continues right now. a beautiful day todd: jillian is back standing next to me. what i love most about jillian is the comments she makes just before we go on the you that you can t hear that make me lose my you know what. come on, you are crazy. you think i say that? not even todd would go that far. you are watching fox and friends first on wednesday morning. jillian: let s begin with this. doctor anthony fauci step into the ring with republican senator rand paul. with gain of function research in the wuhan lab. the hearing was about vaccinations, over covid origins. they trade accusations about lying. this paper you are referring to was judged to buy qualified staff up and down the chain. you don t know what you are talking about. abuse skating the truth, if any of you are lying, it is you. paul on the fauci critic maintaining a paper about bad coronavirus is written by doctor xi lee, known as bat woman is proof that the nih financed gain of function research
shawn. arthel: hello, i am arthel neville. an advisor for vice president harris clarify comments after vice president suggested the white house with more covid variance coming. cases of omicron spreading fast, three dozen states reporting infections. covid search terms as millions of americans are preparing to travel for christmas. the cdc seeking to reassure families they can travel if they take proper measures. we are in a very different place this year the master and we do want people to gather and gather safely. we have the tools back to do it. what we are saying is rely on the tools. arthel: we have live team coverage, morning rain is a new york city which has become the epicenter of this new covid wave but we will begin with mark meredith live in wilmington delaware for the president is spending the weekend. good afternoon, biden offering a blunt assessment about one unvaccinated americans are facing given the last couple of weeks because they face a severe winter o
but job growth actually missed badly with only 210,000 jobs added, versus the expected 550,000. john: that is a big mess. it comes as they propose a potential new threat to the economy, as the biden administration considers tougher covert travel restrictions, which could decimate our already battle travel section. sandra: we got fox news coverage free to kick off the brand-new hour, senator roger marshall from kansas will be joining us in just a moment. we begin with white house correspondent, jacqui heinrich she is reporting live from the north lawn for us on this friday afternoon here and take away jackie. a santa good to see you. this was the smallest number of jobs added since december of 2020, making it the worst month for job creation, this entire year. economists were forecasting a strong continuation of the kind of recovery we have been seen. these numbers, disdain looks more like the prepandemic economy. the president though, largely glossed over all of that in
nearly 5 million people have been forced to flee to neighboring countries. good afternoon. i m garrett haake in washington, in for hallie jackson. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in kyiv. also with us nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. and we re joined by retired army brigadier general peter zwack, who served as senior defense attache to russia. and matt, i want to get started with you. you re in kyiv. we ve got this new russian offensive really lighting up the east of ukraine while they re still trying to hold on to mariupol in the south. bring us up to speed on everything going on on the ground there. reporter: yeah, garrett, i mean, i don t know if we would call it lighting up the east. so far we ve heard from the ukrainians that the massive offensive that has been much anticipated for weeks and weeks has started in the east in the donbas region. remember, garrett, this is a region that s been at war for the past eight years. so what looks like
tammy bruce, gerri willis, and fox news contributor and professor of medicine at nyu medical center, you know who he is, dr. marc siegel. but first, meredith is a live add to the white house. to you. we are hoping we will get some new information about this bombshell discovery within the west wing, cocaine found on the white house premises over the weekend. the secret service confirming that additional testing on the substance found that it was the drug. when it was discovered on sunday, has matt was called in and parts of the white house were evacuated. the president did not talk about all of this last night when he hosted military families in his own family out on the south lawn. spotting the president as well as the first lady and hunter biden front and center. a lot of attention as we see on the first son, because tomorrow is the deadline house republicans have given u.s. attorney in delaware to answer questions about how the investigation into the person was handled, b