would disagree on who was the right person to fix the problem. but now we have trouble agreeing there is a problem. president biden always gets me thinking. president barack obama was on the trump and he always makes me think. remember when the other guy was in charge and crime went up? you never heard anything from these folks. brian: when it comes to the border baw obama took action. he made efforts to deal with the number of unaccompanied minors coming in. the republicans wanted more deportations and less talk of amnesty. but trump moved people in charged to fix the problem and pressures r pressured other countries to do their part. in choosing customs and border protections chief president trump is signaling border security is his top priority for the department. brian: he did what i want to do to get the border protected. even if it meant moving money around which ticked off democrats. he has an obsession with forcing taxpayers to spend money. brian: oftentime
resources in what might be proof that nothing is safe these days, even a memorial to allison was not spared from cold hearted crooks. john: ali s father is going to join us to discuss his heartbreaking loss. welcome back as america reports rolls into a second hour. i m john roberts in washington. sandra: that s a place i know well, and new orleans also dealing with out of control record high crime in that city, too. i m sandra smith in new york. ali s father, he ll be joining us this hour, but begin with 49 days until the voters decide the balance of power in d.c. and those brand-new fox news power rankings are out showing the headline few could have predicted. first time control of the house of representatives is now in place for democrats. john: possibility democrats keep control of both houses of congress, something no party in the white house has managed to do in decades, going all the way back to 2002. it s a fox news alert. when we talked about the midterms a
far left socialist agenda which led to increased spending, increased inflation. democrats should talk about the economy. they should contrast their views with the republican decision. they should be talking about how much things cost at the supermarket, the gas pump. if they talk about anything else, they are nuts. todd: alexandria hoff live in washington with the very latest. alexandria? you heard that last sound bite. they ve been trying to talk about anything else. inflation is a top issue for midterm voters combined with recession concerns and the biden administration has had to come up with a sensitive response. it s possible but not inevitable and we are doing everything we can to strengthen the foundations of the american economy. retail sales, payload employment, industrial production, all of those have not been flashing red. all of those are not recessionary territory. eco-there is s vehicle there is now a 63% chance that recession will hit e next three mo
western reporters actually inside the country. look at the unrest going on in iran right now, the unrest in russia right now. yeah. people say they ve never seen protests at this scale. it s getting serious. a lot of mothers getting out there. they don t want their sons being dragged off to war. we begin with a new development on the war in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskiy is accusing russia of nuclear blackmail and says he does not think president vladimir putin is bluffing, this as the u.s. announced an additional $457 million in civilian assistance to ukraine. nbc news foreign correspondent erin mclaughlin has more. reporter: days after russian president vladimir putin issued a thinly veiled nuclear threat, u.s. officials sending a message of their own. if russia crosses this line, there will be catastrophic consequences for russia. the united states will respond decisively. reporter: that warning coming the same weekend that outrage, fear, and brutality swept
i want to set the stage here, you have two girls at some point they were teenagers when both taylor swift our 6:00 a.m. intro muse and i can beiber, our 7:00 a.m. intro music will play. is this what i have to look forward to having two daughters of my own. beis, swift, selena gomez? i feel like the priorities are off here. we showed live reindeer on fox square in new york city, santa s reindeer in training. that takes precedent over the music. this guy is scaring me. going to taylor swift and beiber concerts. debbier trumps reindeer. did the reindeer sing a christmas song or top the charts? in my brain, when i was walking into work this morning because as with the rest of the country, now it s freezing, i was like, man, those reindeer have been outside all night and hope they re not cold. oh, right, they re reindeer. they re only in training and don t mean to shoot down the segment we re about to have but wants to talk about the reindeer, don t fall far it. cale