trace: meantime the fox news at night common sense department is wondering why, if the world health organization says the new omicron variant just not have mutations know to make people sicker and why sections of the u.s. medical community agree, why has the biden administration renewed the covid public health emergency for the 12th time? i would swear i heard somebody say the pandemic was over. the pandemic is over. we still have a problem with covid and we are still doing a lot of work on it. but the pandemic is over. trace: that s where i heard it. it s funny because health and human services also told local and state health agencies to get ready for an end to the emergency. that was in august. what change? it s chilly not to increase in hospitalizations and deaths. those rates have been steady for a while now. it appears the emergency might be a bit of a power play. it allows the administration to
continue offering a litany of benefits like medicaid. maybe that s why enrollment in medicaid has exploded 83 million people. common sense is beginning to think emergency declarations are kind of like taxes. once they re in place, they have a habit of becoming permanent. a public health emergency remains in place here in the u.s. while china appears to be in the throes of a full-blown crisis. let s continue the covid conversation with fox news medical conservator dr. marty makary. dr. macario, it s always great to have you on. i just want your quick thoughts on the continuation, the declaration of the emergency, the public covid emergency for the 12th time. the worst thing you can do in public health esquire wolf more than necessary and it s getting ironic to have a state of emergency for an endemic low-grade virus at this point when you don t have one for heart disease and diabetes. the white house is going to find themselves in the big problem when you have a state of emergency des
jim jordan has the trust. he is one of the best spokes men for the conservative cause. ashley, regardless of who ends up being speaker we ll get behind. it s not a fractured thing we are going through. if you look at the main media they would say the sky is falling and the sun is not come up. no, we re having a healthy debate. you re seeing democracy at its best. we will all come together and get behind whoever it is. jim jordan would make an excellent speaker. i m going to ask you the $64,000 question as we lee to you go, handle all this stuff on capitol hill. will the 12th time be the charm? does kevin mccarthy get elected speaker today. it s up to mr. mccarthy to put on paper and any questions we have, let s go over them in detail. and it s really up to him to decide that we ll look at it and hopefully we can come to some conclusion. if not, we ll sit here as long as it takes. ashley: okay. congressman-elect ralph norman,
elect a speaker since the 1850s continues to play out. he has not yet reached a deal with the senate, mccarthy remains optimistic. lawmaker reportedly even making more concessions to hard line conservatives, some say they still will not support him. sandra: we will likely know a whole lot more as the minutes go on here. we are watching it with you. some mccarthy allies are acknowledge never enough compromise for some hold-outs. warren davidson is backing mccarthy s bid but more than four never kevin lawmakers who will never vote for him. we will have more with the congressman-elect, davidson. he is in front of the camera right now, we ll get to him in just a moment. john: fox news live team coverage, martha will join us with more perspective on the speakership fight, and chad pergram kicking things off this afternoon, live from capitol hill and here we go for a 12th