developing. biden s white house calling the situation at the border a challenge at a big problem but still not calling it a crisis. this is as the administration officials blame the trump team for what is happening there. now biden s homeland security chief s warning we are on pace to encounter more individuals on the southwest border when we have in just the last 20 years. john: pretty shocking statement. were going to speak with texas senator john cornyn and arizona s attorney general who is leading efforts to sue the biden administration over its immigration policy. so-called public charge. we begin with casey stegall live at the southern border in alamo, texas. casey, what s the situation? john, sandra, good to see you. the border patrol agent chief for this very sector which is the rio grande valley of south texas, one sector alone covers and encompasses some 277 miles of the entire southern border. over the last couple days, he says his agents have arrested almost
resources as migrants overwhelm the border there. here s the state s lieutenant governor on fox. we were in good shape on the border bill before biden got elected. we were in good shape. the protocols were working, keeping the asylum seekers in mexico. this is not a crisis. this is a full blown disaster that they ve created. this is the worst high. we ve had higher peaks. this is the worst. what really makes it bad is that there s no end in sight. john: in a moment, we ll talk with the mayor of one texas town who was told to tell his residents to raise hell to get more help. sandra: first to william la jeunesse. he s at the border in southern california. william? reporter: agents tell me they are so busy processing children, unlike a quick covid turn back, which takes minutes. they are not on the line and incenterivizing struggling organizations since they don t have the man power. there s a cost associated to all the images you are seeing beyond the food and shelter
now turning the tables as we learn new leads on the biden family money trail. zero in on the remaining unknown biden who appears to have received $70,000 from the chinese electric company in a deal with the parent ties to the biden family enterprise. jonathan turley and joe concha standing by. first, we go to david spent who gist us the latest this afternoon on a friday from there on this case. hi, david. hi, martha. you mentioned aggressive. it s clear hunter biden s team has upped the ante. this counterclaim today it s a counter suit against this computer repair shop owner makes interesting observations and questions including questioning of who owned the laptop. i want to read this specific part. it s a foot note. it says this is not an admission by mr. biden that mack isaac, the shop owners or others possessed any real laptop
martha: so the president and the vice president in philadelphia today ahead of the democratic national committee s winter meeting. dnc says that they plan to back the president whole heartedly if he runs in 2024 without any reservation. even with approval numbers that look like these, the president is under water on every issue on our fox news poll. russia, ukraine, the economy, border security, immigration, inflation. all under water on those major issues. doug schroen and the hill columnist joe concha standing by. first to jacqui heinrich live in philadelphia where the president did not say one word, jacqui, about the chinese spy balloon that is doing surveillance across the country. yeah, he pointedly, martha, said this morning that he was not going to take questions on anything except for the economy. really trying to stick to what he wants to talk about today. a dnc official said the plan here tonight is to celebrate the
but questions about covid and how things are handled at the fbi. also a big subject. we talked to jim jordan yesterday, who if this goes the way it looks like it s going, he would be chairman jordan of the judiciary committee. thanks so much. great to have you here, mike and lee and juan. we ll be talking to you in the coming days as we head closer to the election six days away. thanks very much. so coming up, we ll talk about this. john fetterman stumbling again in a cnn interview as he battles the effects of the stroke, which he has been very open about. we now have brand new numbers post the debate out of pennsylvania. we ll show you those when we come back. joe concha standing by. you re an undecided, a registered independent undecided voter. did you make up your mind last night? definitely pushed me more towards oz. i have not made the decision