claudia: welcome back to a special edition of fox news live. former president donald trump asking a federal appeals court to throw out the criminal case alleging he interfered in the 2020 election. the president and his legal team claiming absolute presidential immunity protects him from prosecution. welcome to a brand-new hour of fox news live. merry christmas, i m claudia cowen. i m rich edson. trump s filing with the u.s. court of appeals in d.c. comes one day after a big setback for special counsel jack smith. the u.s. supreme court refused his request to fast track his immunity claim for trump. the case hinges on whether president trump was acting as president or a candidate. his strategy is to run out the clock and he has a lot of tools to do that. and he may be successful. the issue here i think everyone agrees that there is something called absolute immunity for your official functions, if you are performing an official function the president has immunity and
good morning at home and to you. purple friday. the bengal orange on. dana: i thought you would suit up. bill: still working, right? two more days, right? president biden playing the blame game calling republicans the party of chaos and at as trophy when it comes to the economy. what else will he say? pointing the better than expected growth in the fourth quarter down from the previous quarter showing the economy is cooling. watch that story. in inflation remains hide saddling americans with painful price hikes and rising interest rates. house committee chair jody arrington firing back at biden last hour with us. watch. the decisions that he has made, whether on energy or the tax and spend that has ignited this inflationary firestorm making it completely untenable for working families, the list goes on. these are self-inflicted crises at the hands of a lawless, derelict, incompetent and potentially corrupt president. dana: grady trimble reporting for fox business live
after speaker of the house kevin mccarthy over the fringe bill that may not even come up for a vote. president biden: they introduced another vote. raising taxes on working class people taxing groceries, gasoline, clothing, supplies, medicine. even big ticket items like rent and cars. 30% sales tax on all those issues. speaker of the house says he is not sure he is for it now. blessed father free of sin. harris: wow, okay. speaking of not being able to get along. that would be a sign of it there saying things like that the president oddly was digging in over the debt limit. even though you saw on this program yesterday senator rick scott of florida and others now chiming in we re ready to negotiate with the president. the president is not interested in negotiation. president biden: the very notion that we would default on the safest, most respected debt in the world is mind-boggling. i will not let anyone use the full faith and credit of the united states as a bargainin
bill: he is one of nearly 40 on the watch list arrested at the border so far this year. fiscal year 2023 which started in october, okay? your october, november, december, january, we re already at that number. the problem is growing under president biden. republicans today will begin the process trying to hold him accountable. dana: one hour from now house republicans hold the first hearing on the border crisis. the focus will be on smuggling and the influx of deadly fentanyl. bill: arizona sheriff mark dannels says the situation is untenable. i m coming to d.c. to address the reality of what s going on in our community, talk about the destruction and disarray and crisis on our border. there is no political spin. this is reality coming at them this morning. i appreciate chairman jordan bringing this committee together to address this today and have me here. i m looking forward to it. dana: former border patrol chief rodney scott is here in reaction. let s begin with
Tammie souza. Deal seekers. Want to know how cold will it get tonight. I would go for the ugh boots, warm gloves, hats and coats and the whole bit. Buy that stuff. You can wear it as youre shopping around. Its going to be cold. Just as cold as it was this morning when you woke up. We have clear skies. It was a magnificent day. We only hit 42. No rain and our wind gusts were 19 miles an hour. Where are we going tonight. Its not going to be very warm. We are going to be following through the 30s tonight at 7 00. Were going to be in the 30s. Youre going to wake up tomorrow morning to below freezing in philadelphia. 31 at mount pocono. 36 in Atlantic City. Its going to be very chilly and the skies are going to be clear. So were going to see any warmth that we held on to. Theres little of it out radiates into the atmosphere. When you fire up the car, warm it up good because youre heading out to shop. 32 in philadelphia. 33 at the jersey shore. 32 in delaware. Youll wind up near 50 in philad