at the southern border as cbp sources tell fox news that december saw the highest monthly total of migrant encounters ever. this comes as another caravan of thousands of migrants is heading towards the united states just three days out from a new year. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m molly line. mike. mike: good morning. i m mike emanuel. bill and dana are off. new numbers from the southern border reveal agents stopped more than 276,000 migrants in december smashing the previous record of nearly 270,000 set back in september. that figure does not include the migrants who weren t caught known as gotaways. all of this as sanctuary cities say they are buckling under the surge of migrants arriving from the border. molly: we have fox team coverage on this. garrett tenney is live in chicago with the latest on the migrant crisis there. go to william la jeunesse on the record breaking numbers. to put that in perspective the population of pittsburgh is 300,000
Lets get right to our breaking news. Brianna keilar is here. Also elise labot. Both candidates were talking National Security. What stood out to you . A number of things but one of the things that donald trump said that i think stood out for a lot of people was him having to answer for his comments about how he knows more than the generals. This was the exchange between him and matt lauer. The generals under barack obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful. Do you know more about isis than they do . I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble, they have been reduced to a point thats embarrassing for our country. You have a force of 30,000 or so people, nobody really knows, but probably 30,000 people and i can see The Great General George Patent Spinning in his grave as isis we cant beat. Certainly we have discussed this, don, there are some in the military who may want to see more action but donald trump did not re
One of the things that donald trump said that i think stood out for a lot of people was him having to comment on his answers that he knows more than the generals. This was the exchange between him and matt lauer. The generals and you barack obama and Hillary Clinton have not been successful do you know more about isis than they do . I think under the leadership of barack obama and Hillary Clinton, the generals have been reduced to rubble, they have been reduced to a point thats embarrassing for our country. We have a force of 30,000 people, nobody really knows, but probably 30,000 people and i can see The Great General George Patent Spinning in his grave as isis we cant beat. Certainly and we have discussed this, don, there are some in the military who may want to see more action but donald trump did not really answer the question there which was basically saying that he knows more than the military. He did not address that at all. And then the other thing was pretty surprising, it was
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