the area are reporting headaches, nausea and respiratory issues after the train ran off the rails earlier this month. good afternoon, mike. mike: good afternoon, mike, it looks like a communication breakdown has halted the clean-up of contaminated material here from east palestine. much of the contaminated dirt and water were being move today hazardous material handling facilities in wayne county michigan as well as harris county texas but officials on the receiving end said say that no one told them that the hazardous material was coming to their state. 15 truckloads or 210 tons of contaminated dirt have arrived in michigan. wayne county executive is not pleased. i don t know how you do that without contacting the local officials so that we can number 1, know how to respond to our communities and number 2, give at advice in terms of routes that you may take and those sorts of things. 5 truckloads or 70 tons contaminated have been returned to east palestine. expected
director christopher wray. the fbi is the other federal agency that thinks coronavirus emerged from the wuhan lab. mike: lucas, thanks very much. for more on this let s bring political panel, gary, grv strategies and former senior communications adviser to senator chuck grassley and jonathan cott, gentlemen, welcome. welcome to fox news poll numbers. the economy is top issue although it seems to have slipped followed by immigration, border security, climate change and other issues in the single digits. any surprise in those numbers, jonathan? no, i think that s what people care about. it s pocketbook issues and impacts your daily life. once a lot of the policies that the president and the democratic congress passed in the last two years start taking effect all those numbers are going to change because americans are going to start seeing more money
from lab leak in china this according to wall street journal report. previously the department was undecided on how the virus emerged plus new fox polling suggests the economy and border security are among the top issues for voters. for more on all of this lucas ls tomlinson joins me live from the white house. lucas: new information of coronavirus origins coming from our colleague earlier today president biden national security adviser was asked about the report. jake sullivan would neither confirm nor deny it. some almost elements have reached conclusion on one side and some in the other and some don t have enough information to be sure. right now there s not a definitive answer on this question. lucas: many blame the coronavirus for wrecking the u.s. economy and the global economy in fact. fox news poll show the majority of americans, 57% say they have less money in their pocket now
into 2024. a lot of these, you know, issues that we ve come to handle now are caused by democrats reckless spending, unified democrat control which led to reckless inflation and people feeling that they have less economic outlook going forward. mike: on democratic candidate preference, lucas made 37% keep biden, 53% someone else. how troubling is that for the white house, jonathan? not troubling at all. those 53% are i guess the democrats who don t like winning. i m the democratic wing that likes to win elections so i can t wait to joe biden to announce he s running again. i can t wait for donald trump to be the nominee. you are only going to see bigger margin of victory in 2024 after what he s accomplished in the last 24 hours. a lot of that is progressives that are upset that he didn t go far enough. i think those people all come back home the second he s the nominee and the second he has no opponent. mike: are you surprised he hasn t announced yet?