citizens from south africa and seven other countries goes into effect today. you re watching fox & friends first on this monday morning. i m todd piro. carley: i m carley shimkus. the variant has been detected in multiple countries including canada. some experts say it could already be in the united states undetected. todd: marianne rafferty has more on this breaking news this morning. marianne. reporter: good morning, todd and carl hey. president biden holding an emergency meeting last night on the new covid omicron variant as two new cases are confirmed in canada. biden s white house health team saying they need another two weeks to gather data on the variant. a u.s. travel ban on eight african nations takes effect today after cases were confirm in south africa. nearly a dozen countries confirming cases of omicron and experts say biden s travel ban will not stop the variant from reaching the u.s. it s almost definitely here already, just looking at the number of cases
for hours. warning that the massive spending bill will hurt the economy even more. i tell you, america, help is on the way. history repeats itself and it will repeat itself big next november. while the democrats action on our economy such as anti-work welfare programs and massive unneeded stimulus has left americans worse off. chad pergram is live on capitol hill. good morning. another big day. we re expecting a lot can be happening in the next couple of hours or even minutes. what is happening right now and what will we see? the house should start this vote pretty soon here to actually pass the social spending bill. kevin mccarthy was intent on delaying the very vote which should start in a few minutes on the house floor. he spoke for a record eight hours 32 minutes on the floor using his time to rail against a key component of president s biden domestic agenda. because this is a day he will tell his children s children where he spent all that money. every page of a
there was a time in american history when people accused of being gay were literally purged from their jobs by government mandate. and it all happened during this period that i had never heard of called the lavendar scare. if you stood up and said that you were a homosexual, that was the equivalent of saying, i m unamerican. tonight we meet americans whose patriotism was questioned because of what they did behind closed doors. we were taken to be interrogated because we were gay. and find families that are still reeling from a witch hunt our government never wanted us to know about. there s been a progression of it being illegal to be gay in the government. and it was my relative who led this whole thing . so we are in fresno, california, on my way to meet a woman who is part of a group that the united states government once considered one of the greatest security threats to our country. in the 1950s america was gripped by the red scare. even if there were only
states itself. there was a time in american history when people accused of being gay were literally purged from their jobs by government mandate. and it all happened during this period that i had never heard of called the lavender scare. if you stood up and said that you were a homosexual, that was the equivalent of saying, i m un-american. tonight we meet americans whose patriotism was questioned because of what they did behind closed doors. we were taken to be interrogated because we were gay. and find families that are still reeling from a witch hunt our government never wanted us to know about. there s been a progression of it being illegal to be gay in the government. and it was my relative who led this whole thing. so we are in fresno, california, and i m on my way to meet a woman who is part of a group that the united states government once considered one of the greatest security threats to our country. in the 1950s, america was gripped by the red scare.