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>> bill: you have to do something might be the quote of the day. passing the buck on the border. president biden blaming congress as he fights to tear down an emergency barrier in the state of texas. good morning, everybody. can we still say happy new year? i do believe we can. >> dana: we can. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer live in new york and we'll figure out how we do this all over again right now. good morning. >> dana: i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." i wish president biden's new year's resolution was not try make news while the helicopters blades are whirring. it is driving me up a wall. making significant news in a way and you can't hear it. this is what he said. the biden administration is asking the supreme court to intervene in a dispute with texas. the white house wants permission to cut down 30 miles of razor wire used to block migrants from crossing. this after a record month where agents intercepted more than

300,000 people. >> bill: 300,000. speaker mike johnson and more than 60 other house republicans will visit eagle pass, texas today. >> at the end of his four years, he will have allowed into the country when you think about the gotaways and everything else, 12 million illegals. 12 million migrants. that's the equivalent of the entire population of ohio, the seventh largest state. >> dana: a new trend is putting border agents on alert. adult men from guinea are trying to gain entry by using fake passports to claim they are unaccompanied minors. >> bill: we've got you covered now. bill melugin reports in eagle pass, texas. let's start with peter doocy who is on the north lawn of the white house where the president too a question on the issue late last night. good morning, peter. >> good morning. bill. just to give the feds are feds are in charge of the border.

a new quit from inside. instead of joining both parties speaker johnson is continuing to block president biden's proposed funding to hire thousands of new border patrol agents, hire more asylum officers and immigration juts. provide local communities hosting migrants additional funding and critical to stopping deadly fentanyl from entering the country. the texas governor has been testing the limits of the law laying that razor wire across the border which the feds want permission to cut and putting border crossers on buses and planes. greg abbott explains texas has transported over 95,000 migrants to sanctuary cities. like new york and chicago have seen only a fraction of what has overwhelmed texas border towns face daily. we'll continue our transportation mission until biden reverses course on his open border policies. white house officials say they have a big problem with that.

>> using migrants as a political stunt is not making communities and texas saver. it's shameful. we need to call that out. >> house republicans want the southern border to be the thing that everybody who follows policy and politics is talking about to start the new year. white house officials are not trying to counter program them. nothing on the president's public schedule today. >> bill: here we go into the new year we dive. thank you, talk to you later. >> dana: a heightened focus on the border chaos bringing dozens of house republicans to the epicenter of the crisis, eagle pass, texas where we find bill melugin this morning. hi, bill. >> good morning to you. this is believed to be the largest congressional delegation to ever visit the southern border today. the speaker's office telling me as of this morning they have nearly 60 members confirmed to be coming at a time when records are just being shattered here at

the southern border. it has been a quiet morning here in eagle pass. look at this video from arizona in lukeville, arizona, part of border patrol tucson, arizona sector. this was before sunset last night. this is video from this morning it appears. what you are looking at is more people crossing illegally overnight coming through a breach in the border wall. large majority african men coming from around the world. some of the countries liberia, congo, senegal, guinea. something we've seen several weeks in a row now coming as tucson sector border agents are being warned to look for fake passports coming from guinea. look at this internal alert we obtained. this was sent by border patrol's tucson sector intelligence unit warning agents they're seeing a huge influx of altered or fake passports coming from guinea from adults changing their dates of birth to thrive to masquerade

as unaccompanied minors to get into the united states better. it warns agents what to look out for. what real and fake passports look like and says officials in the guinea government may be involved in telling them to do this. it also says that any passports issued in the guinea moon is malt of june of 2023 should be considered fake or fraudulent. speaker mike johnson and republicans coming to eagle pass today. look what he tweeted yesterday. it is dead in eagle pass compared to what it was like a couple weeks ago. he says here is eagle pass weeks ago versus yesterday. the biden administration decided to divert the flood of illegal immigrants to another location in order to keep them out of the camera shots during house gop's visit to eagle pass. don't be fooled. they are still being released into our country under president biden our southern border is a disaster. let's talk about the shocking december numbers. look at this graphic. cbp sources telling fox in december there were over 302,000

migrant encounters, the highest single month ever recorded and you can see how it compares to december's, the previous five years including a couple of trump years. the numbers have quadrupled from trump's last year in office. the last december going from 74,000 to 302,000. back live you can see several congressmen are out waiting for this congressional visit. congressman matt gaetz, and he biggs, bob good andy crane. just since october 1st, 785,000 migrants are encountered at the southern border . the population size bigger than the city of seattle coming across our southern border in just three months. send it back to you. >> dana: hard to wrap your head around the numbers because it is every month. thank you so much, bill. >> bill: let's talk to the law. the sheriff is from maverick

county. you cover eagle pass. secretary mayorkas was on cnn a short time ago blaming texas for the problem. here is what he said. >> we have one governor in the state of texas who is refusing to cooperate with other governors and other local officials and coordinate efforts to address a challenge that our country, which this country should stand united to address, and it is a remarkable failure of governance to refuse to cooperate with one's fellow local and state officials. >> bill: the reason we played that is we wanted to show our viewers that he made about your state and the comment from the president last night when he said we have to do something. they have to give me the money. i need to protect the border. how much money does it cost to cut through razor wire that you have lined along the border in the rio grande river?

>> it costs money, i don't know an exact amount but a lot of money for that. i would rather have the money for the manpower and for the equipment we need. >> dana: do you think that when president biden says if they gave me more money this problem would get solved? >> well, the only thing would be if he can give that money to the sheriffs on the border. we need more money. we need to hire more deputies and get more equipment. that's the only way if we can slow it down. and, of course, if they can communicate with the mexican government, too, they can help us on the other side. they can put some kind of reinforcement on their borders. >> bill: if i'm reading here you won't meet with the delegation today. is that true and if so, why not? >> yeah, it's true.

they are going to go to this big camp called firefly where they have the immigrants. i'll be on stand by if they need emergency backup or some kind of that. they have their own escorts and everything. >> dana: you gave an oath to make sure the citizens of your county are safe. you take that very seriously. do you think that your federal partners take their responsibility seriously as well? >> well, i know that the border patrol agents are real good agency. they aren't given a chance to do their job. most of them are just processing. they are an outstanding group. i notice the local, state troopers are doing their job, too. but they really don't want to be on the border but doing their job. we are all doing the best we can

and some of us are doing that it doesn't pertain to work. it is more like federal -- it should be federal. >> bill: maybe we need to ask this question a different way. 302,000 encounters in the last 30 days of december? does that concern you, sheriff? >> a lot. my priority is for my county and it is dividing my manpower. now we have two units escorting buses with immigrants to laredo, texas, two hours from here south. so that's my priority, securing my county. if i don't have the manpower, that's when i'm concerned. immigrants are coming through, i don't think all of them are going to be here just to make a better life. there are some immigrants coming

through that don't qualify for anything and they are the ones coming around and hiding and so forth and it's the criminals. >> bill: and you have the fake passports coming out of africa. it is all alarming to us, sheriff. i don't know what you'll do about it. you start banging on the door in washington to help the folks in texas and your county out. thank you for coming on today. >> thank you very much. >> bill: i don't know how much wire cutters cost. i don't think they're that expensive. >> dana: call for number five. the altered passports. this is what the border patrol says. officials from the guinea government may be advising people to obtain a new passport and change the age and give you a better chance of entering the united states as a minor. it's good they know that this is happening. they put this alert out there so that as the border patrol agents are having to process people, if you are coming from guinea, it will be an extra flag. >> bill: the fraud being used around the world and know how to

beat our system. >> dana: who is making the passports. follow the money. meantime on the college campuses. >> university president sit atop of institutions that have rotted out and institutionalized anti-semitism against the attack against israel in early october. >> bill: the ivy league president stepping down from her post but stay at the school remaining on the payroll. new outrage this morning on that coming up. >> dana: the caucus countdown is on. ron desantis vying for votes in the hawkeye states. >> bill: the new court ruling that is giving restaurant owners reason to celebrate. reason to celebrate. of prayer and meditation want to start with a five minute daily gospel?

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[shouting] >> bill: you hear a blast in the background there. there may have been more than one. this is brand-new video in from southern iran where that state media organization is reporting two explosions minutes apart have killed more than 100 people already today and about 150 wounded. this was a commemoration for the death of the former commander soleimani killed on this day by a u.s. drone strike in baghdad four years to this day. the u.s. claimed that he was responsible for killing and maiming many american soldiers and marines working in the war in iraq. and under the trump administration they took their shot in the early days of 2020 and today you have what's being

described as a terrorist hit on this parade to commemorate his life. more than 100 dead and that number continues to go up throughout the morning. we'll watch it and let you know what we're learning from inside iran as we can today. president biden teasing plans to wipe out more student debt. he posted this yesterday. my administration has canceled student debt for 3.6 million people bringing the promise of higher education to more hard working americans and we'll keep going. supreme court ruled against the president's original student plan but according to the department of education, he has still managed to cancel more than $130 billion in debt as they are proud to say. so there is that and this. >> it is unacceptable it took harvard a month to demand the resignation of claudine gay. penn made the right decision immediately. this is after it was forced in front of the world to see. we've seen jewish students assaulted, physically harassed

and facing just vile attacks every single day. >> dana: vined case for harvard students at claudine gay resigns. her announcement came in a letter to the school saying this in part. it has been distressing to have doubt cast on my commitments to confronting hate and to upholding scholarly rigor. frightening to be subjected to threats fueled by racial animus. here is harvard law student jonathan free den. she said it was hard to be the target of that kind of animus. but when asked the question by stefanik on anti-semitism it was that very animus about the destruction of the country of israel and the killing of jews that really tripped her up initially. >> yeah, thank you so much for having me on. i definitely hear you.

i want to be very clear that i and many other jewish students on campus are coming from a place of empathy and not hate. we care about the jewish students and all students. we care about the stithe institution and higher education more broadly. i think it's really important to point out here the issues that are existing on campus regarding anti-semitism are beyond one person. so there is communication failures, there is shocking drops in undergraduate stash students admitted and double standards of policy enforcement. important to note these issues are systemic and go beyond just one former president. >> bill: i respect that answer. i wonder, jonathan, if you didn't have all the plagiarism charges that kept piling up, one after the other, do you think she would still be in that job? >> probably yes. i think it's interesting to note that the resignation follows the plagiarism allegations, not anti-semitism on campus.

where the harvard corporation stood behind the former president. and it is interesting to note neither the former president gay's nor harvard institution acknowledged anti-semitism at all. >> dana: stefanik said. stay tuned. they're complicit in covering up this massive scandal with unbelievable arrogance that damage harvard's academic integrity and moral leadership. bill bennett said this to fox digital. what we see is an example of the final corruption of our mostly let institutions. the american people do not need more discouragement towards the institutions they once looked up to. i think one of the things fueling thoughts across the country, maybe not with you, i understand the empathetic view, but claudine gay doesn't lose her job entirely. she stays on as a faculty

member. a million dollar a year salary. she has all these allegations of plagiarism. over half of her scholarly work tainted in some way and gets to stay on campus. is that really punishment? >> yeah, so listen, i know there is a lot of discussions about how academic integrity and plagiarism issues are enforced very heavily against students. i hope the institution looks into this in a meaningful way and hopefully actually publishes the independent reports that were put out regarding plagiarism. if there is something to note there, i think we should be aware. but i want to say that moving forward, i hope that whoever becomes the president and in the meantime the interim president, take campus anti-semitism seriously and instead of primarily trying to protect themselves from liability, truly work to better campus.

moving forward, we need strong moral leadership and accountability. >> bill: that would be something. that might be different for people especially like you, jonathan. thank you for your time so much. jonathan frieden on campus at harvard university. thanks. >> i feel like it would put a lot of restaurants out of business to have to comply by this. >> would it put you out of business? >> probably. i can't imagine it would be cheap now. >> there is a restaurant owner in berkeley, california slamming the city's new ban on natural gas appliances that won't be going into effect for now. william la jeunesse watching the story from the west coast bureau. what are they saying, willium? >> the short answer is do not sell or postpone plans to buy your gas stove, furniture yeas or water heater once. the once liberal ninth circuit court dealt a big setback to progressives and

environmentalists when it struck down berkeley's plan on new gas appliances saying only the federal government can set standards for appliances. it is not just berkeley. 70 communities in california, many major democrat-led cities, seattle, new york, la adopted natural gas pipes in new construction. >> when we think about pollution and the climate we think about cars and factories. it turns out the buildings we live and work in every day are a big contributor to that as well. >> home builders and restaurants were among the first to fight back. >> open flame and the ability to -- it's a necessity. >> berkey can also appeal and rewrite the ordinance. it does not affect some other

cities that ban natural gas in building codes but consumers in berkeley, at least, are relieved. >> until there is something else that isn't electric that could work and that's efficient and isn't costly and so forth, i would say that they have to allow it. >> bottom line this ruling is not nationwide but it does offer some legal guidance for other challenges, bill. here is why. cities and states say they have the right to control the distribution of natural gas in their states. the court is saying that might be true but you can't prevent consumers from buying appliances governed by federal efficiency standard. >> bill: that last woman makes too much sense. william la jeunesse in los angeles, thank you. >> dana: a new mayor in the city brotherly love. she has her work cut out for her. can she turn things around in philadelphia? from sunrise to sunset, a new

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>> bill: we played this a moment ago. you can hear the explosion loud and clear and there appears to be more than one where the iranian state media reports 100 people are already dead during the commemoration of the life of soleimani killed four years ago on this day. trey yengst live in tel aviv with more on that and the rest of the round-up on the middle east there. trey, hello. >> good morning. we are following this breaking news out of southeast iran where a pair of explosions rocked the city there killing at least 103 people. the blast taken place at a

ceremony to commemorate the four-year anniversary of the death of iranian general soleimani. the explosions taking place near the cemetery where he is buried. iranian officials are calling it a terrorist attack. they stopped short of blaming anyone or country. they come as israel is bracing for the possibility of a retaliatory attack after a drone strike yesterday in beirut killed hamas's deputy chairman. the site where that strike took place with damage to both a building and a car. lebanese media reports six other hamas members were killed as well including two commanders and today the leader of hamas made his first statement about that killing calling his deputy a martyr adding he joins those killed in gaza and those killed during the battle that hamas calls the october 7th massacre. new rocket fire from lebanon overnight but not a large response to what took place in

beirut yesterday. still, israel remains on high alert. >> the idf is at a very high level of readiness in all arenas in defense and offense. we're in a high state of readiness for any scenario. >> the developments along israel's northern border come as operations continue in gaza. israeli forces say they took out a militant who tried to plant an explosive device on a tank and destroyed new hamas cells in gaza city using uavs to take them out in a series of strikes. the focus remains in gaza but keeping an eye on lebanon tonight where the leader of hezbollah is set to make an address to mark the four-year anniversary of the death of iranian general soleimani. >> bill: what a turn of events it is. we'll follow it. trey yengst in tel aviv. thank you. >> despite the progress and lowering the number of homicides, we still have far too many senseless shootings, too

much gun violence and too many illegal guns on the streets of philadelphia. >> dana: a new mayor of philadelphia wasting no time declaring a public safety emergency over crime right after she was sworn in. she takes over a city plagued with rampant violence, widespread homelessness and drug addiction. we have a columnist for the philadelphia inquirer here. you love city and hard to see headlines about the drug crisis. a new drug is worsening the opioid crisis. talk about kensington as former addict they descended deeper into despair in 2023 and addicts after drug ravaged philly are gruesome risks to get high and paralyze somebody. the drug and crime issue. you have a new mayor. does she have what it takes to turn things around? >> we're all hoping that she does. but it is the drugs, it's the crime, and that's right.

two other issues. there is the economic issue facing philadelphia with people leaving and the education issue with the city having the most failing schools of any other county in the state of pennsylvania. and she addressed this in her inaugural speech saying she wants to see more school choice, more opportunities for children in the city and i think that matters as much. you need to prevent these crimes from happening, prevent future drug addicts as well as that. she sounds good. >> dana: this is the percent of people who live in poverty compared to other cities. philadelphia at 22.7%. new york at 17. then across the u.s. 11%. philly has a significant problem. one of the issues we're talking about is crime. you have a shortage of police there. one of the reasons you have a shortage of police is because you have a prosecutor in larry krasner funded by george soros originally who does not prosecute the crime. then you have a vicious cycle.

can she stop that? >> she has to do a couple of things. the first thing she has to let cops do their job. she has to go and empower the police department to go after criminals rather than not. even if krasner is not going to prosecute, she needs to use her bully pulpit to go after him to keep up the public pressure on him and educate the people in the city what's happening. i think it's important to get higher voter turnout in the city and people more engaged. for everyone to understand what's at stake and people will listen to parker. the former mayor was a failure. parker must use her bully pulpit to go after the district attorney larry krasner. >> dana: do you think she has a broad enough base of support from the different factions within the city to have enough backing to make some tough decisions? >> yes, think she is coming in with high political capital. i think she is appreciated.

she had no opposition whatsoever. the republican candidate didn't mount much pressure. she has been really working as the defacto may for the last year. she has to immediately implement changes. this is so important. she has to use the bully pulpit to advocate against krasner, to get lifeline scholarships for kids in failing schools. >> dana: she has a strong voice, conviction. looks like she is good he the bully pulpit. we'll see if she does that. she is welcome to come on newsroom as well. thanks, have a great day. >> thank you. >> dana reads sports. >> there was an electric filing finish in iowa. michigan state women's basketball team trying to upset the hawkeyes. >> clark for the win.

>> that's insane. >> dana: that's what you call hawkeye magic. caitlin clark. the west des moines native is on track to break the all-time division one scoring record. do you think people in iowa are paying more attention to caitlin clark or any candidates? >> bill: 1,000% their eyes on number 22. when she goes to the wnba she will remake the league and give the ladies a push forward. >> dana: she is a cool chick. she is welcome on newsroom, too. >> bill: we won't ask you with the caucus. we're 12 days away from iowa. republican candidates making their final push. is it now just a battle for second place? good question for governor ron desantis who will join us live next. >> we've done iowa the way people who have done well in iowa have done. be on the ground, create the

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>> dana: breaking news out of iran this morning. there was a terrorist attack, it seems, that has killed at least 103 people in the country. there are 103 people killed so far and 144 wounded. it must have been a heck of a blast. a ceremony to honor the slain general soleimani. when president trump was in office in february of 2020, soleimani was in iraq and then he was no more. so that was big news at the time. there is no one has claimed responsibility yet. i have reached out to a couple of sources, bill and i have, and

one of the explanations for this could be a sunni radical group that recently did something like this at an iran police station. we don't know who is responsible but we know it's a very significant event in iran today. >> bill: the four-year mark of the day that soleimani was taken out upon landing in baghdad. we're watching this back in america we talk about flu season. it's ramping up as people return from the holidays. cases are spiking in most parts of the country especially in the sun belt. why is that? from atlanta, jonathan serrie might give us an answer. good morning, sir. >> hi, bill. flu had become an after thought during the height of the pandemic. flu seasons are a fact of life once again. according to the latest cdc estimates more than 7 million people have become sick with flu this season here in the u.s.

right now 6.1% of out patient visits are for suspected cases of influenza and the figure is trending upward . 73,000 cases have required hospitalization and 4500 people have died. although covid causes more severe disease to the average person, so many more people are infected with flu right now. >> flu is so dominant that there are more patients with influenza, milder infections that can go home, but also people that need hospitalization right now. so i would say right this moment, flu is causing more severe disease than covid. but we can't forget either virus. >> the cdc recommends everyone six months and over get a flu vaccine. 36% of u.s. adults got the shot

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>> bill: now the iowa caucuses coming up fast 12 days away. dana and i will be there to

bring it to you. fox business poll shows the former president donald trump with a commanding lead. put your eyes on the far left of that screen. in that poll he was at 52% up six points from the poll in september. ron desantis in our polling has 18%. he joins me now. nice to have you on today. good morning to you and thanks for being here. i know you will disagree with those numbers. let me get a few more out of the way. this also with the poll found if you are certain to support trump, desantis or haley, trump is at 83%. certain to support. and may change mind, he had the least at 16%. you are at 39 and she is at 43. you have been to all 99 counties. you come to us west of des moines today. when you are making your pitch to caucus goers in iowa, how do you contrast your vision with donald trump? what is different?

>> well first we're excited by the support that we have. we have now topped 1500 precinct captains who will be there on the caucus. this is what you have to do. it's an organizational intensive effort. so we've put our mind to doing it that way. what i have, i think, that no other candidate has is i have a record of delivering on 100% of my promises. if you look at all the problems in this country that the left is inflicting from open borders to crime to the bad economic policies, i have beaten these people in florida whether it's the teachers unions, george soros, the democratic party, we took a state that was evenly divided in the democratic party now lies in ruins. we've showed how to win. you guys have been covering the issue with the harvard president getting fired. i'm the only one running for president that has taken on the rot in higher education. in florida this whole idea of dei. diversity, equity and inclusion, stands for discrimination,

exclusion and indoctrination. we eliminated it. we're focusing on universities on the core mission of what act deed yeah used to be pursuing truth not to be indoctrination centers. i have taken on the left and beat them in ways that donald trump and other candidates just simply have not. this is the do or die time for this country. we're in a period of decline. we need to reverse it. i'll get it done. >> bill: here is a quote from the haley campaign. if desantis doesn't win iowa no rationale for them to move on. biden was fourth in 2020. it didn't stop him. you will do a debate. i want to get to the question. >> they are trying to -- exactly, we'll do a debate. >> on cnn. >> we'll do a debate and be able to have a sharp contrast in our visions. i think she has had very difficult time recently because

her -- she had been pumped up by liberal media. she have is the liberal candidate running and now come under scrutiny and not able to handle basic questions that people are asking. not been able to defend her record as governor of south carolina where she was the number one governor of bringing in chinese communist party investment into her state. in florida, i banned china and kicked them out of our universities. contrast in visions and records and clearly republican voters are going to prefer my vision to hers. >> bill: some are saying that's the battle for second place. i know you would disagree with that but we'll watch and see what comes that night and donald trump will do a town hall here on fox at the same time. you mentioned harvard. you know the left and progressives feel that israel is the oppressor and we had a harvard student on this past hour and we asked him if it

weren't for the plagiarism charges, would she still have her job? and he said probably yes. what would lead a jewish student at harvard to draw that conclusion? >> well, because places like harvard have been captured by a militant left ideology. so it is not about academic excellence like universities used to be geared toward in this country. it is about promoting their vision of so-called social justice. it has a massive endowment, a hedge fund with an indoctrination camp attached to it. that's academia run amuck. it is not going to be successful for this country. they won't be producing the type of leaders that they may have been able to produce in the past. so we've taken this on in florida. we've said our state universities are funded by the taxpayers of florida. they should be focused on things that are in the best interests of the people of florida. that means we want academic

integrity. we want merit-based academia, and we do not want discriminatory policies like dei. we stepped up and did something about it. you know what's happening, bill? places like new college in sarasota which we turned from basically a marxist commune into now a mini hillsdale college have applications going through the roof. there is a hunger for truth in this country. parents don't want to raise their kids for 18 years and have a university undo everything in four years. they want to go to a place where their kids will be able to prosper. harvard has totally dropped the ball. the institution needs a total overhaul. just as somebody that hires people, i see someone come out of harvard, usually you would think man, this is the best of the best. now i just wonder what kind of stuff was put into their head in terms of this ridiculous ideology? it is sad that's the case but they brought a that on themselves