officials our work are playing with and we will take it arizona. agents have seen twice the amount of legal fund and all than they did last year, telling fox news they expect greater quantity is getting into the country undetected. we have our border panel to delve into those hidden dangers. plus it has been called the city that never sleeps, but a recent crime crisis is changing at all for the big apple, fox news investigates how crime is forcing 24-hour spot in new york city to shut down early. we begin with that new data from officials at the southern border and the partisan showdown underway here in washington over transporting migrants around the country. white house correspondent kevin corke has new details. hi, kevin. good evening. the white house had to know with a figure like 2 million illegal aliens for the year people would not only take notice and woods demand answers. that figure an all-time high, but the president says it is a reflection of a shift in migratio
washington today. unvaccinated superstar novak djokovic is barred from playing in this year s open as migrants cross the u.s. southern border in record numbers without being asked to produce vaccine records. peter doocy says it s a double standard and pressed the white house press secretary on this yesterday. listen. somebody unvaccinated comes over on a plane, you say that s not okay. somebody walks into texas or arizona unvaccinated they are allowed to stay. that is what is happening? it is not like somebody walks over and that s not now. that s exactly what s happening. thousands of people are walking in a day. some of them turn themselves over, some are caught, tens of thousands a week are not. that is what is happening. gillian: fox cameras have captured hundreds of migrants doing precisely that over the last year, swimming, walking, sometimes boating. former secretary of state mike pompeo is in focus with us. first this morning we go to griff jenkins here
in south carolina, and billions in new climate spending. bret: president biden will hit the road to promote the legislation but yet to see if vulnerable democrats appear alongside him. his poll numbers are around 40%. gillian: peter doocy is with us to kick things off from 1600 pennsylvania avenue. what part of this bill are officials hoping to highlight this afternoon? peter: it s not inflation reduction so far, gillian, even though it is called the inflation reduction act. instead the president is teasing this bill signing by highlighting the green impact. he tweeted the inflation reduction act will position america to meet my climate goals, saving families hundreds a year in energy costs and take advantage of clean energy and electric vehicle tax credits, more than twice the savings. the package was more than twice this size but even the slimmed-down version, the democrats in congress negotiated so it could pass, has republican colleagues nervous about what comes nex
wanting to raise the taxes on working families by an average of 1,500 a year. put medicare and social security, medicaid social security and medicaid on the chopping block every five years. every five years they will no longer exist unless they vote them back into existence. i disagree with that. what in god s name are they doing? i ll work with everyone who has real solutions and real savings for the american people. not take money out of their pockets. now, the other element i like to address that has impacts on inflation is to lower the deficit. the reason this matters to families reducing the deficit is another way to ease inflation. my friends the republicans like to paint me as the big spender. let s look at the facts. facts matter. under my predecessor the deficit exploded rising every year he was in office. under my plan we re on track to cut the federal deficit this year by 1.7 trillion. hear me now? this year by 1.7 trillion. that s a fact. the largest decline in
president biden: yes. you are? president biden: that s a commitment we made. it s a commitment we made. here is the situation. we agree with one china policy. we signed onto it and all the attendant agreements made from there. but the idea that it could be taken by force, just taken by force is just not appropriate. dana: jacqui heinrich is reporting live. those comments stole the show away from the economic message the president wanted to deliver and the white house is constantly finding themselves in this position and the president saying this on asian soil makes it different this time, jacqui. no kidding. very significant, dana. the white house is claiming that the president did not announce a policy shift but everything that we witnessed shows that it was. it was a clear break from strategic ambiguity for years has supported helping taiwan defend itself but september very vague about whether the u.s. military would come to its aid if china attacked. the question