your puppy is doing the same for you. dana: he is hilarious. thank you for your help this week and wish you a very happy new year. supreme court arguments are happening now about biden s vaccine mandates. harris faulkner will have updates as we go. we ll be back with you next week on monday. here s harris. harris: fox news alert. major action at the u.s. supreme court that could have big consequences on how much power president biden should have. the justices right now are hearing emergency oral arguments challenging biden s sweeping covid vaccine mandates and plaintiffs are arguing that states, not washington, should have authority over the mandates and calling the federal crackdown unnecessary and counterproductive. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus .
this administration already. they ve botched vaccines and testings and the whole mask policy. talked about we open schools. they caved to the unions. the schools should have been open a year ago but they caved to the unions. harris: steve forbes, thank you very much for handling the breaking news with me hot and fast. appreciate it. thank you. outnumbered starts right right now the supreme court is hearing emergency oral arguments on challenges to president biden s sweeping covid vaccine mandate. while the mandates are the heart of the cases, the core issue here, is the federal government s power, to create policy. i am emily compagno, and this is outnumbered. i m joined by my cohost, harris faulkner, and kayleigh mcenany. as well as kennedy house of kennedy and fox and friends and, lawrence jones. the high court is he an argument
white house is being urged to retool the message. focus on ways for the u.s. to live with the virus given the spread and frankly, our unwillingness to do more about it as a society. cdc chief said this morning that her agency is preparing for the covid endemic which would suggest a looming pivot in terms of public health policy. then the president responded to questions from reporters about whether his messaging from reporters should be covid is here to stay. his response? no, but then clarified well, yes, covid, we re going to deal with it now is not means it s here to stay, and yet it will be around the world. at the same time, questions surrounding the administration s legal powers around vaccine mandates are before the supreme court today. the court has been hearing emergency appeals this morning challenging the administration s vaccine or testing. this is a soft mandate. vaccine or testing requirements for large employers in addition to the vaccine requirements for certain health