collides with a japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway at haneda airport. local reports say five crew members on the coast guard plane are dead, but that all 379 passengers and crew on the japanese airlines flight got out safely before that plane was engulfed in flames. we are monitoring that but first we re seeing death on the migrants, which nobody talks about. we re seeing the fentanyl at record numbers. the drugs, illicit drugs come across the terrorist are coming to our country. and then you see the economic impact that we re seeing the border crisis bleeding into 2024. and a record number of crossings is creating a political nightmare for the white house. good morning. i m dana perino. bill is off today. but good morning to you, bret. good morning. happy new year. i m bret baier and this is america s newsroom authorities stopped more than 300,000 migrants trying to cross the southern border just last month 300,000. that is an all time record. it is reigniting calls
necessary legal basis to do so, they will be sent away. bryan: biden administration closing out 2023 with a record breaking surge at the southern border. cbp sources tell fox there have been more than 276,000 migrant encounters since december 1st. that s equivalent to the entire city of buffalo, new york, or reno, nevada, and there s no signs of stopping as we head into a new year. hello, hello, everyone, the last hour of america reports of 2023. anita: hard to believe we made it, it is friday. anita vogel in los angeles. john and sandra are off. iran national with ties to terrorism was arrested by border patrol after he was caught crossing illegally right near niagara falls. bryan: according to ice, his second attempt trying to enter from canada, authorities sending him back to canada where he is a permanent resident and wanted for assault charges. anita: meanwhile, sanctuary cities far from the border like new york, chicago and denver, they are just struggling to
prompting new retaliation from u.s. forces and new fears that the violence could spread. let s bring in aaron gillcrist who s covering today s diplomatic meetings in washington at the white house and nbc s jay gray who s in tel aviv. jay, starting with you. what is the latest on the ground in israel and gaza as we talk about last hour the war cabinet meeting last night and what may have come from that. day 81 of the war and as intense the u.n. says it has been since the start and as deadly. they are saying the intensity of the battles on the ground as well as the air strikes has ramped up over the last 48 hours. we know that the attacks have been targeting from the air control and command centers according to the idf. they have been working also to identify and target some of the senior hamas leaders saying that one of their air strikes did kill a leader but not saying to this point who that may be. on the ground, they are continuing to try and expose and then eliminate the
courts here, all americans need to really worry this could come to your candidate in your town across the nation. bill: that s one of many republicans now calling the trump ballot ban anti-american. colorado might just be the tip of the iceberg. we ll explain that now as we say hello. beginning now on thursday morning i m bill hemmer live in new york. dana: that s weird. colorado is landlocked but the metaphor works. i m dana perino, america s newsroom. good to be with you this morning. legal efforts to disqualify former president trump are underway in more than a dozen states including maine. we re expecting a decision there as soon as tomorrow. also happening in california where the lieutenant governor wants to quote, explore every legal option to disqualify trump. bill: you put all this together and it puts pressure on the u.s. supreme court to get involved and the air out of iowa forcing republican candidates to talk about the frontrunner rather than talking abo
end up winding up doing to our fellow on one side of the scale is the current situation in venezuela which is quite dire as it is in cuba, right? what would we do to even the scales to get to the point of what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation, as would be really. a quarter of venezuela is gone. staggering, thank you my friend as always. and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008 america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him please. to congratulate him on being elected the next president of the country we both love. john mccain gently but firmly admonishing the crowd of republicans for booing the election of our nation s first black president. at the time th