as its known is underway, a few tensions that existed in the early stages. president biden is about to sit down with president obrador and justin trudeau. what can biden say to ease the crisis at our southern border. that number there, 2.3 million plus border encounters for fiscal year 2022. that ended in october or the new one began in october. it was an all-time high by an enormous margin. for some context, that s more than the entire population of houston, texas and we monitor the summit at this hour. we ll bring you that live. we re waiting to hear what these folks might say about the cartels, about our border and any agreements that they might reach to crack down on this situation. retired four-star general jack keane, chairman for the institute of study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst joins me. good to have you with us today. obviously one of the greatest concerns is whatever pertains to u.s. national security from president biden s perspective. and he we
good afternoon, charles. here on the hill, there s plenty of bipartisan support for the speaker of the house as china really starts to ratchet up its aggression to the u.s. and the fact that the speaker was bold enough to make this trip. speaker pelosi is spending the night in taipei tonight after getting a rock star welcome by a sea of people there shortly after she released a statement that attempts to send a message to china that this trip is not a provocation. that is not how china is reading it at all. chinese media has announced that they will start a series of military operations including live fire exercises around taiwan and flying across the median line. now, many republicans are lauding the speaker s trip, which others have taken in the past. they want the white house, specifically the president, to be firm with china. well past time to do this for the united states, to make clear that we will support taiwan if the chinese communists go for the jugular. if they
got dropped as president biden took office. bottom line, the american public has demanding the answers and the house republican majority will get them those answers. we deserve to know how this started and hold people accountable for it. martha: sir, i hope you come back. we had some breaking news. we got a little is that right changed today. we want to talk to you about more. join us in the coming weeks. absolutely. thank you. martha: house majority whip tom emmer joining us today. take a look at this before we go. enrollment in america s public schools dropped by more than a million students from fall of 2019 before the pandemic to fall of 2020. that according to the national center for education statistics. before the covid shut downs, public schools had been gaining students for the past decade. here now fox and friends co host pete hegseth. he has written about this extensively. there s good news about bad news
and shares in china are tumbling. connell mcshane has more. we look at starbucks and says how is the consumer doing. starbucks like everybody else is getting hit by inflation. but it s been able to move through that with strong demand in the u.s. china is a different story. china is a huge market for starbucks. they really got hit. put the chinese sales up. sales down 44% in china compared to a year ago. they had all the covid shut downs over there. that offset a better number here where sales at stores that they had open at least a year were up 9%. that s a strong number in the united states given what is happening here in the economy. it s overall earnings, 84 cents a chair. that s also better than wall street expected. starbucks revenue better than expected last quarter. we re looking at this gauge of the american consumer, this report was pretty much in line
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