stress when in fact it s causing mental illness, anxiety, depression, suicidal thinking. john: welcome back as america reports rolls into hour number two. i m john roberts in washington. that s pretty stunning, sandra. sandra: really serious stuff. sandra smith in new, i don t. all new at 2:00, we speak to a mother who lost her son to suicide. she blames years of heavy cannabis use that made her son s delusions worse. her story and her warning just ahead. as we top a brand-new hour, any moment now we are set to see the pentagon take questions as u.s. troops remain stationed at the southern border with thousands of migrants still making their way into this country. president biden claiming the crisis is far less serious than some feared. how do you think things are going at the border, sir? much better than y all expected. john: the president claims things are looking great, more than 83,000 migrants were detained in just the past week, and given court dates to app
will get the green light to cross into america with border officials ham strung in their ability to deport them. fox flight team capturing stunning images of migrants swimming through dangerous currents in the rio grande to make it across. sandra: lindsey graham and how congress can step in. john: alexis mcadams how new york city is buckling under the influx of migrants. sandra: and bill melugin starts us off live from the southern border where the amazing images, incredible images, bill, continue to come in, including that brand-new video you sent out of someone swimming across to the united states side. sandra, good afternoon to you. images from the fox news drone down here today are remarkable, and we are really starting to notice the state of texas taking a much more proactive approach in trying to stop some of these illegal crossings. we ll get right into it. take a look at the drone footage a short time ago, groups of migrants trying to cross the river illegally
bill: he concludes many things including the investigation was largely based on faulty evidence linked to the clinton campaign and he says the f.b.i. was seemingly eager to go after trump while staying overly cautious on hillary clinton. confirming what republicans say they knew all along and they want justice. three years, all we ever heard about was russia and mueller and this investigation and collusion and coordination. none of it was true. all based on a lie. most importantly the f.b.i. knew it was a lie. there needs to be prosecutions and accountability and the f.b.i. has got to be overhauled now top to bottom. they had contrary evidence that shows that there was no purpose to open this investigation and not a single high ranking official stepped in to stop this political witch hunt. what it means, this is the weaponization of the federal government at the highest levels. dana: david spunt has more from the justice department this morning. good morning. so
Scrambling for support ahead of the big vote. Im Edward Lawrence in for neil cavuto. This is a Special Edition of your world. The first of 2023. More on the tax hikes in just a moment. First to chad pergram where the Leadership Drama is unfolding. Chad . Edward, its been 100 years since theres this much uncertainty as to who would be speaker of the house. Kevin mccarthy can only lose four votes, but theres five members that oppose mccarthy and perhaps more. Kevin doesnt have the votes. Theres more than five people. Youll see that as we go into the election on january 3. There was 36 people that voted against Kevin Mccarthy on the conference vote. Mccarthy made a concession last night to those that oppose him. They demanded that he lower the bar for members to call for a new speakers election in the middle of the congress. He agreed. Some members still have reservations. Rosendale called his olive branch disingenuous. You think the package has moved any votes to yes . Yes. What will you
were convicted today of seditious conspiracy. it s a rarely used, often difficult to prove charge. a fifth member was acquitted of seditious conspiracy, but he has been convicted on other very serious charges, including obstruction of an official proceeding and assaulting an officer. but today s verdict means so far 14 people, including members of another far right group, the oath keepers, have either pleaded guilty or been found guilty of conspireing and plotting a violent overthrow of the united states government. this victory by the justice department, while it is a milestone and a massive and hugely consequential federal investigation into that plot to overturn an election and overturn democracy on january 6th, only underscores questions about holding accountable the man, who the vice chair so memorably puts it, quote, some in the mob, assemble the mob and lit the flame of this attack. we re talking about the disgraced ex-president himself. as the washington post report