this is america s late news. fox news at night. and breaking tonight, the new evidence is very strong that voters are not happy and the anger appears to be across the political spectrum. young, old, black, hispanic. the numbers for president biden are getting worse and when you have a lot of ground to make up in the new year, solutions seem to be few and far between t senior national correspondent kevin corke is live in dc with the very latest on this kevin good evening. reporter: happy new year my friend, evening to you. now last year president biden reportedly spent about, let s just say about a third of his time on the job away from the job, as it were, at get aways, posh vacation spots and almost weekly at his home over in delaware. but as he gets back to work in 2024 the oldest president in american history is saddled with the lowest approval numbers of any president running for a second term since the end of world war ii with 58%, nearly 6 in 10 americans disapproving
ballots in maine and colorado during his actions during the january 6th capitol hill riot. i m dana perino. bill is off today. good morning, bret. bret: i m bret baier. the decisions in both states not only threatening the frontrunner for the republican presidential nomination but where these cases could be eventually heading. the u.s. supreme court as you see there. karl rove said last hour the rulings go against our very system of government. it s anti-democratic and looks like a stretch and it is a stretch. maybe one of the stories we ll find out after november is that this was a clever plot by the trump campaign to sucker left wingers into opposing him being on the ballot knowing it would engender greater support for him and their efforts to remove him would be overridden by the u.s. supreme court. which i fully anticipate. bret: fox team coverage. jonathan turley standing by with the big legal picture. rich edson live in d.c. with the details. good morning, bret.
all right. dana, thanks. dana: have a great show. bret: gogood evening. i m bret baier. breaking tonight, we are following two major stories, first former president donald trump is appealing a decision by maine s democratic secretary of state barring him from primary ballot in his role january 6th, 2021 capitol riot. expecting a similar appeal over colorado s decision to remove the decision from that state s ballot. we begin with claudine gay s resignation as the president of harvard university. the departure comes amid several plagiarism accusations criticism over her december congressional testimony where she was unable to say unequivocally calls on campus for the genocide of jews violated the policy. gay is the second person to resign following the testimony along with former upenn president liz magill. mollie lyon has that story from our boston unit tonight. good evening, bret. harvard president claudine gay making it official announcing her decision with heavy hear
warships prevented another hijacking at sea on sunday. iran s navy has been acquiring cruise missiles with ranges of over 600 miles along with recognizance helicopters and has used a spy ship to help guide the houthi attacks. early sunday, u.s. navy helicopters found themselves in a fire fight with houthi gunmen on board four small vessels attempting to hijack a signify important flagged denmark-owned shipping container. us navy mh 60 helicopters responded to the distress call and returned fire when the houthis attacked. the mh 60 sank the vessel killing fighters. activities by the u.s. and britain in the red say are in the regional waters, especially in the red sea. reporter: meanwhile more shipping conglomerates have announced they are rerouting their ships to avoid the red sea which is bound to add to consumer prices.
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