fox and friends starts right now. gretchen: good morning, everybody. i am juliet in for gretchen carlson . we have serious business to start with you. former president george bush is in intensive care with his fever climbing . the latest on his condition and what his family is sea saying. brian: the president is in the aired hading back to washington. is it too late. we are breaking doup your tax reality. brian: and holiday travelers are stuck on the tarmac x. one pilot was frustrated . wait until you hear what he did over com. fox and friends begins right now. fox and friends . brian: kelley wright. i am clayton morris . this is julia morris. happy merry christmas. you guys have a nice christmas. family was here and we had a great time. frolic in the clayton: beautiful snow. you can t beat christmas in new york 73 unless you are manger square in bethlehem. clayton: we ll tell you about people stuck on the tarmac. five or six hours. if you were
persistent cough, george hw bush couldn t be home for christmas this year so home came to him along with chinese food. from houston with the latest on the 41st president s health. neal bush came and barbara was there to have chinese food. he is still very much bedridden by this cough. he certainly is, luke. yesterday the former president spent all day in the hospital with family and friends. i will talk about that in a moment. the former president has been in the hospital from a persistent cough. late last week they said that the president suffered from low energy days. a few days of low grade fever. that is what prevented him from going home for christmas. christmas came to him. former first lady barbara bush along with their son, neal, and his family surrounded him and
president obama and congress are miles apart, but with the president cutting his vacation short, is there time for a resolution. the srkd term shuffle is getting complicated. chinese food for former president bush surrounded by family. still in a houston hospital after his health has taken a turn for the worst. good morning. it s wednesday, the day after christmas and this is the daily rundown and i m luke russert for chuck todd. just more day in paradise for president obama while the rest of the family stays in hawaii. he will head back later this evening. he did take out with the first lady to express gratitude with service members on behalf of the nation. we know it s not easy, but what we also want you to know is you have the entire country behind you and all of us understand that we would be nowhere without the extraordinary service that you provide. i want to say thank you and we love you. kristen welker is live in honolulu. it s early in the morning there, bu
andrea mitchell, your thoughts at this moment. great sadness, great appreciation for all she did for the grace, for the courage, her loyalty to her family. for the way she chose to die because she went through this passage with tremendous faith. and also sending a message about individual choice. she did not want more treatment. she had been in and out of the hospital. any of us who know what it s been like to nurse your own parents or be with your own parents as they go through these stages now how complicated it is. so she made she made these choices for herself and her family supported her. her husband was with her as she was going into her final sleep. her children had been in and out of houston, neal bush was very emotion in an interview this morning and others in the family deeply ached.
taken of his rescue by an american submarine. thank god. you really do. you know, in that life raft, you go right back to the fundamental values. i was 20 years old. you think of family and you think of faith. you pray. when he returned from the war, bush resumed his courtship of barbara pierce. he had met her when she was 16 and he proposed to her just before leaving for the pacific. they were married on january 6th, 1945. life was returning to normal. bush attended yale where he got into an accelerated program and in 1948 graduated as a member of phi beta kappa with a degree in economics. he had a job waiting for him in the family investment business but he didn t take the easy pay. he didn t rely on family connections or wealth. reporter: neal bush is the