>> nikki will cave to these big donors. nikki is corrupt. >> i love all the attention, guys. >> have a record of lying those wall street donors used to support him and now they support me. >> don't interrupt me. i didn't want you. >> walks off the stage and have a good meal. >> the race is between the four of us. >> we need somebody in the white house is going to be a fighter. >> i beat the left time and time again and that's what i dual for you. >> the mass shooting at the university of nevada las vegas. >> everybody is running, frantic historic. >> authorities are say four people are dead including the gunmen. >> we need to fix the broken border. thus far gotten no response. >> the highest single day of migrant encounters ever recorded more than 12,000 illegal immigrants crossed in. >> white house interns are now rebelling against the administration in a letter demanding a cease-fire in israel. >> my reaction is pass me the sick bucket. ♪ >> steve: good morning, everybody. it is thursday, december 7th, 2023. we are here in the big stage essentially we are the post game show for the big debate. thank you very much for joining us. we are live in new york. and today we also have a special guest down in tuscaloosa, alabama. and, lawrence. is joining us live after the big show. >> ainsley: lawrence, you are bringing in all four of those candidates we saw on stage last night get a chance to talk to all four of them in the diner. >> lawrence: let me just say we have great produce errors, after that ufc cage match last night obe a good idea to assess policy. why did it seem so personal last night on the debate stage. >> brian: elephant in the room was the 43rd president. he was the one that chris christie said okay. can we please talk about the man that is not here and that's the one that got everybody into it and that's where everyone really perked up because i guess there was a fight to be the runner-up first caucus, nikki haley, all will be on with us. clear on that stage they were going for nikki haley. >> there was a point vivek went after her and the moderator said do you want to respond. >> she said he is not even worth my time. then she mentioned she loves all this attention, fellas. lawrence? >> brian: let's watch. >> lawrence: it was so interesting brian alluded to the # 5th president. i asked some of the folks here in the diner today, what did you think about the former president, 45 not being on the debate stage and they said some of them said, look, we are disappointed. we want to see our guy on the debate stage. then i followed up. they followed up by saying we understand, especially after last night's performance why he wasn't on the debate stage there was really no value to be there. >> steve: essentially because he is so far ahead in the polls and he feels why should i punch down? there was plenty of punching. ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy went after nikki haley, mercilessly. chris christie actually defended her at one point. and obviously, vivek and ron desantis and a number of other republicans who we have heard during this election cycle have forgotten ronald reagan's 11th commandment that is thou shall not speak ill of fellow republicans. there was plenty of that last night. plenty of back and forth on news nation. a channel until last night i didn't realize we had at our house. >> ainsley: took me a while to find it. i couldn't find it on youtube tv i had to go to fios. >> steve: if you missed it last night highlights put together by producers. the fourth debate in iowa. >> nikki, you were bankrupt when you left the u.n. after you left the u.n. you became a military contractor. you actually started joining service on the board of boeing whose back you scratched for a very long time and then gave foreign national speeches like hillary clinton is. and now you are a multi millionaire. that map does not add up. it adds up to the fact that you are corrupt. >> you have other candidates up here like nikki haley, she caves any time the left comes after her. any time the media comes after her. >> there is nothing to what he is saying. in terms of the donors that are supporting me they are just jealous. they wish they were supporting them. >> the only person more fascist than the biden with a regime now is nikki haley. >> i love all the attention, fellas. thank you for that. >> they are acting as if the race is between the four of us. the fifth guy, who doesn't have the guts to show up and stand here, he is the one who, as you just put it is way ahead in the polls. yet, i got these three guys who are all seemingly compete with voldemort. he shall not be named. >> you seem to say donald trump is no longer mentally fit to be president, is that what you think? >> look, father time is undefeated. the idea that we are going to put someone up there almost 80 and no effects from that also need a president who can serve two terms. >> you are afraid to offend donald trump. then what are you going to do when you sit across from president xi. you sit across from the ayatollah. you sit across from putin? >> i want everybody at home to know i was the first person to say we need a reasonable peace deal in ukraine. now a lot of the neocons are quietly coming along to that position with the exceptions of nikki haley and joe biden. >> this is the fourth debate. the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blow hard in america. we are now 25 minutes into this debate and he has insulted nikki haley's basic intelligence. not her positions. her basic intelligence. >> there is a reason the ukrainians want to help israelis. they know if iran wins, russia wins. these are all connected. what wins all of that is a strong america. >> how far would you go as president to secure the release of those 8 american hostages and would it include sending american forces into combat? >> we should work together with them so that they can bring hamas to heel. look, i served in iraq back in the day. the only one running for president that served in the military. >> ron gets asked a question and he doesn't answer it. your question was very specific. you said would you send american troops as commander-in-chief and he went on to this 1 minute 30 seconds hosanna about his mission of the military. >> would you send troops. >> absolutely. you are damn right i would send them in there and get them home now and i will answer that question directly. >> brian: chris christie was like the truth teller. he was demanding people answer questions about trump. that was very easy question for governor desantis to answer. i think chris christie's is the answer that makes the most sense. we have people on the ground there anyway, lawrence. they are advising. they don't want to make a big deal of it. they are advising on the ground. if we could get americans out you answer it. >> ainsley: strong response. >> brian: i thought governor christie had two roles number one get the best out of everybody. call them out. if they had good answers look great if they didn't look terrible other one who see if he has a shot, still. >> you know, it was interesting. it's the one thing that we hated in our business is asking candidates questions. asking any politician and them not giving us a direct response to the question that we asked. and i think they all do it in some form or fashion. but it was in that moment that christie highlighted that ron assistants still did not correct the record of what his position was. and when you are talking about a national on the international stage, what everyone is wondering, where does america stand in this conflict and will our guys be on the ground? i think it was a crucial moment in the debate last night. but, going to chris christie, what was his role? it looks like his role was to highlight each candidate's flaw. the question is, will people in this diner, households of all america, support him instead? and i don't know if that's the case. >> steve: do you know be what? i differ a little bit with you on that, because, lawrence, i felt like chris christie, he didn't point out any of nikki haley's flaws per se. but he did, you know, it was spirited between he and ron desantis and vivek ramaswamy. vivek was embarrassing. you know, he just -- he came in too hot once again. he got booed a number of times pin the tail on nikki haley she is the one to beat. i don't know that ron desantis changed his trajectory, ainsley. i think if you were going to put a 1-2, 3. 1 would be nikki haley, two ron desantis. i would give chris christie number 3 and vivek ramaswamy fourth only because he was the fourth person there. >> ainsley: i didn't like that vivek said to chris christie even though he called him a blow head. >> brian: blow hard. >> ainsley: i don't like that vivek said go have a nice meal and get off the stage. i thought it was mean. >> steve: it was. >> ainsley: attacking him physically. chris christie was booed in closing statement for going after trump and calling trump a felon. what is doctoring to all of you guys, trump's rivals are campaigning so much more than he is with little payoff and they are doing all these debates. trump in the polling average paining for 55 days. if you take vivek ramaswamy getting 5.1%. and he has campaigned for 145 days. >> brian: appreciate the effort. he says a lot of his support is not polled like colleges. we're about to find out in six weeks. but, here's the thing. the question is, is donald trump fit to run? i think the answer is outside of his detractors yeah he is fit to run. you might say i liked him him better in 2016 or 2020 than 2024. that's fine. i don't know why ron desantis, nikki haley say yes. yeah i think he is fit to run but i'm a better choice. the problem for every candidate and we know it. if you think you are a better choice than donald trump, that's fine. if you actually win the nomination. and you don't have donald trump supporters. you can't win the presidency. so that's every word that they say. that's the statement in the back of their mind. how do i win and not alienate the voters and to insult donald trump personally is not going to do it. and that's what these candidates got to figure out. >> ainsley: nikki haley, the anti-semitism she is threatening to take away tax exempt status for universities. she said we have to get foreign money out of these universities. >> brian: impossible. >> ainsley: when you look at what is happening these protests on college campuses what if that were the kkk and that was your point yesterday, lawrence. the university presidents would be up in arms she said. >> brian: elise stefanik actually said that one of the presidents. if this was a march anti-against african-americans how would you feel? she tried to backtrack yesterday by the way the president of harvard tried to clarify it and it made no sense. >> lawrence: released a statement. >> steve: 60% behind donald trump. 40% of republicans are still looking for somebody else. is it somebody on the stage last night of the four of them will they distinguish themselves to the point they will change the trajectory? at this point, with 40 days before iowa, less than 40 days before iowa. it does not look like it. but, you never know what is going to happen because it is a long way to the first tuesday in november. >> ainsley: we did hear from him on wednesday night or was that tuesday night? >> brian: good job lawrence jones packing for two straight diner days. good job. >> ainsley: excited to see all four of them with you down at the diner this morning. three are dead after a professor went on a shooting rampage after he was denied a job at the university of nevada las vegas. more on the chaos stick situation that unraveled. >> steve: plus, more border and chaos. sources telling fox the agency encountered 12,000 migrants in a single day. that is the highest number in american history. >> brian: and it is time to call the border a crisis. don't you think? 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is he needing a job? was he destitute. so many more questions we would have to wait for until the investigation kind of reveals what the motive might have been. >> steve: ashton, you know oftentimes when violence erupts on a college campus, the campus police response is sometimes lacking that was not the case yesterday. >> yes. i think so much credit and so much we owe so much to the officers who respond yesterday. the police were seconds behind the university cops. my understanding and in talking to my sources, several several university police detectives were the first ones to respond. and, you know, the officer who killed this suspect absolutely saved lives there is a lot of young men and women alive response of the response from these heroic officers, bravo to them. >> steve: it's hard to believe it was, what, six years ago at the mandalay bay there was a shooter up there who killed so many people you got to figure that in the days and weeks and years after that, las vegas response in particular developed a different type of response to a mass shooting than they had before. >> that's correct. and, you know, in my time in las vegas for the 20 years that i spent as a law enforcement officer, i can say that law enforcement in southern nevada, we have some really amazing training. the bosses, excuse me, all the executive staff and really provided a lot of the tools and training that law enforcement would need to protect the valley. las vegas, i always call it the island in the mojave. there is really no one else around here to help it. all falls on the shoulders of southern nevada law enforcement that training was absolutely provided. kind of came after the mumbai attacks in the 2,000s, and unfortunately we had so much lessons learned from the one october attack six years ago. and so yesterday i think the training and the experience of what we had handle six years prior i can promise you there were probably a lot of law enforcement officers on scene who were there the night of 1 october. maybe the university police include sod yes that training is absolutely critical. they have done a great job in being prepared for these incidents. and then trying to prevent these incident from happening. you can't catch everything, but they really do it right. >> steve: the response yesterday was amazing. ashton, thank you very much for getting up so early out in las vegas where it is 3:22 in the morning. thank you, sir. >> thank you, you guys have great day. thanks for having me on. >> steve: you as well. all right. still ahead on this thursday, former new jersey governor chris christie is going to join us fresh off the debate stage. first, lawrence is having breakfast with friends, getting reaction from the big debate night last night in alabama. hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: good morning, steve. i got reaction from the folks in alabama roll tide. [cheer] >> lawrence: there we go. who do you think won the debate last night show of hands for chris christie. ron desantis? nikki haley? donald trump? 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>> good morning, guys. air force special operations command uncovered the remains of six of the 8 on board following the crash off the coast of japan last week. search and rescue efforts continue at this hour. the osprey takes off and lands like a helicopter but rotate propellers forward and fly like an airplane. four crashes have killed 20 americans over the past two years. here are the names of those lost. major jeff hornman of andover instructor pilot. major eric dove of utah. flight surgeon. luke unwrath of riverside california. captain brayman pittsburgh, new york also a pilot on board flight commander. zachery level of florida. medical operations flight chief. staff sergeant jake turn a.j. of kennesaw georgia flight engineering. senior airman johnson of reynoldsburg, ohio. flight engineer. and jake of pitsfield, massachusetts assigned to the intelligence squadron. second deadliest crash for the separations community since a black hawk crashed in the eastern mediterranean last month, guys. >> steve: hey, lucas, the osprey has had a terrible story blo is different that they will ground all of them. >> standard operation, speed. when a operation happens they ground this type of aircraft for a few days. whether it's something more serious remains to be seen. notable the first time in air force version of this aircraft has crashed since 2010. , the marines, the navy also fly a ergs have of the osprey. >> brian: be have you been on one? >> yes. >> what do you think? >> you know, unfortunately, they don't fly these things like delta airlines, guys. they train like they flight. they fly aggressively. dealing with separations forces it's very aggressive flying and unfortunately things like this happen. >> ainsley: they go vertically quickly helicopter and take off fast like a regular plane. the cb 22 was grounded for the air force and navy and marine corps also out of abundance of caution grounding theirs as well. thank you, lucas. >> steve: terrible story. thank you, lucas indeed. >> brian: carley, you have the other news. >> carley: certainly do, guys. president biden canceling another $4.8 billion in student loan debt. the president saying i vow typically prove the student loan system so that a higher education provides americans with opportunity and prosperity not unimaginable burdens of student loan debt. i won't back down from using every tool at our disposal. the move bring the grand total to a whopping $132 billion canceled despite the supreme court shooting down the plan back in june. kevin o'leary is going to join us later this morning to react to the latest leg of bidenomics. he is the perfect guest we have on deck to cover that. and pearl harbor survivors are visiting the site today. it marks 82 years since 2400 service members and civilians were killed in the attack and more than 1,000 others were injured. hundreds of japanese fighter planes damage or destroy nearly 20 american naval vessels and more than 300 airplanes. the today the site servings as a memorial of the lives we lost and the sacrifice they made for our country. those your headlines, guys. 82 years. >> steve: december 7th, 1941. >> ainsley: look at those images and realize what happened after that. those im images is r. what sent both of my grandfathers into war. >> steve: carley, thank you very much. >> carley: you are welcome. >> steve: four republican candidates came out swinging in the fourth g.o.p. debate and at least two of them took direct aim at nikki haley, watch. this you have other candidates up here like nikki haley, she caves any time the left or media comes after her. the only person for fascist than the biden administration right now is nikki haley. we know from her history nikki will cave to big donors whether it counts. >> they are just jealous. they wish they were supporting themmism love all the attention fellas, thank you for that. >> brian: she was reserved a little bit. >> ainsley: she decided not to even respond so one of the questions when vivek was going after her. what did the voters think? lawrence jones is talking to them. he is live at the brick and spoon in tuscaloosa, alabama. hey, lawrence. >> lawrence: good morning, family. we have been telling you about all the craziness on college campus. let's talk to some of the kids that are on campus that are actually making an impact. all right. so, who is your candidate first and who did you think won the debate last night? >> my first candidate would be nikki haley i also think she won the debate last night. >> lawrence: why? >> she maintained a classy and presidential look which i think is important for the president. future president when dealing with foreign affairs and such. just representing the united states as a classy and strong government. >> lawrence: who your candidate? >> desantis. >> who do you think won the debate last night. >> i think vivek won. >> lawrence: why? >> he showed people their place, i feel like. showed them who they truly were. >> lawrence: and she shakes her head as he says that who is your candidate? >> nikki haley. >> lawrence: why? >> i think that she acted like an adult and we need someone that is both strong and has like all of their personal feelings together enough to handle themselves. >> lawrence: well said. my other friend right over here shocked me. you went in as a desantis supporter. >> correct. >> lawrence: and you left as a. >> nikki haley supporter. >> lawrence: why? >> i think that she was much more strong and solid she presented a good message. the same message she has been presenting didn't interrupt people something we need in a leader is someone who can be be the adult in the room when times get crazy. >> roger that, brother. who your candidate? >> >> at the end of the day it is trump. >> why? why? because it's trump. he will secure the nominee if the legal battles don't take over. >> roger that. as you can see. there is a mixed crowd here in this diner today. it's probably the first diner that i have seen every candidate represented today. we'll be talking to them all morning and, plus, chris christie just walked in the room. [applause] >> lawrence: a big debate last night. let's see what he has to say coming up on "fox & friends." i will send it back to you guys in new york. >> ainsley: thanks, lawrence. >> brian: is he going to be upset that yankees signed and he didn't. white house interns mocked for sending names anonymous letter demanding a change to policy. >> steve: interns. record 1,000 migrants tried to get in as president biden blames republicans for not securing it. former acting ice director tom homan is going to join us straight ahead. >> ainsley: candidates sparring over issues and insults in the final debate before iowa. >> this is the fourth debate. the fourth debate that you would be voted in the first 20 minutes as the most obnoxious blow hard in america. >> do everybody a favor and walk yourself off the stage and enjoy a nice meal and get the hell out of this race. >> ainsley: all four candidates will be joining "fox & friends" this morning and lawrence just mentioned first chris christie he is live with lawrence down in tuscaloosa. >> steve: good morning, governor.er ♪ s (♪) ♪ tastes good too! king's hawaiian slider sunday... the only way to sunday! if you struggle. and struggle. and struggle with cpap. you should check out inspire. no mask. no hose. just sleep. learn more and view important safety information at inspiresleep.com i'm sarah escherich, i'm the life enrichment director at independence village, the senior living community in waukee, iowa. everybody here really, really make you feel like family and that they love you. our goal with tiktok was to enrich the lives of our residents and just to be able to show people what senior living can be like. i think i am a tiktok grandma. my kids think i am. i mean, we're the ones that are being entertained. time goes faster when you're having fun. only unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans come with the ucard — one simple member card that opens doors for what matters. what if we need to see a doctor away from home? we got you — with medicare advantage's largest national provider network. only from unitedhealthcare. 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>> lawrence: how are you going to win over the trump voter you? are not even trying to win over the trump voter? >> no. i'm going to win over the voter who wants to hear the truth. and if what you are going to do is contort yourself into a pretzel and say things like, you know, donald trump is a victim, like nikki haley says well, for some reason chaos and drama follow him. you know, lawrence, that's like the arsonist saying for some reason burning buildings follow me everywhere. we know why it follows him that's what he does and he creates that situation and it's bad for our country and bad for the world. these folks won't say it. i mean, you know, in the end, i think the most important thing that important want out of a president is to be honest. they are not going to agree with you every time. let's be honest about what is going on. that's why last night i was calling people out for not answering the question. you want to get on that stage, i know this from being a governor in a very tough state for republicans. answer the questions, be honest. and even if people who disagree with you want to vote for you at least they believe you are playing it straight. >> lawrence: governor, steve, ainsley and brian. >> i remember those guys. lawrence's co-hosts. >> brian: governor, last night, this is what i think that you were trying to do. get them to say that donald trump was incompetent. you also said the past that you don't necessarily think donald trump is losing it. you think the pressure is getting to him. so, do you honestly -- do you believe that he can't do the job right now or do you believe that there is just too much turmoil around him? >> no. listen, i want to be really clear, brian. i wasn't going to like mental incompetency. i said he is unfit. he is unfit because of his personality. he is unfit because of his conduct. and is he unfit because he is going to be a convicted felon come this spring. when you think about this. >> brian: governor, didn't you like his performance for three and a half years and wasn't june rubber hit the road? >> no. >> january 6th? >> january 6th, brian. and, no. the rubber hit the road for me many times during his presidency where i disagreed with things and publicly said i disagreed with him. but, in the end, when he stood up before the american people on election night and claimed that the election was stolen, when he had no evidence, still has no evidence that it was, and that is when he proved himself to be unfit to be president of the united states. and he has only gotten worse in the three years since that night. >> ainsley: governor, last night, when i was watching the debate, i felt like they were yelling at each other, the other three at least, attacking each other more than i have seen in the other debates. is that because of the pressure we're getting closer and closer to iowa? and what happens during those commercial breaks between the four of you? >> well, look. as far as yelling at each other it's because they have nothing substantively to say that matters. i mean, look, let's face it. look at their performances last night. vivek ramaswamy is a drunk driver on the debate stage. you never know where he is going. what is he going to do. when is he going to run into the bridge abutment. he is a drunk driver. ron desantis every time he gives an answer that he has memorized he is relieved that he actually got it out of his mouth. and nikki last night really looked like somebody who just wanted it to be over. just get me off the stage and let it be over. the fact is if you think what happened on the stage is hard last night. wait until you sit in the oval office and you have to deal with the attack on israel. deal with the war in ukraine, deal with run away inflation. deal with the issues that we have on our southern border. what i think i tried to show last night was, that you need an adult, you need someone who is going to look at you and tell you the truth. and answer your questions. and those folks were all avoiding the questions to give their prescreened, you know, canned debated lines, that's not going to work when you get behind the desk in the oval office. >> steve: i thought you had like your strongest debate. but, when you called donald trump a dictator and bully and unfit for office. did you get booed by the people there when they are booing you for saying the truth what are you thinking. >> i think they are afraid of the trurst. booingsomething doesn't make it untrue. it is true bee the way, you know i said this last night if what we want to do is reelect joe biden, then let's nominate a criminal to be our nominee from the time he gets spring november that's all the democrats are going to talk about. if you think that will draw back the independent suburban women that lost him the election in 2020 you are crazy. only going to get worse. joe biden and clarifies four more years. >> lawrence: do you think you will be the nominee. >> yeah. >> lawrence: you do. >> yeah. >> brian: why did you walk over to the panel of questioners to megyn kelly? >> yeah. because i didn't get a question in the first 17 minutes i was just reminding them there were actually four people on the stage so, you know i think for the last hour. for the last hour and 40 minutes or so, they realized there was a fourth person on the stage. the fourth person on the stage was the one who if they asked me a question i was actually going to answer it as opposed to everything else. i thought that meghan and elizabeth did a good job last night. but they just forgot in those first 17 minutes that there were four of us on the stage not two. >> lawrence: governor i didn't say christie. [applause] >> ainsley: ramaswamy spoke for 4 minutes and 16 seconds. >> brian: governor, thanks so much. good luck. >> thank you, guys. >> ainsley: white house interns are being mocked over their letter to the oval office demanding for president biden to call for a permanent cease-fire in gaza. >> brian: todd piro all over. this. >> todd: story is unbelievable. the letter from 40 anonymous interns from the white house and other executive branches. obtained by nbc news. it states reheed the voices of the american people and call on the administration to demand a permanent cease-fire. we will never forget how the pleas of the american people have been heard and thus far ignored. sources telling the hill the white house was aware of the letter before it was released and multiple interns previously approached staff members to say they were uncomfortable with how the conflict was being handled. senator john kennedy says he is not surprised by the mindset of these young interns. we now know that many of our young people believe in diversity, equity, inclusion, and the right to kill jews. and they don't see the inconsistency of that. they will don't see the irony in that. and i think the reaction of most fair minded americans to that position certainly my reaction is pass me the sick bucket. >> meantime two months since hamas' terror attack on israel starting the war. guys, another issue here. imagine being intern anywhere in any company, much less at the white house and telling your bosses nah, you are not doing it the right way. you are going to do it the intern's way. it is unconscionable. >> ainsley: anonymous. how do we know they're interns. >> todd: assuming they are, where do they come up with this? doing something to our youth and not good. emboldening in a way you have to go through the ropes before you could tell the white house do policy. >> steve: i don't know if they were interns but certainly people inside the white house. all right. todd, thank you very much. time to check the weather with janice dean the weather machine. >> we are outside where it's cold. let's take a look at the maps, because we are going to see a warm-up across the country at least two thirds of the country above average the next couple of days. there is that temperature change. 20 to 30 degrees above average. definitely hit records. 451 in chicago. 65 in kansas city: heat special across the northern plains and midwest. also requesting to see that warmth come towards the east. it's 30 right now. get to 63 on sunday. the potential for showers, thunderstorms, and even severe weather for parts of the gulf coast and the mississippi valley northwest and rain mountain snow. all right, brian kilmeade. over to you, my friend. >> brian: thank you so much. chaos at the border. border patrol sources tell fox the agency encountered more than 12,000 migrants on tuesday. 12,000. the highest one day total ever in american history. this as former dhs secretary under president obama had this to say in 2019. jeh johnson. >> i know that 1,000 overwhelms the system. i cannot begin to imagine what 4,000 a day looks like. so we are truly in a crisis. >> brian: you think so? it comes as a second boat suspected of holding migrants washes ashore in malibu beach in just one week. soon bar barbra streisand will e to deal with it. president biden refusing to take the blame. here with reaction fox news contributor tom homan. tom, these numbers are stunning. can you even get your head around it? >> no, i can't. i wake up every day, you know, just so frustrated that we're in a third year of this administration. their first year under biden historic illegal immigration. on the heels of the most secure border in my lifetime. i have done this for 34 years. the second year he broke his own record. the third year he broke two previous records. and we are on a path right now, the fourth year to have another historic record. look, this administration hasn't done a damn thing, not one thing to slow the flow, brian. they are not doing anything. where are the republicans who ran on midterms to impeach mayorkas in this man is a failure. i said this a thousand times. i'm going to keep saying it. this is the biggest national security failure i have seen in this country since 9/11. under biden we have arrested just short of 300 people on the terrorist watch list. in three years. under trump, 11 in four years. this is a situation of dire consequences. >> all right. but we have an opportunity here. the republicans say if you want funding for ukraine, if you want funding for israel, if you want funding for taiwan, only if there are border reforms and money. give me two things that have to be in that that could really affect things. >> and catch and release. as long as you keep releasing people. they are going to keep coming. they don't care what the president says or the secretary says don't come. as long as they see thousands of people being released every day, they are going to keep coming. the second thing they are going to do is put the remain in mexico program back in. the highest courts in the land say it's legal. that was a game changer trump administration. illegal immigration at a 45 year low. 83 to 90%. reinstate it. >> brian: hopefully they will do it and get this deal done before christmas. tom homan, thank you. it's egregious. all the g.o.p. candidates on the stage last night are joining us this morning and yes, we are so bragging. ♪fia me to st. ju de. dwight: this kid is now 73 years old. sofia vergara: that's what we do at st. jude. marlo thomas: give thanks for the healthy kids in your life, and give a gift that could last a lifetime. your heart is the beat of life. if you have heart failure, entrust your heart to entresto, a medicine specifically designed for heart failure. entresto is the #1 heart failure brand prescribed by cardiologists. it was proven superior at helping people stay alive and out of the hospital. heart failure can change the structure of your heart, so it may not work as well. entresto helps improve your heart's ability to pump blood to the body. and with a healthier heart, you can keep on doing what you love. don't take entresto if pregnant; it can cause harm or death to an unborn baby. don't take entresto with an ace inhibitor or aliskiren, or if you've had angioedema with an ace or arb. the most serious side effects are angioedema, low blood pressure, kidney problems, or high blood potassium. ask your doctor about entresto for heart failure. entrust you heart to entresto. while i am a paid actor, and this is not a real company, there is no way to fake how upwork can help your business. upwork is half the cost of our old recruiter and they have top-tier talent and everything from pr to project management because this is how we work now. sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there's a chance to let in the lyte. caplyta is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression. and in clinical trials, movement disorders and weight gain were not common. call your doctor about sudden mood changes, behaviors, or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants may increase these risks in young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. caplyta can help you let in the lyte. ask your doctor about caplyta. find savings and support at caplyta.com. >> on stage tonight, four candidates, all vias to become their party's nominee. >>