Level as the controversy continues. President biden met with his Economic Team at the white house today, the administration has not yet said much on the controversy only saying talk to the sec and the feds are monitoring the situation. Strong backlash by some lawmakers including alexandria ocasiocortez and republican ted cruz. Republican senator josh hawley talked about this on fox news earlier. What youve seen with this gamestop meltdown that wall street is having now is these folks at home have got more criticism and more scrutiny than the people who singlehandedly crash the entire Financial Market in 2008. And they got bailed out, the government bailed out those people. It shows you that the fix is in. John White House Correspondent Kristin Fisher picks up reporting for us on this friday live on the north lawn. For the third day in a row, the white house is declining to weigh in on this controversy that has consumed both wall street and main street. The White House Press secretary w
now. ainsley: it is the #:00 a.m. hour of fox & friends on the east coast. it is friday, january 12th. steve: thank you very much for joining us. we have breaking news on this friday. joint strikes by the united states and united kingdom hit dozens of houthi targets in yemen after a number of attacks are in the red sea. the iranian back the group says we are not backing down. brings it on. this able unraveling as defense secretary lloyd austin still in the hospital calling the shots from his bed. lawrence: plus, nikki haley pulls ahead in the latest polling in iowa with the caucuses on monday. for us it s always been slow and steady wins the race. it s the people that decides. while everybody else wants to discount us, i will tell you we keep moving and we are moving for a reason to believe. brian: california police department offering $75,000 bonuses to recruit officers. and guess what? still not enough. fox & friends starts right now. and, remember, your morni
politicsnation, tonight s lead, compromise in congress. we start tonight with breaking news out of washington, house and senate negotiations have hammered out a spending deal, just 12 days before another shutdown deadline. house speaker, mike johnson, is laying out the details in a letter to his republican colleagues. more than one and a half trillion dollar plan includes nearly 900 billion for defense and more than 700 billion for other programs. meanwhile, in less than 24 hours, president biden will hold his second campaign event of 2024 in the state that made his 2020 nomination and presidency possible. hill returned to the historic in charleston, the scene of a racially motivated mass shooting nine years ago that left nine black worshippers dead. coming up, we ll talk to the pastor, the reverend eric manning, about how his congregation has healed and what president biden s return means for charleston s black community. the president spent his weekend, the th
they tell me they want to get to destinations like denver, new york and orlando, florida. here in texas governor greg abbott sent another bus load of migrants from the state to the naval observatory in washington, d.c. yesterday not far from vice president kamala harris home. governor greg abbott says he will continue sending migrants to cities like d.c., chicago and new york. border patrol sources tell fox news after the surge of migrants we saw before title 42 expired last week, the migrant encounters have now drastically fallenning. the united states border patrol has experienced a 50% drop in the number of will encounters vs. what we were experiencing earlier in the week before title 42 ended at midnight on thursday. it is still early. we are in day three. according to multiple cbp forces, border patrol afghan national fbi terror watch list. that man crossed the border with a group of migrants. when he was fingerprinted, the fbi confirmed a match on the terrorist scr
improve under johnson, who has several conflicting comments on whether he is defunding the city of police. we know the city of chicago rebuked this call to defund this bit. this system of incarceration and policing, this is real political gold. i never said we ll take money from police. the 150 million was not redirecting the funds from police? directing dollars to make sure we hire and promote 200 more detectiveses, to make sure we are implements laws on the books like red flag laws, i never said i would cut the police budget. ashley: here is lauren with more. new chicago mayor brandon johnson will be sworn into a job with no small task, figure out how to stop crime? his city and learn to work with police and his constituents even though he was part of calls to defund police. he says his policies go after root causes of crime. chicago police report murder is slightly down from this time last year, but still in the hundreds and motor vehicle thefts up 130%. just y