harris: we begin with a fox news alert. $118 billion, 370 pages. the senate border security deal is out for all to read. the headline from what i m seeing when i read parts of it. it would unlock billions of dollars in foreign aid. in fact, critics are claiming it would also let in thousands of illegal immigrants into our country per day before any action would be taken. we ll get into that and really wipe away the myth. it is not 5,000, it is 8,500. it is an average of 5,000 a day over a seven day period. as many as 8,500 could flow in on any particular day. that s a detail we need to know. well, it needs to pass the senate first, as we know. house speaker mike johnson already has declared it dead on arrival. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. all right. let s take a deeper look and see what s inside the bill. $60 billion for ukraine aid. $14 billion for israel. $10 billion in humanitarian aid and $5 billion for our indo-pacific partners. that leaves
money case. you are uch waing fox and friends first on friday morning. i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier. at the center of national debate with critics accusing alvin bragg of doing democrats bidding. todd: new york post writing alvin bragg is trying to turn a misdemeanor into a felony. this shows that the legal system is biassed and politicized. ashley: we start with brooke singman to walk us through the next steps in the case. brooke: a manhattan grand jury has indicted former president trump donald trump. alvin bragg has been investigating trump for hush money payments made leading up to the 2016 presidential election, including a $130,000 payment made to stormy daniels and another $150,000 payment made to former model karen mcdougle. alvin bragg s office says we contacted trump s attorney for a supreme court indictment which remains under seal. guidance will be provided when arraignment date is selected. the former president saying this is political
you will see more and more lethal weapons going from china into russia. this is a red line, if this happens. you can t bifurcate them, they are joined at the hip and it extends to iran and north korea. todd: alexandria hoff live from washington with more. alexandria: the two spoke for four and a half hours yesterday over a six-course meal and president putin admitted russia envies china. china has made colossal leap ahead and it is causing interest around the world, we even feel a bit envious. we will discuss initiatives and cooperation in the international arena strengthen the global order. president xi told putin under your strong leadership russia has made great strayeds in prosperous development. russia said it is open to hearing how to settle the war in ukraine. according to the white house, china has not provided lethal aid to russia off the table and john kirby adds any peace proposal would only favor russia. we hope president xi will press president putin to c
brutal blizzard record through bluff low. president biden approved a disaster designation. 27 confirmed dead in the region around buffalo. i stranded motorists, knocking out power to thousands and trapping people in their frigid homes. the national weather service saying winter storm warnings are still in effect in parts of the state through this afternoon. there is no end in sight and no plan in place so far anyway from the white house as a record number of migrants continue to flood illegally across the southern border. while president biden heads off to sunny st. croix to celebrate his new year. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m julie banderas. dana and bill are off today. jonathan: i m jonathan hunt. border patrol agents are preparing for the daily onslaught to get even worse when the title 42 asylum policy comes to an end. that could happen as soon as today, depending on a decision by the u.s. supreme court. there were more than 16,000 migrant encounte
drawers in the office there. the report also says agents searched former first lady melania trump s closet. trump s attorneys told the post agents would not let them inside the building to observe the raid. a laundry list of questions left unanswered at this point. silence from the d.o.j., at least until now. and from attorney general merrick garland himself. not a word. republicans are now demanding an explanation saying the american people have a right to know what sparked the raid. when are heads going to roll for those who are involved in weaponizing the power of our government to go after political enemies and to go after fishing expeditions such as this? the far left believes their cause is so worthy that anyone against them is a criminal and must be punished and put them away. is it plausible the f.b.i. would open up an investigation of donald trump without evidence? hell yes. this is too important to democracy, lay your cards on the table. you are doing a lot of