i m maria bartiromo. today invasion at the southern border. 371,000 migrant encounters nationwide in the month of december alone. compare that to the entire final year of the trump administration in 2020 with where they had 405,000 for the whole year. something if former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe warned us about in the first three months of the biden administration, right here. we didn t have a problem four months ago. we had no national security issue like we have down there right now. now. this was a situation where the biden administration was so eager to want to declare trump policy cruel at the border that they, that they took away policies that were clearly working, and they reversed agreements that we had with with guatemala, honduras and el salvador and with mexico to stop the traffic at mexico s southern border. and they invited this crisis, they created this crisis. and so i think it s important know that they own this crisis. this was tot
hour of fox & friends weekend on saturday, january 29th. sunday. sunday, january 28th. not saturday, january 29th. carley: we re not off to a good start, ladies and gentlemen. this is the fourth our. carley: we have major news this hour regarding the biden administration s response to the crisis at the southern border, as ex fbi officials issue a warning to congress. that coalition of former fbi staffers writing in a letter that the country is being, quote, invaded by military age foreign nationals. this fiscal year alone, 50 illegal migrants on the terror watch list were caught trying to cross into our country. that s fiscal year which is only a few months old. 50 on the error watch list. that s why the coalition good morning, welcome to fox & friends. we have big news breaking on the fox news channel. first, a coalition of former fbi officials you is reacting to these numbers t chaos on the core tear. th chaos on the border. they wrote a letter. here s a port
we re passing each other all the time. it is great to be with my good friend, dana this morning. president biden insisting he told the truth, denying he lied when asked about his previous statements claiming he never had discussions with hunter about lucrative business arrangements overseas despite the fact they were traveling together on a number of these trips. karl rove saying if the president is telling the truth he should have said something to hunter to get him to stop. this was all in public. when hunter biden joined the burisma board it stunk. and the vice president of the united states, his father, was in charge of encouraging the ukrainian government to crack down on corruption and his own son was participating with a corrupt company in a corrupt act. he should have had a conversation with him about it and said what in the heck do you think you are doing? get off that board and stop trying to make money off my name. dana: david spunt standing by at the justice d
we re all excited the gang is back together this wednesday morning after a christmas holiday. a christmas break for each of us. it was a wonderful time. makes us all grateful for this job and we are all back together. feels good. steve: feels great. welcome back, brian. before yesterday. we were here, and griff jenkins was here as well through the entire holiday. hats off to him and everybody else who filled in the chair. brian: must have been tough for him to not surf. griff prefers to surf. steve: i was talking to griff yesterday because is he going to go down today to south florida to go surfing. and i told him the beaches are gone because of beach erosion over the last month. brian: you are kidding. steve: beaches are pretty much shot. lawrence: finally gets to celebrate and there is no beach. ainsley: still waves. brian: waves crash into land. just send you. steve: just smooths out. no roll. ainsley: y all, before christmas we saw the presiden
everybody, it is wednesday, january 3rd, 2024. and we start this second hour of fox & friends with a developing story. that man right there, new jersey s long time senator robert menendez is back in the spotlight following new corruption allegations. ainsley: the embattled democrat is now facing even more bribery charges. this time for allegedly helping the qatari government in exchange for lavish gifts. lawrence: this is unbelievable. peter doocy is live from the white house with more on this. hey, peter. peter: the word was allegedly out all around the world. if you want the u.s. senator to say something nice about your country just buy him something expensive. that s what the united states government is alleging now that there are these text messages showing the following. it s pretty extraordinary. bob menendez gets a text from a businessman with ties to the qatari government that says how about one of these? and it s photos of two watches ranging from $9,900