Where we are as a nation two decades later. We will remember the brave first responders and police officers who made the ultimate sacrifice, and we will consider what happened to that sense of unity we felt after the nation was attacked. Joining us today is former state department spokesperson morgan ortagus. In the virtual seats today, ari fleischer, former white house press secretary and fox news contributor. First, our top story. President biden announcing sweeping vaccine mandates that could impact the private center in unprecedented ways. Republicans were furious over it, calling it unconstitutional. Some g. O. P. Governors are threatening legal action against it. Here is what the president said last night. President biden: this is not about freedom or personal choice. It is about protecting yourself and those around you. The people you work with, the people you care about, the people you love, the department of labor is developing an emergency rule to require all employers with 1
Blinken says that u. S. Has no leverage there because all u. S. Diplomats have been pulled out. The white house briefing set to begin any moment now and we expect there will be questions. Fox team coverage begins now. General jack v6 is standing by. In trey, you had some breaking news for us at the top of the hour here. We ve got a lot of new information here. According to a source familiar, that flight with foreigners on board has landed in qatar. According to the sources there were actually about 113 passengers on board come out lower than the original estimat of 200 and these are foreigners from all different parts of the world. American citizens, canadians chemically ukrainians, german, and british citizens. According to the source additionally we know the passengers will be processed here in qatar, they will head from the airfield to a facility near to where we re at right now. They will take corona test and be given food in allowed some time to rest before ultimately they are pro
That some of them patriot unit. It matters because this relates not only to whet a few indicted criminals are doing, some of play guilty, some of, not in matters because we are seeing the main line of this talk and belief system in the republican party and on the right. It also includes some elected officials in the republican party claiming that these individuals who are defendants, presumed innocent, but defendants in a criminal process involving violence on tape, are now being told by we are being told by republicans that they are automatically legally innocent. That they are political prisoners. That it is a shame. Six this should be scrutiny and advance, the justice for january 6th, on september 18th. This has the capital on highlight. There s a bulletin saying that they have a bust security posture planning for september 18th and all available staff will be working. It is a kind of statement that makes you think that they want everyone to know, including anyone showing up in wash
Structure bill for a month now after they reached an agreement on what they called the basic framework of that legislation. One month ago, in a meeting with president biden at the white house. There they are after that meeting up there in the white house driveway and now it s not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of such legislation after you ve established a general shape of it and then get all of that into precise legislative language. And after a weekend of work, it seems like today it might actually be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor through majority leader chuck schumer and begin debate. Here is what the lead republican negotiator rob portman said yesterday. We re about 90% of the way there, with a legislative language and staff and i feel good about getting that on this week. We have one issue outstanding and we re not getting much response from the democrats and it s about mass transit. O
Legislation. In the trump presidency infrastructure week was a constant joke. A bipartisan group of senators have been working on the details of an infrastructure bill for a month after reaching an agreement on what they called the basic framework of the legislation a month ago in a meeting with president biden at the white house. It is not unusual at all for it to take at least a month or more to figure out the details of that. After a weekend of work it seemed like today might be the day that the bipartisan group could bring their bill to the senate floor and begin debate. Here is what the lead republican negotiator, senator rob portman said yesterday. We are about 90% of the way there. I am here this weekend working on legislative language. I feel good about getting it done this week. We have one issue outstanding. We are not getting much response from the democrats on it about mass transit. Our transit number is generous. We increased transit in the proposal and the formula going f