collides with a japanese coast guard aircraft on the runway at haneda airport. local reports say five crew members on the coast guard plane are dead, but that all 379 passengers and crew on the japanese airlines flight got out safely before that plane was engulfed in flames. we are monitoring that but first we re seeing death on the migrants, which nobody talks about. we re seeing the fentanyl at record numbers. the drugs, illicit drugs come across the terrorist are coming to our country. and then you see the economic impact that we re seeing the border crisis bleeding into 2024. and a record number of crossings is creating a political nightmare for the white house. good morning. i m dana perino. bill is off today. but good morning to you, bret. good morning. happy new year. i m bret baier and this is america s newsroom authorities stopped more than 300,000 migrants trying to cross the southern border just last month 300,000. that is an all time record. it is reigniting calls
gay. whistleblower races serious issues how the initial investigation into her work was conducted. the media must dig deeper here, gay gate is in need of greater sunlight. it might be the mainstream media doesn t look anymore into this. we re not in the age where the mainstream media uncovers things like this necessarily anymore. you look at stanford and what happened to that president based on a student who wrote a piece in the newspaper which basically led to the eventual resignation. in this case for claudine gay, what do you think she is holding on for? i will tell you, she is waiting. she is the first black female president of harvard ever. so there is a tremendous amount of pressure on harvard not to fire the first black female. notwithstanding the incompetence
me in a commercial break. bret: meantime, a courtroom showdown in the works. former president trump s legal team preparing to appeal the controversial decisions in colorado and maine to kick him off their 2024 primary ballots. embattled harvard university president claudine gay facing even more charges of plagiarism. can she explain these latest allegations away?
president of harvard to step down coming from students. over the weekend two members of the school paper s editorial board wrote a dissent. it is time to let gay go. leo terrell is a fox news contributor and good to have you here. i m sure you would not accept this from your students. just take a look call for number two. this is from some of the latest allegations. if you look at david cannon s work versus claudine gay s work you can see it there in yellow. to me, leo, this is pretty brazen. i want to read from the crimson editorial, dissent. not the position of the paper itself but from two members saying that president gay maybe i a good person. she may even be a praise worthy scholar but not enough to remain president, the leader of the world s foremost university must be held to a higher standard.