and lucas got a chance to ask him a question, i understand? that s right, one of our colleagues asked him that question. and that meeting just wrapping up just moments ago in this building right behind me, jacqui. he spoke to fox very briefly though. to support the community? like i said, very briefly. fema now supplying a small team to east palestine and we heard from ohio s governor who said hhs and c.d.c. will be deploying officials here as well to set up a small free medical clinic, including toxicologists and medical personnel to treat some victims in town. in a joint statement, ohio s governor and fema saying, quote, fema will supplement federal efforts by deploying a senior response official along with a regional incident management assistance team, support ongoing organizations, including assessments, a potential long-term recovery needs. now, one local resident, kayla miller who lives just three miles south of here, tells us she lost animals on the farm, chicke
believes the pandemic likely resulted from a laboratory leak in wuhan, china, peer that is according to classified intelligence recently provided to the white house and members of congress. the energy department now joins the fbi and the virus from a mishap from a chinese left you will say that it was dismissed by the media by debunked conspiracy theories. so, we will proceed, guy as jonathan turley points out for years the media and government allied to treat anyone raising lab theory is 1 of 3 possibilities. he writes, conspiracy theorist, racist or racist conspiracy theorist? he s absolutely right. guy: remember for a while it was racist you couldn t talk about how this virus originated at all from the perspective of these gatekeepers. and i just keep coming back to the term misinformation and conspiracy theory. this is use to disqualify points the media and others disagree with and over and over again, they are proven wrong. i m not saying there aren t things such
prompting concerns now that the fed could keep raising those interest rates well into this year. welcome to fox news live, i m aishah hasnie, hi, griff. griff: i m griff jenkins. and it s great to be with you. and the biden administration is facing scrutiny over the massive amount of spending over ukraine. lucas tomlinson is on the snowy white lawn of the white house kicking things off for us. high inflation is reducing savings nationwide and producing more credit card debt coupled with higher interest rates. many americans are feeling the squeeze and we don t have to tell the viewers, we feel it every day. let s look at the new inflation index that just came out. this is the personal consumption price index, the feds preferred gauge of inflation. and it rose and beating analyst expectations roughly 4% increase and annual rate 5.4%, as you mentioned the first inflation in inflation data since it peaked in june making some wondering if fed is behind in inflation fight. and p
the u.s. called this incident everything from dangerous to juvenile, it happened yesterday morning 7 a.m. local time. two russian fighter jets, su-27 fighters went to a u.s. drone over the black sea. the pentagon says the fighter jets harassed the drone, buzzing dangerously close to the drone and one fighter dumped fuel on the drone and during one pass the russian fighter struck the propeller of the drone, breaking off a piece. the drone was unmanageable and the decision was made to ditch that aircraft in the black sea. with tengszs high between the u.s. and russia and china, they said this is the kind of thing that could sent nations spiralling toward a broader conflict. things bumping into each other and causing collision and two great nations sorting it out at 2 in the morning. russia has a different take and says the drone was heading toward russia with transponder turned off. the drone crashed. i want to emphasize the russian fighters didn t use weapons, didn t c
jacqui heinrich. griff: it s great to be with you, i m griff jenkins. the balloon sighting dashing an attempt by the biden administration to ease u.s.-china tensions, with antony blinken calling off his trip to beijing. and we have coverage in london alexandria hoff in washington and let s start off. earlier some say the chinese balloon should have been shot down when this first crossed over alaska. we could have shot it down over open water, over dense, sparse parts of alaska and should it shot it down then. it leads me to believe that possibly a political decision was made by the white house not to do so for fear of interrupting the relationship with china. that s troubling if that it indeed the case. here at the white house, president biden only wanted to talk about the strong jobs report not that chinese sp, whe will you remove the balloon? when and how will you remove the balloon, mr. president? the chinese spy balloon had been spotted over charlotte, north carol