office. president biden failed to keep his promises from day one. he promised the world on covid, we would get rid of the virus and provide more testing. >> the administration's failure on testing is colossal. we'll deal honestly with the american people and we'll never ever quit. that's how we'll shut down this virus. >> i'm not going to shut down the economy. i'm going to shut down the virus. we need to scale up testing so anyone who needs one can get a test. after 10 months of the pandemic we still don't have enough testing. it's a travesty. brian: it's so much easier to be a candidate. the president never ramped up the testing after campaigning all of trump's supposed failures, one of them was testing. you saw people waiting hours in line to get testing. what does our 46th president decide to do? he decides to punt to the governors. let them handle it. >> look, there is no federal solution. this gets solved at the state level. brian: when joe can't solve a problem, the only other action is to deflect it. crime soared across the nation this year. in chicago there was a 60% increase in murders from 2019. not to mention the millions stolen and destroyed in the smash and grab. crime never seems to be a biden administration priority. his doj is giving $1.6 billion to cities to battle crime after denying it is happening. he stopped construction of the border wall his first day in office. just in november 173,000 plus encounters at the border, double the number from 2020, and four times the number from 019. not to mention $130 million in fentanyl seized at the border. president biden is closing gaps in the wall though he's still fighting courts. kamala harris is still mia. she asked what her biggest failure that has been as vp. >> what has been your biggest failure? >> to goth -- to not get out of dc more. i mean that season searly. brian: port backlogs causing supply chain issues. the question should have been with multiple choice. inflation soared up to almost 40-year highs. things are expected to get worse. in january you have food manufacturers saying some of the prices will rise as much as 20%. but joe says inflation was just transitory. by far the most epic fail is afghanistan. the taliban took over in a flash and americans had until august 31 to get out. 13 died. >> we'll do everything in our power to get all americans out and our allies out. if there are american citizens left we'll stay until we get them all out. brian: that's a flat out lie. he didn't follow through. things have gone wrong with this administration. this year will they get more luck? will they get better outcomes with these policies? it's not likely. in 2021, and 2022. karl rove. you were a columnist at the "wall street journal." how much did you predict? >> i think i had 25 predictions and got 75% of them right. but when i got them wrong i got them way wrong. i predicted joe biden would govern as a traditional democrat but he went way out on the left wing of his party. on a bunch of them, on the ones i got wrong, that was the biggest one. i believed him. he said the biggest issue with the incumbent was messing up on covid and i will get it right and i'll be a normal president and normal democrat. but he hasn't been a normal president or normal democrat. >> brian: are we lessor more polarized. >> i think we are the same. residents being up upset about trump or biden. we are in a tribal moment. everybody goes to their corner. democrats think biden is doing a great job just as republicans thought trump was doing a great job. the key is independents. the independents who put him into office have turned against limb. covid. he bungled that. inflation. we are all feeling it when we go to the store or the pump. the economy slowing down. spending going wild. the american rescue plan which was supposed to be covid related its mostly an expansion of the welfare state. build back better turned out to be a fraud. if you take the gimmicks out it's $3 trillion in debt and $5 trillion in new extending. afghanistan, immigration, you did a good job explaining what they did wrong on that. it's been disaster, debacle, mistake and error after error. he finally got around to thanking president trump for operation warp speed, but the country has been so poisoned by both sides. this president had a chance to say things and do things in a different fashion. but instead with one major exception he always found a way to blame it on his predecessor. it hasn't been healthy for his presidency. we end the your with 30% of the american people thinking the country is going in the right direction and 62% thinking we are on the wrong track. it's hard to turn that around. brian: no one can tell you anything about running a campaign. buff he promised the handle the virus and promised to get testing. anybody responsible for so many american deaths should not be breath. he did not control the virus or get the testing. the numbers of deaths and the million of shots in the arms to start have exceeded donald trump's. it's hard to spin your way out of that. >> i remember being in the white house in 2002 and 2003 in the briefings about sars. i remember the guy mow led the briefings was talking about all the things we didn't know and we had to be cautious about predicting what would happen. how transmissible was it? what kinds of mitigation could be taken. what kinds of therapeutics. he said we have to be cautious about projecting that we know what we know and that we know everything. biden came in promising to eradicate the virus by july 4. and dr. fauci was right, there are lots of imponderables, and this administration acted like it was under control. he said by september they would have hundreds of millions of tests, and it turns out they hadn't even ordered them. people are not having much confidence in him. they told me watters and i got you. where is watters? brian: he's cuter with eyebrows. i'll make it up with a series of radio interviews. >> thank you so much. brian: in his column he says he believes the house and senate will go to the republicans. let's bring in laura curran who lost a nail biter. she believes it's because of what's happening at the white house. i didn't see many people upset with the job you were doing and many of which are republicans. laura, have you figured out why you lost? has it come out from washington? >> i think it has. my party, the democratic party just conveys weakness. it almost feels like elder abuse with what's going on with president biden. he has a hard time putting a sentence together. everyone gets nervous listen to him talk. we need someone who exudes competence and confidence and sets a reassuring tone. and we are not getting that at the top. i think karl rove was right. i think it will be a bloodbath for the democrats in the mid-term. i think it's important to have a strong two-party system. i think it's good for democracy. but it seems like we are giving the republicans ammunition to shoot us. people want to be reassured government is there for them, not telling them what to do, but making sure the roads are in good shape and the sewage is properly run. and my party is not delivering this right now. brian: is there a place for moderates? joe manchin has been vilified by his extreme left. do you feel the same? is there a place for you in the democratic party? >> i served as county executive in a county that's larger than 10 states. there is that pressure. but there will always be pressure when you are in government. do you have a strong backbone? do you do what you think is right? are you serving your constituents with the best you can. not worry being the twitter mob or people disapproving of you. if you put your head on the pillow knowing you have done everything you can and done it well, i don't think you can go wrong. brian: we'll see if you can back the cops like you did and be against crime like you are, if you can be a member of the democratic party. >> happy new year. brian: when we come back. should you have a say in your child's education? i thought the answer was yes. but nicole hannah this is elodia. she's a recording artist. 1 of 10 million people that comcast has connected to affordable internet in the last 10 years. and this is emmanuel, a future recording artist, and one of the millions of students we're connecting throughout the next 10. through projectup, comcast is committing $1 billion so millions more students, past... and present, can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. >> i don't understand this idea that parents just decide what's being taught. i am not a professional educator. i don't have a degree in social studies or science. we send our children to school to be taught by people with expertise in a stick subject area. that not my job. brian: the "new york times" puts out the 1619 project. is that true? parents should have no role in their children's education? professor wilfred riley, charles love, and shimika michelle. i will start with you. i was shocked to hear that. terry mcauliffe tried that. he lost. what does she have against parents? >> nikole hannah-jones is an example of what happens when a woman marries a man who takes her last name. i don't know if it's because she is a mixed american and she is privileged because she is half white. i think it's an insult to americans that we don't have the intelligence to know what our child should be learning? should i think my child should be taught calculus through the prism of racism or race? absolutely not. brian: in terms of what she is getting to, the history of this country built on stolen land off slavery, that's what she wants to get across. >> it's terrible. i think we are bearing the lead here. to be fair to her, i don't think she is saying parents shouldn't be involved. what she is saying is we don't want parents writing curriculum. buff she is not saying that. my book "race crazy" has a chapter on every chapter in the 1619 project. she is saying it's not a work of history, it's a work of history. now she is saying it's a work of journalistic not history. i urge her to take my book and it's as a critical thinking exercise and see which is true history. brian: the headlines on 1619, if you push back on it it means you are denying reconstruction failed and there was slavery. >> nikole hannah-jones original comments fall into the cult of the professional or cult of the expert. you can't criticize anybody with an upper to middle class degree. and that's silly. there is the expertise of surgery. then there is expertise like teaching or coaching that some people have done at some level. where the average parent can have input. the average parent is correct to say it doesn't sounds like 1619 is an unbiased view of american mist. 's something the average smart person can figure out. brian: what does it say in your mind that she is still on the best seller list. more and more cities are encompassing this in their curriculum. even though the statement it doesn't work for parents in america. there are 1st, 7th, and 9th graders learning this. >> it seems we have a lot of lost americans. if we are going to move forward we need to stop looking back and stop trying to change history. when you surround everything with race, i don't think that's moving forward. i think it says a lot about where we are as america and what we need to do to overcome the places that we have been. brian: charles you say america is race crazy. we should be american and then whatever your race or heritage is. >> when you are so focused on race, you are not going to solve any problems. there are policing problems and education and income gaps. but you are not going to solve them by saying it's all systemic racism. it's not all. i am not saying what the percentage is. is it 2? is it 0? -- is it 20? i know it's not 100. when you talk about getting back to it, we need to focus on things that will work. think about what they propose. and if it won't fiction anything, don't be afraid to cast it aside. don't be afraid of them calling you a racist. you can't tell my 10-year-old that he's the reason why racism exists and think you are going to fix it. or telling black people you need to learn math the black way. that's not helping anybody. unless people stand up and speak out about it, nothing is going to change. brian: your podcast dives into race saying america was never perfect, but we are trying to be. and where we are going to now will destroy the country. thanks very much. appreciate it. if you want to get historical context of race in america. pick up "the battle to save america's soul." the biggest foreign policy failures the past year and what we can hope for to "watters' world." >> what do you see as the biggest national security alcohol new england. >> frankly, one of this our democracy. the year 2021 is not year 2000. there is so much about foreign and domestic policy that was guide and prioritized based on september 11, 2001, and we are embark on a new era where the threats to our nation take many forms including the threat of autocracy take over and having influence all over the world. i go back to our point about the need to fight for the integrity of our democracy. in addition it's what we need to do with the climate crisis. brian: i can think of a lot of answers to the question about security challenges, but that wasn't one of them. joining me to look at the security challenging we have. david asher, a senior fellow at the hudson institute. david, what was your take on democracy being the number one issue in the vice president's mind? >> it's ridiculous. our democracy is functionally in excellent condition. yes we have profound division, but that happened throughout history. i am much more concerned about our lack of commit to the democracy around the world and the communist regimes and their aims to disrupt our global fabric of security. and to that imperil democracy. perhaps that's what the vice president thought, i don't think so. i am not sure what her concern is. i don't think the soviet union is coming back. and the communist chinese aren't going to i am pair our democracy. china is acting like they are ready to make big moves in 2022. brian: they put a warning out out with the hypersonic missile. they start a nuclear program. and we don't know how the wuhan virus started. how much of a problem is the belt and road program? this seems to be what china is going to embark upon in 2022. >> we are depend comment our high-tech comment with semi conductors coming out of taiwan and the chinese know it. they think they have to take taiwan. so you are facing a multiple series of challenges. the belt and road is interesting because it's a type of return to almost colonialism. as china starts to move outward and reclaim wait seize as its lost history where it once dominated asia in its own minds. they never really did. but they their they did and they want to regain their dominance. and they are willing to take hostages. american exporters in china. american business people need to be worried about becoming hostages to the chinese:country. they will take people hostage. they already did that to canadians related to of the huawei incident. biden is oblivious. the environment and american democracy are the top foreign challenges? he's out of his minds. brian: look at what's happening in taiwan, people are worried. the russians have 100,000 troops outside the ukranian border after a bizarre four-hour press conference of vladimir putin saying we are encroaching upon them. what is he up to? we are encroaching on them? the chinese say the same thing. we are not encroaching on anybody. we should be encroaching on china and russia but we are not. it's a self-created phobia they are using to justify expansionism because they sense weakness in this president. we are facing a russia poised to do a not with its movement with its military on the borders of the ukraine. how far in they go it doesn't matter. what are they trying to do. jack up the price of natural gas. hold natural gas hostage. their positions in the east and northeast of russia on the borders of the ukraine, that's the perfect position to protect these pipe lines. they can send the price of natural gas? germ any skyrocketing and break the back of nato. they have done it before and they are poised to do it. by doing that, what happens? the price of oil also skyrockets. we third many bad at the pump right now? just wait. putin knows economic warfare. even the chinese will be okay because they have bought long-term contracts with the iranians. so basically they are in bed with the chinese. brian: i hear the frustration if your voice. western up. >> bought the crack in the pipe and now they wonder why they are addicted. david asher, thank you very much. meanwhile, straight ahead, we'll look at the top media bias stories of the fast [♪♪♪] brian: welcome back to this special edition of "watters' world" as we begin 2022. hope it will be a great year for you. first things first. the biggest media bias stories. first and foremost, kyle rittenhouse. first he was exonerated, then was mischaracterized. >> kyle rittenhouse. >> he is what you would have had in a school shooter. >> kyle rittenhouse, a guy who is deeply racist went with what he once to a black lives matter protest look for trouble and he murder a couple people. >> maga loving blue lives matter social media partisan 17 years old picks up a gun and drives from one state to another with the intent to shoot people. brian: unbelievable. he has a big loft coming in their direction. >> i just want to say one thing. most people would argue the biggest media malpractice is you booking me the day after new year's eve. you have faith, so thank you. the rittenhouse. brian require was a big mistake on my part. >> the rittenhouse thing is the biggest proof that we are flifght depths of -- living in the depth of shame. everybody you just played in that montage is openly screaming that this guy is a white supremacist. we have no proof of any of that. to get in front of a camera and say that to inflame tensions is disgusting. there ising? white supremacist. what went on there. brian: governor ron desantis by far the rock star should be of america but of the right. >> governor ron desantis has been appallingly ineffective doing anything to fight the pandemic. >> i should be crimal -- he's criminally liable for that. >> what i want to say about governor desantis in florida, there have been allegations that florida misrepresented the covid-19 data. >> have you ever had a friend who complains about a crazy so worker so much you eventually realize your friend is the crazy one in this exchange? that's the media about ron desantis with no regard of the fact that he did the best job of any governor, he prioritized the elderly and got sthement vaccinated at an astonishingly high rate and he did that without crushing his economy. nobody is scared of covid where necessity can't see each other's faces. brian: when joe biden struggled on the stairs. and the giles obviously hurt in many ways. we just gave him a pass. compared to when trump has a problem walking down the ram. another matter after president's health is of importance to the american public. >> there could be something newer -- something neurological that could be throwing off his balance. >> and this is why when it comes to the media more people trust the finger sandwiches at jeffrey dahmer's house. joe biden fell through times on the way up the stairs. on the plus side we found out why he never left his hours during the campaign. he didn't know how to get out of his basement. he needed a chairlift. brian: we'll look forward to listening to your show in 2020 at noon. brian rsh coming up next, "triple play" brian: welcome back to "watters' world." i'm brian kilmeade filling in. the last "triple play" of 2022. i managed to lasso carley shimkus. she wanted to be the most talented woman in history. ready for this electrifying experience? let's flash forward to indonesia. this man gets hit by lightning. his security guard just walking in the rain, and it acted like a radio transmitter. i think benjamin franklin tried this hundreds of years ago. >> this is truly a wild video. there are some positives i would like to point out. getting struck by lightning, the odds of that happening are low. for it to happen twice, even lower. at least he got it out of the way. and he has a story. this will get you out of any pakistan ward social situation. if somebody tells a bad joke. you just tell your lightning story. and it serves as a distraction. everybody can move on in a positive direction. brieb. brian: he only suffered burns to his hands. he was released from the hospital four days later. see if you can make heads or tails of this. i will fill in the blanks. i don't know if you can tell. the back story is, it has gone e the millions of views. he was given by his sister dissolvable swimming trunks. he found himself in the ocean totally naked. people are saying it's cruel. >> this video has 29 million views on tiktok. but the overwhelming volume of negative comments are unbelievable. somebody said what if the genders were reversed. totally cruel. a loss of trust. some other said it's just mean. you could have gone the arrested for public indecency. if i watched this video on social media i would say it's a silly prank. but the interest in the overreacting shouldn't coming a a surprise. >> i don't know the relationship between the two. the sister got so upset she went back on social media and blasted her critics. brian: if he was forced to get out of the water it would be terrible. >> they gave him a pair of swim trunks before he got out of the water, so everything earned up fine. brian: why you are going to the goodwill getting swim trunks to give to me, there is something wrong there. something we have to do for our jobs is detach from tech. $5,000 will be paid to a couple who ditched technology for a month. you have to take a polygraph to prove that you didn't. if you take this challenge could you and your husband do it? is this snos. >> i have an image of the producer saying to me did you read the latest "wall street journal" op-ed? i don't think that would go over very well. but for whoever this challenge is for, i say go for it. except continue to go on foxnews.com and briankilmeade.com. brian: they would be forced to live life partially without tech for a month and a lot of the kahlua. your mission in 2022 is to be as great as you were in 2021. will you accept the challenge? >> i appreciate it very much. brian: when we come back the great jesse watters hits the streets to talk about the biggest mistakes and resolutions americans have for 2022. jesse: who are you going to kiss when the ball drops? >> got any brian: welcome back. thanks for watching. you know what 2022 means. a fresh start? but now it's time to look back. jesse watters went to the streets to see what resolutions people were making. jesse: what resolutions did you make that you didn't keep. >> not watching you enough. >> so you are telling me there is a chance. jesse: who are you going to kiss when the ball drops? >> got any suggestions? jesse: what is your new year's resolution? >> i have no clue right now. >> i be rich and we can have fun. jesse: not too much fun. >> a little bit. >> i want to be healthy and happy. jesse: spend time with the family, drink a lot of water. eat healthy. >> i wish you could just shut your big yapper. >> i love you, too. jesse: remember i'm watters and this is my world. brian: i can't thank you enough for watching the special edition as i tried to fill his shoes. be sure to you watch fox and friends and also the brian kilmeade radio show. judge jeanine is getting ready now. thanks for watching. >> welcome to a special edition of justice. i'm katie pavlich in for judge jeanine. last year was a rocky one to say the least and a record-setting first year for the biden administration, but not exactly in the way they intended. 2021 saw the largest increase