there are eight rose bowls full of illegal immigrants that came across the border just since october 1st, mr. secretary. bret, the numbers are historic. the numbers are extraordinarily large. this is something that is not specific to the united states southern border. bret: but you think it is a crisis now? bret, it is a challenge that we have been addressing vigorously with all the tools and resources we have been provided. bill: a challenge, not a crisis. his hands are tied, don t blame us. those were the answers from secretary mayorkas saying there is nothing more he can do on the border. illegal migrants totally unchecked one after the other. good morning, it s friday. you ve almost made it. 9:00 a.m. in new york. i m bill hemmer. dana: can i say one thing about that interview? peter and i watched it last night. peter is from europe. when mayorkas mayorkas said this is not a problem not unique to america. he is talking about the scope and scale. it is so differe
new pulling shows most voters on the left say they are comfortable with her taking over for biden. among voters across the political spectrum, you re going to need everybody, the vice president s approval rating is tanking. staying stubborning lower than the president s for months. voters give the vp nearly 37% approval and 56% disapproval. that s according to a new 538 average of recent polling. britt hume says this problem is real. people had a dose of kamala harris and had not been impressed. nikki haley said a vote for joe biden is a vote for kamala harris. people look and say as old as he is, he can go any time. she might be president. harris: apparently top democrats on the hill don t want to talk about it. do you think he has the stamina to finish the second term? yes, i do. are you worried that president biden s health his age may be finally catching up to him? no. do you think president biden s age catching up to him? i m proud of the job president
news alert. president biden starting day two of the new year with a slog uphill to try to convince american voters, especially those of color, that he actually can do the job of solving their toughest issues. two days into the new year, three years into his presidency. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the president took a new year s message out for a spin. president biden: my hope is that everybody has a healthy, happy and safe new year. beyond that, i hope that they understand that we are in a better position than any country in the world to lead the world. we re coming back and it is about time. harris: he is currently navigating around two foreign wars, dismal poll numbers, one poll after another. and a biden border crisis that just won t quit. republicans have some thoughts on that very last one. if we cannot secure our own borders what does it say about our country? this is very dangerous. i think democrats are realizing that the border is
the most revly traveled countries in the country. a tanker truck erupted between an i-95 overpass and spread to the lanes above that. high heat caused them to buckle and melt and eventually cause sections to crash to the ground. bill: a mess and still is. crews got the fire under control in an hour. the damage was done. the governor of p.a. set to issue a disaster declaration later today. one car remains trapped beneath that collapsed roadway. listen to this driver earlier today. watched it unfold and described what he saw. hit a bump, again not unusual because it s philadelphia and that section is under construction. after coming back knowing what i knew at that time, that the highway collapsed, you see there on the video i hit a bump that was essentially the road getting ready to collapse. bill: we are on the ground in philadelphia. how are they looking today? bill, good morning to you. we re not far from the scene of the collapse. look at the charred southbound lan
president in a direct challenge to former president donald trump and made no bones about that. back together in new york city. i m bill hemmer. good morning. dana: so glad you re here, my friend. bill: miss or not really? dana: 12 on the miss. you were missed, yeah. bill: i ll take that. dana: you should take that. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. good to be back together. more on the wildfires in a little bit. i remember last week my parents saying they couldn t see the mountains from denver because of these wildfires. the east coast dealing with it as well. christie launched his campaign yesterday and attacked the president straight out of the gate. he said president trump made americans smaller by pitting them against one another. if you look back at our history, when we have had great leaders, at every pivotal moment in our history there was a choice between small and big. and america became the most different, the most successful, the most