gillian turner and washington joined today by a correspondent alicia acuna, fox business anchor lauren simonetti, acu foundation senior fellow and former white house jump advisor mercedes schlapp, and in the center virtual seat we have seattle radio host jason rantz. i welcome everyone. dr. fauci is taking what could be considered by some a grinch-like approach to the holidays especially for americans who haven't been vaccinated. take a listen to his latest advice. >> dealing with a serious enough situation right now that if there is an unvaccinated person, i would say i'm very sorry, but not this time, maybe another time when this is all over. >> gillian: at jason, i'm going to come to you first. in the meantime hit the president is knocking his health team's response saying it hasn't been good enough, take a look at this. >> we go to the pharmacy and we hear this over and over again, empty shelves and no test kits, is not a failure? >> president biden: i don't take as a failure, i think you could argue that we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago or a month ago but the answer is, yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering half a billion pills two months ago before covid hit here. >> gillian: it's of the president is still blaming the unpredictability of covid rather than taking any responsibility. watch. >> president biden: how do we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the world, who saw it coming? >> gillian: so if ouchi says, jason, we should exclude people who aren't vaccinated from christmas. what i was going to say a minute ago that by way of a personal anecdote, my family is scaling back the christmases this year because i have an infant daughter, because she's obviously unvaccinated but also zero immune system at her age. that brings me to question i have to ask you, there doesn't seem to be got and set aside for people unlike me who are unvaccinated and have family members who are unvaccinated, who also don't have any particular vulnerable people in their house, why should they exclude unvaccinated people? >> jason: at the end of the day i think we need to have different rules or different guidance and advice for different people in different scenarios but instead, we treat absolutely everyone as if they are the same, that they are in the same position. but they simply are not. if you are someone who is triple vaccinated and you live alone and you are having some friends over who are in similar circumstances for you, there's very little risk. i think we need to start looking at on the promise a way to reset the conversation around covid. all of the data that we have so far suggest that it's basically giving people a cold and while that data could change, we have to be aware and pave it if that happens. why don't we look at this and say this is actually a positive in the context of covid not actually going away. if you are vaccinated and you evade the vaccine there is new information out of oregon that you may have some super immunity from delta which is deadlier. but at the end of the day what's driving me nuts and i think is driving a lot of people crazy is the fact that we are treating a virus that has a 1% death rate, as if it's a 1% survival rate. we have to start updating our guidance. >> gillian: mercedes, the president says we didn't see delta coming and we didn't see omicron coming. fine, no one expects the commander-in-chief to be some medical oracle were soothsayer and predict the future, but what i think americans do expect is that the response is rapid and the guidance is clear. >> mercedes: i was actually surprised that joe biden would have made that comment about not seeing that these variants were going to come through. we know that the scientists have been talking about this for quite some time. the omicron variant hit south africa -- absolutely. and he has apparently the best scientists not only in the country but in the world who are advising him between the cdc, the nih, the hhs and this is what their job is. their job is to forecast, their job is to see what's happening and what are the global trends and to be to respond quickly. the mere fact that this bureaucratic system failed and that joe biden and his team, the president did not anticipate these variants despite the fact that when you look at viruses -- i mean, even the, since person knows that there is going to be different flu strains for example. we know that they are going to mutate, we know that there will be different strains and the mere fact that they did not capture this, but the it administration failed on this and it did not have a plan in place earlier on i think is very telling of this administration and their failures to deliver for the american people considering that joe biden said in his basement campaign that he was going to shut down the virus, which he has failed to do. >> gillian: it's oh lauren, the federal government has preordered an prepaid for 500 million test kits and i think it's a total of 13 million doses of these new to antiviral covid pills. but by all accounts, according to health experts americans would have access to the stuff for weeks not months. >> lauren: and what do you need even before you get prescribed those pills? we need a test. we don't have enough test in this is mind-blowing. not only do we not have a test right now, because people are being responsible and they are trying to make sure as we gather tomorrow for christmas eve that we can be safe with our friends and family. we don't have access to the test but, wait. the president didn't even sign the contract for those half-billion tests that are on order and a virtual website where we can order them. it's not even set up. the whole thing is a mess. we are being responsible, we are getting vaccinated, we are getting boosted and getting tested if we can. you know what happened in australia yesterday? the prime minister scott morrison -- remember this country was locked down completely for like two years. he's like, we are not going to restrict you anymore. lockdowns don't work. just so personal responsibility and have at it, australia. because omicron is really transmissible and there's nothing we can do to stop it. personal responsibility and that's what australia is doing. and i think that changed the tone for how we approach the virus. >> gillian: alecia, what do you think about that? what are the country is that you see the u.s. could best model ourselves after right now? not most of the western european countries that are going back into these lockdowns. >> alicia: i can totally pick up on what lauren is saying with australia because i think we have forgotten somewhere along the way especially with the omicron variant that yes. we have to learn to live with covid, but i think we have forgotten about the living part of it, not just, we have to get tested and we have to have masks and all of that. but with omicron, we have a family member that just tested positive yesterday and the concern is more around, how are we just going to separate this person from everybody else? there isn't a large concern about the living portion, this wasn't to discount anyone who is hospitalized or wes and the pain of people who have lost a loved one. when i'm saying is there are people that are testing positive and they are living and i think we are forgetting that, especially when we hear all the scare tactics and things like this inviting people. that's up to you. if i want to just invite someone, that's up to me. that's not something that i want someone to tell me. maybe i will and maybe i won't but that's a conversation with me and my family. >> gillian: can we do is invite our in-laws and blame that on dr. fauci? 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because perception certainly is that he is not as mentally sharp as he would need to be in order to take care of the multiple problems with this administration has caused. >> gillian: at mercedes. listen to this recent "wall street journal" poll. it trump and biden neck and neck. biden has 46%, former president trump has 45%, so, i mean, tell us. what are the odds that president trump is going to run? >> mercedes: that's a million-dollar question and i think actually this is interesting. i wish i did. this is the deal, i think both joe biden and donald trump, the health issue is a real issue for both of them. i mean, president trump is also mentioned that it would really depend if he would get a call from the doctor to say, don't run because of your health. i think this is a very real problem for both candidates. with that being said, if i vesely worked for president trump. he has incredible energy. he is a razor focused and he has obviously built a very strong movement. as we are seeing, we seem joe biden completely crumble in the first year of the presidency. let's remember, it's a first year of the presidency where you have the most political capital and i believe that joe biden has quickly lost that. i don't think he's going to be able to regain his popularity. i do believe that even democrats in his own party are praying and hoping that joe biden doesn't run again. we've even seen members of the liberal media also say the same thing. they are warning people and a warning biden, please don't run again. these are very realistic questions and i think for joe biden to be enticed that donald trump is going to run, i have to tell you. if donald trump runs he will definitely have more energy and be prepared to take on joe biden because joe biden will not be able to pull off a second basement campaign. >> gillian: alecia, if president biden for whatever reason decides he's not going to seek reelection, when should he let his party know so they can produce a new slate of candidates? >> alicia: i think his own party is asking that question as well, jillian. he wants to help his own party out and not be the one to take his party out in 2024. he also needs to be the president until 2024, so it makes it a lot harder for him as unacknowledged lame duck to continue to try to push any policy. right now he's having a hard time. look what just happened with bill back better. two mercedes point, both men are aging and both men are aging differently and that part has become obvious hearing them in interviews. this was something the media was scolding about for bringing up time and again even during the campaign when it came to joe biden. however, i will also say that both men also create discomfort in their own parties when this conversation comes up. because there are people who feel like there are republicans who feel like if they don't feel like former president trump of the best one for them, although he is pulling better than anybody, and we know democrats are struggling right now with the current president in office. so it will be difficult in terms of timeline and i think they are asking themselves that same question. >> gillian: lauren, i want to tap into our financial expertise, house of the economy factor into the president's decision to run and if inflation is so at this decades long high should he get back in? >> lauren: inflation will not subside. most people are saying it's not getting better and told 2023 and it will be really hard. if president biden decides he wants to run again on the economy, is there a possibility of a scaled-down, build back better plan where you get more checks out there? they are popular but they also increase inflation. and so does the omicron variance and the response to it, messing up the supply chain. so the economy is a mess and if taxes go up, add that on top of it. what you have right now is both men positioning for a run and really salivating at the chance of a rematch. but quite frankly, stamina is going to determine how a potential campaign trail is going to look. donald trump is smart and he has backed 85 candidates this year from congress to the state level all the way down to the mayoral level. his positioning for a run and it biden is establishing his record. right? because elections are a referendum on your parties time in office and it doesn't look like they got much right now. honestly it's pretty disappointing. anything can happen, 2024 is a long way away and we are still trying to finish up this year. >> gillian: that's a fair point. and we will leave it there but coming up coming to democratic lawmakers, both of whom are backers of police reform, learned how dangerous defunding police department's can be in real life. they both sadly got carjacked just hours apart in different cities and we will break down the details for you, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ hey, tam-tam! i was thinking maybe... your mom's car? 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your take. >> mercedes: is no question that this they found of the police movement has had such detrimental effects in our communities. and it really i wanted to point out that most important lien are minority communities that rely on law enforcement for the safety look at, we are supportive of criminal justice reform but it has to be with prioritizing public safety and that is the key. when you look across the board and you have, for example, the official from los angeles from the police union saying don't come to los angeles because we can't protect you, we have a huge problem. this is about demonizing and destroying the morale of our police department's across the board, adding to that vaccine mandate which hasn't led to additional stress on our law enforcement. this is not a way to go for our cities. our cities are becoming more unsafe because of democrat liberal policies that have demonized our police and because of the black lives matter movement also that have caused huge problems for our police departments. and you know, when you are talking about liberal policies, that becomes problematic. you make sure that public safety is a top priority. >> gillian: jason, we are so grateful that these two lawmakers were less physically unharmed, but they had to have been rattled. that brings to mind, does this change where they sit when it comes to police reform? >> people have pushed forward with these criminal policies and they are obviously ideologically driven. larry krasner is actively telling people who understand what he is saying is a lie and he still telling them that lie. so i think really at the end of all this, it depends on the community. they have to step up and make better decisions on who they put in office and make sure that they are not acknowledging things that people tend to ignore. and that they are not really paying too much attention to some of these races and these are the ones that have the most impacts on everyone's lives. it's not just about funding his police and giving back the money that was taken, you had to be paying attention to these activist groups that were getting in front of judges and prosecutors and convincing them effectively do not impose fail. to put people instead of in jail, the violent criminals into restorative justice programs where they are supposed to be doing art therapy and that will stop some gang member going out there and committing brutal violence, if very clearly isn't. >> gillian: lauren, you know from your own reporting that when crime rates rise the smelly businesses -- and now we are seeing even larger businesses in these big-box stores, they are impacted here. and their crimes go up and all those sorts of things. >> lauren: and any neighborhood, it's in high-end neighborhoods, too. and our constituents, our victims. when a congresswoman is a victim, you have a real problem. and i'm starting to hear some course correction because they are saying not only, he kind of bragged about it. in my time jail population is down 40%. that's a great thing. really? i wonder where all those criminals are? now police in many cities are saying, we are getting these guys. right here in new york city when the arsonist to burn down our christmas tree, they got them. they put them back out on the street the next day and he watched a christmas tree go back up and get relit. i should not get text messages from friends who live in other places saying, is it safe to come to new york city for christmas? that's just wrong. >> gillian: and you know i cover politics and you cover politics. so many things come to my mind as always, what is this going to mean and how will this play for the next election and will discontinue, will this continue to play out for them in terms? >> gillian: at these two carjackings and members of congress are emblematic of the reality that until recently as in last week's federal government had been delegating the problem of rising crime to the cities and states, especially the sort of national wave of smash and grab crime that we are seeing. i interviewed jonathan turley earlier this week and he said the smash and grab crime crisis in particular and straight up organized crime. it might look chaotic and it might look disorganized but it's actually very well organized and it's time for the justice department to step in here and create national policies, create responsibility and take ownership of the problem in the crisis and really try to clampdown. >> gillian: because it doesn't seem to be going away. coming up, aoc and the squad's new push to cancel student loans, including her own $17,000 debt leaving taxpayers to pay the bill. and guess who else is on board with the plan? 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the progressives are cancellations of student loans, and aoc who spends thousands of dollars on designer clothes and designer shoes, and if she has a line, which it sounds like she does, she should pay for her own loan. it's one thing to pause at this point in time because of covid but you are going to run out of excuses. at some point people have to bear their responsibilities and they shouldn't be having the government, i.e. taxpayers, paying for the people to go to college. the other thing is college prices have gone up so high that the universities and colleges have responsibility as well to check their own budgets to make it affordable so that students can go to school. >> alicia: the irony here is that when you look at the unemployment rate for a bachelor's degree, it's too .3%. these people are getting jobs and making more money because of inflation. they can pay for this. >> gillian: it's a one-size-fits-all blanket policy. we were just talking about this, jason, when it comes to covid and sending christmas lists and family members. not the same rules of the road apply to everybody. the multimillionaire whose parents financed their four years at harvard university and maybe they took out a alone here or there should not really be entitled to the same benefit as somebody who couldn't afford anything and it may be paid for some of the colleges themselves. the point is, if they are going to move forward with this there needs to be some kind of mediating influence to account for the fact that peoples widely divergent financial experiences here. there's also the question that mercedes raises, which is a smart one. where the schools come in here? some of the schools have billion-dollar endowments, multiple billions of dollars. they are sitting on this money, why don't they have to bear any of the cost responsibility? why don't they have to have financial policies that actually enable students to attend to their programs if that's what they want to do. >> alicia: it always comes down to this, you're always the victim mentality. like we will always be in a covid pandemic crisis mode, this is the new forever, where you are always struggling under always a victim and everything is free, and we will constantly blame someone other than yourself, other than us. >> alicia: michael >> jason: it's weird,rd t,oo too, becausee who constantly talk about being victims seem to like being victims. they go on twitter and facebook and talk about needing help but thish all of the likes and sympathy offered to them. but at the end of the day i think this is another missed opportunity to talk directly to parents of kids in high school who are thinking about and if they want to learn about gender studies and get that major, then go ahead, if that's your passion. god bless you. but you won't make more than $24,000 a year or so it doesn't justify going to a private college where you take out tens of thousands in loans where you will be miserable for the next two decades of your like post-graduation. because it let me tell you if you are already a gender studies major, you will already be miserable for the rest of your life and you don't need to add the debt. and by the way, do i get any money back for paying back my student loans because i was responsible and put in the money? anyone who is out there that has debt right now, do not take any offer to push this further down the road. if you can pay it, pay it down now. be smart about it. >> lauren: it do you think the president, and will he be pushed by the left who as of now didn't get bill back better? >> gillian: them free is popular no doubt until it's no longer free. i live in the middle of the country and i talked to folks where in smaller towns and in the middle of the country who shake their head out a lot of this stuff, blowing off of the general responsibility and being able to take care of some of these things yourself, not everyone can take care of themselves and i agree. they need help. but to jason's point, what happens to the people who do? what happens to teaching people at about personal responsibility? i think this will definitely follow the president, but i think the president and democrats know, at least the more moderate ones, progressives are the only ones who vote. their prices are higher at the store and when they are trying to fill their gas tank everywhere they go and free isn't really that free. >> lauren: think you guys. coming up, president biden's junior staff say they are heard after not being invited to white house events this year. they call it demoralizing. an echo of the reportedly low morale from vice president kamala harris' deserting staff. panel on maybe not so merry christmas that's happening at the white house, next. ♪ ♪ how liberty mutual customizes their car insurance. ow! i'm ok! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ only in theaters december 17th. nurse mariyam sabo knows a moment this pure... ...demands a lotion this pure. new gold bond pure moisture lotion. 24-hour hydration. no parabens, dyes, or fragrances. gold bond. champion your skin. ♪ ♪ learning is hard work. hard work requires character. learning begins in faith. it must move upwards toward the highest thing, unseen at the beginning - god. and freedom is essential to learning. its principles must be studied and defended. learning, character, faith, and freedom: these are the inseparable purposes of hillsdale college. switching wireless carriers is easy with xfinity. just lean on our helpful switch squad learning, character, faith, and freedom: to help you save with xfinity mobile. they can help break up with your current carrier for you and transfer your info to your new phone. giving you a fast and easy experience that can save you hundreds a year on your wireless bill. visit your nearest xfinity store and see how the switch squad can help you switch and save. get $200 off a new eligible 5g phone when you switch to xfinity mobile. talk with our helpful switch squad at your local xfinity store today. ♪ ♪ >> gillian: a new reporting is surfacing now that some white house staff are not happy this christmas a season at 1600 pennsylvania avenue. politico is reporting that multiple white house staffers are complaining about the work environment, lack of camaraderie, team sentiment and a feeling of isolation. staff members say they were excluded from usual perks this year like being able to see the christmas decorations and the thanksgiving turkey pardon. one staff member was quoted as saying, no one expects business as usual during the pandemic but it's beyond demoralizing, it's insulting, especially when you see the dnc other hill staff and the type getting invited. it's also hypocritical and ironic that a president whose brand is built on empathy and family has staff policies that fly in the face of that brand. it's not a good look at, and its emblem medic of how this place runs. all right, so i actually have something to say here, having suffered through working at the white house for four years, the longest of my life. i think this is total. i think the idea that all the level staffers or staffers of any level are complaining about holiday perks during a pandemic year, especially, and complaining to reporters is, you know, look. at best, they are being babies at worst. and they are not qualified to hold their jobs. they are, i set it. mercedes, what do you think? >> mercedes: my sentiment exactly. it's such a great honor to work -- i know. it's like, they come across so selfish. like let's remember, it's an honor to work in the white house. it is an honor to serve the american people, when you are serving in an administration. and for them to be like this pity party because they don't get invited to a holiday event, or the turkey pardon. let me make this clear. at this point in time, it's not about you, little staffers. it's about the american people and the sufferings and the pain in the work that every american is going through right now. and at the mere fact is, the one thing the white house hates, these administrations, they hate leaks. and they hate these leaks from the fever don't like anger staffers and it always becomes a problem, not just in the biden administration, but other administrations as well. this is a challenge that obviously they are facing and it's only going to get worse before it gets better for them. >> gillian: jason, some of the other more legitimate claims in this article right there are saying, look. people don't have good team spirit right now. they are not a sense of camaraderie, and that's a little bit more legitimate, right? >> jason: i think it's all legitimate. think about it from this perspective. if you would get to go to an event to see president biden stumble through a speech, loses place in the teleprompter, be able to capture it on video, posted on twitter and then get a whole bunch of likes and a new follows. i think that's a legitimate thing to be bummed out about, from at least my perspective. >> gillian: and so they are missing out on the opportunity to go viral? >> jason: exactly. i will tell them this though, for anyone who's watching that might be upset. understand that you not being at these events mean you won't be photographed there. photographs, especially online, live forever and you get to avoid the shame associated with your past career having been with us white house. so glass half-full. [laughter] >> gillian: ouch. lauren, what do you think? >> lauren: raise your hand if you have had an experience where you weren't invited to something and you might have wanted to be invited. right? mercedes? [laughter] >> alicia: a mercedes is so popular that everybody invites her to everything. >> lauren: at my is, what did the four of us do about it? nothing. you don't broadcast the fact that you are unpopular or maybe someone doesn't like you or you may be were just overlooked. you kind of key thought to yourself. i see this as being a very snowflake sort of culture and also indicative, just to kind of bring it down to what's really going on at the white house, you had a basement campaign. there is outreach. and of the fear is that this is what's going to happen to corporate america, too. as we all go home, working at home now because of omicron. when you don't have people back in the office to face-to-face, you lose a lot of camaraderie. you know, the good will come up that spirit. and frankly, you don't learn, either. >> gillian: i would say alicia, and tell me if you disagree, no one feels particularly connected to their colleagues this year or last year. it's a terrible time. we are all sitting here in boxes unable to interact with each other. it's like a particularly egregious time to complain about this kind of stuff. >> alicia: it's like welcome to the world folks. you walk outside and walked down in line to people waiting to get tested, ask them about how they feel about not being able to see christmas decorations. she was the eye roll. i live my life at fox at the denver bureau so i've been very far away from everyone for a long time, i'm quite used to it, and no one loves cancel plans more than me, none of it would have bothered me. >> gillian: will you shut up visit us more in washington. coming up next, a new report revealing all of us have been using a lot of very bad swearwords since the start of the pandemic. we are going to talk about what we can do to fix this, coming up next. ♪ ♪ hotspot data. so you can run a bakery from the blue line. ha! cupcake. or collaborate with clients from the concourse. and to get your team geared up with the good stuff, book a one-on-one tech check with a business expert. woo! visit us in store or book an appointment to save time and money. because every business deserves better. and with plans as low as $30, better costs less than you think. when i say better, you say business. better! 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