now progressives want to sidestep the west virginia moderate altogether. we will tell you their latest plan. neil: terrifying update on the border crisis. trying to sneak into our country. carley: you are watching "fox and friends first". todd: i am todd piro. cases of the laquan variant continue to rise. the speech will be a stark warning to the unvaccinated. carley: griff jenkins with more on what we can expect from the president later today. >> reporter: we expect them to say the cdc, the omicron very it is the dominant strain in the country accounting for 73% of new cases with the first death reported out of houston. in a speech today about how the administration is handling it president biden taking to twitter to preview his remarks saying we are working around the clock to increase testing ability, vaccine ability and support for hospitals. i will have more to say on this tomorrow. in the meantime get vaccinated, get this, wear a mask and keep the faith, we will get through this together. the speech is expected to build on his winter plan to focus on access to testing, booster shots, no lockdowns, new mask mandates and risk to the unvaccinated. that is an area jen psaki hit home yesterday. >> those who choose to remain unvaccinated he. the stark warning and make clear and vaccinated individuals will drive hospitalizations and deaths. >> reporter: this after the chief white house coordinator issued this dire warning last friday. >> severe illness and death. >> reporter: vice president harris is breaking from the white house script, for the spiking cases. >> it is the fault of the unvaccinated? >> it is not the time to talk about fault, it is no one's fault this virus hit our shores. >> reporter: expect the president to take questions. jen psaki says many want to ask about what is coming in close contact with the covered -- covid positive staffer. todd: they select questions before they will answer. carley: senator manchin says the white house response is absolutely inexcusable. todd: jackie ibanez has details as they scramble to salvage the bills back better agenda. >> reporter: after voting against the bills back better plan, expected the white house to come back strong. the white house staff has taken it too far and inexcusable things about him. >> surely to god we can move one person, not from west virginia. i'm not from where they are from. >> reporter: manchin and president biden met to discuss the legislation where he suggested a new deadline in march or april, and a longtime ally and friend of senator manchin wrote an op-ed saying joe and joe were pulling the same direction, there should be no bbb gifts under the christmas tree but no one would get cold in their stockings either but then the white house released a statement blaming manchin for the delay. when i saw manchin's name in a presidential statement he would see it is a breach of process. jen psaki says they are not playing the blame game but calling it an update. >> i will tell you the intention if you look at last thursday was to provide an update on the future of bills back better. carley: >> reporter: some are so frustrated their calling on democrats to ignore him altogether. across the aisle there are lawmakers warming up a seat for manchin in the republican party. >> reporter: the senate took the latter path, that lack of integrity is stunning in a town where people say the only thing they have is your word. it is abundantly clear that we cannot trust what senator manchin said. >> it doesn't sit well over there. that is a decision, we welcome them to join us if so inclined. >> a lot ask is manchin going to become a republican? i hope he does, i have asked him to. >> reporter: manchin has not indicated if he would join the gop. >> michael also plotting joe manchin. >> i'm thankful for senator joe manchin for stepping up and have encouraged to withstand cancel culture, they thought they could threaten his family, intimidate him in his home, chase his colleague in bathrooms and use, they didn't work on the senator from west virginia because he never forgot who he works for. he works for west virginians and their values and goals and dreams and aspirations and not the squad. >> reporter: i don't think the squat's progressive push will have any effect on senator manchin from west virginia. there is reporting that manchin, $1.8 trillion calendar offer on bills back better and excluded the child tax credit at the white house is trying to weigh how to respond to that but he went on the sunday show with bret baer and said it is a know and the reason he did that is because he was upset with how the white house released a statement invoking his name, putting the family and further jeopardy because so many protests and things like that. that the way manchin situation devolved and how we got to where we are today but build back better is just one bad thing that happened with the white house. the other bad thing is this npr pbs news hour marist poll. historic low for president biden, shows he has 41% of support, that's not good. another thing is the poll found the president has 29% approval among independents, not great. todd: people are saying, not widely agreed to the biden agenda is going to kill democracy. democracy is playing out as it should in light of those poll numbers. we govern by the majority, the majority of people do not like the biden agenda, they do not like build back better. as a result joe manchin was doing what his people, the people that elected him, the majority of the country wants which is not crippling inflation for not only our lifetimes but the lifetimes of our children and to follow-on michael waltz there's a notion on the left that you become you shame, you cancel people into agreeing to your demands whether in congress as we see in the joe manchin episode or in life. we've seen this year 2021, if one good thing to come out of this year, people are finally fighting back. carley: she's calling on executive action for build back better. a press conference she said she had to check and see, and directs of consideration, executive action could be reversed, legislation is permanent but foxbusiness also released a poll, not good for the biden administration either, 70% of people said it has been a bad year, sweeping majority of people, you look at crime, what happened in afghanistan, the border, people aren't happy, inflation playing a major portion into why the poll number -- todd: what is this leading to? democrats concerned about 2022. if you thought they were worried before they are really worried now. this is one anonymous democrat blaming president biden, quote, this is an indictment of the senior leadership of the white house, they don't want drama and rhetoric, i can see everyone, vulnerable democrats pleading for the hills, started with afghanistan, nobody was held accountable for the chaos, the afghanistan withdrawal constituted. president biden needs to clean house if we have any chance of salvaging 2022. there has to be cancer glances. democrats are square. i if they make this push to the center which the american people want. if vulnerable democrats want to win reelection. carley: i spoke to several parents of the 13 servicemembers in afghanistan, the number one thing, there's no accountability, in a statement you just read, nobody was held accountable. a couple days of uncomfortable hearings on capitol hill and that is about it. we have to remember that as well. todd: they did a good job which is shocking. carley: 10 minutes after the are. horrifying statistic you may not have heard about. sentinel overdoses are a leading cause of death for american adults and it is still flowing across the border. todd: potential terror suspect not stopped from slipping through a major entry point. greg murphy live this morning about president biden's border, when we come back. hi. i'm shannon storms bador. when we started selling my health products online our shipping process was painfully slow. then we found shipstation. now we're shipping out orders 5 times faster and thanks to shipstation's discounted rates we're saving a ton. honestly, we couldn't do it without shipstation join over 100,000 online sellers who get ship done with shipstation go to shipstation.com /tv and get 2 months free. will: we are back with the border crisis, agents apprehend a potential terrorists trying to apprehend a terrorist to the southern border. carley: the breach of security on the biden administration's border policies. >> reporter: that is right. border agents nevin identified 21-year-old migrant from saudi arabia saying he is a subject of interest which he was seen trying to cross into yuma, arizona. the patch on his jacket red volunteer ambulance corps. the upstate new york volunteer organization denies knowing the migrant and says they don't know how he got one of their older model jackets. retired ice director and fox news contributor tom home and blaming the biden administration for the porous border. >> it takes half of border patrol off the line, open up to criminals and human trafficking and terrorism. how many of that 400,000 didn't get arrested? >> reporter: dan patrick is calling out biden for issuing statements on the omicron variants on the border crisis. >> a plan to but millions of people in the the country and don't care who they are including terrorists and the president will address the nation on omicron but he should be addressing the nation on an issue as serious as the border and terrorists coming into the country. we caught one today. how many more do you think come in? >> reporter: in november border apprehension surged to 173,000. that is a 140% increase from last year according to cvp. carley: thank you. let's bring in north carolina congressman greg murphy. the suspect you just heard brooke outline is wearing a jacket from an upstate new york volunteer organization. no one knows how he got it. he is suspected to have ties to terrorism, trying to cross into the country. what do you know about the situation? how concerned are you that he's not alone? >> very concerned. we know border patrol agents have been doing unbelievable herculean efforts to keep people from crossing the border but when you have such a great surge of individuals we know hundreds of thousands of gotten without being checked, the fact that we caught a terrorist, the fact that you know in near numbers, you know other terrorists of gotten into the country. todd: how much damage has the biden administration done to our ability to fight the war on terror? >> i believe they've done irreparable damage and it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when something happens. if you look at the debacle in afghanistan you know a breeding ground for terrorists, they will somehow get their way through the southern border and wreak havoc upon this nation. it is not a matter of if, it is a matter of when. carley: it feels like a ticking time bomb. the border is wide open and like you said there is such an influx of people, 175 border apprehensions in november alone and border patrol being spread so thin and in texas a human smuggler who was trying to get away from police, crashed his car into one carrying a mother and daughter, they were both killed and you have the sentinel situation, it seems like chaos and a ticking time bomb. are you surprised there hasn't been more bipartisan support on trying to secure the border? >> i think there has been, in true border states, arizona and texas, they see the flood of hospitals kicking out american folks because they don't have the room. there has been outcry but the mainstream media loves to meet anything that doesn't make the biden administration look good. i searched my soul to figure out what rationale they have to do this because this is a danger and a threat, clear and present danger to this nation. why they aren't doing anything about it is beyond me. todd: sentinel is the leading cause of death among us adults. thank you, look at these numbers, these numbers are shocking, 2021 sentinel overdose death age 18 to 45, jump last year, last year was pretty high, 37,000 plus, this year, 41,580 and a few weeks to go in 2021 is too late? >> this is a perfect storm. we lock things down, kept people from family, friends, churches, businesses, it leads to depression, what is the presently 2, increased substance abuse, then the open border policy were more sentinel has gotten into kill the population multiple times over so not only do have increased supply, now you have increased demand and the fact that we have 100,000 deaths over a 12 month period is unconscionable and we know so much more is getting and then is being seized because the cost of fentanyl in spite of increased demand has plummeted 50% so they are not going to change this anytime soon because once those folks get addicted unless they get good treatment they are in a bad bad place. the deaths of these individuals is on the biden administration because of their policy. carley: thank you for joining us on these two critical topics, we appreciate it. >> god bless, have a good day. todd: kim foxx under the microscope for her failing in the jussie smollett case. >> i represent more people in joe manchin does. carley: something isn't adding up. a dig at joe manchin, why she's being called out for that statement. ♪♪ fresh flavors... classic dishes... ♪♪ and a new seat at the table. ♪♪ ♪ limu emu... & doug ♪ ♪ superpowers from a spider bite? 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>> we are going house by house, dilapidated buildings and cleaning them so in st. louis we tore down dozens of homes, the crime goes down and drug activity has gone down, it starts to get a heartbeat again and not these burned down structures where criminals can hide in and drug activity can get done. it is a big problem. people who don't live in inner cities don't understand how dangerous these things are, they get dragged into this building and get raped and what we are trying to do is knock down these buildings and kids don't have to worry about walking to school. carley: every blight removal take 65 kids say from drugs and gaining violence. other statistics, do you have stories of what people, the personal side of things, if you go to the community and can't transform it. >> i was in st. louis recently and the late issue, that we were doing the job the government waited decades to do. i have been trying to get the government to get rid of all the trash and debris and nonsense for three decades. an elderly black woman, very nice lady was very frightening, trying to get government to clean up the neighborhood and just can't get the job done and we nocks it out and she has a vibrant area. todd: this seems like something a developer does but people who aren't developers do that. >> pulte homes is a big homebuilder, my work has no interest in developing any of these properties because i to genuinely help, 5013 c nonprofit status but one of the options, this is up to the individual community, when you go in and clean up these neighborhood that opens opportunities for playgrounds, gardens and development and allows individual neighborhoods to move forward. carley: we love your mission, thank you for joining us this morning and making communities better. todd: our own santa claus, whatever you did on the plaza. you engage them. >> i will stick to forecasting. including polar air across northern portions of the country early this morning as we see temperatures dropping down below freezing from new york city across to chicago, kansas city. really warm spot down in miami, 74 degrees. that's where the action is going to be as far as severe weather later into today. big low-pressure system sweeping across the state. a lot of rain across portions of the southern southeast because of this low-pressure system, we will see heavy rain for panama city stretching into southern georgia and in central florida heavy rain and southern and central florida, a chance for severe thunderstorms but that is the only spot to page intention do. otherwise mostly clear and warming up, 60 in denver, 25 in new york, 41 in chicago, chili this morning, pretty mild as we get closer to christmas. and a lot of spots will see a white winter. todd: people in my camp say get ready for snow in our travels. we have some in the northeast? >> there will be a lot of snow out there. todd: that gust of cold. carley: you are the best. todd: 31 after the hour, president biden unveiling the next step in the pandemic plan today but will he stray from the teleprompter? >> he takes questions multiple times a week. depends on who you ask. carley: joe concha coming up with that next. ♪♪ work work work work work when it comes to autism, finding the right words can be tough. finding understanding doesn't have to be. together, we can create a kinder, more inclusive world for the millions of people on the autism spectrum. go to autismspeaks.org carley: alexandria ocasio cortez appearing to get the facts wrong introduce of joe manchin when discussing the spending agenda. the congresswoman had some big claims about her power in washington dc. >> the idea joe manchin says he can't explain this back home to his people is a farce. i represent more for many or more people than joe manchin does perhaps more. >> reporter: senator manchin represents 1.8 million people in west virginia while ocasio cortez represents 800,000 in her new york city district, those are the facts. carley: president biden will not answer questions following his covert address today. >> we hear from the president? >> i think you will hear from him on how we will get the agenda done. he takes questions multiple times a week. depends on who you ask. todd: here to react to the hostilities joe concha. different day different form same press censorship. in light of the disastrous last four days for the white house where do they come off thinking this is the approach. joe: the press secretary lied again which must mean a day ending in why. the president taking multiple times a week, simply not true. if you can show me transcript of president biden taking questions from the press three or four times a week i would love to see that because it doesn't exist. she also says the president had a full schedule on monday during the press briefing. that day began with him coming back from delaware after 8:00 in the morning to the white house, and is a internet 1:30 p.m. after lunch with the vice president when he said down with his covid team. that is one public events ended. it depends who you ask. and reporting this way more and more. why is adding trillions of dollars in new spending and cure for rising inflation, what are you going to do to reduce skyrocketing violent crime, homicide records this year or this is my meeting question. 2 million people crossed into the us illegally this year, record amounts of fentanyl have come across. that is the leading cause of death for those 18 to 45 years old in this country yet never talk about fixing the border or addressing the fentanyl crisis. the pens who us, won't include questions like that because he can't answer the questions because there are no good answers. todd: they work for us, we pay their salary, you will answer these questions lose your thoughts on the new york times changing its headline twice on a column gushing over the president american federation of teachers. can this woman save american public education. what will it take to get schools back to normal and go back to normal. this is hysterical from the comedy perspective. a glimmer in a writer's i, the response to the pandemic, so roundly criticized, and doing what we need to do in the interest of this. joe: a great movie from the 80s, 3:00 high, one line stuck with me, pain is to pray, film is forever. there are screenshots are forever. and after getting tremendous backlash, the new york times serves at the pleasure two entities, the democratic party, the teachers union which are the same thing and new york times, michelle goldberg actually wrote this with a straight face, quote, rather than shutdowns she spent much energy in public and behind-the-scenes trying to get schools to open and that is a whopper. no parent including the believes this, for 20 months the teachers union led the charge keeping schools closed, there are dozens of receipts on this. randi weingarten should be teaching driver's ed not running a teachers union. todd: the giants and bears in the nfc championship. thank you so much. >> didn't go well last night. carley: the national hockey league suspending all games as omicron surges across the country. the league saying tomorrow, the last four days after christmas weekend, following the announcement sunday, international game with canadian team suspended over possible travel restrictions, two games scheduled for today will go on pending test results. todd: it could go longer. brendan brown talking about his name becoming an anti-biden rallying cry, watch it again. >> unbelievable moment. >> you also told me, the chants from the crowd, let's go, brandon. todd: it doesn't get older. carley: understand millions of people are struggling. i have no interest in leading a political fight. i race cars but i'm no longer going to be silent about the situation i find myself in and why millions of americans are chanting my name. i hear them even if washington does not. it sounds like he doesn't love -- he understands people are coming from politically. kyle rittenhouse takes the stage at turning point usa's america fest. >> do you plan to susa media companies soon? 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>> absolutely. i thought they knew they were losing and wanted a mistrial. todd: rittenhouse that he questioned why he was asked about his silence on the stand, gave emotional testimony, wanted people to know the truth about what happened in kenosha. he was acquitted on all charges in that contentious trial. the good samaritan in ohio parking lot, and an 87-year-old woman yelled for help them. spring into action and able to take down the seat. another guy coming by, presley receiving an award from the butler county sheriff's office for the citizens arrest and the woman he helped, we love stories like this, thank you for what you did. progressives showing true colors as they ramp up attacks on joe manchin but house democrats as it is president biden's own fault, tomi lahren is live on a democrat divide. ♪♪ . . when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. todd: welcome back. president bidenens leadership called into question his own party for failing to hold his administration accountable. >> joining me now fox nation host tomi lahren. merry christmas, great to see you here. here is what this anonymous democrat had to say. quote: it started with afghanistan. nobody was held accountable chaos at the afghanistan withdrawal constituted it allowed everyone to get a pass and send a message that the president will stick by you. so whatever you want. so do whatever you want. i do think biden needs to clean house if we have any chance of salvaging 2022. look, tomi this was just a matter of time before midterms approached. there is definitely a jumping off of the titanic happening. what are the ramifications of this effort by democrats to distance themselves from joe biden? >> well, i agree with this anonymous it democrats respond. i agree with what he is i is aing. i do wish those members and those house members and those senators, those democrats that are elected across the nation, if they don't believe in this administration and they don't believe in the agenda of this administration and their party as a whole, they need to come out volume voblegly and transparently condemn it and better solution for the constituents i believe are more moderate democrats. until then, these anonymous comments are somewhat useless. as we mentioned todd, we knew this was going to happen. set up from the get go. never believed the democrats were going to stand bind joe biden. i believe he was a throwian horse for their agenda. he is what they paraded around the american people as some kind of moderate to those democrats who didn't like donald trump because of his mean tweets, they paraded moderate joe biden out there to get those moderate votes and then they pushed through their radical agenda. it's not enough to quietly or anonymously condemn biden or his actions or his numerous crises at hand, they need to come out and they need to provide a better solution and they need to show themselves so we know who they are. todd: to that point, tomi, you have uber liberals in the white house following their religion which i'm kind of making a joke here but kind of not with the show the west wing. where the players, they pulled levers and did everything behind the scenes to get what they ultimately wanted. that's not how it works in reality. will joe biden get his team in line? >> well, i don't believe that joe biden is in charge of his team quite frankly or even his teleprompter for that matter or his message or anything he says to the american people or otherwise. there is definitely somebody behind the scenes pulling the strings as charlamagne tha god asked kamala harris the other day who is the president? i don't believe it's joe manchin or maybe kamala but not joe biden. he is the one sitting in the oval office but not in control. we would like to know who is in control so we know who blame. it's the party as a whole they better come out and provide solutions moderate democrats who base and majority. todd: someone with a w. a lot of power in washington, d.c. is joe manchin. here is mitch mcconnell suggesting that joe manchin should join the g.o.p., listen. >> he doesn't fit well over there that's the decision ultimately he has to make. we certainly welcome him to join us if he was so inclined. todd: tomi, to put a bow on this from what you were saying earlier hasn't this whole episode with manchin show the -->> big divide in the democrat party popular on social media the squad and those actually popular with constituents as i mentioned are much more moderate than that social activist side would believe. i think we have to be carol of making joe manchin a messiah or hero. he did the right thing. we hope he continues to do the right at the end of the day the democrat party needs to have a reckoning within itself is it going to remember forgotten americans who happen to be democrats, who again, voted for joe biden who didn't like trump's tweets but having serious buyer's remorse as they should. are r. those democrats going to represent the majority or placate to the blm, the social media activists of their party might be loud but i believe are actually the minority. they are going to lose big in 2022 if they don't make a big change. selfishly i don't really care. when it comes to our country it would do the democratic party well to remember who the base is and start remembering them. todd: sitting back here next christmas will something like bbb have ultimately passed or is it dead? >> well, i will tell you what, todd, i have been around a lot of this country and i have yet to see a build back better hat. i'm going to leave it with that. todd: i'm curious to see if someone comes up with one. christmas is a few days away. make sure to listen to tomi's final thoughts on fox nation. thank you for being with us on tuesday and all tuesdays. looking forward to next year. with that "fox & friends" starts right now. bye-bye. >> the president set to address the nation regarding this covid winter in just hours. >> this is not a speech locking the country down. for those who refuse to remain unvaccinated he will issue a warning. >> surely we can move one person. guess what, i'm from west virginia. i'm not from where they are from. >> the socialist wing of the party dictates their policy and lucky for us, joe manchin stood up to it. >> a potential terrorist from saudi arabia was just apprehended at the southern border. >> this just plays into the argument that president biden's critics have lea