thanks, jesse. jesse: see ya. bret: good evening. i m bret baier. following two major stories president trump has filed appeal with the colorado supreme court with the decision to keep his name off the primary ballot. we will have that plus analysis with brit hume and shannon bream in just moments. but we begin with the crisis at the southern border. more than 50 house republicans are in eagle pass, texas tonight meeting with border officials. getting a first-hand look at the migrant crisis that is forcing the biden administration to go on the offense. the white house placing blame on the house g.o.p. saying members are obstructing progress, even as president biden faces mounting criticism from democrats. correspondent bill melugin starts us off tonight in eagle pass, texas again. good evening, bill. bill: bret, good evening to you. today s congressional delegation was the largest one to ever visit the southern border. and these house republicans came here after decembe
records? or as peter baker put it in the new york times, republican voters may be care if their leader slips money to a porn star to keep quiet, but will they be indifferent about impeding authorities seeking to recover clandestine materials? that s today s poll question which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most were quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis said the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department or if it s something different, he said. ditto for south carolina senator tim scott on the weaponization charge. another went further comparing pardoning trump immediately upon his own swearing-in. chris christie ke
welcome back. you can see in the video, new york city getting ready for a big celebration and big new year s eve celebration and walled up in a hotel room and hope any asleep by the end. the ball will drop and a lot of people here in the streets. doing things who knows what. pete: far away from thousands of foreigners wearing diapers in time square. sounds like a party. joey: foreigners and more. rachel: i don t to want be there. pete: i did it one time and fox news new years with kennedy and it was maybe 2019. rachel: that could be fun with kennedy. pete: rained the whole time and standing on the riser and it was horrible. pete: i killed the new year s show twice. we did the show there and then didn t do the new year s show next year because it was so great and then we did it two years then kill it had this year. i kill it had twice. joey: you weren t crowd surfing like carley and griff did. i would take me legs off and crowd surf. pete. the crowd couldn t hold you up.
will they be indifferent about authorities seeking to recover classified materials? that s today s poll question, which i ll share in a moment. it may depend upon responses by trump s gop opponents. most weren t quick to weigh in before the indictment was unsealed. ron desantis tweeted, the weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a threat to a free society. mike pence used the same word while calling for the unsealing of the indictment. the american people should be able to judge for themselves whether this is just the latest incident of weaponization and politicization at the justice department, or if it s something different, he said. ditto for tim scott on the weaponization charge. the committing to pardon trump immediately upon his own swearing in. chris christie kept his powder dry initially saying we don t get our news from truth social, trump s account. let s see what the facts are when an indictment is released. asa hutchinson called for trump to withdraw
seeing is not that, and this is chaos. so enough is new. a delegation of dozens of republican lawmakers headed to the southern border over the coming days as over a million migrants have crossed in the month of december with thousands more making their way from south and central america. now since october 1st border patrol s encountered nearly 800,000 people along that border making this highest record quarter, the highest quarter on record. welcome to this special edition of fox news live. with i m gillian turner in washington. mayor eric adams says his city is reaching a breaking point as a result of governor greg abbott continuing to bus migrants from his state up north. bill melugin is in los angeles with the latest developments. hi, bill. reporter: hey, gillian. as the number of crossings continues to shatter all records out there, fox news has obtained an internal alert sent out by border patrol s tucson, arizona, intel unit which warps agents some illegal immig