>> not today, just rainy. >> you'll have to walk downstairs to "outnumbered." >> we'll walk downstairs, catch the elevator, do radio with you and go anchor "outnumbered." >> those boots were made for talking. that's just what -- >> this is it, the radio. >> listen to brian's radio show and have a wonderful day. see you tomorrow. >> bill: thank you, guys, good morning. turning a blind eye in the big apple. president biden arrives in new york city today expected to annoy the crisis of his own making. he will be that close to it physically. it's tuesday, i'm bill hemmer. back here today. >> dana: good to have you back. sorry about the bengals. we'll talk about it later as we hear. i'm dana perino, this is "america's newsroom." this hotel that they're talking about i ride by it. very close to my apartment. this morning it was just -- there were people lined up on the ground sleeping.

there were police there. it looked calm. lots of media cameras. it is happening. new york is stungling to house more than 40,000 migrants bused from the southern border over the past year. the city is also plagued by crime and homelessness. the president will be talking about infrastructure. >> bill: he will announce $3 hundred million in funding for a new tunnel under the hudson river. critics say it's distracting from issues. >> dana: a new poll reveal what voters say the country's biggest problem is. not infrastructure. it is poor leadership. >> bill: just a few blocks from the west side rail yard where the president talks today, the migrants crisis is boiling over. talking a few blocks now. authorities trying to relocate adult male asylum seekers from one hotel to a new shelter in brooklyn to make way for new families coming in. some of the men, though, all of them coming here single, are

refusing to leave. >> dana: the president should visit the hotel. they won't hold their breath. >> this is an abject failure of the biden administration. his immigration policies are disastrous. he knows it. the best thing to do is not look at it and pretend it's not there. >> dana: "new york post" reporter john levine has reaction on set. david lee miller. you started us off with this story yesterday. what happened overnight? >> good morning. a few dozen men spent the night on the street on manhattan's west side rather than be sent to a temporary housing facility at a cruise terminal in brooklyn. they are all single men who the city removed from a hotel being used for migrant housing in order to make room for migrant families with women and children. many of the migrants agreed to be relocated and a few hold-outs boarded a bus to brooklyn a short time ago. the ones now living outside the

hotel on the street reject inferior accommodations. migrants said the cruise terminal is cold, too far from the subway and lacked basic facilities. >> for all men it is only four bathrooms. if one gets sick, everyone gets sick. it is very ugly. the beds are horrible. they are a piece of fabric like a military bed. >> mayor eric adams tweeted out a video last night as his unannounced visit. he showed it was safe and clean temporary housing. >> it's warm inside. about the food not being there, healthy food is present, even the snacks are healthy. >> the mayor again repeated his plea for money from the federal government to help pay to house the migrants as well as feed them and other things. in just a few hours' time we

expect president biden is going to be in new york city to address as you pointed out transportation issues, both the mayor and the president will be meeting just a few blocks from this migrant encampment. back to you. >> dana: thank you. >> bill: john levine, politics culture reporter for the "new york post." good morning to you. here is what your paper says. inn-sane. >> its is galling on its face. it doesn't get national attention. new york city has an ongoing housing crisis. i know people who work 12 hours a day to live in a show box. taxpayers. i have met people who work full-time that live in homeless shelter. i don't know how you tell these people that these illegal migrants have a right to live in a luxury hotel in mid town. >> dana: the mayor is trying --

part of it is a little bit of the policies of the city being a sanctuary city means you get to come here. he is frustrated not just with the governors down in texas and arizona but mad at the biden administration but not been quite willing to really stick it to them yet. >> he is in an untenable situation. the city has a right to shelter law and legally obligated to find housing somewhere. hundreds of migrants a day. this money, we don't have. unless we receive federal funding we have to raise taxes and they're already very high in new york or cut services elsewhere. >> bill: so whether it's nicaragua, honduras or mexico or manhattan or brooklyn. those distinctions you are trying to draw. back to the mayor. listen to everything he says in the side bite and tell me whether or not he is wrong. >> it doesn't matter if it's

ellis island. the brooklyn cruise terminal or any of the ports. it is all rooted in the american dream to pursue the dream here. we are doing our job. we need the national government and congress to do their job. >> bill: i count five things he said in that. he is five for five and being correct about the situation he is up against. >> i have tremendous sympathy for the migrants who are here. they fled terrible conditions in their home countries. they want to work, they want a better life for themselves and their families. but we need a federal solution so when they arrive there is something for them to do and legally integrate them into the system. >> dana: or a way to deport them. if you don't want to be at the terminal that the mayor is providing, you can be sent home. we'll buy you that ticket. the other thing is at the hotel where they are now they get two trip metro card a day. i live in the area. this is right by a lot of

stores. so that is something that the migrant activists said they want. when you go over to brooklyn terminal guess what you get? you get a ferry card so your ferry fares will be covered. that's not true of other new yorkers. what i sense in this city a growing frustration that i do not see how it is solvable unless the mayor and president can figure something out immediately. these people will keep coming. >> there needs to be a broad based federal solution. getting hundreds of new migrants a day, we don't have the space. as the mayor said, the inn is full. i don't know where thug. >> bill: we'll end the covid health emergency not today in january and not in february, but in may. >> should have brought champagne. >> bill: why take 90 days to get it done? >> i thought it was two weeks to stop the spread three years ago and okay, we'll do a vaccine and then it's over.

we did the vaccine but getting to the over part took time. now it's allegedly almost finally over. i'm done, covid is over. >> bill: a big wind down. >> dana: one reason is student loan payment. the reason they have deferred student loan payments from having to be paid is because of the covid emergency. that's going to end. we'll see what they decide to do then. >> bill: may 11th is the official day. >> i'll have champagne. >> combating illegal immigration in texas is a full-time job. it's a job that requires a leader whose only focus is responding to president biden's open border policies. today i am announcing a border czar to fulfill that mission. >> dana: that's texas governor greg abbott. taking the border crisis into his own hands and appointing the

state's first border czar. michael banks says his mission is to make texas the least desirable place for anyone trying to cross into the country illegally. let's go to bill melugin live at the border in mission, texas. good morning, bill. >> dana, good morning to you. the biden administration is making it a lot easier for migrants to cross into texas by expanding its controversial use of what's known as the cbp1 app. what's that? take a look at the video the team shot in eagle pass. a group of honduras allowed to enters the united states to fill out an application online, get an appointment at a port of entry and seek an exception to title 42 to be released directly into the united states. that's what happened with this group. they entered eagle pass. the administration says it is a way to cut down on illegal crossing and discourage cartel

smugglers. the flip side this is just the biden administration arbitrarily and possibly illegally granting migrants access to the united states without a legal basis to do so in an effort to solve the p.r. problems with the bad border numbers every month. migrants don't care about the politics, they're happy to be here. listen to what they had to say. >> $24,000 for the three of us including my daughter is what the coyotes wanted to charge us. with the app, i paid five mexican pesos to get a cross and a huge relief. >> follow the steps that we took. have patience. make sure you go to the cbp1 app. that's how you can get here. it is for everybody. have patience and faith in god. >> elsewhere along the border another series of major fentanyl busts in arizona. cbp officers at the port of entry making three busts in a

two-day span. one bust 300,000 fentanyl pills. another bust 458,000 fentanyl pills hidden in a car's gas tank. a third bust 14 pounds of pure fentanyl powder hidden in the rear bumper of a car. one port of entry in a 48-hour span. lastly look at this guy's mug shot. a convicted murderer arrested by border patrol after crossing illegally in the tucson, arizona sector. he has a 2005 conviction for felony second degree murder out of the state of maryland. back out here live going back to that cbp1 app the biden administration said they are expanding it to allow 30,000 migrants per month from cuba, haiti, and nicaragua into the united states per month on humanitarian parole. 360,000 people every single year. republicans not happy about that. they say that's illegal under

u.s. parole laws and now suing several gop states are suing to try to stop that. we'll send it back to you. >> dana: lots of threads on the migration story. bill melugin at the border. >> bill: the murder trial of alex murdaugh about to resume. the main headline the possibility of two shooters gunning down his wife and son. could be a defense theory. is it plausible? >> dana: a major agricultural dispute between the u.s. and mexico. what's behind it and why american farmers say it could put them out of business. >> bill: as the u.s. struggles to tamp down inflation how many americans are living paycheck to paycheck? not a good number. larry kudlow joins us next. ♪

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says he is innocent. yesterday there could have been a bombshell statement in court. a witness admitted on the stand there could have been a second shooter. >> one explanation of this data would be two shooters. one explanation, not the, but one. >> not the only one. >> but it is a reasonable explanation just like one shooter going up that way, correct? >> sure. >> bill: we have the trial covered from all angles. nancy grace standing by outside the courthouse with legal analysis. first let's get to what happened inside the courtroom with jonathan serrie to break down the details now. hello. >> good morning to you, bill. the defense is trying to poke holes in the prosecution's case suggesting this theory that perhaps two shooters were involved and questioning whether first responders may have damaged the crime scene tracking bloody footprints. prosecutors show the hunting lodge. state agents found shells around

the property that are consistent with the types of ammunition used to kill his wife maggie and son paul. >> do you know a specific brand and make and caliber, ammunition that was used to kill maggie murdaugh? >> the hand stamps on the shell casing was s and b300. >> in court the prosecution also played a second police interview recorded three days after the murders. in it murdaugh describes maggie as a wonderful wife and great mother and then listen very closely to what he says about paul. >> it was just so bad. it was getting so bad. >> you asked the defendant about the traumatic picture that he saw of paul and maggie. what did he say? >> it's just so bad. i did him so bad. >> in court right after that you could see murdaugh shaking his head as if he dis'greed with the

agent's interpretation of what he said. others in the courtroom said it is possible he said they did him so bad instead of i did him so bad. it will be very interesting bill and dana to see what the jury thinks. >> bill: sure will. thank you for the report. jonathan serry. >> dana: excited to bring in nancy grace inside the courtroom every day and right now outside live there at the courthouse. nancy, let's tackle the issue of the possibility of two shooters. what should viewers know about that? >> well, i can tell you this, the big sound bite is where the crime scene analyst said it's possible there are too shooters. what led up to that was about an hour of the defense beating on her, getting her to say that because she kept saying no, no, it's not probable, it is not reasonable. finally said is it possible there were two shooters?

she said it's possible just like it's possible that little green men came down from mars and did it. it's possible but is it probable? no, it is not. and another thing, you no he that sound you just played, what should i believe the defense attorney and the defendant alex murdaugh or my lying ears? i heard the video and he said and i quote it's a slip. he said it was just so bad. i did him so bad. he was in the midst of this big drama crying and snotty and carrying on in the middle of that, by the way, he sees a guy go by he knows and says hey, how are you doing? he has just seen his wife and son dead in a dog kennel. in the middle of all of this crying and carrying on he says it was so bad i did him so bad. i heard what he said and that is what he said. >> dana: i have the timeline for everybody to look at. murdaugh murders, look at the timeline from june 7th when he

called 911. and then september he reported that they had been shot and september 4th he called 911 from the side of the road and said he had been shot in the head. we go on now at this trial. the second part, though, where he was shot in the head is not even a part of this, right? >> no, it is not part of this and i doubt the judge is going to allow that in under any circumstances because you can't try a person based on other bad acts unless they go to prove a fingerprint climb like motive, course of conduct, frame of mind. i don't think either that nor all of his millions of dollars of theft and embezzlement will come in. which i believe was the motive for murder. >> dana: what do you expect today in the courtroom? >> well, i expect the state to continue forward with another sled, south carolina law enforcement division. officer on the stand going

through the evidence and it can be really tedious but they have to lay that foundation to then make their argument. what i'm really looking forward to is a snapchat video that son paul sent a friend just before he was murdered which seems to indicate alex murdaugh was out there just before the murders in the dog kennel with the victims. >> dana: we have the nancy grace special to make sure everybody knows about on fox nation. put it up here, crime stories with nancy grace. available now exclusively on fox nation. if you haven't downloaded that already sign up. >> one more thing, please. i know this sounds like a lot of strong evidence for thha but it ain't over yet. when i saw murdaugh walk in the courtroom yesterday tall, cool, looking good, dressed to the nines, everybody seemed

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that has gone out since 2020 starting in march of that year in april. shocker, huh? the biggest no surprise story of the day. >> dana: i think people will be shocked and a smart hearing to start off with and probably the one that will be the most bipartisan in terms of out rage in the country. we know what happened. congress got that money out there fast and there weren't any protocols. >> bill: cheaters among us. >> dana: we also wanted to bring you this. this story coming in. two major insurance companies say they won't insure certain hyundai and kia car models because they don't have -- gerri willis has the details. >> these people are up against a rock and hard place. good morning, bill. ultimately you think some other insurers will step in. the big question is what will

they charge for the privilege? this is amazing. the underbelly to the underbelly, right? soaring crime all over the country. now making it difficult for some car owners to get insurance coverage. state farm and progressive are the ones no longer underwriting insurance policies for certain kia and hyundai models because they don't have an anti-theft device. car thefts up 59% since 2019. thefrts of some of those models are up almost 300% in some cities. the model years 2015 to 2019. experts are saying what they are missing is what they call an engine immobilizer which simply prevents hot wiring of cars that are keyed to start. hyundai says it's working to fix this telling fox business engine immobilizeers are standard on all of their vehicles produced as of november 2021 and long standard equipment on all hyundai vehicles with push

button ignitions. they provide free steering wheel locks and offering to install customized security kits. get this, the most interesting part of the story. the vehicles are so easy to steal that kids as young as 11 are boosting cars and joy riding. they are using tiktok video instructions to do it. unimaginable, right? your 11-year-old goes out the door and steals a car? they put the video of themselves stealing the car on tiktok. >> or youtube, too. the most common probably the easiest application is do the steering lock in the near term. they can ship all the steering locks out, cover the consumer and make sure they are taken care of. >> you can either call the maker or go to a local police department or sheriff's office because some of them are stashing these for people who come in. in particular hyundai is sending these out to police departments.

>> bill: another reason to hate tiktok. another reason. >> dana: i'm not saying i love tiktok. >> i'm not saying i love tiktok, either. an example of what can go hideously awry. >> dana: i see dog videos. not how to steal a car. >> bill: markets are open. check out wall street. market slightly higher on the last trading day of january. up 20 points at the open. investors saying don't get used to it. they predict stocks will sink and recession will hit the u.s. later this year as americans delay retirement and fall behind on loans. pocket money on the side is being spent. larry kudlow former director of national economic counsel. good morning to you. i want to present to findings to you and let you rip on this, okay? capital one has set aside a billion dollars to cover potential loan losses. that's up 33% for capitol one.

american express set aside $5 hundred million to cover loan losses. hope it doesn't go that way. i don't think it's a ton of money for big companies like that but you can answer it in a second. stunning. americans living paycheck to paycheck right now, larry, right now they are at 64%. how do you see it? >> i hardly know where to begin. banks are in pretty good shape, by the way. they have a lot of capital and it is prudent that they put together some additional loan loss reserves. we are going to have a tough year. i think 2023 will be a difficult year. more than 50, 60% likelihood of a recession. so you've got some problems there. on the household expenses versus income, it is true those numbers have been rising. i don't know if i can verify -- i tried to verify some of the numbers. i couldn't verify all of them.

i looked as census borough and others but no question that more people are living day-to-day, month-to-month, household expenses exceed income. i don't think it is a calamity yet. labor markets are still okay. i'm not sure how long that will last because there is a lot of bad indicators out there that are pointing to a down economy. so this is just another sign. this living expenses exceed income and that's another cautionary tale. >> you have consumer spending but a lot of time government put the money in their pocket and running low is what the stories are telling us. >> that's -- >> bill: the fed is meeting this week. i don't know if you favor a quarter bump. some are arguing for half a point. what would you do?

>> i probably go a quarter, i might go a second quarter in march. inflation is starting to come down, okay? we have had decent progress, the year-on-year numbers, what the fed watches, 5% inflation. last few months it's dropped down actually to 2 or 3% inflation. so that's good. if we can stop congress from spending, if we can give mccarthy moral support in his meeting with president biden. surely we should be cutting spending as the price to pay for another hike in the debt ceiling which is already too high, as everybody knows. so, you know, let the fed do what the fed needs to do. inflation is coming down. look, the key point here is you can't go from 9% inflation, which is where we were let's say 5 or 6 months ago, down to 2%

inflation, which is the fed's target, right? the fed is taking cash out of the economy left and right. they are raising interest rates significantly. this is not an easy thing. the trick was don't make the mistake in the first place. having made the mistake, when nobody believed it in 2021, now the fed is off setting that. in history, almost always leads to recession, i hate to say that. i am a long-term optimist and i believe this little socialist interlude we find ourselves in will pass over time. and i don't think people should sell all their stock market holdings. i know there is a lot of bears out there. people should look to the long-term. if the market goes down you should probably add some money to it. buy the indexes and the exchange trade funds, the s&p 500 which

is up 5% year-to-date. in the long run it is a great retirement approach. so i wouldn't go crazy about this. but yeah, the economy is deteriorating and the deterioration is probably going to continue. i think there is no way around that. >> bill: see you at 4:00 on fox business, larry. thank you for coming on today. you gave us a little bit of optimism. we like that. see you later today. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: so tom brady's future is the subject of a lot of speculation these days. the seven time super bowl champ signed a deal with fox sports last year to become an nfl analyst. >> there is so much to learn, so much to teach. it is ever evolving. believe me, as much as you think i'm willing to teach people, i'm looking to learn. i'm looking to learn from all the people i get to talk to. >> dana: that deal doesn't kick in until he stops playing. so far the future hall of famer

has not said if he plans to return next year, his 24th season. that's a lot of seasons. >> bill: i think he is playing another year. >> dana: you put yourself down? will he play with the bucs for another year? >> bill: i'm not so sure about that. san francisco 49ers? they had a tough turn of bad luck over the weekend out there. it could be. he is from northern california. here is the guy in charge of the border. give this a listen. >> it is remarkable to me that states will attack a solution to the problem about which they complain because as i've said before, number one we've seen a tremendous drop in the number of encounters. >> bill: he is saying that the new immigration policies are working. he is saying they're doing the job. the numbers tell a different story. more than 250,000 illegal crossings at the southwest border. congresswoman salazar on where we go from here. a major update on the case of a

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>> dana: the country finally coming together on how disappointed folks are with the government. there is a new gallup poll that shows 21% of americans as see the country's leadership as the number one issue. only about two in ten people approve of the job congress is doing. that's consistent. want to bring in "wall street journalist" james freeman and fox news contributor.

bipartisan agreement on this at least. >> unity. this is ronald reagan's view four decades ago. government is the problem. a lot of americans still agree. i think it also makes sense when you look at what's next, which is inflation, which is an entirely government-created problem as well. i think that -- >> dana: and immigration. >> bill: whoa, now you are 21 plus 15 and 11, what do we know? >> you're about half the country. so then you've got lots of other issues but in terms of -- >> bill: 48% on three issues alone all owned by the government. >> i think it is a lot of things. i think we're really in the hangover from the government's irrational, misguided, foolish response to covid. that is something we'll be paying for for a long time and i also think you see a lot of pessimism, even though we have this great job market, what's happening in washington? it's the federal reserve is trying to crush the job market,

bring wages down to cure inflation. that's where we are. >> dana: that's what they if they are going to do that. larry kudlow was fairly optimistic but we have the other issue coming up. the debt ceiling and speaker kevin mccarthy will meet with biden. this is what biden said about the debt ceiling issue and budget. watch here. >> dana: the president's budget will be released march 9th but the state of the union next week. the budget usually precedes that thing so we know what the priorities of the administration are going to be. >> once again the president is missing the deadline for submitting his budget. that remark of his might appear to be casual and flip. maybe what we saw there was the beginning of a willingness to negotiate where they bring out on the table what cuts they could live with and maybe -- i don't expect a lot of cuts

coming from joe biden. maybe that's the beginning of a discussion. >> bill: very interesting. he might get some democrats to vote for that in the senate. >> certainly. you've got joe manchin saying he thinks it is totally legit to say how do we fix the spending problem as we raise the debt limit? >> bill: we end the pandemic may 11th, have you heard? >> not may 12th. >> bill: 100 days from now. kevin mccarthy said something this week that i didn't realize. here is what he said, watch here. >> do you realize that 47% of the federal employees are still not in for work? for the first time in history members of congress didn't have to show up and kept getting paid. people have to show the work ethic. i think people should show up to work and we'll pass that bill this week to bring the federal employees back to work to provide the service that the taxpayers are paying them for.

>> bill: 47% is high. i didn't realize that was the case. >> i think the case he is making flows into this debt limit fight because we've talked about how the fed is basically trying to restrain wages in the u.s. economy to cure inflation. why not restrain wages among the federal workforce? this is a very strong argument and if mccarthy sits down with biden and says let's restrain the growth of federal pay, i think that's an issue, among others, that will be very popular. >> dana: also the mayor of d.c. who asked joe biden in a letter about ten days ago please figure out a way to bring the federal workers bank. i bet she would support that as well. thank you, james freeman. great to have you on tuesday. >> bill: we have the attorney for the parents of an lsu student madison brooks disputing claims by lawyers accused of raping her. the explosive allegations in the case causing so much fury.

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>> dana: the parents of lsu student madison brooks shutting down allegations she consented to sex the night she was hit and killed by a car. they call the claims absolutely shameful. this as authorities say one of the men charged with raping her has been arrested in connection with another rape. senior correspondent casey stiegel has the latest. hi. >> the family says they want to set the record straight saying since their daughter's tragic death she has become the victim of a smear campaign mostly from lawyers representing those

accused of raping the 19-year-old college student. her funeral is scheduled for friday. madison's heart, her obituary reads was pure. laugh infectious and she lived every day to the fullest. her legacy will forever shine in the stars above. she died earlier this month after being struck by a car. investigators say leading up to that maddy as she was called was sexually assaulted and left on the side of the road. >> she was raped. rape is rape. it is a horrific, terrible situation and to the extent that those involved with the alleged rapist want to blame the victim and show press conferences and say things we can talk about in a minute we're standing up for maddy. that's not right. >> in response to comments made by lawyers representing the four who have been charged with maddy's assault. they argue the lsu sophomore was not overly drunk and did give sexual consent. 18-year-old washington has been charged with rape in a second

case back in 2020 involving a 12-year-old girl at an apartment complex pool. washington and his three friends were seen on video obtained by leaving a baton rouge bar with maddy that night. her blood alcohol level was nearly four times over the legal limit. family and friends say madison brooks donated several of her organs such as her heart and kidneys to help others. dana. >> dana: thank you for the update. >> bill: what a story. there is trouble brewing over a key moneymaker in the heartland. mexico is pushing to ban the export of genetically modified corn and farmers are taking their fight to washington, d.c. in the fields of ashland, pennsylvania, we find madison for fox business. hello. >> obviously on the farm here we have snow on the ground. it is not yet planting season for corn. farmers here and across the u.s. are warning this could be huge

if mexico does implement the ban of gmo corn saying it could be the single most devastating thing to happen to corn farming in america. >> can't even picture in my mind what this is going to do to -- like i said it is farmers, one end of the united states to the other. it doesn't matter where you sell it or what it is used for, it will have an effect. >> such a big effect because corn is the largest expo. mexico is the biggest buyer. corn prices including here in pennsylvania are set on the commodities market. if you saw a disruption in the export market it would be felt here. mexico being the largest buyer. last season alone $10.6 billion worth of corn was purchased by mexico from the u.s. we spoke to a nebraska corn farmer who does ship to mexico. they are frustrated they are seeing gmo technology trusted for decades and consumed here in

the u.s. seeing that used as a bargaining chip and desperately hoping to see some resolve and washington to stay strong on the trade agreement. listen. >> our destinies are tied together. they need us as much as we need them. so we really need to come to the table and resolve this issue and allow gmo corn to continue going into mexico. >> we should see some updates after the meetings today. in the meantime mexico has implemented a 50% tariff on any white corn leaving the country to hold onto the produce and potentially in preparation for this ban. send it back to you. >> bill: we'll watch it. madison is in the fields of pennsylvania. thanks. >> dana: human trafficking is a heinous crime. we want to bring you a closer look at a multi-billion dollar industries that targets the most vulnerable in the united states and abroad. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer. good