being shown the door earlier today. he didn t make the announcement, somebody else leaked his retirement plan. a short time later the white house probably confirm joe biden strategy to fill the spot. biden said he will make his pick based purely on race and gender. promised only an african american woman will be selected. at jonathan turley, a democrat, questions the constitutionality of this criteria. he brought this, precisely what the supreme court already declared to be unconstitutional, discrimination. we will have more of his article coming up and we will break biden s potentially break it all down. the unlawful and unconstitutional strategy. but first, another groundbreaking moment at the white house. joe biden action at a public event. that did not involve ice cream but unfortunately for joe, it didn t go particularly well. take a look. i m always talking about corvettes. i will point out, when i went to dearborn driving nuts, you know, i was up there. i don t kno
was across the board. he had hoped to succeed to implement this for all businesses with more than 100 employees. the court did allow the vaccine tests and mandates to stand for healthcare workers to go into effect because they are federally funded but this was really just icing on the cake of what looks like the worst week yet for the biden white house. jen psaki acknowledging this loss but saying now they hope that companies and not the federal government will take it upon themselves to decide how they want to handle covid and the policies that they implement. the supreme court s decision on the osha mandate essentially means that the pandemic is up to individual employers to determine whether their workplaces will be safe for employees and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers. at least one republican senator suggesting that the white house may be glad to be out of this potentially losing battle for them. watch this. there might be some secret sighs of r
harris faulkner, host of kennedy kennedy, and in the center virtual seat, host of ben ferguson podcast, ben ferguson. lori lightfoot is blasting that chicago s teachers union that voted overwhelmingly to stop in person learning because of the covid surge. even though 90% of teachers are vaccinated. lori lightfoot saying it happens within the legal work stoppage that has ramifications for her city. nobody signs up for being a homeschooler at the last minute. you can t forget about how disruptive that remote process is to individual parents who have to work, who can t afford the luxury of staying home and being with their kids. kayleigh: harris, so 50% of america s schools are closed or an remote learning, they are in chicago the state of illinois had $5 billion from the federal government for schools, and to get at 28:00 p.m. nearly midnight this goes out to parents that there won t be in class instruction. harris: two things stand out. they did not have enough about p
the new zealand celebrating 2022. maybe almost a day to wait before we can celebrate. and look at that fireworks everywhere. that s a party. i like it. you know, i think noon in georgia might look that way in a little bit. i think my neighbors will have some fireworks. good morning, cailee. kayleigh: good morning. it s good to be with you and lawrence jones. of course, you joey jones. happy new year s eve to all. isn t it exciting that we are finally two years out of this pandemic and we are finally starting to see some celebratory activity it will be a scaled back new year s eve, lawrence jones, as you are there in times square but still to have 15,000 gathered it s exciting to have some semblance of normalcy albeit not quite where we were two years prior to today. lawrence: yeah, you are exactly right, kayleigh. i would say that i m optimistic. i think the american people are tired of it all and trying to get to some sort of normalcy. i think they are going to reject a lot
reports. we begin this sunday, boxing day, with omicron wreaking havoc coast-to-coast. in just a week s time, 1.3 million americans testing positive for covid, an average of 190,000 new cases per day, the highest case average we ve seen in a year. a silver lining, if there is one, new research from the uk signaling while the omicron variant is more transmissible, it produces milder symptoms, especially in breakthrough cases. but not for the unvaccinated. omicron is hitting those patients hard, overwhelming hospitals and stretching front line workers thin. case in point, new mexico. 50% of all hospitals are critically understaffed and 75% of hospital beds are occupied. south carolina, a third of hospitals are short-staffed. 76 of hospital beds occupied there. moving to california, nearly 30% of hospitals report a critical staffing shortage and close to 80% of hospital beds statewide are in use. another reason for alarm this sunday. an uptick in children being infected and hos