coalesund an alternative. i have more on the breaking christie news later tonight. while trump isolding his own fox hall appearance tonight. he watched in person as his lawyer made unlawful claims about why they think a president should have a license to kill the political rivals in america without being prosecuted. so as the headlines range from the start of the primaries to those brazen claims about assassination, right now, we have something special for you. we re beginning in a way with the weather. last year had some of the most extreme weather ever, driven, of course, by climate change. there were heat records broken. catastrophic flooding, tornadoes, wildfires, and then in the winter months, extreme snow events. indeed, there were 28 separate billion-dollar climate disasters breaking the previous record from about three years back. cold weather, as you may know, can be just as overwhelming and dangerous as a fire or a tornado. and nowadays, we have more videos showing
encounters just in the first three months of fiscal year 2023. but the biden administration continues to maintain that the border is secure. we re looking live at eagle pass, texas. that s where griff jenkins joins us with the late from there. hey, griff. reporter: hey, good afternoon, eric. and if you weren t just watching that drone, we can take you back up to it. the border patrol air boats just passing underneath the bridge here in eagle pass. it is ground zero here in the del rio sector for this crisis is. these agents in texas dps troopers and national guard here are absolutely exhausted from what has been happening, and that is why these december numbers were so startling. take a look at these numbers. let s go into them. 251,000 migrant encounters in december of which 49,405 were title 42. that means that 200,000, eric, were released into the u.s. that is quite a stunning number there in and of itself. but the the second number is what i wanted to show you. the 717,
but i ll read it to you, governor. trump wants you to be can i make a comment? in 2016, i did not only support trump. i also didn t go to the convention and held my own state. he s still mad at me about that. i endorsed joe biden, although i m not so thrilled about that. plenty to talk about. in service to the point, this is what christie that today. i have this here. trump wants you to be angry every day because he s angry. if you put him in the oval office and there s a decision to be made, he would put himself first. what do you think about the point christie is making there? well, he s right about that. christie has been through this whole gyration, you know. he supported trump. i was stunned when he announced it in 16. thought he could make him a better president. now he s saying he isn t any good. i guess he s like paul on the road to damascus.
have livelihoods tied up in it,st painful to do it, and it would be a point of disappointment. but at some point something s got to give. we all recognize i hate to get on my china hobby horse, but the problems we have in the pacific. to deal with those, we re going to have to dramatically increase the navy or bear a considerable amount of risk. that costs money. the issues in the ukraine, that costs money. here at home, you know, we ve been running segments here about the immigration crisis. even if we had joe biden got up in the moment and had a paul on the road to damascus event where he decided, gee, i ve got to really get tough on immigration policy, it would cost a great deal of moneyed to do it. there s a lot of things in the country that are being neglected. we need to reprioritize what we spend. we re a wealthy country, we waste a lot of money. arthel: peter, i have follow-ups, but i don t have the time, so i will say good good-bye for now. peter morici, appreciate your
of my list. you also talked about whether kim jong-un will be able to trust us, given the iran deal. what should we on the counter end of that, how much should we be trusting kim jong-un? well, we should have a very minimal level of trust in kim jong-un, just based on the history here. it s not very promising. his father walked away from these kind of deals on repeated occasions. however, this is his first time in the arena. it s possible that he s had an epiphany like st. paul on the road to damascus. let s see what happens. i d call it, katie, about a 70% chance we can land this thing with a diplomatic outcome over some period of time. but there s still a 30% chance the wheels could come off this. that would be remarkable, especially given president obama s warning to donald trump when donald trump came into office. beware of north korea.