for our administration 200 plus wall appropriated and the president of the united states, president biden shut that down. do you disagree with his decision to shut down the construction? yes, sir. in addition approximately 385,000 known got a ways have been recorded this fiscal year, todd, ashley. ashley: marianne rafferty thank you. former i.c.e. director jonathan fahey. jonathan, thank you for being with us and obviously i m going to go to that big bombshell of the border chief saying the u.s. does not have operational control of the border. what did you make of that? what is really startling dimmick startling about it is not that he said it or the effect of what he said because everyone knows that is true but what is startling about it this is the first time anyone from ts administration has told the trur anything close to the truth on this issue what i think he was able to go down there and say it
sent back, that is a problem. they lost operational control a long time ago. harris: we re taking a view of some gotaways, people who go around the checkpoints and go around where the cameras are. we have done everything we can even between the checkpoints to see people, we can t catch everybody. customs is tracking the gotaways, shocking numbers are popping and coming out of the hearing, let s watch. 385,000 gotaways this fiscal year. how much gotaways that you don t know about? in my estimation 10 to 20%. more? yes. harris: that is a huge number, that is first quarter of this fiscal year, on pace to exceed 600,000 in total fiscal year and 400,000 the year
side did not show up. take a listen. the thing i m most distraught about is there s not a democrat here. this is an american issue. it s appalling that the democrats didn t show up and america is under attack. and dhs released a statement to fox news writing in part, today s hearing highlights the vital work the department of homeland security does every day to enforce our laws, secure our border and combat cartels and smugglers despite inheriting a dismantled immigration system and facing unprecedented migration that is affecting nations throughout the western hemisphere. we learned something new from the chief s testimony today. he said that in the last roughly six months alone since the new fiscal year began, there s already been 385,000 known got-aways in our border. that puts us up to 1.4 million god-aways since fiscal year
year began less than six months ago there have already been a stunning 385,000 known got-aways at our border. we will send it back to you. bret: bill melugin outside that briefing. bill, thank you. california residents spending another day drying out from a significant atmospheric river that brought record rain fall and powerful wind gusts. thousands of people lost power in california. several inches of rain left a trail of mud slides and flooded roads, meantime on the other side of the country parts of new england digging out of a nor easter. numerous school cancellations power outages and white without conditions on the road. the snow dumped as much as 3 feet of snow in some areas. up next we talk to ohio senator j.d. vance about the clean up efforts at the the site of last month s train derailment which left toxic chemicals on the ground. iranians hold scattered
should not be in the business of funding our own destruction by sending money to chinese military affiliated companies. we are going to have to find a way to onshore the production of key goods that we can t afford to depend on china for such as microelectronic, such as rare earths, as well as insure that we are not unwittingly or wittingly funding our own destruction. maria: and that was the chairman of the house select committee on china, congressman mike gallagher, with me last week on this program on corporate america s funding of the expansion of communist china via their investment. in this comes as communist china continues to buy land in the united states. a new government report revealed that chinese investors now own nearly 385,000 acres of land in the united states. that s almost twice the size of new york city alone. despite the cc cp s abuse of the u.s. visa policy odd the, chinese nationals are also coming into america via the wide