. pete: welcome to fox and friends on the sunday mornings, our nation s anthem, played beautifully by the navy band i believe. rachel: very good. people we represent. pete: look who is here represent the texas seat, lawrence jones. lawrence: will put in his contract who replaced him had to be a texan. rachel: if i was from any other state it would be texas. lawrence: we got your back. pete: i m glad to be here with you. i m supposed to be in tampa at turning point. i spent seven hours at the airport yesterday with my seven kids and beautiful wife and never made it out because of the weather. rachel: what do you to with seven kids when you re in an airport for seven hours. what happens. pete: send a lot of time eating a big thing. we through a football around. one of my sons brought one. we did a family wall sitcomtics. lawrence: getting them ready. pete: we were scraping the bottom of the barrel. it was delay, delay. never made it out. you saw the graphic. i m down there a
too early for us. and former aid to the george w. bush white house, elise jordan and also katty kay on the way this morning. in the united states covid cases are on the rise again driven up in increases in places with low vaccination rates. and now the former surgeon general is suggesting the cdc should once again ask everyone to mask up indoors. nbc news correspondent kathy park explains. reporter: no signs of covid backing down. in los angeles county a 700% increase in positive cases in just the last month as masks go back on while indoors. i think better safe than sorry for sure. reporter: former surgeon general on mask weighing, the premature guidance was wrong. the cdc should be advising to vax it and mask it. the current surgeon general defended the cdc s decision on masks for the fully vaccinated. they gave communities and individuals a flexibility to make decisions about what to do with masks. reporter: across america, cases rising in all 50 states some hi
reporter: president biden back on capitol hill urging democrats to pass a plan. we ll get this done. reporter: focussing on social programs and climate change. democrats going it alone on this package but they can t lose a vote. bernie sanders who wanted more new spending sounding satisfied. this is the most consequential piece of legislation proposed since the great depression and fdr. reporter: but moderate democrats less certain about the price tag? is it too high? depends if we can pay for it and still be competitive. reporter: the proposal invests in universal pre-k, paid family leave and climate change and an expansion of medicare to add dental, vision and hearing benefits. democrats want to pay for it with tax hikes on the wealthy and corporations. republicans slamming it saying it ll spend inflation and debt skyrocketing. the number is a shocking figure. we re seeing the outlines of the democrats radical freight train to socialism. and everybody,
nationwide soon returning to the classroom, the american academy of pediatrics says all students older than 2 and staff should wear a mask at school. an added layer of protection for the 48 million kids under 12 who still don t qualify for vaccination. the former surgeon general and others suggesting whether americans are vaccinated or not, universal mask wearing is needed again. it s not like we re asking people to go to the trenches with shooting war. we re just asking you if it looks like it s going to help, put the mask back on for a while. reporter: the face of the nation s most divisive restriction is more than a new mandate indoors in los angeles county as covid cases spike by 300%, 10 additional counties are also recommending the fully vaccinated use face coverings inside public spaces. cities like new york not going that far. we do not intend mask mandate. reporter: while cdc guidelines say the vaccinated don t need masks, less than half the u.s. population i
this week. thank you for getting up way too early with us this morning. don t go anywhere, morning joe starts now. you had such love at the rally, they were there for one reason. the rigged election. they felt the election was rigged. that s why they were there. they were peaceful people, they were great people. the crowd was unbelievable. and i mention the word love, the love in the air i ve never seen anything like it. former president trump speaking yesterday with fox news, continuing to frame what happened on january 6th in a far different light than reality. as we know, he directed many of those so-called great people the great people that were beating police officers with american flags, that our troops had fought to defend for 240 years. they used that american flag to bludgeon, nearly to death, police officers. right. and he told them to go to the capitol and get tougher on congress, to stop the certification. he told them and, of course, don junior