>> president biden and his administration facing mounting political pressure as the white house ramps up damage control or at least tries to in the wake of the classified documents controversy. this as brand new details come to light surrounding the president's handling of a classified documents case dating all the way back to when he was a senator during the carter administration. good afternoon, and welcome to fox news live, i'm bill

melugin and gillian. >> great it would have you in week two. and the dew points in delaware, and even some democrats are supporting investigation into classified materials. and we have lucas on the lawn of the white house. >> good afternoon, gillian. and they are he a-- they are curious why the president is at his summer house in delaware. >> and the president is going to the rehoboth home, does that have to do with classified documents found. >> it is relates to the documents, the president takes is seriously, i would reefer you to the white house counsel's office for any new developments coming from here and as relates specifically to the investigation, i would

refer you to the department of justice. >> president biden first arrived in washington as a u.s. senator 50 years ago this month, when richard nixon was president. and and after days of ignoring reporters questions about his classified documents the president responded late this week. >> i think you're going to find there's nothing there. i have no regrets at following what the lawyers have told me they want me to do. it's exactly what we're doing. there's no "there" there. >> and the new head of the intelligence committee has written why he received response to a letter he wrote 10 days ago in response to this classified documents discovery. gillian. >> lucas, what are you hearing about the ongoing investigations at this point?

>> it's noted at the top that democrats are getting involved. tim kaine running for third term and democrats want answers and this will lead to this story getting more traction and now the democrats are asking about the classified materials and why it came out drip, drip, drip. >> lucas on the north lawn of the white house for us, thank you. bill, it's notable the house intelligence committee leadership, the republicans are now calling on the intelligence communities themselves to carry out this national security investigation to find out if any of the information that was in those documents reportedly, they covered everything from ukraine to the u.k. whether that potentially has any impact on future national security. bill: yeah, and the republicans are asking doj for documents and they sent a letter the other day, doj did, making it look like it's murky whether they'll give the documents and

a lot of people are talking about the hypocrisy, remember, when president trump had his documents scandal, president biden went out of his way to go on 60 minutes and tv, the infamous quote, and then you hear him there's no "there" there. >> hypocrisy in washington? >> we're joined by the representative from michigan and house and energy committee, congresswoman debbie dingell and the resources committee. congresswoman, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> good to be with you. bill: first want to get your reaction to what president biden said the other day, finally speaking out about this latest batch of documents. you heard him he essentially said, look, there's know "there" there, i've got no regrets about what happened. and what was your reaction when you heard him say that, and is that the right messaging to the american public right now? >> bill, i want to say this

that whoever handles confidential, classified material needs to take it very, very seriously and i think the -- what's been happening the last year or two as this has come out has got people asking a lot of questions. but let me be very clear, there has been a very different approach on both of these instances. these classified documents by president biden got -- and there's department of justice investigation, that was set up very quickly and clearly. so there would be an investigation and no politics, the attorney general did not want politics to apply to this, though obviously it is, and the president's cooperated. in the case of trump, it was the archives that knew the documents were missing and trying to get them back and the president wouldn't cooperate and that's why there had to be a fbi search of the home. they're taking different approaches on this. i think we need to get the facts on all sides and you

know, it makes you wonder, okay, were there other materials taken when other administrations left? we don't know. but i think we need the investigation, we need the facts, and then all of us need to look at how is classified material handled and are there things that need to be set up so we keep these from happening again. an end of an administration is chaotic, you know, the question, was this material taken deliberately or inadd ver acci accidently-- inadvertently taken? >> politics plays a part in all of this, and the biden essentially tried to hide this from the american public from better part of two months and the new york times article, headline, "68 days of silence", an excerpt. to keep the discovery of

classified information secret from the public and even most of the white house staffers, 68 days was driven by what turned out to be a futile hope that the incident could be quietly disposed of without broader implications for mr. biden or his presidency. my question to you, was hiding it from the american public the right move in this case? >> you know, i don't know that he was trying to hide it from the american public. that is a person's interpretation. the department of justice has come very quickly, i think the attorney general wants to make sure that this is a full and complete investigation. they had lawyers immediately involved. they were given the guidance how this should be handled and i do believe i want the facts and i want the facts in both cases. certainly i believe that this president has indicated he wants to cooperate. he has told people to go and look at all of his files and see if there's anything there and that's a very different approach to someone who moves boxes of classified material

because they don't want them to be found. they don't return them when they're being looked for. they have to get -- have to go and bet subpoenas to be able to look for them. i think that's a very different approach to dealing with this issue. bill: sure, i want to follow up quick. it's obvious that the white house knew about this in early november when the documents are found and cbs breaks the story and the only way the public finds about it. they hold a press conference and don't talk about the second batch and another batch last week, there's a constant drip, drip, drip. do you have concerns that the american public just was not informed about this, especially right before a midterm election? >> i want the facts. i want the department of justice to be completely thorough, completely honest, and i want the facts. there's a lot already speculation and politicalization and i do believe that the attorney general very quickly appointed a prosecutor far quicker than

he did in the trump investigation because he, too, does not want this politicized he wants the facts and i believe that you have to look at the difference in approach on these two instances and at the end of it when we get the facts, i hope this is a message to everybody that we've got to look at how classified material is handled and the danger it is. bill: and very last question, 30 seconds here, i want to ask you about the debt ceiling. i saw you tweeted about it the other day essentially saying if we don't raise it there will be dire consequences for workers and our economy. and discussing the debt ceiling, look, i understand there's going to be consequences if the debt ceiling is not raised, but the flip side of the coin are we just supposed to keep spending money we don't have and keep kicking the can down the road? what kind of a short-term solution are you looking for here? >> what i don't want is to have long-term consequences to us forego on our debt payment and the worker pay for it. the debt ceiling was raised

four times under president trump. we had a sit-down. 1.4 trillion, the largest reduction of any president and during the trump years we cut taxes and billionaires and corporations weren't paying their fair share, raised it. and we've got to sit down on this new-- not new, but partisan on both sides. i think the american people want us to look at the budget, how do we reduce the deficit, have people pay their fair share of taxes, which is something that matters and balance the budget, but not create economic chaos and endanger our economic and national security. bill: we'll see if some sort of compromise can finally come out of this, fair in washington these days. congresswoman debbie dingell, appreciate you joining us. >> thank you. bill: gillian. >> got the aisle, ashley hinton serves on both the house budget and appropriations committee.

and let's pick up where bill and rep dingell left off there. a new narrative that the president is not responsible for the classified documents found at his house, that it comes down to the fault of staff and the latest name circulated via strategic leak was that kathy young, and does it matter at the end of the day who actually moved the documents from the white house to the president's home and his think tank? >> well, gillian, first, thanks for having me on to discuss this issue. the american people deserve answers and the mainstream media may have been given president biden an automatic pass here, but iowans clearly see a double standard when they see one, right? they know what's happening here. i think it's very clear we need to make sure we have a department of justice that is not beholden to one political party and make sure that taxpayers know that their dollars are funding equal justice under the law. i can tell you this, there are

a lot of questions about these documents. it is very clear that the biden administration knew that this was happening. these classified documents were discovered before the election. so, we need to know, who knew, when did they know and why did they choose to keep it secret from the american people for, again, mo are -- more than two months and again, right before an election, there are serious questions. >> we know that the justice department was one of the elements that knew before the election and they're conducting this investigation now into what exactly the process was, how these documents ended up there. but the intelligence committee. house intelligence committee is asking for the national security appraisal. so far, they've not responded to their request for information. why doesn't the house take this up themselves? why doesn't republican leadership take this up? >> i think you'll see that from our committee chairs. they're hard at work putting together their request for information. we do have the questions that we're going to be answering of all of these department heads.

they have to come before us. accountability is coming under this house republican majority and whether it's the department of justice, the department of homeland security, every area that the biden administration has failed, the american people deserve to know the truth. you'll see jim jordan and jamie comer asking who had access to the facilities, with are are the visitor logs, when again did people know, who knew? who was responsible for transporting the documents. who is responsible for securing those documents, but at the end of the day, what it comes down to is president biden had these classified documents in places they should not have been and the american people need to know why. >> are james comer and jim jordan going to ask the same questions of the doj when it comes to president trump's alleged mishandle of the documents? >> and it's equal application of the law here not one political party over another. nobody should be above the law, what it comes down to here is

the deliberate misleading of the american people. when they knew and how many people knew and did they choose to keep it secret from the american people. >> multiple legal theories are circulated by analysts and legal experts. everything from this is a violation of the presidential records act, to it's in violation of the espionage act. does any of that matter outside of litigating this in a court of law, meaning when you and your colleagues back at the issue, when the national security community evaluates this, really what matters here is that there was a violation, correct? >> right, but i think we all agree that we need to take a serious look at how classified materials, classified documents are handled. i can assure you, i don't keep any of that in my garage. i keep all of my important documents secured in a safe in my basement, right, so that they are not available for just anybody to pilfer through. so, i think we need to be having serious conversations about how that information is

accessed, under what settings. i know as a member of congress we have to go into a secure facility, the skiff, so to speak, if we want to review those documents or briefings. how did they exit the white house and facilities and why did they end up being stored as they were. i think those are part of a broader investigation conducted by house republicans. again, it's about making sure there's not a double standard applied here, equal application under the law. jacqui: congre. >> thank you for spending time with us. >> you bet. >> and there's a pennsylvania republican brian fitzpatrick and the democrat, josh gottheimer. and over on media buzz, media fallout over the biden classified documents scandal tomorrow on fox news at 11 a.m. eastern. bill: well, gillian, in the

latest reversal of pandemic era hiring sprees, google's parent company, alphabet, is announcing a massive wave of job cuts. we're talking the company slashing 12,000 employees. in case you're wondering, that's the most cuts in the company's history. alexandria huff joining us more with the latest spring on lay yo layoffs. we're talking tens of thousands. >> almost 200,000 total. 6% of the work force. and they wrote of the difficult decision. adding this over the past two years we've seen periods of dramatic growth to match and fuel that growth. we hired for a different economic reality than the one we face today. the job losses add to those already dealt by companies like amazon, microsoft and facebook's parent company meta. and since the beginning of

2022, tech firms and startups have slashed more than 190,000 jobs. with that has come the phrase, white collar recession. with companies coming to terms with overhiring during the pandemic boom, google may have overinvested in artificial technology as well. could the mass layoff indicate darkness ahead for the rest of the u.s. economy? the white house says no. >> what we're finding given the taughtness of the labor market and 10 million vacancies, unfilled jobs out there. many folks are finding jobs and good jobs pretty quickly. >> the u.s. job growth has remained solid as a whole, 13 months above 10 million, but signs there it's beginning to soften in the face of higher interest rates. in december of 223,000 jobs were added the smallest gain in two years and in terms of tech layoffs, the white house says they'll watch closely anytime that americans lose their jobs, bill. bill: a tough way for tens of

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>> well, production on alec baldwin's now infamous film "rust" filming is expected to resume imminently. this is after halyna hutchins was shot and killed on the set of the movie. baldwin and the armorer were hit with manslaughter charges in the wake of the deadly shooting. alexis mcadams has more. >> hi, gillian. baldwin faces six and a half years if convicted in the case. he's facing charges of involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of a cinematographer on the movie set for "rust", with a disregard for safety. the shooting happened in 2021 on the movie set you're looking at in santa fe, new mexico. these pictures of baldwin were taken just after that fatal shooting.

authorities say baldwin was pointing a pistol at hutchens when the gun went off. she was killed and the movie's director was wounded in this case. this is halyna hutchins there, she was a wife and mom. the family is seeking justice as the special prosecutor say in the case there were major safety issues on the "rust" set. listen. >> we believe baldwin as a producer knows everything that goes on on the set. yeah, there was a lot of problems, there were a couple of accidental discharges, there was a lot of safety concerns that were brought to the attention of management and he did nothing about it. >> now, the special prosecutor also says, gillian, that the fbi determined baldwin did pull the trigger on that gun. a claim the actor has denied repeatedly. though questions remain as how this will all play out in court. >> instead, they're using the criminal justice system to go after somebody who, even if you think this was terrible

behavior, was not purposeful. this was not an intentional killing. nobody even alleges that, not even the state alleges that. this is what the civil justice system is for. >> we'll have to see how this plays out in court. at this time baldwin will not be an i rested though he will have to appear before the judge, but he could do that virtually. >> alexis mcadams for us this afternoon. thank you. so, bill, some pretty serious charges he's facing now. we haven't yet had comment from baldwin. i know that one of our cameras has been staked out at his new york city apartment for 48 hours now, no idea. bill: this is head scratching for me, as a gun owner first thing don't ever point a firearm at anything you're not willing to kill, and i know -- whether it's unloaded or unloaded don't point it. g

l thenied. bill: he denied that, but he's going up against the fbi specialist. gillian: and reality. bill: yes, does not fire, regardless of the hammer you have to have your finger on the trigger. he's in some legal hot water and he's been on tv saying it's somebody's fault, but not his fault, he's been saying that. a lot of media interviews for prosecutors to work with in this one. we'll have to see what happens. we'll turn now to atlanta. we're talking airport security, it's in the spotlight after a serious of incidents at atlanta international airport. this as reports uncover a record number of gun confiscations all around the country. and jonathan serrie is joining us from atlanta. what kind of security issues are we talking about? >> well, a whole range of them. right now authorities are

investigating a couple of potential security breaches involving the airport perimeter and tsa security. in one of the cases, a man apparently walked past a tsa check point without presenting identification, without presenting a boarding pass. authorities adonis murray walked past document screeners, went through the magnetometer and gathered his bags and went to an open jetway. a pilot stopped him just short of boarding a plane. a spokesperson for the transportation security administration says tsa an investigating further with law enforcement and tsa officials are working for ways to improve visibility and strengthen enforcement around document check stations. this breach game hours after police arrested another man who allegedly climbed over the airport's razor wire fence and drove a service vehicle around the airport and boarded a southwest plane coming

face-to-face with an employee in the cockpit before leaving and driving off in another service vehicle. police arrested terrence stewart fortrespfortrespassing. ts at has found a record number of guns in luggage. you're supposed to check them in and in hard cases with checked luggage. across the country, 6,542 firearms in carry-on luggage at 262 airports over the course of 2022. but even unarmed passengers caused some problems resorting to makeshift weapons. video on social media over the holidays showed a woman in miami throwing a computer at an airline agent and recently here in atlanta, a woman was seen using a fire extinguisher on several airline employees. police arrested her, but three

flight attendants had to be treated at a local hospital after they inhaled the spray, bill. bill: a lot of viral videos coming out of airports these days for the wrong reasons. thank you for that report, jonathan. >> migrant encounters along the southern borders broke records yet again. we have new details coming up next.

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let me take you quickly up to the sky drone. and we had them next to the shipping containers topped with razor wire and that's what governor abbott tried to do to get the numbers down and obviously, they've been coming and it's not just those encountered the smuggling is on the rise, too. an important part of the story, take a look at this footage that our camera man lorenzo shot embedded with the texas dps yesterday in the span of six hours, they foiled three separate smuggling attempts, more than a dozen migrants were recovered and two individuals arrested and charged with human smuggling. now, let me go back to those encounters and show you just what's happening here. if you take a look at this drone video that we put together for you, gillian, you can see title 42, migrants put on the bridge and sent back to mexico. about a dozen there. while at exactly the same time a group of more than 20 migrants crossing illegally into this area. that's exactly what we've got

here. a row involving door. now, let's go quickly into those numbers. 251,487, officially for the month of december, of which, 49,405 were title 42 expelled. that means 200,000 migrants were caught and released into the u.s. that's what frustrates border officials so very much. one more number i want to he shoe you and that's the fiscal year to date october 1st, 113 days, there have been 717,660 migrant encounters, that's essentially the population of denver, colorado, and at the heart of all of this is the control the cartels have on our border. we spoke to a mexican national named edu whether he feared the cartel? here is what he told us. >> yes, i'm somewhat scared, but the bad a guys, the cartels, we have access codes we have to give them on the trip or we'll get kidnapped and

bad things happen. griff: quick, one more look at the sky drone. you can see, here come a couple of migrants walking up the road happened 15 minutes ago, an hour ago, happens all day long, but really, the number that border patrol officials worry the most about are got-aways and the number they didn't put out publicly i'll share with you. more than 278,000 known got-aways this fiscal year, that's 2,465 a day across the border. back to you. gillian: that's griff in eagle pass. bill: and groundhog day in eagle pass, like it always is. these numbers are astronomical. we'll bring in our next guest, brandon judd. thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, bill, thank you. bill: so, let's gets into the new december numbers as griff mentioned dropped late on a friday night, once again about the third month in a row they've done this.

these numbers are jaw dropping. over 250,000 migrant encou encounters. 17 people arrested by border patrol on the fbi terror watch list and we're now up to 38 people on the terror watch list arrested at our southern border since october 1st. brandon, your reaction to these numbers. >> so the first thing we have to do is put the numbers in perspective. look at apprehension numbers. december in any typical year is our lowest month, january is our second lowest month. we just recorded the highest month ever in the history of the border patrol last december when it should have been our lowest month and that's what's scary. then of course, you look at terrorists, 17 people on the terrorist watch list in the month of december. in any typical year if we even get six per year, that's a lot. yet we had 17 in one month. this is what is so scary about border security. this is why border security is so important to the american people. when you look at the number of people that are getting into

the united states, the number of got-aways, we don't know who they are, where they're coming from, their intentions in the united states and yet, they're here and that's scary because it's ultimately going to cause harm to the american people and we don't know what that harm is going to be, it's going to be down the road, but there are going to be americans that are going to be harmed and put in danger's way because this administration won't do anything about border security. bill: house republicans are ramping up in calling for the impeachment for dhs secretary mayorkas and the house announcing this will have border hearings starting in early february. i want to pull up the video, the other day in d.c., i tracked down secretary mayorkas and asked him about some of them and tried to get an answer and didn't work out. >> excuse me, mr. secretary, any comments to republicans who are calling for your impeachment, sir? >> good morning. >> they've announced an oversight hearing for the border next month. will you cooperate, sir. sir, any comments for republicans calling for your

impeachment? we'll let you go. bill: all i could get out of him is a good morning. look, you're a border patrol agent, out there on the field and you're a president of the union of every border patrol agent in this country. where do you stand on impeachment for mayorkas, should he be removed from office, not office position. >> bill, he's a public official. he's a public official, he has a responsibility to answer the questions you asked him. he has a responsibility to be transparent to the american people. he has never been transparent. when you look at all the questions he gets asked by the media or press conference, all he does is circle talks and then at certain times, he even lies. and that's what's impeachable. when he lies to the american people he must be removed from office and then look at dereliction of duty and look at the number of people, the got-aways. somebody deported twice in virginia that was on the el salvador top 100 watch list, that's scary and that's what-- it's his responsibility to keep that under control and then look at the number of deaths

we've had because of fentanyl or opioid overdoses and that's on his watch. that's his responsibility. all of those things. lying to the american people, the dereliction of duty, all of that obviously calls for impeachment and he should be removed. the problem is, is because of the democrats control the senate he's never going to be convicted. he'll never be removed because this is all about politics. if we pulled politics out of the equation, we would actually have public officials that would do right by the american people. but because politics permeates everything that happens in washington d.c., these people are allowed to stay and that's wrong. bill: in the meantime, the crisis continues. you can see the live drone images of more migrants crossing right now. we'll see what happens with the border hearings in the g.o.p. house in the coming weeks. brandon judd, thank you for joining us this afternoon. >> thank you, appreciate it. gillian: the pentagon announced another $2.5 billion for

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>> welcome back. ukraine is paying final respects to its interior minister and more than a dozen others who were all killed in a helicopter crash near kyiv earlier this week. this, as allied defense leaders announce another massive weapons package for ukraine, but they failed to reach an agreement on providing german tanks. alex hogan is joining us live in kyiv. alex. >> hi, bill. and the fighting has not subsided in the eastern part of the country. once again today, russia is saying it's claimed small new villages near the town of bakhmut. and while it's not on its owner, potential movement of russian forces in the towns hit once again with rockets raining down this morning, creating big craters and blowing out the windows in the homes of some of the small villages where it's really just civilians who live

there. and ukrainian forces in this part of the donetsk region are calling for more weaponry, specifically tanks. although at the meeting of n.a.t.o.'s ukraine defense contract group in germany yesterday, there was no movement on that front. berlin has not signed off on leopard two tanks, nor has the u.s. on abrams. and in germany there's split stats whether they want to send that. 46% favor sending tanks and 43% oppose it. the u.s. has unveiled its second largest aid package worth about $2.5 billion. now, here in the capital today the city is mourning the loss of 14 people who died in a helicopter crash this week. those who were on board included the country's interior min senior making him the highest ranking official to die since the start of the war. loved ones and members of the government gathered for hours inside of this cultural center here in kyiv, a very emotional

service, they're carrying the casket. we can see members of the government visibly crying in what was a solemn day of mourning for the families who have lost loved ones and for the government trying to restructure. they've already tapped a new interim interior minister to replace that person in charge of not only police, but the emergency services and for people who live here just in the capital as well. we saw so many carrying flowers to go pay respects as well. bill. >> yeah, tragedy after tragedy after tragedy in ukraine. alex hogan live in kyiv for us. gillian: the biden administration is clearing a massive security package for the military $2.5 billion, most notably the delivery falls short of providing the long range missiles and the tanks that the ukrainian army has been requesting for months. and joining me, thank you for taking time with us this

afternoon, let's start with this, there's this shift of rhetoric here in washington from the bide administration this week. they're now openly talking about crimea, essentially, endorsing an offensive move by the ukrainian army should they choose to make one. take a listen to defense official sabrina singh and. >> crimea is part of ukraine, we've made that clear from the beginning and if they conduct an operation in crimea, they're within their bounds. that was sovereign part of their country illegally invaded in 2014. they have every right to take that back. gillian: what do you read that as a shift, the public shift. >> yes, crimea is equal part as the kyiv region or donetsk region and that's recognized our borders in 1991. but finally, we are speaking about crimea and the offensive

operations, which will, our general staff and the president decides and finally speaking and saying in a practical mention about the next steps according and when we're talking about the crimea. that means finally states, i mean, not only the united states, but our partners and allies and friends, they understand that it's not only the works of crimea and ukraine, that's a key to finishing the war in ukraine. and that's the key which gives actual threats to the black sea region, to the n.a.t.o. allies, to the other space and that's the military base which just has to be destroyed and taken back to ukraine as part of ukraine. and after liberated kherson, i think that crimea has to be on

a very close agenda in ukraine and within the discussion in between the higher military officials and, of course, according to the ukrainian military plans. gillian: chairman of the joint chiefs general milley, mark milley says he's not entirely optimistic about the ukrainians in the next year. >> from a military standpoint, i maintain for this year, it would be very, very difficult to militarily eject the russian forces from all, every inch of ukrainian occupied-- or russian-occupied ukraine. that doesn't mean it can't happen, that it won't happen, but it would be very, very difficult. gillian: that's at odds with what president zelenskyy has saying for months. >> he's quite right. we've seen that the plans for

the russian troops for the nearest future, that's to take the whole donetsk region under the occupation and under russian control, yes, they are quite right, but it will depend and exclusion found on the battlefield. ukrainians do not rely or believe, do not trust to any diplomatic negotiations and i think that even if someone tries to start those negotiations we'll be just not accepted by all ukrainians. the price was so high to pay for this 10 months. for sure, all of ourselves seive or counter offensive will be on the battlefield and for sure we'll see the belarus direction, whether they will start the invasion or using russians will use their-- belarus as a platform to start that front line on the end of february or in march. gillian: we've got to leave it

there. thank you for taking time with us this afternoon. we appreciate it. >> thank you very much. keep the line. bill: well, gillian, a major search for british actor julian sands missing for days after he set out on a trail, a hike made treacherous for the storms and rains that we've been reporting on in california's san gabriel mountains. details on the search after the break. and i wanted to hide from the world. for years, i thought my t.e.d was beyond help... ...but then i asked my doctor about tepezza. (vo) tepezza is the only medicine that treats t.e.d. at the source not just the symptoms. in a clinical study, more than 8 out of 10 patients taking tepezza had less eye bulging. tepezza is an infusion. patients taking tepezza may have infusion reactions. tell your doctor right away if you experience high blood pressure, fast heartbeat, shortness of breath or muscle pain. before getting tepezza, tell your doctor if you have diabetes, ibd, or are pregnant,

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>> welcome back, officials in california are searching for 65-year-old british actor julian sands. sands' wife reported him missing last week after he failed to come home from a hike in the san gabriel mountains north of los angeles. severe storms have pounded that area, creating treacherous conditions and speaking of storms, parts of the east coast bracing for more massive winter storms bringing the possibility with them of heavy snow and rain. for more on that, meteorologist adam klotz is tracking that. >> we have two systems, across the south more of a rain maker and to the north, we'll see a little more snow as it kind of makes that move. the one saturday and sunday, heavy rain across the southeast georgia into the carolinas, and then had low pressure system farther to the north. yes, it will drop a little snow in the midwest, but heavy snow in interior new england and see the pinks and purples, six

inches to a foot of total precipitation. kind of a narrow area there, but there's going to be some real snowfall coming across the white mountains and higher elevations. places that have not seen any snow whatsoever, the i-95 cor corridor. how far are we behind there, 10, 15 inches of snow as they continue to be snow-free there, bill. bill: adam klotz in the weather center, thank you for the report. gillian. gillian: fox news is mourning a treasured member of our news team. alan passed away yesterday in new jersey. in a joint statement. fox news ceo, and media director jay wallace described alan as a mentor and leader integral to our news operations, alan was just 47 years old. uhhhh... here, i'll take that. [woo hoo!] ensure max protein, with 30 grams of protein,

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gillian: the white house today is insisting that president biden takes classified intelligence very seriously. but political pressure on that claim is now mounting. new details emerge about the documents stashed at his house, his garage and his former office. welcome to fox news live here in washington, i'm gillian turner, bill, great to be with you. bill: great be with you. i'm bill melugin. in dc he's facing political fallout over classifie