country forcing students to get the covid vaccine when student is telling laura that she does not want to be part of this medical experiment. that interview later in the hour. but first we start with this question. of the lab leak theory is indeed true essence show has been saying what role did our own medical bureaucracy play in this fiasco. we already know the nih funneled taxpayer dollars to build will harm institute of virology for bat coronavirus research, even doctor fauci admits but still denies funding so-called gain of function experiments. you give the money and use it don t do gain of function research. correct. they said we won t. correct. you way no way of knowing accept you trust them. is that right? we generally always trust the grantee to do what they say. how do you know they didn t do the research and but put it on their website? there is no way of guaranteeing that. fauci isn t saying he personally opposes gain of function research. in 201
allen weisselberg has been seen dutifully going into work at trump tower. how he is balancing those job duties against huge pressure from prosecutors for evidence against trump with reports that he continues to resist cooperating. one d.a. veteran likening his approach to playing russian roulette with prison time. a serious game for a 74-year-old. the post reporting reinforces the picture from a recent new york times account about charges as near as this summer. also new the wall street journal reporting prosecutors are investigating whether trump s former bodyguard who was a trump executive received his own tax-free fringe benefits and whether that is a scandal or worse, a crime. there is plenty of bad news in all these developments for trump. but if weisselberg stands tall against the d.a., it could give donald trump the out he needs. without weisselberg s cooperation, it s unclear whether prosecutors would be able to establish any required intent on trump s part in c
it s been what, five weeks. todd: she did mean sitting next to me, not the burritos following the show. been five weeks because of the omicron thing. good to be back. miss you, buddy. merry christmas. carley: merry christmas, happy new year. since last time i saw you, last year, your daughter started working. big life developments. fantastic stuff. we have a busy show ahead. todd: my house is full of borders, no political statement, just full of borders. we begin with reporting on border crisis. cameras reporting ice buses dumping migrants necessary brownsville, texas. carley: brooke songman joins us live with details. brooke, good morning. brooke: good morning. fox news capturing footage of federally contracted buses dropping off illegal migrant necessary brownsville, texas. dozens of adults, mostly males, entered unmarked office in a parking lot. multiple taxicabs collect the migrants to shuttle to nearby airport. migrantss telling fox news they paid $2000 per per
is not politically motivated at all, though republicans say just the opposite, 20 days from election day. he is playing politics with the national security asset that we have that s developed for a time of war that we need the energy. let s bring in katie pavlich and mark penn, former clinton adviser. and chairman of the harris poll. both are fox news contributors. welcome to you both. katie, i m going to start with you. what struck me about the president s gas speech, not the fact that it seemed unrehearsed which was disconcerting, he said we ve been having a rough four or five years. we went back and looked. when he was inaugurated on inauguration day, gas was 2.31 a gallon. significantly higher now. not a rough four or five years, a very rough 21 months. the continued depletion of the strategic petroleum reserve by this president is outrageous and it is a scandal. it is a supply that is supposed to be reserved for the united states, not for ukraine, but for the unite
homeland security is looking for a new force to head to the southern border to wait for it, to do chores. they are recruiting defense officials on a volunteer basis to do housekeeping, prescription runs, and other menial tasks to help manage that migrant influx all on the taxpayers dime. julian turner is live in dc with the exclusive details. this is so hard to believe and yet somehow i m not surprised. we have been as you said given exclusive access two internal homeland security and pentagon planning documents that revealed these voluntary military officials are going to deploy to the southern border to provide support services to migrants crossing into the u.s. legally and illegally. new experience is required just a willingness to serve, which will cover cost for military officials to leave their jobs at the pentagon and traveled to the border for 60 days at a time. this support will help ensure that migrants arriving at the border receive compassionate and timely care,