Sandra fox news alert, a live look at capitol hill, screen left. Screen right, the Southern Border. Eagle pass, texas, as we count down to a Blockbuster Hearing on capitol hill. Cia and the fbi director set to testify about the growing threats facing americans and we do expect the border crisis to play a starring role. We are watching it all for you live at the top of a new hour. Im sandra smith in new york. John and john roberts in washington. Good to be with you, sandra. This is america reports. Just months ago the fbi director warned congress that so many migrants are flooding across our border that Law Enforcement cannot possibly keep up. The threats that come from the other side of the border are very much consuming all 56 of our field offices, not just in the border states. Any time you have a group of people in the United States that we dont know nearly enough about, that is a source of concern for us. Sandra and now an illegal immigrant has been charged with killing 22yearold N
Antiisrael protestors upending some of americas elite university. Columbia has switched all of its main Campus Classes to what are called hybrid learning. For the rest of the semester. These hatefilled protests are spreading like wildfire. The fear among jewish students is growing as well. Im Harris Faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. This is america where you can say what is protected speech. This is america where you cannot threaten to kill people and get away with it. And threaten to put people in spaces where they cant have their freedom. That is not free speech. Antiisrael demonstrations and encampments have expanded to schools across america. This scene in reaction to arrests at New York University just last night. [shouting and chanting] harris there they are hating. Hating israel, and some of them chanting they stand with hamas. The blood thirsty raping, killers on october 7th on our streets in America Armed with flares and waving palestinian flags descending On Nypd He
thank you for being here. martha maccallum great interview. thank you very much. martha: fox news alert. we start things off. the biden impeachment push is pushing forward at the inquiry level. the house passed this resolution yesterday to formalize and inquiry into the questions that have been around for a long time looking to prove whether the president benefited financially from his family s foreign business dealings with china, with ukraine. welcome everybody. good morning to the faulkner focus. i m martha maccallum in today for harris. so this vote last night passed on a straight party line. the chairs of the judiciary and oversight committees stressed party unity. watch. the house has now spoken. i think pretty loudly and clearly with every single republican voting to move into the impeachment inquiry of the constitutional duty to do oversight the message sent today is loud and clear. martha: it means a litany of biden family members, business associates, d.o.
That the judge will give him time if he doesn t acknowledge that he lied on the witness stand. if the judge doesn t do that, it s a misservice. he deserves at least six months in jail for lies on the witness stand. he knows he lied. his attorneys should be held responsible martha: they say they re going to appeal. 10 seconds. what about the fact that he walked out after being found guilty on five charges? shame. he s a convicted felon. he s a convicted felon, kamala harris, joe biden, nancy pelosi. you are supporting a convicted felon and you did not know the facts before you start justifying and calling that this was a race modern day lynching. it s shameful. martha: the crazy thing is you know how it works now in the world we live in. if something like this happens and you don t say that you support him, you re oh, why didn t they say anything? they should have said something. that indicates something on its own. it s a crazy cycle. leo, thank you. good to have you here.
I think can make people on both sides of the aisle feel better about living in this city, feel safer. the stakes are high and he will have to follow-through on his plans and it won t be easy. we wish him well across the board. sure do. martha: as he heads into january 1 when he will take over as mayor. pete, always good to get you to weigh-in. thanks for coming here today. thank you, martha. martha: breaking right now, the white house pressed on whether the president rushed to judgment in defending jussie smollett now we know his hate crime was a fact. the president and vice president tweeted what happened to jussie smollett will not be tolerated. the vice president said it was a modern day lynching. any lessons learned here when rushing to judgment? martha: the tweets didn t work well. the response with leo terrell next.