heavily traveled entry point for migrants. simply to secure the border because they have to choose whether they want to solve a problem or get in the way to score political points request half the country s governors are backing up texas fight with the bite administration. all of them republicans for it here in washington the administration releases new record breaking numbers for the southern border amid bipartisan immigration performed talks in the senate. now being blessed by gop presidential front runner president donald trump. array of nobel that a bad cook said to someone running for president say please hurt the country so i can blame my opponent and help my politics is a shocking development pickers will speak with the top gop border negotiator oklahoma senator james at lankford. florida republican senator rick scott who opposes what he knows of the deal. plus, growing outrage over 12 united nations aid workers in gaza. funded in part by u.s. tax dollars accused
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