tonight from the heart of times square, this is cnn s new year s eve live with appearances by usher, ellie golding, kevin hart, patti lupone, patti labelle, jean smart, john stamos, jennifer lewis, amy sedaris, tenacious d, nick cannon, ava max, samuel l. jackson, plus more surprises. and now live from new york city, your hosts, anderson cooper and andy cohen. and welcome, everybody, to times square in new york city. anderson cooper here. i m andy cohen. they brought us back for another year. they did. yes, they did. with stipulations. some stipulations this year. we ll get into that. yeah. there s fine print. yes. it is a balmy night here in new york. it s almost like 50 degrees. yes, it is. i was schmitzing. i got rid of my coat. we were all prepared for it to get colder. the crowd has been assembling for hours here in times square. very wet very wet. i would call them flaccid, the crowd. okay. it s early. not the word i would use.
number for those who have been caught trying to get in. how many gotaway is a good question. big show today. dana: it is. i m dana perino and this is america s newsroom. border agents have arrested 78 suspected terrorists this year alone. that is three times as many as the past five years combined. bill: the surge of illegals putting a strain on border towns. texas continues to bus migrants to sanctuary city. democrat henry cuellar in a tough reelection fight at the border admits the tactic has been effective. nobody was listening to the border communities for years. now that it is happening in their own backyard they re talking about it. once we finish the fiscal year we have to talk about somewhere between 4.5 to 4.9 million individuals that have come across the border. if you call that a secure border, i don t know what it is. dana: team fox coverage with reaction from senator marco rubio. let s begin with alexis mcadams live from eagle pass, texas. good morning.
a special counsel. the new k post asked anybody vet this guy. yep.t th lookiss like things are pretty secure in there. the fbi is said to be grillingfl biden aides about how top secret files ended up next to his corvette. his and republican jim jordan says his first order of business will be getting to thee bottom of it. we re also learninsameg the sam. that s right, th house was hunter s hang out, pat . that s right. the drug loving firsfirst son ld the property for years and even had his credit card statement sent therepro. d even had we all know hunter would neveran be careless with sensitive informatiot n. it s no wonder the democrats don t want to talk about it. classified informa president biden had classified documents in his wilmington garageo yo is just breaking. do you think that s is no irresponsible and reckless of him? het to a responsible is to not disclose when you have documents. he has certainly done that. biden people are bringing forth the documents,
the doj to appoint a special counsel. anybody vet this guy? yep. the fbi grilling biden aides about how top-secret files ended up next to his corvette. we re also learning the same house was hunter s hangout pad. that s right, the drug-loving first son lived at the property propertyfor years and even had s credit card statement sent there. he d never be careless about classified information, right? do you think it s irresponsible and reckless of him? irresponsible is not to disclose when you have documents. he s certainly done that. biden people are bringing forth the documents. they re not obstructing access to them or knowledge about them. why did he not inform the american public two months ago? do you think that was a mistake? i don t know what you re saying right now. seem much more measured with this than the trump documents. you called for transparency with the trump documents. bottom line i said that night it s premature to comment on what should be done
just it s a tense moment. we re on the outside of the main protest here. as you can see, there is a small group of people protesting who are in support of the supreme court decision. and what we re seeing is really a conversation, passionate conversations taking place. both sides arguing, and, in fact, there was a larger group out here getting in an argument a few minutes ago at one point someone swiped a megaphone from the other crowd and they were given a verbal warning from the d.c. metropolitan police who moved in some other police forces just to protect this area over here, but i want to give you a sense of the broader flavor certainly as these sorts of conversations are playing out not only here but deeper into this crowd. this is a crowd of a couple 100 strong. we do see some counter protesters, some protesters who are out here kneeling and praying over here. and certainly some other protesters talking to them, i think overall things have been respectful here. i did