i m martha maccallum live in des moines, iowa. here s the story today. we are here all week. we re hours away from our first big town hall with one week to go until the first in the nation caucuses to decide the 2024 presidential election. tonight, nikki haley. tomorrow, it s ron desantis and wednesday we ll join with former president donald trump and voters here on the ground in iowa. the former president is way ahead in the polls right now. he s telling his supporters to pretend we re one point down and don t stay home on caucus night. karl rove and former obama adviser robert wolf standing by on the matchup. interesting reports today that say former president obama went to the white house to meet with president biden and expressed his concerns about the campaign and how things are being run from the biden perspective. he warned about the possibility of a second trump victory and said not to underestimate that possibility according to these reports. so we gin with con
martha maccallum. later this hour, mike rowe is here on a story you probably won t see anywhere else. right now top biden officials including secretary state blinken and alejandro mayorkas meeting with the mexican president. a caravan up to 10,000 migrants makes its way to the u.s. sources telling fox the past three months have seen some 730,000 migrant encounters at the border. that is bigger than the populations of major cities like denver, nashville, and boston. let s bring in k.t. mcfarland and robert charles, former assistant secretary of state under president george w. bush. welcome, merry christmas, happy new year. k.t., to you first. it s interesting because we have been covering this on fox news channel since the border crisis, since the day president biden took office, right? and you look up at all the other networks are not covering it. i look up today, everybody is covering the border. everybody has people down there. that is bad news for president biden. yeah,
retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militant groups. the latest on the rising tensions in the region, plus, trump s christmas message lashing out at special counsel jack smith as the former president tries to get his election interference case thrown out. so, is the former commander in chief immune from criminal prosecution? we ll see. we ll talk about that coming up. and later on, the presents opened and the cookies devoured, millions of americans set to travel today in the post christmas rush. i m going to speak to a travel expert about some travel tips to help you survive the misery. hey, everybody. good morning to you. merry post christmas. we begin this hour with the breaking news out of the middle east. president biden ordering retaliatory strikes against iranian-backed militia groups in iraq after three u.s. service members were injured in a drone attack in northern iraq on monday. since october 17th, there have now been at least 103 separate attacks on u.s.
than anybody else. people come to the border and try to get in without the necessary legal basis to do so, they will be sent away. talk to the migrants coming across the border, what do they say, we are here because of your president, here because of president biden and that s why we keep coming. i ve made a call to our president, our vice president, we need action. united states of america does not care about the safety, security of the border. border state officials fire back at the administration, as the migrant crisis could get work to start the new year. rich edson in new york. jonathan: jonathan hunt in los angeles. a fresh wave of 15,000 migrants head straight for the southern border, alejandro mayorkas and sent of state antony blinken are set to meet face-to-face later this hour with the president of mexico to discuss the migrant crisis. rich: chris clem is standing by whether the meeting will lead to policy change, but first to our team of reporters. c.b.
is about the outlines of what the budget will look like. not about whether or not we re going to in fact pay our debts. mccarthy says that they will reach a deal but says was biden has left congress in a race against the clock. you know what i told the president 105 days ago? i had no conceived notion of what to do except two things. we re not going to raise taxes and we won t pass a clean debt ceiling. but we have to spend less than what we spent last year. let s talk about that. he decided no, i shouldn t negotiate with somebody. i m going to do what i want to do. my way or the highway. president biden has appointed his top aides to carry out negotiations while at the g-7 this week. he s cancelling the second leg of his trip and hopes to get a deal finalized by the u.s. goes into deat all time. congressman jody arrington from texas joins me now. great to have you on, as always. i want to play this sound bite. we talk about this race against the clock. part of the reas