i m maria bartiromo. today invasion at the southern border. 371,000 migrant encounters nationwide in the month of december alone. compare that to the entire final year of the trump administration in 2020 with where they had 405,000 for the whole year. something if former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe warned us about in the first three months of the biden administration, right here. we didn t have a problem four months ago. we had no national security issue like we have down there right now. now. this was a situation where the biden administration was so eager to want to declare trump policy cruel at the border that they, that they took away policies that were clearly working, and they reversed agreements that we had with with guatemala, honduras and el salvador and with mexico to stop the traffic at mexico s southern border. and they invited this crisis, they created this crisis. and so i think it s important know that they own this crisis. this was tot
i m maria bartiromo. today invasion at the southern border. 371,000 migrant encounters nationwide in the month of december alone. compare that to the entire final year of the trump administration in 2020 with where they had 405,000 for the whole year. something if former director of national intelligence john ratcliffe warned us about in the first three months of the biden administration, right here. we didn t have a problem four months ago. we had no national security issue like we have down there right now. now. this was a situation where the biden administration was so eager to want to declare trump policy cruel at the border that they, that they took away policies that were clearly working, and they reversed agreements that we had with with guatemala, honduras and el salvador and with mexico to stop the traffic at mexico s southern border. and they invited this crisis, they created this crisis. and so i think it s important know that they own this crisis. this was tot
10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. i m jose diaz-balart on a busy morning. charges could come any time against the man suspected of attacking house speaker nancy pelosi s husband paul. we have new details on palm pelosi s condition. plus, we are eight days out from the midterms. both sides are bringing in high-level help. live at the supreme court where arguments in what could be landmark cases get under way with the fate of affirmative action on the line. and breaking overnight, conditions in kyiv dteriorate. 80% of consumers in kyiv have no water. we ll get a live report from the ground meanwhile, back here in florida, residents still in recovery mode one month after hurricane ian devastated communities. we will speak with female fema administrator about that. and we begin this morning with the attack on husband of house speaker nancy pelosi. this morning paul pelosi remains in the hospital and in intensive care surrounded by family, according to a source with know
Morning. with eight days to the election day, are both sides confident in that race? reporter: well, jose, great to see you too. they are certainly portraying confidence. what we are seeing is they are taking every opportunity they can to get in front of voters. both candidates have packed schedules in the day ahead taking respective bus tours to different corners of the state of georgia, bringing in sur gates, as we have seen, and really trying to make this closing argument. last night the debate was the kickoff. i think what s interesting about this race, neither of these candidates are new to voters. we saw this matchup in 2018. they are reintroducing themselves in a very different way. this time around, brian kemp is the incumbent. he is doing that at every single turn. stacey abrams is someone whose prominence has risen tremendously. last night at the debate, she not only talked about her plan going forward but talked about
They ve done in the last year, 6.4 million jobs created. unemployment rate is down and child tax credit help many across the country yet we re talking about inflation, while inflation is high, there s been a boost in the stimulus money to help americans spend money and help the economy. it seems there s a disconnect with the every day voter and what this administration is doing. i advised the president i would simply ask him to not only get out on the campaign trail but have his sur gates and folks running for the office really begin to drill the numbers into american s heads as they are heading to the polls for the mid-term elections because these are numbers people should be proud of and that administration should be excited about, that they are closing an economic gap on the precipe of the most historic pandemic we ve seen in this last century and it s