing about $450 worth of cleaning supplies that would include mops, bucket, tops, drop cloths, as well as various kinds of tape. >> over the weekend during an extensive search of the home, a weapon was discovered. >> found blood in the basement. blood in the basement area and a knife which also contained some blood. >> brian walshe has been in trouble with the law before, pleading guilty in 2021 to federal charges stemming from the sale of two fake andy warhol paintings. he was awaiting sentencing. investigators told a family member that they last saw -- investigators were told by a family member they last saw ana walshe between 4 and 5:00 a.m. on january 1st. planned to take a rideshare to logan airport for a flight to

washington, d.c. where she owned a send home and worked during the week. police say no indication a rideshare vehicle ever came, no evidence she arrived at the airport and no record of her boarding a flight. there has been no activity on her phone since her disappearance, no activity on the credit card, however the phone was pinging the day after she disappeared. her husband, though, did not report her missing until january 4th, the same day her d.c. employer raised alarm bells. brian walshe is slated to be back in court on february 9th via a video conference. john. >> john: you'll keep watching it for us. thank you. >> sandra: 118th congress is off and running officially, and with that, so are a series of investigations promised by republicans. probes into federal agencies, the border crisis, and the biden family on the agenda, how will

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residences, all these places took in water over the weekend and last week. there are residents here that are shovelling sand still out of their buildings and the pier beyond me, a piece of it fell to the sea because of the energy last week. in for it, the whole week. it's not going to end. it's just round after round after round. we'll be well into next week until this area sees sunny skies again, john. >> john: california desperately needed rain but not like this. robert ray, live, capitola beach, california. see you soon. be sure to download the fox weather app for the latest on this severe weather and the forecast in your area. you can even go to foxweather.com or quick with your phone, snap on the qr code and it will take you to the site. >> sandra: with kevin mccarthy

house speaker, investigations, biden family business dealings, border crisis, how will the gop prioritize all this and will there be enough time for legislation noting those investigations. rich lowery is here, editor and chief of the national review, and a podcast. been a little while, good to have you on the new york set. you look at the wide array of investigations republicans have been promising. you have the hunter biden investigation, potentially, afghanistan withdrawal, the origins of covid, politization of the doj and the fbi, of huge interest for the republican party and the border crisis, of course. which direction do they go in first here? >> i think in all directions full speed ahead. all the committees will get more resources that they are in the majority, 50 new staffers, the first thing representative comer

will do on oversight, hearing into the abuse of pandemic funds, money that was stolen, money used in ways that it shouldn't have been, and then a select subcommittee set up on china, and then the same thing on biden, sorry, fbi abuses, the same time, oversight is doing biden. so, a lot there, but there's not, unfortunately, because they have a five-vote majority, not a lot of legislating they are going to be able to do, so you are not going to have much of that trade-off to deal with. >> sandra: very important point to be made there. i want to ask you about the investigations, but you pointed out james comer. he is making this suggestion and did so over the weekend, he believes the biden administration could be compromised, his words. listen. >> we are very concerned about the biden family influence pedelling. we believe they could be compromised because of the millions of dollars hunter biden and jim biden have received.

>> sandra: what does that tell you where republicans are going to go, where they believe they can get with some of the investigations. >> it underlines what he's been saying along, we are not interested in hunter biden as hunter biden, not interesting in the drug abuse or his lifestyle problems. we are interested in biden family corruption and the fact, just a coincidence wherever joe biden was given a portfolio dealing with foreign affairs with another country, lo and behold, hunter and joe's brother get lots of money to lobby or deal with some sort of representation. so the potential mother load in that investigation. direct line from the money to joe biden, they have to punch through a huge amount of skepticism on the part of the media and hostility on the part of the media will ignore it, say it's old news, hate mongering, if they can get the media to pay

attention. >> sandra: and when you sat down here we had a reporter on the border talking about the president's visit there, and "the new york post" says on the cover, too little too late, a photograph of the president meeting with the governor of that state. this is obviously a big moment. there was growing bipartisan calls for the president to visit there. i asked you when our reporter was on why did they let it get to this point? now there is even growing pressure for secretary mayorkas to step down because it's so bad. here he is responding to calls to do just that. >> i've got a lot of work to do, i'm proud to do it alongside 250,000 incredibly dedicated and talented individuals in the department of homeland security and i'm going to continue to do my work. >> you have no intention of resigning? >> i do not. i've got a lot of work to do and we are going to do it. >> sandra: should he, rich? >> of course he should. it's not problem, it's joe biden ultimately and they say if you

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>> sandra: university of idaho students returning to campus this week as murder suspect bryan kohberger remains locked up in a jail cell nearby. meanwhile, investigators are puzzled over why a surviving roommate who crossed paths with the masked suspect the night of the murders in that home chose not to immediately call the police. fox team coverage begins now. mark fuhrman standing by. but first chief correspondent, jonathan hunt live in idaho for us. jonathan, where do things stand at this hour. because of course a lot of this is focusing in on what she saw, when she saw it, and when she

ultimately called police about it. >> yeah, and there is an eight-hour gap in that. she saw the alleged killer, the surviving witness, around 4:00 a.m., it was not until 11:58 a.m. on november 13th that a 911 call was placed. now, some behavioral analysts say that is not uncommon, that she might have just frozen and then the sleep factor can be a part of that freezing as well. in the meantime, we await bryan kohberger's next court appearance right here behind me. that will come on thursday. meantime, investigators continue to build their case against him. our cameras saw them removing mattresses which are significant, of course, given at least some of the victims were stabbed to death as they slept in their beds. they also removed other items from the house over the last few

days. residents and visitors, meantime, pay tribute to the victims at a small memorial that has built up outside the house. among those visiting, this mother and son who had driven more than five hours to offer their support and sympathy. listen here to the mom. >> i feel like they have their angel wings, i know i would never be the same, but knowing that my kids are angels which can't see them would somehow warm my heart within this very sad time. >> now, bryan kohberger, the 28-year-old ph.d. criminology student remains locked up in the county jail for the moment. as students begin to come back to the university of idaho for the spring semester, officially gets underway on wednesday. it is very literally the first time many of them have set foot on campus since they fled in the wake of ur brutal

murders of their fellow students. so it's an emotional time for many of them coming back and with this further court appearance this week it will be obviously a very emotional week for so many students here in moscow, idaho. sandra. >> sandra: indeed, jonathan, thank you. john. >> john: bring in mark fuhrman, former lapd detective and fox news contributor. the murders between 4 and 5 in the morning, it was not until noon police got the call to 911, and police themselves are puzzled why it took eight hours for the call to come in. what are your thoughts about it? >> well, i think they were puzzled initially but i think that was over quite rapidly as especially when she had a description of the suspect. i think i personally want to thank dylan for what she did, because she opened the door not once, not twice, but three times and the third time she saw the

suspect. without that description of the suspect, and very accurate description, especially the bushy eyebrows, they never would have been able to make a nexus between the elantra and bryan kohberger's physical description and i think that was used not only in the cell tower warrants but in the phone warrants. so without that, i don't think that they had something solid that put him at the scene. and dylan provided that. so i think they probably thanked her for her outstanding description of a masked murderer, and let's just think about her mindset. she was a scared young kid and what -- does anybody in their wildest dream think that she thought well maybe all my roommates were murdered. not in her wildest dream. and what kind of mask was it? was it a covid mask or was it a ski mask. if it was a covid mask, we are

not really too alerted with somebody with a covid mask coming into a bank where maybe four years ago we would have been. so -- >> john: but there was something about -- >> we need to pause and not be so hard on this girl here. >> john: i don't think, mark, anybody is trying to be hard on her, but questions why she would see somebody in the house, according to the affidavit terrified her enough she was frozen in fear as he walked past. and this is a house apparently people came and went at will even if they were not living there, but wonder why she would stay in her room, lock the door and not either check with the roommates or pick up the phone. >> i had the same questions, john, and i agree with that. but she didn't, but without her we might have ultimately arrested bryan kohberger for the murder of these four students but he wouldn't probably be in custody presently.

it would have been a longer road had they not had a description, so yes, she didn't do that immediately but really nobody really knows at 19 years old what you would have done, she had been to a party, she was scared, we don't know how sophisticated she was about anything in a big city where there's crime, but certainly there wasn't crime in moscow, and so the whole environment contributed to this, but she's going to have to relive this day for the rest of her life. >> john: yeah, there's no question about that. the probable cause affidavit does lay out some evidence, apparently police have more than what was included in the affidavit. specifically to the dna sample that was on the snap button, the closure clasp of that knife sheath, we don't know if it's skin or if it's fresh blood. if it was skin potentially the defense attorneys could say somebody took his knife, yeah, a little bit of his skin on it. but if it's fresh blood that would pretty much put him at the

scene, wouldn't it? >> i think if it was fresh blood from a suspect, i think the task force would have tried to close in on him quicker, even in a consensual contact so they could see his hands. so that being said, on wednesday we have a fox special on the post arrest of this case. so in that i have a ge neo -- have a guest and he believes it is touch. >> sandra: tiktok showing a viral video so an 82-year-old veteran could finally retire. there he is there. we are going to talk to both of them about how all of this went down, and why he says he feels like a new man, john. >> john: what a specific story.

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>> sandra: president biden yesterday making his first trip to the southern border since taking office but critics say the president did not get a true sense of the ongoing crisis there. let's bring in el paso deputy city manager, thank you very much for joining us. was it worth the trip, did he see what needed to be seen? >> well, thanks for having me on. you know, it's for concept, great to come to the community to see the layout, you can see

how close we are, our proximity. our downtown el paso from downtown juarez, mexico is less than a mile apart. so they are right up against each other. and so it's good to see that type of context. our numbers have been low the last several days, really no releases in the el paso area over the last few days. unprecedented numbers, we have not seen these low numbers in a long time. it's allowing the ngos, we have been able to shut down our convention center, we had last month to house the population getting released, we were able to shut that back down. acquired two schools we are going to open up as shelters. one is still operational getting ready to close down, the other one we never even made it in an operation. that's the change in numbers the last 7 to 10 days. >> are you making the case things are improving or making the case there is a change in the last couple days, i'm not sure what you are saying here. i have the cbp sources are

telling fox that there was 518 migrant encounters in the el paso sector in just the last 24 hours alone. >> that is correct. but what i'm highlighting, too, let's go back to the week of christmas, just a few weeks back. we were at 2500 apprehensions per day. >> sandra: ok, all right. you are noting the difference we are seeing there. governor abbott is saying it's too little too late, i believe you saw when the two met, when the president arrived there. he is saying biden's $20 billion short and two years overdue, and he joined "fox & friends" earlier this morning and said this. >> i wanted to make clear, that he was receiving a sanitized review of what was going on at the border and i pleaded with him to go talk to the ranchers, thousands of ranchers along the border whose lives have been completely disrupted and have five specific proposals for you, and i pointed out those five specific proposals, that do not

require any new passage of law. >> sandra: ok, so we also understand that the camps were cleared out before the president even made this, what some are calling sanitized border stop. there are questions whether he really saw the reality on the ground there. cbp, 718,000 encounters in the first 100 days of the full year of 2023, and many critics are calling it a photo op. so, in your view, knowing this is a crisis that has been unfolding for quite some time, took the president two years to get there, does this change anything, does this help anything with the border communities? >> you know, time will tell. like i said, we've seen that drastic decrease in numbers passing through the community at this point in time. we know that's a temporary lull. we have not seen it this low in

quite some time. talked about the cleaning of the streets or getting people out of the streets. customs and border patrol had not done sweeps in the neighborhoods until probably the last 7 or 8 days, and that's when that uptick started but we have had a large group of people who have chose to stay in the streets, and so that's who customs and border patrol was patrolling on. as far as the city of el paso, the community of el paso, like i said, the numbers are low, we are not getting any local releases in el paso at this point in time, not releasing to the ngos, the churches, anybody, that's just unheard of, and that's the difficulty we have until we get the long-term administrative changes, legislative changes that need to be taken care of for immigration reform that keeps us in the state of flux, and it's difficult for municipality to scale up and scale back down. and so when you are looking at resources that involves sheltering or bussing, transportation, security, it's unfeasible to expect the

municipality to scale up and scale down in a timely fashion, being wise with dollars. >> sandra: it is a struggle for so many of those communities down there, a problem all over the country, especially when you highlight the fentanyl crisis and what is happening at the southern border. we will continue to cover the president's visits, the impact of it. appreciate you joining us today, sir, thank you very much. >> john: the fda approving a new drug, alzheimer's association calls a milestone in the treatment of the disease. but it does not come without controversy. we'll explain. >> sandra: outraged virginia parents asking what is going on with their schools. another high school in the spotlight for failing to distribute merit scholar awards to students before they applied to colleges. the investigation that uncovered it and what can be done to fix it. >> this is just so un-american, and i think ultimately we are going to find out what's going on is not only unethical and

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