thanks for watching the issue is next week. making spirits brighe >> i'm shannon bream, border states brace for chaos as the white house plans to and the trump arrow policy. >> we are required by the court to lift title 40 to and we plan to comply with that order. could get the white house calling on congress to play bal on immigration reform while the republicans say secure the border first and, another migrant surge it could come whe title 40 to is lifted. >> if you can get to our southern border, you can probably make your way into the united states for it will as democratic congresswoman veronica escobar who represents el paso about her calls for the

white house to do more to stem the crisis and we will get reaction from her fellow texan chip roy. congresswoman escobar and congressman roy, only on fox news sunday. then, the holiday season in ful swing and americans are still paying more for just about everything do to fight inflation . >> americans prepare for the most expensive and time of year with inflation top of mind. we will ask about new foxholes on the economy in whether americans want to see biden and trump run again. plus, the world cup final his life to do only on fox, a major showdown between argentina and france, we will have the previe from the fox sports broadcastin team that has led our coverage all right now on fox news sunday . >> hello from foxnews in

washington. since early in the pandemic at trump era policy called title 4 to allowed the u.s. government to turn away hundreds of thousands of migrants at the border for the policy was put i place due to concerns over the spread of covid 19, but courts have cleared the way for title 40 to to end this week. he white house insist that does not mean the border will soon b open, but many say they change will kick off yet another massive surge of people arrivin to a border that is already chaotic. in a moment veronica escobar will join us to discuss the big changes, but first, let's turn to eagle pass, texas for a look at the difficult conditions along the border. hello, bill. >> two weeks ago president bide was asked if he would visit the border during his trip to arizona, but responded that there were more important thing going on. now the city of el paso is completely overwhelmed with the migrate crisis, they've just declared a state of emergency, and the worst may be yet to come

. >> standing new video out of el paso, texas this week where a massive migrate caravan of more than 1,000 people crossed illegally into the u.s. making it the largest single group fox news has ever seen. the el paso sector has recently averaged over 2,400 illegal crossings per day, and has already seen over 139,000 migrant encounters since octobe staggering 255 percent increase over the same time last year. local customs and border protection and facilities are well over half a and local shelters are overwhelmed. order patrol has been recent hundreds of migrants into el paso streets every day with man of them becoming homeless force to come out on city streets at night and the bitter cold. of thousands of others have bee camped out behind the border wall, waiting to be let in for processing great the ceo of one culture says what's happening there is unprecedented.

>> we've never seen anything on this and i've been here for 25 years now, now all of a sudden, the border patrol is releasing as many as five or 600 day just to the streets of el paso. >> mask massive groups continue to pass illegally in eagle pass as well with drone video showin several hundred migrants after they crossed. the del rio sector has seen nearly 118,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that is up 55 percent over last year. >> when you look at a typical month, we should apprehend somewhere between 1,000 assmac 1500 people a day, but our resources are stretched when we get 2,000 people a day, we have 8,000. by january we can expect to see between 10-12,000 and than it could just go up from there. >> that is because title 40 to as set to drop in just three days from now. when that happens, dhs is

rejecting the border could see anywhere between 9,015,000 illegal crossings every single day. >> bill, thank you very much fo joining us now, democratic congresswoman of texas veronica escobar. welcome to fox news sunday. >> thank you, it is a pleasure to be here with you today. we will talk about el paso your home town and just a minute tha first and want to start with th white house they said the president is on top of this problem, local officials say they don't agree. here's a little bit from both sides. >> what americans should know i that the president has done the work to deal with what we're seeing at the border since day one. >> that is insulting. there is no work being done here . we have been giving money, we been using money from our general fund, there is nothing being done here in el paso. its only going to get worse.

>> congresswoman, where you do you stand on assessing for how he is handling the situation. >> i will tell you that soon-to-be former city representative completely misrepresented the federal government involvement. fema has been extraordinary in our community, they have advanced funding to local governments, they have been a phone call and a text away all these months. they just approved an additiona large upfront funding to the city of el paso, those who have us engaged on the issue here on the ground have very close communication. we have a text thread, the border patrol sector chief keep us informed it daily on the numbers, but i will tell you that i do think it's important that we have for more robust support from the state department, and here is wide. unfortunately, congress has failed to act on changing our

very outdated immigration laws for decades. the federal government under congress direction has addresse immigration as a border only issue. we really have to kind of zoom out and recognize that this is western hemispheric crisis of historic proportion impacting all of our countries to the south of us, we really need far more direct engagement from the state department, and i've called on the state department to do that. >> let's talk about the broader implications because with talking with border patrol agents which i'm sure you do in a regular basis, one of them, i official told me this week that right now in el paso about 60-7 committed to just processing people. they are not patrolling the border. their opinion is that once titl 42 lifts on wednesday about 90 percent of what they're doing is just going to be processing people which leaves them unable to patrol the all-out order for

drugs in human trafficking. they say this is a national security issue. when you look at the fiscal yea behind us, 98 people on the terror watch list came across the border and that's that we know up or we're detected there. this is, as you say a much broader problem. how worried are you about the national security implications and from what people expect wil get much worse on wednesday. >> we absolutely have. >> our border patrol agents bac to forming the functions they were trained to do. that is why we have really got to rework and reform the way that things are happening at th border. i have a piece of legislation that reforms that, creates a civilian workforce for processing. about four years ago i introduced the idea, we funded it, we now have central processing coordinators civilia public servants for the federal government doing the processing and we have got to expand that, so that agents can get back to performing those functions that

they need to perform for our national security purposes. when you look at those videos, you see mostly folks who the vast majority are waiting in line to request asylum, that is what is overwhelming the system and we've got to make sure that we continue to press on congres to reform what are outdated processes, outdated laws, to adequately fund the state department because while i want the white house to do more, i also want congress to act and i don't want us to do more of the same which is focused only on deterrence, focus on immigratio as a border issue, we've done that for decades and this is what it's gotten us today. >> let's put up some hard data so we can look at what's happening. this is from the cdp and essentially what they show us i october their migrant encounter were 678 at the border that's u 40 percent from the october of

the previous year, 221 percent from the october before that, and before that, 411 percent increase. there is clearly a trend here. we have numbers that show overall incursions for the year and critics say although the imitation continues to say the border is secure, it's under control from the border is safe it is not open there are critic that save these numbers prove otherwise that include democrat like the mayor of new york who says there is a massive problem do you count yourself among those democrats? can get we absolutely have a problem, but the challenge here is again, congress has failed t ask. we started to see the increase in numbers and change and what was happening at the border going back to 2014 when we started to see large numbers of unaccompanied minors. that was the obama administration. during the trump administration we saw significant numbers that

decreased as a result mostly of covid because nobody knows what was happening here on the borde more than those of us who live and work here. >> during the first couple of years of the trump administration there were massive drops of numbers were and people got the message that they weren't going to come here and have an easy process into the country illegally. those numbers changed again onc people realize that congress wasn't going to go along with his plans, the wall wasn't goin to get built, there was a drop under his tough talk, and then we saw the increases again and now they're exponential administration. >> at those numbers were high under the trump administration, and they dropped as a result of the pandemic when the flow of humanity stopped. i mean i visited not just the central processing facilities, but i visited the border patrol stations where it was we had facilities that were so overcrowded, children were dying .

that happened under the trump administration. so my point is though not to necessarily go it ministration by a ministration though i'm happy to review those numbers, but to say this has been ongoin for a long time, and the congress responses been let's keep doing the same thing. let's treat immigration as a border only policy. everyone should now see and understand that that is a failure, inexpensive failure, it's not good for the agents, it's not good for the migrants, i can tell you it's not good fo border communities like ours. we have to be smarter about thi and begin looking at the bigger picture or things will get wors regardless of who's in the whit house, but depending on who's i congress. >> to the point about the children politico magazine talk about the facilities they say it's no place for a child where these children are being held i border patrol facilities it say the records show the conditions for minors have not significantly improved under

president joe biden and critics will argue that there are a number of attractive policies and things here that are drawin more in more people. governor gavin newsom in talkin about the trouble at the border admitted that he was somebody who's had free healthcare for everyone and the california budget regardless of your statu and now he's demanding the federal government bail them out . >> i don't know about you or about any of my republican colleagues that like to parachute into my community int their photo ops at the border, but i have spoken to migrants and i've been speaking to migrants who arrived at our nation's front door here in el paso for decades i've been talking to them. as recently as a couple of week ago, the vast majority of migrants don't know who gavin newsom is or what his policies are, the vast majority of migrants actually, when they arrive, they will tell you abou their arduous journey and why they left, what is pushing them

out of there home country, what is making them take that dangerous journey just to seek refuge and help and asylum. >> is it fair to say that the cartels, the bad actors, the smugglers and the coyotes will say to them, these are the helices and things that wait fo you if you come with us, if you take this terrible journey wher the largest number of migrant deaths ever recorded at the border last year was almost 900 people, we know these we're rea human beings and children in families and their being exploited because of what they're being told about the policies that await them here. >> 100 percent, these cartels, the human traffickers our evil and it is horrific what they ar doing and in fact there are som policies, most of which started under president trump that are still in place under president by didn't like title 42 that th cartels exploit. when i spoke to migrants under the trump administration they

were telling migrants you bette come now, trump is going to build a wall, that's what we sa a large numbers coming through el paso. frankly, having republican colleagues go on national tv consistently saying that the border as open, the border as open, they are the one saying the border as open, i think their rhetoric has a role to play as well and what the cartels use, but regardless i will tell you that the cartels will do anything possible to exploit these folks whether the tell the truth, whether they lie , it doesn't matter. what is motivating folks is persecution, poverty, famine, and we have got to address this as more than just a border issu or it won't change brickey we can't forget that these are rea human lives i know you see that every day is third generation i el paso we thank you for making the time for us today. up next, we will get reaction from across the aisle.

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♪ senators tom tillis and christensen made headlines saying they wanted to partner and bipartisan immigration deal but it's already falling apart on the house i'd republican lawmakers from texas say they'v got their own plan very joining me in washington is one of thos republicans congressman chip roy . >> merry christmas. >> to you as well. you heard your colleague from across the aisle congresswoman escobar and she said republican parachute income, but they have all these negative things to sa and she says you're part of the problem by saying the border as open. >> first of all, it's hard to say we parachute in, the border i represent about 100 miles fro the border if you go talk to th residents along the border, the are happy for us to come down because we're trying to focus o solving the problem. we were in laredo about a year ago all heavily hispanic hispanic democrats, they were just angry at the biden

administration and just thankin us for being there because we'r trying to solve the problem that's why my gop colleagues from the texas delegation got together and we introduce the texas border plan we know what to do, we solve the border unde the trump administration, but it's common sense you need an infrastructure along the border that's bipartisan. but we need to have the policie that will actually work and wha those policies have to be our turn away and detained, not apprehend and release. what this six-point plan from the biden administration is supercharged apprehend and release. more money to process more people which floods the zone, i attracts more people to come here allows more of these immigrants to get infused and we've talked about this before, in san antonio with all due respect to congresswoman escobar , when she scoffed at me talking about fentanyl, talked of the moms who have lost their loved ones in their kids. how about this 53 immigrants wh died in a tractor-trailer in sa

antonio cooking in the texas heat. it's not compassionate to have open borders allowing cartela t. >> what about her accusation that by saying the borders are open you are attracting more people here? republicans are doing that? >> biden campaigned on it. people showed up at the border wearing biden t-shirts. there is nothing hidden around the world but with this administration is doing and wha democrats on capitol hill are doing to say that our borders are wide open. you put it in the eons i'm, now you don't even have to claim assignment. in eagle pass there's a 4-acre facility processing people they don't even have to claim asylum they just get processed and released on parole, released on notice to appear, everybody knows that, you know who knows it? the cartels, they are causing $10,000 ahead to move human beings into our country for profit in the biden administration is allowing that

to a corporate gig at lips talk about democrats it's a you're not part of the solution i know you have you, but let's go here. california governor gavin newso put it this week he said instea of working on real reform, the response from republicans has been to explain the situation a our border for political gain, the white house then asked this question, what work have republican officials done to secure the border besides vote against our record you guys kno when republicans were in charge of the white house the white house and the senate, nothing got fixed, so how do you answer these accusations that you're actually impeding process class. >> let's go to the summer of 2018 when there were a couple o competing bills. one bill, had actually status for recipients. it would've secured the border for the immigration system. how many democrats voted for it? zero per they have no interest

in securing the border in doing the things necessary to stop th flow. republicans have put together plan after plan after plan that's why the texas delegation got together to say this is wha border security would look like great democrats want to throw more money at the border and process more human beings while they're getting abused, they ar the ones using them as politica pawns, they are using the hispanic community. go ask myra florez, as limited daily cruise, as the hispanics in south texas that are enraged at what they democrats are doin and using them for political purposes. with the omni coming this week, we have been running on this being the biden border crisis, this is that mcconnell republican border crisis if we give them more money this week without demanding that they secure the border and do more then giving them money with a blank check for it can keep to the point on the funding, they have a point to secretary auste defense secretary says he's asked for a full fiscal year of funding saint it will hurt our men and women in uniform their ability to do their jobs to be

safe, to protect us if we don't give them that funding. get the secretary is correct that we should have an appropriations where we fund ou men and women in uniform but that can't be an excuse for us to just give a blank check to the democrats, $50 billion in additional funding for nondefense suppression erica me monday that will fund the fbi that labeled parents as domesti terrorist, money to go to a dhs that doesn't secure the homelan in will actually not allow us t have the leverage to force them to secure the border money that will go to all of the woke policies. republicans are about to give the biden administration at blank check, so their opening shots after getting the rears handed to them in november to redefine aerate and stomp on religious liberty. they won't allow us to secure the border and they wonder why republicans across the country are mad at them. >> if we run out of money on friday again, so what tools do you have is a member, still in

this lame-duck, you're in the minority and the house. >> i'm watching, texas gets assaulted i would be using the power of the purse, james madison said is the most effective tool of the tyranny o the executive branch. we can use the power of the purse to change policies, but republican leadership and the senates and frankly too many in the house are walking away from using that important tool to check the executive branch whic is why we have separation of powers. congress, we have the power of the purse, the house of representatives are the ones that are supposed to set the tone. >> your argument is if you do another short-term spending bil the house flips to republicans in january and you can set more long-term priorities, but if yo don't have the votes to convinc your own colleagues and the senate or the house to go along with that, are you going to be saddled with something that may not reflect your priorities through september of 2023. this is where leadership matters , we need leadership and the senates in in the house and we are having a debate about th speaker toed

republicans in the senate to honor with the american people want not just republicans, hispanics in south texas that want us to secure the border we can give up the power of the purse to demand that we do that while democrats say wait right as another check so we can process more people at the border and the american people want us to secure the border, republicans run on these things why do we campaign on the thing we run against? i don't understand why republicans come here and say give a blank check to a bureaucrat state. bureaucrats in the vitamin refusing to secure the border and refusing to do their job. we're going to give them a blan check that's what leader mc connell should change and that's what i hope kevin mc carthy will try to fight. >> two top priorities for peopl when you ask them about the border, is border security, but also making a legal pathway for here people brought is kids is not any part of that conversation can you quickly meet anyone halfway on any of that class. they talk about securing the ato

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liam's, and the editorial director, welcome all of you, w have got brand-new fox news pulling. 19 percent say excellent or goo for the economy, 81 percent say fair or poor. >> we got some good inflation numbers in the sense that it's not getting much worse, but it is still there, the fed's targe is 2 percent and inflation is a 7 percent so still three times the fed target more importantly inflation is rising faster than earning so people don't see their paycheck going as far as it did before the pandemic and until that stops, i think this is going to be a headache. one thing that struck me in the polling is not only do most democrats and republicans site the economy and inflation as a problem, but when people are asked have the biden economic

policies helped or hurt you personally just 16 percent said help and close to have said hurt , so that biden administration owns this. that means i don't think they can get away with laying on wha they inherited or covid or what have you, the voters are lookin to them to solve this problem. >> let's put up that pole again have you been helped by the economic policies, only 16 percent say yes, 46 percent say they have been hurt by thos policies. >> one thing i noticed in the polls, there's a big difference in how people feel overall whic the people are pretty sour abou the economy right now i think there's fears of recession coming and concerned about the impact of what's going on with russia's invasion of ukraine, the covid outbreak in china all of that. the people on a personal level think it's almost 50 percent an the foxholes that say they feel good about their personal finances for it when it comes t president biden, to that point

noticed the president has been traveling to arizona to visit that new chips plans. >> but not to the border. and also traveling to michigan to visit a new electrical field plans, so i think his emphasis is to say look america you may not feel it right now, but down the road if we see this economy turn around they will have reason to credit biden saying the inflation control act, the infrastructure bill, these are steps that the president was taking to improve and help our economy. >> also, a plurality that they say things are going to get worse they are not going to be optimistic about where things will be a year from now, but a year from now is also in the middle of a presidential election. when ask you want biden to run again in 2024, yes 33 percent, but no was 64 percent and we ar seeing the people from people inside the democratic party saying please don't run again.

>> on and it's veered on the republican side to there is little enthusiasm to have a rematch for they would prefer somebody else besides donald trump. and yet, that may well be that matchup. you know, you do see democrats getting a little bit more enthusiastic about president biden than they were six months ago maybe that's a result of inflation being tempered a bit, but you really need some good news on the economy i think for president biden to be in a much better position. white house officials are hopeful that the effect of the feds policies and spending to the infrastructure bill, some o the things they put in motion already will help to do that. we will see. >> reference the other side, ar you glad that president trump i running again in 2024, he has 3. i suspect some people are

excited that is running and som people are glad he's running because they think he is beatable. >> i think when you see democrats in the bowl that say they are reading for trump to roll again, they think he's beatable. trump has a lot to overcome here , he's got headwinds now and he's not doing himself a verse when there's a big announcement in the announcement is that he has digital training cards. what he did on the same day was more meaningful when he talked about trying to tackle the idea that the government is used to censor speech and the united states. he made policy proclamations that we're of a tremendous valu and where the kind of thing tha would it's really about at the border with biden and trump's case, how are you going to serv the american people? how are you going to improve th life of the average person. those economy numbers we starte with it's the person that makes under $50,000 in america who as

hit the hardest. nothing is even close, they are very dissatisfied with joe bide and the economy right now. >> for the former president who hopes. >> to the future president he's got a lot of legal hurdles to g through. we will talk in the next panel about the january 6 committee. he's got many other things he's got to handle. >> he does, but i think is bigger problem is the star seem to be fading. i think the first inkling of this was the midterm results fo the candidates did not do as well and i think that's a sign from the american public that they are ready to move on along with these pull numbers. his declining popularity, bitin getting something that a bump. we are also saying is him doing less well one on one and hypothetical matchups with bide versus other republicans that seem to do better. >> can i make a quick point? i am surprised that when i look at the polls that most republicans still favor donald trump as the republican nominee in 24.

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what i will say is this department support for free speech and freedom of the press is well-documented and it is difficult to square how these removals are consistent with promoting free exchange, but again, social media makes independent decisions. >> the states spokesperson from twitter suspending some journalists accounts. we are back with the panel now, here is what elon musk said wednesday about twice this was happening. any account docs seen real-time info if anyone will be suspende which is a posting location someone traveled to him a slightly delayed basis isn't a

safety problem so it's okay. >> the. to him posting this at all was an attack on his own son his two-year-old son they call him baby x, he was in the vehicle and being carried by a guest elon musk security team coming two years old and in la and a guy dressed in antifa costume jumped on the hood of the car. elon real-time flight tracking moment. so as a result, he said look, this falls under the broad umbrella of dioxinthe direct information of where someone is and it poses a harmm time that posting even criticisms is akin to violence, so posting real-time location information, he interpreted tha as a threat and he said the pla is i am banning that now in man of the people who we're banned were posting direct links to

that content and then hiding behind i didn't post your actua location. if you post the google street view of my house, you are posting the address of my house brickey he says he's a free-speech guy in in the past what you get is people who say okay, there is so much anti-semitism there so much white supremacy on the site you don't moderated, other people have said no, it now you say it's your personal safety, i'm going to spend journalists as well i think this is a pr ploy for a guy who has put $44 billion into twitter and no is trying to use trying to generate this sense of grievanc to get a conservative evidence to plug into twitter and draw some advertisers back. twitter used to be about news and now it's about who is nobod is in favor of his child or himself being physically threatened, that is clear, but what is his master plan for

twitter because the thing that he's done that i think are really more controversial our loosening the things that restricted things that the spread of this information and miss information that is dangerous i don't understand what his game plan is here. >> i think that's what he likes it he said i'm going to try things and we will build those back in so this is an experimen and process, i want to hit on this, of fox news pull on socia media companies are they biased against, 60 percent said they were biased against democrats 3 jason, there is clearly that still a perception that conservatives are not treated equally on social media. >> because it's the reality. what we have found out in recen weeks and months is that these social media companies were in fact working with the governmen to suppress certain speech, to

make sure information didn't ge out there whether it was about covid origins or some other issue or the hunter biden lapto or what have you, there was working, there was collaboratio between the social media companies in the government, so this is not in the conservative imagination that this is going on. i think he wants this to stop, that is one of the reasons that elon musk wanted to buy the company. >> is inching mentioned hunter biden i want to put this up as well. how important is it that the do investigates his with foreign governments, not by party, overall 70 to percent of people think it's a good idea to investigate what's going on wit hunter biden and give me the counter to that because if ther is nothing there, why not do th investigation that could potentially clear him. >> i was puzzled about the question because the department of justice is investigating

hunter biden and it's being don by a u.s. attorney in delaware appointed by donald trump and he's looking into whether or no hunter biden was wrong in the way he filed taxes, the way he handled the gun apparently. so the 50 to percent are for that. >> that's fine, that's what's happening under the biden administration. if he is guilty of anything he' guilty of using his family name for connections and that's not illegal and we see this across many presidents in their terms of their families. would you pick him to be your credo if you were the godfather? i don't think so. that's not the right guy. >> it's not just that he was on drugs and there's people of that , that could be used for blackmail potentially, but ultimately you've got tony bob linsky and actual on the record business partner saying joe biden was the financial

beneficiary of this arrangement. its explicit think they have never denied. >> there's no evidence brickey it's his words out there and he's talked about whether or no he's been contacted, there was lots of back-and-forth on that, we will leave it there because we have two. thank you panel, we will see yo next sunday. minutes from now box is france is getting ready to take on argentina. we will bring on the broadcast team to discuss what you can expect on the pitch this morning .

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>> just over an hour from now argentina and france kick off the 2022 world cup final pay france hoping to defend its title but argentina looking to capture there first world cup trophy. we have been captivated for the last few weeks and it's pretty special for us to have two of the broadcasters you have done the most. >> americans excited about what is now the world's most popular sport moments ago i sat down with fox sports 2022 root and lee host rob stone. welcome to fox news sunday. today is finally the day my household is one of the million around the world, it may be billions watching, waiting, excited, what is the mood they are on the? >> a think the mood as we have been here for four straight weeks covering this tournament, put the ball down, blow the whistle and let's go. have a legend and the making in

a legend on the field the two biggest storylines coming into this world cup will give you first when his first ever wod cup. can france defend their ground much a dream final of what you and i would've envisioned outside of the u.s. making it. to get this is christmas come early, i'm not talking about stocking stuffer, this is a big present under the tree when you have freshman france versus argentina p trying to check tha box of winning a world cup and in the twilight of his career but plain as good as we have seen him play in years in then on the other side, the future right now keep in mind that tea has not won consecutive men's world cups in 60 years, so that is what france is doing and wha could possibly win two world cup 's before the age of 24 so it doesn't matter what side you ar on, this is delectable. to get you talk about the

back-to-back wins if france principles this document hasn't been done since brazil did this in 58 and 60 to, what would it be to their legacy to do it, ho hard would it be to pull it off and what do you think the odds are of it today? >> just with the history that you mentioned obviously in and of itself it says how difficult it is not only difficult but when you win a world men cup it shown it's not only difficult t win another one but even to actually get out of the group, so that they have not missed a beat, they have changed some of the players there are still som usual suspects that were there for years ago i think when it comes to france in this final that the pressure is on argentina the pressure is on argentina all of the fans will be there it will be kind of a home game for argentina. france can kind of sit back wit a smoke and a baguette and kind of let it come to them as not necessarily the underdogs, but

just don't think they have the pressure evenly for 60 years they don't care about his legac or his history they are saying we're going to into consecutive and do something that hasn't been done in a long time. >> i think we are talking dynasty right now. this is the fourth men's cup that france will be participating in. that is unheard of. right now france has an opportunity to say we are one o the absolute world powers read the conversations would involve germany, italy, brazil, france is saying no, we are the number one on the planet now and have been for a while and look forward to that continuing as well-paid. >> what does it mean if he can pull it off? what does it mean to the comparisons tomorrow don't i ca he pull that off? any chance? >> yes, he can pull it off righ he is an eight coat, we have this goat conversation the last couple of days. he's about to get angry because i lick i am a goatherd or. i think we can bring a lot of

goats into my little farm and pelé is a goat, i am fine being goatherd or having them goats and if he can't win the world cup dsn't belong in the rob stone goat farm. it's goat it stands for greates of all time why do i have to explain this to you every singl day. this is what we do. the debate will continue, but for a lot of people i'm telling you right now, if he wins today if he checks that box of a worl cup, they're going to say the greatest to absolutely ever the game. he moves me in a different way then mess he does, i will still debate and i will still argue even if messi were to win it here, if he doesn't win it, tha is really what is going to be ultimately interesting. how does that debate shaped up going forward as to who the bes is? the best as i can tell you who

the best is anymore than i can tell you what the best food is where the best music or the bes looking person, it is personal preference you ultimately feel and there are a lot of people out there regardless of what happens today that say he is th best player to game. you can't change it for it. >> he has got a farm with multiple goats, alexi will h. >> what farm is going to do better? one goat, or three goats? my goat wins over their goats. >> a don't eat a lot of land. can get let's talk about the u.s., aside from just experienced, over the next four years what does the u.s. team need to do in terms of changes, positioning, training, whatever it is to not only get back into the world cup, but to have a chance at something as a means eating as a. to get at think a lot of the steps have taken place years ag and obviously that momentum needs to continue and we need

greater depth. we need to find a center forward , but we have confidence great if we talk to some of the players here they are saying ho valuable this time was here for them to to kind of play that foundation and start those building blocks making that pyramid to rise up to the level were france and argentina our right now. that is necessary to have that strong solid base and i think the u.s. has that and it is growing. they have for years and there i the pressure of knowing they ar one of the cohosts and the ade talent out there and do whatever they can to nurture and mature them to get them to be at a point where they can talk about them today on sunday at the world cu final rather than i hope in fou years down the road we can do something. get a know we want to win at a men's world cup. i hope it happens in my lifetime . i think we should be incredibly bullish going forward in the next four years.

not blind faith, but definitely having faith in this team we sa here. they will be four years older, there is incredible talent and incredible opportunity. i am sitting here talking to yo because of the 1994 world cup. it changed my life forever and it changed soccer forever as di the 1999 women's world cup. in 2026 the world is coming bac to a u.s. that has a completely different sports and soccer landscape, so it's the opportunity on the field and of the field to drive that sport forward. nothing drives it forward quicker in better than winning. americans love winners, we win and a lot of different things. in the women's team we are the best in the world, in the men's team, we have yet to reach at what better time then 2026 with length that world comes back to the nine states and host the greatest spectacle on gods gree earth. gate 94 was that the igniter fo men's soccer and the united states, i think what will be awesome is all the fans coming

from across the world who were there in 94 and then come back in 2026 in their eyes will open and save my goodness, this landscape of soccer in this country in this region of the world has changed dramatically. >> we are in a bubble over here we started to see the pictures and i know you were there and saw it too about people in the street people in the bars, people in there living rooms coming together. there is very little that unite us as america, that when the cockles of my redheaded america heart and i can't wait to see i carry on into 2026 fred we were getting video of our kids in class watching the game here in the visual is every kid is kind of sneaking it underneath his desk where again, teachers are one of us, they are soccer fans that didn't happen generation o two ago and they are just sayin forget english today it's up on the whiteboard, we are watching the game.

this is our new civic duty we saw the planes were every monitor in the plane as you're walking down was watching that world cup. that is growth and it will continue over the next four years fred. >> you don't have to be a socce fan to like soccer. >> today makes it exciting. i love that you are bullish on the men's team. we have a whole farm to talk about and hopefully it's all us in 2026. thank you so much, have a fantastic time. congrats on your excellent coverage. >> thank you. >> we will take a poll here, wh is argentina and who is friends. that is it for today. thank you for joining us, i'm shannon bream, have a great wee and we will see you next fox news sunday. ♪

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