welcome to a special edition of fox news live. problems piling up for president biden at home and overseas. peace looking as el useive as ever in the middle east while the crisis at the southern border spirals further out of control. despite all that merry christmas, everyone. i m rich edson. i m claudia cowen. the president is facing growing pressure to respond to houthi attacks in the red sea. the white house confirming iran has been providing weapons and intelligence on ship locations fueling a crisis in global shipping and raising tensions in the middle east. exiled iranian leader says when it comes to proxy wars, iran wrote the book. this regime has mastered proxy wars particularly emboldened and encouraged when apiecement becomes an element more reason to push the envelope. we shouldn t be surprised to see these are the kind of acts that the regime will take advantage of to try to get as much credit as possible but at the same time not bearing the consequences and
program that he was not timely in notifying the public about his stroke when it occurred just before the primary. nor was he forthcoming about his cardiomite yop thi. and i said he was refusing to debate his opponent in an effort to run out the clock by not agreeing to a debate until many pennsylvanians had already voted. i also defended an nbc reporter criticized noting he had trouble understanding her small talk. basically, i thought the coverage of fetterman was being determined by empathy alone, not objectivity when the facts demanded both. so now comes the news that the junior senator from pennsylvania admitted himself to walter reid medical center on wednesday night for treatment of clinical depression. his office released a statement while saying he experienced depression without tlout his life, it only became severe in recent weeks. he s receiving treatment on a voluntary basis after examining him, the doctors told us that john is getting the care he needs and will so
about his stroke. nor about his cardiomyopathy and need for a pacemaker and he was refusing to debate his opponent in an effort to run out the clock by not agreeing to a debate until many pennsylvanians had already voted. i defended an nbc reporter who was criticized for reporting that fetterman had trouble understanding her small talk before the interview. i thought the coverage was being determined by empathy alone, not objectivity when the facts demanded both. now comes the news from the junior senator admitted himself to walter read on wednesday night for treatment of clinical depression. his office released a statement saying while john was experienced depression on and off throughout his life, it only became severe in rekren weeks, he s receiving treatment on a voluntary basis. we re told that john is getting the care he needs and will soon be back to himself. this is fetterman s second hospital in as many weeks. he was recently admitted to george washington university
these people are working, farm workers are working from sunrise to sunset, by the time they get home and ask for transportation and pay to go and find they find nothing. it s so terrible. this has been a big, big issue. i thank you for being with us. thank you for doing what you do on a daily basis. it s been great to have you here with us this morning. that wraps up the hour for me. see you tomorrow night on nbc news saturday. thank you for the privilege of your time. andrea mitchell picks up with more news right now. good day, everyone. this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. president biden is trying to show he is taking action in response to the supreme court s abortion decision. it s not clear what he can do without congress. just back from nato, the president will meet with nine democratic governors virtually to talk about steps they can take to protect abortion access. the white house is trying to increase the availability of abortion pills as recent cou
a source saying after one instance in which justice department officials were in contact with mr. trump s team, boxes were moved in and out of the room. we re also monitoring the former president s evolving response to this search. he now says the documents taken fall under attorney client privilege and that he wants them back immediately. let s begin with cnn senior crime and justice reporter kaitlin. a lot of developments and things that moved quickly since last monday. tell us what the latest is in this investigation. jim and bianna, one of the most important things we ve learned since we saw the search warrant, in june we have more of what happened that led up to this. in june a lawyer for former president donald trump did attest in writing to the justice department that there would be no more classified documents that could be found at mar-a-lago. at that time, the justice department was subpoenaing everything they had trying to get it back. still, the justice depart