December 2 86 a. M. Eastern time. Today the crisis at the southern border too big to ignore, President Biden does just that when questioned about it when he boarded a plane to st. Croix the Administration Officials meeting with the mexican president who warned them that the problem was going to intensify. All this as a massive Migrant Caravan began its way to our southern border. Working at the latest all morning long. Meanwhile the content to the new year is on, features as you can see our mixed, the dow is down by 64, nasdaq up by 63 and s p down one point and change, two trading days left for 2023 theyre down that sheen a new alltime high yesterday investors putting faith in the fed expectation to cut Interest Rates next year which is fueling this year end rally. Take a look at european markets this morning as you can see slightly higher, the cac 40 and the daxs are lower and into asia overnight, markets mostly higher. James comer and jim jordan shifting the impeachment inquiry focused directly on President Biden. And if any implement he had on his son hunters decision to defy a house subpoena. Judicial watch president tom fitton will break this down for us. Joining the conversation all morning long Washington Examiner columnist Tiana Lowe Doescher and john lonski. This addition with mornings with maria is live right now. Cheryl it is time for the hot topic of hour, the border crisis getting worse by the day, customer Border Protection sources telling fox news there have been more than 730,000 migrant encounters at the southern border since october 1, secretary of state Anthony Blinken and Homeland SecurityAlejandro Mayorkas meeting with mexican president obrador yesterday but really only walked away from a warning from him that the migration issues were going to intensify saying Congress Needs to decide policy if they want action taken. Through all of this President Biden ignoring a reporter questioned about the border as his boarding a plane for st. Croix vacation. Watch. President biden what would you like to hear from mexico on the border . Cheryl the president , this is par for the course, we should not be surprise of his stance and attitude has changed at all even with the new year approaching. Basically they seem to have a plan of inaction in meanwhile you have these unprecedented numbers coming across the southern border. It doesnt matter if its afghanistan the border he just juts off to a private vacation. If you look at the comparable period of time october 1 through the end of last year there were fewer than half a million Border Crossings and that already was coming close to a record high. This is a must a 50 increase in Border Crossing for the first three months of fiscal year 2024 that will know more once the official numbers come out of who these people are are these unaccompanied minors that even trafficked, are these single young men, we know for a fact that these are not disproportionately intact families that are coming in this is a point that President Trump made to criticism from the further right, these are not migrants that are coming from mexico in the northern triangle, they are coming from all over south america, they are being flown from china, from russia, you back in sand, azerbaijan and crossing into the border and thats what you see the cia and fbi saying we need to worry about terrorism within our own country because the screenings have been so poor. Cheryl what are the thing thats going to happen with mayorkas and Anthony Blinken they want to talk about the los angeles migration protection, this is a fancy way of saying were basically asking other countries, central and south american countries to work with us on migration. Which i find a little bit laughable. Thats is not fixed the problem. We have immigration laws in this country, believe it or not there is a such a thing of Legal Immigration in these laws are being flooded by this administration and keeping with what appears to be a degradation of the quality of life in the United States under joe biden. We respect some laws but we dont respect other laws. It all depends upon where you stand politically as to whether or not laws are going to be enforced and that is dangerous for american society. Cheryl we do have laws that have been enforced, we have tens of thousands of people coming across in their releasing them into the country and thats the most frustrating part, the Biden Administrations answers release them into our country and this is where the Blue American cities are starting to speak up, new york city eric adams is setting restrictions on the busloads of migrants that are being set by Texas Governor greg abbott the city must have 32 hours notice before arrival and only come between 830 and noon on monday through friday, here he is at a zoom roundtable yesterday. I want to get your reaction. A few weeks ago, Governor Abbott provost to send an additional 25000 migrants to new york city alone, we expect the surge to intensify in the coming days and weeks. We cannot allow buses with people needing our help to arrive without warning at any hour of day and night. This not only prevents us from providing assistance in an orderly way, puts those to that of already suffered so much in danger. In chicago mayor Brandon Johnson would rather blame texas for the increase of migrants getting flown into the windy city he is demanding more from more funding from the federal government. We have reached a critical point in this mission the absent real significant intervention immediately our local economies are not designed and built to respond to this type of crisis. It is funny ergo adams last time he directly called out joe biden for being responsible for this, the fbi launched an investigation into him. I think Brandon Johnson learned the lesson come up playing greg abbott, dont blame joe biden who ripped up the diplomatic deals like our safe country agreement and remain in mexico that did stall to the problem under President Trump. We have those deals where we had el salvador, honduras and mexico controlling their southern borders because they knew any migrants that made it to our border would have to stay in mexico while we were processing for legitimate asylum claims. But you cannot blame joe biden if your democrat because the risk is already terrible reelection odds and thats a lesson that others have learned from mayor adams, you cannot blame joe biden you have to blame greg abbott for trying to save the texas economy that has been bruising under this migrant crisis. Is all well with the sanctuary city and all of that but when rubber meets the road in the budget places like new york city thats when the tune changes from the mayors and these are blue cities. Were just getting started, coming up attacks on our troops in the middle east are ramping up in the military intercepts more missiles coming from iranian backed houthis rebels. Keith self is coming up next to discuss all of this. Then President Biden st. Croix getaway fetching a pretty penny and the airbnb listing. That is making a buzz dont miss a moment special addition of mornings with maria live on fox business. Sho theyre waiting for you. Hey, do you have a second . Theyre all expecting more. More efficiency. More benefits. More growth. When you realize you can give your people everything, and more. Thank you very much. [applause] ask, now what . Heres what. You go with prudential to protect, empower and grow. With everything you need to deliver, you guessed it. More. One more thing. Whos your rock . Learn more at prudential. Com cheryl u. S. And mexico officials holding talks to discuss how to slow the record pace of illegal crossings at the southern border. Mexican president obrador telling Anthony Blinken and Alejandro Mayorkas that it will intensify as a caravan of thousands heads towards our border. Congress remains no closer to a deal on immigration reform. Meanwhile customer Border Protection reported the number of chinese nationals illegally entering the United States hit a new record high with over 4700 encounters for november alone. Joining me now texas congressman keith self House Veteran Affairs and Foreign Affairs committee and an Army Special Forces lou turn lieutenant colonel. Good morning to you. Especially as your Vantage Point serving the state of texas do you believe the meeting with mayorkas and Anthony Blinken to the president of mexico is going to lead to any meaningful change of the southern border . Absolutely not and you brought up the issue that congress is wrestling with how do we change the behavior of the Biden Administration, they need to enforce the laws on the books and they need to do their job or mayorkas needs to resign. Cheryl i want to bring in Tiana Lowe Doescher. Go ahead. We know as central contention of the border negotiations is not just about the money but asylum policy that lets people come in with bogus claims and stay here for multiple years without a court date. I want to point out i saw that you were tweeting about the Border Patrol backlog saying the agents in texas outnumbered 200 1, joe biden has asked for 14 billion in aid for the border in the ukraine funding for the border deal that his administration is stonewalling, is 14 billion enough to deal with the backlog or is it more of the policies of what the agents are allowed to do that is hamstringing our ability to enforce a secure border. It is neither an money nor policy nor new laws and simply divided administration refusal to obey the laws and enforce the laws and execute the laws that they soared to a pulp. This is not a matter of money or policy this is a matter of them doing their job. The border is totally uncontrolled when you talk to people coming across the border, reporters do it all the time they dont talk about asylum they talk about we want jobs in america there not even claiming asylum. Lets take was secretary Anthony Blinken is announcing the United States will provide 250 million in weapons and equipment for ukraine in the final package for the year. I want to get your reaction to all of this. It seems like the fight over not just ukrainian funding but the overall funding package the 106 billiondollar package that the president is asking for seams that were very far apart on any deal being made in washington when you come back from the recess. Absolutely. I will tell you first of all this is a president ial drawdown of authority if the reports are correct which means he is drawing down out of our stocks taking from our military to send to ukraine. And frankly our Industrial Base cannot keep up with this. This is really simple, secure the southern border and we will talk about money for ukraine but i believe in all go one of them and say this will only pass with democrat votes and some republicans that will refuse to hold the line. This is a dangerous time for our border is no longer an invasion it is a tsunami coming across the southern border. We must secure the southern border and mayorkas needs to resign. Cheryl where are you and your colleagues right now with regards to the ukraine funding. Theres been a lot of pushback that we can keep this open and the speaking of money flowing to ukraine, were coming up on the twoyear anniversary and february of the Ukraine Russia war, there has been some reports that money has not been spent as it should have been by ukrainian officials and then obviously we have the war in the middle east between hamas and israel, where should the priorities be and where you stand on the ukraine funding specifically. All go back to speaker johnson hes been very clear that unless we get a change in behavior on the southern border and start executing the laws of the United States we will not take up the ukraine funding. I pressed speaker johnson to hold to his word and i encourage them to do so because we must secure the southern border, the priority for me is the southern border, our own border before we discussed the ukrainian border. Cheryl thank you for clarifying. I want to ask you, lets stay with whats happening overseas. There has not been 106 attacks against u. S. Forces in iraq and syria since october 17 as u. S. Forces have now shot down 17 houthis missiles and drones of the red sea. This is attacks on our troops and iran and hamas are arguing hes given take credit for october 7 attack on israel. I want to pick up on the second question, i think what is key is ibm publicly taking responsibility for october 7, doesnt that change the whole conversation about how the United States should be dealing with iran. It really doesnt we knew iran was behind hamas and behind the houthis and behind the attacks of the red sea and the gulf of aden. This is a dangerous time in this is because of the weakness of the budget of initiation overseas starting with the withdrawal from afghanistan. We continue to see it and our allies, not even many of our allies are joining operation prosperity guardian which is the operation they are trying to do in the goals to protect commercial shipping. Shipping companies are going all the way around africa because of the danger in the goals and the red sea. No, this is continuing weakness in the Biden Administration and we see the results of it it continues to engulf the world. 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