accused of killing four students and wounding several other people at the michigan high school this week are now facing serious charges, criminal charges themselves. a law enforcement has been unable to locate the couple, authorities launched a manhunt this afternoon. but late this afternoon, the attorney said they are returning to the area for arraignment. correspondent steve harrigan has details tonight from oxford michigan. good evening. >> good evening, bret, the parents are facing charges of involuntary manslaughter and there is real uncertainty about what they are up to you according to local law enforcement they have fled the scene and being pursued by the fbi and u.s. marshals. if the attorney says they simply feared for their own safety and left but the attorney said they will be coming back. the sheriff blame the failure to keep tabs on the parents on poor communications with the prosecutor's office. >> we didn't learn of the charges until we were called by the news media this morning. we would have liked to maybe have done some other things last night. >> some disturbing details learned about the 15-year-old suspected shooter, the first alarm came one day before the shooting that's when the teacher noticed him searching for ammunition online during class. the second alarm much bigger, the day of the shooting when the teacher found a drawing the 15-year-old had made a drawing that showed someone being shot with a semiautomatic handgun and the troubling caption read "the thoughts won't stop. help me." the meeting was called to come of the parent of the suspected shooter and school administration officials, the decision was made at the meetinw the sophomore to return to class. two hours later, he came out of the bathroom without his backpack with the handgun and he began methodically firing, shooting 11 people at point-blank range killing four of them. during the meeting, nobody asked did he have a weapon and his parents did not volunteer anything about the gun they had bought him for christmas. if the mother when the news of the school shooting became public texted her son ethan, don't do it. several points the prosecutor expressed frustration if this was a tragedy, it could have been prevented. >> the fact of this case are so egregious. reading the document and looking at it, reading the words "help me" with a gun, blood everywhere, it doesn't just have impacted me as as a prosecutor and mother. the notion that the parent could read those words and also know that their son had access to a deadly weapon that they gave him his unconscionable and i think it's criminal. it is criminal. speak of the prosecutor said the investigation will continue and she hasn't ruled out charging school officials with criminal negligence. bret. >> bret: steve harrigan, live in michigan, thank you. president biden says he's putting together a set of comprehensive and if she begins to make it difficult for russia to move against ukraine. the top u.s. military officers in the meantime say the country has a lot of concern over russian troop activity near the ukrainian border. are those two countries one step closer to all-out war and what would the u.s. do about it if so? you're a department correspondent benjamin hall. >> russian troops are gathering at the ukrainian border. putting the number at 115,000. the u.s. is warning europe to brace for an invasion. the general saying today that there's enough out there now to cause a lot of concern. on the diplomatic front, yesterday's meeting between secretary and the foreign minister let them know. >> we had a very direct and candid nonpolitical exchange of views, it was serious. >> president biden insists he's putting in place everything he can to discourage the russians. >> most comprehensive and meaningful sets of initiatives to make it very, very difficult for mr. putin. it's because there's one thing he hasn't done, reimpose sanctions of the pipeline. sanctions president trump put in place. >> i don't know how it's in the national security interest of the united states to allow putin to complete his pipeline and russia making europe dependent on russian oil and gas. >> the pipeline would strangle ukraine cutting off billions of dollars in revenue. they said that's pushing for a vote to reintroduce sanctions before they pass the national fence authorization act. it's emerged at least ten senior democrats including majority leader chuck schumer and connecticut richard blumenthal have accepted the maximum campaign contributions from a north stream lobbyist who is being paid aids and a half million dollars for the pipeline ukrainians are preparing for war and they said today the most likely time for a russian invasion would be the end of january. of many other people in the u.s. fear it could come a lot sooner than that. bret. >> bret: benjamin hall, state department, thank you. >> the united states and our allies and partners are deeply concerned by evidence that russia has made plans for moves against ukraine despite uncertainty about intentions and timing, we must and will prepare for all contingencies while working to see that russia reverses course. >> bret: secretary of state there about the russia massing of troops along ukraine's border. talk about the defense farm here, joining me fox news sunday anchor chris wallace and national security correspondent jennifer griffin. although this forum seems to happen with events happening around the world, this one really urgent it seems talking to military leaders about what russia is doing. >> the senior defense officials i've spoken to do point to what's happening on the border with ukraine and there is a qualitative difference in the type of troops and the type of weaponry they are seeing from vladimir putin and the russian troops that are there. remember, this is the second time he's done this last spring he had about 100,000 troops on the border and he backed off. those i spoke to said it's not clear that vladimir putin had made the decision to cross the border into your crane in your seeing the flurry of activity and it happens with the backdrop, ronald reagan talked about peace through strength. of right now, the u.s. military and the white house is trying to get some degree of deterrence deter vladimir putin. but what leverage do they have at this point? >> bret: you mentioned at this time and with this place, with air force one behind us, referencing ronald reagan's combat. this is from march 1983 where he's talking about the soviet union. >> your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals i urge you to be where the temptation of pride, the temptation of declaring yourselves above it all, labeling both sides equally at fault. to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire it is simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding, and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong about good and evil. >> bret: talking about the evil empire they are, and when you look at what is said to come it's much more nuanced about dealing with russia and china. >> absolutely, i was there that day in orlando, florida, speaking to the evangelicals. he said russia was the focus of evil in the modern world and the evil empire. talk about drawing bright red lines between the u.s. and russia. i was thinking of exactly that line, peace through strength, because what made ronald reagan standing up to russia writable was the thought that he would do whatever it took to propel russia as i was listening to antony blinken there. he spoke with all the passion of somebody reading a telephone book. we are not going to go to war with russia, even if they invade ukraine, they're not a member of nato, article five does not apply in the attack of one or all. but you have to put that in the back of his mind to come and maybe it would happen and instead the e.u. and the u.s. are talking about the economic sanctions, political sanctions, putin made it clear back in 2014 when he invaded crimea, that's not going to stop them. >> bret: when you add to that, the unification, the efforts between china and russia together, almost standing up to the u.s. >> imagined the, bret, you had a deal between president xi and putin each would move on taiwan and ukraine simultaneously and what with the u.s. military do? to follow up what chris said, i think with the u.s. is trying to do and you heard general mark milley today tried to use mark milley as the one to say don't underestimate us, because we pull out of afghanistan, don't think we will use all options on the table. what they haven't done then what they need to do is that they need to move into what's known as the nuclear option in terms of sanctions. take them out of the swiss banking system, cut them off from financing in the secondary market. of sanction the oligarchs, putin's cronies. the question is with the message delivered by antony blinken? >> bret: you mention are run briefly, seems like the talks are falling apart and a lot of people wasn't going to happen to begin with but the administration one of the talks again but iran is not bending. >> part of the problem is the situation has changed so dramatically since donald trump pulled out of the iran agreement. arounds up to 60% enrichment of uranium which is pretty close to 90% weapons grade that got a whole length of advancer diffusers so to put it back in the bottle, we can go back and they really can't go back to 2015 they have negotiate a whole new agreement and hard-line president of iran saying that if you want to do that you're going to have to lift the sanctions first which is a nonstarter for the u.s. it doesn't look like it's going to go well. on >> bret: hosting "fox news sunday" from here and your hosting q&a? 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world wars. it is better to be here ready to protect the peace then to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost. >> bret: president ronald reagan speaking at normandy on the 40th anniversary of the d-day invasion. several or all of us from fox news are participating in this weekend's national defense for them right here at the reagan defendant do my presidential library. awesome to see air force one as the backdrop here. of one of the topic is china's emergence as a high-tech innovator an end an economic force. fox business correspondent here tonight to tell us what a cold war with beijing might actually involve. >> hey, bret, the next war will look different. in the china and the playing field is tech. with president biden declining to push china on the myriad of issues from covid to the mounting push towards taiwan, americans are concerned. a 52% of american see china as a biggest national security threats and that's down from 40% in february this year. it's a big job, 73% say we're going to fall behind china technologically. it allows them to leverage innovations across military and civilian sectors to bolster the defense arsenal and it's investing in advanced surveillance tech, machine learning, decryption capabilities, and tested a hypersonic weapon which will help them use space to invade american missile defenses. secretary of defense lloyd austin raises concern over the growing military power. >> we have concerns about the military capabilities that the prc continues to pursue. the capabilities increases tensions in the region. if i want to point out that the hypersonic capability is beijing's ability but certainly not the only capability that the prc has the capability. >> on top of that, china's growing economic might means that u.s. businesses prioritize access to chinese consumers. dozens of public figures overlook atrocities or have enforced publicly apologize when they don't do something china likes. focus on big tech and china's emergence as a high tech innovator that poses threats both economically and security wise may be a key issue for americans come this next midterm election, bret. >> bret: kelly, thank you. former green beret pentagon advisor and current florida congressman michael waltz. >> good to be here. it's pretty incredible. >> bret: let's talk about china talking off the piece from kelly and the threat. we saw this meeting between president biden, virtual meeting and president xi and there's a lot of talk about straightforward competition and not conflict. there is other people characterized differently, ghana has bigger broader goals. >> not just other people that characterize it differently, it's the chinese communist party themselves. listen to president xi's speeches, he's talking about or replacing the united states as a global leader. you know, the path that they are on right now, they are navy is larger than the united states navy they are launching more into space and the rest of the world combined, they are making huge investments in technology that the military can use. but the bigger piece, bret, this is the real tragedy of it all is they are doing it with our money. if you look at the investments that the company -- the hedge funds like blacklock, jamie dimon, jpmorgan, frankly every american out there that when they see made in china, that dollar is going right into their military-industrial complex that our soldier, sailors, marines may have to fight have to fight. >> bret: when were talking about china, and taiwan what china does with taiwan comes out. seems like they're getting more aggressive. here's the security of state talking about support for taiwan. >> we're committed to taiwan to making sure it has the means to defend itself. i hope china's leaders think very carefully about this and about not precipitating a crisis that would have i think a terrible consequence for lots of people and one that's in interest starting china. >> bret: do you know what the biden administration would do if they invaded taiwan? >> we've gotten mixed messages from biden himself and the white house. what we need is some real clarity. it if the chinese take taiwan, they will essentially control the economy of japan, south korea, partially australi, they will control about 50% of the world's gdp and 40% of the world's trade. that is something united states cannot live with. >> bret: year in the briefs and do you think it's getting closer? >> it's absolutely getting closer and the chinese are developing the capability to take taiwan militarily. i think they would prefer not to have to do that were taiwan will just could be truly but president xi has been clear. they are going to reunify which is forcibly taking taiwan. what's our response going to be a come of the japanese response going to be, we need the same clarity we heard from president reagan that the chinese communist party's an evil entity that's oppressing its own people and seeks to export the oppression around the world. it then america will make a stand. >> bret: as far as a timeline, does capitol hill -- >> they have the olympics coming out. i dubbed the olympics and called for a full boycott of the olympics, that will be a massive propaganda platform for them. we need to remind folks that putin invaded the ukraine just two months after the sochi olympics in 2014. that will be a big piece for the chinese. a president xi will get reelected in their chinese communist party next summer and between summer and when they knw president biden's out of office will be a very dangerous window they may make a big move big move. it's me. it's me when you mention putin on the current situation with russia along the border with ukraine, it seems like it's getting more aggressive by the day. >> it is, it's alarming, bret. they have over 100,000 soldiers massed on ukraine's border. in bret at this point it's not a matter of if, but one. how far does putin go? it's not a coincidence that he's doing it after north stream two comes online. he knows that when he controls europe's gas, he can fracture you are sidelined them in terms of sanctions or military responses. we need the clarity that the united states will support the ukrainians and send stingers an error defense that the ukrainians have been asking for an other type of legal assets but instead we have seen some speak end as chris wallace said, blanket looks like he's reading from a teleprompter. >> bret: ukraine's technically not a part of nato so it doesn't fall under article five. there's a lot of concern about the u.s. getting in a proxy war with russia. >> we have to understand as ukraine goes, next will be the politics which our nato allies, next could be -- it's a slippery slope. if it could the balkans, and again, no coincidence that putin went after the ukraine and crimea under obama. they can fracture nato. they can also star the u.k. of gas. a happening in the context after afghanistan and we know the russians watch it closely and te chinese are watching what we're doing in response to ukraine. it can begin falling in a way that is detrimental to freedom around the world and certainly the u.s. interest. >> bret: big topic, all these things in the national defense forum this weekend. congressman, thank you. up next, marc siegel talks with the director of the cdc about the omicron a variant and we to break, president ronald reagan at normandie addressing the bravery of american troops on the 40th anniversary of d-day. >> you are young the day you took the cliffs. some of you were hardly more than boys but the deepest joys of life before you. yet you risked everything here. why? why did you do it? the men of normandie had faith that what they were doing was right. faith that they fought for all humanity. faith that a just god would grant them mercy on the beach, yet were on the next. ♪ ♪ right, girl? >> singers: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replace. ♪ living 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omicron variant spotlight and seen an upsurge in cases with over 11,000 cases over the past stay alone. if most of them mild or moderate so far. but a new study suggests a new case of reinfection with the omicron. >> emerging, then early data suggesting prior infection may not protect you as well against omicron as it has for prior variance. certainly, we have heard some anecdotal data as it suggests younger people are presenting and when they do so, milder symptoms. if it would true for all the variants so that may be true for omicron as well. >> my interview dr. walensky, shoot stress the importance of boosters for all variants, not just be seven, but delta which remains widespread in the u.s. >> the thing we need to understand right now, 90,000 cases a day in the country and over 99.9% of the cases right now are still the delta variant. we know what we need to do to protect ourselves against the delta variant. we know the vaccines work, we don't getting boosted will bolster that protection. >> dr. walensky recognizes the importance of holiday travel and gatherings and she said that testing remains an important part of their strategy to protect americans from the disease. she talked about how far we have come and how it can help us all go. >> really importantly, i want to say we know the tools, we have the tools and we are in a much better place for the holidays of 2021 then we were in the holidays of 2020. we know how to do this safely. >> she told me her jobs to keep us safe from covid and following cdc advice and regulations, americans can have a safer holiday season. bret. >> bret: dr. marc siegel, thank you. up next, panel on president biden's disappointing jobs report and his pandemic response plus "winners and losers." of president reagan's famous demand to soviet leader from berlin in 1987. >> there is one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable. that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. tear down this wall. 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>> they tell us that policy matters, the one that's coming out of federal government are having a bad effect on the economy. on the one hand, you've got all these people who are not going back to work because they are still getting transfer payments from the government whether that is the extended child tax credit, whether it is parental assistance, on the other hand you've got businesses for the last ten months of the administration has been been hit with a flood of taxes and actual taxes that democrats are offering. if they are pulling back. we will need some big changes to get the economy moving again. >> bret: harold? >> first of all, thanks for having me on and happy friday. at six new jobs have been created since joe biden has been president. you look at the 210,000 job number, kimberly would agree it's the largest labor participation that we've had in some time. maybe since covid has affected us. we would love a bigger number but i think if you look at how the market responded today, the trading market, there is a belief that the fed will maybe accelerate its tapering efforts -- tapering indices suggesting that the economy is stronger than we think and inflation is higher. the early part of the show, bret, where you are, the fact that we're up competing with china, text, human rights, those are the things i think that are in the back of the minds of so many americans and if i can say one last thing, if we want to do our part as everyday americans and ensure the economy remains open and schools remain open, those of us were healthy enough to get vaccinated and have no religious exceptions to the virus, we should get vaccinated. the best thing for china would be for us to stop working again, for us to close down the economy, to close down the schools and impair our ability to compete. >> bret: we are closing down some jobs, molly, because there are some people who do not want to take the vaccine and they are standing up to the mandates, one way or another. that's affecting some different areas of the economy. and take listen to this. >> we saw a group of republicans just tried to shut the government down because they do not think people should have to get vaccinated or get tested. that's bananas and crazy. what we are working to do right now is implement these mandates which are vaccinate or test, either option very reasonable for businesses around the country. >> we still have certain god-given constitutional rights. despite all our efforts and educating people to encourage them to get the vaccine, 20, 30% of americans are not going to do it. certainly not as it gets shoved down their throat. >> bret: you can see the pushback, molly. >> remembering that joe biden said that his case are being elected was that he would shutdown the virus. we have experienced more deaths from coronavirus under president biden up than under president trump and that's with president trump providing a vaccine. it's an unbelievable failure on the part of joe biden that he claims he had some great plan for solving everything and it turned out he didn't really have a plan and he keeps on just coming up with new measures that do not really work or new ways of forcing things that do not work. it makes people lose even more trust than they had in the federal policies that were ostensibly supposed to take care of this. the fact of the matter is the vaccine has been widely available to everybody who wants it for some period of time. there is resistance to doing it, but that does not explain why there's all these other policy failures that the biden administration's overseeing. they cannot blame the people for their own policy failures or their own inability to take the boot off the neck of the u.s. economy or otherwise keep this economy from coming back. but these job numbers weren't supposed to be that great as they were half a million jobs and to fail to meet that which is becoming a bit of a pattern is very bad timing for a democratic leadership. >> bret: you're seeing some democrats including joe manchin we talk about a lot, having a problem with some of the mandates and trying to deal with that legislatively working with republicans. of "winners and losers," starting with io, winter and then lose? >> my winner is the women's tennis association for its announcement that it is suspending tournaments in china and hong kong in response to censorship of feng shui, who made accusations against chinese communist officials. this is a bold thing to do. >> bret: your loser? >> oh, my loser. my loser is the justice who use the abortion case oral argument this week to score and her colleagues saying that they were acting out of political motivation and questioning the legitimacy of her own body, not a good look for a justice. they should stick to the legal points. >> bret: all right, harold, winner and loser? >> my winner is division i college athletics. for the first time in 20 years, the time in 20 years the highest number of athletes are graduating. congratulations to them. my loser are those who coddle repeat offenders. it's time to fund the police fully, it's time to repeal bail reform and nonviolent offenders, but leading violent offenders out repeatedly is not safe for any community in america. >> bret: all right, mollie wrap us out. it's become my winner, college football fans, there are some great match up this weekend. alabama and georgia, sec's championships, michigan and i welcome of the big ten, we have seen some great football this year and that will continue. my loser is the media, who continued to paddle the russia collusion lies that they participated in by downplaying the role that the dossier played in their own reporting, and also in claiming that there is some semblance to the russia collusion conspiracy theory that they have foisted on the country for so long. >> bret: all right, panel, thanks. have a great weekend. sec football, nothing like it. go dogs. when we come back, "notable quotables." ♪ ♪ (vo) subaru and our retailers believe in giving back. that's why, in difficult times, we provided one hundred and fifty million meals to feeding america. and now through the subaru share the love event, we're helping even more. by the end of this year, subaru will have donated over two hundred and twenty five million dollars to charity. this is what it means to be more than a car company. this is what it means to be subaru. >> bret: it's friday, you know what that means, "notable quotables." >> it's called the omicron. >> were not going to shut the government down. >> please wear your mask when you're indoors and public settings around other people. >> the president and somebody who follows the recommendations and the advice of the cdc. >> they are criticizing science because i represent science. >> i think the egos expanding beyond what i saw. >> who is president about you? >> there's a point of time, that was a lot of fun. >> i didn't pull the trigger. >> it hurts to even say it. it's embarrassing, but i understand. >> what about the children who ran screaming, hiding under desks? the charges of terrorism reflects that. and >> this community stands with io. they are here for you, they are here for you. >> will never have to worry about gas prices again. >> i want to thank secretary pete buttigieg, there you are. >> will this institution survive? >> abortion is a hard issue and when the constitution does not take sides, it belongs to the people. >> i can't promise that every person will get every gift they want on time. only santa claus can keep that promise. >> bret: one week. it tomorrow 3:00 p.m. eastern watch my interviews. here are the reagan library, thank you for inviting us into your home tonight. that's it for "special report," fair, balanced, unafraid, couple seconds over a period of fox news prime time hosted by pete hegseth starts right now. >> pete: shows overcome a you might be time for nine holes. >> bret: yes, sir. >> pete: love it, bret, thank you very much. appreciate it. good evening, america, 7:00 p.m. on the east coast and 6:00 p.m. in god's time which means time for fox news prime time. i'm pete hegseth. we've got good news to report to nine on a friday night. after a month