that and more on the rise in violent crime many in several major cities. and ongoing concerns about the security of supreme court justices after an activist group offers money to anyone who reports the locations of the six conservative members of the nation s highest court. more on these stories lout the hour. but first, to president biden defending his upcoming visit to saudi arabia in a new op-ed ahead of his trip to that nation and others in the middle east this week. kevin corke live at the white house with that. reporter: jon, good afternoon. frankly, no two ways about it, the president s upcoming trip to the saudi kingdom comes with fairly heavy risk on both the domestic and international fronts. from the international perspective, he ll to obviously tie to smooth other hard feel feelings with the saudis, all while maybe encouraging them to open the spigot when it comes to oil production. but there s heavy cost and heavy risk here domestically because the president is
United states. we ll send it back to you. jon: not just trying, succeeding. bill melugin, thank you. well, frustrated border state governors are taking new steps to try to combat the surge of illegal migrants seeking entry. texas governor abbott authorized the arrest of migrants and their return to the border. arizona will spend more than half a billion dollars on new security measures including maintaining former president trump s border wall. meanwhile, the biden administration insists the border is secure. let s bring in arizona attorney general mark brnovich, also a republican u.s. senate candidate. so arizona, general brnovich, wants to spend more than half a billion dollars to do the job that the federal government ought to be doing? if. yeah. thank you, jon, for having me on. it really is absurd absurdity, because when with it comes to border security, national security can, that is when the federal government, the white house is at its ultimate peak of
Power, and it shouldn t be up to states like arizona and texas to have to do the job the feds won t. unfortunately, we taxpayers in arizona are having to pay for this when all of us, all across the country now, we are all border states because, as bill melugin just reported, we have a record amount of fentanyl and methamphetamine coming into country. we have people on the terror watch list coming in. not only arizona and texas, the entire united states will be affected and people will die as a result of joe biden s failed policies. jon: the headline is i m sorry, 564 million committed to border spending by your governor, doug ducey, because the biden administration, he says, is not doing anything. inaction, he calls it. says that he s dedicating a record $564 million to help secure our border with a physical barrier, address critical public opinion safety staffing shortages and modernize the technology and public safety
but others say it s not so black and white. ngos are simply paid to do what the feds won t. when you folks at the border they are not thinking about political issues. they are thinking about how can we care for the kids and families that are coming across. bottom line ngos provide a safety net most americans expect regardless of impacts on those who police. shannon? shannon: william la jeunesse stands off for us, thank you. the live look at yet another major winter storm headed for the northeast. tonight, is anticipated that the entire state will be in a freezing or below freezing temperature situation. dry eye symptoms keep driving you crazy? inflammation in your eye might be to blame. let s kick ken s ache and burn into gear! over the counter eye drops typically work by lubricating your eyes and may provide temporary relief.
Go into areas to explore. and they may want joel greenberg to corroborate it or provide more information about it. we talk about the news of big joe el cot who cut a deal. with you he s on the periphery of matt gaetz. it is crucial to any case the prosecutors may bring against matt gaetz because she had an open relationship with matt gaetz at the time that gaetz was allegedly involved with this underage girl and she has no axe to grind. unlike joel greenberg, she had a credible career. she was a capitol staffer. she s the kind of person the feds may have been waiting on for corroboration. i think that s why this whole thing took so long. the feds won t want to go to the mat based on the testimony of a liar like joel greenberg. someone who in the past has already made false claims of pedophilia against a political opponent. so they wanted someone legitimate to base their case on