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Mr. New York. 710 W.O.R. Well, Liz Peek, the brilliant columnist. You should be reading her columns. You can get them at Fox News.com. You can get them at The Hill.com. Of course, you see her all over television. That's great to have her here. Liz Peake, how you doing? I'm terrific. Thanks for having me on, Mark.

Hey, it was way back in the Clinton days. They would say, it's the economy stupid. And now it's the

border stupid. Do you think Democrats are finally figuring this out? Yes, I do. Look, when you have two

early primary states, not even close to border states,

have voters say that this is their number one issue? Yeah, the front page, the cover story on

the economist today is about the border. I mean, and basically saying Joe Biden could lose the election over

this issue. Mark, what Governor Abbott and Ducey and DeSantis did in creating this as a national

problem by sending migrants all over the country and not just having people in Texas and Arizona worrying about migrants

has been brilliant.

We have had, what is the number, 8 million, 9 million people now come into the country illegally

since Joe Biden became president, and a lot of those millions of people are now on the

streets in Philadelphia, New York, and Chicago, and Boston, all over the country.

And guess what?

It's an economic issue.

It's a security issue.

We know that tens of thousands of people from China, Russia, Afghanistan, other countries known to harbor terror organizations have landed in our country.

Fentanyl is a huge issue. I mean, honestly, it has been, I think, for me, and I'm sure for you, dumbfounding,

that Joe Biden simply would not address this issue as it simply got worse and worse.

And as you've seen, as your listeners probably know, last month, December, was the worst ever.

So whatever pretends the Biden administration has made of corraling this problem,

of granting Venezuelans and other people's special

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