opposite so biden s week started off 0 for 1. on tuesday, things only got worse for the embattled president. biden went down to georgia to attack the filibuster. i believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. we have no option but to change the senate rules, including get rid of the filibuster. [applause] rachel: biden s speech caught flack from both sides of the i ll as he trashed senate rules and looked to smear any american who cares about election integrity as a racist. so, if you are keeping score at home. that s 0 and 2 biden this week. if you thought they were getting any better as the week moved on. announced consumer price 7% in december. the worst since 1982. thanks to biden s poor economic policies, prices are the highest they have been in 40 years. now, you know how your wallet has been feeling a little light lately. you can thank joe biden for that. and the pain didn t stop there as the release of
but they insist emphatically that he was not. at some point jury will decide he was lying about that. the rest of us are free to ponder a bigger question. is thomas caldwell exhibitionist ? is he an enemy of the nation. in january 6 he was trying to overthrow the u.s. government b force? that s a pretty hard case to make. caldwell s indictment paints hi as a dangerous malicious but their real thomas caldwell does not fit that description part he s a senior citizen he walks with a cane he s a devout christian tried to picture thomas caldwell tv and a bloodthirsty band of insurgents communicant because he didn t. like every protest of that day, caldwell arrived at the event o armed end like the overwhelming majority he committed no acts o violence. the justice department claimed he gets hot to overthrow the american system but thatrt is h to believe, caldwell fit spent most of his life and honorable government services putting 20 years as a naval officer verity retired with 100
increasingly convinced vladimir putin may be ignoring those warnings. state department correspondent benjamin hall has the latest tonight. good evening, benjamin. good evening, bret. yes, the state department and the rest of the administration say they are ready for any eventuality whether that is for diplomacy or russian military escalation. everything we have seen and heard today suggest the latter is increasingly likely. russian troops ready, and the stage is set. all putin needs now is the excuse. he could have that very soon. russia is already working actively to create a pretext for potential invasion. u.s. officials say intelligence indicate russian operatives feigned urban war ferrari and using explosives are already in eastern ukraine ready to carry out acts of sabotage and may be planning operations against russia s own forces. we have information that they prepositioned a group of operatives to conduct what we call a false flag operation. russia is also p
griff: we begin this second hour of fox & friends with this: secretary of state anthony blinken and homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas are expected to head soon to mexico to meet with mexico s president obrador about the growing migrant crisis. joey: this is coming as a massive caravan can you see it there is moving toward the u.s. why cbp faces a record number of migrant encounters. carley: david spunt joins us live from washington with more. hi, david. hi, this is a big trip for secretary of state blinken and homeland security mayorkas. a way to end a record year for illegal border crossings into our country. cbp sources reveal to fox news more than 35,000 migrants crossed the border over christmas weekend. adding to more than 730,000 migrant encounters in less than three months. as we have reported, some people aren t getting court dates for seven or eight years from now because of the backlog in immigration courts. now, what to do. well, the ad
certain role for the federal government. one of those responsibilities is securing our border. since joe biden has been president, nearly 6,000,000 migrants have crossed into our country. joe biden has failed in that responsibility. so, we in texas are very perplexed that the biden administration is deciding to end title 42. we know that there is going to be a massive surge. as border officials brace for the lifting of title 42 in less than two weeks, fox news has an exclusive look at the surge that is already arrived on the bank the of the rio grand in brownsville, texas, across from mexico. across the entire southwest border, the numbers are staggering. agents have encountered more than 22000 migrants in the last 72 hours. leaving three border cities declaring states of emergency,. this is just not fair. since last fall, the state of texas has spent more than $4 billion trying to secure its own border. for the record, it s not a responsibility to do this. but when ameri