Good evening. M bret baier. N President Joe Biden vacations in thcae caribbeans republican president ial candidates returned to then Campaign Trail. Police in texas investigate the deaths of a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend, and what they call a perplexing case. The doctors are warning about a tripledemic is a new covid strain spreads across the united states. Firs dr. Marc siegel joins us to nighdiscuss. But first, breaking tonight, another Massive Group Ofthro Migrants is making its way through mexico as immigrationy officials work to process the thousands already waiting at thn border. Many of those who have been allowed to enter the u. S. Are being sent further north where local Officials Say President Joe Biden and his administrationir have ignored their pleas for additional assistance. The president meanwhile is heading south to the caribbean for vacation as his top cabinet officials meet with mexicos president to discuss the crisis. We have fox team coverage, Cb C Cotton Ials in new york where my eric adams is callin g on the president to do more. N what dominic but we begin with Gillian Turner who is traveling inthe u. S. Delegation mexico city. Good evening. Good evening, bret. The secretaries came tofr mexico city with an assignment direct froom m President Biden, gets help to stem the crushing tide of migrants traveling into the u. S. Illegally from mexico. T it is notable that none of the Cabinet Secretaries in the delegation today are actually traveling to the border to see the crisis firsthand. The delegation was all smiles, however, at the national palace. State Department Officials have yet to disclose exactly what Secretary Blinkens delegation asked of mexicos president , but an immediate priority is getting mexico to crack down on cartels that snuggle migrants across the Southern Border. President obrador has made clear many times hes used the border crisis as a u. S. Problem. Saying recently hes willing toy try and help, but only if thea u. S. Lifts sanctions and sends more aid money to cuba and venezuela. Intermec will boost as much as we can to help maintain an orderly flow of migrants. Recently there was an abnormal surge of migrants they tell us that they encountered over 35,000 migrants along the border and nearly a quarter million for the month of december so far. Negotiations in congress over border policy, part of a package to send aid to israel and ukraine. Lawmakers are still far from a deal with many republicans remaining unimpressed by todays overtures. Blinkens visit to mexico is about paying lip service to this issue. We have seen independents,ey republicans, and democrats getting very angry about what they are seeing at the border. The stakes for this visit are high politically. Mocr President Biden is facing Mounting Pressure from democrats and republicans alike to try and alleviate this crisis. , the administration is not talking about it, at least not to us reporters. We had no presser today in mexico, which we knew about earlier, but we also had no offegat the record briefing from anybody in the delegation. E me bret . Bret quickly, have the mexican officials tipped their hand at all that they arwithine willing to do something more than theyve been doing alreadyn i know one of the particular that the blinken team is we reporting dominic reported Toin Press On Today is the freightsad trains carrying up to thousands on a weekly basis, we are now hearing. Wh that was something he was going toave press them on, whether to had any willingness or capability to do that remains to be seen. All we will be following up on that. Bret Gillian Turner live in mexico city. Thanks. Eade cities acrossajor the u. S. Areigra working to adds the migrant crisis, each inf th their own cities, without the help of the federal government. I several democratic mayors Arer S Criticizing the Biden Administration for ignoring their requests for assistance, and they are getting loud. Cb cotton reports from newark. T good evening. Good evening, bret. Time new york city mayor Eric Adam Saysesid he has not gotten any e time with President Joe Bideny about the migrant crisis since early last year. Coal now other Sanctuary City mayorsn are formincig a Coalition Pleadg for financial and legislativeew assistance. , Aans Temperatures drop in new york city, chicago, denver, and other impacted cities, we are calling for the Declaration L suof emergency. Strfinancial support and a natl or settlement strategy. The democratic mayors of new york, chicago, and denverg o held a Virtual Meeting to discuss how theyre trying to handle the influx of thousands of migrants. As Record Numbers across the Southern Border and head for their cities. Nearly 200 arrived at the big apple from texas after their flight to new yorks jfk airporo was diverted to philadelphia due to inclement weather. A spokesperson for the Mayors Office calling it inhumane and saying texas e Governor Greg Abbott is treatn humans like political pawns. Mayor adams announced Newe Guidelines and stricter the penalties today for those bringing the Busloads Ofam migrants. Over in chicago, and their Brandon Johnson is using the c to slow the flow for what he calls rogue bus operators. The state is also paying temp 160 million from a fund to temporarily house migrants and hotels with chicago officials expectin fg at least four grant buses to arrive in the city byve sunday. As buses continue to arrive in the city of chicago and all over the country, the Type Ofnit Chaos that has been administered has left many of our local economies under a tremendous amount of duress. T Governor Greg Abbotts office telling us in part his state will continue busing migrants to Sanctuary Cities until President Biden steps up and does his job to secure the border. Here in new york city it is expected to cost 12 billion to shelter and feed migrants for three fiscal years. C. Back to you. Bret its adding up. Cb, thank you. Breaking tonight, thousands of palestinians are evacuating gaza asgets israel targets areas on e ground, and from above. Israeli forces worn no place in the area is safe as Townsto Outside Thwne War Zone become overwhelmed with refugees. Trey yingst reports on the crisis from tel aviv tonight. Good evening. A good evening. Israel is fighting a conflict oi multiple fronts as battlesa expand inside gaza amid the backdrop of humanitarian disaster. Convoys of Aid Trucks Passesco through the crossing escorted bn the united nations. They carry desperately needed humanitarian relief for palestinian civilians. Y f further north, fierce battles are ongoing between the idf andn hamas as Ground Operations expand across the strip. We are currently working toward achieving our objectives inside northern gaza, and Theres Leconsiderable Work Left and sei gaza. Cea with no major progress, e groundwater is expected to intensify. As israel promises to eradicatet hamas. Overnight, Israeli Forces raide1 the West Bank City where theyili arrested 14 wanted palestinian militants, Killing Sixe Othersn a drone strike. Local paramedics claimed all of those killedf ac were civilians. As the idf acknowledged to strike saying they struck aeb group of men throwing explosives. And on the northern borderan, g lebanon, new has Blood Rocketunt Fire caused damage to several communities, drawing a swift israeli response. Israi ch israeli Chief Of Staff visited troops in Northern Israel todays while announcing that new plans were approved for a variety ofon contingencies. Interpreter Situation Inomat the north must change. The hourglass for a diplomatic solution is running out. If t the world and the lebanese government wont Stop Theco Shooting toward the northern communities from lebanon and wont act to remove hezbollah from the border, the idf will. Bn reports indicate the u. S. Secretary of state, Antony Blinken, Will Visitin Israel next week to discuss plans for the war in gaza. Hes also expected to visit the west bank, jordan, saudi arabia, the united arab emirates, and qatar. His expected visit to israelnts comes as there are still significant disagreements about the next steps for the war iniv gaza. Tr bret . Bret trey yingst in tel aviv, thanks. Lets bring in aaron cohen, a former member of israels Special Operations Counter Terrorism movement, founder of a leading manufacturer of Law Enforcement products for terrorism readiness. Thanks for being here. Adind to see you. Bret what about the idfs moves right now . Ac what are you seeing on theirtalk actions, and what netanyahu is talking about about the longht road ahead . Right now israel is dealing with the north and the south of gaza. Operations arent as aggressive in the south, and the reason wh is because, quite frankly, israel wants to be mindful of the u. S. Putting out the word and saying we need you g days to get more selective, more Intelligence Driven operations,a and has forced them to rely more on their Special Operations Ground Forces and start getting into those structures as opposed at wto the more aggressive air campaign happening in the north and the first couple weeks of the operation, which hit really hard. Were very successful. Unfortunately it has had to slow israel down. The tone i am hearing from the people that i came up with in the idf is itll take a lot longer. It get could get drawn out, ande reason why is because all the casualties of that number being reported from hamas, which Ises Reporting those numbers to the health ministry, what is happening now is this guerrilla style fighting where all the Saf Civilians moved to those safe sectors are also b hamas, and ty are getting back into those Tunnel Systems and using an urban style hitandrun type of tactic where they are coming up in two and three firing those rocket propelled grenades and then disappearing again. F so that confusion of all those 2 million plus civilians, all on hamas is embedded within those civilians who arent in those tunnels, and that is what is creating the difficulty for the Ground Forces. And like you were saying sorry to cut you off. But as you are referring to, bibis bigger plan is coming down to the point where conceptually i think this entire thing needs to change. You have all the civilians pushed to the south with nowhere to go. The problem is that slogan of hamas, fight to the death, or death to the jews, and from the river to the sea, that is in thn Education System of the palestinians. So i f think conceptually just trying to figure out what is th next move. To the palestinians need to be brought into other countries . Of have gaza get rebuilt . Thats what is happening because of the international pressure. O bret to that point, Thefo Headline here, war on gaza, netanyahu looking for countriess to absorb ethnically cleansed palestinians. They have long cam said israeln Current Campaign in gaza is aimed at ensuring Permanent Expulsio Miln from the area, the Military Strategy is seemingly aimed at making itbitasust uninhabitable, destroying anything that sustains life, hoping the palestinians will then voluntarily leave the u. S. , e. U. , middle east countries have forced this ethnically cleansing but they have set Planlitts Wite little if any consequence at all. Thisic is from the middle east,a palestinian directed publication. But is therehat a sense that te is a wont by israel to absorb some folks from gaza, some O Palestinians . It is certainly on the table, but based on what im hearing and based on what im Feelingio Fromns My Associates who are now in Command Positions in the idf and the intelligence community,o i think really what is going to end up trying to get sort of pushed out here and talked about and getting people to start to get comfortable with it, when you talk about 2 million plus gazans who have been educated from birth with this poisonous ideology, i really think israelg is going to start leaning into south america, europe, parts of america, parts of israel,as absorbing the Majority Percentage of the palestinians. The reason why is because, a, move them out and start to getli them deradicalized. Tionthat islamification, that hardcore islamist education, get them out of anything aligned with that hardcore islamist education. At the same time we can try to i rebuild gaza and turn it into that singapore while theset in people are being reeducated and brought into those countries, and deprograms, for lack of a better term. It happened in germany after world war ii and, japan. Let them rebuild gaza but conceptuallys that is really where i think israel is starting to look at driving this for theo macro picture. Once it is rebuild its not going to take long t, too rebuir it. But that deprogramming is a big challenge. Bret thats an uphillll battle and its going to be interesting how it all plays out. We appreciate your time. Thank you so much. Bret up next, 2024opef Hopefuls hit the road. Campaigning in key early votings states as President Biden travels to the caribbean, and later police in texasxa investigate what they call aafte perplexing case after a pregnant teenager and her boyfriend are found dead in a parked car. Ll h avocado. So, toast . Yeah. Everything is so expensive these days. Hey, chevy gets it. 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House republicans told white House Counsel today they are expanding theirt of investigation into the president as part of the impeachmentin inquiry. In light of an official statement from the white house that President Biden was aware in advance that his son, hunter biden, would knowingly defied two congressional subpoenas. The president is settling into his Vacation Rental in the Caribbean Anebbead his republicn challengers are busy campaigning and crucial early voting states. Nikki haley is a new hampshire, while Vivek Ramaswamy is holding eight events in iowa today. I think we will have a major supply on january 15th. Ma they all trail former President Donald Trump in the polls. One week after the Colorado Supreme Court kicked trump off the ballot, michigans top court declined to hear a similar case, giving trump a victory in the Battleground State he narrowly won in 2016 but lost in 2020. Mih posting to truth social, the michigan Supreme Court has strongly and rightfully denied the desperate democrat attempt to take the leading candidate ir the 2024 president ial election, me, off the ballot in the great state of michigan. Many republicans are stills up hoping the nations top court d takes up the colorado case. This is a political decision in colorado. They hit the guys guts. We talk about radicals, they are the radicals, not donald trump. This decision wont stand. Its t time for us all to fight back. Trump legal team is demandinl that the main Secretary Of State recuse herself from an upcoming decision she has toet make about whether the former t should remain on thatr state ballot based on prior statements shes made about the january 6th capitol riot. U bret Traveling With Theands First Family in theunse virgin islands. 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So please help us fight in this battle against cancer. Im an actor in an ad, who was given 12 seconds to remind you that if youre high, just dont drive. cause if you feel different, you drive different. Its illegal to drive high everywhere anyway. Bret apple can restart sales of its smart watches. The u. S. Appeals Court Temporarily lifted an import ban ngon several models. The court is considering apples request to pause the ban Overe Wapatent filings regarding the watch technology, specifically Blood Oxygen Level monitoring. With two more trading days this year, theyre expected to post strong annual gains. Stocks were up again today with health care and retailers posting the strongest gains. Ew the dow up 111 for a new recordd close. Once again the S P 500sdaq Gaind Seven and the nasdaq rose 25. Atin police in texas are investigating whether a missinge pregnant teenager anred her boyfriend were murdered. They were found dead in a car tuesday. Garrett tenney takes a look at the case tonight. King what we are looking at rt now is a very perplexing crimelk scene, and detectives right now are looking at this as a possible murder, that we donter know for sure. Police are trying to find out what happened to savanah soto, fatally shot in a car with her boyfriend on tuesday. The e younyog mothertobe was e week past her due date when she went missing friday, one day before she was scheduled to be induced, so that she and her new baby could be home for christmas. We were supposed to celebrate christmas with her and her baby. All she wanted was that baby. She didnt want anything else. Police say savanah and her boyfriend, matthew, each had a single Gunshot Wound in theik couple had likely been in the elcar for three or four daysou before they were found. Her Family Members described hiu as abusive and said just lastavn year on christmas he beat savanah so badly that she endedr up in the hospital. T records confirmed that he was on probation for that assault and other unrelated crimes since then. At this point police arent saying he was responsible for the young couples deaths i just want answers to why this happened to her. She was a good girl. She didnt deserve to go this way. Especially with her baby. He was an innocent child. Nobody deserved this. While San Antonio Police are stressing their investigation is ongoing and theyers are awaitig the Medical Examiner report, her sisterinlaw told the local abc station that the baby, who wouln have been named fabian, didnt survive. Bret . Bret garrett, thank you. An propalestinian protesters are demonstrating at airports in an effort to disrupt travel. Los angeles Officials Saye protesters at lax will face criminal charges. Protesters also block traffic a new yorks john f. Kennedy international airport. Police arrested dozens for m disrupting drivers there. Video posted on social media showed travelers at jfk pushinge through the protesters attempting to make their fli flights. Erthose University Leaders consider how to adjustus, antisemitism on campus. Students are turning to a legal tool that could impact how much powel r and federal funding thop colleges have. Fox business correspondentondena reports. Good evening, bret. Students are suing the , university of pennsylvania, n, carnegie mellon, and berkeley in separate complaints. They claim the universities havi violated title vi of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 whichfr prohibits programs that receive federal funds fromr na discriminating based on race, color, or national origin. Lawyers say some jewish students are scared by the schoolss of response to Student Protests and reports of antisemitism following the October 7th Hamas terror attack. One student, who is suing upenne described a recent protest. In this class have been on campus and their people with bullhorns chanting intifada, which means an armed uprising, throughoutig campus, thats not allowed. When this happened for eight hours on a monday, it was during midterms. Thee ed Student Lawsuits, Ase Education is separately investigating 38 colleges and School Districts over possible title vi violations. Seven involve claims of antisemitism or antimuslim sentiment, according to reports. Legal experts say information uncovered by the Student Lawsuits could feel the federal investigation which could result in the loss of federal funding. The Campus Protests are often defended as exercises off free speech, but the former assistant u. S. Secretary of education for civil rights calls that claim ironic. Tion there universities with terrible reputation when it comes to free speech. Ng they censo tr and punish people for saying things that are politically incorrect. Hed when it comes to fantisemitism, Suddenly Theye discover the first amendment. Eic we contacted universities ano theyve either not gotten back or declined to comment. Xper bret lydia, thank you. Up next to medical experts are warning of a tripledemic and a new covid variant this winter. Dc marc siegel joins us to discusso that. H first, the outer borders tonight, a popular south korean actor Bestn Th Known for his ron the oscarwinning filmun parasite is found dead. Authorities sakuy that leepoli sunkyun was found in a car inth seoul. Police have been investigating his alleged drug use for weeks. I parts of southern ukraine areng without Powe Tr Tonight in mid near freezing temperatures afteg russian drones struck the regions power grid. Artillery attacks also struck the Train Station is more thaned 100 civilians waited to travel to kyiv. At least six people were killed in those attacks. And they live look at japan. St orone of the big stories there, tokyo helps the u. S. 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When you do, we will send you this dav blanket as a thank you and a reminder that you support those who serve please call or go online to helpdav. Org right now. Your support says thank you to our nations disabled American Veterans bret medicalxper experts ar warning of a tripledemic thisan winter as cases of covid, rsv, and the flu or on the rise. Covid19 strain jn. 1 is now the most prevalent in the u. S. Ca the proportion of new cases necaused by that variant has nearly doubled in the last two weeks. The centers for Disease Control and prevention, cdc, estimatesor it now accounts for more than 44 of the cases. Doc, lets bring in dr. Marc siegel. Thanks for being here. What dw o we need to know about jn. 1 . First oy that tf all, i wantt the cdc has changed course now finally anedd is focusing ont th physicians. Thi talked to Director Mandy Coo about this last week. They put out an alert to physicians rather than scaring patients. And about jn. 1, would you just pointed out, what we know aboutw it and what they were telling me about it is it is spreading more rapidly but its not more severe. So its not time to push any panic button, but time to understand that, with Holiday Travel going on, you might seeee inmuch more cases of this, andnd especially in the south rightto now in the midwest. R see yoapu have to have your Rapd Testhigh if youre in a highrii group. Nv again, physicians need to be involved in the discussion about antiviral, even about the ivaccine. All of that has to go on in the Doctors Office. G ov again, it is spreading, taking over the covid and hospitalizing a week. 5,000 people but its not more severe. Thats the key point there. If you look at the gallup poll from a couple weeks ago about vaccination rates, and it says, have you gotten or do yoof tu pn , to get any of the following vaccines cannot covid19 or the flu. Have gotten, plan to get. For the flu, 29 for covid. T rewhat is the main reason he wie not receive the coronavirus covid19 vaccine . 51 say theyve already hadab coronavirus, they have the antibodies, or they are concerned about its safety. Sa i guess ifem hearing that more and more. Theyre just not getting that vaccine. Where are we on this is a healthct issue . Ill give you a strict opinion on this and i know imil right about this. It is correct, americans are correctly built up a lot of immunity already, with a youthr. Had prior covid or vaccine or the booster. All of that cuts down on your risk of lung covid and all of ic keeps you from severe disease. Oe the prior vaccines. The problem is that people were scared and warned and mandatedoh and talk down to, so that led to a time when people just rejected all vaccines. Ccin so they are less likely to takee the flu vaccine and less likelyn to take the new rsv vaccine and definitely less likely to take the Covid Vaccine with only 18 o ofnv adults taking it. And i have that conversation in myth office and i said to dr. Mandy cohen, by the way, i dont have the Covid Vaccine in my office. You have to understand that traditionally, historically, 50 of vaccines are giveinn out in a primary care Doctors Office like mine. Hav weve got to return to that. Eric the fear is justified on the american publics part because of the way this was message. Weve got to prevent spread instead of focusing on the reall issue which is keeping people out of the hospital and preventing symptoms of lung covid. They have va long hill to clim vaccines are a valuable tool. But again, discussion for highrisk groups. Bret a lot of people, Health Experts i talk to you, have said they think we will look back and say this was ad Massive Health policy failure as we look back and analyze how all of that went down, the shutdowns and everything else. But if you had a message to people trying to fight this, what is the message . . I want everyone out there to know im with you on the fatigui part. Leaving with it three years now. For three years now. Year we understand the covid fatigue part, but its about to be theo. Heart of the flu season. It was a pretty bad rsv season. We are going to see more flu. Ct the reason you talk to your doctor is they can tell you which one you may have. I want to focus on antivirals. Y. Paxlovid works very well, and tamifl. U works very well against the flu. If you call your doctor and they can tell you what you have, iol might be able to give you a tool. The focus should be on tools, not criticism, not dogma, not Public Health from a podium. We have got to regain trust in our doctors now. Doctors are not going to get trust if they talk down. T ifwe have to ask our patientst are your concerns and how i can help. H bret you have helpedav us. Thanks for coming on. Happy new year. Always great. Thanks, bret. Happt biy new year. Bret next, the panel on the border crisis, the trip toec mexico, and the 2024 election. Yeah. Everything is so expensive these days. Hey, chevy gets it. Thats why theyre Keeping Prices down to earth. Like on the most affordable ev in america. A super strong and capable chevy truck. And a hightech chevy suv. Why is chevy making affordable vehicles, connected by onstar . So together we can do more. Well, its that time of year. When everyone is spending a little more than they expected. But thats okay, because geniusyou joined one. The app and cashback debit card that can help you earn rewards on those Ugly Sweaters and trendy Tech Trinkets you buy for the special somebodies in your life. And, with up to 5. 00 apy on your savings, you can begin to dream a bit bigger when it comes to your future plans. There are a lot of Banking Options out there. But one is not like the others. Download and join one today. Talk to the migrants come you talk to Theorde Migrantse coming across the border, what do they say connect we are here because of President Biden and m thats why they keep coming. Th until he changes that dialogue, and quit relying on Everybody Geelse to secure it, he needs to take charge, he is our president , to protect the country and citizens in theiris borders. This is a mere trying to create the pretense that theyre doing something about this because theyre starting to geto a lot of bad press and a lot of political pressure to do something abouo dot it. M so theyre going down to do this meeting really just for show tot make it appear they are takingt. This issue seriously. In fact, they are not. Bret a u. S. Delegation led by Secretary Of State Antony Blinken meeting with mexicos president , mexican officials, about the border crisis. Just a few moments ago, leaving some headlines saying the Foreign Minister says they spoke to the u. S. Authorities about the importance of reopening border crossings, that they had good meetings, they will hold more at the end of january, and they discussed the meetings as being good. But no real Concrete Commitmentg on the mexican side from what theyre putting out in these alerts as of this hour. Lets bring in our panel, former tennessee congressman, cohost of the five. Julie manchester, reporter for th he hill and syndicated radio hewicoast hee hee with it. His i have been covering this over the past fewer days and the numbers are staggering. They are just overwhelming. Sometimes he lays over it because theyre so big. C ommore than 730,000 have comeore across the border in certain areas since october 1st. Thats about seven university of Michigan Football stadiums full of migrants. Just aharo hat tip toit sharold ford jr. Thats the most important thing to talk about at first, the by taling. Lets start with the facts. It we sure and alma mater, that inh rooted for the buckeyes and he was on the dark side. 8 million people, encounters have crossed over in three years of the Biden Administration. Northern border in Southern Border. 8 million encounters. Under President Trump in fourn n years it was 3 million raw encounters. R so just the raw number is enormous. What i had to say about the meetings anolos we kind of intid in your monologue in your introe they had really great meetings,e super meetings. They should have some more meetings. Wh thats Aat Substitution Ofs activity for action. What needs to happen is finishing the comprehensive overhaul. Th but he probably doesnt want to do that. Until an pd unless they do, we have this problem. Bret harold . First off, go blue, Merry Christmas and happy new year. When we try and look at this issue with selective facts, we can sometimes come to conclusions that dont keep inmt mind here. No i would agree, that meeting has not gone well. I have been in meetings like that. If thats the news, itt means t is not achieving the things you want it to achieve. Der. This is a National Security challenge at ours we border. Right now as we sit here, congress is trying to negotiate a deal to fund the Ukrainian Military needs to help the israelis fight back Againsthe Lphamas and to help prevent and ameliorate the conditions creating the crisis at our border. They should do their doggone job. They shouldnt have gone home. They should hammer out a deal. Ln 3 million versus 8 million, those are bad numbers, period. Need to reform this process. I agree we should build a wall, invest in this hemisphere, our own atmosphere, where we spend trillions in other parts of thie world. Im not saying we spend trillions in south and es tlatin america, but less than pennies to try and help stabilize and bring somesome opportunity and some sticktoitiveness for people not to want to come to our country. I hope Secretary Blinken had a good meeting and the headlines dont read well, and i hope the president when he gets off this vacation is able to get the senate and the house and mayors in a room at the white house and say lets hammer out a deal that makes sense for our National Security, not for democrats or republicans. Bret speaking of mayors, julia, democratic mayors, previously listed as sanctuarymg cities, are coming out nowtena saying it is untenable. You cant handle it. They need the federal government and they are actually angry at the Biden Administration. They are also angry at governors in texas and florida who are sending migrants their way. But theyth are angry at the bid. Administration. Take a listen to eric adams and the chicago mayor. I am announcing an Executive Order requiring charter buses transporting migrants, those often contracted by the state of texas, to provide 32 hours ofth notice in advance of their yor arrival into new york city. To make sure we have sufficient staffing, not stopping people from coming, but about ensuring the safety of migrants andcoor making sure they can arrive in a coordinated and orderly way. I in no way is with the state c of texas doing helping the cause. As much as we recognize that there are challenges, significant challenges at the border. And we do need a real substantive Immigration Reform and policies that allow us toti Have A Structureze and a pathwan to citizenship. But, again, Sendinfg Buses Allco over the state of Illinois Andit The Country is reckless and quite frankly dangerous. U bret you could say it was a political stunt, you can say whatever you want about the. Blessing or flying of migrants to those places, but thoseve mayors are feeling it andhose expressing themselves not just against those governors but against the administration. Thats absolutely right, cit bret. We are seeing these democratically run cities, new york city, chicago, largeo cities, are feeling what ibet feels like to be a Border Townsy or a border city. What is different is obviously these cities are already much more populated and its harderli to take more of the population. But come it puts pressure on someone like eric adams already facing lots of political pressure within new york city, and hes being forced to respond to this. Th j we have seen eric adams in particular clash with biden over this issue on the border. N but this puts additional pressure on joe biden. T we have seen that over the past year going back to even 2022rati there have been other democrats, democratic senators, forariz example, mark kelly fromstra arizona, who has raised concern to the Biden Administration about the situation at the Southern Border. 202 even running for reelection in 2022 in new hampshire, she has raised this concern. On n so right now you have the Biden Administration not only facing pressure on this issue from the caravan and from republicans in the senate in terms of the border funding, but also from their own party umbrella. Nly bret quickly, i only have2 a few seconds,we but before 2022 we thought immigration was going to be a bigger issue. It got overtaken, really, in that mid term. Do you think it is a major issuo this time heading into 2024 . I do. Es im looking at the landing page of the new york times, top story right now. Pushing u. S. Resources to the brink. If theyve woken up to thecaus reality of what is happening,op because of, in essence, the ope Southern Border, it is a political issue in every single race and i think it has legs and if they sign a deal itd be a t disaster for them. Bret panel, thanks. Happy new year. Ts finally, tonight, a special day. He shoots it and it is selfgs rewarding and then he gets excited when i get excited. So i think we have a good connection and a good bond off of each other. B bret a new top dog when it comes to dunking basketballs. Ie thats a 5yearold Border Collie named leonard. This week he set a new world record with 22 slam dunks in just one minute. L this happened outside the lazy dog restaurant and bar in chantilly, virginia. Hes apparently also a very gooe artist, making him one wellrounded canine. Thanks a lot for inviting usinth into your home tonight. Thats it for this special report. Fair, balanced, and still unafraid. I will see you in the new year. The Ingraham Angle is next