thank you so much for joining us this hour. i m katie phang in for alicia menendez. we begin with the surprise demise of build back better. this morning, a single united states senator, joe manchin of west virginia, went on fox news to declare he just couldn t get there in supporting his party s social spending plan, walking away from weeks of negotiations. breaking deals brokered with the president of the united states and the white house. burning bridges with many of his fellow democrats. it is news that came as a shock to all of washington. politico putting together each and every twist and turn of the day, starting with the half hour heads-up manchin gave to the white house and to congress, dispatching an aide only 30 minutes before he went on fox news. a white house in panic and disbelief. top officials are scrambling to call the senator and, quote, head him off. but as a senior white house official tells playbook, manchin refused to take a call from white house staff. a
look beautiful in your matching sweaters. thank you. happy holiday season. carley: second hour of fox & friends starts right now. happy holidays, guys. giddy up jingle horse jingle around the clock a mix and a mingle and jingle that s the jingle bell rock. [laughter] lawrence: i m so glad to work here because here we believe in santa. growing up my dad did not tell us about santa. lawrence: no. i work all year to buy all these presents do you think i m going to let some mythical take credit. he didn t buy it i did. carley: santa is real and visits all the house as. lawrence: i m so glad i goat believe in santa. carley: when i was a kid for christmas, santa would bring some of the presents and then my parents would write mom and dad on the other ones that they gave. santa would drop off some. brian: a lot of kids watching now i m just saying lawrence lawrence what you are telling me, brian, my dad took credit for santa s work? that s what i m sayi
the only thing i regret about my life was hiring local talent. if i knew about upwork. i would have hired actually talented people from all over the world. instead of talentless people from all over my house. top of the hour, this tuesday. i m jim sciutto. and i m erica hill. happening right now, we re following these deadly storms pommeling the california coast. rescues underway in several parts of the state. you see the video here, mudslides and flooding. the impact is just massive. power knocked out to more than 230,000 customers, a number of roads are closed, some highways just impassable. and 14 people at least we know have died. we re going to take you live to california for the very latest. the pictures are incredible. plus president biden is facing questions this morning over his handling of classified material while he was vice president. this after his attorneys discovered documents, some classified, in a private office, those attorneys then returned them to
the former president himself? anything is possible. all of that, plus the financial world bombshell, 11 musk dropping this last night, trying to get out of buying twitter, and the latest in to free brittney griner from russia. i will talk to the father of trevor reed who was just released from russia few months ago. right now though, across this country, americans are taking to the streets once again to stand up for their beliefs on abortion. in washington, d.c., a rally organized by the women s march organization is underway. organizations are attempting to put to protect abortion nationwide. what they re calling the summer of rage, marchers gathered this morning at franklin square before heading to the white house for a sudden. that event was given a permit for 10,000 people. in chicago, the march for life rally, described as the midwest s largest pro-life went, is that to happen this afternoon. rights relating to abortion are not guaranteed by the state constitutio
house have gotten ahead and put this offer on the table. i think that s something that the white house should continue to do, not just for paul and brittney, but for, you know, all americans who are wrongfully detained. so there is over 65 americans at least who are wrongfully detained, and i hope the administration continues to do that. in the case of your release, trevor, i mean, we didn t know that you were coming home until you were well out of russian air space. it went from you were detained and there were efforts to get you out, but all of a sudden it was happening. why do you think that this is being done differently? i think maybe that could signal a change in policy in the administration, maybe they re going to be, you know, more open to doing exchanges, it could be the fact that they re trying to show, you know, how important it is to this administration to get this done. it could be aye lot of things, m not an expert at that, but i think it is a good sign for