alexandria hoff following it all and joins me here onset. alex. alex: senator jody ernst started and there s about 2,000 iowans and one thousand that come from the charity fundraisers and cattle calls some put it for gop hopefuls that want to connect and carve out their brand. i scare the dickens out of the radical left and joe biden. leadership is not about virtue, signaling or building a brand, leadership is ultimately about results. we have a battle to fight in 2024. let me fight that good fight for you. alex: well former vice president mike pence took a ride himself. who knew? gearing up for presidential announcement which will come on wednesday in iowa according to ap, same day as multiple results have north dakota governor doug bergum entering the race. former new hampshire governor chris christie will announce run on tuesday. here is pence talking about the week ahead. i have every confidence that voters in iowa and around the country will take time to think ha
officials and other colleagues trying to understand what the implications were. so i am going back to the hill today, going to meet with a lot of of my colleagues and get to where we need to go. i know we have to pay our bills. that is probably the most overriding thing driving me. but as i said yesterday, there are parts of this bill that i would not vote for if they were a free standing bill. the whole process is not one that is the way that the government should operate. we need regular order. that to me, congresswoman, sounds like a reluctant yes at this point. am i reading that right? i am not going to tell you one way or the other because i am going to keep asking questions and if i learn anything that s very disturbing today, i will have you know, i want to understand how precedent setting this bill is. how will this impact future bills? what are the domestic spending cuts, what are the programs really going to cut? are seniors going to be hurt. real questions th
and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? that s right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. to support the community? like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio s governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio s governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chicke
toxic chemicals. welcome to fox news live, i m jacqui heinrich. griff: i m griff jenkens. lucas tomlinson on the ground in east palestine, lucas, what do you have for us? griff, state and local and even federal officials like epa say the water is clean. many residents simply don t believe them. in the last few minutes a truck pulled up to distribute bottled water from salvation army and private owners. yesterday i spoke to a resident by the creek, this is what he said about the water. it s tainted and it would never be the same. i would never let me kids walk in this. ever? ever again. lucas: now representative bill johnson who represents east palestine in congress, he responded to that sound. the epa, both the federal and the state have made the valid case that the water is clean. this community has a city water system that is routinely tested anyway. it does not get its water source from that creek. lucas: the epa has deployed teams like this to clean the nearby s
here we go. one house. two of them. yeah, hit two houses. wow. right? good morning, everyone. good monday morning. good weekend? good weekend. monday though. arg. you ll get there. we re glad you re with us. we start with weather. there is a dangerous winter storm dumping quite a bit of snow on southern california. that s right. southern california. and unleashing tornadoes as it heads east. we re tracking the severe weather threat. also this we re confident that the chinese leadership is considering the provision of lethal equipment. there s growing concern this morning that china may be ready to provide weapons to russia. could it be a game changer on the battlefields in ukraine? what s ahead the cia is saying. house republicans taking aim at the biden administration s handling of a toxic train disaster in ohio. what we re hearing about investigation ands hearings on capitol hill. but we begin with the winter storm tearing across the nation right now.