encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we re looking live at eagle pass, texas. that s where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren t just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolutely exhausted from what has been happening, and that is why these december numbers were so startling. take a look at these numbers. let s go into them. 251,000 migrant encounters in december of which 49,405 were title 42. that means that 200,000, eric, were released into the u.s. that is quite a stunning number there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,
trump also getting thumbs down from the majority of voters or 61% saying he should not run again either. let s bring in mark penny s chairman of the harris poll served as an advisor to both bill and hillary clinton. mark good to see you. so first i want to talk about this wrong track number, 70%. have you ever seen at that bad number one? ns is all about economics, the economy, inflation or something larger going on? and split about economics. liberal rarely seen 70% say they re on track. i have never seen bigots personally, economically worse off today. you may member the famous reagan question are you better off today? and when you look at this this is far greater a percentage saying they are worse off then during the economic dislocation of the pandemic. so the inflation, recession, high interest rates olivet has combined to create a very, very unhappy electric who sees gas prices and food prices skyrocketing and making them fall behind. are not even in a recession for r
eric: thank you for joining us, i am eric shawn. elon musk, man zero man. right now is the speaker at the annual gathering of those billionaires in idaho for they have a big one on the every year. the private conference for 24 hours after the bombshell report that he s walking away from that multibillion-dollar twitter deal. musk avoided talking about why the deal fell through during the meeting today but is now facing a huge legal battle with social media giant could enforce a $1 million payment if he is out of the deal. live in los angeles with the latest. he may not have twitter, hey, christina. that s right, we learned as you mentioned the day of the conference he didn t comment on his attempt to back out of the $44 billion deal illegal challenges he could face so he mentioned accounts on twitter. yesterday musk announced he wants to walk away from the deal with twitter claiming the social media giant has not provided accurate data on how much of its user base is made u
[laughter] eric: can you imagine not seeing your loved ones for so long? there you see the emotional reunion today between four newly-released israeli hostages and their thankful families. the idf has rescued a woman and three men if kidnapped from the music if festival during the october 7th hamas terrorist attack. they are, thankfully, free and safe back inside israel after 246 days in the clutches of the terrorists. welcome to fox news live, i m eric shawn. hi, claudia. claude claude i m claudia cowan in today for arthel neville. [speaking in native tongue] [cheers and applause] claudia: celebrations on a beach in tel aviv, israel, when lifeguards announced the moment the hostages were rescued from gaza. israeli defense forces used a helicopter during today s daytime raid on two separate locations in gaza. it is the large hostage rescue operation since the war began. an israeli national police officer was killed during the mission. a former idf spokesman told us earlier
paul: welcome to the journal editorial report, the federal trial of hunter biden is underway, the first son is facing three felony count stemming from his purchase of a gun in 2018. prosecution rested its case friday after calling hunter s ex-wife and former girlfriends to testify about his drug use during the period in question and introducing his infamous laptop into evidence facing a bruising election campaign remounts against donald trump. president biden told abc news he will accept the jury s verdict of his son is convicted. will you accept the verdict no matter what it is? president biden: yes. have you ruled out a pardon? president biden: yes. eric: let s bring in dan heninger, bill mcgurn, bill, how strong is the case against hunter? the case is very strong. three felony counts, lying about being a user, lying to a licensed gun dealer, possessing a gun illegally. he had 11 days, he would have more if haley biden hadn t founded and gotten rid of it. eric: yo