african countries where this variant emerged. >> the reason for the travel ban, there's a significant number of cases unlike any other country in the world. we needed time to give people an opportunity to say get the vaccination now before it heads -- it will move around the world. >> martha: so joe biden had a different take on that when president trump did a similar thing. we'll talk about this with karl rove who is starting by on that part of the story. but for, a senior scholar from the hopkins university. he's focused on preparedness and infectious disease. great to have you back with us today. thanks for making time for us what is your take on omicron at this point? >> well, we don't know a lot about omicron at this point. we know it has a lot of mutations, some have which have been associated with vaccine evasion. we know it's spreading in south africa but we don't know answers. it's something to take seriously to track and understand but it's not a cause for panic. we have a lot of tools. we have a full tool books of things to deal with this variant. >> martha: knowing what we know about how viruses evolve, does it make sense it would be milder but more easily transmissable? >> in general some will be less severe in an effort to become more transmissable. if you're a virus is not severe, you will go about and infect other people. so sometimes there's that kind of a trade-off. many of the coronaviruses we deal with probably went through that process. it's unclear if this is happening now. it's mostly young people that got infected in south africa. we need more investigation to see where this falls on the spectrum. >> the "wall street journal" editorial board wrote a piece on this a couple days ago when we first got wind of it. it says "americans and the rest of the world need to learn to live with an ever-mutating virus. so do our politicians." i remember talking to you during the lockdowns. you felt that they were in an economic mistake or a hardship that didn't balance out the protective element of them. what do you think now? >> i think the same thing. lockdowns are an evidence of policy failure. we have a lot better ways to deal with an infectious disease outbreak than locking things down and ignore the science. it makes it very hard for the public to how to risk calculate, how to do harm reduction if they think everything is a risk. we lost that opportunity early on. hopefully we don't repeat this again. >> martha: so true. one more question before i let you go. merck and pfizer have these treatments. a pill that you can take if you're diagnosed with covid. shouldn't we be moving that forward more quickly. >> definitely. merck and pfizer have done a great job developing cheap easy anti-virals that is the something that we can give orally and decrease your ability to get hospitalized or die. we want to moving a quickly as possible. this is making the virus more easier to manage if you can take something at home that prevents you from getting hospitalized. >> martha: the president ordered 13 million doses of these and seems like it's a great time to get them in circulation. thanks, adalja. >> thank you. >> so there's matching criticism of the travel restrictions being placed on south africa. the u.n. secretary general said the people of africa cannot be blamed for the low level of vaccinations available in africa. they should not be penalized for identifying and sharing crucial science and health information. benjamin hall covering this for us from the state department joins us now. hi, benjamin. >> there's a long list of people lining up to condemn this travel ban. all of the countries that are affected and politicians in the u.s. senator cotton said this is worse than useless. nevertheless, the president's ban went into effect at midnight. south africa's president was furious saying this. >> these restrictions are completely unjustified. up fairly discriminate about our country and our south african countries. >> among the other criticism, if the variant was of such concern, we did it take 48 hours? president biden said that was dr. fauci's decision. today the white house defended their decision. >> the president was critical of was the way that the former president put out i believe a xenophobic tweet and what he called the coronavirus and who he directed it at. the president is not been critical of travel restrictions. >> the secretary state blinken spoke to his south african counterpart and praised the country for their transparency. there's real concerns that this travel ban is just going to discourage other countries from sharing information in the future. the u.s. said there's a high risk of this variant spreading and there's considerable unknowns including how serious the symptoms really are. martha? >> benjamin hall at the state department. thank you. karl rove is here, a fox news contributor. karl, great to have you with us this afternoon. you know, let's start by looking back at this tweet that then candidate joe biden put out there, speaking of tweets as jen psaki was. so on february 1, 2020, we began the lock downs in the middle of march. joe biden wrote trump further diminished the u.s. and the eyes of the world by expanding his travel ban. this new quote african ban is designed to make it harder for black and brown people to immigrate to the united states. it's a disgrace and we cannot let him succeed. your thoughts on this. >> well, not only did he say that, but he also had his future running mate, kamala harris, blasted as a racist as did speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. so politicizing a pandemic just for political advantage in a presidential campaign may turn out to bite you and it is certainly biting him big time here. president trump was a bigot for having a travel ban extended to africa. now president biden is in a position of having put a travel ban from africa. so he's due every bit of criticism for being a hypocrite on this. it's a sign of how bad it was lastier and how there's going to be an overhang from having politicized the covid for advantage in a presidential campaign. also -- >> martha: go ahead, karl. >> also the -- this is -- i just returned from south africa. i was in africa through the middle of november. you know, they were very grateful -- i happened to be staying at a camp outside of krueger national park with a guy that was the head of the south african tourism association and had them taken of the british red list that prohibited travel from u.k. to south africa. and these people hit by covid, the camps have been shut down, their lost their lively hood for a year. they were enthusiastic about having visitors and now penalized for their transparency in revealing this. i feel sorry for them. >> martha: with regard to how americans perceive this president's handle of covid because really that was one of the strongest things that joe biden ran on, that was he would handle covid better than the previous president, president trump did. when you look at the number of deaths, there's more deaths in 2021. 413,000 compared with 362,000 in 2020. we experienced it for almost the entire year in 2020. disapproval for handling of covid in may, this president had a 64% approval rating on covid. now he's down to 48%. a bit underwater on that. how does that impact this presidency, karl? >> well, it impacts it a lot. his overall approval rating is 43. they think he's doing a lousy job on the economy and doing a lousy job on uniting the country. elect me because the guy in office is screwing up covid. i'll return our politics the bipartisanship and things will be normal and i'll do a better job on the economy than this guy does. the president is underwater on two out of three and not in good shape on covid. he's lost the third of the people that approved of him on covid and now disapprove of him. that's a significant drop. while he's number is higher on covid than it is among his overall approval rating, his failure to deliver on covid is what helped him pull that number down along with the economy. >> martha: a lot of questions. nobody thought it would be around this long. a lot of questions about the vaccine, the booster roll-out and now this travel ban roll-out and whether they were well-timed. he said lockdowns are off the table. he was very much in favor of the lockdowns for a long time. now he's changed his tune. watch this. >> i'll be putting forward a detailed strategy outlining how we will fight covid this winter. not with shut downs or lock down. more widespread vaccinations, booster, testing and more. >> martha: final thought, karl. >> well, he promised us we would be all vaccinated by the fourth of july and this would be in the rear view mirror. overpromising is a big problem for a politician and is for this one. >> martha: thanks, karl rove. the new covid variant has rattled a lot of people around the world. remember, we still don't know how this pernicious virus actually 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talking to him about how it would change this virus if it had been created in the lab originally. he said it would super charged and it would lead to more variants. >> it's not just that its mutating, this virus is replicating at a high capacity in humans. the risk for evolution is extremely high. sadly i'm going to predict in two, three, four months we'll have another variant and that variant will be more infectious than the delta variation. this virus got a jump start by being one of the most infectious in humans. >> martha: your thoughts, david, as we stand here today looking at this new omicron variant. >> well, i have great personal regard for dr. redfield. no doubt he's confidence as a virologist. understand the potency of this pandemic from day one, with us a very asymmetrical. it was like frankenstein's monster got out of the laboratory but it was a lab built and bio engineered virus. by the way, it could have been released in part through the wet market. i can get into that if you're interested. it's not bio engineered. the wet market could have been a transmission point. that doesn't mean it started in the wet market. >> martha: can you explain that, david? >> yes. i mean, this is -- the centers for disease control is right near the wet market and the wuhan university on the covid-19 research that we identified and declassified at the state department at the beginning of this year. so i don't rule out that they could have sold an animal out the back door of the centers for disease control or a bunch of animals or somebody that got sick from that laboratory could have shopped in that market or someone from the wuhan institute could have been in the market. we heard that as a possibility. the key things earlier than the recent revelation from december release, we heard the earlier it could have happened is october or early november in terms of some sort of release. my assumption is like chernobyl, there was a meltdown and it was -- occurred because of a number of mistakes that occurred in the same period of time. >> martha: this is why we need to stay so focused on this part of this. we're still dealing with it all these months later. as dr. redfield said, his belief is that it was engineered and that it was engineered in the lab and that's why it has this sort of super charged, his word, capability to continue to spin off in the new variants at a very fast rate of speed. i want to play the sound bite that we were supposed to hear in the production and get your reaction from that. >> what the chinese did, i don't have first hand knowledge of that, but the people reporting it who investigated, what they did is they cleaned out the markets as soon it was clear there were clusters coming from the market. in typical fashion, trying to make sure things don't get pointed to them, they got rid of the animals that were the hosts there. >> martha: what do you make of that answer? >> yeah, probably got rid of the evidence. they destroyed the evidence because they were trying to cover up a crime. that's the only explanation. they told people inside wuhan's hospitals across the city to not sequence the virus and not report anywhere publicly that they were dealing with an epidemic related to sars, which had been the thing that caused a huge problem in china in 2003. i'm very confident that you have a cover up of a cover up of a cover up here. it still relates back to bio engineering at with wuhan institute. >> martha: one last question. we know president biden had a long conversation with president xi a virtual conversation recently. pressed for more transparency in a very general way. why do you -- what do you think is going on there? why are we not pushing hard-for more answers? >> it's borderline outrageous. think about it. we're heading to 800,000 american fatalities from an attack that occurred against our country that was certainly if not premeditated, which i don't contend, it was covered up. they knew in china at the end of december that this thing was going to go global and kill millions of people and they didn't tell anyone. their hands are full of blood. they should be health accountable and the biden administration punting this thing is just absolutely horrible. unacceptable. we need to turn our outrage on wards and get very angry over the white house's handling of this. >> martha: you were the first to report in your work that there was a chinese military presence in the lab and you think it was an unintentional leak. thanks, david. good to talk to you. so there's more than two dozen chinese jets entering taiwan's air part as president xi meets with his top generals. obviously clear message there as they talk about bolsters their military power and presence in the region with these consistent flights near taiwan's airspace. congress woman nancy mace was in taiwan in the last few days and she spoke with taiwan's president. she joins us next. >> man: what's my safelite story? my truck...is my 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your strategic advantage. >> martha: yet another exercise of ramped up military aggression from china flying more than two dozen military planes in to taiwan's defense zone. taiwan's defense minister calling this move very serious from their perspective and warning that they have the means to respond. in a moment, nancy mace, who has just returned from a trip to taiwan and the region. but first to alex hogan in london. >> hi, martha. yesterday sunday, taiwan says they traced 27 chinese aircraft in the air zone that it monitors. now taiwan scrambled deploying its own defense systems and those include aircraft combat and now also deploying missile systems. 18 fighter jets, and five bombers with nuclear capabilities and a refuelling plane entered their air defense identification zone that the military watched closely. taiwan has says they have seen the number of incursions increase drastically with about 150 aircraft over a four-day period. china in the past has said that these protect the country's sovereignty. the fly-over came as president xi jinping melt with top military officials. a three-day military conference wrapped up sunday where he discussed the need to camp up the country's armed forces. china still claims taiwan as its own territory, denouncing their attempts to meet with other nations. still, that is something that the taiwanese government did today. the president held talks with lighters from latvia, lithuania and astonia. the chinese military condemning that move and warning them to "not play with fire." >> we also have a stern warning to rely on the u.s. to seek independence and refuse reunicase is destined to be a dead end. >> the chinese leadership said any attempt to get foreign aid will end in failure. >> martha: strong words. joining me now, congress woman nancy mace from the veterans affairs committee and part of a group of bipartisan lawmakers that visited taiwan. thanks nor being here today. so what form do the warnings take? you all went to korea and in the region and then indicated that you were going to make a trip to taiwan. how specifically did china warn you not to do that? >> china's embassy in the united states sent all of us, every member, five of us on this trip, an e-mail before we ever took off before our flight from korea to taiwan demanding that we cancel our trip. we don't take orders from china. i can tell you that much. it was a remarkable visit, a historic visit. the first time in two years that a delegation from the house of representatives have visited taiwan because of the pandemic. it's business as usual. precovid, these visits with normal. it's not the united states being the aggressor here. it's china as you can tell from the incident in the airspace near taiwan. >> martha: i want to play this sound bite from lieutenant general kellogg, who was a military adviser to the trump administration and vice president pence. watch this. >> what should concern americans is does this president and does this administration and national security advisers have the will if something happens especially when it comes to taiwan, china pushing hard. are we going to do anything or are we going to say that's going to happen and nothing that we can do about it. >> that's the question that china is asking as well. clearly tear testing taiwan and testing u.s. resolve. we have submarines that are based there and we have to help to defend themselves in terms of equipment. what do they tell you about what they think the chinese are doing right now? how do they perceive it? >> the president is a remarkable president. i call her a bad ass. she's very smart. there's issues that are not just military. there's ways to deal with china economically. we can make this very painful for them if we wanted to. there should be consideration there. the economies of japan, korea, taiwan and china and the united states are all intertwined here. nobody wants a war with china. the only ones that we see here being aggressive on the chinese. i have a little history for the people's republic of china and the chinese communist party. taiwan has never been under their rule. so i just -- where they get this that they should rule that entire area and take over a location in a country that is free and has a democratic society is beyond my. it should be the world that pushes back on china, not just the united states. our allies should be in this, too. >> martha: do you believe the u.s. should abandon the one china policy? >> i'm not going to go that far. i do think that we need to take a stronger stance on china. i was pleased that this bipartisan delegation was not going to stand down. we didn't cancel our trip to taiwan because china demanded it. when i tweeted out that i just landed on the republic of taiwan, the overwhelming response i got around the world from republicans and democrats alike shows how strong the support is for the people of taiwan and taiwanese americans and everybody overseas right now. it's remarkable. china should know if they're aggressive, this will be long and costly for the chinese government. it's not something that they want to go into. >> martha: we'll see what the administration and congress will do to push back. clearly we're being tested by flying into this airspace in taiwan. we'll see where it goes. nancy mace, good to see you today. so a brazen and awful killing in california over the thanksgiving weekend of this retired police officer, kevin noshida, that was shot and killed while he was working security with a news crew that was out covering smash and grab thefts. an unbelievable awful story. we'll talk to a police commander that was there and we'll talk about the investigation next. i'm here to present the facts. thousands of people and small businesses are trapped paying too much for wireless and still paying off their phone! but when you switch to t-mobile they will pay off your phone so you can keep your current number and your phone! 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officer was in the street that was with a crew when a gunman approached looking to steal their camera gear. >> he was a genuinely good person. he was caring and compassionate. just, you know, always going above and beyond what was necessary. >> so this fatality comes as both the l.a. and the bay area see a surge in thieves ransacking retailers. friday a dozen in ski masks pillage add home depot taking chrome bars and sledge hammers and overwhelming one customer that tried to stop them. >> we tried to stop them and closed the front entrance. they put their sledge hammers up. >> these hit stores in melrose a nordstrom in the valley and several stores in midtown. in the bay area, thieves hit a nordstrom, an apple, lu lu lemon and several stores. many are blaming the progressive das for their soft on crime policies. >> our politicians and district attorneys have their ideas and they're more important than protecting property. >> some of these das and governor newsome are changing their tune as voters see a correlation with policies and crime on the street. once supporters of reducing felonies to misdemeanors and letting nonviolent offenders out of prison, nor the governor says he has no sympathy for crooks. >> martha: wow. is it too late? thanks, william. joining me now is kevin nishita's friend andco worker, commander sherman lund from the coleman, california police department about 20 miles from oakland. sir, so sorry for your loss. thanks for being here today. what goes through your mind as you listen to your friend and what is going on in your hear? >> thanks for having me. yeah, this is obviously a tragic loss for our police department. our community as a whole. you know, kevin was dedicated professional in the communities that he served. everything that kevin did, he put 100% whether in fighting crime or participating in community events. he was one of my best sergeants that worked for me personally. he was caring, compassionate and very honorary. he was dedicated to improving the lives of others. he volunteered for countless community events. he showed the public the human side of the badge. he came up with ideas for community events to help bridge the gap between law enforcement and the community. he earned the nickname "stitch" from lilo and stiff. you would hear him running through the stations and his keys rattling like he was on a call. but he was just getting a cup of coffee or going to the office. kevin was always on the move. again, he would go the extra mile for anyone. we had a good relationship. we both got promoted at the same time. i got to promote him as commander and he was sergeant. he's one of my best sergeants that i had. he will be truly missed. >> martha: seems like a great guy. we're looking at the wonderful pictures of him. i'm so sorry for the loss to all of you. his friends and his family. i just want to ask you, commander what goes through your mind when you hear or look at someone's that ends up in this position and you see these flagrant abandonment of the laws and the smash and grabs happening what is going on in california and elsewhere? >> it's terrible. again, you guys discussed about the laws changing and the consequences of these crimes that are occurring in california. you know, the risk is worth the reward. nothing is happening to the criminals and they're committing these crimes and nothing will happen to them. there's no consequences. add the disregard for life. i don't know why it's increased and why it's become so violent, but the senseless violence needs to stop. we lost a good man. i don't want his name to go in vain. i want him to go remembered. >> martha: thanks, commander. nobody can say it better than that. wish you well and pray that safety comes back to these areas, this is a breakdown in civil society that shouldn't happen. good men like you and good men like kevin nishita were out there to prevent this from happening. thanks very much, sir. good to speak with you. >> take care. >> martha: wow. all right. let's get to the white house. a live look right now. we anticipate remarks from president biden on the supply chain crisis. what exactly has been done to alleviate this as we learn that these remarks have been pushed a little later, so why would that be? we heard from the president earlier today. he's meeting with a lot of these retail leaders. what's going on? we'll talk about it next. ance, so i only pay for what i need. how about a throwback? you got it. ♪ liberty, liberty - liberty, liberty ♪ uh, i'll settle for something i can dance to. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪ ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ my retirement plan with voya keeps me moving forward. they guide me with achievable steps that give me confidence. this is my granddaughter...she's cute like her grandpa. voya doesn't just help me get to retirement... ...they're with me all the way through it. voya. be confident to and through 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came to the white house. but ten minutes ago, he walked back to the west wing and didn't appear he had a lot group of ceos with him. he had a staffer and secret service agents. so more as we have it, martha. >> martha: thanks, peter. reporting on the scene at the white house about the movements of the president in that situation. david asman of fox business joins me. >> i love the intrigues. palace intrigues. it's hard to speculate. we don't know what's going on. all i can say is one thing that this president has a tendency to do and most presidents do is to blame other people for things go wrong in his administration. he's done that with inflation recently. he blamed the oil producers after doing all kinds of things to make it more expensive and more difficult to drill here. shutting pipelines. he announced, his interior department, that they would increase the cost of drilling on federal lands. after an increase, he blames them for price gouging or suggests there's price gouging going on in the oil industry. it leads one to wonder if he's going to be blaming retailers in some way for the prices going up at retail stores. i don't have any inside information. >> martha: that had been floating around a little bit, that they were going to point fingers at american companies for raising prices as the reasons for inflation. you just wonder if it didn't go well with these ceos. i don't know why they have to push it off by 48 hour or something else came up that is more important. we'll see. peter doocy is on it. >> we were mentioned liz warren in the break. >> martha: she said the poultry companies -- >> it's ridiculous is that we know how much money has been flooded in to the market by the huge stimulus programs over the course of the last 18 months. you spoke with the former president and the supply chain issue. here's what he had to say. watch this. >> i would think the pandemic might bring inflation down as opposed to elevating it. i saw him make that statement. it's another incorrect statement. but when you look at what has taken place, when you look at these supply chains, we never heard the word supply chains when i was president. that was not something that i remember listening to or hearing. what they have done is a lot of the mandates have caused the supply chain problems. >> that's true. the vaccine mandate, one of the biggest problems with the supply chain is the labor shortage. we talked about this before. one of the reasons we have the labor shortage is because he's putting a tax, a higher tax on working and less -- more freebies in you tonight work. so the point is that he's making the labor shortage worse than it needs to be, the current president is. by the way, president trump said it would probably be easier for me to solve the problem of inflation than to solve the problem at to border because one thing i do is open up the spigots again. good percentage of the inflation problem is because energy. so much of what we do depends on the price of energy. not just driving the cars but heating homes and businesses use a lot of energy. so it's -- he could do a lot for this country for inflation if regot it back to energy independence, which would do a lot. >> martha: it's a sentiment that drive prices down. president trump opened the keystone pipeline on day one and president biden shut it down. you can see the difference in energy prices linked in part to that. thanks, david. >> good to see you. let me know what happened with president biden. >> martha: we'll update you. all right. coming up, why the white house says president biden has no plans to visit wakeshaw after the deadly christmas parade attack. that story is next. >> six people are dead, children are hospitalized. why hasn't the president visited the members of this christmas parade attack? ♪ ♪ ♪ aaaand welcome back to guess what it is. now sally guess what this futuristic gadget is and you'll win a very special prize. ohhhhh i need a hint. well. they're 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