meeting with a group of mayors today. it may be bumpy. they are angry over his border crisis. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. the meeting is actually an annual event but this year, as i said, it will be different. so-called sanctuary city leaders want federal help to deal with all the illegal immigrants crossing their cities, sanctuary cities, millions of dollars. because you have to feed and shelter and provide medical care and that s what they promised. but it is not free. they say it s only a tiny fraction, of course, of what has overwhelmed border communities in border states. and they manage to do it all and they need help, too. but these are sanctuary cities. it s an election year and they blue and expect the president to capitulate. denver s mayor, mike johnston, will attend. the main public hospital in his city is getting crushed by illegal who need care. $10 million of unpaid services. americans have to wait in line to get the same care the i
tonight. a foreign policy stumble. the biden administration sending two senior officials to china yesterday the exact day the tin men square anniversary. we don t know to this day how many people were killed. recognizing that atrocity still forbidden in china. tom cotton says this official visit sends exactly the wrong message. biden administration officials should stop chasing after the chinese communist counterparts like love struck teenagers. it is embarrassing and pathetic. it projects weakness to china and encourages them to do things like buzz our aircraft or come within a few hundred yards of our ships and encourages them to send spy balloons all over america. john: there has been 0 direct communication between biden and xi since the u.s. shot down the china aircraft in our airspace earlier this year. jake sullivan down playing tensions. the desire on both parts to put a floor under the relationship, to manage the competition responsibly and insure competition do
head south to mexico, a migrant caravan is making its way north. the lead starts right now. senior u.s. officials are urging the counterparts to do a lot more to drive down the number of border encounters. a record number of migrants is overwhelming both sides of them order, they are facing a barrage of complaints from elected officials who were usually on his side. we will explain. talking 2024, the latest development to keep trumps name off state primary ballot. they responded to a challenge of trump s eligibility, why is it the merit and their spending so confidently yet so many do not think the economy is doing well? we will investigate the finances and feeling heading into the new year. welcome to the lead, i am beyond got in for tapper. top officials are in mexico looking for help in slowing the surge of migrants at the u.s. border. the pictures show how urgent the crisis has become, we have 6000 migrants around the u.s./mexico border yesterday, that s a drop from wha
and killed. two other americans, a writer and a dental student were mistaken for dea agents, also tortured and killed by the cartel. after the murder. the u.s. unleashed will hounds of hell for mexico, the message for the cartels and corrupt mexican government giving sanctuary to the cartels, 40 years letter, americans are still dying, and mis missing in mexico, this week 4 people were traveling for a susurgical procedure, two were killed, and two were kept alive. texas law enforcement is warning americans to think twice before visits mexico, trucks are big business in mexico, but so is tourism. and so is having a good relationship with the united states part of having a good relationship, is not letting americans die or go missing when they visit. some republicans now want to use the military to go after the cartels, which is a little surprising given the number of republicans who don t want to use the military anywhere else, not in afghanistan, where rape victim stoned or
i m harris faulkner. the commander-in-chief spent just three hours on the ground in el paso, texas, number one place where people are entering the nation illegally. in the first 100 days of the new fiscal year 2023, more than 718,000 illegals have come. nearly 200,000 of them have been expelled under title 42. that argument alone for keeping it in place as long as we can until they figure something out. let s do the math. more than a half million illegal immigrants released into the country in just those 100 days. with little to no action. some now tagging the president s visit as an appearance for appearance s sake. the president didn t come away, at least publicly, with any sense of outrage that the circumstances here needs to be receive his significant attention. his administration s effort. a partisan trip made as a photo op. it took the president 80 years to get to the border, another 80 years before he comes back. harris: want to see fake news take a look at the