of the year ♪ finish. will: see? pete: there it is. will: andy williams, first round draft pick in the christmas music if extravaganza. pete: we were playing his music in the break. yes, he's ubiquitous. will: per ifly como -- rachel: classic. will: exactly, ray e hell. pete: but does he have any other hits other than christmas? will: that, i can't say. rachel: he's too young to know that. [laughter] laugh. will: that is like walking through a department store in new york city in a christmas movie, right in that's what's playing. rachel: there's lots of great christmas albums out there. everybody who's a star wants their christmas album to become the next american classic. let's admit, mariah carey does have that classic album. i know it's more modern. will: i'm not above that. rachel: the one that i grew up with that i a really love and i think is underappreciated, should get a rerival, is -- i love his christmas album, harry ebell fonte's christmas album -- will: nice, good. rachel: every single song is amazing. and, of course, there's elvis. elvis had great christmas albums. will: i have a question for you guys. in the last hour we were talking about airplanes, air marshals, and it reminded me of this debate i had yesterday. pete, sometimes we stand in line together -- rachel: they eat breakfast at the airport together. pete: yeah, so is. rachel: the bromance -- [laughter] will: do you think the tsa precheck lines, okay, and all that, are actually fast per, or are you paying for the idea that you have a smaller line? hike, fewer people have done it, so it's just a shorter line? what i'm getting at is as more people get tsa precheck, the line is getting longer. and you sit there sometimes you go regular, tsa, the lines are very similar, and i'm not convinced they're going any faster. do you think they are? pete: i agree with you. and in some airports, the clear is getting super longer than the precheck. we fly into airports that we're familiar with, and each one you play the little nuances. now in nashville, by the way, the clear's always jammed, but if you sneak into the precheck and then you find the far line, you can skip by -- will: my point is you're shopping for the shortest line. pete: that's it. don't care if i have the take my if shoes off, doesn't bother me. will: but the whole idea that i went through the process to the show the government i wasn't a threat doesn't work. it's just a shorter line. and if the hine are gets longer and equals the regular, what's the point? didn't you clear me? i'm not a terrorist. so can't i go a little quicker through the process? rachel: i know how you can get -- the way you can go through quicker is if you came through the southern border or and got one of those manila folders. [laughter] pete: then you don't have to show any id. will: yeah. rachel: no id, no problem. pete: and you're right down there in dallas -- rachel: meanwhile, the rest of us paid clear, and now we gave our biometrics over to the government and everything else. will: can and they still need to check your water. [laughter] pete: and the random id check happens every second or third time. rachel: yeah. will: we have brand new polls out this morning from the "wall street journal." they are, they reflect an interesting reality when it comes to the race for president. they reflect something we've to know and that is in a head to head matchup between donald trump and joe biden, donald trump is the clear leader. 47-43 in the "wall street journal" poll outside the margin of error. pete: brand new poll from this morning, the lead is 4%. and this trends with and tracks with the real clear politics average, the other polls out there. there's just no doubt that right now donald trump is ahead of joe biden 11 months out in the presidential preference poll. even if you throw other candidates in, guys, according to "the wall street journal" poll. rachel: yeah, this is interesting. pete: if you include third party candidates that might get in, to include joe man-in, there's -- manchin, there's the breakdown. kennedy at 8, the others at 3, 2 or 1 and that undecided number's a big one. rachel: it is. of. pete: that's going to thin down as election day gets closer. will but we've had this conversation several times on the show, who does rf if k or joe manchin pull from? it looks like it at least cuts more against joe biden. rachel: you know, i think -- i agree with that. and that the undecided, 14 %, i've talked to a lot of young people who are very intrigued with robert kennedy jr.. pete: they love him. rachel: listen, item like his -- i love his positions on covid and pharma -- pete: that's about it. rachel: but when it comes to abortion, i'm not happy with with him, and i'm a little concerned with some of his environmental stuff. it's pretty extreme. but i like having people in the race who actually improve the conversation and the debate because we should be debating what happened with covid, we should be debating what happened with pharma and their very, i think, corrupt relationship with our government that caused so much is trouble during, caused unconstitutional things to happen during covid. i think that was a test run for things to come, so we have the debate that. but, yeah, these poll numbers are very interesting. here's some approval if numbers for us to look at for how joe biden is doing. i mean, or they are hitting some new lows. i mean, this is incredible. now gone from the 40s into the 30. will: 37% as of december. pete: 37% approval rating 11 months out from election is going to continue to throw out flares of panic on the democrat side. rachel: and compare that to how people feel trump would do on the economy. on the issues people care about most, look how donald trump is polling. 52%, of course, care -- think that he can handle the economy better. on inflation, 51%. those two categories alone -- will: look at the margining too. rachel: i know. will: versus 35 and 30 for joe biden on how they'd handle those issues. rachel: yeah. so i think the attempts to make donald trump look like he's a bad businessman and take him to court other, you know, his -- over, you know, his business deals, i think e the american people saw what happened of four years under donald trump. it wasn't long ago. they know their lives were better. that old adage, you know, was your life better, you know, under this president or not? under donald trump we had record-breaking economic numbers. and for the working class. pete: in doubt. but to will with's point earlier, they're sail -- they'll point at 2022 and the demagoguery of donald trump, and then they'll point to that last line on the graph which is abortion, and that's the tune they're going to sing for 11 is months. will: because they have to. pete: they have to. you can't run on anything else at all, and they're going to continue the fast forward attempts the try to put a convicted felon title in front of donald trump so they can run ads to suburban women in key states and tell them don't vote for a convicted felon. that's their whole -- rachel: and dictator now. they're trying to say he's a dick today for now even though when he was in office, no one gave more rights back to the people and to the states. so the only one consolidating power is joe biden in so many ways. but these numbers have, to i think, serving some fear shocks through joe biden's campaign but also barack obama who is really the man behind the curtain. pete: see if they move. by the way, as we've been talking, i've been trying to focus, but your daughter's conducting an orchestra over there. literally. i mean, just beautiful strokes of -- i don't know how to do that, but when you watch it -- will: i think you're doing it now. [laughter] turning now to the crisis at our southern border, border patrol ap apprehending more than 18,000 illegal immigrants in just one week. ray ea ray and as border towns like eagle pass, texas, get hit with a wave of migrants, republicans are calling on the biden administration to protect our national security. pete: our man, griff jenkins, is live in eagle pass with the latest. griff, good morning. >> reporter: pete, will and rachel, good morning to you. there's a reason in that poll president biden is at a paltry 24% on the issue i of the border. i am back in eagle pass, pete, will and rachel. i have spent more time stand thing right where i am than in any other location on the planet this year on assignment because it is simply out of control. you know they say if you see something, say manager? we have been standing here, myself, bill melugin and others seeing a national security risk. and on tuesday we hit a high water mark that should terrify the nation. look at this, 12,000 migrant encounters in one single day across the entire southwest borderer on tuesday. remember, dhs secretary jeh johnson in 2019 said 1,000 was a crisis? well, we got 12 times that, and it is terrifying. let me show you the situation here though. in eagle pass on that same tuesday they had over 3,000. the day after that, another 3,000. the day after that, another 3,000. groups just like this. that's actually el paso, but here in eagle pass we have had the numbers that are just shattering records. now, i want to show you some video we shot yesterday when we got here, a migrant handcuffed, being separated from the group as they process them right after they cross. this is a migrant that hit the database for being a sexual assault of a child, a sex offender. it is just unbelievable, what is happening here. that is why the officials are on edge. now, let me take you out live to lukeville, arizona, where melugin has been doing such a great job. already as the sun comes up we've got migrants from all over the world, african countries and other places building fires, coming through there. it is a sign of a situation that you've got in arizona, ground zero. here in texas, ground zero. and you've got the chief out in tucson, arizona, that sector putting the numbers out. in one week, look at this, stunning, a record 18,900 apprehensions in one week. 145 federal criminal cases, 15 rescues, 10 smuggling events. you can see all the information there. it comes after they broke a record in that sector last week with 17,500. and it's why you've got the democrat governor, katie hobbs, out in arizona now sounding the alarm, asking for help, pleading with the biden administration, sending a bill, if you will, for $512 million reimbursement for the crisis. you see she put that out there, and she's asking for the biden administration to act immediately to solve what she calls an unmitigated crisis at the border. of course, the administration won't use that language. now, let's bring it back to washington. no one's really been able to do much to get this administration or to change policy, but house reflips have been try -- republicans have been trying. congressman jim jordan, chairman of the judiciary committee, saying he will subpoena mayorkas for case files op migrants wanted for things like assault, murder and terrorism-related charges. guys, i'll send it back to you. will: all right, griff, thank you very much. rachel: thank you, griff. pete: so he mentioned, griff mentioned katie hobbs who's sudden arely waking up in arizona a, this idea that the border's an important thing the on a border state as they break records. she's not calling for actual enforcement, but she is asking for more none. give me the national forward to help facilitate, singing the same tune as the a mayor of this town, eric adams, who's met with the biden administration i believe now ten times begging for money. well, now he's admitting that those talks were fruitless. that help is not on the way. here's eric adams on friday. >> we did not walk out from d.c. can with any level of optimism that anything is going to drastically change. it is clear that for the time being, this crisis is going to be carried by cities. here in new york city, it is because our federal government actions have taken a toll on the people of this city. we're going to continue to do our job with in the administration, but these are extremely challenging times. and as i left washington, d.c., i did not leave with optimism. i left with the cold reality that help is not on the way. rachel: i'm glad no money is going to him. but make no mistake, there is a lot of money going to solve this problem. and when you hear democrats act a like they care about what's happening at the border, the only thing they say is just as you said, pete, money. more money. and more money means what? because you don't need money to do what donald trump did. you need to build the wall, that's it, but you have to go back to the policies of remain in mexico. he had the most secure border in american history. zero in 2019, zero terrorist encounters. we are now at record, history-breaking, record numbers of terrorists coming across our border. they want your money, and with that money what do they do with the money? they process more of them. we now know from reports that what they're doing is they're laundering our tax dollars. so they take your tax dollars, they, they give it out to ngos. the ngos are paying for flights, they're giving phone cards, and now they're giving $5,000 visa a credit cards. think about this holiday, how so many families are suffering, how they could use a few thousand dollars in their pockets. but they are going -- our tax dollars are going to ngos who then give those visa cards to people who have broke withen -- pete: illegals are also getting access to the v.a. health care system -- rachel: please tell people about a this. pete: we did a segment about this last weekend, and we're going to do more. it's not that they're going to hospitals, it's that the v.a. is helping facilitate the money transfers between, from illegals through the v.a. system to be seen by community provide earth, health care. dental, health care, the same system the vets have to navigate, and the administration's blocking them in that particular case. i've also got a buddy who was flying out of san antonio late at night this week, he said thousands of illegals with folders and cards -- can here's the thing, the most effective policy though is the cheapest one. he said they were going to california, they were going to new york, they were going to philly. he said there was a flight bound for florida, nobody if on it. will: oh, really? pete: you know why? ron desantis said, we don't want you. when you send a clear signal, people don't go. it doesn't cost anything to do that. you just have to show leadership and, of course, they haven't done any of that. rachel: wow. will: an investigation into the leak of the nashville shooter's manifesto has come back inconclusive. investors determining the two tennessee officers who discovered the manifesto did take photos of the shooter's notebook but were unable to directly pin down the person that leaked the document. the nashville police department says it, quote, exhausted all investigative avenues searching for the people responsible for the leak. now to a fox weather alert, forecasters are predicting a weekend full of severe storms that will bring 60 mile-per-hour winds, torrential rain and know to the east coast. pete just slumped in his chair. [laughter] travelers can expect delays both on the road and in the air. for more on this story -- pete: look at that severe storm threat area right there. will: it's a bummer. i'll see you at the french. toast line all day long on sunday. [laughter] and the queen of christmas is breaking a new record. mariah carey, all i want for christmas is now -- holds the title for the most digital singles sold bytists who predate the digital era at 69 million. if. ♪ ♪ what more can i do. ♪ baby, all i want for christmas is you ♪ will: beat out michael jackson's previous record of 68.5 million. the christmas tune also ties lorde's record for highest certified females led of all time. so these are digital single buys that predate the digital era, right? so a song that came out before everything was on -- i'm trying to figure out what i just read. and then it's not limited to christmas songs because michael jackson -- by the way, where is michael jack jackson's christmas record? he didn't have one. you don't think so? rachel: i had raymond arroyo, we were talking about christmas albums, he has a christmas album that just came out that he did a single with jose e feliciano, and he told me that on billboard, e jose feliciano, the single beat mariah carey this past week. maybe not in this particular sales tracking, but that's interesting. pete: i bet there's a michael jackson -- will: let's look up michael jackson christmas -- pete: if there is one -- will: by the way, lorde, that i like that song royals? if. pete: oh, i like that. that's the only song i know by -- will: me too. [laughter] he's a one-man band, brian brenberg, he is at today's army-navy if game, gillette stadium in fox borrow, massachusetts. hey, brian. >> hey, guys, what's up? you've got the navy band behind me, it is just awesome here. i've been talking to guys jumping out of airplanes, they're going to jump on the field today. the commander of the uss constitution. tammy and i got out on the field, we were running routes. tom brady-esque throws into the end zone. it's just an amazing atmosphere the here, and you can just tell it's getting closer and closer to the big game. so we're so excited about it. we're going to be talking more about the uniforms in this game, army and navy both busting out some awesome uniforms. army's in particular we'll be getting into. but such a cool environment. gillette stadium, new england, it just doesn't get any better than this. for a guy like me, total dream come true. will no doubt. pete: you've got your son there, which is awesome. football player yourself -- >> yeah. pete: out there in new england for the historic game. brian where, great job all a morning long. appreciate you. rachel: thanks, brian. pete: did michael jackson have a christmas album? rachel: i would say he would. no, wait, he's a yes hove jehovah witness, they didn't have it. pete: correct. jackson five had a one, you forgot about the jackson five. michael jackson did not. will: there you go. pete: i know he did technically, so you're technically correct, but you're also long. -- wrong. 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