friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
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severe one at the southern border in the wake of the deadly kidnapping of four americans. could be getting the inis military involved in the process. we ll have bill melugin in brownville, texas on where this could be heading. peter doocy at the white house on what the administration is seeing. last but certainly not lest, vincente gonzalez that wants to see action taken on these carteling not in the near future but like now. welcome. i m neil cavuto. glad to have you with us. bill is at the border. what can you tell us? good afternoon. there s growing bipartisan outrage about this deadly cartel attack on americans leaving two of those americans dead with republican senator lindsey graham saying that he plans to introduce legislation that would give president biden the authority to use u.s. military force against these cartels directly. meantime, we want to get you up to speed. let s take a look at these photos. this shows the moment the two sur vying americans from this at
reorganization. we ll talk to the mayor and plus this. that is violence, serious violence escalating between israel and palestinians. and a mysterious drone strike against iran stoking tension in the region as america s top diplomat heads to jerusalem in the thick of it. facing a major test as this situation continues. a bombastic warning from a top u.s. general who is predicting war with china potentially. we re going to start though with the memphis police department permanently shutting down the scorpion unit after the savage and deadly beating of tyre nichols. the special unit is once celebrated for cracking down on high crime areas. it is now coming under intense scrutiny. the big question is was tyre nichols the only one? or did other people also suffer brutal treatment? you re going to stay on top of this. it has a very as i understand it, sketchy track record. well, we re hearing that certainly from people in the community. you were there. people would come
our girls. this week i found cause to worry about young men. this headline from the hill caught my eye. most young men are single, most young women are not. the story reported that as of 2022, pew research center found 30% of u.s. adults are neither married, living with a partner, nor engaged in a committed relationship. nearly half of all young adults are single. look at these numbers. 34% of women, nice as many. i pulled the story and red with interest. since 2019. the share of men who say they re looking for dates or a relationship has declined from 61% to 50%. in 2018, 28% of men ages 18 to 30 reported they had no sex in the past year, compared with 18% of women of that age. the report said men in their 20s are more likely than women in their 20s to be romantically unsolved, sexually dormant, friendless and lonely. they stand at the vanguardemic sexuality and relationships that afflicts all of young america. among the causes, among the factors, a reliance on social media