friends. it is wednesday, december 27th, i m willie geist. joe and mika have the morning off. a lot to get to including israeli forces shifting military efforts to southern and central gaza with officials warning the war could take many more months. and hours from now, antony blinken and alejandro mayor kas are set to meet with mexican president obrador. plus donald trump continues to claim he should be immune from any prosecution surrounding his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. we ll have the latest there. also ahead, bus drivers across the country increasingly under attack on the job. we ll dig into an alarming trend and what officials are doing about it. with us this morning, jonathan lemire, susan paige, and retired four star navy admiral james stavridis. good morning to you all. let s begin together with israel expanding the ground invasion in gaza. this as the united states continues to urge israel to protect civilian lives and shift to a more low intensity oper
migrant caravan headed to the border. the white house is looking to mexico to stop this. is the answer closer to home? the national border patrol council president brandon judd is here. but first fox on top of the u.s. striking back. the biden administration ordering a retaliatory air strikes after another iran backed proxy attack in northern iraq. three troops injured in the attack. one of them severely. we ll see if this response is strong enough. welcome, everybody. i m edward lawrence in for neil cavuto, this is a special edition of your world. chad pergram with the very latest. we going to talk about the presidential air strike. american f-18s have shot down 12 drone froms the houthis over the red sea over a ten-hour period. this demonstrates this escalation of u.s. ordered strikes in the middle east. back to what you talked about in your lead in here. the order for the air strike came in president biden himself. a drone operated by an off shoot faction of hezbolla
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,
brand-new numbers this morning show 276,000 migrants crossing illegally in december. the highest monthly total ever. border patrol sources report more than 760,000 migrant encounters since october 1st. that s another record. the highest first quarter of any fiscal year. more on this breaking story throughout the hour. but first. former president donald trump is off the 2024 ballot in the state of maine. potentially big factor in what is expected to be a close race for the white house. good morning, i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. good morning, molly. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. maine s democratic secretary of state following colorado s lead disqualifying trump based on the insurrection clause of the 14th amendment. a crime for which he was never charged. mike: colorado s ban is on home after the state gop appealed it to the supreme court. the former president faces challenges in many states including wisconsin and november. bellows is the first election
shatters more members top members of the biden administration are en route to mexico for high state talks. i m mike emanuel in for bill hemmer. molly: i m molly line in for dana perino. this is america s newsroom. mike, wonderful to be with you. hope you had a wonderful christmas and we re looking forward to a new year. mike: i hope santa was good to you are kids and you. molly: santa pulled it off once again. a record christmas at the border. more than 35,000 migrants crossed illegally into our country over the four-day holiday weekend and now a new caravan is heading our way but in just a few hours, secretaries blinkern and mayorkas will meet with mexico s president. i have 0 confidence in anything blinken does. everything he negotiates is actually not in the best interests of the united states. the first thing he has to do is say we ll shut down the border. anybody that comes into the united states send them back to your country. good luck with 700,000 immigrants