news alert. president biden starting day two of the new year with a slog uphill to try to convince american voters, especially those of color, that he actually can do the job of solving their toughest issues. two days into the new year, three years into his presidency. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president took a new year s message out for a spin. president biden: my hope is that everybody has a healthy, happy and safe new year. beyond that, i hope that they understand that we are in a better position than any country in the world to lead the world. we re coming back and it is about time. harris: he is currently navigating around two foreign wars, dismal poll numbers, one poll after another. and a biden border crisis that just won t quit. republicans have some thoughts on that very last one. if we cannot secure our own borders what does it say about our country? this is very dangerous. i think democrats are realizing that the border is
polls for president biden, they are bad, saying that the majority of americans are losing trust in our president. a new poll shows his approval rating at 36%. that s a new low and all time low. and democrats have good reason to worry about the president s age and mental fitness heading into 2024. 63% of americans said they do not believe biden has the mental sharpness to effectively serve as president. even the left wing media couldn t ignore president biden s terrible numbers. this poll is just brutal for president biden. absolutely, george. and you talked earlier about that record low approval rating for president biden. it s actually six points down just since february. and the skepticism over his leadership extends deep inside his own party. i was told i could not send the poll around until after 12:00 midnight. i sent it out at 12:02 because it kept me up and i thought they should wake up and look at those numbers. the coalition that elected joe biden with the hist
forward an immigration policy on his first day in office. but now in january 2024 it s three full years ago. a second attempt at a bill that could actually pass a republican-controlled chamber of congress has not been put forward in all that time. harris: that s unbelievable. i mean, seriously. believe it, i checked. harris: i know you fact checked it. it is just a lot of time. thank you very much. we ll have more this hour on the record-breaking border chaos as it is reaching cities and states far beyond the line that separates cities crushed by cartel country in mexico and our united states. john, national border patrol president and friend of the focus coming up. i spent a lot of time with him at the border last september and he and i want to get back into how do you keep sovereignty when
1500 aren t doing anything for border security. this is simply to release more agents to process quicker and release quicker. this administration is the only thing they ve done on this border, harris, is send more people to the border to process quickly, release quickly, because they care about the optics. if there s no overcrowding, then there s no crisis. this is all they ve done from day one! harris: remember, when i went down to the border last september, couple of days before the end of the fiscal year, the head of the rio sector b.p., border patrol, talked on the record for the first time of the fact that when all the migrants from haiti were under the bridge, that was an optic difficulty for this white house. his office called and said can we say that s not real? is that made up? got it on tape. look, emily mentioned 7,400 got aways. that s a problem. some of them potentially are cartel members.