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the virus is taking no time off. the u.s. had a new single day record for infections, 440,000 not including at-home tests. julie: all this is prompting the white house to consider a new vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. south dakota gov government he continues to impose mandates on the country. this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people. benjamin: david spunt is traveling with the president in delaware. good morning, david. good morning to you. a difficult morning when you look at those covid numbers specifically yesterday we reached the highest amount of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. getting ready to enter the third year of this nightmare that s really stretched across the world. clearly those numbers not going in the right direction. the white house keenly aware of that situation all the way up to the president of the united states who is here in wilmingto ....
this is outnumbered. i am kayleigh mcenany joined by fox business co anchors. former trump white house advisor mercedes and in the center seat david. the covid fight was a key part of the 2020 covid race with president biden said he had a strategy to beat back the virus and featured that 7 point plan on his campaign website. it s still there. he promised to provide clear national guidance and in office took several republican governors to task claiming they were undermining his approach. some state officials are passing laws or signing orders that forbid people from doing the right thing. as of now 7 states not only band mask mandates but banned them in school districts. if you are not going to help, at least get out of the way of the people trying to do the right thing. use your power to save hives. now as covid cases rage out of control across the country, despite his mask mandates and vaccine mandates the president is trying to avoid blame again saying this. ....
not the federal government s. i m benjamin hall, bill and dana are off this morning. julie, pleasure to be with you. julie: good morning, benjamin. i m julie banderas and this is america s newsroom. we have a packed show for you beginning with the rapid spread of the omicron variant. it is fueling staff shortages at some airlines blame for travel nightmare of canceled flights and a nationwide testing shortage is not helping. president biden admitting his efforts so far have fallen short. president biden: it s not enough. it is clearly not enough. if i had known we would have gone harder quicker if we could have. this is how many americans are spending the last week of 2021, waiting in hours-long lines for covid tests. julie: mike tobin on the travel chaos from coast to coast. dr. marty makary on the new cdc quarantine guidelines. rich edson is traveling with the president in delaware. the president spending a few days here at his place on the delaware shore. ....
president and ceo of resolve to save lives. dr. freeden, great to have you on. the cdc is now cutting the quarantine time from ten days to five days. the new york times notes the following. quoting here. what do you think? is it important to test negative before you leave quarantine? did the cdc make a mistake here? let s step back and ask where we are. we re in a very different time. the omicron virus is enormously infectious. it s spreading like wild fire. it s not a wave. it s a flash flood. what that might do is make it difficult for airlines to operate, schools to operate, businesses to operate. and the data is showing that it spreads faster, not just spreads more, but spreads faster. most of that spread will happen a day or two before you feel sick and the first day or two after you feel sick. very up likely to happen after that. could you say in an ideal world, everyone would get a test before they come out. yeah, it s easy to criticize, hard to do better. fi ....
game, placing some of it on former president trump. despite all the warnings of a surge, he admitted his administration was cut off by a micron and the lack of test gillian: fox team coverage starts out now. for step, wall street journal s james freeman. and we ve got senior national correspondent rich edson with the president in rehoboth beach, delaware. hi, rich. good afternoon, gillian. a short while ago president biden signed a proclamation reversing that travel ban from several african nations because of a micron. it s been in effect for about a month. it goes out of effect on friday. the president justified this by saying that he wanted that travel ban to give the u.s. some time to learn more about a micron and prepare for its arrival. part of that was a meeting yesterday at the white house. the president convened a virtual meeting with several of the nation s governors. it was a bipartisan meeting where he touted his administration s work this year expandin ....