america s newsroom. i m dana perino. bill hemmer is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. elevated threats to the homeland coming as a record number of people on the terror watch list were caught at the southern border last year. more than the previous six years combined. the white house yesterday dodging a question about the risk of foreign terrorists taking advantage of weak border security. is it possible that somebody who wants to commit a terrorist attack during a time of elevated threat crossed the southern border into the united states already? i couldn t possibly answer that question, peter. all i can do is tell you that we have remained vigilant to that potential threat. dana: all this as we say a disturbing rise of anti-semitism of college campuses and cities across the u.s. police arresting an ivy league student for making violent threats against jewish students at cornell university. bret: senator josh hawley ahead. rich edson on similar