have a great day. julie: senior defense official sounding the alarm on a significant escalation in the middle east. u.s. navy using an anti-ship ballistic missile for the first time to stop incoming missile fire from houthis in the red sea. iran problem front and center stoking major fears of a wider war. good afternoon, everyone. the faulkner focus , i m julie banderas in for harris. thank you for joining us today. a lot of news to cover for you. we ll begin with more than 100 attacks on u.s. troops in the middle east since october 17th. iran proxies going after our men and women overseas. one top senate republican not happy with president biden s lack of action. listen. weakness. is there a red line? would you tell our enemies publicly if we tell an american we re coming after you? the houthis are completely backed by iran. i ve been saying for six months now hit iran. they have oil fields in the open. they have the revolutionary guard headquarters you can see from spa
we are awaiting secretary of state antony blinken and mayorkas arrival in mexico for border security meeting with mexican president obrador. the trip comes as massive crowds of thousands of migrants are waiting to be processed and a migrant caravan marches north through mexico right now. all this as president biden ditches washington for a tropical holiday vacation. hello, this is outnumbered, i m molly line. joining me fox news contributor and president of american spirit, tammy bruce, board certified physician dr. nicole saphier and washington examiner and senior fellow for independent woman s forum kaylee and joe concha. president biden s top cabinet officials will address current border challenges. william is in los angeles with the latest on all of this. william. the biden administration is asking mexico to do something it will not. family coming to work but dhs let go. this is lukeville, arizona. last night more than a thousand immigrants were epiapprehended. the
paul: welcome to this special edition of the journal editorial report as we look back at the highs and lows of 2023. president biden s poll numbers sink as the year comes to a end. gallup s final poll of 2023 find 39% of americans approve of the job he is doing. the lowest of the last 7 presidents in their first term. the president has become frustrated with his low approval rating and polls that show him trailing donald trump nationality. can he turn those numbers around in the new year? let s ask fox news contributor karl rove. these numbers have been persisting for a while, the president is going down. s it too early to conclude that americans have made a judgment that this has not been a successful presidency? they have made that judgment and they made that judgment about the president himself three quarters, more than three quarters of the american people think he is too world to seek a second term. two thirds of the american people think he lacks the stamina and ment
collision course for the u.s. supreme court and those colorado democrat justices who took aim at the former president. it is set to be an unprecedented showdown after colorado s highest court called trump an insurrectionist and wiped him off the state s primary ballot. i am harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. republicans are saying it s anti-american. and a huge danger to our democracy. colorado could be just the beginning. legal efforts to disqualify the former president are now underway in more than a dozen states. here is a look. the courts don t decide who will be on the ballot. this is the worst case of judicial activism that i ve ever seen. i think the supreme court will take it up and say it is ridiculous because it is. harris: even trump s critics are coming to his defense. former republican governor of ohio john kasich. you have a partisan court all democrats. they barely could say that he should be disqualified. think about the precedent o
the u.s. tricking three facilities used by uranium backed militia in iraq. it comes after another attack on one of our bases and injured three service members and one is in critical condition. you are watching fox and friends first on this tuesday morning, i am carley shimkus and todd has a day off. the secretary lloyd austin said his prayers are with the brave americans who were injured and he said the administration will not hesitate to defend our people and our interest. robert charles is standing by with his analysis on this breaking news, but first david spunt has more from washington, hi, david appeared i mike mccarley one of those critically injured we don t know but we expect to learn more in the hours i had to pure the president with the strikes after u.s. forces came under attack by a drone according to national security sources, has split and other affiliated groups under the umbrella of iranian backed militants going for the attack. president biden briefed by