list of names for committee assignments to the entire house last night. it was accepted so she is on the committee right now but perhaps not for long. bill. >> bill: we'll find out maybe by the end of the day. >> probably noon. >> bill: thank you for that. >> dana: fox news alert top of this hour three big stories topping the news. first dangerous cartels crossing into the u.s. have one less hurdle to worry about. checkpoints as far as 100 miles north of our southern border staffed only with skeleton crews because of the overwhelming border crisis. plus dangerous ice storms blanketing if nation downing trees and coating roads with ice and interrupting travel plans and leaving thousands without power. and new reports the f.b.i. lost track of the idaho murder suspect accused of killing four college students. turns out they lost him almost as soon as he started his cross-country trip. we have more on those stories

coming right up. first hunter biden finally admitting the laptop filled with his emails incriminating documents and embarrassing photos does indeed belong to him. welcome to a new hour of in us news, i'm dana perino. >> bill: how was the first hour? >> dana: good. >> bill: a plus? good morning. i'm bill hemmer and good morning. after years of widespread claims dismissing the laptop as the work of hackers or russian disinformation hunter's lawyers conceding it indeed belongs to him and calling him hunter the victim. that change of tune coming as newly empowered republicans launch investigations into hunter's business dealings including his role with bhr, a chinese equity firm banked by some of china's largest state banks. he joined the board in an unpaid position in 2017. he pursued deals involving china's largest private energy firm. later that year a hunter biden

associate says that joe biden was consulted on deals with china. one year after that, the department of justice launched and investigation into hunter's foreign business dealings. then in 2019 f.b.i. agents in delaware take possession of hunter biden's laptop. now the d.o.j. investigation into hunter's business dealings remains active. president biden is not being investigated as part of that probe. miranda devine, who works for the "new york post" is breaking stories on the laptop for more than two years last night told laura ingraham the biden camp has plenty to fear. >> they admitted the laptop is his. which we've been telling people for more than two years. finally they've admitted it with this kind of ridiculous attempt to go on the offensive. i think that there is panic in the biden camp. >> dana: rich edson is live in washington with this story.

hi. >> good morning. nearly 2 1/2 years after emails and photos from this laptop hit the "new york post" hunter biden's attorneys acknowledged that the laptop belongs to hunter. in that same letter his attorneys want delaware and federal prosecutors to investigate the computer repair shop owner who passed along data from hunter's laptop. the photos, emails, other document eventually ended up with president trump's lawyer r rudy giuliani and other outlets just before the 2020 election. >> what you have to recognize in all of this is the person who brought the laptop to the fore was rudy giuliani after his clear, inappropriate conduct regarding ukraine. he was at the lynch pin for donald trump's extortion of ukraine. so rudy giuliani at this point has no credibility. >> he maintained hunter

abandoned the laptop. the owner of the shop received the laptop in 2019 and tried for months to notify hunter to pick it up. just before the 2020 election on october 19th more than 50 former intelligence officers including former cia directors john brennan and mike hayden and others say the laptop release has all the classic earmarks of a russian information campaign. twitter and fast book throttled users from sharing stories about it. with republicans in control of the house they'll investigate hunter's business dealings and the classified document found at the president's home. >> major coincidence the documents pertained to china and they pertained to ukraine. which were the key business areas that hunter was involved in. we still have a lot to learn there. certainly doesn't look good. >> republicans say they get hearings on this issue. back to you. >> dana: rich edson in d.c.

thank you. >> bill: no additional classified documents were found during an f.b.i. search yesterday at president biden's rehoboth beach home on the beach in delaware. other paperwork, however, was taken from there which special counsel robert hur's team will comb through. he is 100% officially focused on the president's document investigation as of yesterday. david spunt picks up the story at d.o.j. hello. >> good morning to you. robert hur became special counsel appointed by garland a few weeks ago on january 12th. since that day he has been getting up to speed at a private law firm looking at this investigation into the president of the united states. he is now left has law firm in washington and fully on board dealing with this investigation. f.b.i. agents spent 3 1/2 hours at the president's vacation home yesterday in rehoboth beach. the president's personal attorney bob lawyer says no

documents with classified documents were discovered. agents did take other paperwork and handwritten notes and it is possible, bill, there is something classified on those pages. they are just not marked classified. now all of the material will be in the possession of special counsel robert hur who was at the justice department yesterday getting acquainted with his staff. he will work off site at an undisclosed location, typical for a special counsel. these are the four special counsels we've had in the past four years, busy. all have worked on an off site location. robert mueller, same with john durham and jack smith investigating former president donald trump. now the white house is in damage control mode with a new chief of staff at the helm for his full day today. a spokesman said the theme of the investigation is cooperation. watch this right here. >> the president has been fully

cooperative and directed his team to be fully cooperative. we cooperated fully. we're being fully cooperative and offering up access to the president's personal homes. >> the spokesman refused to say if any other sites have been searched or will be searched. bill. >> bill: thank you, david spunt with the latest on that. >> dana: a few days away from president biden's state of the union speech as he gets ready to lay out his agenda for the year. he wants to build support. fox new poll finds 81% of voters see the united states as a dysfunctional family up from 71% two years ago. what happened? karl rove is a former white house deputy chief of staff and fox news contributor. one of these things we can show as well, 73% of people say that they are dissatisfied with the things in the united states. with how things are going. so how do you put a state of the union together with numbers like that?

>> well, you don't get involved in happy talk. this is -- i think that's an interesting question about dysfunctional family. america in a way has always been a dysfunctional family but what's really important is the question of do you think the country is going in the right direction? depending on what poll you look at, those numbers are from 2/3 to 3/4 of the american people think the country is going in the wrong direction. the most important thing for the state of the union address is not engage in happy talk. this white house has done routinely to its disadvantage. everything is okay. economy is coming back. everything is groovy, wonderful. we've done a terrific job. the great things we've done. that's not where the american people are. start by being where the american people are. >> bill: tick through these quickly. biggest issue, higher prices and inflation 86 pers percent. crime at 80%. as you go down the list. there is your political divisions. big concerns of the american

people. see whether or not he addresses any of those directly next week or which ones he chooses. job performance. now we have approval rating as of our polling this week at 45%, disapprove 54%. ron klain has made it clear, karl. the joe biden is running for a second term. on his way out yesterday he said the following there in washington. >> as i did in 1988 and 2008 and 2020, i look forward to being on your side when you run for president in 2024. >> bill: now we were giving indications that will be the case. how do you size the re-election campaign up as of today? >> well, if he decides to enter the contest, which i hope he doesn't. if he does decide he is the frontrunner for the democratic nomination. i don't think he will be unchallenged. by the end of the year we're

likely to hear somebody say it is time for a generational shift. we have been governed by people from the baby generation for 32 years. i will lay out an alternative vision for the future of our party and the future of the country. it won't get better for president biden. approval rating in our poll was 45%. if you look at the average he peaked in early january and drifting back down. the performance is not going to get better. he is struggling on the job. it will et worse, not better. the democrats have a huge bench of talent and they would be much better off and the country would be in my personal opinion if he were to step aside and allow the democrats to pick a new face. >> dana: can i play devils advocate for a moment? the white house is looking at some of these economic numbers saying look, some people were forecasting disaster. doesn't look like it will be that bad. it takes a long time to get a presidential campaign up and

running as you know very well. it doesn't seem that there are even if there are biter stars and younger stars in the democratic party that they would even be ready to do that by the end of this year. so in a way doesn't he sort of become the default nominee for one more time because they think that he is the only one who could beat a possible republican nominee in donald trump? >> look, i've been talking to a lot of democrats. they will say if he wants to be the nominee he is likely to be the nominee. they don't agree that the conventional wisdom that he is the only guy who can beat donald trump or beat the republican. they think just the opposite. he is the one democrat who might not be able to beat trump and certainly not be able to beat somebody who is other than donald trump. think about it. we would have a faltering 82-year-old who says trust me, i'll be -- if i serve another term i'll be closer to 90 than 80 and a vice president whose

numbers are dreadful compared to me and let me lead the country. if the republicans have a younger, dynamic, forward-looking candidate with a convincing record that they can get things done the democrats are in big trouble. >> dana: any of those democrats willing to go on the record? not yet. >> some of them are pretty close to saying it. there are a number of democrats out there who have been -- >> dana: send them our way. >> excellent. >> bill: you want to name names? >> i will let them name their own names. this is an item of widespread conversation among democratic politicos. there is a deep concern about the future of their party. a recognition they have enormous talent. i was with a prominent democrat yesterday and started ticking off the list of josh shapiro, governor murphy of new jersey, cooper of north carolina and whitmer of michigan. the talents the democrats have in the next generation. >> dana: setting the cats among

the pigeons. thank you, karl. >> i've never seen it like this. a lot worse than we thought it was going to get. a lot worse. >> bill: that storm in the south are now digging out from an ice storm. hundreds of thousands without power. the brutal cold heading up north our way. dana. >> dana: and not all stores have drive-thrus but this cars ride through a mall triggered a manhunt. >> bill: potential bombshell evidence at the trial of alex murdaugh. prosecutors say they can prove he was at the crime scene only minutes before his wife and son were murdered. >> [inaudible]. so you only pay for what you need. contestants ready? go! only pay for what you need. jingle: liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty.

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>> dana: surveillance cameras capture an unusual retail robbery at a mall in canada. 2 suspects drive through the mall stopping to break in and load up at an electronics store. police say they stole the car and smashed through a store's glass entrance to make way. this happened early yesterday morning when the mall was closed. thankfully no one was hurt. police found the car but the two suspects are still on the loose. >> bill: did you say break-in? right? break in, you got it. >> dana: got it. good one, bill. that's a good one. >> bill: now to south carolina we go. this was riveting. testimony is underway today. it resumed only moments ago. alex double murder trial. cell phone evidence to the jury claiming it shows the disgraced attorney was with his wife and son when they were murdered. jonathan serrie picks it up from there in atlanta with what happened in court yesterday.

jonathan. >> hi there, bill. prosecutors say that the defendant's son, paul, shot video on his iphone minutes before the murder. the video shows the family kennel and in it you hear several voices. take a listen to the video. >> he has birds now. >> forensic expert say there are three separate voices on the recording. prosecutors asked a family friend to identify them. >> do you recognize paul's voice? >> yes, sir. >> do you recognize maggie's voice? >> yes. >> do you recognize alex's voice? >> yes, sir. >> 100%? >> yes, sir. >> can you point out alex murdaugh in the courtroom? >> sitting there in the gray jacket. >> let the record reflect he has identified the defendant. >> earlier that evening paul posted a snapchat video where you hear him joking with his

father about a fallen tree. prosecutors pointed ole alex is wearing long pants and button down shirt suggesting that he changed clothes after the murders when he was seen wearing a clean t-shirt and shorts. the defense showed a video from a week before the murders showing paul presenting his father a birthday cake, two long time friends testified the defendant appeared to get along well with his wife and son. this morning we are about to hear testimony from a representative from snapchat to talk more about some of the specifics of the videos that the prosecution is presenting as evidence, bill. >> bill: really interesting. thank you for that out of atlanta today. >> dana: we're now with criminal defense attorney phil holloway, a former assistant district attorney. how did you assess the witness yesterday saying he recognized the voices on that video? >> good morning, dana. great to be with you guys. look, alibi evidence if you are a defendant can be very powerful

and can win you the case if you have a solid presentation. they really need good alibi witnesses. but in this particular case this is a great example of how an alibi can cook your goose if the prosecutor can refute it. that's what they've done. if the jury in the deliberation room comes to the same conclusion the state's witnesses have that this was, in fact, the defendant's voice that was at the murder scene just minutes before these brutal murders took place, it's over. that's just how powerful alibi evidence is, dana. >> dana: what about the changing of the clothes? >> look, the idea is if he was there doing what he said he was doing, which was checking on the bodies, he would have a lot on him, okay? he didn't have a lot on him. if they can prove he is taking actions like changing his clothes and basically using these types of efforts to get

around criminal liability it shows he has a consciousness that what he was doing was wrong and that he is trying to deceive law enforcement. the jury will see that and that also is very powerful information that this jury will use, i think, to convict him. the defense hasn't put up their case. they still have their case in chief and interesting to see what they can do, if anything that will counter this powerful prosecution evidence. >> dana: the judge is set to rule on important issue today. tell us more about that. >> the idea is we want people to stand trial on the actual facts of the particular case at hand. we don't want to use evidence of their character or back character to smear them to get a conviction on an unrelated case but there are exceptions to that. one of them is if the evidence, even if it touches on character, tends to show someone's motive. here the prosecution's theory is that he committed these brutal murders to basically cover up

the financial problems. perhaps these victims had information about it and if allowed to live he might be discovered with relation to the financial crimes. it will go to motive. i think the judge will probably let it in. that's what we're waiting on. >> dana: see you soon. >> bill: growing pushback against liberal indoctrination at schools and university in america. a look at reforms fighting woke education now spreading from state to state. bob woodward is talking and pointing a finger of blame at the mainstream media for how it handled the russia, russia, russiagate matter. >> a lot of the dysfunctional politicians including adam schiff and the media swallowed this information hook, line and sinker because they wanted it. they had a political agenda. to debate and draft the u.s. constitution? turns out they didn't trust the printing of paper money,

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>> bill: bob woodward slamming the press claiming they failed to look into the steele dossier properly. this at the time misinformation was taking over the airwaves. remember this? >> it may be dirty but it ain't fake. >> anything in the dossier disproven? >> no, no, i guess the answer, the short answer to the question. >> it hasn't been could ob rated but not disproven. >> it is far from bogus. >> bill: in a new interview woodward says his colleagues ignored his warnings on the origins of russiagate. jessica tarlov co-host of the fame and washington times opinion editor charlie hurt is back in town. wow. let's play the interview from january of 2017 here with woodward. >> it is a garbage document. it never should have been presented as part of an intelligence briefing. >> bill: he screamed up and down

the street and nobody bothered to listen. >> it is interesting that the only place he could say that was on fox because it is not like we didn't cover all aspects of that story. but nobody else would truck for any, you know, disagreement that there was -- that there were questions about this. on its face i will never understand how so many journalists looked at that dossier and red flags didn't go off. it didn't sound right. claims were absurd. you wreren't allowed to make complaints about it. it is seven years too late. the fact he made the argument i have real questions about this and nobody did anything about it. it is kind of like well, you know, a lot of good that did us at the time. it all worked and his paper and "the new york times" won pulitzer prizes off this story. you give those prizes back and

we'll talk about whatever legitimacy you have left. >> dana: one of the issues was a lot of those media were hanging their fact on the hat they had relationships with previous intelligence officials from government that signed the letter saying it was disinformation. they were whispering in the media ears and you have the big report from the columbia journalism review saying it's not. did the democrats learn lessons from that? >> the most interesting he point in the review was why didn't my colleagues at least have the curiosity to talk to me about why i don't believe it. if you're in the business of finding the truth. i'm a big deal as far as investigative journalism goes. why didn't you come to me and say why do you not believe this? what do you know that we don't know? and if you don't want to print anything off it that's fine. a lot of people were staying christopher steele has been in the eco system for decades so

people were going on and old relationship. >> bill: quickly want to get to hunter biden. lawyers are saying it is his. "new york post" says it's mine. that's the cover today. pretty simple and direct. they are using different rationale saying he is the victim, right? his privacy was invaded and you shouldn't have gone into the laptop. >> they said it was unlawful for the laptop to be gone into which is completely false. there was all of it was completely lawful. what we're really seeing here is the fact that republicans are taking over congress, that's one thing. the next thing is the fact that you have places like twitter, elon musk, twitter is no longer going to cover for hunter and joe biden and they realize that with 2024 coming up, it is not the salacious stuff on the hookers and cocaine and all the stuff on the laptop that will be so important to people but the

evidence of real corruption within the biden administration that is on that laptop that is going to drive these investigations. >> dana: i believe it was mark levin tweeting this from a legal point of view if they want to go down this road it opens them up to discovery. okay, will we do that now and be able to ask a lot more questions? >> i think so. he has carefully considered this. has a great legal team. a budge of the articles made it clear. it wasn't the route his father wanted to go. they wanted to stay away from it and he has a strategy for this to work better. if you drop your laptop off at a repair shop, i don't know why the proprietor has a right to go through your financial records which is what happened. last name is isaac, i think. the chain of custody of this laptop. the "washington post" verified 22,000 emails but not 129,000 on it. there are real questions about

what happened when rudy giuliani and steve bannon are in possession of a democrat's thing. i think you can ask questions about what happens to it? there is confirmation that it is mine. the post cover, but it is not as clear-cut as people think. i think the biden team is trying to maximize the potential for that. >> but the mac shop owner tried to contact him. he never came back to pick it up. and it is very clear that ownership of the laptop reverts to the computer store. ownership means you get to go through it and do whatever you want to. >> dana: you have a duty to report if there was something on it. >> which he did. the f.b.i. collected it and ignored it. >> dana: love having you guys on set. appreciate it. there is a dangerous ice storm across the south and central u.s. damage storms have left behind and where they are headed next. a green light for mexican cartels taking advantage of those closed inland checkpoints

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>> dana: ukrainian president zelensky is sitting down for an exclusive interview with fox news correspondent trey yengst coming at a critical moment in the russian invasion. trey is in the ukrainian capital of kiev with the details. hi, trey. >> good morning. today we had an exclusive interview with ukrainian president zelensky. the conversation took place in his heavy fortified office. wide ranging discussion.

>> thank you for speaking with us. at this moment your troops in the east are bracing for a new russian offensive. what is your assessment of the situation along the front lines? >> well, this situation on the front lines is complicated. it wasn't easy. for over a year we have this war. people are exhausted. but still there is this resilience of our soldiers. it is important to have the resilience among the people. there is this high level of morale and russia is preparing for the relaunch. we can feel this. i believe it has already started. we will see that in the nearest weeks. >> significant statement there from ukraine president zelensky who says this new russian offensive has already started. we'll have more of this

interview tonight on special report and throughout the day tomorrow. dana. >> dana: trey, thank you, stay safe. >> bill: big news from there. to the southern border. vital inland border checkpoints in arizona have sat empty for months. that helps to allow cartels and deadly drugs to pour into the country. these points of entry oftentimes the last line of defense before criminal activity bleeds into the country. former d.e.a. special agent michael brown is with me. good morning to you. it is our understanding they have been closed for months. many are now reopened although the staffing may not be as significant as it was before. anywhere between 25 and 100 miles inland from the border. i don't think a lot of americans knew they existed. why are they so important? >> you are right, bill. the secondary checkpoints have been a critical part of law enforcement for many years going back to when cocaine was coming in through miami and traveling

to new york. state highway patrols helped. it is the last line of defense once vehicles clear the official checkpoints along the border checkpoint area. once they get past that area if there is no secondary defense line they'll make it to the interior of the country and distribution points along the way. >> bill: the point is that oftentimes if you are on the run and you are passed the border and a gotaway, which we found out yesterday 2500 a day are gotaways slipping across the border you let your guard down once you are passed, don't you? >> the cartels know that. they'll send out decoy vehicles to see what activity is occurring at the checkpoints. if no one is stopped they'll send that information back to mexico and then the cartels will simply flood numerous vehicles across the border because they know there is no checkpoint. those vehicles will make it all the way to the interior, cities where they will distribute the fentanyl and make its way to

every neighborhood. >> bill: you know this as well as anybody. they are asking border patrol agents from texas to go work in arizona because they don't have the staffing. why would you close down these inland border checkpoints? >> i can't think of a good argument that supports why these border checkpoints are being closed when we know how vital they are to interdicting and stopping the flow of fentanyl coming into the country. once they make it past that checkpoint, they will make it into the city. the cartels know the more individuals that are crossing the border, that will draw customs personnel away from those checkpoints and make it easier for those vehicles to get access to the country. >> bill: talking about illegal drugs from yuma county arizona. they say you are keeping the agents from doing their jobs and how drugs fan out to other places with an impact on whole united states. drugs once they pass the checkpoint, that's it. you referred to the 80s. what did you learn back then? >> we learned the checkpoints

played a critical role. the number of seizures made by especially the state troopers working hiring interdiction aspects from miami to new york made significant impact and made it difficult for trafficking organizations to move bulk quantities of cocaine from miami to the interior of the united states. we've been here before. this is not a new situation. fentanyl is a new drug but the way to mitt great that threat we have done it before successfully and need to go back to some of the old law enforcement practices to make a better impact. >> bill: fiscal year this year 4500 pounds of fentanyl seized already. who knows how much has gone through? what would be your lesson in the year 2023 based on your experience to cut this off? >> again i would look back to our history. where do we have our successes and challenging the cartels with cocaine coming into the country?

so we're simply going to go back and use what we used before and apply it to the current situation which is now fentanyl. not manning those checkpoints is really sending the cartel the message that it's open season. all gates are open and they will take advantage of that and flood the united states with more deadly fentanyl. >> bill: we'll keep an eye on it to see how the man and woman power is at the checkpoints inland. thank you for being part of our program today. >> thank you, sir. vert >> dana: the national economic director brian deese will step down. president biden thanking him for his two years of service and president said he was critical to the passage of the american rescue plan which has been controversial. i it is a two year mark and new chief of staff and that can usually mean changes in the white house. >> bill: the new chief of staff wants to bring his own people in.

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biden's classified document scandal. drip, drip, drip. house judiciary committee chairman jim jordan and jason chaffetz and others on the faulkner focus top of the hour. >> bill: researchers saying they've developed a vaccine that can prevent the effects of the powerful and deadly drug of fentanyl. a significant breakthrough. stacy stiegel has the details in dallas. >> good morning. the treatment is intended for drug addicts looking to get clean. a series of three shots over a period of time and researchers say it could prevent fentanyl poisonings and overdoses. >> it has been called a game changer. we believe it is. >> the doctor and his team at the university of houston have been working on a solution to to fentanyl crisis. >> similar to the hepatitis b

vaccine. you it stimulates the body to make antibodies against fentanyl. >> they say the antibodies can block the euphoric high a person feels from taking the drug. >> they presentent it from getting in the brain and exited from the body. the individual can get back on the wagon to sobriety. >> we looked inside the lab where they are developing a fentanyl vaccine. work started nearly six years ago using proteins from two other inoculations already on the market. testing was first done on rodents and dr. heal says the results were promising. human clinical trials set to begin soon. >> how do you measure the efficacy with humans? >> we could give them fentanyl and then ask them questions, subjective questions. for example, how high are you? how good do you feel?

how bad do you feel? >> the deputy director of the national institute of drug abuse consulting with the team says it could help addicts quit since it won't allow them to feel high. >> because it is a large molecule it cannot cross between our circulation into the brain tissue itself. so you are essentially sequestering the drug in the circulation. >> best case scenario is getting fda approval and rolling out the vaccine for human patients within the next two years. >> the stakes are really high. if you are able to have a part of helping fix that, i would imagine there count be anything more rewarding. >> we need this vaccine and there are so many people that can be helped and it needs to happen. it will happen. >> this vaccine only works with fentanyl because it is a synthetic drug which means it would not protect against all

opioids like heroin or prescription pills. >> good stuff, casey stiegel in dallas. >> dana: the idaho student murder investigation, a new report that says the f.b.i. lost track of quadruple murder suspect bryan kohberger for house on his trip from washington to pennsylvania. what happened? we're live in seattle with details. >> bryan kohberger was the prime suspect starting on november 28th when a washington state university police officer discovered kohberger had registered a white elantra on campus. the lead detective pulled up a picture and realized bushy eyebrows and build matched the description by the surviving roommate who say he walked by her for the night of the murders. investigators gathered more evidence and kept tabs on kohberger.

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may have blown the case. >> dana: dan springer, thank you. >> bill: before we go, we'll do this thing, is that right? yesterday all the talk was about tom brady when he made this announcement on the beach in miami, i think. right? >> i'm retiring -- for good. i won't be long winded. you only get one super emotional retirement essay and i used mine up last year. >> bill: that's it. as i predicted, tom brady's future would go the following way. at the end of last year hemmer said this. oh. >> dana: why don't you just tell me what you said. >> bill: tom brady will play one more season. i was wrong as fonzy would say.

>> dana: it seemed because he was playing well he would be able to play another season. >> bill: he looked good. the team wasn't great but he looked good. >> dana: seemed like he was having a fun time. >> bill: i mentioned this yesterday. you remember you said happy day's episode with fonzy trying to say the word wrong, do you remember it? go find it on youtube. it is hilarious. >> dana: harris faulkner is up next. >> harris: we begin with a fox news alert on full display biden's border crisis will be a battle that republicans are willing and able to fight. democrats and the white house don't want to talk about the facts happening putting america's sovereignty in jeopardy. it was obvious yesterday. this could put every problem under biden now. not just the border but all of it that would need to be dealt with and risk because we're so divided. you're in the faulkner focus. holding the biden administration