later in the program for that. dana, awesome to be with you this past year. i look to many more. dana: me, too. all right. a new gallup poll shows the gop holding a 5 point edge in support among americans, a 14-point swing from a year ago giving republicans their best lead since 1995. bill: we have reaction from two of the best in a moment. reince priebus and jim messina standing by. we start with mark meredith. a year ago republicans were facing bleak poll numbers. today a much different story with gallup reporting the gop seeing a huge surge in support over the last year. good news for republicans comes at democrats expense. 13 polls throughout last year asking 12,000 adults asking how they saw themselves leaning. fourth quarter the republicans had a lead. a huge shift from the start of 2021. republican party officials tell us they aren t surprised. we viewed this as a direct correlation between joe biden and kamala harris s failed policies coupled with the democra
square garden. everybody gets their card checked at the door. once you are in do you wear a mask or not? some people were or weren t. what section do you sit in? check with the usher. i m massively confused not just new york and the rest of the country. dana: there is a rise in cases and prompted california to have a mandate. it requires folks to cover their faces indoors. they granted last-minute exceptions for gyms and offices. bill: california is the latest blue state to bring back the masks. william la jeunesse is live in l.a. with the latest. because of that confusion across the country you get less compliance. eight states all run by democratic governors reimposed the new indoor mask mandate as cdc reports a seven fold increase in omicron infections. map shows you areas with red highest transmission rates, yellow moderate, blue low. states in the southeast, florida, georgia, alabama, louisiana, texas have lower rates. california a mixed bag, north doing better. hi
could last into years. obviously an appellate court will have a lot of interest in this case and move things more quickly. we see that happen all the time with donald trump. appeals can take a long time. bill: the point dana made. there is no precedent for the state of new york to put somebody on trial an convict them for misstating a value of a piece of property. this is the first time. if it were to reach the new york state supreme court level, is that republican, is that democrat in a blue state like new york? what s the breakdown. you are looking at democrat judges in the state of new york. at the end what they are going to be looking at are two separate things. abusive distraction or error. the standards you talk about in appeals courts. so the different legal issues and factual issues at play at each stage of appeal, the trump team will bring those up and seek the relief. they haven t found much favor from the appellate courts yet. dana: i want to play this for yo
harris: fox news alert. a live look now. the nation s 45th president donald trump said to watch him because he will be stepping up to the microphones again when he exits a new york city courtroom for closing arguments in his new york civil fraud trial. we showed those microphones to the left of the screen. we ll see him again. i m harris faulkner and you are in the faulkner focus. yesterday it seemed like we would hear directly from former president inside the courtroom for his own closing argument. but after asking the judge if he could do that, that is now not happening. that judge puts stipulations and restrictions on what that would look like and trump s legal team said they had issues with the judge s conditions to stick to relevant matters covered in the trial and not deliver a campaign speech. that s what the judge said he wanted. well, trump may be silenced inside that courtroom. he is never really silenced. he talked this morning. i want to speak and make a sum
classified information. the white house scrambling to contain the biggest leak we ve seen in ten years. experts say the damage is done and more could be on the way. good morning. big morning. i m bill hemmer. dana: you are in a mood. i m dana perino, this is america s newsroom. the pentagon is trying to figure out who is responsible for the leak. it exposed military secrets and how the u.s. spies on its adversaries and friends. bill: it is making for awkward conversations and damage control on a global scale. it s tough to do. the u.s. is ramping up a criminal investigation into all this. c.i.a. director bill burns talked about it haltingly at rice university. listen. the deeply unfortunate leak of classified documents is certainly as intense as anything in that now part of the in box as well and it s something that the u.s. government takes extremely seriously. the pentagon and the department of justice have now launched a quite intense investigation to get to the bo