sparking long lines at testing sites and even high-profile cancellations leaving many people to wonder, where is the return to normality that we have all been hearing so much about? you are watching "outnumbered." i'm harris faulkner. michael hood, kayleigh mcenany's head turning point usa in phoenix, arizona. i heard her speak amazingly yesterday. a host kennedy, kennedy, tomi lahren, and senior editor at the federalist and right forge, chris bedford is in the house. good to see you all. lines at new york city testing sites are stretching on for hours. positivity rates are skyrocketing. with omicron the dominant strain of covid in the united states. jumping from 1% three weeks ago to an estimated 73% of all cases now. the covid spike is leaving the nhl to pause the season and cancel all games through the holidays. the rockettes are doing the same. they have canceled all remaining shows of their christmas spectacular. this is some of broadway's bigness shows are going dark of what is the busiest time of the year. schools across the nation are beginning to shift remote learning. some of them. the president is about to outline a strategy to combat the new covid search. things are a far cry from what he originally promised to do during his campaign. remember this? >> president biden: we will never, ever, ever quit. that is how we will chat on the virus. >> harris: i'm going to shut down the virus. i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going to shut down the virus. >> harris: let's open up "outnumbered." chris bedford. >> chris: you have to wonder how he's going to be able to pull this off. i always going to shut down the virus. they took a break to control the climate come up with this seems a stretch by that. the problem we are facing is a social construct. when it comes onto testing and it comes on to contamination and lockdowns. we track any other communicable disease in the same way we track covid. you have to isolate, your family is to isolate coming up to go into tests. there would be panic at the time. we are not going to get rid of this disease. the people who are pushing this, especially where i live in you live, they are so wedded to the idea of these lockdowns and mask mandates and shutdowns. they never worked in their bare straight minutes of the doing it again. we started a mask mandates here in d.c. public schools are going to be shutting down again. it's hurting children and america. if they can't follow ron desantis who's about to help the people of the state, they're never going to get anywhere. in florida has a low covid rate. people like to say this because they're outside. i just got back from florida. those bars, restaurants, concerts, are packed. they've a different strategy of dealing with that. because of it, panic is gone away. >> harris: what is interesting about what chris is saying, kayleigh, is with regard to what we learn. some people, some governors, some states learned from the last two years. not so convinced some of the american people say that the president and democratic states did learn. new jersey is a cobalt blue step. governor murphy there is not doing a lockdown. he's not following east coast governors. we do not have any of that. we can get monoclonal antibodies and we can get those things that we sought out in florida. it's interesting. >> kayleigh: it is interesting. you see red state governors like ron desantis doing a fantastic job. i'm a floridian i've seen it firsthand. there's a balance between freedom and covid restrictions. he has found the balance. he has done quite a good job. also, i want to lay the foot of blame at the seat of the federal government. i talk to someone who is a high-level official that i worked for in the federal government and i said explained to me what is going on right now question mike explained it to me. when we were there, i saw these officials sit to meet and explain down to the hospital level are not county level, hospital level. we were able to see what supplies they have come what they don't, work with the private sector, and surf supplies. what is the difference between what happened then and what happened now? key to making sure that tests are being produced is communicating the private sector which it the trump administration did daily. abbott has a rapid test and they stopped producing in june or july at the scale needed because they were not receiving communication from the federal government. president trump purchased 500 million abbott tests giving a signal to produce, produce, produce. the biden administration coming to this day, has not done that. when you're not giving an indication to the private sector that you're going to do it, it's a problem. he had 12 months to continue the good work and did not. >> harris: 12 months by your source from the former trump official. at least six. i look at our state of new jersey. you can call the hotline, he can go on the website, you can get a home test. as many as you need. you've been able to do that in several states. the white house is behind it. they are expected to announce 500 million tests can be set to your home now. supply chain crisis. is he going to come to my house with it in his pocket? maybe amazon has a deal. they are the fastest in the business. i'm being honest here. he is behind the times. kayleigh, you have receipts for that. kennedy? >> kennedy: by the way, this virus is having its way with people. it is mutating. i know that joe biden wants to take it behind the woodshed and punch it in the face, but that's not happening. i would like more doctors to be honest about what is happening here. there is an inverse proportion between transmissibility and death. the more transmissible virus is, the more people get it, the more contagious it is. we are seeing a lot of research like that's out of south africa. more people are getting it coming younger people are getting at, but their symptoms are not nearly as bad as they wn spring of last year. the virus can shift from a pandemic to an end imac which means it is something that will always be with us but it's more manageable. but the federal government has to get out of the way if they're not helping. right now, not only are we hearing about low orders, we hearing about supply chain backlogs on testing equipment. >> harris: exactly. >> kennedy: that's why you're seeing such long lines at testing facilities. >> harris: and what about this, kennedy. i know you been interviewing doctors mccarrick, dr. siegel, and others. i enjoyed talking with dr. shaw whenever we can make the time for each other. you talk about supply chain issues, they're big on the pill. especially dr. siegel. their big and the pfizer pill because that puts another therapeutic. weird biden on the issue? is he going to announce that there's going to be expeditious delivery question because he's going to push the fda to not take as long as it did to get tt was mainstreamed for the vaccine? it was not an emergency authorization? >> kennedy: that's great point. when i talk about the federal government getting out of the way come and get the fda out of the way. stop stepping over your message and make sure the therapeutic can get in the bodies of sick people. it is what is keeping people in the hospital from dying. in addition to the vaccine the science we have corrected the stuff about barriers and things that were superfluous that were not helping us. that pill will save lives. bottom line. get that emergency authorization, please. >> harris: or push for it. tomi, i hear the white house say it is not our position to tell agencies what to do. they can suggest, can't they? a suggestion from the white house has to mean something. unless it comes to build back better. maybe not then. >> tomi: interesting. they do not want to tell agencies what to do, but they've no problem telling the american people what they should do. we are going to hear from president biden to start mourning the unvaccinated. i would like to point out supply chain crisis. hospitals are being overwhelmed. it was this administration that was pressuring those health care workers to get vaccinated or else be terminated. we are going to be in a position where we might have long lines at hospitals and we might be short-staffed at hospitals like we are everywhere else in the country. you had an administration that was threatening to turn to make that are recessional stomach essential not only for omicron, covid, but everything else. we should not be pegging our lockdowns and mandates on case totals. we should be picking them on mortality and death rates. if we have something we are living with that is highly transmissible but it's not killing people at the rate that we sell with the early versions of covid, that is an accomplishment. we should be moving forward with late understanding we are going to have to live with covid. stop bullying the american people into doing what this administration feels is best. targeting liberty, personal, and medical freedoms. let's move on with our lives. >> harris: were never going to get to zero covid. whenever going to get to zero stupidity. were never going to get 20 anything. that's what we do with other diseases. we will move on. brett midler is apologizing. was that an apology? 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"joe manchin represents a population smoked in brooklyn has done to the rest of america who wants to move forward not backwards like it state is horrible. he sold us out and he wants us all to be just like his state, west virginia. poor, illiterate, and strung out." wow. she gave what i guess is an apology. she says "i apologize to the good people west virginia for my last outburst. i am seeing red. joe manchin in his own family are a criminal enterprise," she rode. "is he the best that west virginia has to offer the citizens? surely someone has the best interest at heart instead of his own." the gross hollywood elite. you can't get much lower. calling an entire state poor and illiterate. what is it with these elites? deplorable and irredeemable. the list goes on and on. rude is what cnn said. why did they do this? >> tomi: that is what they think of us. that's not all democrats. it does a lot of the liberal elite out there in hollywood. even our elected democrats, some of them feel that way about us. we check out those forgotten americans. the trump supporter's per you don't even need to be a trump supporter. people from middle america. places like i'm from in south dakota. that's what they think of us. they looked down upon us. were not coastal elite. they think we are less than they are because we do not live in a high-rise in new york city. i would caution the american people to pay attention to this. it's not just people like that midler. it's a lot of that party. we need democrats who don't feel that way to stand up and say that's not what we think about you. we believe in forgotten americans and middle america. we believe in the heartland. unfortunately, democrats are not doing that. that is why we are led to believe this is how they actually feel about us. >> kayleigh: i would love to see that, but when you have people at the height of democratic politics using the same terminology to describe voters. president trump, he would go after democrats, but they were democrat politicians. he never went after half of the country voters. it's a new low in politics. >> kennedy: it is. i wonder what it is like to get to the point in your life where you become such a racist bigot that you do not have a filter anymore. is that freeing? the bette midler have a good time? if i had said such horrible things, i think i would wake up and feel pretty bad about myself. this is not the first time she has had to walk something back. if you remember in 2020, she very cruelly and very rudely went after the former first lady for her accent. she dislikes immigrants, dislikes people from parts of the country she's never been to. the interesting thing is if she went to west virginia, i think she would be surprised how cool and welcoming people actually are. even to someone like her. >> kayleigh: harris, we talk about kyrsten sinema not being chased into the bathroom to try to get her to vote the monstrosity of a bill. this was to the same man. steve clemons on the hill. he's a friend of joe manchin and it given the protests that he has experience at his home, a boat in washington harbor, with folks harassing him, his wife, and his grandson and kayaks around his boats and gates at the marina, i know that that statement was personalizing the game. it put his family at risk in my view. everyone knows they are the two democrats that the white house mutts negotiate with. to specify him meant that the terms of the dealmaking had changed. with this instrumental to him a voting no or single? >> harris: he wants to keep his family safe and he wants to send a message to leave them out of that. i've spoken with him more than once. this is a mean game of carrot on a stick. the democrats are out of ideas on how to sweeten the pot and put the carrot in front of him. they are using the stick. in this case, it's a club. they're using it against him and anybody else who would disagree. then they start to back off today. what does that tell us? they are glimpsing 2022 midterm elections as a day of gloom and doom for them. we do not have a plan. the carrot stick did not work. what you do? hands in the year, everybody back off. the liberal media does not get the message. they continue to go after senator manchin. those same democrats that are doing the walk back are going to be asked about it. if they give a conflicting answer, now they're liars. now they say he's a good guy and they're liars. there's no winning for them. the white house has egg on its face for the statement they put out against him. it is a mess. the thing that gets burned it is biden's agenda. no republicans are crying about that. they can sit quietly and eat their popcorn. >> kayleigh: and they need the vote. they're going to need his vote in the coming year. fox news digital, they did a great job. they went out on the ground in west virginia to hear what voters had to say. listen to what they said about joe manchin. >> i support joe manchin 120%. i support him not backing down to bind in. >> is the right thing to do. too much money going the wrong direction. >> i think he has west virginia in his eyes. >> letting west virginia suffer for biden choices? >> kayleigh: a stand with joe manchin. i think we have some audio issues. tomi, it seems that these voters agree with joe manchin as we try to get chris bedford's mike up. >> tomi: they agree with joe manchin and they know he's putting them in their state first. all of the americans right now that are suffering. it's not people like bette midler that are suffering under joe biden. some people lake's nancy pelosi or anyone in hollywood or any of the hollywood elite. it's a middle class americans that are being pinched by the out-of-control spending and the lock down, shutdowns, mandates, infringements. those of the american struggling and those of the american spirit whether there democrat or republican. they're not going to vote for another democrat in 2022 or 2024. it's one thing to be a social media activist and type things on twitter to be to virtue single points. it's another to be in a grocery store or kitchen table and hear from real americans. >> kayleigh: unlike the fake audio problems, we actually had an audio problem. your back. what your thought? >> chris: if you could west virginia, you will see wonderful country. you're also going to see a huge one to poverty. a huge amount of drug problems. towns are decimated by people like michael bloomberg and barack obama within cycle campaigns. the reason you don't see charitable fund-raisers is a poor white people in the 70s, 80s, and 90s. it's not fashionable to try to help the poor white people in this country. they don't have the right accent, or access. it does not make the hollywood elite feel quite as good. it does not feed their patrimony that they try to get so high off of. it's a problem. it's why bernie sanders and president donald trump did so well in 2016. talking to people who had been forgotten and were not fashionable in hollywood. >> kayleigh: a lot of forgot americans in west virginia appeared president trump when the state by 40 points. there was a reason for that and you nailed it. coming up, kyle rittenhouse treated like a wrought start at turning point usa. why the young man is saying the media is getting the facts of his case wrong as he considers legal action. >> man: what's my safelite story? 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[applause] >> kayleigh: kaio rittenhouse has met with roaring cheers and a standing ovation when he took the stage at standing point usa america fest here in phoenix, arizona. he joined several conservative all calls on camera to address the events of august 25th. the media still gets a fact of the case wrong. speak up they keep mentioning on tv in a bizarre way. it's like an incantation. kaio rittenhouse brought a gun across state lines. where the saying that? why are they saying that? >> that's a good question and i don't know. it's false. that gun was in wisconsin and it never left wisconsin. >> for all the media watching, kaio rittenhouse is about to be super rich so you better be careful with what you write. >> kayleigh: he's hinting at legal action against the media while telling event goers to come "be on the lookout for a lawsuit." this comes after a settlement with nbc over their coverage of the interaction with a native american holder at the march for life and 2019. it is my firm belief that a lot of people in this room and a lot of conservatives watched the rittenhouse trial and felt a feeling that they personally feel. being demonized, ostracized, vilified. i hear it from students. if they speak up, they're going to be miscarried charged by their professors, fellow students, and i think that they felt a little bit of that in the carl rittenhouse trial. we have more audio issues with chris here. we'll fix his mic. we don't know what is going on. someone's meddling with your mike. i think conservatives resonate with that. >> tomi: they do. and i want to say that i agree with the verdict in the kyle rittenhouse trial. i believe he was innocent and he should go after the media for how they slandered him and mischaracterized him. i believe that wholeheartedly. he should set an example and be that example. i do believe that as conservatives, we need to be a little careful when it comes to this. i believe we can put up kyle rittenhouse as someone who was innocent and was bullied and mistreated by the media. i think we should step back a little bit and maybe not treat him like he is a rock star or a celebrity. that is not necessarily a good look for the conservative movement. he did what he had to do and he was defending himself. let's talk about self defense. let's talk about the riots. let's talk about how everything went horribly, horribly wrong. but we should take a step back and not make the man bon jovi. but that is just my take. >> kayleigh: it was an awful situation. no doubt about it. kennedy, he does have a lawsuit on his hands much like nicholas sandmann. he settled with nbc, cnn, "washington post." people are saying those could've been more than six figures. multimillion dollar settlements because of the way he was same goes for kyle rittenhouse. >> kennedy: and all of those things are mischaracterizations. and it happens over and over again. i'm glad that tomi said that. it is something that is very important. it is still a tragedy. no one wants to be in this situation. it is not something that should be celebrated. that is a good point. there are lessons to be learned from this. it was nick sandmann who reached out to kyle rittenhouse and said you could consider legal action because it they have defamed him and his life is going to be very difficult. not every instance and not every circumstance he gets into will be a turning point in phoenix. he's enrolled in a a few and there are people that are making his life very difficult. you can dislike something, but you can still be factual about the story. you can express your opinion that you did not like the outcome of something, but you do not have to lie about it in order to bolster your feelings. that is something that journalists have to stop doing. >> kayleigh: no doubt. i met kyle rittenhouse one hour ago. he struck me as a nice young man. shy, quiet, been through a lot. it was a horrible situation. and a time that occurs, it's a horrible situation for all involved. he mentioned that the trial help them grow a lot help to mature and shape who he is today. he grew closer to god through the experience, he said, and he said the parade every single night. he useent in life and he turned to faith. >> harris: those are private things. the best advice, as tomi is said and kennedy said, and maybe others telling him, heal thyself. focus on learning what you were meant to learn and hold those accountable who get your story run. kennedy's right peer just because the liberal media may not agree with how things were adjudicated in his case in the verdict of not guilty, they still have to get the facts right. it's one of the reason why i really don't like that term. go ahead and tell your truth. there is one truth. one set of facts. if it is not out there, it's not out there yet. there's one truth. they need to tell the truth. if they want to come clean whether it is on camera or off, it does not help our cause as journalist to do it on and say by the way, this is how it turned out but i don't like it. i suppose they can do that. reporting the truth is critical in all of this. the rock star nature, i agree. i do not want to say this young man made a target. i think he can stand up for the justice that was reached for him in that case just as others do in their cases on a whole host of things without being made at the lightning rod. we will have to see how it happens. let's see if the liberal media can report the facts. that is a challenge and that was our topic. >> kayleigh: accountability with a capital a. coming in the way of the liberal media. just as it did for nick sandmann. we will see. coming outcome of violence on airplanes and at airports is off the charts. as the answer banning alcoholic terminal bars and on flights? that is next. or psoriatic arthritis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the way they exaggerate the surprises they initiate. otezla. it's a choice you can make. otezla is not 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>> kennedy: that's not true. alcohol is always been there. alcohol is always been on planes and been at bars. there are people standing in the hallways at the terminal saying come here and get a bloody mary. i got a bud light for you. that's not happening. the thing that is different is pandemic for people of locked down and they forgot how to interact with each other. then they get freaked out wearing masks on planes. that triggers more anxiety. >> harris: what we do? if you are going to be on a plane, you're going to be in a mask. we are having an outbreak, a search. how do we do this? when they took alcohol away the first time, it did not have pretty results. it wasn't the great equalizer. >> tomi: prohibition does not work. there's an element of the culture of lawlessness that hasd the smash and grabs at the nordstrom and the neiman marcus. but also in the air and in the air comports itself. people believe they could do whatever they want and get away with whatever they want. there always bystanders hoping to catch a viral moment which is somewhat disgusting. furthermore, i want to go off of kennedy's point. i don't think it's alcohol that's the problem. harris, you mentioned we are in the middle of a omicron outbreak. with the ceo of southwest saying masks and airplanes don't do that much. filtration systems are great. i'm not saying we need to give up mask on airplanes, although i would love that route. we need to get to point to be honest about it. the arbitrary lifted up and put it back on. you're chewing something or drinking something. up down, up down. you can chew on something slowly. we've got to the point where the rules have been so strict and the flight attendants and force it more than others. people don't know what to do. they don't know if they can breathe on airplanes anymore. it leads to a lot of hostility and a lot of anxiety. we are all dealing with it. >> harris: you bring up great points. the whole mask thing, and i'm going to take this for the drink. the science is a challenged spirits only need to explain about her. what i'm up by that the faa needs to explain it. it's not a shocker that you're going to need to keep your mask on. you have a choice, i guess, now that you don't fly. i don't know what the answer is. alcohol, they've done this before. it did not stop the unruly nature of people. in fact, some flight attendants are put in the position where sober or otherwise, that is an unenviable position. having to break up fights no matter what psychotropic stuff is going on. >> kayleigh: exactly right. i set up for an on-site again. our flight attendants are wonderful. they stand out. you removed your mask for five seconds. maybe you could've pulled it up quicker. we've all had that a flight attendant, but that's exception to the rule. i find amazing flight attendants who have had to be put in positions like this. they make people's lives easier. i'm traveling with my daughter and a flight attendant came up and gave her the little pair of wings. these are great people. they are being put in position to break up fights like this and they shouldn't be in it. as we all travel, be gracious, be kind, give a smile to flight attendant, and say thank you. they are dealing with a whole lot. >> harris: i love that. when people watch this, they're going to say why did they not report that the southwest airlines ceo has covid? 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>> harris: we have big personalities and we are chatty. are you surprised by that? most of us, anyway. my mom used to give everybody a jump. my job was to be as positive and come up with a way to engage people. i would print t-shirts to family getting together and that thing. give everyone a responsibility. george in charge of happiness, you're in charge of making sure people feel good about themselves. it was motivational. i look back on it now -- as a kid, i thought it was ridiculous and didn't want to take a part of it. i look back on it now and it was an interesting idea. if nothing else worked, my dad said let me get the boots. not for the kids. >> kayleigh: your mom had it right. i always wanted to be in charge of the fire. they never put me in charge of the fire. someone was cut to poke it. it was never me. haters exist during the holidays. a national review column showing no love for the 80's loved classic by the way i might giving it the worst of the worst when it comes to christmas song. here's a clip of this christmas classic to remind you how great it is and how wrong national review is. ♪♪ last christmas, i give you my heart ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ but the very next day, you gave it away ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ this year, to save me from tears ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i'll give it to someone special ♪ ♪ ♪♪ >> kennedy: chris, good to have you back. stone is heavy. this is a great sign. >> chris: i'm so glad to be back. i've so many strong thoughts on it. i was controlling music during christmas and i love all the music about the holidays. it's really christmas centric whether it's been crosby singing about how you feel about family or o holy night. even the pope singing about the big fights you might have in your loved ones. i don't understand the tripe. at last christmas i gave you my heart or basically anything by mariah carey. they are commercial songs that put in the word christmas as a way to take up syllables. very little to do with it or love songs. the worst thing is that people love them as much as you do. the only place they have around christmas is when my neighbors and friends want to put on mariah carey. >> kennedy: can we meet him again? >> chris: ho, ho, ho. >> kennedy: celine dion. oh holy night. best christmas song ever. >> kayleigh: sorry, chris. her o holy night is the best ever. carrie underwood and mariah carey, they hit those notes that are amazing to listen to and gives you goose bumps. i love them both. i've been dying to say this so i'll say it now. i love that movie, fred clause. brian kilmeade talks about it being his favorite movie. mind to. watch fred clause. underrated christmas movie. please. >> harris: you got it. >> kayleigh: a good time to cozy up with a christmas cocktail peered from eggnog, hot bodies, mulled wine. that's disgusting. let's take a virtual couch trip. what is your top holiday cocktail? >> tomi: the wine. that's the best holiday cocktail you can go in for. trying to explain to him i'm on the different between pinot grigio and pinot noir. but if it has alcohol in it, i'm sure we will all be happy. how to avoid issues at christmas time with your family, alcohol is a way to go. on other ways limiting. one of my favorite christmas traditions is when my dad would start the car and entice my mom to get in the car and leave by starting at and not wanting to waste gas. that is a tip and the technique my mom to my dad used to get away from the in-laws peered on going to pass along to all of y. >> harris: that's funny. your parents got the car and left. >> kennedy: harris, i have a new cocktail for you. salted caramel martini. it's a new addition to the memoir. repertoire, rather. all right it when i write it to my stomach wake up from my blackout state. spoon merry christmas to me from kennedy. >> kennedy: eggnog and bourbon can never be bait. we have more "outnumbered" in just a moment. >> harris: arcos, kayleigh mcenany, has been all over the stages at turning point usa's america fest in phoenix, but now she is about to keynote. and i know you're going to be spreading some of what you and i had talked about, in that first tv sit down before you joined us at fox news. it's how you get through everything. >> kayleigh: that's exactly right, how you get through adversity. on one of those particularly tough days in the white house somebody shared a bible verse, second corinthians four: 17. it describes troubles as momentary and focus on not what the mountain is in front of you but what is unseen, because there is something so much bigger than whatever problem we are facing. sickness, whatever it may be. these kids, i want to inspire them, help them through those troubles, and it's going to be a great message. >> harris: awesome, that's about an hour and half from now, local time 11:30 in phoenix where you are. thanks, everybody. here is "america reports." >> mike: has, thanks. to kick off "america reports," president biden set to announce details on how the administration is responding to the surge of the omicron variant as americans brace for the possibility of new lockdown measures. hello, i am mike emanuel hear it in for in washington. state i am gillian turner info sandra smith today. looking to affirm to the nation that he's not going to force the