bret: hi, sandra. the pentagon now taking action in response to the gop lawmakers. their concerns. we ll have that for you ahead. also new at 2:00, we ll be watching florida where the storm that tore communities apart will bring bitter political rivals together. ron desantis putting politics aside, meeting with president biden. we believe both saying their focus is on helping families devastated by hurricane ian. sandra: and we ll see them coming together as they survey the damage there. we ll bring that meeting to you live as it happens and we begin with this fox news alert. americans in for a rude awakening at the pump, and energy analyst says president biden s only choice is to stop it is one he says is clear, and he s not going to make it. those warnings coming after major oil producing nations decided to slash 2 million barrels a day. bret: the move coming months after president biden asked the saudis for help to increase production. the white house now calling out
while the number of those vaccinated keeps going up. but u.s. health policy leaders warn that was a that scenario was for several european countries. who are now suffering a surge in cases amid the variants, and easing restrictions too soon. they are now returning to tighter mandates including in some cases a lockdown. now, the cdc director and other health officials urge that restrictions remain in place but at least 16 states now have no mask mandate and the tsa says its screeners just broke a pandemic record with more than 1.4 million people traveling through airports nationwide. on thursday. there is no progress on vaccinations. president biden marking today the 100 millionth dose, two months ahead of the goal he set. in total more than 115 million vaccinations have been injected into arms. more than one in five in the u.s. have received at least one dose, and more than one in ten in the u.s. are fully vaccinated at 12.3%. my next guest says that her coronavirus vaccina
Lets face it. The big show is going to be the Supreme Court. And i think also the planned parenthood funding. Some republicans are squishy on that. One other thing he said this morning that will cause concerns on the hill from his party was talking about a border tax, instituting a border tax on companies that ship jobs overseas. Thats something when he talked about that after the election, republicans were running away from that. Majority leader of the house, Kevin Mccarthy warned it could start a trade war. Paul ryan started to distance himself from that saying well worry about doing this in a larger tax reform bill. Trump today made it very clear that he wants to go that route. As president , you do have fairly wide latitude to impose tariffs. Does he carry through with some of those threats . I agree with karen. A lot of stuff is symbolic. We knew tpp was dead. A symbolic move. When we get into details of legislative push on obamacare and Supreme Court nominee and on doing things l
warner is describing that lies ahead for democrats in congress this week. his democratic colleagues in the house have just seven days to pass the infrastructure bill. they have just ten days left to reach a deal on the $3.5 trillion spending plan. there s also the important matter of funding the government by the end of the month. they know, by the way, they have to raise the debt ceiling by then or face from janet yellen is calling, quote, widespread economic catastrophe. allie is following all of this. the senate parliamentarian just dealt a major blow to the bill. reporter: democrats say they re going to try again. top democrats involved in this immigration effort released a statement right after we heard from the senate parliamentarian. i want to read a piece of it. they say they re working on alternative proposals and will
thousands of people that have been in tonight s rally have been waiting outside and in the rain, some for almost 40 hours. i used to wait in line like this and hitchhiked to grateful data, that s what he reminds me of. i got here at 11:00 in the morning yesterday. we are behind you 100% and a proof of the agenda and want to be reelected. tonight expect president trump to focus heavily on the strong economy and immigration, the same issue to catapult the campaign four years ago. bret: kristin fisher, life at the orlando event. in the meantime, emigration from the front burner and president trump s new immigration effort announced in a pair of tweets last night. at the reaction today was very swift. let s get details from correspondent kevin corke at the white house.