brad blakeman joins me now. i will put you on the spot. what do you think was the biggest story of the year? >> the biggest story of the years the crisis that is happening on the border, the humanitarian crisis, the economic crisis. our border is overrun. our cities are being overrun. this administration has done nothing. the president should go down to the border. our borders are, our vice president might as will be on the back of a milk carton, no one knows where she is. i think that is the biggest story of the year because it is one that is going to permeate the news in 2023 because there is nothing substantive in the $1.7 trillion budget that was just passed by both houses of congress and signed by the president yesterday while on vacation that addresses the border problem. ashley: glad you brought that up. the president was on vacation in the virgin islands signing that spending bill, the question to you is is there anything republicans can do when they take control of the house next week to get this out of control spending under cont

cheryl: i agree with you brad very good point we talked being with earlier on this show, brad blakemansee you. thank you for being here happy new year. >> happy new year. >> we've got more coming up speaking of, new year's, "wine spectator" senior editor tasting director is going to be here with top wine picks for your new year's celebrations you don't want to miss that. fox business having new shows january 2023 "the big money show" week day starts 1 pm eastern time bottom line dagen mcdowell sean duffy, all starts january 23rd are watching "mornings with maria" live on fox business. . ♪ ♪ ♪ . when you automate sales tax with avalara, you don't have to worry about things like changing tax rates or filing returns. avalarahhh ahhh >> we say 5:00 somewhere, but the price tag for wine champagne, getting higher cost of raw materials used for boxing labeling shipping wine champagne increase having impact on price joining us senior editor tasting director alisson, great to have you here. thanks for having me nice to see you. cheryl: are talk to me about numbers during pandemic when all conta

brad blakeman joins me now to discuss. you know what, brad?'m kind of encouraged that the president is so frustrated by the border, but i'm not encouraged that he hasn't done anything to fix it or at least nothing that i can see. >> look, he can crop all the f-bombs he wants, but here controlled to this date every lever of government, the executive branch and congress. he still has the house and the senate. yet he's powerless, all he can do is show frustration? why doesn't he show some leadership? why doesn't he do something about it? you know, the chief justice of the supreme court threw him a lifeline and gave a stay to the extinction of title 42. but what do the democrats do? they're not taking that and using that as a time in order to fix immigration and the porous border, he's telling the chief justice, don't worry about it, let it expire. we have literally tens of thousands of illegals staged on our border just waiting for title 42 to expire so they can flood across our border. just last year in 2021 we had 1.7 million contacts with law