eric: president biden may be spending the weekend on the beach, but the document controversy hovering over his other home many wilmington and over the white house. that continues today. new details now emerging that as senator decades ago the president tanked jim hu carter'a nominee over the handling of classified documents. hello, everyone, i'm eric shawn. this is "fox news live." hi, arthel. arthel: hello, eric and everyone, i'm arthel neville.

the administration is under intense scrutiny as it tries to put out firestorm of criticism over a lack of transparency, but president biden says he is fully cooperating with investigators while arguing, quote, there's no "there" there. all this coming as two senate democrats are calling for a full investigation. former federal prosecutor alex little is standing by with the big picture, but first, let's go to lucas tomlinson live at the white house with the very latest. hello, lucas. >> reporter: good afternoon, arthel. many republicans asking more questions about the timeline and why the decision was made not to reveal these classified documents before the midterm elections. >> nobody should be above the law, but what it comes down to here is the deliberate misleading of the american people. again, when did they know, how many people knew, and did they choose to keep it secret from the american people. >> reporter: now two democratic senators, tim kaine and joe manchin, say they also

want to see these classified documents invested, senator manchin telling our colleagues at fox digital, quote, the reports about president biden's mishandling of classified documents are extremely irresponsible and disturbing. these allegations should be investigated fully. president biden first arrived in washington as a u.s. senator 50 years ago this month when richard nixon was president and hen 4 years later biden sank jimmy carter's pick to lead cia over the illegal possession of classified documents he had taken with him years earlier for a book. after president biden said he had, quote, no regrets, at the white house press briefing yesterday, our colleague from fox radio fold up on those to comments -- followed up on those comments. >> reporter: was his answer evented through counsel or anything like that? can you tell us that? >> it's the same thing he has said before which is he and his team are cooperating fully. that's the same, that's same, that's the same answer he has given many, many times.

>> reporter: president biden's approval rating is now hovering around 40%, near the lowest of his presidency. arthel? arthel: yeah. so, lucas, why -- do you know why more democrats are calling for an investigation into these classified documents? >> reporter: well, arthel, i think it's notable that the two democrats i rattled off earlier, tim cain and joe manchin -- tim kaine -- face tough re-elections many 2024, joe manchin being the only democrat left in congress from the state of west virginia and tim crane across the river -- tim kaine facing re-election in 2024. you saw governor young kuhn win the governorship in virginia, certainly that's a swing state. so these democrats in vulnerable sates, debbie dingell just said earlier, debbie stabenow says she won't be running for re-election in michigan. this certainly is going to be a big issue in 2024. arthel: so it seems like some of it's, bulk of it seems to be

political and some of it is about transparency. >> reporter: always here in washington, arthel. [laughter] arthel: yes. and i'm glad you remembered where you live, mr. tomlinson. [laughter] take care. eric? eric: well, arthel, president biden says his handling of the classified material is much ado about nothing, basically. can he put behind him, or will it continue as new revelations are made public, and could that continue to the next presidential race? let's bring in former federal prosecutor alex little who knows a lot about this area. alex, the says he -- the president says he has no regrets. as we just heard, republicans are accusing the administration of trying to keep this secret and hide it. is there a legal implication to all as you see it? >> let me first say i'm sure he has regreats now. this is not the -- regrets now. the legal question though, i think, is very different. there's certainly a political firestorm the, there's a political story here, but the

legal story's likely to be very narrow. there's a small subset of cock -- documents, and the question will focus on did anyone intentionally take them out of a secure facility and transfer them outside the control of the government. there's been no indication from the department of justice in any of the reporting so far that the department of justice believes that, so i expect the legal story will end much more quietly than the political one. eric: is the justice department able to narrow down -- we're told they're already asking questions of staffers, you know, who got the documents, where they the, how they ended up in the penn biden center, why were they in the garage and in the room next to the garage and in his home in wilmington? >> absolutely. you have a number of tools a federal prosecutor in a case like this, the first is voluntary interviews. they're going to ask everybody they can to sit down can be and talk to them about what they know both about the locations and about the documents. if they need to, they can compel those interviews in front of a grand jury.

they haven't appeared to take that step yet, but they certainly can if they want to. eric: could you describe the process, if goes before a grand jury, they decide whether or not to issue indictments? >> yeah. so the grand jury would hear evidence from investigators who have investigated the case and witnesses to certain aspects of it. the federal prosecutors will have an initial decision about whether or not to present the grand jury with an indictment here because that's a special counsel, there's a different set of rules. the same thing we're seeing in the mar-a-lago investigation, it's outside the normal chain of command if of the doj, and that's supposed to be done for a level of independence. when those prosecutors make a decision, they would present that to a grand jury which would ultimately have to vote on any indictment that might come. eric: any gut feeling, or is it too early from you, about how this will play out? >> i think the main thing that's missing is any sense of obstruction on the participant of the attorneys or individuals -- part of the attorneys or individuals involved. you've seen the attorneys on the biden side, as soon as they found out about this, hay tried

to cooperate as much as they could. if you're a department of justice official, that cooperation is certainly important in how you evaluate whether or not charges are going to be brought, so i think that's going to weigh haley here. eric: however, there are those who pointed out they didn't contact the fbi, hay went to the doj and the national archives, and they should have brought the fbi in early and immediately. >> yeah. i think there's lots of different players involved here, some of them have overlapping jurisdiction. i think that's the circumstances you're facing in this situation. eric: and in terms of the house oversight committee, republicans control congress and that committee, the biden administration basically is, apparently, going to stonewall the committee, is that right? >> that's the political piece of this, right? there's a dual track, one legal, the other political. and i expect you'll see a lot of stonewalling with congress, a lot of lack of cooperation because it's a whole different can line of inquiry that's going to happen there. eric: and finally, comparing this to the trump investigation, what are your thoughts on that and how this kims -- differs

from what the special counsel there is looking at? >> yeah, i think the main thing we haven't seen here is false statements to investigators and a repeated unwillingness to hand over what's already there. i think it looks like when hay found something, they pretty wick wily gave it over. will the doesn't appear to be any evidence anything was left behind which was what ultimately prompted the search warrant that the doj felt they had to go grab from mar-a-lago. there will likely be a different outcome in both situations. eric: and what do you expect, again, in biden and the trump case? >> i think in the biden case, until there's any evidence of obstruction, there's not going to be legal charges. i think the case in mar-a-lago is much more likely to lead to someone obstructing justice. whether it's an attorney, a former staffer or the president remains to be seen. eric: all right. alex little, former federal prosecutor who's in nashville for us, alex, all great to see you. thank you. >> thank you. eric: of course. arthel?

arthel: let's go to the southern border now where customs and border protection announcing this weekend that the number of encounters in december broke another record. more than a quarter million people processed many that the month alone -- in that month alone. this was before president biden announced tougher measures to curb illegal entries. griff jenkins live in eagle pass, texas, with the latest. hello, griff. >> reporter: good afternoon, arthel. and just stunning numbers, unprecedented numbers, but it's a fascinating situation. right now here many eagle pass where we are, arthel, let me take you up to our sky drone and show you what we're seeing right at this very moment. we're watching a title 42 vehicles just driving back to the mexican side because there was a vehicle-to-vehicle title 42. but yet here underneath the bridge some migrants who just crossed within the last 30 minutes are being processed. they are from ecuador. they have a few small kids in this group of just under a dozen. that is what's happening here

all day long. now, let's go right to those numbers. we can show you 251,487 migrant encounters in december, never before in history have they had a quarter of a million. 49,405 , that means 200,000 were released into the u.s. and in this number, the second number of i want to show you, that is a in the fiscal year so far since october 1st, 717,000 migrant encounters. that is essentially the population of denver, colorado. just stunning numbers. now, let me show you some footage as we were talking about that revolving door, is what i'm calling it. you can see if you take a look at video we compiled for you, you can see title 42 migrants going back while a group being processed underneath the bridge, that is the story of the border right now. it is so frustrated the border patrol agents that are exhausted after two years of crisis, the

border patrol council president brandon judd saying secretary mayorkas should pay the price. >> he has a responsibility to be transparent to the american people. he has never been transparent. all he does is circle talk. and at certain times he even lies, and that's what's impeachable. he must be removed from office. >> reporter: but as we know, arthel, we'll see if the house gop holds impeachment hearings for mayorkas, but that's highly unlikely to pass the senate and president biden will certainly veto that. arthel? arthel: hey, griff, you know, sometimes migrants will talk and come up to your cameras or come up to you. have you spoken to any migrants lately, and what have they said if you have? >> reporter: well, we have talked to them as much as we can. border patrol doesn't really let us engage with them, but i've talked to a lot of migrants in the past weeks i've been here. yesterday we talked to one mexican national who's 22 years

old. he's trying to except to his family in dallas. he leaves behind a wife and a child, and we asked him what is your top concern, what are your biggest fears, and he said the cartel is the biggest fear. he had paid $1,000 to cross, and when he got to his family, he would owe them another $5,000. he was not in apprehension, he came by our cameras and continued. we don't know where he is now or how successful he's been. but it is just the story the of these migrants. they're not coming really for the reasons many times the that we -- the criminal element, those coming for work, he's clearly coming for work. but yet at the same time, he came illegally, and has the fundamental problem. but it's important to remember it is both a national crisis and a humanitarian crisis at the same time. arthel? arthel: griff jenkins live at the border, thank you. eric? eric: arthel, the justice department reportedly investigating the company that's at the center of the lingering

infant if formula shortages that we've found across the country. the "wall street journal" the first to report the probe of abbott laboratories. experts say they found bacteria at the michigan facility last january. that a riggerred that major recall and shutdown that caused the problem. at the time the plant produced about one-fifth of you are our country's baby formula supply with brands like similac. the closure triggered massive shortages coast to coast. a whistleblower now alleges that abbott employees falsified documents and covered up food safety violations from fda inspectors, they say, before the recall. all this under investigation. arthel? arthel: well, eric, a california attorney found dead in a mexican resort. authorities there say it's a tragic accident. why the family thinks police messed up. plus, the shocking twist in the story of a man who drove his car into a mother and her baby. what happened to the person responsible for that awful hit

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hit and run in los angeles back in 2021 was shot and killed earlier this week. video shows the car he was driving as it plowed into a mother pushing her infant in a stroller, and he kept going. the suspect was only 15 at the time and was sentenced to 7 months of diversionary camp. los angeles district attorney george gascon has called the sentence, quote, an appropriate resolution. the young mother, who has since moved from l.a., told fox news, quote: the universe delivered the justice the we weren't given in court, but a much harsher punishment than he had been dealt in a court of law. police say that driver was killed on wednesday when he got into an argument with several people in a car passing by. cops are looking for the shooter. eric? eric: arthel, meanwhile, the family of a california public defender is angrily at mexican authorities. they're investigating his death last weekend. happened at a luxury resort. on the right you see elliott blair with.

he was celebrating his one-year wedding anniversary. mexican authorities say it was an unfortunate accident, but mrl play in his death, and they want their own investigation. christina coleman spoke with the family's attorney and has the latest on disturbing case in los angeles. christina, what are they saying? >> reporter: hi, eric. well, the family's attorney, case barnett, described blair as a caring, energetic and loving guy. barnett says this is video of blair and his wife enjoying the resort and spa in the coastal mexican city of rosarito just hours before he was found dead. they were dancing and appeared happy at a karaoke bar. barnett says hours later blair's wife woke up around 1:40 in the morning to hotel staff outside her dooring asking if some guy was her boyfriend. she then went downstairs, discovered her husband face down on the ground and started screaming for help. barnett says she does not know

why her husband was outside at that hour. >> in front of their hotel room many his underwear, a t-shirt and stock -- socks? it doesn't make sure that he was out there. >> reporter: mexican attorneys say blair was intoxicated, but blair's family strongly denies that claim. they say a detective at the scene told blair's wife that he had been shot. >> the cop literally walked over and looked at the body and comes back over and says, yeah, he's got a bullet hole in his head, right? why is a cop going to say that if that's not true? arkansas also blair's family wanted to have toxicology tests run on blair's body before it was embalmed as part of their own independent investigation to prove he was not intoxicated and had fallen over some balcony. however, barnett says a funeral home official had told his

family that his body had already been embalmed. it was a devastating blow for family. >> when elliott's mother said the body's already been embalmed, the family was destroyed. i mean, tim fell into the fetal position screaming, the whole family -- and this was one of those moments, also having to experience the death again. >> reporter: blair's body is still in mexico. his family is trying to get it back to the u.s. as soon as possible. barnett says the mayor of anaheim, california, is in communication with some high ranking officials in mexico to try and help family with hair efforts. eric -- their efforts. eric our prayers and thoughts with the family to try and find out exactly what happened and if there are lying about it in mexico. christina, thank you. arthel? arthel: well, eric and christina, more than a year after a deadly on-set shooting, the western movie "rust" is set

to resume production as the movie's lead ab actor and producer, alec baldwin -- along with a weapons specialist -- are facing involuntary manslaughter charges. the charges stem from the death the of the film's cinematographer, helena hutch especially. alexis mcadams has more. >> reporter: yeah, these are really serious charges that alec baldwin is facing, and he could get up to six and a half years in prison if he's convicted. he was actually spotted here in new york just in the past few days, trying to cover his face, but they did get him on camera going into his apartment building as he's facing those charges for the shooting death of sin me dog per on the set of the "rust." the k.a. citing criminal disregard for safety in this case. the shooting happened back in 021 is on this movie set out in santa fe, new mexico. these pictures taken just moments after that fatal shooting, alec baldwin calling somebody on the phone. horses say baldwin was pointing a pistol at hutchens when the

gun went off. the movie's director was wounded but is okay. she was a wife and a mom, arthel. her family is seeking justice in this case as the special prosecutor tells fox news despite the massive amount of media attention surrounding this cases, they're focused on finding the truth. >> i didn't pull the trigger. >> you never pulled the triggersome. >> no, no, no, no. i would never point a gun at anyone and pull the trigger. that was the training i had. on day one of my trunks in this -- instruction in this business, people said never take the gun and go click, click, click, click, because even though it's ine cental, you damage the firing pin on gun, don't do that. >> reporter: now that the fbi has determined baldwin did pull the trigger on the gun, a claim the actor is still continuing to deny, baldwin's attorney said in participant: mr. baldwin had no reason to believe that there was a bullet in that gun or on the movie set. he he relied on professionals who assured him the gun didn't have any live rounds.

as you heard there, they said somebody pulled the trigger, so we'll have to see what plays out in court. arthel: just such a sad and tragic story all around. okay, alexis mcadams, thank you. eric? eric: nearly two years after the murder of his wife and son, the trial for disgraced legal heir alex murdaugh begins this coming monday. straight ahead, we will dig into this baffling murder mystery and the battle over the evidence that will be admissible in court. ♪ ♪ there are some things that go better...together. like your workplace benefits... and retirement savings. with voya, considering all your financial choices together... can help you be better prepared for unexpected events. voya. well planned. well invested. well protected. oh, what's this? the sofia vergara collection at america's best? wow, amazing styles and unbelievable prices? now that's quite the duo. get two pairs of sofia vergara frames plus a free exam for $89.95 for a limited time at america's best.

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he died three days later. in illinois a judge temporarily blocking a state ban on semiautomatic firearms. democratic governor j.b. pritzker enacted the legislation earlier this month in response to a mass shooting during the july 4th parade in highland park. that killing killed 7 people and injured dozens of others. plaintiffs argue the law, though, is unconstitutional. and arizona's democratic congressman expected to challenge senator kirsten kyrsten sinema in 024. she abandoned the party after midterms and registered as an independent. sinema has not yet announced whether she's going to run for re-election, but this match ifup may split the liberal vote, they say, if rubin does run in the grand canyon state. arthel? arthel: eric, thank you. well, jury selection begins next week in the double murder trial of addict alex murdaugh, a prominent south carolina lawyer accused of shooting and killing his wife, maggie, and his son

paul back in 2021. prosecutors say paul sent his friends a snapchat video moments before he was killed, and they subpoenaed a snapchat executive to testify to the veracity of that video, and right now we're going to bring in former new york city police commissioner howard safir. i want to ask you, do you think the judge would require a snapchat executive to testify of? and if he does, how does that benefit prosecutors? >> well, i think if it value dates the snapchat -- validates the snapchat video, but there's so much more in this case. this case is like something out of a faulkner novel with a patterson overview. it has everything, you know? it has mysterious deaths, accidental deaths, servants' deaths, attempted set-up murder

of the principal. so, you know, it's boeing to be a very complex -- it's going to be a very complex case, and what the defense is going to do is spend all their time going over each and every piece of evidence that the prosecution submits and attack it for its veracity, whether the lab did it right, whether the chain of evidence was will while at the same time the prosecution's got to prove means, motive, opportunity and come up with to combat what i believe is going to be an alternative theory of case, they're going to try and put it on the individual who alex allegedly hired to shoot him. arthel: there's a lot will. but do you think -- a lot there. do you think there's any potential for delay of trial? because, you know, during the jury selection it seems like both sides would want to get to it with the defense hoping for a speedy trial. >> i think will will be attempts

to delay the trial. primarily i think it will end up with the defense as they ask for more time to examine every single piece of evidence. you know, there's an alleged missing t-shirt that's involved. there's drug allegations against alex involved. there's a hundred counts of fraud against him. so, you know, this is going to go on for quite a while. and unless the defense scores some really important victories early on, they'll probably try to drag it out. arthel: so there are reports, not sure if you read these reports, commissioner, that curtis smith, aka cousin eddie, has been added to the witness list. how significant would his testimony be, and might there be other surprises or bombshellses once this trial does begin? >> well, i'm sure there's going to be surprises and bombshells on both sides. if i were eddie based on what i

know and, of course, i'm just reading what i see in the public media, but if i was eddie, i would have looked for a deal right away and looked to give up alex, because if not, defense is going to look to have eddie be the perpetrator. arthel: and if you're watching murdaugh himself in court when we get to that part, will you be watching his misdemeanor? -- demeanor? his body language? >> oh, absolutely. they have a very, very skilled defense attorney who has had an incredible percentage of wins in murder cases. so i'm sure they're going to spend a tremendous amount of time briefing alex on his demeanor, how to look at the jury, how not to look at the jury to make sure he's not smirking because he has -- based on, you know, the fact that he comes from such an influential family in that area with great

political ties, they're going to try and say he's the victim and people attacked him because his family has been so prominent and his law firm e was so successful. so they're going to brief him constantly to make sure his demeanor is that of a victim, poor guy who lost a wife and a son. arthel: yeah. it's going to be fascinating. you're talking about mr. harpootlian who is a sitting state senator there. and as you said to the point, wrapping up here, to the point of how this may go, you've got folks there in town talking about how they're so well known, it seems like they're split in terms of conviction or acquittal. >> and, you know, i think it's such a complex case, if they can't really introduce solid forensic evidence and put both guns because, you know, the victims were shot with different weapons, one a shotgun, one a rifle. and if they can't put him there

with hose guns in his hands -- those guns in his hands,stst going to be a very difficult case to convict. arthel: well, the judge has a lot on his plate for this trial, no doubt. former new york city police commissioner howard say fir, thank you very much for joining us, commissioner. take care. >> thank you. eric: have you heard about this? google employees scrambling for answers this weekend after its parent company announced those massive layoffs. alex hoff on why the companies are suddenly rushing to shrink their work force and dump thousands of employees. that next. ♪ ♪ [♪] if you have diabetes, it's important to have confidence in the nutritional drink you choose. try boost glucose control®. it's clinically shown to help manage blood sugar levels and contains high quality protein to help manage hunger and support muscle health. try boost® today. bye, bye cough. later chest congestion. hello 12 hours of relief. 12 hours!! not coughing?

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♪ ♪ arthel: google parent company alphabet inc. is the latest tech giant to announce a massive number of layoffs. the company says it's planning to cut 12,000 employees. the move comes as big tech braces for a possible version. alexandria hoff is following this story from washington. >> reporter: those 12,000 employees at alphabet represent about 6% of the company's work force. in a blog post and e-mail sent out to employees yesterday, zinn darpa joy wrote of the, quote, difficult decision adding this: over the past two years, we've seen periods of dramatic growth. we hired for a different

economic reality than the ones we face today. these job losses add to those already dealt by companies like amazon, microsoft and facebook's parent company meta. according to layoffs.fyi, since the beginning of 2022, tech firms and start-ups have slashed more than 190,000 jobs. with that has come the phrase white collar version with companies coming to terms with overhiring during the. pandemic boom. google in particular may have overinvested in artificial intelligence technology as well. but could the mass layoff ares indicate darkness ahead for the rest of the u.s. economy? the white house says, no. >> i think there was arguably whroapted employment -- bloated diplomat. -- employment. but given the fact that there's over 10 million vacancies, unfilled jobs out will, many of hose folks are finding jobs and good jobs pretty quickly. >> reporter: u.s. job growth as a whole does remain sold wit. there are signs though that it is beginning to soften in the

face of higher interest rates. in december 223,000 jobs were added to the economy. that's the smallest gain in two years. in terms of the tech layoffs, the white house says that that they do watch closely anytime americans lose their jobs. arthelsome. arthel: al sand alexandria hoff, thank you. >> today i'm announcing a plan to refill the strategic petroleum oil reserve in the years ahead at a profit for taxpayers. the united states government's going to purchase oil to refill the strategic petroleum reserve when prices fall to $70 a barrel. eric: that's president biden making the commitment last fall to refill the strategic petroleum reserve, you know, the crucial supply that has historically helped shield americans prosecute international supply crises -- from the international supply crises. it helped bring down skyrocketing prices just before the midterms, then the white house set a deadline to

repurchase 3 million barrels in february, but the d. of energy if says that the administration if is failing to meet that goal. the reserve now at a 39-year low. house republicans want to do something about it. they just passed a bill and had 100 democrats join them banning the sale of reserves, first to china, and the republicans unveiled another bill limiting presidential authority to release oil from the emergency verve. energy secretary jennifer granholm warned the bill would hurt national security, cause crude oil shortages and raise the price of gas. joining us now is fox news contributor jon hilsenrath, global economics contributor at the "wall street journal." jon, always great to see you. first, the 39-year low of the reserve, what is the impact of the fact that there's this huge reserve that we've relied on is now at such a low level? >> well, right now the impact is fairly minimal in part because the private sector the of the united states' economy is kicking in where the federal

government has taken out. you know, fracking is coming back in the united states. the united states, in particular in natural gas, is producing record amounts of natural gas. fracking of oil has also risen, it's almost back to its 2020 records, but it's not quite there. so at the moment, it looks like the biden administration could take some time refilling it. and as you mentioned in that introduction, they're talking about refilling it at lower prices. well, you know, they said they wanted to do it at $70 a barrel. the price is up to 75 or 80, hen that's not meeting that other goal that they've is set. eric: what does it mean to the average person at pump when you go fill up if, indeed, this is at such a low and if it is not repilled properly? >> well, i mean, at the pump right now in part because frack has come back, in part because europe is experiencing a very is warm winter, in part because the

economy has slowed and demand has slowed in the united states' economy, gasoline prices have come down. and that's been one factor that's held down inflation over the last few months after it hit 40-year highs over the summer. the risk when the strategic petroleum reserve is that low is that if there's some new crisis on the global stage, if there's some new, for instance, confrontation with the saudis, then, you know, potentially we're at risk of that kind of shock because with we don't have as much to tap into. fortunately, as i say, because of the private sector tapping into private lands, the private economy at work, we do have growing supply in the united states which has been helpful at a time when russia's been at war with the ukraine and is cutting off global supplies, for instance, to places like europe. eric: do you see us getting back to be energy independent,

producing more oil, let's say, than some countries in the middle east? that we don't have to rely on them anymore at a certain point despite some of the administration's environmental policies? >> well, you know, this term independence is a bit fuzzy because these are global markets, right? so, you know, for instance, what china doesn't buy from us, it can buy from the russians. what we don't buy from the saudis, the europeans can buy from the saudis. the fact of the matter is right now the u.s. is producing record amounts of natural gas and exporting a great deal of that natural gas to europe to help them get lu their winterful we're also exporting record amounts of petroleum. you know, i think one of the bigger problems for the united states' economy is not what we're pulling out of the ground, but our infrastructure, our ability to move it from one part of the country to another. because of restrictions, for instance, on pipelines at a

federal level and state and local level, we have some participants of the country, for instance -- parts of the country, for instance, the northeast which has been short of natural gas when we're exporting record amounts to europe. is so we need more investment in domestic infrastructure which runs up against all kinds of local opposition very often and also federal and environmental opposition. eric: and finally, it's january now. what do you see for us for the rest of the winter, you know, in terms of prices, in terms of where we're going on gasoline and natural gas? propane, you've got to heat your house. you've got the propane tank out back. >> that's right. you know, one piece of good news winter has been that the weather has been warm in europe and there was a great deal of anxiety anxiety in financial markets, for instance, and many washington and in europe, for sure, a few months ago because of the war in ukraine that if the winter was very cold, that there were going to be -- they were going to run out of reserves of natural gas and oil.

and that was going to drive up, as i said, these are global markets. that had the potential to drive up global prices. because the weather has been warm, they have more reserves and, fortunately, hopefully, they can keep prices down inaste months ahead. eric all right. hope so. we'll see if mother nature in this case cooperates. jon of "the wall street journal," great to have your insight. >> thank you so much. eric of course. arthel? arthel: everybody's talking about it, a new piece of technology that can write entire essays for students. but it's causing major problems in schools across america. what educators are doing to crack down on this new piece of tech. that's coming up next. ♪ ♪ if your moderate to severe crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis symptoms are stopping you in your tracks... choose stelara® from the start... and move toward relief after the first dose...

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♪ eric: news doesn't take the day off here at fox on the weekends. tomorrow house majority leader steve scalise, democratic senator joe manchin will be on "sunday morning futures." also house oversight, congressman -- chairman, congressman james comer will talk about the investigations into the biden administration. "sunday morning futures" tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. and shannon bream has a bipartisan conversation with republican brian fitzpatrick, democrat josh gottheimer on finding consensus on a whole bunch of issues in washington. " fox news sunday," 2 the p.m. eastern tomorrow here on the channel. arthel? arthel: eric, a new art official intelligence software that has the ability to provide human-like responses, of course, is gaining popularity with many students, but teachers have some reservations about the

technology. mark meredith has more on this from washington. >> reporter: launched in late november, chatgpt, an artificial intelligence platform, has already sent shock waves through america's education system. darren hick is a place my professor at furman university. >> and the first thing i saw it used for was plagiarism. >> reporter: the chat bot allows users to generate original content like essays with a simple prompt by pulling information found from from books, web sites and past news articles. school districts from missouri to california are -- from to california are banning the site from campuses, a move some education experts goes too far. >> i would have preferred if they had said we're with temporarily suspending access until we can prepare teachers with the professional development so they know how to handle the new technology. >> reporter: the text generation, while ground breaking, is not perfect. it can produce incorrect information and has limited

knowledge of events after 2021. hick says he failed a student last month after she was caught cheating through the chat bot. >> the sentences, this was not gibberish, this was perfectly coherent, fors it was just wrong. >> reporter: we decided to try it for ourselves. weed is for a 10-second muse crypt on -- script on the future of artificial intelligence. almost instantly, the computer says the future is now. as artificial intelligence continues to change the way we live if from health care and reasons and the potential fo tech companies see a lot of potential and potential money in these programs. week microsoft, an investor in open a.i., announced it's going to expand chatgpt into its own cloud computing products, and this is also efforts underway by third party groups to detect texts created by a.i. to figure out who's plagiarizing. mark meredith, fox news. eric: well, famed astronaut buzz

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paul: welcome to german editor report. i am john lambert follow-up imprisoned by his handling of classified documents found at his home and garage it lol as well as a washington. white house dodging questions on the timelines run the discovery of those documents and going to the special counsel by attorney general mary garlick complete his investigation of interference with the presidencies