as its known is underway, a few tensions that existed in the early stages. president biden is about to sit down with president obrador and justin trudeau. what can biden say to ease the crisis at our southern border. that number there, 2.3 million plus border encounters for fiscal year 2022. that ended in october or the new one began in october. it was an all-time high by an enormous margin. for some context, that s more than the entire population of houston, texas and we monitor the summit at this hour. we ll bring you that live. we re waiting to hear what these folks might say about the cartels, about our border and any agreements that they might reach to crack down on this situation. retired four-star general jack keane, chairman for the institute of study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst joins me. good to have you with us today. obviously one of the greatest concerns is whatever pertains to u.s. national security from president biden s perspective. and he we
the trump investigation and the problem for them politically with the trump investigation is they had a very small margin of error because of the hillary clinton investigation which resulted in no charges even though that was quite an egregious violation. martha: it s interesting. you also write about this organization, the biden penn center. where their funding came from to launch the biden penn center. why is that relevant here? there s about 54.5 million of funding that started coming in from china including people connected to the regime. so that disclosure comes right now at the moment when the republicans in the house having just taken over the house are about to stand up and investigative committee that among other things is going to look into the millions and
many americans gathered, some in close quarters, to ring in the new year, liz. how big are the lines you re seeing there so far in raleigh? reporter: joe, it s more of what we ve seen all week since before the christmas holiday. long lines, hours long wait. this particular testing site, i ve actually tested here a couple of times and just easy breezy, was able to drive in, get a test and go. now it s appointment only. a lot of other testing sites are doing that too to try to control the line and congestion. some of those lines into the street and disrupting traffic. police needing to come and sort of control the situation. and that s, you know, it s happy new year to you, but we are in the third year of this pandemic. and just seeing daily case numbers break pandemic records. some new numbers, the nbc news tally showing we see more than 54.5 million cases since the start of the pandemic here in the u.s. and more than 820,000 deaths. in north carolina, more than 1.5 million cases.
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it is the 19th eruption in less than two months. president obama is taking a pay cut. britain s queen elizabeth is getting a raise. $54.5 million. no word if she ll increase prince charles allowance. good morning, jackie. good morning. futures higher this morning after stocks suffered their worst day in a month on disappointing economic data and escalating tensions with north korea. look today for unemployment. that will be significant. heads are rolling at lululemon. the chief officer is leaving after they were forced to pull a pair of black pants because they were too see through. face book is expected to unveil