opposite so biden s week started off 0 for 1. on tuesday, things only got worse for the embattled president. biden went down to georgia to attack the filibuster. i believe the threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. we have no option but to change the senate rules, including get rid of the filibuster. [applause] rachel: biden s speech caught flack from both sides of the i ll as he trashed senate rules and looked to smear any american who cares about election integrity as a racist. so, if you are keeping score at home. that s 0 and 2 biden this week. if you thought they were getting any better as the week moved on. announced consumer price 7% in december. the worst since 1982. thanks to biden s poor economic policies, prices are the highest they have been in 40 years. now, you know how your wallet has been feeling a little light lately. you can thank joe biden for that. and the pain didn t stop there as the release of
which includes a $137 million contract for a new testing strip factory. the facility won t be finished for another three years. while americans right now are forced to wait for hours in line for a covid test. republican senator rick scott calling out the president. joe biden is a hypocrite. first he says that he wants these mandates. this guy is a complete hypocrite. so they need to treat all the seats the same. the white house covid response coordinator says the free at-home test the president wants to send to every american won t start shipping for weeks. on testing in the half billion tests bought by the u.s. government to be distributed for free the department of defense and hhs are executing on an accelerated contracting timeline. companies are submitting information and expect the contracts to be completed late next week. that means that the first deliveries from manufacturers will start in january. former surgeon general giroir slams the biden administration.
nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did you not see variants coming or did you? yeah. yeah. i did. and i think that the vice president s statement was taken a bit out of context. brian: really? who was right? dr. fauci or his bosses? the administration tried to clarify earlier today. why is the president saying about this new variant they saw it coming, nobody in the world if that s not true? well, first i would say that um, nobody saw knew that there would be the number of different variants. nobody knew exactly how transmissible they would be. brian: that s just flat out wrong. the white house may have been surprised but plenty of leading scientists were not including former cdc director robert redfield who sounded the alarm in the summer, august. this virus is replicating at a high capacity in humans. consequence the risk variant revolution is extremely high. we dealt with the u.k. variant everyone thought pretty bad twice as infectious. low and
audience with them too believe a good crew here. so onto the monologue. so come in omicron variant sweeps across america and the world and the data that is being collected about its severity is very encouraging. according to the new york post, the early real world that it which is expected to be released before christmas found in omicron is likely to bring on a mild illness with less serious symptoms in most people. it is a fest of this, people. and a south african study, the only kind i read, suggest low risk of hospitalization with omicron versus delta. omicron is milder than delta a leaked u.k. study finds. this is welcome news. to calm the frayed nerves of the american people, right, mainstream media? health experts are warning the country could be in for a grim beginning to the new year because of the cases are on the rise. speak of virus is running rampant through both the psyches of the american public and on the ground in certain places thanks to the incredibly in
the large increases, the white house claims to have performed a christmas miracle but are americans actually buying that? two democrats want to reform policing carjacked at gunpoint just hours apart. is the left starting to rethink their anti-cop policies? you are watching fox and friends first . i m benjamin all in for todd and carly. i wish we could be together but we are separated until next time. today president biden says the transfer present rematch against donald trump would increase the likelihood he runs in 2024. this comes as voters disapprove of his first year in office. good morning, griffin. reporter: will your won t he? the president says he s leaving it to fate which is intervened in his life many times but adding trump may be a temptation too great to resist? if i m in the health i m in now? in good health then i would run again. if that means a rematch against donald trump? president biden: you are trying to tempt me now. sure. why would