border texas governor greg abbott refusing to remove razor wire and half of the nation s governors are standing behind him. how the white house is responding. pete: police united nations firing staffers with ties to the attacks on israel. the white house now grilled on funding the agency. rachel: first of its kind katz lick trade schools, how one college is allowing students to pursue a degree to graduate debt free. the final hour of fox & friends weekend starts right now. rocking in the usa pete: we might start off the hour with some robert palmer but we didn t. good morning, welcome 4th hour of fox & friends weekend part of fox & friends but subsidiary the weekend the one a. parent company. exactly right. and we re joined by charely. other branch fox and friends first. being another branch of fox & friends, will. so we re educating will on the sort of the franchise of shows. will: welcome to the show will. settle the debate robert palmer both hit
bret: good evening, welcome to washington i m bret baier and two big stories featuring big numbers. customs and border protection say within 300,000 people illegal immigrants and countered by border patrol attempting to enter the u.s. illegally across the southern border and just the month of december. we will head to the border to report on the major showdown between texas and the biden administration. but first the other big numbers tonight. we begin in new york, a jury or during former president donald trump to pay more than $83 million in a defamation lawsuit brought by e. jean carroll. a jury found previously sexually assaulted by a trump in the 1990s. the former president vigorously denied the allegations and wondered how he did that is the subject of the defamation case. alexis mcadams outside of the federal courthouse in manhattan with the latest tonight. good evening, alexis. good evening, bret. huge numbers in the courtroom in manhattan. e.g. harrell said dona
with judge jeanine pirro, harold ford jrwith, jesse wattes and greg gutfeld. it s 5:00 in new york city. this, is the five dramatic showdown over security at the r reaching a breaking point. right now, texas is telling the biden administrations tellio to come and take it. today is the deadline the white house gave the governor,e greg, on allowing federal agents access to shelby park in eagle so they can remove the razor wire there. th to let the feds in and hasitio a coalition of 25 red state governors on its side. ofg could now be headed back to court, and texas is confident it will win. t but the white house says abbot is breaking the law by playingot gameuse as as. shy we will not shy away from n calling out what we seepoli. as political games from as political games from safe. it does not protect our communities. and that s who he cares about. and that s who he cares about. that st,e people of texas.t,e people of what we re seeing from governor abbott, you heardtexase s
and with a little help from artificial intelligence, beatles fans can expect a new track from the fab four more than 50 years since they last recorded together. former president donald trump is celebrating his 77th birthday today as a source inside the trump camp tells nbc news he is bracing for the possibility of more indictments. trump was defiant and insisting he did nothing wrong as he rallied supporters at his new jersey golf club last night. just hours after he pleaded not guilty to charges he lied and schemed to hold on to sensitive national security material, he was supposed to turn over when he left the white house. earlier this morning, former vice president mike pence who was challenging trump for the republican presidential nomination spoke out about the indictment. the very prospect that what is alleged here took place creating an opportunity where highly sensitive classified material could have fall noon the wrong hands, even inadvertently, that jeopardizes
back at home, new developments into the investigation of former president donald trump s handling of classified documents. another grand jury is expected to convene in the case where they are asking what could this mean? and then chris christie expected to throw his hat into the ring tonight. meanwhile, authorities in california are investigating two private planes carrying migrants from the border and dropping them off without warning in california. we will talk to the state s attorney general that says this could mean criminal charges. in florida, calls are growing for the arrest of a woman that shot and killed her neighbor. she knocked on the door, unarmed, no weapons, just wanted answers. we begin this hour with breaking news out of ukraine. overnight an explosion destroyed a critical dam in russian-controlled territory that is threatening tens of thousands of people. ukraine officials are urging residents to evacuate with water levels reaching critical levels withi