college. a gofundme page has been set up for the family to help make that dream come true. as we remember our dearest friend and colleague alan, say a prayer with us to sustain his family. may he rest in peace. gone too soon at age 47. >> john: fox news alert, cartels and their deadly fentanyl pour across the border, a major trial now underway in brooklyn could blow the lid off the u.s. and mexico's war on drugs. u.s. prosecutors say mexico's former top cop was secretly taking briefcases filled with cash from the same drug cartel he had a reputation for fighting. allowing them to safely move their product into america. >> sandra: what other secrets

could the trial expose, a former d.e.a. agent will join us to discuss the current fight against those cartels coming up. >> we found a handful of documents failed in the wrong place, i think you are going to find there's nothing there, i have no regrets. >> is the president confident there are no additional documents with classified markings that remain in any other additional locations? >> look, i can just refer you to what his team said, the search is complete. >> we can assume it's been completed. >> you should assume it's completed. >> the search is complete. >> john: well, not so much. karine jean-pierre expected to face another round of tough questioning at the white house briefing in the next hour after claiming the search for more classified documents was complete more than a week ago. but we now know that was not the case and the justice department reportedly considering searching other properties linked to the

president. i'm john roberts in washington. good monday to you, sandra. >> sandra: and you as well. six new items of classified documents were seized from the president's wilmington home after the fbi searched the property for over 12 hours on friday. >> john: some documents recovered were from biden's tenure in the senate 14 years ago raising questions over whether it has been a pattern for the president to mishandle classified information for more than a decade. now house oversight committee chairman james comer is officially requesting the secret service reveal a list of visitors to the home, information the white house believes should remain private. >> sandra: we have complete coverage for you now. house oversight committee member and california congressman ro khanna is standing by. but peter doocy is live on the north lawn to kick off for us. what details are we learning about the latest discovery?

>> sandra, we are learning the fbi searched everywhere, so they did not just go through file cabinets and that means when the president was going about his business here on friday, federal agents were going through his sock drawer. >> that's why the president and his lawyers offered up access, unprecedented access to every room of the president's personal home. >> the biden team consented to a search, they knew when the fbi was coming. house republicans still think the biden team is hiding something. >> this has all the pattern of an influence peddling scheme, and also the makings of a potential cover-up. >> the new detail some classified materials date back to the days as a delaware senator is a head scratcher for current senators who say the process does not permit people

to carry classified materials out of the capitol. >> i review classified material as a senator on the armed services and foreign relations committees. when i do it, it's in a classified facility where i don't have access to the materials other than to sit there and read them. so, that's why there needs to be independent investigation and prosecutor. >> president biden is back at the white house after a weekend at his beach lous in delaware, while he was getting off marine one, he mouthed to the press he would talk to them later but none of his events this afternoon are open to the press. sandra. >> sandra: peter doocy live at the white house, thank you. >> john: bring in california democratic congressman ro khanna, on the house oversight committee. it's going to come across your desk soon if it has not already. 13-hour search of the president's wilmington home over the weekend, thought they were running out of places to search but apparently they haven't, and

the fact some of the time as a senator, more than 14 years ago. that is a long time to hang on to documents that you are not supposed to have in the first place. >> well, look, those documents shouldn't have been there. when i look at classified information being on the house arm services committee, i go to the scif. and cannot take documents out of the scif. i don't know how they got into the personal residents and we need answers on that. the good news the president is fully cooperating and fully open to having the justice department find all the facts. >> john: he may be fully cooperating but also really downplaying this. listen to what the president said about it and what your colleague from the senate, joe manchin said. >> i think you are going to find there's nothing there, i have no regrets at following what the lawyers have told me they want

me to do, exactly what we are doing. there's no there there. >> i think he should have a lot of regrets. >> john: said i think the president should have a lot of regrets. your voice here, congressman? >> i hope we can get this out of partisanship. why can't we have a process to make sure that classified documents aren't removed from the executive branch no matter who the president is and that there is a process to make sure no senator or congressman is removing these. now obviously no one can defend having classified documents sitting at a penn center or a personal residence and i believe the president will acknowledge that was a mistake. but character is acknowledging mistakes, being forthcoming and honest and i think the american people will judge him based on if he is fully cooperating and fully honest, and if he is, i think they will respect that. >> john: i'm curious, you said you hope to get away from partisanship after what joe

manchin said. do you believe what he said was partisan? >> you have the republican committees wanting to investigate president biden. they were silent -- they were silent when the same thing happened with president biden. >> john: and did not control the committee. >> they were the ranking member, i did not hear them saying there should be investigations. so my point is, instead of personalizing this, why don't we have a reform that whoever the president is, whoever the vice president is, they should not remove classified information, that place they need to go in the scif or situation room to view that information. >> john: i was curious why you went down that path, nothing would have seemed to indicate anyone was personalizing anything. let me ask you this question. here is what the president said the day he was inaugurated in 2021. >> vice president harris and i and our entire administration will always be honest and transparent with you about the good news and the bad.

>> john: it will be the most transparent administration ever. we have heard that before. but what about the president's pledge? doesn't seem to be a tremendous amount of transparency going on here. >> look president obama had an ethical and transparent, not a single independent counsel appointed and president biden i think inherit that. now this is an unfortunate incident. no one is going to defend the idea that classified documents were found in the penn center or personal residence. what will mark transparency, if they are fully transparent, honest and cooperating and i believe that the lawyers have cooperated with the justice department and we will get a full public accounting of what happened. >> john: congressman, what about the potential connections with china here, tens of millions of dollars china gave to the university of pennsylvania at the same time these classified documents were sitting in the penn biden center. >> we need to look at that, what

the facts are, who was the money coming from, from private individuals, coming from people with ties to the chinese communist party, what was the purpose of the funding, was it connected in any way to the penn center. we can't just have two facts out there without a deeper investigation of all the facts. if you are asking should all the facts come out, of course they should. >> john: i want to ask you quickly at the end here about something you are writing extensively about, that you want to wean the united states off of relying on japan to do all our manufacturing. therefore, level out the trade imbalance and return america to its former glory as a manufacturing power in the world. what do you say to american companies willing to overlook china's human rights abuses just to save a buck? >> john, we made a colossal mistake, we shipped our jobs to china. the trade deficit used to be 60 billion, now it's 400 billion.

industry after industry left, steel, aluminum, paper, need to bridge it back, reduce the trade deficit, and we will invest in you if you invest here or there should be tariffs on the dumping of goods and should not be allowing companies to go send our jobs to china just for lower wage jobs and having human rights abuses and less environmental standards. >> john: we'll be watching your progress on this. clearly given what's going on in china the united states will be wise to start to diversify our supply chain and bring the jobs home. i remember arguing with a friends of mine in the early 2000s, he says it doesn't matter where we get our stuff made as long as we own the company. and i said if you make everything in china, who is around to buy it? >> sandra: fair enough. and look where we are today. and you can't, with all due

respect to the congressman, you can't just tell businesses to bring that -- the manufacturing, you have to have the business friendly environment for them to want to be here, for it to be efficient to be here and beneficial to be here and that is a message we have to get across, john. >> john: you would think as i would appear to be in the early 2000s, i would have taken a few dollars and invest it in apple and google. >> sandra: you would be rocking, but you are. the first of ten victims killed in a mass shooting in california on lunar new year's eve have now been identified, at least ten others were injured after a gunman opened fire. happened saturday knight inside a crowded dance studio outside of los angeles. the suspected gunman died sunday from self-inflicted gunshot wounds after police stopped the van he was driving. christina in monterrey, california.

do police have a motive for the shooting yet? >> hi, sandra, they do not, not at this time. there are reports circulating it could have to do with a domestic dispute. reports saying that apparently this suspect may have been upset with his ex-wife because she got invited to an event here at this dance studio and he did not. again, police have not confirmed that information. they do not have a motive at this time. authorities say the suspect, 72-year-old man, lived about an hour and a half southeast of monterrey park where the shooting took place. police say tran claimed his family was trying to poison him ten years ago but never provided proof of that to officers. he went on a deadly shooting rampage at the ball star dance studio saturday night. as you mentioned, ten people were killed, including dance instructor mr. ma, and a woman

identified by her family as may may nan. her family said she spent so many years going to the dance studio here in monterrey park on the weekends, what she loved to do. unfairly, saturday was her last dance. ten were injured, seven of them still hospitalized. leaving the community to find out what made him go on the deadly rampage. >> did he have a mental illness, was he a domestic violence abuser, how did he get the guns, was it through legal means or not. those questions will have to be answered in the future. >> about 30 minutes after the first attack, they say tran entered another ballroom with a gun. the sheriff described it as a semi-automatic pistol with extended large capacity magazine. two people were able to wrestle the gun away from him preventing potentially another deadly

attack. the family of brandon shea said he did not realize the magnitude of the situation. >> i didn't find out until much, much later, i just thought it was robbery. >> witnesses reported the suspect took off from alhambra in a white van and they pulled him over a half hour away. and as officer approached, he shot and killed himself. a handgun was also recovered from the van. and we are learning a law enforcement press conference will be held about an hour and a half from now on this case. we are also expecting the governor, california governor gavin newsom to be there. >> sandra: the governor and other city and state officials. we will watch for the presser and take it here half past the 2:00 eastern hour. john. >> john: off to a fast start

already. ukraine warning of a new russian offensive as putin's forces reportedly gained ground as ukraine awaits more military aid, including possibly german leopard tanks. keith kellogg will join us live from kyiv on what he is seeing in a few minutes. >> sandra: john, anti-police protest turning violent in downtown atlanta. but once again, some members of the mainstream media are defending the rioters. leo terrell is here to sound off on how to rhetoric allows crime and anti-police sentiment to continue in this country. >> what i saw wasn't peaceful. blowing up cop cars and throwing fireworks at police officers is not peaceful. ned being a firefighter is plan ahead. you don't know what you're getting into, but at the end of the day, you know you have a team behind you that can help you.

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a tourist region here. they began by smashing windows with rocks, bricks, hammers, set a police car on fire, put explosives in the police car, fireworks and set it on fire, the chief of police said the violent protestors have nothing to do with freedom of speech. >> it doesn't take a rocket scientists or attorney to tell you that breaking windows and setting fires is not protests, that is terrorism and they will be charged accordingly and the partnership is equally committed to stop that activity. >> the trouble escalated last week, what police tried to clear protestors from a site outside atlanta, construction is underway from a police training center. one of the activist fired and wounded a georgia state trooper, so far police and state officials are taking a very hard line, charging many with domestic terrorism, a serious

charge, could mean long jail time for some of these offenders. back to you. >> john: steve, from atlanta. now more, sandra. >> sandra: let's bring in leo terrell, civil rights attorney and fox news contributor. i assume you are going to sound off on this, does not seem like the lines are blurred. were these violent or nonviolent protests over the weekend? >> thank you for having me sandra. these are violent protestors. and the key, they are from out of the state of atlanta. it's not a home grown problem. you are talking about atlanta, a democratic city and sandra, you know what the end game is, it is to not defund the police, it is to abolish the police. they were building a training center. one of these protestors, and i call them professional agitators shot at a police officer, wounded him in the stomach. this is antifa, black lives matter, and you have crickets from the democratic leadership

regarding the violence in atlanta, sandra. >> sandra: clearly the judge there agrees with you, denying bail to those that have already appeared before a judge, noting that there would be a flight risk potentially. but it does seem the lines are blurred for some. this, believe it or not, is a guest on another network over the weekend claiming that this weekend's protests were not violent, leo. listen to this. >> i think that there's a real blurring of the lines and the use of the word violence. keep using the word violent, violent, violent, violent, the only acts of violence against people that i saw were actually police tackling protestors. >> sandra: do you find that hard to believe? >> sandra, i don't know what planet that gentleman is from, what we saw was looting, burning and again, an officer was shot in the stomach. thank god he had body armor. i want to be clear, sandra, i've

been a civil rights attorney 35 years, that is atlanta, run by people of color. it's not 1965. what's wrong with building a training center in atlanta to improve police techniques? they don't want police officers at all in atlanta. what you see here is an attempt in a democratic city, sandra, to eliminate police and why, because it's part of the left wing agenda. >> sandra: there is oddly reminiscent of the summer of 2020, and you flashed back to what the media responded then. remember all this? >> this is mostly a protest, it is not -- it is not generally speaking unruly. >> destroying property which can be replaced is not violent. >> do not get twisted and think it's something that has not -- never happened before and this is so terrible and where are we and these savages and all of

that. this is how this country was started. >> sandra: gee, remember all of that, leo? >> oh, please, sandra, and let's not forget seattle, summer of love. that kamala harris had a bail fund to get these protestors out. sandra, who's funding these out of towners? they are in uniform. this is a network that targeted atlanta. atlanta is not bull connor, it's not 1965 and what is wrong with the atlanta police? you have a black mayor, people of color running a democratic city. i will submit to you the end game is to abolish police and they are targeting democratic cities. >> sandra: if that is the case, it's a very sad state of affairs because more and more of these cities, they need those men and women in the blue because crime is spiking and morale is way low. recruitment has been nearly impossible, retainment a whole other story. leo, thank you for joining us on all of this. >> one last point.

it's amazing that all this is happening, sandra, in democratic cities, atlanta, new york, chicago, and in my hometown, los angeles. >> sandra: thank you for joining us, leo, appreciate it. >> john: going overseas now, russia's military claiming new progress in the war against ukraine. but what's the real story? fox news contributor general keith kellogg is on the ground in kyiv, a firsthand assessment of the ongoing war coming up. >> sandra: security failures along the southern border, attracting suspects on the terror watch list. dozens arrested. how many more got through? >> we need biometric entry and exit screening of everybody who comes into our country so while you and i are taking our shoes off in airports, these people are walking around across the border and it's outrageous.

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>> john: russia's defense minister says its forces are improving their positions in the zaporizhzhia region, that strikes have caused casualties and destroyed military equipment. the war 11 months old, it will be a year a month from tomorrow. kyiv believes moscow is likely to do a new offensive in a few months. and keith kellogg is leading an american delegation on the ground in ukraine, he's back in the city of kyiv, after going to the front line and elsewhere across the country. general, the bold claims russia's defense minister is talking about zaporizhzhia and southeast of the country, what's the real deal, what's the real story? >> yeah, john, thanks for having me. i want to thank the weatherman

foundation, we have been everywhere from odesa to>> carley: -- -- to kharkiv, and a big fight right now going on, it's something the ukrainians don't want to get involved with and the reason i've been so concerned about making sure we provide the amount of equipment they needed, and they don't need american troops, they have said that. they don't need allied troops, they can do it on their own but they need to get to do it. and when you look at the cu culmination point, as long as we give them the equipment, the tanks, we are arguing about, foolish, from the bradleys to the self-propelled howitzers, they can beat the russians and what's important about that. if they defeat the russian, putin falls and sets the region

up for a generation to come and make sure there is stability. they are fighting exceptionally well, hard, they don't want to get into attrition fight, don't want to go there. >> you mentioned tanks and now a dust-up between the rest of nato and germany whether or not to send german leopard tanks to ukraine. germany said it's not going to do it, and wall street journal said it's a self-inflected wound, and unlike the japanese stepping up against a regional threat, germany refuses to leave after an invasion in its own neighborhood. germany has said well, if poland sends german leopard tanks we would not object to that. if ukraine gets the heavy tanks and leopard is a fine fighting machine, how could that change the equation on the ground? >> john, it changes because then

you can fight combined arms warfare, they have not been able to do it. and they align the tanks with the bradley fighting vehicles, infantry troop carrier, self-propelled 155s, air above them, and they create very cohesive fighting organizations, the russians cannot beat that. and it was designed to beat the russians with the warsaw pact in the area of germany. and look, i have no idea where it's going on, it's absolutely foolish. also like the m1 tank, they said it takes jet fuel. no, it doesn't. jet fuel, diesel, gasoline, it probably will take channel number 5 perfume if you can afford it. i believe they could evict the russians from ukraine. but we have to give them the

equipment to do it. they are not asking for troops. basically saying don't give us one himars or 2, or 3, give us the complete package. >> john: see you back here in the states soon, thanks. >> thanks, john. >> sandra: good to see the general. border agents arresting 17 people on the fbi's terror watch list in december as migrant encounters set new records along the southern border. more than a quarter million migrants arrested just last month alone. fox news cameras on the scene with exclusive new video, matt is live in eagle pass for us. border patrol staying pretty busy there. what are we learning as the latest there at the border as far as the apprehensions and got-aways? >> sandra, here at the southern border, we often see migrants to get further into the united states. whether it's packing into a truck, some have taken private

jets and griff jenkins shot video of a group of migrants hopping on to a train not far from where i am in eagle pass, about 22 migrants illegally crossed the rio grande river, then hopped on to a train, trying to hitch a ride into the u.s. migrants from all over, including guatemala. d.p.s. is seeing an increase in illegal train hopping, especially the del rio sector, and comes as the latest numbers were released, revealing 251,000 migrant encounters last month in the month of december, the highest ever. totaling 717,000 encounters in fiscal 2023. also 38 arrests off the fbi terror watch list. and one says a solution to be return to the remain in mexico

policy. >> if there's only one thing that could change, reinstate the remain in mexico policy where when illegal immigrants come from all over the world claiming asylum, instead of letting them into the united states and into our cities, let them wait either in mexico or a safe other country until they are pro processed. >> 278,000 known got away since october 1st at the border. >> sandra: matt, thank you. john. >> john: we are awaiting a white house briefing with press secretary karine jean-pierre. we are expecting a new round of tough questioning after even more classified documents were found at president biden's wilmington, delaware home over the weekend. plus, we talk to congressman darryl issa on what power congress has, as well as jonathan turley on biden trying

to explain his way out of it. >> sandra: the government hit the debt ceiling, the negotiations are at a standstill. if nothing gets done will we, as a country, be at a major risk of recession? with major global implications. we'll ask robert wolf and grover norquist. both here on set to discuss. >> nobody should be taking the position that we are not going to negotiate, it's very responsible. speaker mccarthy offered to negotiate in good faith, i hope president biden does the same.

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>> john: radio signal 9 billion light years from earth have been captured from the most distant galaxy to date. a giant telescope in india from a star forming galaxy. radio wave was emitted 9 billion years ago when the universe was just a toddler, 4.9 billion years old. discovery means scientists can start investigating the formation of some of the earliest stars and galaxies. a little disappointed to find out it was not the earliest broadcast of kilmeade radio or something like that, just radio wave frequency created by the

creation of stars. no little green men in a sports broadcast. >> sandra: we can still believe they are out there. now this. >> you have to negotiate, that's what the american people elected us to do is to work this out. >> and so the only way to address it is to control stepping or the debt ceiling or combination of the two. >> what has happened over the last two and a half years cannot continue any longer. >> sandra: republicans say we have to tackle the spending crisis in the country when we address our debt problem, house republicans taking direct aim at president biden on this issue. for refusing to negotiate a deal on the debt ceiling. they are seeking budget cuts from the white house as biden gets ready to meet with house speaker kevin mccarthy. robert wolf, former economic adviser of president obama, and grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform.

super pumped to have you on the set. dig into this a bit. republicans, grover, they are making the case that this is what the country wants, they want us to see that we keep getting here, right, hitting the debt ceiling and then negotiations and debates and threats that are made but republicans are saying now is the time to tackle the spending crisis. democrats say these are bills we have to pay. >> here is the good news. we have done this all before. 2000, 2013, the same thing happened and obama said give me a clean one or i'll veto the whole thing and the republicans said we have to have spending to offset the increase in the debt ceiling, and obama kept saying no, and at the end of the day they negotiated the same amount of spending down as obama wanted debt ceiling up. they have had the same position, took real spending down, sequester even the military spending had to come down a tad, and we paid for the debt ceiling

increase with less spending over the next decade. >> sandra: so we have been there before. >> it worked. >> sandra: negotiations got through them last time. >> i think we will get there today. not the same as 2011, i was advising the president at that time. one, the republicans and the gop have a four seat majority, back then north of 20. so they don't have the same tools to have this argument. one, we should cut spending but pay our bills, pay our bills, the debt ceiling and i would love to see every senator and congressman, up and down vote on every line item. i think we have to cut it. we have been fiscally irresponsible but it's not a debt ceiling debate, it's a spending debate. during 2011, continuing resolution, we had pay force. i think we should pay for things. i agree with that, but not the full faith and credit of the government at risk. that's not the debate. >> sandra: the janet yellen quote is the core, slamming the

gop, and saying a very irresponsible thing to do, it's about paying bills that have already been incurred, it's not new spending, not negotiated over whether or not we are going to pay our bills. why do republicans, where do they not agree with the statement. >> they look at janet yellen and say what do you mean our? the 2 trillion you wasted at the ging, that's not our, that was just the democratic party. >> robert. >> i have to come back to that. >> there was not a single republican who waited for that. >> and during the trump administration we had multiple debt ceilings passed and they did not have the same argument. >> we did. biden and obama in 2006, voted no for all these reasons. >> back to the partisanship. agreeing -- one thing to agree with grover, i would love to see the debate with the republicans.

debate the national sales tax that mccarthy is popping up. by the way -- by the way, the democrats will win the house, the senate, and the presidency. >> very flawed idea, it is going nowhere, no republican support for it in the ways and means committee, isn't. >> maybe you should debate that one, too. >> sandra: we are having you back on that. end by asking you about gasoline, diesel prices, oil prices. there's been some movement here, i think gasoline price is up $0.30 over just the last month. crude oil prices are up $10, since hitting $71 on december 9th. gas prices only went in three states, saw gas prices go down in the last week. so the trend seems to be turning around and prices are going higher. why, robert? >> sandra, you and i have been talking, i've been more hawkish on gas prices than most, china reopened, that's an issue,

winter months, should not be a surprise and the fed should be at 50 basis points. i think inflation will be a concern in 23. >> sandra: five seconds, grover. >> when you shut down pipelines and don't let people explore for oil and gas here, it will keep going up. >> sandra: nothing has changed from 100 plus oil. fantastic. >> john: the double murder trial for lawyer alex murdaugh underway, killing his wife and son, and embezzling money and stealing from clients. >> how did we completely lose control? how could any kid learn in this atmosphere when you can't even survive. we have completely lost control of our schools. >> sandra: bill maher blasting democrats on the problems happening in the schools, including what he says is the

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