martha maccallum. later this hour, mike rowe is here on a story you probably won t see anywhere else. right now top biden officials including secretary state blinken and alejandro mayorkas meeting with the mexican president. a caravan up to 10,000 migrants makes its way to the u.s. sources telling fox the past three months have seen some 730,000 migrant encounters at the border. that is bigger than the populations of major cities like denver, nashville, and boston. let s bring in k.t. mcfarland and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state under president george w. bush. welcome, merry christmas, happy new year. k.t., to you first. it s interesting because we have been covering this on fox news channel since the border crisis, since the day president biden took office, right? and you look up at all the other networks are not covering it. i look up today, everybody is covering the border. everybody has people down there. that is bad news for president biden. yeah,
groups of migrants still crossing the border. top biden officials crossing south of the border to try to get mexico s help. the numbers are not lying. this crisis is intensifying. now the largest migrant caravan of the year is approaching. where is all this heading? your world starts right now. charles: welcome. i m charles payne in for neil cavuto. first to mexico. a failed root cause strategy and a border less secure than ever before, today president biden turned to mexico for help. secretaries blinken and mayorkas urgently met with president obrador to focus on a problem the administration has ignored. agents apprehending 1,000 immigrants today. in lukeville, another 1,000 last night. thousands are more are on their way including this caravan of 15,000. so what exactly does the u.s. want? one, resume deportations buses and flights to central america. the u.s. wants the migrants detained before they reach the u.s. number 2, resume policing the railroads. the beast as
maga forces are determined to take this country backwards. backwards to an america where there is no right to choose, no right to privacy, no right to contraception, no right to marry who you love. not every republican, not even the majority of republicans are maga republicans, but there s no question that the republican party today is dominated, driven and intimidated by donald trump and the maga republicans, and that is a threat to this country. history tells us that blind loyalty to a single leader and a willingness to engage in political violence is fatal to democracy. i will not the will of the american people be overturned by wild conspiracy theories and baseless evidence claims of fraud. i will not stand by and watch elections in this country stolen by people who simply refuse to accept that they lost. democracy cannot survive when one side believes there are only two outcomes to an election, either they win or they were cheated. and that s where the maga republicans
announcement with the prime minister of the netherlands. this is the latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, facilities and interests, calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. but the marines didn t just shoot it down the way iran shutdown the us don t last month but use the new anti-drone jamming device to stop the drone. it is called the light marina defense integrated system with an important mission which was successful, the president put pressure on iran in the form of more sanctions following iran s shooting down that drone last month. this week iran s foreign minister was in new york at the united nations and talked about the escalating tensions with the united states.
latest of many provocative and hostile actions by iran against vessels operating in international waters. the united states reserves the right to defend our personnel, our facility, and interests, and calls upon all nations to condemn iran s attempts to disrupt freedom of navigation. the marines didn t just shoot it down the way iran shot down a u.s. drone. today marines used a new anti-drone jamming device, you see it right there, to stop the drone, the light marine air defense integrated system, long name with an important mission, successful. the president put pressure on iran in the form of more sanctions, following iran s shooting down the drone last month. this week iran s foreign minister was in new york at the united nations and talked about the escalating tensions with the united states. it is a very dangerous situation.