good evening welcome to washington, i m mike emanuel in for bret baier. border crossings set another record. officials report the highest monthly total ever recorded for december. with the new year comes new laws. we ll tell you where minimum wage is up and which states are implementing new gun restrictions and bret baier looks at the reece of internet use and how they re impacting the electric grid. but, first, breaking tonight, president joe biden says his favorite memory of the year is bringing jobs back to the u.s. he also says the country s in a better position to lead the world than any other nation. the president s new year s message comes amid a year of low approval numbers criticism of the us handling of the war in israel and the crisis at our southern border. the first family s scheduled to return to, wa ton tomorrow after a week-long caribbean vacation. lucas tomlinson is traveling with the president and reports from st. croix. good evening, lucas. mike, the wh
airport and then organize, from the airport to the financial district in the big apple. live look on your screen hundreds of protesters gathering at wall street chanting free palestinian and demanding a ceasefire. this goes on every single week here in new york. it s just one of more than 400 protests in new york city and counting since the october 7th attack by hamas. you can see the crowd continues to grow as they move through the streets there. the nypd has been monitoring these marches for weeks now doing everything they can to stop the chaos or those traffic issues. listen. [chanting] reporter: so on sundays more than a million people brought in the new year in times square crowds were marching through manhattan working their way toward the ball drop but the nypd stepped in again had an expanded security perimeter in place to make sure there were no major issues and none was