hashtag long form. hashtag, good to see you. have a good show. okay. hashtag, thank you. always good talking, nicole. i m ari melber and we re reporting live from somewhere, as the saying goes, specifically washington. congress under new management after the bruising fight to elect speaker mccarthy and for all the talk, among gop hard liners about how that clash, remember, they said that would really change things. it would upend the d.c. games, that s what they said. well, tonight for top republicans, i can tell you, it s business as usual. the same playbook the republican party used during the last time that the republicans were in the white house and they had the congress. it s the brinksmanship that can rattle the economy and some conservatives argue actually hurts them too. it drags down the gop in the long run miami talking about another threat to exploit the financial rules and govern by ransom. this story involves some beltway jargon that you ve probably heard b
in a 5-4 vote the supreme court blocked the biden administration from repealing the trump-era policy letting border agents turn away migrants over health concerns. the high court will hear oral arguments in february. rich: president biden has no plan to secure the border. images of large groups of migrants crossing into the country illegally every single day. leaders there are getting frustrated with the lack of action from washington. we re asking the biden administration to come down here, visit our border, talk to our border patrol agents, and to the cities around here. we re talking 10, 12,000 people crossing our borders at one time. they have not put any policy nor any plan in place. rich: big numbers. three days border patrol encountered nearly 15,000 migrants, plus 500 pounds of marijuana, one gang member, one murder suspect and the list goes on. julie: we re covering the crisis from every angle. council president brandon judd joins us in a moment but first mat
another day of travel chaos with thousands more flight delays and cancellations. southwest struggles to recover from holiday storms and system-wide operational problems. the u.s. department of transportation says it is launching an investigation. as a wash dog we ll hold them accountable and have to take a deeper look what s going on with their scheduling systems. we all understand you can t control the weather but this is clearly crossing the line from what s on uncontrollable weather situation to something that s the airline s responsibility. julie: president biden dodging the travel chaos and winter weather as he jets off to a tropical vacation. peter doocy is live at the white house. we have a heater right here. it s pretty warm. not that bad. it s not that bad. as we look at some of these images from airports, julie, people who are stranded and looking to the federal government to maybe help them out, help them get home faster are out of luck. and there is really n
neil gorsuch sided with liberal colleagues. he writes the current border crisis is not a covid crisis and courts should not be in the business of perpetuating administrative ed ictus for one emergency. we re a court of law, not policymakers of last resort. some democrats want the president to act on the crisis and show his administration has a real plan in place once title 42 is gone. congresswoman elect in a border district length it rip. they refuse to come down to the border to see what s happening. they haven t put any policy nor any plan in place for this surge of migrants that is going to come across our border once title 42 is lifted. molly: former border patrol chief set to weigh in on this. we begin with aishah hosni in washington keeping us updated on these changes. good morning. lawmakers on both sides are urging this administration to use this time, this extension, to come up with a better border strategy. texas representative henry cuellar this morning. h
apology but that won t help the stranded. the stock driving 10% in the last two days. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto, this is your world. we re all over it with mike tobin in chicago s midway airport. jacqui heinrich with the president in st. croix where the administration is vowing to get to the bottom of this and nancy mace on the billions in aid airlines received and the southwest airlines union head fuming over what he calls a catastrophic failure despite all of it. he s here. fox to mike tobin in chicago where it s all going down. mike? well, going down certainly is one way to put it. going downhill. you have this mass of bags standing as a visual example of that. what you have here is a line of people around the whole baggage area. they re being allowed by a desk one by one to walk into this purgatory of bags to expect the bags and see if they have found their bag. every once in a while a big cheer will go up. it s a terrible miss. you have 2,800 domestic fl