administration it was very badly mishandled. they were lecturing at the chinese. the chinese were lecturing at the americans and it felt like that relationship was so spiraling out of control. in the month to follow china sent waves of warplanes. the mistakes of the low points of biden s presidency have actually been the president s own mistakes. mainly biden s handling of afghanistan and his decision to auto pull all u.s. troops out of the country which has led to a humanitarian disaster. it s a very bleak situation what people are facing stark and severe starvation. nato allies who believed biden would consult with them after years of insults from his predecessor president trump were blindsided by the southern unilateral u.s. withdrawal leaving relations in the gulf particularly frayed as those countries question whether the u.s. is reliable ally. those are decisions the
ainsley: the administration is saying schools should stay open but here we go again. our top story this morning schools are closing in many of the big cities around the country. you have chicago, even though 91% of the chicago public school staffers are fullly vaxxed, the chicago teachers union as we were talking about yesterday, they voted to return to remote learning, that s one day after the students returned to class. also, in boston, you have all these teachers and staffers that didn t go to work yesterday. milwaukee, no in person learning until january 10th. you have detroit public schools. they are going all virtual as well, guys. lawrence: yeah. and president biden is saying the schools must be open and there is no reason omicron will make it worse for our kids. take a look. we have no reason to think at this point that omicron is worse for children than previous variants. we know that our kids can be safe when in school by the way. that s why i believe schools should rem
bret: so different phrasing there and there was obviously a lot of pushback even within his own party about that original speech in atlanta. yeah that original speech a lot of people in the media loved it but it went over like a led balloon on capitol hill calling people racist for opposing his fairly radical voting changes legislation. the thing is this whole issue, whether he is softer on the rhetoric or not has been extreme gaslighting of america. nobody thinks that we have a voting rights problem like we had in 1964 in this country. nobody thinks that in an election where you had tens of millions of people voting with no problem, that you have a voting rights problem. we do have an issue where election integrity is in question where we had hundreds of changes to our laws and processes, sometimes done in an unconstitutional manner, where we flooded the zone with tens of millions of mail-in ballots. where we had insecure drop boxes and so this idea that if you care about election
new york city. what say you to this? based on what you re seeing there where you are and data from around the country, is this latest surge in retreat? it is. i think not everywhere. i think that and not only that, but we have to know that even if the cases are receding, hospitalizations and deaths always lag behind. boston s always been behind new york and it speaks to what we re seeing as well. the cases are starting to go down. and the hospitalizations are different. let me just correct this. it s not the same crisis, because what you re seeing is a huge percent of the changes we re seeing with the new tools at hand are doctors are able to do more with the patients, but the patients who are severely ill in hospitals right now from covid itself, not incidental covid, but people for covid itself are people who are unvaccinated. it s even more frustrating
norton is worried about though is consistency. d.c. s mandate does not include employees or entertainers. i think it should include workers. overall norton thinks the mandate is working and lawmakers on the hill should butt out. frankly we are tired of people interfering with the that s probably wishful thinking, bret, as kentucky senator rand paul introduced a bill to kill d.c. s vax mandate just this week. bret? bret: aishah, thank you. up next, the panel on my interview with senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and senator klobuchar but reaction to yesterday s presidential news conference. first, here is what a couple of our fox afill i can t say around the country are covering tonight wfxt in boston drops case against the massachusetts institute technology professor accused of concealing research ties to china. federal prosecutors say they could no longer meet the proof