enormous, four times, 200,000 people. that s just since we got into the christmas month of december, folks. not even over yet this month. many of them taking advantage of places where the border wall is broken or damaged by the cartels. this is my current fascination with this story. because the smugglers and the cartels just go out there and they cut through the fence. there s so many holes in the fence right now that workers work to fix them and they ve done it so many times that the washington post says parts of the barrier look like something out of a sculpture garden or mad max movie. joining me now, former new york republican congressman, lee zeldin along with the five co host jessica tarlov. we ll take you to the border. bill melugin with his live coverage today in lukeville, arizona. hi, bill. hi, martha. good afternoon. you re right. the border wall here gets cut every day. doesn t matter how many times border patrol fixes it. this is what happens when there s
because i ll never let them silence you. in the end they aren t after me, they re after you. i just happen to be standing in their way. bill: that from iowa. booted from the ballot. the state of colorado ruled he is disqualified from holding office and not on the ballot in that state pending appeal. this was a whopper. it continues today. i m bill hemmer good morning. dana: that s how it will turn out, too. the u.s. supreme court will say it s a whopper and shut it down. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. a four-judge majority on the colorado supreme court ruled he is disqualified from appearing on the state s presidential ballot despite charged never being charged or convicted of the events of january 6th. he is vowing to appeal. bill: democrat party leaders are in a state of paranoia over the growing dominant lead president you trump has in the polls. they have lost faith in the failed biden presidency and doing everything they can to stop the american
inning spending, consequential reforms that will rein in government overreach. there are no new taxes, no new government programs. jason: here is what we mow is in the deal: it suspends the debt ceiling until after 2024 election, no increase in non-defense spending for the next fiscal year, and it caps it at 1% the following fiscal year. it also increases defense spending and money for veterans. we re also learning it claws back some unspent covid-19 pandemic funds and cuts nearly $2 the billion in money used to hire new irs agents. it also reportedly expands work requirements for some adults receiving food stamps but no work requirement changes for medicaid. the house republicans are expected to come back to the washington on tuesday and and vote on the bill on wednesday. we ll take it up with congressman brian mast and congresswoman beth van duyne. meanwhile, china has spent the week courting african countries like the democratic republic of congo for rare either minerals
the wayside and jimmy carter was that year s nominee. that was then and this could be different. let s go to alexandra hoff and look at this. you have to look at fund raising and the campaign season over, caucuses, new hampshire primaries eight months away. that s where the candidates are circling. governor ron desantis will kick off des moines, iowa on the 30th. and president trump arrives the day after. and he thinks that the top g.o.p. contender is moving to the left. i don t know what happened to donald trump. this is a different guy today than when he was running in 2015 and 2016 and i think the direction that he s going with his campaign is the wrong direction. desantis long awaited candidacy announcement was hit with glitches, but record breaking 8.2 million dollars in donations in the hours after. former president donald trump has since offered this. the question, is rob just young experienced and naive or more troubling, is he a fool who has no idea what the
should the biden team be in panic mode? they re playing it cool. we just saw karine jean-pierre in there. look at the numbers. more tough numbers and a major slip among a key really the essential voting group for winning elections. independents. the current president is now 14 points lower than he was with these voters just in july. and a stunning turn-around we ll talk to experts to explain this one. young voters in a 2024 hypothetical now lean trump. they overwhelmingly voted for biden in 2020. a lot of factors here that we ll dig in to to what going on here. how long can the president to this and say you re looking at the wrong polls? you listen to the biden white house and you listen to the campaign and you listen to spokespeople. they say don t worry, be happy. oh, we have time. martha: hogan gidley who worked in the trump administration and philippe ryan are here. good to have both of you with us today. we re going to bring in first fox news correspondent peter do