good evening. welcome to los angeles.e cri m trace gallagher intro bret baier. the crisis at the southern border now spreading beyond major cities. we will look at hohow businesses are impacted by the record surge, plus, whatever happened to the w russian military contractor, the wegner group?on anald bret baier explains what additional infrastructure of tha u.s. may need to meet the biden administration s electric vehiclt,e goals. but first. breaking tonight, president joe biden prepares to win over voters after what many say was a tough year. the president is on a family vacation in the caribbean amid the expanding conflict in the middle east, the war in ukrainet and as the crisis at the bordere swells to record numbers, theses challenges remain flash points in 2024.vo as a new fox poll shows how voters think this year has gone. just 24% think 2023 was a good year, while that number has steadily risen since 2020, stilo 13 percentage points lower than in 2019. fromluca
i m raymond arroyo in for laura ingraham. this is a special of the ingraham angle from new york city tonight. efforts underway in severali states to remove formerdo president donald trump fromght, the ballot. we ll get to that in a moment. tonight, the vacuu vivekm swamy is here with his reaction. plus, gary sinise with a heartwarming, inspiring story that you have to hear. but first, william faulkner famously said the past isn t dead. we it isn t even pase sat. as we say farewell to 2023, there are important lessonsr. that we may have missed. lessons we need in the new yea g . you know, we tend to focus so intently on the crisis or the outrage heee of the momentie that we miss the larger trends. this hour, wpo e will reportthey breaking news. look at the big stories shape ho the year and how they will shape our 2024. it will be an important and fuin hour. i want to start with the narrative that has sounded all year long and it slond g mae a major theme in the new
i m rich edson in for martha maccallum in new york at fox news head quarter. december shattering another record at the border. a caravan of thousands on the way, since december 1, migrant encounters at the southern border have topped 276,000. more than the population of reno, nevada. the highest monthly total ever. art del cueto is starting by. first to william la jeunesse with the breaking news about the northern border. ice revealed that it arrested an iranian national with ties to terrorism sneaking in to the u.s. near niagara falls two days after being turned away here at the rain bow bridge. he s a legal resident of canada, wanted on assault charges there. ice held him for two months before a release last week. arrests on the northern border increased by 90% last year. for that perspective, 276,000 apprehensions, that is nearly the population of pittsburgh. again, a single month. not a mention of those got-aways. the point is the mexican border is overrun. agents so bu
former president donald trump s name is taken off the ballot in a second state this. time in maine where the unprecedented decision is now threatening the front-runner for the republican presidential nomination. hello, everyone, i m anita vogel in los angeles and bryan, as john roberts likes to say, happy friday to you. bryan: i m in new york, sandra and john are off today. 34-page ruling, maine s secretary of state says her unilateral decision to remove trump from the primary ballot is because he engaged in an insurrection. the trump campaign firing back with plans to appeal and calling it a hostile assault on american democracy. anita: the decision follows colorado s historic ruling last week and similar cases are playing out in more than a dozen states across the country. joe concha is standing by with reaction on this. bryan: lucas tomlinson is travelling with the president in st. croix. lucas, any reaction from the white house? bryan, no reaction from the whi
taken action to remove president trump from the ballot. secretary of state belllows ruled he is ineligible to run if they have engaged in insurrection. the events of january 6 2021, unprecedented, tragic, were unsurrectorion. mr. trump engaged in insurrection and therefore disqualified. upon alexandria: like colorado state supreme court belllows based her ruling off the ruling used once in 1919. make no mistake, this is assault on democracy. biden does not trust voters for a free and fair election. this is being pursued in 13 other states. in colorado, trump s name will appear unless the supreme court affirms the decision to remove him. here is the chair weighing in. it is an act of desperation, they are afraid donald trump will win against joe biden. i m afraid other states will follow suit if the supreme court does not step in. alexandria: penning appeal by the trump team. right now her ruling is stayed until we get a ruling on that appeal from the state supreme c