


The president said that the border wall would be paid for “indirectly” through a new trade deal with Mexico, but Smith also pointed out that the deal is “not yet complete.” “But government statistics show much of the heroin actually comes not over the unguarded border but through ports of call,” Smith said. The Fox News host also touched on the president’s repeated warnings about illegal drugs being brought into the country.
“Government statistics show that there is less violent crime by the undocumented immigrant population than by the general population,” Smith said. Smith pushed back on some of the president’s claims following his 10-minute speech, including statistics about violent crime and murder rates committed by undocumented immigrants. Plus, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been ordered to pay the state $5 million for his book deal.Fox News anchor Shepard Smith fact-checked President Trump’s prime-time address on border security shortly after it ended on Tuesday night. Civil rights attorney David Henderson reports on the hearing for the parents of Michigan school shooter, Ethan Crumbley, and the impact it could have on other cases around the country. But there’s debate within the FDA over whether that’s safe, given that the drugs can sometimes have bad interactions with other medications. New York Times’ reporter Kate Kelly discusses drug companies’ push to make birth-control pills available without prescriptions. A federal judge has thrown out former President Donald Trump’s lawsuit seeking to block a House committee from getting his tax returns. 15 deadline that Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warned could mark the start of the first-ever U.S. Congressional Democrats moved toward raising the debt ceiling just one day before the Dec. Robby Sikka, former VP for the Minnesota Timberwolves, also says professional sports leagues are facing Covid outbreaks that force them to postpone games and impose quarantines. CNBC’s Meg Tirrell reports on a pill from Pfizer that could cut the risk of hospitalization and death from Covid by 89% among high-risk patients. The World Health Organization is warning the new Covid-19 omicron variant is spreading faster than any previous strain, and it is probably present in most countries of the world.
