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till 2024 till the race for the white house is set to kick up into a near gear for new year. president biden's reelection campaign will step up events piping up for white house this christmas. record setting migrant surge at southern border. welcome to fox news live. aalicia. >> i'm brian. no time off for gop primary candidate this is holiday season the iowa caucuses front runner with early stocking stuffer and going to fast track former president trump's immunity claim in election interference claim. alicia: we begin with alexandria hoff live in washington with more on president biden's poll

numbers and messages. hi, alex. >> hay, alicia. the revving up of the biden-harris campaign is a release put out titled inside the maga plan to attack birth control, surveil women and ban birth control. president trump was mentioned elitedly making clear the effort was there and tieing the former president to the restrictive border policies and the biden team says the campaign will hit full steam by early summer and concerns over the president's age and performance can be easily countered by more direct engagement. >> that's us and is extremely good and excellent retail politician and him and the biden campaign. >> push for black and hispanic voters and on wednesday the president touted bidenomics in

milwaukee with a focus on minority-owned businesses. >> trickle down from economics that economics supercharged -- was supercharged by my predecessor. a guy that thinks we're polluting the world of americans these dais. >> that was said the same day a graphic was put out and this graphic by the biden-harris campaign and most aggressive yet linking statements that trump made about immigration to hitler. but president biden knows that immigration and the border is a political problem for him. he announced thursday sending top officials to mexico to discuss the "challenges". this is all happening as the supreme court handed a win of sorts to leading opponent. yesterday the decision was made not to fast track a claim by former president trump he's immune from charges plotting to overthrow the 2020 election and sends the case to federal appeals court and likely delays the trial start date and wanted it to happen for the election

and biden's legal team to stop working. alicia. brian. brian: bring in debbie lesco and serves on house energy and commerce committee. thank you for being here. i appreciate it. happy holidays. >> happy holidays to you and merry christmas. brian: yes, merry christmas and start off with the numbers because they're astronomical. november, the highest november on record, it is actually 242,418 migrant encounters in november, that is the highest november on record. the third highest month of the border crisis. there were two other months that had higher encounters on our southern border under president biden. i want to note just based on what you're seeing on the ground in arizona, lukeville, arizona, has been an epicenter as of late. what are you hearing about border patrol, what they're seeing right now and what can you tell me about flights of migrants taking off from phoenix

and tucson, arizona, to cities like new york city? >> well, first of all, i want to say merry christmas and thank you to all the border patrol officers who are probably going to be working over the christmas holidays. it's a total disaster and continues to be a total disaster and it's getting worse. as you said, lukeville, arizona, port of entry has been closed now for awhile. there's hundreds if not thousands of miami people lined up there waiting to get processed by border patrol. there's -- they found ten ieds on the mexican side of the border by arizona. they arrested a guy with ak47 on the arizona side of the border. this is a huge crisis and biden is doing nothing. sending officials to mexico is not going to do a darn thing, and that's why republicans keep pushing for border security, re-enstating some of the policies that trump had that

worked. brian: yeah, talk about mexico. president of mexico said i'm willing to do something on the border but only if the united states is willing to open talks with cuba and send more aid to venezuela. what do you make of mexico's president here setting the terms of a negotiation with the united states right now? >> well, listen, president biden can't secure the border without dealing with mexico. i mean, if he wants to deal with mexico, fine. i think we should set the standards here in the united states. we need to install the hr2 bill that the republicans passed out of the u.s. house of representatives and it's sitting in the senate, schumer won't hear it, biden won't hear it, and that would re-instate the remain in mexico policy or other country while people are getting processed in the courts to hear their asylum claim. it also would continue building the wall and it also would raise

the standards for asylum claims. these things, if they were done, people would naturally stop coming. right now we have people from all over the world crossing into arizona. what did we have, like 24,000 chinese nationals that came last year. it's crazy. brian: well, let me ask you real quick about this bill, the senate is negotiates whether or not what they're going to include in the bill that would include money to ukraine and israel and funding for the border. what is the house willing to accept here from the senate because you're going to have to negotiate here on something. they're not going to pass hr2 from the senate side. is there anything that's a must have there? is it the asylum limitations? is it remain in mexico? what is the red line for you because there has to be a negotiation here? >> well, the house republicans passed a border security bill as you said, hr2, and we'll see what the senate offers because

so far they've not offered anything except saying they want to send more money to process more illegal immigrants to come into our country. well, that's not sufficient. let's see what they bring us back and i'll see if i support it then. we need to change the policies. it's not that difficult. it's not that did i have cull. all you have to do is raise the standards for asylum claims. make people wait in either their own country or a safe third country while their asylum claims are being processed instead of letting them into the united states and flying them all over the country. brian: with respect, you know it's difficult and it's the least productive congress in the last 115 years and you're not running again because you said washington is broken and you can't get anything done. >> it's become very partisan, and i have no idea why president biden and my democratic

colleagues don't want to secure the border. it makes absolutely no sense because it's a national security risk here in the united states, but it's also a humanitarian crisis for the illegal immigrants themselves and they're being with -- women and kids being raped and sold into sex slavery and it's a total disaster and i would love to work with my democratic colleagues and they're unwilling to do so and for whatever reason they want open border policies brian: are you getting colleagues to accept open border policies and you're going to need to come to an agreement with border policies and get agreement to accept sending money to ukraine and israel, you know, with the exchange of more border enforcement? >> i think we can get this done but border security has to be part of the solution. we should not be giving money to

other countries with a huge crisis on the southern border. my constituents are gnus outraged about the open border policies and they're afraid of who's coming into our country. heir not vetting the people properly because they can't. there's too many of them. it's got to stop and before we send money so other countries like ukraine the house passed money to go to israel and that's sitting in the senate. brian: we'll see what happen when is the senate comes up with their own deal with the works in january. arizona congresswoman debbie lesko, thank you for joining us today. >> thank you. alicia: the ground offensive continues in israel with deadly air strikes in north, south, and gaza today. the palestinian enclave and

white houssaying "iran is deeply eninvolved with helping the houthi rebels plan attacks on ships in the red sea". attacks that began by taggerring israelly linked vessels. greg palkot is live in tel aviv, israel. hi, greg. reporter: hey, alicia. it's a tough weather night in tel aviv and very tough battles down south inside gaza and israel continuing to hit hamas targets and kill ago top weapon smuggler for the group and zeroing in on the southern part of gaza strip trying to finish off stronghold to the north and militants have been holding out. israel not appearing to alter its approach after yesterday's resolution and the un security council calling for a humanitarian pause. the wording was toned down by the u.s. going along with an abstention and critics say it's not strong enough to get sufficient aid to gaza. hamas supported iranian-backed houthi fighters attacking

shipping in the red sea. there's a new attack in the last 90 minutes and foxconn firmed iranian naval spy vessel is relaying realtime information to the rebels and no word on who's responsible for the strike earlier today on israeli-linked ship in the arabian sea. israel getting help of four legged kind and it reveals ashmy dogs equipped with body cameras sniffing through hamas terror tunnels and hunting down fight r and weapons and finding hostages and christmases more subdued due to the war. no tree, no lights and celebrations and fighting goes on. there'll be a midnight mass on christmas eve and hope for peace and quiet and nasty noise down south and throughout the region. back to you, alicia. alicia: there's always hope. greg palkot in tel aviv. thank you, greg. brian: cassioppi s actor charlie

sheen is okay after a neighbor attacked him at his home on wednesday. she was arrested for burglary and assault with a deadly weapon. more on this story. christina. >> hey, brian, good to see you. sources tell fox news there's been ongoing issues between sheen and the suspect in this case. his neighbor, a woman named electra shrock and he heard the two talking and saying something to the effect of letting by gones by by b bygones be bye b gones and dumbing trash at his door and police responded around 1:00 in the afternoon on wednesday for a battery disturbance call and identified sheen as the victim and shrock with the suspect and arrested for assault with a deadly weapon. she forced her way into sheen's malibu condo and grabbed at his neck multiple times ripping his shirt and she has gotten into

trouble before. court records show she was charged with elder dependent adult cruelty in march. she pleaded no contest and was released on a $25,000 bond. now she's back in custody. it's unclear what prompted her alleged attack on sheen. he's been involved in several assault cases over the past 27 years himself. he was placed on two years brouation after charged -- probation after charged with attacking one of his former girlfriends in 1996 and pleaded guilty to an assault charge as part of a plea deal following a domestic violence incident involving his former wife brooke mueller in colorado in 2009. now his erratic behavior off the screen and struggles with substance abuse has hugely impacted his career. the 58-year-old former two and a half men star earn ago whopping $1.8 million an episode during his final season on that hit show. he was fired after making controversial statements about

one of the show's cocreators and sheen told people m magazine hes been sober for the past six years and focusing on his kids and no word on a motive in his attack on wednesday and the neighbor that allegedly tried to choke him is being held on an $80,000 bond and her initial court appearance in this case is scheduled for tuesday. brian. brian: i was going to say it's been a long time since we heard about charlie sheen so he's been cleaning up his act. >> yeah, he told people magazine recently in an interview talking about matthew perry and how it made him reflect on his life. he was saying that he is very proud of the changes that he made so it is good to hear that. brian: yeah, can't wait to hear the full story to what he may have done. no one deserves to be strangled in their own home but can't wait for the full story. christina coleman in los angeles, thank you. alicia: two days till christmas and mad dash on for people not just to make it to holiday destinations but get last minute

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>> cb cotton is live from one of the nation's busiest and biggest airports, la guardia. how is it going out there? reporter: hi, alicia, it's been a good travel day and throughout today, not seeing good security

wait times higher than 15 minutes and monitoring other airports and a bit of congestion and and on a case by case basis and not a surprise because triple-a says air travel like you mentioned is surpassing that pre-pandemic level and here's how the end of travel, end of your travel breaks down across the board all types of travel. look at this. triple-a predicting 115 million people traveling 15 miles away from home during the travel period today through january 1. of that number, estimated 7.5 million will catch a flight close to 104 million getting behind the wheel and 4 million taking a bus, train, or cruise so of those numbers, majority of people still choose to get behind the wheel but there's good news, travel experts say air fare this year is cheaper if you prefer to come here and battle it out at the airport and some travelers tell us it doesn't matter the cost. it's all about convenience.

listen. >> it's more convenience for me. much faster and driving like 13 hours compared to two hours. i'd rather fly any time. reporter: if you can spill it, spray it, or spread it, pump it or pour it, you've got to put it in a checked bag or more than 3.4 ounces. nobody wants to get caught up in the tsa security lines and so important to pack smart and pack right. alicia, back to you. alicia: absolutely, cb. i had this assignment but at denver and felt like every time i was on tv, felt like no one was behind me and lines vanished. have you found la guardia is ebbing and flowing and in the morning it's really busy and expectation is it'll get busier in the afternoon because they're busy today, aren't they? reporter: they are busy, and i

can tell you like you mentioned, i saw you at denver international yesterday, you did a great job. during those morning hours, it was much busier here. we got here about 8:00 a.m., and there was two really, really long lines. then we saw things start to die down and airport employees tell us they're going to expect a rush to start back up around 4:00 this afternoon so we're keeping an eye out on all of it and i think it definitely depends on what hour you're here at the airport though. alicia: yep, all the more reason to check with your airlines and get there early. cb cotton at la guardia airport in queens. good to see you. brian. brian: meantime holiday shoppers are hard to miss bumping into you anywhere you go these days especially here in new york city and today many are hustling to buy last minute gifts at places like perimeter mall in atlanta, which is extending hours on this super saturday. that's where we find madison

scar pea know. scarpino. reporter: hey, brian. the crowd is growing by the minute here at the mall in atlanta. if you're doing last minute shopping, you're not alone. i recommend you get here sooner rather than later and we've got stores, multiple store withs lines out the door and all of this just two days before christmas. >> that's something we haven't seen over the past few years and goods were short and not as many discounts. it's a great time to be a consumer. >> this year people are waiting loner and trying to -- longer and stretch the dollars and want to make sure they're taking advantage of professional deals that are available to them. reporter: the national retail federation says that this is the first time since 2017 super saturday is right before the holiday ask association expects that over 140 million people will be doing some last minute

shopping today. the nrf says shoppers will spend around $875 on average this year, about $620 on gifts and a little over $250 on things like decorations, candy and food. overall that's about $42 more than consumers planned to spend last year and one thing shoppers don't have to worry about this time around is low inventory, which means more deals. now, the finance company nerd wallet says that three in four shoppers are going to be using credit cards to buy gifts and about a third are making installment payments so come 2024, upward mobility thing people might be focusing on is paying off some debt. brian. brian: absolutely. madison scarpino, know it's your last week and you've been doing great. welcome. reporter: thank you, brian. alicia: president biden is

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despite a three year pause. >> 9 million borrowers did not make their payments in october and 40% of the 22 million student loan borrowers and estimates show even more payments may have been missed in november. the supreme court shot down the president's student loan forgiveness program in june and they're trying to get around this by softening the consequences of missed payments. missed payments are reported to the big three companies after 90 days but that will no longer be the case. president biden said eliminating student loan debt would generate economic growth. >> i went to the supreme court to eliminate student debt out there and guess what -- [ applause ]. >> big court ruled against it. interest they're paying on the debt prevents them from buying a home and starting a business. all those things. >> missed payments not reported

as delinquencies but interest will still accrue on the loans and department of education announcing that program will run through september 30th of n yea. alicia: president biden taking bidenomics on the road with a visit to milwaukee this week where he praised economic progress under his administration. treasury secretary janet yellen backing his claims citing low unemployment, strong economic growth, and falling inflation. but the message is still not resinating with americans. a new fox poll shows 78% of voters believe the economy is in fair or poor condition. 46% say the president's economic policies have hurt them. john bussy associate editor for "the wall street journal". john, so good to see you on this holiday weekend. on one hand there's the president and his team pointing out actual data; right? things are improving, the economy is growing and inflation is down, unemployment low.

however on the other side, in poll after poll, we see americans continue to say, it's still not working and we're still hurting. why this gap? >> it's strange and the president has ten monarchies to turn around the public perception of theically -- perception of the economy that's not there. he's responded to chief inflation, up 19% from before the pandemic. that's huge. and that's the total inflation and annualized inflation is running around 3% so a third of the peek of nine years ago and has to make it clear to the public that inflation was not part of biden economics and it

was as a result of the pandemic and he's got to somehow message that a lot more yorely and it's the pandemic and the supply chain disruptions and the shortages and the fact that factories closed in the u.s. and around the world and your car colonoscopies more because they couldn't get the micro-ships they needed and couldn't get back to work and a fed that was late to the game. it was slow in responding to emerging inflation indicators and had to catch up. he's got to sort of point the finger some place else and say hey, since then there's been a tremendous amount of really good news. i alicia: folks told our pollsts they feel like they haven't recovered and don't have the spending power they once did. if the president points and says things will get better and it's something that is not something that i did through bidenomics,

do you honestly my americans care especially as he's campaigning now? >> that's a good point. you've got to message that really clearly because when you and i go to the grow store and prices are up and you did see a drop in prices in november and they daughter or sonned in november from the previous month and still up 19% and still hurts everyone. he's got to make clear that was the pandemic and now you've got four years of tremendous job growth at a monthly average this year that was faster than the monthly average in the ten years previous to the pandemic. wage gains in a lot of cases offset inflation, greater than inflation so employees are doing better. the market is way up, particularly in the last couple of weeks, more than half of u.s.

households own stocks, 401(k)s are doing better. you just had to report where shopping malls are full and they're more discounts and plane prices have come down. that's all good news and that's as a result of a very resilient consumer, consumer sentiment is also up. these are all good signs, i think, for biden but, boy, he's got to get much clearer messaging out to the electorate. alicia: no doubt. move to politics. polling in week shows that former u.s. ambassador to the un nikki haley is four points behind former president trump in new hampshire. here's the former governor of the granite state on that. take a listen. >> i mean, i've always said this is a race between donald trump and nikki haley. people see this is a real movement to make sure the republican party is moving forward and making sure we're gavellizing the country-specifil

vonnizing the country -- galvanizing the country with someone that can win. >> you no question see that momentum picking up in the last few months for nikki haley and ron desantis seems to be fading as a second best in the gop race. let's not kid ourselves, trump is way ahead of all of the candidates and i think there's kind of an effort on the part of the second in place in that race to wait out the electorate and former manager of south carolina and an executive that ran things as opposed to a candidate that's under indictment and perhaps by the election and convicted in some of the cases and had a

measure of chaos and second favorite and second best and he's ahead of the woman vote of nikki haley. alicia: new hampshire is no nevada and nevada comes after new hampshire and that's where things really start getting interesting. >> it's strange that we have the system in which new hampshire and iowa go first. these are places that seem to set the tone for the election when in fact they are not large population setters. not particularly diverse so you don't get a really good reading on black vote, on hispanic vote, on asian vote. i don't think that we're going to get a feel for this until the

third, fourth, fifth primary. alicia: we'll be there for all of it. john bussy, thank you and have a merry christmas. >> my pleasure. brian: the supreme court declined to fast track former president trump's immunity claim in the election interference trial and what does this mean for that case and the race for the white house, former district attorney's legal analysis is next.. ♪ aily healing. a powerhouse lotion that moisturizes, heals, and smooths dry skin. with 7 moisturizers & 3 vitamins. and... new gold bond healing sensitive. clinically shown to heal & moisturize dry, sensitive skin. gold bond. a force to be reckon with. no, not you saquon.

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march 4 start day, exactly what his lawyers were pushing for, let's start off with what attorney general bill barr, former president trump's attorney general bill barr had to say about this decision by the scream court not to fast frack this decision about immunity and we'll go through the normal protocol. >> it's not that bill of a deal and stypes they try to leapfrog over and if time is of the essence and the court wants to go if regular order. i believe the circuit court, the intermediate court will reach a ruling promptly. i'm not sure the supreme court will take it after that. in any event, i still think the trial may go forward during the spring, but it may not go forward as originally scheduled at the beginning of march. brian: robert, what do you

think? is it a big deal or is this case still on track to perhaps get done before the election? >> as bill barr said, the most important thing that trump and his legal team have been fighting for for the last couple of months is time. they've filed numerous motions seeking more time with discovery seeking more time with trial and appealing issues such as this. but as he pointed out, the oral argument scheduled for january 9 if they render a decision within a week of that date and the supreme court, you have to assume the losing party will appeal and if they do, it gives them time to fast track that before the argument and the supreme court and even if it's not early march, it's end of march and early april and would pomoxus ten will believely clear this one case up before the election cycle hits full swing.

brian: interesting. "mr. smith did a reasonable offer to break normal appellant procedure and jump the cue over the dc circuit court of appeals and his plea was merely political to meet the trial dale of march 4 and get a conviction of mr. trump before election day of 2024". robert, there's an argue being -- argument made by some why can't jack smith be honest with the american people and the court as to why he's trying to expedite the case. he wants to get it done before election day. >> yeah, i think it's a very clear based upon his actions that that's exactly what he's trying to do and if the court ruled in favor of president trump and say that he's immune from prosecution on the january 6 case, he'd have to pivot to try and get a prosecution to trial on the classified documents case before november and it's abundantly clear wahoos trying to do and legality and ability to attempt to fast track and whether or not the courts rule in his favor and

remains to be seen and something everyone is watching very closely. brian: this decision about immunity and the supreme court's decision moving forward and other cases that the supreme court call dig case and this matter of startups and nasdaq 6 defendants and weren't they were problemmerly prosecuted and this decision and future decisions and make of the decision that they're looming ahead of them? one of president trump's most talked about victories while president was the amount of people he was able to place on the supreme court and will play itself on on the republican appointed judges skew and go in his favor and they haven't helped him much and let tax returns be released, et cetera, there are many, many questions surrounding him and the way in

which the makeup of the court currently is as to how they're going to rule in these types of cases. the one thing i would note about the colorado situation is the colorado courts ruled he was involved in insurrection when he's not been convicted of anything. again, i think that ruling was pre-mpremature but as it was pod out by many legal pundits, they can requalify him and there's other avenues no get back on other than waiting for the courts to decide. brian: right now a legal win in terms of running out the clock. we'll see. that's up to determination, robert, as we've been discussing to who are not it'll be delay -- whether or not it'll be delayed enough. >> no question, they'll want to delay and that's the smart thing and right thing to do and any lawyer hired by him would be doing the same thing. they're not game playing and doing their job and legal duty to make sure that right decisions are made legally,

correct decisions are made and given the appropriate time to prepare and defend their client in one of the most high profile if not the most high profile cases this country has seen. brian: robert, thank you for joining us. happy holidays and merry christmas. thank you. >> merry christmas, brian. thank you. alicia: brian, lawmakers have plenty of work waiting for them when they return if their holiday break. topping the agenda will be averting a government shutdown with two deadlines looming in january. there's also an urgent need to address a border security deal that would also provide aid to israel, ukraine, and taiwan. chat pergram has more. >> since congress didn't accomplish much in 2023, the big stuff slips to 2024. top of the list: a bipartisan package to beef up the border, which is in shambles. >> this is tough to come to a compromise and it's just as tough to r write to make sure yu

get the ideas down on the paper in a way that makes sure that the policy is implemented protectly. >> we're working hard to get an outcome because the country needs it and needs it soon. >> mitch mcconnell is one of the biggest republicans in congress for ukraine and the republicans are divided over helping ukraine. >> we need to hold the line and not have a single dollar seatbelt sent to ukraine until the southern border is secure. >> congress faces a deadline to fund the government in the next few weeks and the first is january 16 and not a consensus on how much the government

should spend. >> extreme maga republicans remain on an island trying to break the agreement they themselves negotiated and it's a nonstarter and it's not happening. >> potential government shutdown could stop everything ranging from border security to the impeachment investigation of president biden. on capitol hill, chad pergram, fox news. alicia: chad pergram, thank you. and we'll be right back.

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