On 'Fox News Sunday,' host Shannon Bream welcomed Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas, Susan Page, Jason Riley, and more to discuss the latest political news.
USA Today Washington bureau chief Susan Page, Wall Street Journal’s Jason Riley, Fox News senior political analyst Juan Williams and Daily Caller editorial director Vince Coglianese discuss the U.S. economy and its impact on 2024.
SEN. JOHN CORNYN : This is a big flashing green light. If you can get to our southern border, you can probably make your way into the United States. In a moment, Texas Democratic Congresswoman Veronica Escobar will join us to discuss the big changes. Border Patrol has been releasing hundreds of migrants to El Paso streets every day, with many of them becoming homeless forced to camp out on city streets at night, in the bitter cold. Thousands of others have been camped out behind the border wall waiting to be let in for processing.BLAKE BARROW, CEO OF RESCUE MISSION OF EL PASO: We've never seen anything like this. And I've been the CEO 25 years.
MELUGIN: And that is because Title 42 is set to drop in just three days from now. When that happens, DHS is projecting the border could be seeing anywhere between 9,000 and 15,000 illegal crossings every single day -- Shannon.Joining us now, Democratic Congresswoman of Texas, Veronica Escobar.REP. VERONICA ESCOBAR : Thank you, Shannon. It's a pleasure to be here with you. Good morning.
But I will tell you, Shannon, I do think it's important that we have far more robust support from the State Department. And here's why. Unfortunately, Congress has failed to act on changing are very outdated immigration laws for decades. This is, as you say a much broader problem. But how worried are you about the national security implications with the current situation and what most people expect will get much worse on Wednesday?
And I don't want us to do more of the same, Shannon, which is focus only on deterrence, focused on immigration as a border issue. We've done that for decades, and this is what it's gotten us today.This is from the CBP and essentially what they're showing us in October, their migrant encounters were 230,678 at the border. That's up 40 percent from the October of the previous year, 221 percent from the October before that. And before that, 411 percent increase.
Everyone should now see and understand that is a failure. It's an expensive failure. It's not good for the agents. It's not good for the migrants. ESCOBAR: You know, I -- I don't know about you or about any of my Republican colleagues who loved to parachute into my community and do their photo-ops at the border, but I have spoken to migrants, and I've been speaking to migrants who arrive at our nation's front door here in El Paso for decades. I've been talking to them as recently as a couple of weeks ago.
But I will tell you, when I spoke to migrants under the Trump administration. They were telling migrants, you better come now, you know, Trump is going to build the wall. That's when we saw a large number -- large numbers coming through El Paso. BREAM: And we can't forget that these are real human lives. I know you see that every day and are committed as a third generation El Pasoan there, too, helping your community.BREAM: Up next, we will get reaction from across the aisle. Congressman Chip Roy of Texas, he can answer some of these accusations when he joins us, next.
That's why my GOP colleagues in the Texas delegation got together and we introduced what we call the Texas border plan. More money to process more people, which floods the zone, attracts more people to come here, allows more of these immigrants to get abused. And everyone knows this. You know who knows it? The cartels, and they're charging $3,000, $8,000, $10,000 a head to move human beings into our country for profit, and the Biden administration is allowing that to occur.
So that's why the Texas delegation got together to say, here's what border security would actually look like. BREAM: To the point on the -- on the funding, though, they will point to Secretary Austin, defense secretary, to say he's asked for a full fiscal year of funding, saying it will hurt our men and women in uniform --BREAM: -- their ability to do their jobs to be safe to protect us, if we don't give them that funding.
ROY: Well, while I'm watching Texas get assaulted, I would be using the power of the purse. James Madison wrote in"Federalist Paper 58" that is the most effective tool against the tyranny of an executive branch that stomping on the -- on the people. We can use the power of the purse to actually change policies.
Not just Republicans. Again, Hispanics in South Texas who wanted to secure the border. We can't give up our power of the purse to demand that we do that. While Democrats say, whoa, write us another check so we can process more people at the border and empower cartels and empowered China, the American people want us to secure the border.
JASON RILEY,"THE WALL STREET JOURNAL" AND FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR: Yes, the - - you know, we got some good inflation numbers in the sense that it's not getting much worse. But it's still there. I mean the Fed's target is 2 percent. Inflation's at 7 percent. So, it's still three times the Fed target. BREAM: OK, so let's put up that poll again. Have you been helped by President Biden's economic policies? Only 16 percent say yes. 46 percent say they've actually been hurt, Juan, by those policies.
Asked, do you want Biden to run again in 2024? And this isn't by party, this is just overall. Yes, 33 percent, but, Susan, no, 64 percent. And we are seeing the commercials and people from inside the Democratic Party saying, please, don't run again.PAGE: And -- and it's mirrored on the Republican side, too. You know, there is no enthusiasm - or little enthusiasm to have a rematch. For - Democrats would prefer somebody besides Joe Biden.
What we're also seeing is him doing less well one on one in hypothetical matchups with Biden should he won, versus other Republicans who seem to do better in those hypothetical matchups.WILLIAMS: That I'm surprised when I look at the polls, though, that most Republicans still favor Donald Trump as the Republican nominee in `24.
So, as a result, he said, look, this falls under the broad umbrella of doxing. This is posting the direct information of where someone is and it imposes a harm on them. BREAM: And I think that's kind of what he likes for us - and he said, listen, I'm going to try things. Some of them - I think he said be dumb -BREAM: And we will reel those back in. So, I mean, he admits this is a - this is an experiment in process.BREAM: I want to hit on this, though, A Fox News poll on social media companies, are they biased against? Sixteen percent said they were biased against Democrats, 39 percent said Republicans.
WILLIAMS: But there is an investigation. That's what I got - that was puzzled to me about the question because the Department of Justice is investigating Hunter Biden.WILLIAMS: And it's being done by a U.S. attorney in Delaware who was appointed by Donald Trump.
Moments ago I sat down with Fox Sports FIFA World Cup 2022 lead studio analyst Alexi Lalas, and lead host, Rob Stone.OK, today is finally the day. My household is one of the millions around the world, maybe billions, watching, waiting, excited. What is the mood, Rob, like there on the ground? LALAS: Well, I mean, just with the history that you - that you mentioned, obviously, in and of itself, it says how difficult it is. And not only difficult, but when you win a men's World Cup, what history has shown is that it's not only difficult to win another one, but even to actually get out of the group. And so that they have not missed a beat and they have changed some of the - some of the players, there's still some usual suspects that were there for years ago.
But, look, the best is, I can't tell you - tell you, Shannon, who the best is anymore than I can tell you what the best food is or the best music or the best art or the best looking person. It's personal preference who you ultimately feel. And there's a lot of people out there that regardless of what happens today say that Lionel Messi is the best player ever to play the game.BREAM: Oh, right, right. So, yes -STONE: Watch me. Watch me change it.
And I think the U.S. has that and it is growing. And they do have four years. And also there is the pressure of knowing that they are one of the co-hosts.
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