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what it looked like to be a cop and he wasn't taking enough public action in the city. yesterday i saw a complete 180. i saw a cop in him and he has promised to work with us. >> bill: quite a statement there. tom homan incoming border czar praising new york city's democratic mayor eric adams saying they'll work together in clearing out migrant criminals. friday, you almost made it america. bill hemmer live and welcome today. >> dana: good morning i'm dana perino and this is "america's newsroom." the democratic mayor sitting down with a man who will spearhead the trump deportation program. adams says the crackdown with target violent offenders. >> what i heard from the incoming head of ice is that we have the same desire, to go after those who are committing violent acts among innocent new yorkers and among migrants and asylum seekers. >> bill: the city rocked by crimes tied to illegal

immigrants. adams says his team is looking at a lot of ways to get around the city council on repealing the sanctuary laws that are right now in place here. >> dana: the situation in new york has become untenable. more than 750,000 illegal immigrants, nearly of 60,000 rap sheet and many republican thought to be gang members. >> mayor adams says new york city won't be a safe haven for migrants who repeat violent crime. tom homan is on the same page as him. the pair discussed immigration reform, border security and deportations. the meeting comes on the heels of adams' repeat criticism of the biden administration for its lack of financial support. adams says he and homan have the same desire, to go after migrants committing violent acts. the city is limited by its sanctuary laws which prevent close collaboration between

police and ice. adams says he is exploring how he can bypass it. >> i'm going to try to attempt to use my executive orders to go after dangerous people committing violent acts against migrants and asylum seekers and long term new yorkers and undocumented immigrants. no one should be a victim of a crime in a city, particularly violent crime. >> with an influx of more than 225,000 migrants since the spring of 2022 there has been an unprecedented surge costing more than $6 billion. nearly 57,000 migrants are still in the city's care and in recent weeks adams announcing that 25 shelters in the city and state are closing in the coming months. this year a series of high profile cases involving migrants have made headlines in the big apple like this assault on a pair of nypd officers and police have warned the violent venezuelan gang tren de aragua is in the city. just a couple of weeks ago ice confirmed two members of that

gang were arrested here during a drug and gun bust. adams says he has learned there are 500,000 migrant children who have come into the country with sponsors but no one knows where they are at or if they are being exp exploited. >> bill: in a different state the d.a. in the jocelyn nungaray case announced on fox news earlier today her office will seek the death penalty for two migrants accused of murdering this beautiful young talented 12-year-old girl. from dallas brooke taylor has the story now. hello. >> under texas law, believe it or not when there is a capital murder case involving a child between ten to 15 years old, it doesn't fall under the death penalty. but add sexual assault to that and it does become death penalty eligible. district attorney now believes that there is enough evidence in this case where a jury will find both of these illegal migrants

guilty and sentence them to death. let's rehash this case, though. 12-year-old jocelyn nungaray found strangled to death in a creek in june. investigators say she snuck out of her home. that's when they say she came across the two defendants. surveillance footage shows them outside of a seven he leaven before they lured her under a bridge for two hours. she was tied up and partially undressed. both suspects were roommates living in an apartment building nearby. according to ice both are have venezuela and came in illegal just months before the murder. they were released with notices to appear. district attorney kim owing on "fox & friends" this morning where she first announced her office is going to be seeking the death penalty. >> we are seeking death because we want the message out there that regardless of who you are

but especially if you are illegally in this country, that you will face the same consequences as anyone else for murdering a child during the course of raping and kidnapping her. >> district attorney kim ogg says she has spoken to jocelyn's family. her mother is in full support. she has been outspoken since this case first came into light saying that she blames the biden border policy for her daughter's death and i can tell you i have spoken to her myself throughout this case and this is something she has told me she has been hoping for. >> bill: quite a challenge for that family. thank you, brooke taylor in dal yes, sir with the latest. >> dana: a former d.e.a. special agent in charge of special operations division and i just want to get your take on that. it didn't have to be this way. if we had a secure border, jocelyn would be alive today. >> dana, thank you for having me back. 100%. these reckless policies have not

only caused the death of jocelyn nungaray but look at the destruction around our cities in this country. it's very sad. president trump is on a mission to unite, not divide our citizens and keep everybody safe. this is not about republican safety, it is about american safety. >> bill: deric, i don't know if you heard a moment ago the comment from tom homan after his meeting with eric adams. i was sitting there and talking to a cop. he was a transit cop in new york. getting a lot of bushback from the far left. it is despicable that he is not up holding values as a sanctuary city by collaborating with tom homan. the rubber will meet the road. who will win in this battle here? >> well, clearly the america first train is moving full speed ahead. tom homan has worked decades to keep americans safe. he is very patriotic, very

passionate and president trump has a plan. he has put together a very experienced national security team. this is going to be very well planned. this is going to be very well executed and focused on getting rid of the criminals that are causing chaos in the cities. one thing that i want to say is that if you look at what is happening to our cities, regular people they can't walk around and can't feel safe anymore. it is unacceptable. tom homan is very, very laser focused on making sure all citizens not only new york city but in this country can remain safe. >> dana: derrick, tom homan was on "fox & friends" this morning. let's take a little more of a listen to him here. >> i don't think it's a -- it shouldn't be a partisan issue. republicans and democrats and independent. public safety. what elected mayor or elected governor doesn't want public safety for its communities? that's what angers me. yesterday's meeting with a good meeting and i gave him credit.

once he agreed to sit down. i won't give their names. two other mayors reached out and verify they want to meet with me. >> dana: everybody wants the help maybe. the mayors are saying okay, perhaps trump can give us the political cover we need in order to do the right thing to try to get the illegal immigrants, the violent ones in particular, out of the way right away. are you seeing something similar from your circles especially when it comes not just to the violent criminals but the drugs coming into the country? >> people recognize that on november 5th the american public spoke out. the republicans won by unanimous majority vote and now president trump is going to execute exactly what he has promised. he will keep every american safer. like tom homan is very -- the best pick for this job because he has done it for a living. the team he is putting together

has done it. now i do applaud mayor adams for finally coming on board. better late than never but actions will speak louder than words and they will be held accountable for results. no one is going to stop this train from moving full speed ahead. that's what the american public voted for. that's what they expect. that's what is going to happen. >> bill: take a look at these numbers. under the biden-harris team it all started on january 20th, 2021. and it shot up like a rocket. the other thing homan said yesterday, this isn't a racial sweep. this isn't military personnel driving through your neighborhood. it is a targeted, well-planned operation and see how it goes real soon. thank you, come back, we'll work through it together. >> dana: thanks, derrick. >> thank you very much. >> how can you credibly tell people that there is no public safety threat? >> because the analysis thus far in an investigation ongoing has

not revealed any national security or malicious or criminal activity. >> bill: looking for answers for a while. mysterious drones buzzing over the northeast. biden-harris team providing very few answers. some anger about that. a bit of anxiety, too. >> dana: i would never have gone to the podium with that. no way. new polling about presidential pardons. what americans are saying about both sides. >> the duke lacrosse scandal. a stunning confession from behind bars. we'll bring that to you when we continue.

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lacrosse team. steve harrigan has the story from atlanta. hi, steve. >> this was really a long time coming, this admission goes back to 2006. 18 years ago when this stripper at a duke university lacrosse team party claimed that she was raped by three of the players, now for the first time she says it never happened. she lied and made up the story. crystal, now 46 years old and is in prison serving a 14-year sentence for murdering her boyfriend spoke to the independent media saying she lied, was never raped. but she still has no regrets about what happened. >> i don't have any regrets. everything happens to get everybody to the point where they are. and it's all to show god's love and his forgiveness, his grace and his mercy. >> this is a story that got

national attention. on one side you had three white students at an elite university pre-judged by the media, by their own university and by the prosecution. fox's own brit hume was one of the few early skeptics of the rush to pre-judgment. the durham d.a. was disbarred for withholding evidence that would have exonerated the three students. the president of duke university at the time also later admitted we got it wrong. he suspended the three students, canceled the lacrosse season and the coach resigned. so the fallout from this lie affected a lot of lives. in the end one year later the three students exonerated, case dismissed. they sued duke and brodhead and received undisclosed amounts. >> dana: wow, you going way back. that story still resonates. thank you so much. >> one, two, three. one, two, three all coming

together. the actual [bleep] is going on? >> a lot of people wonder that same question, frankly. the white house down playing any potential threats to national security for the public. the lack of answers making a lot of lawmakers livid. one from new jersey. >> we know they aren't backyard drones that some hobbyist is using. not a commercial company. a full decade behind where china is with drones. the government claims it is not them. we aren't being told the truth. they're dealing with the american public like we're stupid. >> new york republican congresswoman malliotakis. good morning to you. you represent staten island. i understand they will' have a press conference in 40 minutes. do you know what will come from that yet? >> we're demanding answers from our government. they need to be straight with the people. we need the biden administration and our governor hochul and our mayor to tell us what's going on. i don't buy that they don't know what this is.

i know that the state has actually put in a significant number of resources into drones. there are hundreds of drones that our state and city agencies are operating for surveillance. they were over the summer looking at the amount of sharks in the water. going over parties in the city of new york. are they spying on us? our government? we don't know the answer. i know that the government does know and they just need to be honest with the people. this is giving them anxiety and concerned and rightly so and public safety aspect. perhaps it is not a nefarious foreign actor but a real possibility of an accident, of a crash. new york city is densely populated. so there needs to be restrictions put in place. this cannot continue. >> bill: that's a good point. that's a very good point. i don't think a lot of people are making that. a lot of aircraft in the new york city area based on the population. here is john kirby taking a bit of a sidestep on it.

watch. >> there is no known malicious activity occurring, the reported sightings there do, however, highlight a gap in authorities. and so we urge congress to pass important legislation that will extend and expand existing counter drone authorities better prepared to identify and mitigate any potential threats to airports or other critical infrastructure and state and local authorities are provided all the tools that they need to respond to such threats as well. >> bill: he was reading that. i don't know that sounds ridiculous to think this is on congress. >> well, first of all we can pass some authorities and resources so they can get certain equipment they need. that will take years for them to implement. this could be a direct threat right now and the government is saying that there is no known threat doesn't mean that there is not a threat. and i go back to the public safety issue. even if this is a commercial operator, which they are saying they don't have information that

it is, there could be some type of accident that takes place or explosion. we don't know what's in these drones or if there is a certain type of batteries or -- and i have to just say that this is unconscionable to me that the f.a.a. is not putting flight restrictions right now particularly over sensitive facilities. we have these drones flying over a bridge that connects u.s. coast guard base in staten island and the u.s. army installation in fort hamilton in brooklyn and they're going over power plants and other critical facilities, one of president trump's homes. they put flight restrictions there, by the way, in bedminster. they should be doing the same. they have the ability to crack down on this today and they just aren't doing it. >> bill: brett is awesome on this topic. roll what he said. >> the technology exists to stop

this. we just don't have it in the u.s. right know. the u.s. government does not have the properly needed detection devices that are truly capable of defeating the global drone threats we face. we have to focus money in the right places. >> bill: he is not wrong about that. i don't feel harm. if this thing was firing at us a whole different deal here. i would like to know what the harm is in letting us know what it is. last comment on that. >> you are exactly right. people want answers. we just want transparency and need our government to be straight with us. we feel like we're in -- characters in the war of the worlds or an episode of the jettisons. it is not right. the public needs to be made aware of what is happening and tell it to us straight. >> bill: anything less than real answers is no good for you as you write at foxnews.com. thank you, congresswoman. see what they say at 10:00 in

staten island. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> bill: all right. >> dana reads sports. >> dana: well, thursday night football was a kicker's delight. watch. >> the rams have ended their last three drives with three field goals. >> dana: the rams winning that battle of field goals beating the san francisco 49ers 12-six. it was the first nfl game this season without any touchdowns. also a dose of drama. 49ers linebacker campbell walked off the sideline during the game. afterwards the coach tried to explain what happened. >> campbell didn't play and went into a locker room at some point. >> he said he didn't want the play today. >> has that ever happened to you before? >> no. >> dana: no, out of here. >> bill: 12-six. going to a football game and a baseball game breaks out. man, imagine watching that.

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>> dana: the investigation into killing of united healthcare ceo extending to san francisco. police there reportedly identifying the suspect in photos just days before his eventual arrest in pennsylvania. alexis mcadams has the details. you were hard at work this morning next door to me in the office. i get to here now what you learned. >> this is what i was working on.

investigators in california recognized luigi mangione but o. last month his mom reported him missing ine hadn't talked to him in nearly six months. just days after she filed that report, dana, police say mangione killed brian thompson in new york city even though wanted posters, sources tell me the suspect's family never called in a single tip. a guy i talked to who lives in hawaii who only met mangione a few times he thought about those posters twice. >> looks like one of my customers because of the eyebrows, but i said oh, it couldn't be. i didn't think anything more because he was so far away over there. >> police tell me mangione was never a client of united healthcare even though investigators say the whole thing was targeted for the company's ceo. what was the motive is the question? it might have to do with the x-ray that police say he posted online telling people he had

back surgery not long ago saying the pain was so bad he could not get out of bed for days. but people in hawaii say doesn't add up because he was always working out. he had multiple gym memberships and active and yoga instructor in honolulu said mangione only mentioned he had back upon once. he went mia last april when he left hawaii. before he moved a store owner says he came in and bought a sound bowl to help with healing. >> people use it for healing. >> i guess he was really into his mental health and healing. but we'll see what plays out in court in new york. >> dana: alexis mcadams, see you upstairs. >> trump is receiving the

strongest economy in modern history, the envy of the world. i will say something outrageous. i don't know anybody who wouldn't change their economy with ours. can you think of any major nation that says i want to trade? i don't want to trade? >> bill: here we go toward the end of his term this administration defending what they have done and this is the record on the economy for president biden over the last four years. overall you are up around 20% on inflation, shelter 23, car insurance 57, energy 29, pet food, feeding cats and dogs 22. we did an economic survey to close out the year. overall this is what we found in our survey. job performance on inflation right now disapprove 64%. just about 2/3. another question we wanted to find out about how you feel about your economic conditions versus the country. here we go. you journal personally 62, 77.

it gives you an impression how people feel what it is going. hard to win when 75% of america thinks the country is heading on the wrong track. last thing to point out here. for your own family do you feel like it is getting better or worse? 2/3 checked in on getting worse at 64%. come over here and we'll chat about this and talk about the legacy with two of our friends right there. dana. >> dana: jessica tarlov and james freeman. thank you for being here. james freeman at the "wall street journal." these numbers on the biden approval kind of tracks with how they were all along. one of the reasons kamala harris could never have dug out of the hole they had. when i think the one that is really interesting is 35% said he will be considered one of the worst presidents ever. that has to hurt. >> yeah. and it is the pain of inflation and it is this continuing disconnect. you see it in the president's speech this week. he refers to inflation as a

problem that he solved, as he managesed. he brought it back down. it was high and now it's low. it is still almost double what it was when he took office. and i think this is what you are seeing in the fox polling and you see it in others, people look at inflation as a problem they have now that is causing them pain. not as something that was an issue when it surged in 2022 and that has been resolved. i still don't think he or whoever crafts his material understands this where he is joking the other day how he should have taken more credit for all the spending. no, that is your central problem. that's what caused a big part of this inflation. and the white house still hasn't reckoned with that. >> jessica. ihas been a problem and it is what arguably cost him the election that people had this kind of sentiment and comments all over the world were thrown out as well as big problems for down ballot ticket. taking credit for more spending

was putting his name on the checks like donald trump did. there are a number of people. millions think it was donald trump who gave them money and don't understand there were checks from the biden administration because he let an official sign them. it is a huge concern. it will be interesting to see what happens, though, going into trump 2.0 on this. sunday when he was with "meet the press" he said i don't think the tariffs will hurt people but they might. yesterday he said it will be hard to bring down the prices of groceries backing off on day one i will come in and fix everything. these are difficult problems to solve. not trying to minimize joe biden's communication problem on this. he was not the chief he was supposed to be. >> bill: pretty robust debate about being the worst president in history. the stock exchange. >> dana: here is what president trump said at the stock exchange yesterday. >> we'll be number one plus. we'll do numbers that nobody

will really see before and when that happens prices will start coming down because people can't afford their groceries and they will be affording their groceries very soon. >> dana: one of the ways to do that is bring energy prices down. the transport of these goods is causing a lot of the problems. >> yeah. i think that was part of the biden problem right from the start of his administration canceling pipelines and so forth. but i think your polling should be warning the president trump. looks like he is getting the message. people don't just want an end to inflation. they want deflation. a lot of people in wall street and washington -- >> dana: or wage increases. >> yes. but obviously a lot of people in washington, the fed, they kind of think moderate inflation is good. i think this is a message from americans they want no inflation and they want deflation if they can get it. >> if you can get it. >> bill: it's not easy. they will give it a shot. he did it before.

he says i'll do it again. >> i wish him the best. we'll all, you know, benefit of the doubt for now. millions of people chose him to be the steward of the economy going into this new era. and i wish him the best with it. i want everyone to have the lowest possible prices for everything. these are steep challenges and easy to be on the campaign trail and say i have a magic wand and i will show up and command prices down. or i'm going to fix the energy sector. we have been producing record levels of oil in world history, by the way. we'll see what happens. >> dana: it's interesting. the biden administration try to have it both ways on so many things. on the permitting things. one of the reasons they are happening is because the permits it takes a long time to get them in place. they were done in the trump administration, biden puts a chill on it. their long range investments that you have to make. it's not the easiest thing in the world to say i will start

producing oil. >> talking about the greatest economy, one of the central problems of the biden era and why we got inflation. he came into office saying the economy was a disaster we need massive government intervention. the economy was roaring back to life after the covid shutdowns. i'm not sure the message -- you are thinking that maybe he should have taken credit for the spending. >> when we were all stuck? >> third quarter of 2020 grew more than 30%, more than 4% in the fourth quarter. it was growing at better than 5% when he took office. >> bill: take a hand off the wheel and let it drive. >> just letting the american economy run. the musk effort is huge to take on inflation. make things cheaper to produce in the u.s. less regulation. easier to produce goods, more goods, fewer dollars. >> bill: jessica and james. thanks. >> dana: president-elect trump taking the side of dock workers

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>> dana: "wall street journal"'s e evan -- tracking putin's most feared secret agency inside a russian prison and beyond and inside the kremlin's spy unit

that arrested him and the biden administration secured his freedom. it was a prisoner swap. this morning i've been waiting to see when we might here from evan and i saw the head guy at the "wall street journal" in charge of helping get him back. i saw him in the hallway yesterday and i thought i need to check in. this morning i wake up and evan gershkovitch. he never stopped reporting from the day he was taken. >> bill: a great read and picks it up on the flight to freedom to turkey and starts investigating who the men are on board the plane responsible for his capture. >> dana: incredible outcome to see that today and we recommend the article to you. we hope to see evan here on set, too. >> bill: meanwhile you have the upheaval in syria prompting a search for survivors. an american disappeared seven years ago and rebels released him from the country's notorious

prison prompting renewed hope for an american family of austin tice. trey yengst reports from damascus again today. >> good morning. we spoke with one person involved in the search for austin who said around 100 different sites are being checked. we visited two of them today. >> receiving a tip from a u.s. intelligence source we arrive at the national security services building in damascus. local residents say this is where the assad regime held some of their most important prisoners. we're looking for information on one in particular. u.s. journalist austin tice who was kidnapped in 2012. >> right now we're underneath this security services building where many of the high-profile prisoners were believed to be held under the assad regime looking for austin tice or any about him. like many government-linked

buildings the basement is also a jail. signs of torture and horrific conditions. but no signs of life. upstairs the hallways of this facility are charred. some of the rooms have detailed prisoner logs for a variety of syrian detention centers. they have also got thousands of prisoner cards. >> there is so much information here when you see all of it. it's hard to imagine how it could ever go through it and be able to find -- these kids are bringing in photos of the detainees and you just wonder is there a photo of austin somewhere here? austin tice, it's remarkable the amount of information left behind by the assad regime at this security services building. it looks like officials left quickly and lit everything on fire to try and destroy as much information as possible. but left behind in these filing cabinets you see prisoner sheets

and have on them mug shots of the syrians being held in the assad regime prison system. >> with no luck here we go down the street to a central hospital where families are searching for loved ones in the morgue. doctors at the hostel us there is no sign of austin. remember the u.s. government believes austin is alive. it is critical that the search continues. bill and dana. >> bill: thank you, trey yengst on the ground in damascus. thank you for that. >> dana: meet these two beautiful women. his two sisters. they join me now. i'm sorry for what you have gone through. 12 years without the brother you love and i'm sure that it has been very difficult every day. i admire your ability to every single day fight for his release. secretary blinken spoke yesterday on the search for austin tice. watch here. >> also want to make sure that we're doing everything possible to support those people, those

organizations that are working to find the thousands of disappeared people, children, women and men during the assad regime. that includes, of course, the american journalist austin tice. we're determined to find him and bring him home to his family and loved ones. >> dana: meghan, your thoughts on that. >> so we have been speaking with various organizations, including hostage aid worldwide who are on the ground in syria in damascus actively looking for my brother. honestly it is frustrating to hear the words from secretary blinken. they have had no access to assistance or aid. we don't know who to contact to receive these services. so hearing that message from secretary blinken was incredibly frustrating. we have seen no evidence of follow through from that promise. >> dana: all right. this is going out to everyone listening and we'll hope to get you some more information about that soon for that aid

organization. naomi, your family believes that your brother is very much alive. is there anything more you can say about that? >> yes, absolutely. president joe biden has repeatedly reiterated on sunday that austin tice is alive. we have known these last 12 years that he is alive. there has never been a doubt for our family that austin was alive and we have had multiple administrations, including the trump administration that have verified that. then we also recently had an independent source that has also verified what president joe biden has mentioned. so yes, for our family we know that he is alive and our administration also knows that he is alive. >> dana: okay. that's good news. richard engel had this headline. syria's new leadership blames assad for the tice family as the search continues. i don't know if you have any

idea or a new regime trying to hold a country together that will be very difficult for them to do so. do you know if there is any other direct communication from the biden administration to this new regime there? >> so we are incredibly grateful for everyone who is actively working to bring austin home. as meghan mentioned there are people on the ground in syria and lebanon actively working to bring him home. we do believe that the u.s. government also wants to bring austin home. we also just know that they can do more to make that possible. so that's really what we're asking for. we're asking for the current administration but also know that president-elect donald trump can also support bringing austin home and so we're actively ask that he do so as well. >> dana: i love seeing the pictures that we put up a lot of pictures of your very handsome brother that i know you miss very much. please stay in touch with us and we'll pray for the best here. thank you. >> thank you.

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>> the president showing support for those dock workers as a january 15th strike looms which could overshadow the inauguration and the president-elect donald trump posting on truth social saying that he denounces automation basically and that's the main sticking point in the contract. the amount of the money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt and harm it causes for american workers. our longshoremen. a sores telling fox business the group representing the company was aware of the meeting the president had with the long shoreman and plans to meet the trump transition team soon. he called the group saying they need to make the best deal possible with no americans out of work. an official statement from the group says they want to protect all good american paying jobs adding this contract goes beyond our ports. it is about supporting american consumers and giving american businesses access to the global marketplace from farmers to manufacturers to small businesses and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell products. the group says they must

automate in order to compete. see where this goes where the president-elect is now involved. >> bill: see where it goes. buckle up as we say the north lawn. nice to see you. >> dana: scary video out of michigan. firefighters were responding to a car crash when this happened. >> dana: semi spirals out of control on the icy highway. no one was seriously hurt. incredible. >> bill: wow, off they run into the snow. 10:00. >> dana: change is coming to washington and the curtain falls on the biden presidency. new fox news polls show voters are really ready for something new. welcome to a new hour of "america's newsroom," i'm dana perino. >> bill: i'm bill hemmer good morning. the question on the poll, right? are you ready, really ready? >> dana: they've had it. >> bill: is big picture especially scathing vast majority saying the country shadeing in the on