Today we will hear from department of transportation officials. The administrator of the federal railroad administration. The administrator of the federal Motor Carriers administration. And the deputy administrator of the national highway Traffic Safety administration. Welcome to each of you. Fixing americas surface transportation act of 2015 reauthorized many of the modal administrations responsible for ensuring the safety of our surface Transportation System. Fra. Ding fmcsa, nasa, and hearing provides our witnesses with the opportunity to discuss the implementation of and identify issues this committee should consider as we prepare for reauthorization. The act placed a greater focus on our nations multimodal freight i hope the witnesses will provide the committee with an update on efforts to improve infrastructure and how build grants are being utilized. Are the Commerce Committee considers reauthorizing the fast act, i plan on working with members on both sides of the aisle to auth
good day to our virs iewers the united states and around the world. i m danny freeman in for kasie hunt. it is 4:00 a.m. in mexico city where secretary of state antony blinken is set to meet with the mexican president. they will discuss ways to stem the surge of migrants at the southern u.s. border and they will be joined by homeland security secretary mayorkas. more than 11,000 migrants are still waiting in shelters and camps as they have for years for a chance to enter the u.s. legally, but this one border patrol sector which includes eagle pass, texas, migrant encounters have dropped significantly. more from rosa flores. reporter: as a migrant caravan forms in southern mexico with thousands, the scene in eagle pass, texas has changed. the area where thousands were waiting to be transported last week were emptied out this week. the flow appearing to be down a trickle. a senior customs and border protection official telling cnn that while the scene at eagle pass has improv
after returning from camp david to ring in the new year on the beach in the caribbean. sounds nice. you are watching fox and friends, i m carley shimkus. todd: i m todd piro. it is anything, but a vacation for americans who are losing faith in joe biden. the president spent 411 days of his presidency on vacation. president obama spent 328 on vacation over two full terms. carley: president biden is skipping the end of year press conference this year. david spunt is live in washington. the president heads to the u.s. virg in islands with the first lady today. when the president returns it will be 2024, the year he runs for reelection, he wants to go full out on impeachment. and his son will face several federal charges. the president is dealing with the migrant encounters at the southern border and 103 attacks on u.s. forces since october 17th and the house plan to launch an impeachment inquiry. chairman james comer is pushing for not only impeachment inquiry underway,
today on inside politics, disqualified. team trump is gear ing up to appeal a ruling that would kick the president off the state s ballot. trump s fate maybe headed toward the supreme court. plus trump says i have never read it, that s how he s responding to hitting the road, president biden is in a key swing state trying to convince voters in wisconsin that policies are making their lives better. sources tell cnn he s growingly increasingly frustrated it s taking so long to implement his signature legislative achievements. i m jim acosta in for dana bash. let s go behind the headlines and inside politics. we want to start with the historic decision putting this country in unchartered territory. the colorado supreme court ruled donald trump is not eligible to be a presidential candidate because of the 14th amendment s insurrectionist ban. that ban from the civil war era says a person can t hold any office if they, quote, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion
First in keeping with his profession, as a University Professor were going to have a pop quiz. One question pass fail. Here is the question. What do jeff chandler, charles bronson, rock hudson and the incredibleably blueeyed Burt Lancaster all have in common . I think i hear the answer and the answer is all these hollywood leading men played Apache Indian leaders in the movies. Jeff chandler played cochise. Hock hudson played taza, son of cochise. Bronson want chato and burt was the warrior, masai. For extra credit, answer this, what made these roles so attractive to these actors in could it be the epic nature of their struggle . Keep those questions in mind. Also keep those names in mind. Maybe not the faces. The people may reappear as paul hutton tells us about our war with the apache tribes. Americas longest. It all began with an apache raid and the kidnapping of an arizona ranchers boy in 1861 and lasted more than a quarter after century. The fighting only ended with the 1886 surre