welcome to america s newsroom. i m dana perino. john: great to spend an hour with you. i m john roberts in for bill hemmer this week. he has time off. border patrol agents say chinese migrant apprehensions are up more than 900%. rick scott is sounding the alarm. americans should be frustrated and fed up with the federal government now to have a completely open southern border. we know the communist party of china wants to destroy us whether spy balloon, tiktok, chinese drones. now we have chinese coming across the southern border. we have to assume the worst. dana: new this morning fox news was there as border agents caught a group of migrants from columbia. retired border patrol chief rodney scott is standing by. let s get to griff jenkins live in mission, texas this morning. you saw it all this weekend, griff. that s right, good morning, dana and john. there is a reason why border patrol s chief ortiz was testifying at the rgb last week saying that they do not hav
it s their constitutional obligation to do that. we re talking about programs when they talk about medicare, social security, we re talking about programs that they want to take hostage that will affect taxpayers, that will affect seniors and veterans. again, it s their constitutional duty. they should do this without conditions. trying to address market-related chatters. jerome powell was asked about the debt ceiling. there s only one option. for congress to pass the increase. is that the crew here, there s one option, there s no off ramps to consider? congress is the only option here? on any of the coins that s come up before. that s something that the treasury deals with and answers on. so i m not going to comment there. i think we ve been very clear from here that this should be done without conditions. and it is their basic job, congress, right? it s their basic duty to lift the debt ceiling. it s something that has been consistently done over the years. that s how
holding last-ditch talks tonight fighting to win the speaker s job. we ll tell you who s been heading into his office. also, the suspect in the brutal stabbing deaths of four college students is expected in court tomorrow. authorities seeking his return to idaho to face first degree murder charges, even as they remain silent about a possible mo motive. a deadly new year of war in ukraine. russia suffers today what may be the biggest loss of life since the start of the invasion. ukraine claiming a major strike against russian forces as moscow unleashed a fresh barrage of missiles and drones, including in kyiv. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with a very big cloud of uncertainty hanging over republican kevin mccarthy s bid to be the next speaker. lawmakers will vote tomorrow on whether kevin mccarthy should hold one of the most powerful positions in washington that puts him second
this inflation and if it can be tamed. and border patrol agents, we re told, are furious that the department of homeland security is about to discipline their colleagues who were falsely accused of whipping haitian migrants last summer when they were actually using reins of their horses to control those animals. we have live fox team coverage and all these stories for you coast to coast. let s begin first with bill melugin with more on the situation among the border patrol agents because of those photographs that went viral with a lot of false accusations. hey, bill. reporter: eric, good afternoon to you. that s exactly right, multiple sources tell me they are irate about this. they feel that the president and other politicians essentially convict these horseback agents before they ever had a chance at an investigation, and now we re hearing they re going to be disciplined. if we can rewind the clock to last september, del rio, those horseback agents were responding to thou
Election is well underway with 216 days to go but tonight we have a big show. Mike tyson will be here for an exclusive preview with his upcoming fight against jake paul straight ahead plus Robert Community junior calling out joe biden is a threat to democracy but is this a political bid to try to peel away support from donald trump by a very liberal independent candidate . We will you the analysis coming up tonight. Also you review and update of San Francisco and the violent drug as well as portland and new york wants to ban certain socalled inhumane mouse and rat traps as the state is practically begging for the bubonic plague. We begin with an actual modernday bloodbath is the crisis under biden that we all know would be Illegal Immigrants have died during the perilous journey across the border as thousands more facing extreme suffering with drug cartels as this blood bath reaching every single corner of our country. Have a look. President trump under crooked joe biden, every stay is